i'm ayman mohyeldin, let's do it. donald trump has been announcing a flurry of new additions to his administration. now after months of pretending to have nothing to do with project 2025 and claiming he barely even knows the people who wrote it, guess who he's tapped to run the office of management and budget. yep, you guessed it, project 2025 coauthor, russell vought, in his announcement, trump signaling that he actually knows vought pretty well, in fact. he stated russ knows how to end the deep state and end weaponized government. of course you'll remember that vought from this leaked footage where he told reporters from the center for climate reporting to not take trump's disavows of project 2025 seriously. >> i expect to hear ten more times how the president, you know, distancing himself from the left's, project 2025. >> and you're not worried about that? >> i'm not worried. he's running against the brand. he's not running against any people. he's not running against any institutionings. it's interesting, he's in

i'm alyssa murray in for ayman mohyeldin. let's do this. >>> tonight, nbc news exclusive reporting the trump transition team is making a list of senior, current and former u.s. military officers who were directly involved in the 2021 afghanistan withdrawal. more importantly, they are exploring whether those individuals could be court-martialed for their role in the withdrawal. a person with knowledge of these discussions told nbc news, quote, they are taking it very seriously. nbc news reached out to the trump transition team for comment but they have yet to respond. trump's pick for defense secretary, fox news host pete hegseth called the withdrawal from afghanistan a, quote, humiliating retreat. he said that the united states lost the war and wasted billions of dollars in the process. let's bring david road, nbc news senior executive editor for national security. some of the currently serving officers who could be targeted for possible court-martial include army general andrew's, who served as the director of the joint staf

i'm ayman mohyeldin, let's do it . >> donald trump's victory speech as family and campaign staff to the streets and celebrated. we heard some unusual thank you is that you don't normally hear from any political campaign. for example, here is usc ceo and trump supporter dana white. >> i want to thank some people real quick. i want to thank aiden ross, theo vaughn, buzzing with the boys, and last but not least, the mighty and powerful joe rogan. >> if you are not familiar with any of those names, white was shouting out just some of the massive podcasters and live streamers who embraced and platform donald trump during his campaign. it was not the first time trump used new media to his advantage. the new york times reported this week that donald trump is been doing this all of his adult life, from building his persona in the new york tabloids in the 80s, to the reality tv craze that helped spawn the apprentice and create the false impression that he was actually a successful businessman. to being an early adopter of twitter, now called x. donald trump has always been a master at media and

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i'm melissa murray in for ayman mohyeldin, let's do it. we come on the air tonight, we have a very clear view of what donald trump will do when he is sworn in to office in just 63 days, including who he wants by his side in the oval office. he has been making these cabinet level picks so quickly and so controversial that even "saturday night live" had to have a go at it. take a look. >> wait. dude. is that your phone? >> sorry, bro. it says it's from mar-a-lago. >> answer it, bro! >> all right, all right. hello? oh, hi, sir. yeah. oh, okay. cool. oh. >> what was that about? >> oh, dude. that was trump. he said that he is naming me the secretary of the commerce. >> whoa! >> wait. what is secretary of commerce? >> i think it means he is in charge of all the commercials. >> as they say it's funny, because it's true. today is there a new reporting about one of trump's highly divisive and controversial picks. pete hegseth, the former fox news host who trump tapped as sense defect, allegedly paid a woman an undisclosed last year after she excuse

i am ayman mohyeldin, let's do it. >>> among the biggest shocks to the democratic party after donald trump's victory was just how well it trumpeted with working-class voters of all races, and economic realignment of sorts, underway for years, came back to bite the democrats, according to some, and it has many wondering, how did the party of fdr, social security, medicare, and labor become the party of high income voters, and how did the party of donald trump and elon musk when with voters who make less than $100,000 a year? senator bernie sanders kicked off the debate this week by saying that democrats have abandoned the working class. in a conversation with the new york times, the former house speaker nancy pelosi shot back. this is how she explained the democrats losing ground with working-class. >> there are cultural issues involved in elections as well. guns, god, and is, that's the way they say it. guns, that is an issue. now they are making the trans issue such an important issue and their priorities. >> no, sanders responded to pelosi's rebuke this morning during an interview

i'm ayman mohyeldin, let's do it . tonight i want to start the show by focusing on one number and a lot of questions, as it now stands, donald trump sits with about 74 million votes nationwide compared to 70 million votes for the vice president kamala harris. it is safe to say those numbers will change as more votes are counted. but compare these numbers to 2020. from the strength of the highest voter turnout in recent american history. the democrats won more than 81 million voters, while trump was at 74 million, a number very close to what he won in tuesday's election. whether that number ends up being five or 10 million less than in 2020, my first question is an obvious one. what happened to those voters? for the most part, trump matched and slightly increased his number. but the democrats fell short of those. how did the party lose them? why did so many stay at home? there is a big debate happening right now in the democratic party. some say it is the focus on trans issues, others say the already moved too far in on

i am ayman mohyeldin, let's do it. >>> as the vote count from election night continues to be tabulated, donald trump has now slipped below 50% of the vote. that's right, the latest choses victory was one of the smallest margins since the 19th century. one thing it was not, a landslide point with inflation and economic security considered key reasons behind why the incumbent party lost and with many working-class americans turning towards republicans and donald trump, how is he looking to meet the needs of the american working class? by handing his administration over to the highest bidder, of course. the trump transition team is now running on secret donations. nbc news has been reporting on how trump's team has declined to sign an ethics agreement that would force him to disclose who was finding this transition, in exchange for federal matching funds. now, the new york times explains that by refusing to sign, trump's team is raising untraceable sums of money from unknown sources, domestic and foreign. this of course raises the obvious possibility of a pay to play and blatant corruptio

i'm ayman mohyeldin , let's do it. we are not going back. that was a mainstay of vice president kamala harris's campaign, vowing not to go back to the misogynistic culture and backlash to it that gave rise to the #metoo movement. it is clear that donald trump's proposed cabinet is, in part, assembling into a revenge tour of sorts against that movement. this week many have called it trump's anti-tran08 cabinet. sadly, that still sticks after matt gaetz withdrawing after allegations of sexual misconduct including sex with a minor at a party. still embroiled with sexual abuse or misconduct allegations, himself. here is trump's pick for defense secretary, former fox news host pete hegseth who is facing scrutiny under his abuse of a woman at a women's convention. a report by the monterey police department was released wednesday night, detailing the accusers account, claiming that hegseth took her phone and blocked her from leaving her hotel room after sexually assaulting her. he was not charging has denied any wrongdoing. he still has trump's bac

i ayman mohyeldin. let's do it .on the fence about who to vote for on election day. >> this is not someone who was thinking about how to make your life better. this is someone who is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge. consumed with grievance and the man is out for unchecked power, and in less than 90 days, is it going to be him or me in the oval office? >> this comes as we see donald trump on defense after using what little time he has to deliver a closing message to attack former republican congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming. >> it is fake is in there trying to make something out of it and it's so biased and all i saying is she is a nutty war hawk you know she wants to go to war with anybody that moves in lose a lot of people, lose a lot of soldiers did but the nation in trouble. >> i want to claim the comments that sparked an intense backlash. here's trump speaking at an event in arizona with tucker carlson on thursday. >> she is a radical war hawk. let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine ba