tonight, jacob soboroff will join us with his reporting on trump's mass deportation plans, past and the near future potentially with his new documentary. by the end of the hour, i told you we're doing a lot of different things in this holiday season. well, what says merry christmas like none other than snoop dogg who will be here. you'll hear from him by the end of the hour. we begin with the billionaires. unelected, largely unaccountable billionaires are getting special access to this incoming trump administration and senate republicans and others. at the same time that the republican party actually just did something politically that was a big deal. they built and grew their support among working class, sometimes called blue collar, americans. this is an important story where politically, the republicans had good news. you could see that in the exit polls. we covered this economy election from election night on. but that political step was by all accounts republican voters, observers, supposed to be matched by some sort of delivery mechanism for those working class americans. so keep

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joining us to help answer that question, none other than jacob soboroff. the author of "separated, inside an american tragedy" the book which the new film "separated" and lee gallarnt is here. lawyer with the aclu. he argues the first class action suit. jacob, i start with you. the book and the film are all done without knowledge that trump would be re-elected. he has been, and i wonder if you can just start with what you think your body of reporting will be in the second term? what has been committed to on paper? the kinds of people that are in place. what with your expertise and knowledge you expect them to do on the family front separation. >> first of all, nicole, thank you so much for doing this special broadcast about this. i think what a republican-appointed judge called george w. bush called one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country, and i don't think that you can understand what will happen in a second trump term unless you look back and what happened in the first and plainly and simply you mention the signs that we all saw at

. >> oscar winning filmmaker and jacob soboroff are here to talk about their new film examining the trumpistration's family separation policy. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc's senior national politics reporter jonathan allen, kimberly atkins stohr, senior opinion writer for the boston globe, republican strategist matt gorman and sahel kapur, welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press". >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in tevision history. this is "meet the press" with kristen welker. >>> good sunday morning. president-elect trump proving once again he plans to shake up washington in his second term announcing plans to nominate kash patel as his next fbi director. patel is a hard line critic of the bureau who has called for shutting down the agency's washington headquarters, firing its leaders and bringing the nation's law enforcement agencies, quote, to heel. >> do you believe you can deliver the goods on this in a couple of months so we can get rolling on prosecutions? >> yes. we've got the bench for it, and the one thing we learned in the trump administ

jacob soboroff, thank you as always. i'll watch the film for the fourth time.turday, december 7th. and grab tickets for a special screening this tuesday at the isc center. mike barber is moderating the talk with jacob at the screening and we'll be right back. talk with jacob at the screening and we'll be right back. >>> that does it for me today. but we're already working on a very packed show for tomorrow night. alex padilla, a member of the judiciary committee, will be one much my guests. now if kash patel makes it to a confirmation hearing, we'll see, senator padilla will be one of the lawmakers who will be able to question him. that's coming up at 8:00 p.m. eastern. stay with you are because there's much more news coming up on msnbc. ♪♪

. >> i will be back tomorrow for the saturday show at 6:00 pm where i will talk to jacob soboroff about separated and i will talk to james clyburn of south carolina. about the potential for preemptive pardons of donald trump lures critics like liz cheney and anthony fauci. that is tomorrow right here on msnbc. that is tonight's last word. >>> the urgent manhunt for the person that shot and killed the healthcare ceo in new york city. >> in the city like new york city you can disappear into a crowd and no one will ever know who you are. >> president biden's turnaround and decision to grant a full and unconditional pardon to his son, hunter. president biden believes in the justice system but also believes row politics affected his process. >> president elect trumps choice for defense secretary. >> employees say he drink in ways that concerned them. >> i am here with the support of donald trump. >> for a number of our senators they want to make sure any allegations have been cleared. >> making their debut together, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. >> they talked about having a naughty list an

an extra special holiday morning, because jacob soboroff is here.t music is making me feel emotional. or it could be sitting next to you guys. >> a lot of holiday celebrations going on. commemorations overseas as well. the british monarchy spreading christmas cheer and smiles as they kept some beloved traditions alive this year. nbc's kelly cobiella joins us from buckingham palace with a look at the celebrations. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: peter, good morning to you. yeah, some big crowds turned out to greet the royal family on christmas day, as the king struck a personal note in his message to the nation. cheers, smiles, and an armful of gifts for the royal family on christmas day. chocolates and stuffed toys for the youngest royals, and a hug from princess kate. >> the prince and princess of wales and their three children all joining king charles and queen camilla for christmas mass. ♪ >> in a break with tradition, the monarch's holiday message usually delivered from a royal palace, this year from a hospital chapel, praising health care wor

. >> i will be back tomorrow for the saturday show at 6:00 pm where i will talk to jacob soboroff abouteemptive pardons of donald trump lures critics like liz cheney and anthony fauci. that is tomorrow right here on msnbc. that is tonight's last word. >>> the urgent manhunt for the person that shot and killed the healthcare ceo in new york city. >> in the city like new york city you can disappear into a crowd and no one will ever know who you are. >> president biden's turnaround and decision to grant a full and unconditional pardon

joining us now, jacob soboroff, national political correspondent and executive producer on the film and, separated, inside an american tragedy. jaken thank you for being here. i want to play a bit of the film featuring captain jonathan white woo was with the office of refugee resettlement during the trump administration. take a look. >> it is hard to explain to people why they should care about anyone or anything but the most important word is children. they are not a metaphor. each of them is an actual child, and a child in terrible danger. if you have children, you need only imagine your own child in a foreign country, not speaking the language, with no parent, with no money, not understanding how that society works. >> just really heartbreaking to hear. i know you have children and i have a child, it is really remarkable when you think of the statistic that he just said, 1,000 children still not reunited. we heard what president-elect donald trump said on the campaign trail and what his pick for border czar tom homan said about separation. will this start again? and who will be advoc

. >> national correspondent jacob soboroff joins us now, executive producer of the controversial filmlm, based on his book, "separated inside an american tragedy." >> jacob, welcome. i have always been a huge follower of your work and very, very impressed about your ability to sort of bring in and crystallize this conversation in the way that you have, particularly given that a lot of folks think that family separation is something in the past. as alicia noted in the opening here, 1400 families are still without their kids, their kids are separated from them. i want to play sound from the trailer of "separated" that gets into the reality of reuniting families separated under trump's policies. let's take a listen. >> we now know this was right from the get-go, someone must have been planning this. >> a federal judge says, young immigrants need to reunite with their parents. >> their assessment formed in the system does not have that much information for what is your mom's name? for every mom her name is mom. >> talk, if you could about this whole effort to reunite these families, what

on the book ofof the same name by our very own nbc news political and national correspondent jacob soboroffng kids, anyone below 5. that's unusual. most often when you have a kid that young, they are traveling with a parent. jim was the supervisor of all the federal field staff. he had his team keep a spreadsheet. it was growing, growing, growing, growing with the number of kids. >> jacob joins us now on set. it's a power film. you covered it extensively. why did you want to make it into a documentary? >> i had a lot questions after this was over what the republican appointed judge who stopped the policy called one of the most shameful chapters in the history of the country. that's the judge that stopped it. a filmmaker reached out to me after reading the book. we talked. he wanted to make a movie. that was four years ago. we didn't know president trump would run for re-election or become the president-elect. now it's more relevant than ever. >> you talk about your experience going into these immigration detention facilities, seeing kids separated from their families. you did what journalis

jacob soboroff, thank you so much. bringing this film to all of us. thank to all of you for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we're grateful. ♪ ♪ >>> happy holidays. i'm ari melber. i hope you are having a wonderful holiday season tonight. we have a special edition of "beat." we are calling it the egot edition. that, of course, famously stands for emmy, grammy, oscar, tony, one of the most coveted titles around if you can get all of them together. we will do our own take on that. the term was coined by "miami vice" star philip michael thomas but it has become one of the things you hear about in popular culture and in the broader context when featured on the show "30 rock." >> what's that? i want it. i forgot why i came in here. >> that belonged to philip michael thomas, the actor who plays tubbs on "miami vice." it stands for emmy, a grammy, oscar and tony, four awards thomas planned on winning in his career. >> that's a good goal for a talented crazy person. >> it is a good goal, and tonight we're bringing you our tak

party, now a msnbc political analyst and columbia university professor and look who is in town, jacob soboroff, political and national correspondent for nbc news, but he is here for a very special reason tonight, he is the executive producer of the new msnbc film "separated", which is based on his best- selling book, it looks into trump's family separation policies during his last administration. you can catch it on msnbc this saturday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. i am so glad you are here, but basil, i turn to you, first. pete hegseth, he would not answer questions today about msnbc reporting that fox news colleagues and employees, as many as 10, were concerned about his drinking. a guy who anchors a morning tv show. and now, you've got six republicans who are saying they are not necessarily on board with this guy. >> nomination is in trouble, in my view. and look, i saw a non-active marine shortly after this name was mentioned. he recognized me, knows what i do, he said, "man, i don't understand why the sky would be chosen, because he hates women so much." like, there are so many rank and file wome

documentarian errol morris, the film is based on a book of the same name by nbc news journalist jacob soboroffilm's executive producers. >> one of the things that so often gets lost in conversations about trump's family separation policy is that harm to children was the point. it was, in fact one of the civil servants who you speak with in the film says that it was meant to terrify parents from making that trek from those northern triangle countries to the us. >> based on the facts that we know, which are first-hand interviews with civil servants who tried to stand up and stop the policy and in fact help the policy reversal, we know what they wanted to do. they wanted to hurt kids in order to scare other families from coming to this country and scare congress into enacting more restrictive immigration laws. it's exactly the way that they drew it up and exactly what they wanted to do. correspondent: one of the civil servants who offers a firsthand account is jonathan white, who worked for the office of refugee resettlement. >> the unaccompanied children program, which i worked in, was essential

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. >> that is the new documentary based on the new york times best-selling book by jacob soboroff. examines the separation policy at the southern border and the ongoing human rights crisis. jacob joins us now. he is an executive producer on the film that makes its broadcast premiere this saturday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. good to see you. this is a story you've been on for years reporting for us at nbc and writing your book and now the film as well. i think we've got so much heat from that issue that it is worth going back to remind people what the policy exactly is. >> we talked a little bit about this before the election. the film came out in october but it has never been more relevant than it is today. in the summer of 2018, i don't think any of us will forget what it's like when the trump administration deliberately ripped apart 5500 children from their parents for no other reason than to harm them. and here we are on the verge of mass deportation. it is family separation at another name, on a massive scale in the interior of their country in a way that we've never seen before. so w

we got jacob soboroff back this morning. >> happy early new year.w as we approach 2025. it has been 28 years sincehe killing of jonbenet ramsey. the case remains unsolved, and no one has been charged with the crime. >> john ramsey he has he plans to meet with the current chief of police in boulder in the new year. dana griffith has the latest for us. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. john ramsey called that meeting, an important step towards closure. he is hoping the boulder police allow him to bring in outside experts to help test crime scene evidence in a last-ditch effort to solve the murder. nearly three decades after the brutal murder of 6-year-old jonbenet ramsey in her colorado home on christmas night, her father still thinks the case can be solved. >> that's an important meeting. we will have a representative with us from one of these cutting-edge labs to explain what they can and can't do. hopefully he will accept their help. >> reporter: boulder police declined to answer questions about the case or do any interviews citing the activ

where we start the hour, some of our favorite reporters and friends, nbc news correspondent jacob soboroffrated" based on his book of the same name about mass deportations and family separation during first trump administration, he's in new haven today, screening the film at yale and receiving the yale pointer fellowship in journalism for his work on it. it is fantastic. run, don't walk. and with me at the table, host of the fast politics podcast, special correspondent for "vanity fair," molly jong fast is here. when i see mr. homan on tv and feel not shocked, because thanks to your reporting i understand this is what they had in mind, but jolted by it, i want to ask you where this departs from what they did last time and i really want to understand how radical this is, not from any democratic or republican predecessor, but from trump 1.0. can you explain this with that frame? >> well, you know, nicolle, what stuck out to me in the quote you read from president-elect trump there is that he said he would go to the maximum extent of what the law allows only. and that would be going actually