there is jon meacham. just a gratuitous shot. the great historian.f the major stories out of the election series the new group of women heading to congress, many of whom are flipping house seats from red to flu bleu. kendra horn is expected to defeat incumbent congressman steve russell, flipping a seat that's been republican since 1975. in pennsylvania, chrissy houlahan claims the state's sixth district north and west of philadelphia. this was an open race after congressman ryan costello announced earlier this year he would not seek reelection. and as i mentioned earlier, we'll see the first muslim women heading to congress in january. rasheedah tlaib will represent michigan's 13th district, while ilhan omarer will replace keith ellison in minnesota's fifth district. history also made in massachusetts with ayanna pressley becoming the state's first black congresswoman. adrians just a snapshot of some of the new faces we'll see in congress, many of them women, many of them young women coming in to this 116th congress. >> yeah, willie, it's so exciting

don't think it takes a great deal of genius to guess that we're in for an even rougher ride. >> jon meacham always a pleasure, thanks so much. >>> coming up for us, an honor only the president gets to bestow. today it was donald trump's turn to do the bestowing when we come back. - [narrator] meet the ninja foodi, the pressure cooker that crisps. it's the best of pressure cooking and air frying all in one so in as little as 30 minutes it will be crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside, and on your table. the ninja foodi, the pressure cooker that crisps. on the outside, juicy on the inside, and on your table. we're all under one roof now. congratulations. thank you. how many kids? my two. his three. along with two dogs and jake, our new parrot. that is quite the family. quite a lot of colleges to pay for though. a lot of colleges. you get any financial advice? yeah, but i'm pretty sure it's the same plan they sold me before. well your situation's totally changed now. right, right. how 'bout a plan that works for 5 kids, 2 dogs and jake over here? that would be great. that would be great.

president barack obama will sit down with the former secretary james baker and presidential historian jon meacham and discuss experiences in office, bipartisanship and u.s. leadership abroad. we are going to take you now to houston, texas on c-span2. [applause] >>> thank you, thank you. mr. president, welcome to texas. >> is good to be in houston. [cheering] congratulations on the victory yesterday. >> they beat the titans, so we don't want that, no thank you. we like to point out if it weren't for us you will still be part of spain so you can thank us later. [laughter] i made that jump to george w. bush when he was governor and he said haha, that's pretty funny, asshole. [laughter] >> if he wasn't that impressed you wouldn't be saying y'all, either. >> i am honored to be here. president ronal ronald reagan wm secretary baker's firm served so wonderfully and so well used to say when he was in hollywood he would get a call to come to dinner to speak and perform and reagan would say i don't sing or dance and the organizer would say we know, that you can introduce somebody who can, so my job is to i

president barack obama will sit down with the former secretary james baker and presidential historian jon meacham and discuss experiences in office, bipartisanship and u.s. leadership abroad. we are going to take you now to houston, texas on c-span2. [applause] >>> thank

michael, you've got to find on earth a picture of young jon meacham. i think this is war. >> i think it really is war, and that picture was actually on my first book which came out when i was 24 and i think i look about 16. i think i look like a member of the cast of "oliver" don't you? >> you look like an upstanding american and future historian than that meacham character. >> exactly right. >> happy thanksgiving to you. >> happy thanksgiving, brian. >> michael beschloss with us from washington tonight. >>> another break from our broadcast. when we come back, another story we've covered extensively that takes on more importance over these next 24 hours. today is the day you're going to get motivated... get stronger... get closer. start listening today to the world's largest selection of audiobooks on audible. and now, get more. for just $14.95 a month, you'll get a credit a month good for any audiobook, plus two audible originals exclusive titles you can't find anywhere else. if you don't like a book, you can exchange it any time, no questions asked.

michael, you've got to find on earth a picture of young jon meacham. war. >> i think it really is war, and that picture was actually on my first book which came out when i was 24 and i think i look about 16. i think i look like a member of the cast of "oliver" don't you? >> you look like an upstanding american and future historian than that meacham character. >> exactly right. >> happy thanksgiving to you. >> happy thanksgiving, brian. >> michael beschloss with us from washington tonight. >>> another break from our broadcast. when we come back, another story we've covered extensively that takes on more importance over these next 24 hours. sometimes, the pressures of today's world can make it tough to take care of yourself. but nature's bounty has innovative ways to help you maintain balance and help keep you active and well-rested. because hey, tomorrow's coming up fast. nature's bounty. because you're better off healthy. nature's bounty. here at snowfest... for your worst sore throat pain, try new vicks vapocool drops. it's not candy. it's powerful re

michael, you've got to find on earth a picture of young jon meacham. this is war. >> i think it really is war, and that picture was actually on my first book which came out when i was 24 and i think i look about 16. i think i look like a member of the cast of "oliver" don't you? >> you look like a upstanding american and future historian than that meacham character. >> exactly right. >> happy thanksgiving to you. >> happy thanksgiving, brian. >> michael beschloss with us from washington tonight. >>> another break from our broadcast. when we come back, another story we've covered extensively that takes on more importance over these next 24 hours. ♪ whoa! the mercedes-benz winter event is back and you won't want to stop for anything else. [ barks ] ho! lease the c 300 sport sedan for $399 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing. and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy, like... it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. s

and with us to do so, pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, jon meacham. his latest book is "the soul of america: the battle for our better angels." and rick wilson is back with us, a proud floridian, a proud never-trumper, a veteran republican strategist who has written a book slightly different in tone from jon's, it's called "everything trump touches dies," where all the better angels are done by the end. book. >> do you think you were being a little subtle with the cover? >> i tried to make it something that people could draw their own conclusions on. >> so i get home from work last night, more appropriately, this morning. and of course, you can't come down right away, so you do what every good american should do, you turn on msnbc. 4:00 in the morning, you're here with notes on a shirt cardboard. and i'm thinking, does beschloss do this? no, he's got neat little notebooks. god love you for putting in the hours. >> beschloss has that pencil box he carries around. it's just terrible. >> so i know we could be in the middle of a multi-day story here, but

as historian jon meacham in his book the soul of america reassures history shows we are frequently vulnerablear, bitterness and strife. the good news is that we've come through such darkness before but not with twitter and nuclear weapons. and certainly not with the presidency such as this one if we take the point and i'm heartened by it we will get through this but at the moment we are in it and we must face it squarely because far too much is at stake. a cold related events such as the president scrambles the politic and we are all disoriented up the alignment. we find many of the biggest issues don't break down meekly to the ideas of left versus right but more along these lines aren't you faithful targue faity or to your party, are you loyal to the wall and the constitution or a man? do you describe the most to your opponentopponents but somehow d, excuse or endorse every repulsive thing that your compatriots says, does? those questions have sent some of us wandering into the political wilderness. fortunately, i'm no stranger to the wilderness. now in fact during one congressional recess i

she asked jon meacham if he would speak at her funeral. he called her and said, i am ready, do you want to hear it? [laughter] she got to hear it. painrobably was in so much then, she didn't really care and just one to go on. when we had the funeral in houston, we drove to college station where the grave site is at the first presidential library at texas a&m university. we drove there with a police escort. they stop the cars at the access roads before they got on, did not hold up a lot of traffic. we looked at the access roads and texans were out of their cars with their cowboy hats over their hearts. it was really, really sweet. when we got to texas a&m, we walked with a casket by 700 saluting texas a&m cadets. cokie roberts: it was perfect in every way. i was covering it on television, weeping. happy tears, because she was ready to go. she told your husband -- mrs. bush: she had fallen and we had been in houston, the grand prince of saudi arabia had come to the u.s. and he wanted to meet with george. we went to houston and had lunch with

jon meacham presidential historian doris day because mitch. he said he said joseph ellis who wrote founding brother said this i think i agree with the sentiment that people like to say when they see this circus that's going on in the democrat party there but it really doesn't mean anything to be a democrat or republican or constitutionally and when people see this circus going on they say we're better than this this is not who we are as a country but when you go back and you study history decade by decade generation by generation all the way back to the fathers meacham said last night this is exactly who we are our country was founded it was messy we founded on the idea of equality even though we didn't give everyone equal rights our country's always been messy it's still messy and so it's not that i'm not optimistic i think that it's just more this is how we operate as a power of a sense more of the same oh i think the next attorney general. reno i think the bigger question is until we have an attorney general what authority does this acting

writing her obituaries before she died and she got to read them and they were laudatory and she asked jon meacham if he'd speak and he said, i've got it ready, do you want to hear it? >> she was in so much pain and she didn't care and ready to go on. but when we had the funeral in houston at their church, st. martin, then we drove to college station where their grave site is at the bush presidential library texas a & m university. so, we drove there and we had a police escort and they just would stop the cars at the access roads before they got on, they didn't really hold up a lot of traffic, but we'd look down at the access roads and those texans would be out of their cars and those texas men would have their cowboy hats over their hearts. it was really, really sweet. and then when we got to texas a & m, we walked with the casket by 700 saluting texas a & m cadets. it was really lovely and it was perfect for bar. >> it was perfect in every way. i mean, i was covering it on television and you know, weeping my way through, but happy tears because it was-- she was ready to go and-- >> told your hus

president president t down with former secretary of state james baker and presidential historian jon meacham to discuss their experiences in office bipartisanship and jewish leadership abroad. the discussion was part of the celebration of 25 years of the baker institute for public policy at rice university. this is just under one hour. [applause] [cheers and applause]

president president t down with former secretary of state james baker and presidential historian jon meacham to discuss their experiences in office bipartisanship and jewish leadership abroad. the discussion was part of the celebration of 25 years of the baker institute for public policy at rice university. this is just under one hour. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> thank you, thank you. mr. president, welcome to texas. >> it's good to be back in houston. jew. >> congratulation on the texas victory yesterday. >> they beat the titans so no, sir, we don't want that. and i'd like to say as tenants like to point out if it were not for us you all would still be part of spain so you can thank us later. i made that joke to george w. bush when he was governor and he went that's pretty funny, ass all. [laughing] >> if it weren't for us he wouldn't be saying y'all either. >> that's a good point. absently. i'm honored to be here. president reagan boom secretary baker served so wonderfully and so well used to say that when using hollywood you get a call to come to a dinner to speak and perform, and

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. >> jon meacham and elise dwrorden thank you both as well. >>> coming up, one-party rule is over inh democrats taking the house, providing a much needed check on the president, but with divided government could come more gridlock. we will discuss the chances of actually getting anything done. this special edition of "morning joe" live from historic study 8h back in a moment. green book is the feel good movie of the year. tell me that don't smell good. i've never had fried chicken in my life. you people love the fried chicken. you have a very narrow assessment of me tony. yeah right. i'm good. >>> i want to give a victory speech on the evening of election day, which is coming up very quickly. a vote for morrisey is a vote for me. >> a vote for marcia is really a vote for me. >> i'm not on the ballot, but in a certain way i'm on the ballot, so please go out and vote. >> and a vote for cindy is a vote for me. >> and a vote for steve is a vote for me. >> remember this, a vote for david is a vote for me and our agenda to make america great again. >>> donald trump made it clear that he wa