again, guying trump's demand. trump had very good reason to insist on raising or eliminating the debt ceiling. the government is on pace to hit the limit on how much it can borrow next spring, and if it is not raised, the government faces default with dire consequences for the economy and for the trump agenda. this week proved he won't be able to count on republicans alone to avert that disaster. one casualty of this shutdown mess may be the speaker of the house, mike johnson. he tried to do trump's bidding, and he failed, hurting his standing with the president-elect and with at least some of his republican colleagues. will he be re-elected as speaker when congress reconvenes on january 3rd? with a minuscule republican majority, that could take a minor miracle. on the show this morning, we'll hear from a republican who defied trump on the debt ceiling and it will take the seat held by mitt romney in the senate come january. we'll also hear from the man who may well become donald trump's only democratic friend in

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trump has donated to her while she was considering an investigation into trump university.staffing a lot of these potential government posts for trump, they are from new york. trump's other state. is it just that, is it familiarity? >> it is familiarity mixed with how much are you going to do the thing i want you to do? and matt gaetz was, in trump my in mind, even though it was apparently reportedly cited on a whim on a flight, that matt gaetz is the kind of person who would be the kind of attorney general who would do whatever trump says is the law. not worry about what is actually legal or not. in the same way, pam bondi has shown herself to be someone who trump can rely on to do what is in her best interest. especially if that aligns with him. so i think, in trying to put pam bondi, i think also there is no one else that really comes to mind who fits those two frameworks. someone who has been the ag of estate, who has held that role, who has been someone who is the chief law enforcement officer of a full state in the executive branch of that state. and is also willing t

they touted the iowa poll as the end of trump right before trump won a massive victory. tonight, new details on trump suing "the des moines register" and that pollster, ann seltzer, over, quote, brazen election interference. first, let's get to this story. the news coming in, trump's nominee for pentagon chief, pete hegseth, was back on capitol hill today to. democrat john fetterman will not rule out backing hegseth. he likes him. and trump's hhs secretary nominee rfk jr. back on capitol hill too. aishah hasnie's got the details in washington with more. great to to see you again. >> reporter: elizabeth, good to see you with. rfk jr. just ducked into a meeting with senator john barrasso of wyoming. he is really having some back to back meetings today, nine in total. he started at 10 a.m., and he is still going. and so far he says it's going pretty well. watch. how are the meetings going? any comment? >> really productive. really good. >> reporter: really productive, really good, he says. and just got some photos of his meeting with senator tuberville earlier today. so far

these are trump appointees. so we will see what happens in the senate, but if trump had people around him that work was i loyalists that were like that guy is too far, who knows what that will mean for the senate? >> all right, well, listen, this is a lot. definitely a lot. unexpected. but i guess that is the trump years. barbara walter, thank you so much, i appreciate it. sorry we could not get you in more. tom and tim, you guys are sticking around, appreciate that, as well. more on the breaking news after this quick break. quick break. i'm gone this guy will be standing the test of ti... he's melting! oh jeez... nooo... oh gaa... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ if you're living with hiv, imagine being good to go without daily hiv pills. ♪♪ good to go binge-watch. ♪♪ good to go out even later. ♪♪ with cabenuva, there's no pausing for daily hiv pills. for adults who are undetectable, cabenuva is the only complete, long-acting hiv treatment you can get every other month. it's tw

musk because trump loves deficits. he loves debt. trump loves debt. his entire career has been about debt. and musk is busy acting like some richest man in the world from the sidelines is going to somehow dictate to the members of congress what they do. there will be a blow up there and i can't wait to watch it. that's what i'm looking forward to. >> you're already popping the jiffy pop. to that point, john, it's such an unusual arrangement because elon musk in the closing days of the biden presidency and the sort of dawn of the second trump term, elon musk is acting in a more prominent role in terms of hill negotiations than even j.d. vance, the former senator. elon musk has interfaced with companies but is out dictating fiscal policy and legislative priorities. i guess from your vantage point how long you think that lasts and what you see in the strange for lack of a better term love triangle between elon musk and donald trump. how feasible is that in the long-term? >> a couple of things. one, when president trump re

and newspaper, and the decision by trump -- by abc to pay trump $-15 million to get rid of a bogus lau lawsuit. first, that liz cheapy be -- that liz cheaney be prosecuted. liz cheney was part of the january 6 commission, that tried to find accountability for the assault on this capitol, that resulted in people dying, with an officer with blood running down his face, trying to rescue us before the violent rioters got ahold of us. donald trump did not like that narrative, that he had something to do with, that he inspired the january 6 riot. he doesn't even like the narrative that january 6 was a riot. his events are opened by the january 6 choir, in commemoration of the events of that day. what happened this week is that donald trump made good on his promise. he said during the campaign that he was going to use the military, law enforcement, the national guard to deal with the enemy within, and when asked who the enemy within was he said nancy pelosi, adam schiff, democrats. people laughed it off during the campaign because that doesn't happen in america. we don't use law enforcement t

and support trump's nominees. trumps allies like patel, rfk, and must have given a clear warning to any potential dissidents. fall in line, and or face the consequences. all in-service of their fearless leader, donald trump. a man who has called for the jailing of anyone who desecrate the american flag. someone who has threatened to go after the broadcast licenses of outlets over coverage he doesn't like. and someone who, according to rolling stone, is reportedly planning to escalate his war on leaguers and the press using media subpoenas, communication seizures, whistleblower prosecutions, and legal threats against news outlets. one conservative lawyer familiar with trump's plans warned it will be brutal. the idea that trump and his allies are free-speech champions, that was always absurd to any observer. for them, free speech means they get to shout the loudest, silencing everyone who disagrees with them. what's bring in my panel for the hour, daniel moody, host of the daniel moody show and cohost of the new abn

nothing, not one trump budget cut, not one trump deportation, not one trump policy has happened because donald trump is not president. trump has no power right now, but we'll see what he's able to do. obviously he's not powerful enough to overcome matt gaetz's house ethics committee report. what else won't he be able to do? let's wait and see. joining us now, timothy snyder, professor of history at yale university, the author of "new york times" best sellers "on freedom and on tyranny" and his new article is titled "dictators for a day." professor snyder, thank you for being here. this direction is intentional, loads of coverage about musk and doge, but not so much about this. let me read this. "musk being unearthed as the sole donor to a trump superpac, part of his almost quarter billion dollar buy to elect trump." professor, guide us. how do we keep our eye on the ball of what's really happening in the cyclone of trump bluster and the elon circus? >> yeah. i think the big picture has a couple of parts. one part is where is the money and who has the money? musk financed this campaign.

trump, president trump, does have the right to seek retribution or he was wrong to. i do not see anything wrong with that. host: all right, bruce. you mentioned january 6. we have an interview on msnbc, new york democrat dan goldman. caller: please, msnbc -- host: we will play that and some other stuff, don't worry, we will get it all there. this is dan goldman, he played a role in president trump's first impeachment trial. he spoke about the threat against january 6 committee members. [video clip] >> obviously, the january 6 committee did an investigation authorized by congress, upheld by courts of law, totally legitimate, and it was part of their duties. but the fact that because donald trump does not like what happened means those people should go to jail says everything you need to know about what his expectation is for cash patel and the department of justice. that is why they are there. that is why kash patel is there, because he has also promised to go after donald trump's political enemies. i sat on a weaponization subcommittee for two years here led by the r

>> there's a revolving door between fox and the incoming trump administration and the past trump administration that. is one of the criteria for getting a job. you said something in your intro that hit the nail on the head, which is that he does think of this as theater, as central casting. that's sort of disturbing, given all we know about rising authoritarianism, because the reality is authoritarianism is theater. so part of hegseth's role is to play a part. he sort of sees him as somebody that is going to be out there representing the idea of -- he was in the military, a radical shift in how we think about that role and our own public life. in terms of what they said that's disturbing, hegseth is especially concerning, because he's a christian nationalist. obviously, his misogyny is prevalent. but he's somebody that is a christian nationalist, and he really believes that islam needs to be eradicated from the world. he sees the military as not just a part of american foreign policy, but sort of as a flaming sword for jesus, and that is going to poison the advice that he gives to trump. and ga

only after they lost to trump. tonight, you'll hear the sound if from barack obama and bill clinton. they're now being accused of major hypocrisy. byron york fired up and ready to go on that. also this story tonight. >> do you think some of the resistance of some men, back and white, is misogynist? i i mean, do you think that this is orchestrated? today's your birthday -- >> yes. elizabeth: a major new controversy from msnbc and kamala harris and al sharpton. america's biggest coalition of black church leaders now demand msnbc suspend and investigate al harpton. his nonprofit took in half a million dollars from the kamala failed campaign before he did that softball msnbc interview with her. tonight, former president trump white house -- trump white house press secretary will take on that major conflict of interest. plus, we've got violent gangs like venezuela's tren de aragua for the first time ever under biden taking over u.s. city streets. but for some reason, far-left california governor newsom doubling down on

president trump. um, because if this unfolds inside the pentagon, this will be a disaster for the country, and it will reflect very badly on the administration. and so i think that's i think that's where the republican senators have to go on this case. >> interesting so you obviously i'm sure people remember had a whirlwind tenure inside the trump administration. you understand, you know, what it takes to get a job with donald trump and also what happens if he turns on you? what do you think the president, knowing what you know about president elect trump, how is he going to view the these kinds of allegations against pete hegseth, especially in terms of, i mean, he expects a lot of loyalty, you know, from from you to him. i'm not necessarily sure. i'm curious. your take on whether that loyalty runs in the other direction and also, i mean, trump himself, he he's known teetotaler. he dealt with alcoholism in his family. these kinds of reports. i'm curious what you think he might make of the behavior th

there is a trump effect. the jerusalem post that was at news world, and he said there's a trump effect that you can feel. he said after trump won the election, syria changed, hezbollah changed, hamas changed, iran suddenly became very quiet. and he, three different times he talked about the trump effect. we're seeing the same thing in washington. so if the president is willing to campaign on it and explain it, margaret thatcher used to say first you win the argument, then you win the vote. he can get an amazing amount done, but he has to have the american people provide the extra muscle so that the congress decides it has to go along with it. but i have great faith in his ability to get things done. we just saw that. he shrank a bill from 1500 pages to 136. that's pretty amazing and a sign of how much washington is going to change. maria: it really is. and we just heard michael waltz say he's optimistic the remaining hostages will be released in the coming weeks. newt, i send you my best regards for a merry c

trump makes news.ase right now because we've seen such a vacuum on the other side from the actual president because there's nothing really coming off the current administration. where is biden? what's kamala harris doing other than putting out laughable videos that get mocked right across the internet? if there's no other game in town other than what's coming out of mar-a-lago and anything connected to it. howard: in media terms, you are right. joe biden did, however, manage to arrange a ceasefire between israel and hezbollah in lebanon. how much of a role have the media played, in your view, in exacerbating the divisions in this 50-50 country? >> well, look, i think that tha- [laughter] it's very easy to blame the media. i'm not sure that, actually, that represents the full truth the here because in the end, this is normal. this is partisan politics. i'm very used to it. you see it in the u.k., raucous debates in the british parliament and so on. and that is where we are. and of course you could say t

trump pressed him on us.found he exaggerated his role in cases he worked on as a justice department lawyer before joining committee staff. given the sensitivity of the nsc's credibility or reliability would ordinarily disqualify any job applicant. mary, this doesn't ever look like a single sort of conflict between two former trump national security officials. let me show you what former secretary of defense, one of trump's national security officials, had to say about kash patel. >> we were trying to rescue an american in west africa who had been captured by terrorists and whose life was in danger. we sent our special operators abroad to rescue that person. they were in the air. we had launched them on the premise we had airspace clearance into that country to conduct the operation. it was information given by allegedly kash patel to tony todd a who worked for me in osd policy and found out hours later before we were about to cross into that territory that it was not true. the state department had not gotten

you look at trump, trump is a guy that has had a lot of ups and downs.nk about a book about trump and all he has been able to overcome with forgiveness or whatever. so thank you for taking my call. i think it is down these main streets. in these books, if you can't relate to them, you might want to ban them. they are all people who have real experiences. so thank you very much. guest: all of these books, as you said, everyone has a story. and it is important for us to allow people to have access to those stories. to be in conversation and to build out curiosity and give context to the story and the history. it is so important that history guides us throughout these conversations and motivates so many things, especially with young people trying to figure out their way in the world. there's always stories and memoirs that we have for future generations. 0 host: and host: of history, meone texted us this question. will you please discuss zora neale hurston's skepticism toward school desegregation. guest: unfortunately i don't have a citation right in front

the trump tax cuts.porate rate went to 14% as high as 39% depending on taxable income to a flat 21% that was in 2017. if you now extend that the trump 2025 tax cuts would increase taxes on anyone making less than $360,000 a year. and it would drop the taxes of people like elon musk down to the basement. musk is focused he wants that money. trump is not going to stand in his way. how could he? >> yeah. here is the deal. donald trump never spent money on anybody but himself. he is the head grifter in our history. the history books will be written about all of the grift that trump, from tennis shoes to bibles to his son getting billions from saudis 10 minutes after he left the white house. it is a long list of grift. and, elon musk is kind of the opposite. he just spend $250 million to put trump in the white house. trump loves him because he is the richest man in america because he wants to be around people like that. but he will not stand for being minid. he is now mini-me to musk. trump will not stand for

president-elect donald trump. his embattled choice for defense secretary pete hegseth spent another day trying to sell his name on capitol hill. his confirmation is in jeopardy as new reports of his mistreatment of women past mismanagement and alcoholism. the latest, 10, not 2, 4 or 6, 10 current or former fox news employees told nbc news that hegseth's drinking worried them. one sources said they smelled alcohol on him last month. fox news did not respond to request for comment. the trump transition team said the following quote, these disgusting allegations are unfounded and false. tonight we are learn that as plane as six senate republicans are not comfortable supporting his bid to lead the pentagon. he could afford to only lose three senate gop votes. let's be clear he is not get anything from democrats. according to the wall street journal trump is considering replacing hegseth with ron desantis. when it comes to others like kash patel punch bowl news is reporting even moderate republicans are showing a willi

and donald trump really using that to his advantage... joe biden.| ..really setting up, you know, this notion that, "look, the system is against me and i've been president. "what hope do you all have? i'm here fighting for you. "they have to come through me to get to you." and that trial rolled on and on through april and on into may, when we had that amazing moment. and, sumi, i canjust tell you — donald trump has been found guilty on count one. donald trump, the first former president to be convicted in a criminal trial. our correspondent, nada tawfik, who did a brilliantjob and has been on this pod, of course, covering this trial that she, in that moment, was reading out the guilty count. guilty on count two, sumi. guilty on count three. let's remember... thatjust stopped me in my tracks. it was an extraordinary moment, wasn't it? and there were people you saw... you heard cheering outside of the court. there were trump supporters who were protesting, and we heard then more and more colourfrom inside the courtroom, that donald trump wa

trump their condolences, and joe biden lecturing us about decency. when you're a press secretary, talking about these very incredible important moments to reflect upon the death of an american president, very rare, what kind of tone what, kind of content are you going for, who made the mark and who missed it last night? >> this is one of those rare moments where all americans are unified, no matter what you thought of a former president, this is not the time to express their negative sentimentses and this is not the time to use the death of a president to take a ricochet shot against somebody else in political life, this is a time to celebrate america, because our presidents are so rare, which is what donald trump said in his gracious statement. i just got to say this about what president biden said. kelly anne, i can barely understand him. you know, the microphones the white house have are some of the most sophisticated best microphones available to technology, and you can not understand his dix anymore, you have to lean in, he almost needs captions

and it is bad for trump.moting lies and not the truth. >> there are so many things that trump says and does that are confounding right? but to use the week of christmas and the christmas holiday to launch sort of his plans for territorial expansion. going after green land. does one of these rise in your mind to the wackiest idea? secondly, what do you think is behind the new imperialism this week in particular? this is south park level foreign policy. they controlled green land for 700 years. they said we are going promote panamanian inpen den and our claims to the canal over the course of the century that we were there were very weak. this will not materialize into anything. except alienating our allies. and making the president of the united states look like a buffoon. >> yeah. i mean, it must have been some christmas ham i guess if that is what it led into. i mean, part of me want to try it myself. what would happen? david, thank you for taking time. i appreciate the wisdom and thoughts. >> my pleasure. >>

to president trump.donate $15 million to donald trump's future president foundation or museum to settle these claims? >> well, maybe it'll be the fake news museum. [laughter] i think the key is here i'm glad that abc news is doing this, but there's so many other news agencies that need to get out of the smear merchant business, that need to get, as pelosi said back in the day, the wrap-up smears. it just needs to end. in a day where we have technology out there like social media, like truth social and others, the information gets out there far and wide. and what you need for these legacy media companies to do is to just report the facts. let people speak for themselves. interview someone, let people see it all. it's very simple. the technology works easily. don't mince words, cut up people's quotes that just is to promote if a conspiracy theory or some fake news item that makes the media look so biased. and i think that's the key. so this is a good step that abc news is doing. congratulations to presiden

the trump transition, trump world is thrilled about this. this is something they wanted. it embarrasses abc news and embarrasses the media. it's another major wins for donald trump even though legal experts think that donald trump would not have won this case. then, if you talk to journalists and there has been reporting of people left talk to journalists inside abc news who thinks it's a horrible precedent. starting the administration where the "new york times" reported just last night, had a great piece about how intimidation and lawsuits is going to be a key strategy of the right. that is something we have already seen increase over the years. maybe not lawsuits but threats of lawsuits. but, the times is reporting that's only expected to escalate. >> and he is not done. donald trump today mentioned he might actually sue the des moines register over there presidential poll that showed him losing in iowa which is amazing. you already won, dude. they got that pole wrong and now he potentially wants to sue them. is this abc settlement, we know it will embolden trump, but i

even if voters abhor what donald trump is saying at times, they know trump is being trump.that he campaigned in states like new york and california. to them, that suggested he wanted to be president for the entire country. even though he was never going to win those states. and at the house level, it's instructive that you did have 13 democrats who were able to win in trump districts. people ranging from golden in maine, marie perez in washington state, don davis in north carolina. there are democrats who are able to crack the code here. even if voters viewed kamala harris as too liberal, they did send the message they wanted balance in government in some of these places, in both senate and house races, where you had split tickets. there were a variety of younger democrats who knew how to communicate with their voters via social media and come across in an authentic way. that's, i think, a huge lesson for democrats in '26 and '28. >> democratic surging continues as we speak. fascinating. senior editor and elections analyst at the cook political report with amy wasserman. th

think trump went too far who privately who worked under trump who really felt like that trump had a chance. yeah, that that he like was immediately attacked the media and they saw the mueller investigation as a way to block him from carrying out his agenda and i'm not saying they're right or wrong but it's again this danger of our norms like we won the election. you get chance and it blows off like, you know, your side to run the government for four years. and then maybe the other does. and it's a miracle that we, you know, have the have had the peaceful transfer of power not totally in 2020. and i'll leave just with a sort of contradiction. i for this. but it's something involving garland who who's so utterly believes in the need to be nonpartisan and the importance of enforcing the law equally upholding the rule of law so merrick garland, his grandparents, nazi germany survived the holocaust. they came to united states. he grew up in suburban chicago and he as a child just was you know, he revered the american legal system and upholding the rule of law and his very existence on this plan

and the trump allies.y're plan during the campaign was that our biggest international competitor is china, we're pushing other countries into the hands of china but doing this kind of ridiculous and absurd and overreaching set of posturing that will not happen. you know, trump likes to flood the zone with you know what, but this idea that we're going to invade canada or invade mexico or seize the panama canal, none of it is serious. none of this is a serious proposition, but it is a dangerous one because it shows that trump thinks that the -- all the alliances and the friendships and the economic relationships that we have with these nations and mexico and canada, biggest trading partners, are there to be toyed with. it's an insulting and foolish behavior, but i'm not surprised. >> trump may have these grandiose ideas to expand america but on the domestic front he is going after woke, he announce head would stop transgender lunacy and make two genders the official u.s. policy. take a listen. >> under the t

donald trump wants to raise or abolish it. most democrats would love to get rid of the debt limit altogether. they have wanted to get it done on biden's watch. but republicans say they will not touch it without spending cuts next year. what you think is going to happen? >> to what you said earlier, total collision course. donald trump is a heads i win, tails i lose kind of person. it sounded like a great idea for him but he understands what it is able to do. this talk of cutting $2.5 trillion in exchange for a debt limit later seems like a pie in the sky at best. i don't know if it is the vegetable or fruits or some of the wine in the punch bowl. but definitely some sort of intoxicating material to think you will be able to cut $2.5 trillion. certainly not in a year. you would have to rip up medicare and social security. it will anger the constituents and republicans voting for it. what i do see happening is an ongoing fight between trump and some maga type republicans in the house. you see the hard right in the house that lar

just to be clear leer, donald trump -- clear here, donald trump will become president at 12:00 p.m. eastern time on january 20th of 2025. that is when he will take the oath of office standing in front of the u.s. capitol building. nine minutes later he will presumably just be delivering the opening lines of his inaugural address. you probably remember the images of january 6th rioters scaling the scaffolding at the capitol on january 6th. the reason -- not scaffolding, it was there because of preparation for the 2020 inauguration. it is from that very spot that donald trump is now suggesting he will pardon the criminals who violently tried to keep him in power just four years ago. if trump does follow through, it will be a remarkable display of authoritarian-style leadership in his first nine minutes as president. that will not be the only bit of authoritarianism creeping onto the stage on inauguration day. >> i was even thinking about inviting certain people to the inauguration, and some people say, wow, that's risky, isn't it? i said, maybe it is. we'll see. we'll see what happens

chair code, if you wanted to, or if trump directed him to -- trump's a new s.e.c. chair could dismiss the investigation into justin sun entirely. now, whether or not sun offered trump $22 million in profit will actually influence anything or even help justin sun at all, that is unknowable at this point. le but these kinds of conflicts are precisely why presidents do not do business like this. it is impossible to know where e trump the business ends and where trump the president begins. and this one chinese billionaire buying trump's cryptocurrency is just the example we have today. next week, eric trump, who k, again is now the de facto leader of trump's businesses, he is headed to abu dhabi to headline a cryptocurrency conference. eric trump is literally traveling to another country to pitch the trump cryptocurrency to international investors. are you a rich person from a foreign country? would you like the opportunity to put a lot of money into the pockets of the american president? well, you're in the right place. trump's second term is looking very much like a

>>s the typical trump. all bluster, very little substance, he talks a tough game, but then when pressed on it, he's an armchair tough guy. >> pete hegseth, of course, has since backed down from all of his criticism of donald trump then. so who's the armchair tough guy now? today pete hegseth was granted page space in "the wall street journal" to publish a self-defense op-ed piece with this line in the title. i won't back down. he will back down. he has backed down before for donald trump and he will back down again as soon as donald trump has his replacement ready to go. leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congresswoman mikie sherrill of new jersey, a member of the armed services committee and a former helicopter pilot in the united states navy. thank you very much for joining us tonight. the house does not have the role in senate confirmation, obviously, but your house committee has exactly the same jurisdiction as the senate armed services committee, which means the next secretary of defense

is it donald trump or is it elon musk? is donald trump just elon musk's puppet? elon musk has been down at mar-a-lago the entire time, obviously put $300 million into donald trump's campaign, stands to benefit tremendously from donald trump's tax cuts and from all of the various government contracts that musk has as well. i think we need to have a real evaluation, and i think it is incumbent upon house republicans, senate republicans who will be in the majority to stand up for the american people, not to just do the bidding of donald trump. and right now, the american people are going to suffer because of donald trump's incompetence and elon musk's inexperience and dangerousness. >> congressman dave goldman, thank you very much for joining us in this breaking news environment on capitol hill tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and the chairman of the senate budget committee, rhode island democratic senator sheldon whitehouse, will join us next with the senate perspective on this ongoing budget crisis now on capitol hill. that's next. crisi now on capi

trump, and often lavished him with praise. trump challenging the press is not anything new.dency his administration secretly obtain phone records and emails from journalists at the new york times, the washington post, and cnn. on the campaign trail this year he threatened to revoke broadcast licenses and throw journalists he did not like in jail. but this week's developments suggest donald trump has graduated to the next phase. elevating media figures who he expects to be mouthpieces for his administration and shutting out journalists who publish consequential or even unflattering pieces about the president-elect and his loyalists. hayes and april are still with me, and joining us now, somehow, we let them through. max tony, media reporter at semaphore. april, let's start with you. in april 2010, trump told you, infamously, i would say, to sit down during a press conference after you asked a question about voter suppression. look, what did the moment reveal for you, not only about how trump views journalists, but also about the crucial topics that journalists investigate, li

any idea what this money will be used for it looks like a big win for trump. >> it's a huge win for trump example of the trump affect, the ceo of softbank will be at mar-a-lago today, you will hear from him at the president-elect and just a couple of hours talking about the $100 billion investment in critical infrastructure and a.i. and the ceo is also promising and this is president trump delivering on the promise that he made to the american people on the campaign trail that he was going to make the united states of america the manufacturing superpower of the world to draw in foreign investors who want to do business here and he promised these investors if you come here and make your products integrate usa and hire american workers then you're going to have a 15% corporate tax rate the lowest energy cost and the lowest regulatory burden of any other nation on this planet president trump is not in the oval office yet and is delivering on his promises for the american worker. stuart: that as an incentive, i want you to listen to what mitt romney had to say about trump. roll tape. >> maga

biden and trump spoke briefly., president joe biden, wrapped up his first trip to africa in angola and the first trip by an american president in a decade where he held a summit with leaders from three other african nations. with the current and incoming president sharing the stage one can hope trump doesn't mess things up for biden. he is still the leader of the free world with a plate of crises that will be his responsibility until noon on january 20th. columnist with the washington post, senior fellow on the council of foreign relations and author of, reagan, his life and legend. max boot, thank you very much for coming back to the saturday show. really quickly, your reaction to the report from ayman a moment ago about rebels saying they have taken over homs and what that means for syrian president bashar al-assad. >> it is a stunning report, jonathan, when you think about it it was just a week ago the rebels have taken over, and now homs. it appeared the syrian civil war was basically at a stalemate, that basha

i think that answer is trump.ut i am curious how much influence you believe musk has over the party right now. >> keep in mind, elon musk is the one who has threatened senators who have indicated that they might vote against some of trump's nominees. and that he will put his very powerful purse behind primaries to make sure that those senators live to regret their votes against trump nominees. so it is president trump that the gop conference will be keeping their eye on but elon musk has his ear and elon musk has a lot of money. >> and a megaphone, too. i want to ask you about the state of your party. obviously, we are in this state of postmortems. every democrat has offered one. but the fact remains democrats are entering this new congressional term. they have significantly less power than they did. obviously, they made one seeking. lost the senate. lost the lighthouse. and senate majority leader chuck schumer said he believes the judiciary will serve as one of the strongest lines of defense. you know, i got to b

of president trump.t is a moment i hope we have a moment right now that is very much like the end of the jimmy carter administration, right before ronald reagan came in. we saw on january 20th our hostages in iran released, i think in significant part because the ayatollah was afraid of reagan. i think a similar dynamic is playing out. if we can see more hostages come home, that would be cause for enormous celebration. >> republican senator ted cruz of texas. thank you. good morning. >>> we will be back. with "face the nation" in just one moment. please stay with us. empowers post-9/11 veterans and their families with life-changing programs and services. i realized i could be successful in a civilian career. we stand by warriors and advocate for their needs going forward. they were by my side in the hospital, and they're still with me today. through our programs, community and advocacy, we're proving anything is possible. learn more at wounded warriorproject.org/connect (husband) we just want to have eno

. >> trump's targets for retribution speak out as we learn startling, new details about abuse from trump's first doj. >> the most important thing about this report is that it serves as a warning as a second trump administration is about to take office. >>> tonight, one of trump's targets in congress joins me live. then -- >> i could not be more excited to join the one american news family. >> inside the maga pressure campaign to try to avoid another matt gaetz and senator chris murphy on the stakes of these nominations, and 72 hours after assad's ousting in syria, the real opportunity and real danger that exists at the end of the dictatorship, when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening, everyone. i am in new york in for chris hayes this evening. as donald trump is preparing to take the oval office in just over a month, we are learning new details about how his department of justice spied on his perceived enemies the last time he was in office. the trump era doj secretly obtained phone and text messages, logs of 43 congressional staffers, and two members of congress in 2017 and 2018.

trump. >> you know, the hysteria, tomi over trump's victory is not limited to msnbc and cnn. now, colleges and universities are telling their international students, oh, you've got to come back here before trump issues a travel ban, ignoring the fact, of course, that he has said no such thing, that these are people with visas to be here, and that trump has actually gone so far as to say, if you graduate from college, i'm going to make sure you get green cards so you can stay here and work. what do you make of this? >> yeah, donald trump wants the best and the brightest to remain in this country. i don't think he has much love for those who are chanting anti-semitic and anti-israel remarks on college campuses. those individuals might have to worry about their status if they're not, in fact, a u.s. citizen. but i'll also say this i think a lot of this hysteria exists, of course, in washington, d.c. it exists in liberal media, msnbc, cnn, maybe the washington post, la times, and it exists on ac

trump is corrupt and he loves money."aff writer at the atlantic. charlie, i am such a fan of your writing, and this piece in particular was very helpful for me, and i'm sure many other people who read it, to understand the handshake between maga and crypto. can you elaborate more on the sort of anti-institutional band that unites these two subgroups of people and why there's so much kinship in these two worlds? >> yeah, there's a lot of synergy here, and a lot of it is probably cynical, right? as i wrote in the piece, there is crypto -- kind of seems like a technology that was in some ways built for the way donald trump likes to conduct business, which is like off the books and, you know, sort of nakedly financial, like greed is good in that crypto ecosystem, that is a very trumpian thing. but perhaps more important is the ego's of cryptocurrency, especially bitcoin and this idea of blockchains that technology is built off of which is an anti-institutional technology, that's the way it was created, to take the middleman o

rubio may now enjoy a second act as trump's new secretary of state and then there's trump's pick forector of national intelligence, tulsi gabbard, the one-time surrogate for bernie sanders who lost the democratic nomination for president in 2020. don't forget rfk jr. who ran against trump this year as an independent candidate but dropped out prior to the election and is now trump's choice for secretary of health and human services. it's not just people who tried to compete with trump for the white house and failed. trump has also welcomed figures into the fold who lost key races for the republican party. mehmet oz tapped to be head of medicare and medicaid lost two years ago the senate race to john fetterman. linda mcmahon lost to senate bids to democrats in connecticut in 2010 and 2012. lori chavez-deremer who just lost reelection campaign for a congressional seat in oregon to democrat janelle bynum. she had already lost two times prior to that loss to bynum. it might seem a little odd for trump to be choosing so many political losers until we remember who we're actually dealing wit

on behalf of donald trump himself. throughout his first presidency, trump repeatedly showed affection for america's autocratic adversaries while shunning our allies and the inescapable conclusion for that is trump wants to be liked by those guys and actually just be like those guys. he wants america to be like the cleptocratic governments of china and russia where people suck up to the leaders just to enrich themselves. and america's rich and powerful appear pretty ready to indulge in that impulse this time around. the wall street journal reports that mark zuckerberg's meta has donated $1 million to donald trump's inauguration. that comes two weeks after he dined with trump at mar-a-lago. to be clear, this is not normal. neither meta nor amazon have ever donated anywhere near this much money to an inauguration before. it comes after bezos who owns the washington post scuttled his papers endorsement of kamala harris ahead of this year's election and after bezos offered trump these words of praise just last week. >> he h

trump's resort.mes after trudeau warned tariffs would hurt consumers in both countries. >> donald trump, when he makes statements like that, he plans to carrying them out. he would be actually not just harming canadians who -- who work so well with the united states, he'd actually be raising prices for american citizens, as well and hurting american industry and businesses. >> already u.s. ceos are warning if president-elect trump does impose new tariffs they will be passed on to consumers with higher prices. best buy's ceo says the vast majority will probably be passed on to the consumer. home depot's ceo warning there will certainly be an impact and walmart's finance saying tariffs are going to be inflationary. president biden weighs in. >> i hope he re-thinks it. it's a counterproductive thing to do. two allies, mexico and canada and the last thing we need to do is begin to screw up those relationships. >> on tuesday president biden announced a ceasefire deal in lebanon between hezbollah and leban

trump himself. throughout his first presidency, trump repeatedly showed affection for trump's autocratic adversaries while shunning our allies, and the inescapable conclusion from all of that is that trump really wants to be liked by those guys, and actually, just be like those guys point he wants america to be like the kleptocratic governments of russia and china were powerful interests suck up to the leaders, and then lavished them with praise and gifts, all just to enrich themselves. and america's rich and powerful are pretty ready to indulge in the impulse this time around. the wall street journal is now reporting that mark zuckerberg's meta, formerly facebook, has donated $1 million to donald trump's inaugoration. that comes just two weeks after zuckerberg reportedly dined with trump at mar-a-lago. all this despite the fact that trump and his allies spent the last four years accusing zuckerberg and his company is of conspiring to steal the 2020 election. meanwhile, amazon, the company founded a

trump. just think that they are not looking at the totality of his character in making a judgment. but this experience was in some ways very inspiring and mother courtroom, because as you mentioned in your excerpt from my book, this was a partial accountability. no matter what happens eventually in this case, even if he does not serve in jail, which he very much is not going to, even if he does not end up getting probation everyday in the courtroom he had to answer for really the first time in his adult life to a judge who controlled the courtroom. and i got a firm row seat on this accountability. the trial was not televised. so, while it was highly publicized, the stormy daniels trial, nobody got a good sense of what was going on in that courtroom if they were not there. and this is the only book about this case. it was a fascinating case. there was overwhelming evidence of guilt on donald trump's part. so, i walk readers through -- i kept a very barbed, acerbic diary during the trial and i

character trump who previously tried to ban the app in the u.s.ause it is owned by a chinese company linked to the ccp is asking the u.s. supreme court not to shut it down. in the u.s. issued january 19th deadline for tiktok to divest from his chinese don't parent company are be banned here but now trump says he wants to make the final decision on the fate of tiktok peer spokesperson tells fox as the incoming cheap -- chief executive president trump is the right constitutional after to resolve the dispute through political means peer on immigration the canadian cabinet members visited west palm beach friday for talks with trump scampi or trump is threatening 25% tariffs i can's canada if it doesn't stem what he calls a flow of drugs and illegal migrants into our country peer trump's incoming borders are said they've early begun to the court the border. >> i talked to the foreign minister of canada and i've been out to arizona talking to the sheriff's out there so we are not waiting for january 20th. >> this week a judge ordered the biden demonstra

trump wants a lackey, a man whose sole qualification is his extreme loyalty to trump. and the one person who could have had a safe about it, he is to stepping aside. he is accepting trump's wishes. joining me now is ryan riley. i know you do a lot of reporting at the department of justice, is this as surprising to you as it was to me? >> it was surprising in some ways. we knew he would be leaving in some way. but obviously when you saw that trump interview and we know kash patel has been nominated for this position that has not been opened yet, we sort of knew something could be coming along. i think the timing of it today was a little bit of a surprise. there had been this town hall scheduled, on the books for a few days, but it was not until today that we really realized there would be rumblings of chris wray announcing his resignation. people within the bureau are very concerned. but that is also if you are looking at mostly just management. the fbi is a very ideological place, conservative even. i don't think it is universally condemnation of christopher wray exiti

and donald trump. elon musk is the richest man in the world, and he also has billions and billions and billions in government contracts. and he's also been appointed to a huge position in donald trump's government. and when and he also is willing to say his mind, donald trump is to what happens when they disagree. and we actually don't know how this you know, you said actor we don't know how this bromance is going to play out. >> we kind of do know i would say this, you know, the chinese have a saying, you can't have two tigers live on one mountain top. so we do know how this is going to end. at some point there's going to be a conflict and there's one executive producer and there's one president and that's donald trump. and elon wasn't always with trump from the very beginning. elon is a new factor in the trump space, probably less than two and a half years, maybe two years into it. he's he's a bit character. >> we're getting more reaction from lawmakers up on capitol hill. let me play some clips for