heatwave fi and joining us remotely, host of the podcast in politic, msnbc national affairs analyst, john heilemannk times" investigative reporter mike schmidt is here. john, i start with you. sort of your body of bannon reporting. i think bannon started with this effort, which again was always out in the open, of destroying the administrative state. if i remember correctly, a whiteboard in his west wing office during the short time was in the administration. it may have taken longer to arrive at this, but it seems very intentional that the cabinet picks from trump are meant to divide newsrooms and accepted them chasing their tails to see if the ethics investigation into gaetz is going to break or tulsi gabbard's comments that even sean hannity found offensive are going to get my reaction from the mighty senate republicans, or if hegseth's myriad scandals are -- i mean, it seems that the sum of the reaction to those is intended to advance the broader project of bannon's. >> right. happy friday, nicolle. if such thing could be said. i think that the first time that steve bannon ever said the phrase,

john heilemann is still here. take us inside how marco rubio came to land the spot as secretary of state. >> if confirmed, this is a huge win for the conservative wing of the republican party the establishment foreign policy wing of the republican party. look. rubio is a bona fide hawk when it comes to latin america or asia or middle east. he is always staked out some of the most hawkish positions in the party. start in the beginning of his political clear, but you got to remember that marco rubio today is not the marco rubio of 2016, whether it's economics, immigration, or foreign policy. he has tried to modulate his views on these conflicts. you know, he has remained a tough hawk on china, which is still popular within both the maga and the conservative wing of the foreign policy apparatus but he has modulated on europe. he used to be one of the toughest critics of russia and vladimir putin. he has begun to criticize the conflict in ukraine and u.s. spending on it. he has begun to, you know, forecast a view that

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we are pea back with john heilemann, charlie sykes and maya a wiley. jackson's attorney with an attorney for two of the witnesses. >> what did she see? >> she was walking outside to the pool and she eastbound obamaed to her right her friend, 17 at the time, having sex with representative gaetz t they were leaned up to what she described to as a game table of some type. >> was your client paid for sex by matt gaetz? is that what she testified to? >> how the direct directed the questioning, they put up a number of venmo and paypal payments by representative gaetz and asked my clients what were each one of these payments made for? and my clients repeatedly testified, well, that was for sex. that was for sex. they provided -- that's what they have done. they don't have an agenda. my clients are not politically motivated. they haven't voted in the last two elections. they don't have a dog in the fight. >> john heilemann? >> um, i hate those open-ended questions. that's not really a question. >> i have a question. i have a question. i censored myself. i'll j

. >> joining us now, national affairs analyst john heilemann.olumnist at "puck." winning appearance for the vp on "saturday night live." >> i enjoy doing the standing up with you. normally seated. now standing. this is exciting. >> at the southwest wall to close out this monday. we were wondering what the october surprise would be. might have been in early november, and it's the poll out of iowa. >> you know, john kelly and "the new york times," got to give my october surprise nomination. but in the most over polled presidential race i've ever covered, where there is more data, flurry, blizzard, whatever the right metaphor is, of numbers, and over the course of the last month, it's been stable. trump up one. harris up one. margin of error. leading to the same conclusion, which is that it is tied. all of a sudden, anne seltzer, the oracle of iowa, delivers a poll saying kamala harris is up by three in iowa. no one has campaigned at a presidential level. no money has been spent. no ground game placed. no visits by the candidates. she'd shown harri

. >> john heilemann, thank you. we'll talk soon in a couple minutes on "morning joe." thank you, again. thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with us on this monday morning here on election week. it is election eve. thank you for being here. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪♪ >>> america is ready! america is ready for a fresh start. ready for a new way forward. where we see our fellow american not as an enemy but as a neighbor. [ applause ] i pledge to seek common ground and common sense solutions to the challenges you face. i am not looking to score political points. i am looking to make progress. [ applause ] for anyone who hasn't voted yet, look, first of all, no judged, but please do get to it. [ laughter ] >> i don't really laugh like that, do i? >> oh, a little bit. >> we are ready for a president who knows that the true measure of a leader is not based on who you beat down, it is based on who you lift up. this is someone who is increasingly unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance, and the man is out for unchecked power. and in less

john heilemann -- not john heilemann.that book "the soul of america" and he said he wouldn't have written that book if trump had won the popular vote. well, here we are. and last night, i was thinking, oh my gosh, is that madison square garden rally, is that the soul of america now? and the reality is, there's a dark part of the american soul, and donald trump appeals to it. and i think we make the mistake of thinking that the soul of america, as joe biden talks about, as john meacham talks about, is this unitary, one thing that is light and believes in equality and freedom and all these great virtues, but it also includes another part of our history, which i think african americans and native americans are all too well acquainted with, a dark part, and donald trump speaks to that dark part. but there is a fight for that soul. it's not a situation where we just appeal to it and the votes come our way. we have to fight for it. and i think that that's really the task ahead of us, to be honest. >> appreciate your candor. it'

a lot of us feel north carolina is not very far behind that. >> all right, john heilemann and cornell, thank you for starting us off. mara sticks around for the hour. >> when we come back, heartbreaking new evidence of the grave and real damage being done to women in states with strict abortion bans. the story of a pregnant teenager who died after trying to get help from three emergency rooms in texas. we'll tell you that story next. >>> plus, the disgraced ex-president has promised that he will put, wait for it, robert f. kennedy jr. in charge of health and specifically, quote, women's health. oh, god. >> and later, one day after lebron james endorsed vice president kamala harris, we will be joined by milwaukee bucks head coach doc rivers, an icon in his own right, on what's at stake in this election and why he's using his platform to support the harris/walz ticket. "deadline: white house" continues after a quick break. don't go anywhere. daddy, hi. speaker: goodness. my daughter is being treated for leukemia. [music playing] i hope that she lives a long, great, happy life and that s

john heilemann is still with us. co-host of "the weekend" on msnbc, symone sanders-townsend. robert f. kennedy jr. has been named for health and human services. the department oversees several agencies including the centers for disease control and prevention and the food and drug administration. nbc news correspondent von hillyard has the latest on this controversial pick. >> reporter: after teasing a potential administration role for weeks. >> rfk jr. is going to help us on health and the health of women and men and children and he is so good. >> reporter: president-elect trump selecting robert f. kennedy jr. to be his next secretary of health and human services, writing, americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to public health. kennedy is a former democratic and independent presidential candidate who dropped out and endorsed trump. >> we want an america president who is going to make our country hea

one other thing i want to add to this, jonathan, is john heilemann is right. been. he's sociopathic. the important story, at least an incredibly important part of this story, is this appeals to his base. he is pretty finely attuned to what they want to hear. the fact that he is closing this campaign and pitching his closing argument having to do with killing people, and it's more and more deranged, just illustrates what a cult of personality the republican party has become. it is almost impossible to think. if you'd said in 2016, you listed ten things donald trump is saying now or has done now, and said to people at the time, would you support him under that case? first, they would have accused you of trump derangement syndrome. they'd say, he never would have done those things. and if he would have done it, they would have said, of course we'd break with him. but what's happened? his bond is stronger than it's ever been. this is a frightening story of what can happen to a generally good and decent nation when a demagogue gets in control and appeals to the dar

it says here, willie, that john heilemann, for the first time, since chubby checker, was at number one with the twist got to "morning joe" on time at 6:00 a.m. >> oh, my! >> what are you doing? >> boom! >> i want to say this, this is consistent with my past record which is usually if i'm here on time, it usually means i've been up all night. >> let's talk about this. >> one of your favorite establishments on the other side of the river, you know. >> sure. >> when you walk in late -- >> i'm not late. am i late? are you scolding me for being late when i'm here right now? >> i'm taking an opportunity during a positive moment to reinforce how important it is to do what you did today, unlike stumbling in 20 minutes late. >> what if i stumble in 20 minutes early, like, really stumble? >> we call that mike barnicle. mike, where are you? i think we need mike micced up and bring him over here. i want mike at the table. can we mic mike up? this is not a show without barnacle. come on, mike. >> he's not supposed to be on today. >> he just wandered in. >> my question about barnacle, how can someon

john heilemann, 61st anniversary of the passing of john kennedy, the asass sassination of john kennedyyeah. i think -- i mean, obviously it is a moment -- >> especially in the '60s. >> the certainly the atmosphere of d d d ebuliance and optimism, and all of that, just the chaos of the '60s is the -- throws open the door to that. i think the -- we still had a relatively normal partisan politics up until really until you guys showed up in '94. >> thank you. >> good job. >> which is really what -- i don't know about you personally, but on both sides there was some of that. but i would say the republican revolution '94 ushered in a different kind of politics around bill clinton. and i would say just to go back to bill clinton about the other conversation we were having, you know, a very good op-ed in "the new york times" where he talked about another danger, not just about twitter, democrats listening to the groups, organized interest groups and trying to please the groups all the time has led the democrats into a bad place and what bill clinton did and there are lots of things that are ob

john lombardo won for governor. my prediction is based on being able to get their votes out. >> hey, ralston, it's heilemann.your analysis as a sign of like a national trend and also the trend in nevada. i think the take-away from looking about what you've said about the early vote now on election day is that early surge in republican early voting has been now counteracted to the point -- the story of this early vote was there was a lot of republican early vote that flooded in at the opening of it, but in the closing days democrats have caught up. my second question is how crucial the vote from the bellagio and caesars palace is going to be in putting harris over the top? >> let me answer the second question. when you talk about the strip, this goes all the way back. as you know, they have these caucuses on the strip. the culinary gets its workers to the polls. i think that is going to happen today. but let's talk about where this republican early ballot lead is coming from. it's coming from rural nevada almost entirely. that is only going to end up being 10 to 12% of the vote. it is almost exhausted now. so