and starting right now, our beloved colleague, alex wagner, with alex wagner tonight. good evening.>> thank you for your great coverage tonight. hours ago, vice president, harris officially conceded the 2024 election to donald trump that she did not concede everything.>> while i concede this election, i do not concede the site that fueled this campaign. the fight, the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people. a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect america at our best. that is a fight i will never give up.>> there are a lot of people experiencing legitimate pain and sadness and fear right now, english writer, evelyn wall wrote about a blow, expected, repeated, falling upon a bruise with no smart or shock of surprise, only with a sickening pain. and after 2016 and the aftermath, that sentiment for half of this country or more, feels about right. here we go again. donald trump now has a real shot at winning the popular vote, he is currently leading by 6 million, republicans are projected to take co

alex wagner tonight starts right now with alicia in. >> good evening. happy thanksgiving. >> donald trump is nearly finished with two cabinet level positions still unfilled. for the past 24 hours, the trump transition has announced a new wave of administration picks. today, trump announced he will nominate retired army lieutenant general keith kellogg to serve as special envoy for ukraine and russia. general kellogg has advocated for a cease fire. so far, trump has filled nearly 60 spots in his administration. all at break-neck speed. it is notaeums the speed and the qualifications and the various nominees turns heads. this week, multiple news outlets reported the trump transition is investigating long time trump adviser boris epstheyn. he asked potential administration nominees to give him monthly consulting fees in exchange for advocating for them to trump. this isn't new to trump's circles. during the first trump administration, trump's lawyer and fixer was accused of trying to cash in on his proximity to trump. >> tonight, nbc news is learning new d

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alex wagner begins right now. >> what you talked about could lead to a show. it's the end of your shift. it's a testament to where we are at >>> if there is one hallmark of the trump era, one strategy that has been employed to force through a radical agenda it might be the sum paid first articulated by steve bannon all the way back in 2018. the democrats don't matter. the real opposition is the media. and the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with-- stuff. he didn't say stuff, but you get the idea. steve bannon was overstating the role of media and understating the role of actual democratic officials, but that flood the zone approaches something we have seen trump to great effect do. it's not that trump is a brilliant tactician, but on some level trump realizes the best way to avoid scrutiny is simply do a whole lot of bad things all at once to keep everyone's attention divided, something we are seeing play out right now today. this hour. today republican congresswoman nancy mace would ban transgender people from using the bathroom they identify with.

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alex wagner starts right now. go vote, everyone, good evening, alex. >> go vote. i am glad to be trapped in whatever this is with you my friend. >> likewise. >> see you on sunday. >>> just like chris said, there is our final show before voters head to the polls on tuesday just four days from now. no one knows what it is going to happen. all indicators show the race to be neck in neck and there is no real favorite. election day could be a coins to, maybe. and then again, maybe not. but maybe so. whatever happens it is worth putting into perspective what we have been living through in this extraordinary political moment. in just three months the harris campaign has managed to pull off what most campaigns could not do in three years. even before the first debate donald trump had a narrow but consistent polling lead over president biden and that lead nearly tripled in a month after their first debate. since joe biden left the race his successor used what little time she had to run an incredibly nimble and responsive campaign nearly devoid of controversy. she generated

. >> that is "all in" on the thursday night, "alex wagner tonight" starts now with ali velshi in for rsation. >> i'm glad you brought up that conversation, because it can get worse, people think they will bottom out, take the stand, make a statement, but whet

i appreciated very much. " alex wagner" starts now. >> thank you, my friend. >>> today, the house ethics committee that locked on the question of whether to release the report on alleged misconduct of trump's pick for attorney general, matt gaetz. the reports reportedly broke down on party lines with all five democrats threatening to release the report and all five republicans voting against it. the committee is set to meet again on december 5th to discuss the next steps, but this is all happening as new details about matt gaetz's conduct is starting to trickle out into the press. abc news has obtained records given to the ethics committee that shows gaetz paid more than $10,000 to two young women who later testified to the committee. an attorney to those women told nbc news, those appear to be records his clients went through with the committee to identify which payments from gaetz had been for sex. meanwhile, the "new york times" has obtained a fairly detailed diagram from federal investigators that reportedly shows the tangled web of payments between gaetz and various individuals, inc

that's all in on this thursday night and "alex wagner tonight" starts right now. >>> the time i fixed your carburetor. >> yes. you have done it like three, four times. >> that's me. grease monkey. thank you my friend. >>> there's a ton of news to get to this evening but i want to start by going back to the year 2019 on the small island nation of samoa. that year, one year before the global pandemic, samoa was experiencing its own pandemic. >> this is the biggest increase in debt we've seen since records began. the figure of 32 deaths up from 25 only yesterday. >> we saw -- not designed to deal with this and i think the minute you are getting hospitals running at 200%, 300% capacity, that speaks for itself. incredibly serious. >> the outbreak was measles. a disease for which vaccines have been available for more than 60 years blue 2019 an entirely preventable outbreak there killed 83 people. most of them children under the age of 4. why? why with you -- a preventable disease spreading like wildfire and killing so many children? well, one year prior to that outbreak, two infants in samo

>> tim and sam, thank you for joining me on this very special bull work thanksgiving edition of alex wagner tonight. we have a lot more to get to. including a trump lawyer's attempt to persuade the new york attorney general to drop her civil case against trump. the novel argument for the good of the country. first, why donald trump's pick to lead the national institutes of health is making health experts more than a little nervous. we will talk to all about that next. l talk to all about that next. advil liqui-gels are faster and stronger than tylenol rapid release gels. ♪♪ also from advil, advil targeted relief, the only topical with 4 powerful pain fighting ingredients that start working on contact and lasts up to 8 hours. for more than a decade farxiga has been trusted again and again, and again. ♪far-xi-ga♪ ♪far-xi-ga♪ ask your doctor about farxiga. >>> donald trump's list of leaders to take over the country's health agencies is nearly complete and hardly conventional. take for example this newly resurfaced podcast interview with robert f. kennedy jr. >> i would proudly today be diagnos

"alex wagner tonight" starts right now. >> you don't have to give a preview of the a block. >> i'm sorry i went late, but i'll see you in a second. >> it is your block too. thank you, my friend. fox news is not exactly known for asking tough questions of donald trump, but when it comes to trump and his proposed tariffs, maria bartiromo actually kind of went for it. >> what about the criticism and the journal has done this as well, if you put something like a 200% tariff on a product, it is only going to mean higher prices for consumers? >> no, no. >> it has to be passed on somehow. >> it doesn't mean -- it doesn't mean what. >> for years now, trump has been campaigning on the promise he would enact massive tariffs as part of his america first economic agenda, but he has also been trying to get away with pretending those tariffs would somehow not cost american consumers. >> a tariff is a tax on a foreign country. that's the way it is, whether you like it or not. a lot of people -- it is a tax on us. no, no. it is a tax on a foreign country. we're going to be a tariff nation. it is not goi

>> with that one, for those frequent watchers of the alex wagner show will remember two nights ago you and i were talking about the cuts to medicaid and food stamps. and that was in the first trump administration. it happened. who executed that? when we saw all of the great protests in capitol hill over medicaid cuts. who was the architect? mr. russell vought. and he is back. if you look at the last budget donald trump produced and sent out in 2020, it had massive cuts. over a trillion-and-a-half dollars to medicaid. massive cuts, cut social security even. food stamps of course. so you can assume looking at project 2025 which trump aid no. that's not going to have anything to do with me. of course it is. and he has now named not only vought, miller, authors of project 2025 to his administration. he is going right at all the things you and i were talking about. the far right agenda to attack working people. >> yeah. just to put a finer point on that. from the project 2025 stable, he named tom homan. brandon carr. let me, the sort of probably most i'm going to say unusual pick here, i'm

alex wagner tonight starts right now. >> the battle for the house continues. 27 seats remain uncalled right now. in the senate republicans won control with 52 seats so far. that's less than ideal balance of power for democrats looking to play defense against an incoming trump administration, but we have been here before. in 2016 trump didn't just win the white house, republicans won overwhelming control of the house and a 52-seat majority in the senate. but even in those circumstances, democrats still managed to check trump's power. you might remember that during trump's first campaign for the white house, this was one of his key promises. >> we're going to deliver real change that once again puts america first. that begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as obamacare. >> trump had the white house, a majority in the house, and a majority in the senate. but, still, when push came to shove, trump could not kill obamacare. he managed to get the bill -- a bill through the house. but when that bill got to senate, even republican senators thought it was too extre

all in with alex wagner starts right now. >> have a great weekend, my friend. you earned it, you deserve it. >> okay, so the total bill for all the ads bought in the 2024 election broke new records at almost $11 billion. that is billion with a b. and that is not the total campaign expenses, that was just the ads. the amount of outside spending, which is spending by i groups that are not the campaigns themselves, groups like super pacs, that hit a record $4.5 billion this year. again, that's billion with a b. and more than half of that money comes from dark money groups that do not fully disclose their sources behind their funding. money that has been polluting our nation's politics more and more every year since the supreme court a decade ago allowed corporations and the wealth eiest americans to spend as much as they want on elections. but this year we experienced something we never have before. the literal wealthiest person in the entire world used his fortune to tilt the election toward his preferred candidate. elon musk bought political power, and now we ar

that is "all in" on this tuesday night, "alex wagner tonight" starts right now. good evening, alex. >>> you don't need to have a preview of my show, because i had a really good a block on my own pert >> i know, i'm sorry i went late, but, i will see you in a second. >> it is your block, too. i will see you in a second. so, fox news is not known for asking tough questions of donald trump, but when it comes to trump and his proposed tariffs, well, maria bartiromo, actually kind of went for it. >> what about the criticism -- and the journal has done this as well -- that if you put something like a 200% tariff on a product, it will only mean higher prices. >> no, no, it is not. it does not mean that. >> it has to be passing on, somehow. >> no, it doesn't mean -- it doesn't mean what? for years now, trump has been campaigning on a promise he would enact massive tariffs as part of his america first economic agenda, but he has also been trying to get away with pretending that those tariffs would somehow not cost american consumers anything. >> a tariff is a tax on a fore

i want you to listen to this from msnbc host alex wagner.>> i think when it's all said and done what you're going toaster is a huge divide over people who are college educate and not college educated and if that is the case what is different is that you could be seeing a realignment about the base of each party, and there are warning signs for everybody here, but if the working class non-college educated voter is now increasingly a republican voter, democrats have to rethink the way in which they sell their policies that absolutely benefit working class americans, and in a targeted fashion. stuart: [laughter] well they realize what we're doing for them. >> yeah, you know, i thought she was on her way to a real point there, and maybe -- >> almost got there. >> and maybe self-reflection but of course when people lose in politics the easiest thing to say is we just got to work on the marketing. we're great, we're great, and we've got a great product but we just gotta work on the marketing, and obviously, the story of this era, inflation, is wha

>> with that one, alex, those that are frequent watchers of alex wagner show. two nights ago you and i were talking about the cuts to medicaid and food stamps. that was in the first trump administration. it happened. who executed that? we saw all of the great protests, who was the architect. russell vought. he is back, he will be here for the same thing. if you look at the last budget trump produced and sent out in 2020. massive cuts, over $1.5 trillion to medicaid. it had massive cuts. even cut social security, food stamps of course. and, so you can assume that looking both at project 2025 which trump said no, no, no, it will have nothing to do with me, of course it is. he named vought, miller, homan. authors of 2025 to his administration. you can assume he will go after the things we were talking about medicaid, food stamps, far right agenda to attack working people. >> to put a finer point on that. project 2025 stable, tom homan. carr, and. the sort of, probably most unusual pick here and i am eager to hear your thoughts on this is lori chavez-deremer. she w

. >> that is "all in" on the thursday night, "alex wagner tonight" starts now with ali velshi in for alex. good conversation. >> i'm glad you brought up that conversation, because it can get worse, people think they will bottom out, take the stand, make a statement, but whether it is reproductive rights, climate, or israel, gaza, it can certainly get worse. >> and i was going back and reading the amazing account of 1968 in this book, and part of the horror and shock when the bombing campaign in cambodia comes out is that shock of, "oh, my god, they are bombing another country?" like, they have started another war, which is like -- it is not like that was litigated in the campaign. that was not litigated. >> yes, and there may be things like that that we are not even talking about the could get worse. thank you for your message, have yourself a great night and happy halloween. and happy halloween to everyone joining us tonight. hopefully, you've got some candy by your side. if you dressed up, i hope your costume was a hit. to be honest, i'm not sure anybody can beat this group costume.

. >> judge jeanine: harold come on the left, i think alex wagner said this whole thing is so orwellianfor people on the left to believe there are those who have, you know, positive interests in bettering this country? especially with elon musk. >> harold: he -- the last time we had a balanced budget was 1998. a democrat was in the white house. to dana's point, the leader, the president she worked for had ideas on this. president obama introduced simpson-bowles, they came up with ideas to reduce the debt but president obama didn't support their ideas once they put forward. you even had president clinton, he came in and allowed al gore to run something called we invented government. i'm rooting for vivek. i'm rooting for elon in this regard. i think the fact that neither of them have to work again -- >> need to is worth a couple hundred billion dollars. and a lot of that wealth, it emanates from the car company. he understands the importance of government in the private sector because his space company and one of his other companies, including tesla, has benefited from urgent government

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howard: by the way, these are the people who called the the campaign flawless, alex wagner, sunny hostinwomen with. trump campaign resented the assumption that almost all women would vote for kamala harris, and that didn't happen. i mean, she won by 7 percentage points which isn't much when you consider the gender gap among men. >> yeah. i think too many, again, in media and left-wing sort of consultant the class talk only to each other, and i exclude my friend at the table here who is happy to sit down and talk with others. if you don't just talk the each other and very rich, liberal friends, you would see, as i sie the shy trump vote voter was going to be a suburban, educated woman who maybe hadn't voted for trump in the past. abortion and liz cheney wasn't enough for them. there were other things they were concerned about. howard: megan, what do you see as the media's malpractice, if you do, and kamala harris getting overwhelmingly favorable coverage and in the end it didn't help? >> i think there's a couple things here. i don't think people are necessarily getting their news anymore

full team coverage with rachel maddow, alex wagner, stephanie ruhl. >> at the very end we find a tie.decision 2024 begins right now. >>> for a brief moment admit it. you were hoping we would be hosting this on ice skates. we're not. but the prospect of us falling on our face is still as high as can be. sunday is supposed to be a day of rest but honestly, two days before this presidential election. hah. so here we are with less than 36 hours until the first polls open on election day. i already have not slept for a week. i'm joined by joy reed. some of our best friends from here at msnbc are going to be joining us over the course of this special. in these final hour, the presidential and vice presidential candidates are racing across the country. making their final pitches to voters as we speak. former president trump is due on stage at any moment in macon, georgia. georgia tonight will be donald trump's third swing state in one day. earlier today he had rallies in both pennsylvania and north carolina. kamala harris has spent her whole day in michigan. she stopped in to chat with voter

. >> full team covered with rachel maddow, nicolle wallace, joy reid, lawrence o'donnell, alex wagner, jen psaki, stephanie ruhle and steve kornacki at the big board. >> at the very end we find a type. >> msnbc special coverage of decision 2024 begins now . >>> for a brief moment, you were hoping that we were going to be hosting this on ice skates. [ laughter ] we are not but the prospect of falling down on our faces at any moment is is live as it ever could be. thank you so much for being with us. sunday is supposed to be a day of rest, but honestly, two days before presidential election, two days before this presidential election? here we are with less than 36 hours until the first polls open on election day. i already have not slept for a week. [ laughter ] which you can tell by looking at me and the fact i am punchy from the first lines of this script? >> we love that. >> we are super glad to have you with us. we are ready for this if we been ready for anything. i'm joined by my beloved colleagues. steve kornacki will be with us in a few minutes. some of our best friends from here

>> let's turn to alex wagner standing by with our political insiders >> we are here in the insider'snsylvania, what you are hearing on the ground. do you have anything that you want to share? >> i sat next to her over the last few months and everything that claire has said even when i am like, mm, claire, that is no, it hit in this cycle has come through. so, i was fighting her about two hours ago. what i am hearing there, the big board from steve kornacki, a lot of mail vote. the lead that needs to be insurmounted may not, the gap may not be insurmountable. but it may be mountable but they don't, they are cautiously optimistic. there are still absentee ballots out there. i don't know exactly how many are left out there. i personally don't think there are enough. that means in there are not enough, i will be honest. if there are not enough absentee ballots out there to make up the gap that exists for the kamala harris the vice president will not win pennsylvania. if she does not win pennsylvania, trump hits 270. now, pennsylvania people are saying allegheny county, pittsburgh, puerto