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still with us two buddies, james carville and mike murphy. "the times" does some kind of tsk tsk reporting that democrats are worried about the lack of new faces. i have to say just as an observer the rigor and expertise of the opening statements especially the economic and national security team was striking after the four years we've just lived through. do you have any real concerns about this? or this is just democrats being democrats? >> well, first of all, we didn't nominate a new face. and i think if he's governing exactly like he ran, exactly who he is. nobody can be surprised that he's picking kind of experienced people that have some experience in government. he has personal relationships with, but that's who he is. and when people voted for him, it was truth in packagic, truth in advertising. he ran as exactly who he is and appears to be selecting his team exactly who he is, and i suspect he'll govern pretty close to exactly who he is. this isn't a surprise here at all, and no one expected him to bring a lot of fresh faces and new pe

to james carville. greatly appreciate you. tonight and taking our questions, thank you both. coming up, what life indeed could look like for ivanka, jared, d.j., t.j., eric after january 20th when we come back. january 20th when we come back ♪ ♪ [ engines revving ] ♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. >>> back to this report that the president is considering preemptive pardons for his three oldest children. someone who can talk on this subject, a national correspondent for "vanity fair" who has extensively covered this family and happens to be the author of "born trump." emily, let's start with this d.c. case, the briefest kind of overview of it. as i understand it and correct me if i am wrong, the crux of it is business was funneled to trump properties at inflated prices it is alleged? >> that is exactly right. now, one of the hallmarks of the era of the trump administration and even his inauguration before it is that everyone around the p

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james carville and michael steel, thank you for being with me. >>> up next, some republicans seem to be coming to their senses as trump refuses to admit his election defeat. i have some words of wisdom for gop lawmakers after the break. but first, my colleague richard louie with today's other top news stories. >> a good day to you. some of the stories we're watching for you, breaking this afternoon, the white house national security council confirmed to nbc news it is investigating a possible security hack on the treasury department. a division of the commerce department. national security counsel spokesman tells nbc news, the united states government is aware of these reports and we're taking all necessary steps to identify and remedy any possible issues related to this situation. >>> to covid, this weekend the u.s. surpassed 16 million cases. the death toll now exceeds 300,000. to battle the surge, the pfizer vaccine today loaded into fedex and u.p.s. trucks from facilities early this morning part of a massive distribution effort nationwide. the first vaccine should be given as ear

james carville, rick wilson, a pleasure as always. thank you both for coming back on. >>> coming up for us, a mission to be sure we know where this virus got its start. >>> a group of international experts is going to soon get to travel to china to investigate the origins of the coronavirus. this is something of a break through allowing westerners to see what became ground zero for themselves. it won't surprise you to learn there is concern over how much access they're going to be given from beijing. nbc news correspondent keir simmons has our report are from london tonight. >> reporter: within weeks these ten international scientists will travel to china to investigate the origins of the coronavirus. but tonight nbc news understands many details of the politically delicate trip are unclear to the team. we've spoken to three of them. >> this is historic moment. >> an early theory covid jumped from bats to another animal to humans at the wet market in wuhan. we verified this image of a menu from there offering wild animals for sale lik

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james carville. my god. i couldn't believe it.re making people love politics. you were just in georgia. you did an event. i don't know if you had a chance to watch the debate that took place the last week. let me play a bit of it for those that didn't see it. >> our senator has been absent. is absent. does not think he needs to be here answering questions. does not think he needs to be in washington passing relief for the people. >> when you receive the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic you dumped millions of dollars of stock in order to protect your own investments and weeks later, when their cayman opportunity to gifford nary georgiians $600 of relief you said you saw no need and saw it counter productive. why do you think it is counter productive to help ordinary georgiians during the pandemic? >> what do you make of the race and think the stakes are for the country? >> i think that everybody needs to know the people that now need their place taken, are not taking care of the country. that is what we need to l

the pay off is a big money voucher only good at local small businesses and then a shout out for@james carvilleo me about financial incentives and whether they're necessary. >> so financial incentives like cash don't work as well in lotteries. this been shown in science including a nobel prize winner richard baylor said this the other day. we humans love lotteries. and secretly once you get a ticket you think you might be the winner. so why not do this? why not have a new lottery, a vaxx pot, a lottery only for people who got vaccinated. free tickets. you're not asking them to do anything. free vaccine, free tickets. you're in a special lottery. the way our brains work we just love lotteries. so why not reward people? the point of behavioral society you make things easy, make them social and make them fun. you don't scold, lecture and punish into behavior change. >> final subject, how about the role of influencers? the former presidents are saying they'll jointly roll-up their sleeves. what a great photo-op would be if the current commander in chief would also be a part of that process. do infl

james carville theory lie lie lie up until the election and do what you want. the democrats and their platform. they want to defund the police. they want illegal immigrants to vote. they want higher attacks and they want to stack the courts. but obviously they don't want to talk about any of that so mainly what they are spending their money on there down here is attacking kelly loeffler and me. what we are doing, basically right now, is reminding the people of georgia what's at stake here. we won't get a second bite at this apple. this is the very last line of defense against this agenda because schumer changes that filibuster rule we won't get that back. brian: running against a documentarian who is for the green deal whose main client is china. >> i'm running against the guy that worked directly for the chinese communist party in china and, you know, tried to hide it from voters in georgia. he did hide it from voters in georgia. he got caught and lied about it. he has got a bigger connection to communist china than hunter biden or swalwell. i mean, this is a