and now donald trump wants to put kari lake in charge. >> i'm kari lake. might recognize me from tv. i worked as a journalist and a news anchor for 27 years right here in arizona. so i know the ins and outs of the corporate media, and i know how corrupt it is. it's not reporting, it's propaganda, and it's biased. it's unethical. journalism is dead. >> you probably know kari lake best for her refusal to concede after losing both her 2020 run for governor of arizona and her run to represent arizona in the senate just last month. lake was also one of the most vocal proponents of the big lie that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. she made quite a name for herself as an anti-vax, anti-mask, covid conspire exist who pushed hydroxychloroquine. to give a sense of what she find truthful and good, the show she decided to go after trump announced he was his pick to run voice of america, it was "steve bannon's war room" podcast. here is kari lake after steve bannon asked why she thought she was the right person to lead the voa. >> i've been in broadcast journ

and now donald trump wants to put kari lake in charge. >> i'm kari lake. a news journalist for 20 years so i know the ins and outs of the corporate media and know how corrupt it is. it is not recording. it is prop canada and it is biased. it is unethical. journalism is dead. >> you probably know her best for her refusal to concede after losing both her 2022 run for arizona. lake was one of the most vocal proponents of the big lie that the 2020 presidential election was big. she made a big name for pushing for hydroxychloroquine. so the truth is not exactly kari lake's thing. to give you a sense of what kind of media she views as truthful and good. the show she chose to go on today, the show was steve bannon's war room podcast. here she is on that show after steve asked her why she was the right person to lead the voa. >> i have been in broadcast journalism 30 years. as most people in the war room posse know. i walked away from a lucrative contract during covid after the government was pushing so many lies about covid. what kind of treatment, the vaccine. o

and kari lake will be his mouthpiece to the world. it's going to be, magaism is going to be one of our chief exports and we need to understand the implication of that. this is just another side of the chaos that will ensue, but it's ordered, purposeful, and we need to be mindful of that as well. >> it brings it all together, doesn't it, vaughn? when you hear what both eddie and mark have to say about the performtive nature of donald trump. that he also seems to admire so much in the people he wants to surround himself and now put into his administration. another example, pete hegseth, whose most recent career had been on fox news, right? there's a political report and a shift of strategy there. they say trump and his allies are now cracking down. have a new, more confrontational approach with coordinating with outside forces. to try to grind senators into submission. it's part of the performance, right? this whole thing of let's make this a very public fight and one we're going to win. >> if you're the likes of joni ernst and bill cas

and kari lake, a trump loyalist and fierce election denier, has just been picked to head a global news outlet funded by the u.s. government. the move, though, is sparking fears inside the organization. that, and much more coming up on cnn news central can't fool myself. >> it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life had extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. >> you only come across an artist like luther vandross once in a lifetime. >> luther. never too much new year's day on cnn. okay, everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. >> ensure with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health, and ensure complete with 30g of protein. >> i've been worn by celebrities, athletes and world leaders, but i've always felt most comfortable up here with the folks that made me who i am. i'm right at home out here on the land, and i'm in my lane on the shoulder of the interstate because this is where i come from. i've been showing up here for nearly 200 years, and i can't wait to see what's next. >> hats off to the

i think that trump, you cited kari lake. big lie candidates who have not donald trump lost their elections, same thing happened in 2022. so as a way to, just at a very superficial level to unify the party, drawing a line against that, just saying we are not going to vote to confirm people who still espouse the big lie that support the january 6th insurrection. republican ifs you want to confirm them you could do that on your own. it puts you in a decent position to say look, some day, donald trump will not be president. when that day comes we will get back to the place where elections are free and fair and where both parties accept it when they lose. and one way we will stake out a claim on that is by saying no to everyone who takes this loyalty pledge. >> why couldn't schumer assert there would be no democratic votes for any nominee? there? no democratic votes for anyone who claim the violent insurrectionists are political prisoners. i just interviewed. he said this thing i have been thinking about where it is not a story a

i think i see kari lake. is that kari lake? hi, kari. stand up. [cheers and applause] good job. worked hard. that was, she had a -- a good woman. and she's going to be doing something very big. maybe bigger. it's a big one that the you have, so good luck with it. you're going to do well. going to to turn that around like nobody saw i before, so thank you very much for accepting it. sergio with gore, a friend of mine who's to doing a fabulous job leading the presidential personnel. finish he's really working hard. where's sergio? he's around here someplace. sergio. where is he? hi, sergio. good job you're doing. we have some big announcements over the next few days too, big ones. a great actor who's been with us for a long time even when it wasn't fashionable, rob schneider. [cheers and applause] rob. he was here with a few of his friends when it wasn't quite as fashionable, right, rob? but you were here. thank you very much. great job you're doing too. karen robison, where is karen? karen is here, and she's, i hear, running for governor. she's going to be running for governor. w

now, i should point out those remarks by kari lake. those were made at a gathering of conservatives in arizona. trump is going to address that same conference tomorrow in what is being billed as his first rally style speech since winning the election, jessica and steve, is there a sense that among his allies, among people you're talking to, that this, that this is kind of a preview of how we might see things playing out once he does get in office well, he's got a powerful new ally who is incredibly well funded. and elon musk, who has certainly set the stage to fund any primary challenge for people who don't, who try to stand in the way of trump's agenda. and he has he has said as much already. and there are groups like turning point usa, which is hosting that conference that kari lake spoke at, and trump will speak at tomorrow that are also willing to fight other republicans. so, you know, trump himself has been relatively quiet today in the aftermath of this, this grenade he tossed into the middle of these negotiations to fund the gov

he said "opposing kari lake is a suicide mission. she doesn't run to win, she runs to destroy." [applause] we got a win, because they are trying to destroy our country. when president trump is going to implement policies, we must destroy any person trying to stop policies from making their way into our lives. are you up for that? [applause] good. when i say destroy, i'm not talking violence. i'm talking about with our strong voice and vote. we proved that this election. we made it too big to rig. we saw it this week. many of you got on the phone and started calling your congressman and said what the hell is going on? we need to use the same energy we used the last couple years to make sure in the next four years we make america great again. i think about how we want to take time off. how many of you got involved? let me see hands. keep them up. you are heroes. [applause] i want to see you take that energy, in arizona, 115 degree heat, 500 doors in one weekend, i want to see that same energy. that is how we will defeat the obstructionists who will try and stop president trump. th

and that's what appointing kari lake will do.ening here is that it is very hard for a news organization to -- as the bbc does, to promote itself as a news organization that reports freely without fear or favor and reports objectively. once you have taken the step of being seen as political in the sense that you are controlled by whoever is in the white house, i don't know that the voice of america can come back from that. i think the ramifications of this pick, this sort of history breaking nature of this, will last for a long time. the voice of america has always been seen as representing america, but not as representing one president. and particularly kind of having a director who denies election results and has herself promoted conspiracy theories, i've interviewed her, she gave me exactly the same responses that she gave dana bash, there was evidence out there, but she has never produced that evidence. >> i think already she is sending a signal that she will do just what katty is suggesting. last night she posted this, quote,

you have kari lake, donald trump's forever friend, now going to be the voice of america chair. to be ambassador just to get her out of the way because he has a new girlfriend. it's almost funny, except these people are in charge. >> yeah, and i mean, the voice of america is a really important organization that is supposed to spread democracy across the world, it is supposed to be a news organization that is available in lots of countries and it was started during world war ii. my grandfather actually worked there during the war, and it is meant to be a straight down the middle news organization that protects american values, but isn't on the opinion side. so, now, it is going to project the guys of kari lake, who thought she was governor. >> i think she still thinks she's governor. i hate to break it to you, but i actually think she still believes that, at this very moment as we sit here, she still thinks she is still the governor. i will give you the last word on that, because it does feel like the whole idea of diversity, it draws donald trump space so much, but i will give y

kari lake is the person that donald trump wants to be the voice of america, which by the way, is the government state media network. it is the largest and oldest public media in the country. she is the politician perhaps most closely linked to the big lie outside of, of course, trump himself. lakes, get this, insists that not only trump won the 2020 election, she insists she won her own 2022 race to be governor of arizona, which she didn't win. the democrat that beat lake in arizona senate race last month, ruben gallego, compiled some helpful of examples of her own big lie for voters. >> i am the duly elected governor. our victory was stolen from us. i want what i earned. i want to be the governor of arizona. i am the governor. i believe i won. they stole this election and every man, woman, and child knows it. these back there don't want us talking about stolen elections. >> will you accept the results of your election in november? >> i am going to win the election and i will accept that result. >> that is actually a pretty good, synced articulation of the egos, right? of trump, and

>>>>also, trump wants loyalists kari lake to be the next director of the voice of america. that is a federally funded international broadcaster. lake is a former tv news anchor who lost both races for arizona governor and u.s. senator. live. look at the state capitol this afternoon, where earlier today, governor gavin newsom announced the 18th class of the california hall of fame. and for the first time in its history, the class of 2024 is made up of all women. the governor's office says they were chosen for their trailblazing careers in civil rights, science, athletics, the arts and cooking. the list includes a world renowned chef, julia child, the state's first poet laureate, an olympic gold medalist, a famed conservationist, two civil rights icons and rock n roll hall of famer tina turner. well, communities are coming together at a time when the demand for food remains high. it's a supporter. annual food for bay area families drive. our. katie nielsen is in alameda county with more on the final push to feed families healthy and delicious holiday meals. >>>>we're here at

that's why he announced kari lake to run the voa. the only issue is presidents don't normally name directors of the voa. so there's actually a lot of government mechanics that have to happen to install her. we will see over the next couple of years if that actually happens. but i'm watching it closely because the voa could be turned into theoretically more of a pro-government propaganda machine as opposed to an independent news outlet. the journalist of voa would fear that. but clearly some trump allies would like to see that happen. >> definitely something to watch, but interesting. the timeline seems to be it could be a lot longer than what people might think in terms of. >> and i think that's true with a lot of the stories we're covering right now. we're talking about trump's first 100 days, for example. but some of these cases take a long time within the government to actually play out. >> yeah, it's a great point, brian. great to see you. you too. thanks, john. all right. this morning, stanley recalling millions of travel mugs a

she worked for kari lake. this is from 22. last week the campaign higher harmeet dhillon for one of trump's lead attorneys who contested the 2020 election to run as election day operations. in an interview on tuesday dhillon tied the voting equipment problems to the role of hobbs office in testing and certifying machines. it says to me the arizona secretary of state a grossly incompetent and should not have been charged with the selection. that is why she should not be holding any elected office in arizona. the issue of fraud in arizona was resolved by the republican governor and republican officeholders up and down the ballot, and by trump's own independent audit. there was no fraud that led to any of kari lake's. she is now at multiple defeats. what does it signal that someone who doesn't believe in the integrity of our elections is now in charge of the civil rights division?>> i think the act is that donald trump has had one irreducible minimum of four anyone he appoints to his administration. that is that they are an elect

i should add, and we can talk about in a later edition of path to the presidency, is, of course, kari lakeot directly in his gift to appoint her to that, we should say, there are kind of a few steps, but again, putting somebody very loyal to him in a role that's very key to america's position abroad, american soft power, if you like, abroad through voice of america. and there are supposed to be very strict separations there in terms of, yes, it's funded through the department of state, but the department of state has no editorial influence on the output of voice of america. so it'll be interesting to see how that all plays out. but i feel like "it'll be interesting to see" is the most overused phrase i've been saying about what's going to happen when donald trump gets into office, because we sure will be kept in jobs anyway. it won't be boring, i can promise you that. it won't. it won't be boring. and i do think it's important to raise that, the obama administration, you know, said this, too, they also wanted to circumvent traditional media, right? they weren't as effective about it. as yo

i should add, and we can talk about in a later edition of path to the presidency, is, of course, kari lake not directly in his gift to appoint her to that, that are going to make sure that there's coverage with him a press conference. i think last week, you know, we saw him in his first press an established pool of reporters who were there to listen, to ask questions. that was supposed to be a prescheduled statement, right? but it turned into a press conference because i think he realises he likes to be in front of reporters as much as reporters like to be in front of him. yeah. is that donald trump, he sees these platforms as important. but it also made me think about the fact that, in this election campaign, the trump campaign was very effective in building an entire media narrative, excluding those legacy media organisations. yeah. i mean, he proved through the campaign that you can get elected without really having to engage with the legacy media, that you can do those long—form sit—down podcasts for, all we can do is put in a plug for everyone to turn to the bbc, as always. on all pla

socovered kari lake through the years. what do you know, ambassador to mexico? mexico. looks like she won't get that role. it's still a question of what she is going to do next. matt gaetz got an oam position. there is a question for kari lake. >> kimberly foil is going to greece. >> at a time in which her fiance -- >> reporting that her relationship with donald trump jr. has come to an end. and now that she will be off to athens apparently. there's your consolation prize. vaughn, also talk about kari lake being floated as one of these possible maga threats a primary. she has ties to iowa and bandied about someone who could take on joanie ernst there, 0 for 2 right now. >> she grew up in iowa and campaigned before donald trump technically was running for president, campaigned in iowa with her own kari lake campaign events. i think joanie ernst, this will be the test. has somebody in waiting willing to go to bat against joanie ernst, i believe in kari lake. will donald trump under the pressure of somebody who is not bowing to appeasement and flattery joanie ernst

i thought kari lake was cool, which he did.lan god has for you. if you want to ask a question, come to the question area and you will see the people with the lights on them and the microphones. i will answer as many questions as i can in the short time. god bless you, god bless america and let's fight the good fight. [applause] >> i know you are a big college football guy. was ashton robbed? brandon: i do not think he was robbed. [booing] you don't have to agree with me, it's america. let me tell you why i think so. ashton was tremendous. the unfortunate part at boise state, they didn't have the opportunity to play against a lot of competition. his stats didn't look as good to the people voting for the heisman. however travis hunter did something no other player has ever done. for you to play every snap on offense, defense and dominate on colorado, i think he deserved the victory. that's just my opinion, don't kill me over. >> i am from new jersey. we won, 2020, president biden won 15% of the vote in new jersey. this year the d

the people of arizona voted against kari lake twice. first for governor and then for the senate.run the voice of america. dr. oz failed in his bid to represent pennsylvania in the senate two years ago. now he is being put in charge of medicare and medicaid. trump has found jobs in his administration for pretty much every failed senate candidate. david purdue, most unbelievably, herschel walker to be ambassador to the bahamas. it might seem surprising that the man who promised america would become tired of winning assembling a team of proven losers but trump isn't looking for competence and successful managers. he is seeking blind loyalty from team members who are completely reliant on him. a more confident leader might choose to surround themselves with other extraordinary people. but trump seems more comfortable around folks who couldn't hack it on their own. america deserves better than an administration of all rans but the stench of defeat already hangs over this trump white house and we haven't even reached inauguration day yet. i got you. inauguration day yet i got you. that

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president-elect trump also announced kari lake this week as his choice to run voice of america.s a government-funded but independent media outlet which broadcasts in 40 languages to more than 300 million people worldwide. now before her foray into republican politics, lake was a broadcast journalist at local fox stations in phoenix for more than 20 years. all right. that sounds good. promising. but she's also an election denier who railed against the, quote, fake news even calling fox news a, quote, globalist network. joining me now to discuss all of this is jennifer ruben, opinion writer for the "washington post" and an msnbc political analyst as well as david a. graham, who is a staff writer for the "atlantic." jen, david, thank you for being with me. i want to start with you, jen. and listen to what pete hegseth walked back has been on women in the military from november until now. >> i'm straight up just saying, we should not have women in combat roles. it hasn't made us more effective. hasn't made us more lethal. has made fighting more complicated. i also want an opportunit

. >>> kari lake has been tapped by donald trump as director of the voice of america.ades, has been an aggressive critic of the media. >>> tv and movie star dick van dyke, who just turned 99, told today show what happened when his home was threatened by the malibu wild first. >> -- wildfires. >> i forgot how old i am, and i realized i was crawling to get out. >> van dyke tried to douse the house, but it proved too much. >> i thought, my god, i'm not going to make it out of here. i was trying to crawl to the car. i had exhausted myself. i couldn't get up. three neighbors came and carried me out and came back and put out the fire in the guest house and saved me. thank god for them. howe the neighbors come to the rescue. dick van dyke is amazing. >>> that's it for this edition of "mediabuzz." i'm howard kurtz. hey, i don't know what's going on with these drones either, but somebody needs to communicate what the deal is. you can subscribe to my daily podcast, "media buzzmeter." apple itunes is a good place to do it. thanks for staying with us, we appreciate it. we're back

you've got kari lake, steve bannon, elon musk . yet, they have this tiny majority. mike johnson needs to be able to have his whole conference and participation from the democrats in order to move forward. otherwise, we are just in for dysfunction and that may sort the problem out for republicans. >> i think it will. you mentioned steve bannon who is effectively acting as president of the united states. he blew up a bipartisan budget deal. when they got through it all, republicans had not advanced any. in fact, democrats got credit for blowing up this idea to suspend the debt ceiling. there is a fundamental problem with republicans in the majority and that is that they don't want to govern. they don't know how to govern and they don't want to. what they want to do is blow up the place and that is fine if you are running for office, if you are in the minority. you can make all of the switches you want but when you are in majority, you've got to do stuff and the majority -- ability to do step will be severely limited by the sutter dysfunction. democrats have to do a fe

i think kari lake at voice of america because you can't be directly nominated that is controlled by a >> bret: okay. harold? >> i think they all get confirmed, bret. and i think president trump is --. >> bret: so you're going black chip to nobody. >> absolutely. i think they're all going to get confirmed. i think the president's going to put his might behind him and say these are the things i want and he's going to dare those who want to be primaried in the republican side to be primaried and i think they're all going to be confirmed. >> bret: we're leaving the black chip winners or losers, winner first and then loser. >> my winner is elon musk because he became this week the first person on the planet to be worth $400 billion. and my loser, i'm very sad to say is the university of alabama football, came so close to coming into the playoffs edged out at the end the lesson is don't lose three games. >> bret: winner loser mollie. >> my winner is mcdonald's, they caught an assassin this week bringing back the crunch wrap, the snack item next year and also one of their former employees be

i saw a breitbart reporter float the idea that vaughn's friend kari lake might take a crack at it.ocative suggestion, but i think that you can, the best way to sense they're feeling pressure is to look at tom tillis from north carolina. he was not on the campaign trail campaigning for trump. he's been loyal, but more in the kevin mccarthy style of republicanism. he said he's going to go for all of the nominees and he's up for re-election in 2026. there have been scuttlebutt about potential maga types that could primary him. the tillis case shows at least some are feeling the pressure and if the nominees are going to be rejected, it will probably come from moderate senators collins and murkowski or someone who's decided they want to retire. >> on wednesday, nbc news confirmed that ron desantis is very much contention for defense secretary if trump decides to make a change, but new york magazine floated an interesting possibility that he's just trying to get desantis to kiss the ring kind of in the way that he did from mitt romney in 2016. he was floating his name to be possibly secr

trump wants loyalist kari lake to be the next director of voice of america, a federally funded internationals from the american public to the rest of the world. lake is a former tv news anchor who lost both races for arizona governor and u.s. senator from arizona. meantime, president joe biden commuting the sentences of about 1500 people. a white house statement says all of those were in home confinement and have quote, successfully reintegrated with their families and communities. more commutations, more pardons are possible and expected in the next few weeks of course the big question is, will he pardon people who were investigating president-elect donald trump? >>> 20,000 people have been forced out of their homes as the franklin fire still burns on this morning through malibu. >> yeah, calmer winds today could give firefighters the break they need. so let's go live now to amanda starrantino in malibu for the update. good to see you this morning. and i'm hoping these calmer winds will help firefighters gain some ground. >> reporter: ÷good morning, gianna. and that's what we are hospitalli

president elect trump picked kari lake as the next director of voice of america. that is an international broadcasting network that's funded by the federal government. now, lake was a news anchor in arizona for more than 20 years before she stepped down to pursue politics. she lost in the arizona senate race last month, and in her 2022 bid for governor. found safe. that's the update. in the case of the missing hawaii woman. four weeks after her disappearance. last week, police declared her voluntarily missing after determining that she crossed the border from california to to mexico on her own free will. her family had been searching for her since last month an illinois man pleading not guilty to a simple assault charge after republican congresswoman nancy mace told police the man shook her hand, quote, aggressively and in an exaggerated manner in a confrontation at the capitol tuesday. she says she was, quote, attacked over her efforts to ban transgender women from using women's bathrooms in the capitol. a wisconsin man who authorities believe faked his own death

on wednesday, he picked kari lake as the next director of the of voice of america. the global news outlet, funded by the us government. lake is a former news anchor who ran for the us senate seat in arizona in the november election, but lost to her democratic opponent. she is a 2020 election denier and close trump ally who has repeatedly pushed false claims of election fraud. republican lawmakers aren't saying much publicly about trump's pick for defense secretar he's been meeting with key senators trying to secure their vote for his nomination. cnn's lauren fox has more on how some of those meetings are playing out. >> well, it's been yet another critical week for pete hegseth, donald trump's pick to lead the department of defense. he met with senator susan collins, a critical swing vote from the state of maine. a republican and behind closed doors, we're told that the two of them had a wide ranging meeting in which pete hegseth came off as serious and thorough when they were talking about the department of defense. senator susan collins told reporters after that m

because i'm going to read this off my phone because trump just posted it on truth social that he for kari lake, she had been rumored for a job. it wasn't totally clear where he was going to go. and he said he's pleased to announce that she will serve as the next director of voice of america. and in that position, that she will work closely with the head of the u.s. agency for global media, and that they will ensure that american values of freedom and liberty are broadcast around the world fairly, fairly, and accurately. unlike the lies spread by the fake news media. that is a senate confirmed position, i believe. what do you make of that selection for of all the places? >> that's fine. if she wants to go to voice of america, here's what i'm really concerned about and hope they will ask kash patel if he comes here in the hearings. just don't engage in political retribution. we've got to end that. we've got to end it on either side. i was i saw jamie raskin and zoe lofgren in the elevator and i joked, i said, it's a it's a good day in america. you're still free. i mean, but we can't be joking ab

we're going to recruit kari lake to primary joni ernst. i mean, there was a really targeted campaign and senator ernst backyard to make this politically unpalatable for her. so you know, in some ways, we're seeing the manifestation of, you know trump's victory in november. people say elections have consequences this is the trump political muscle, saying we are going to get to choose our nominee and we're going to make it almost politically unviable for you to oppose him. >> it's also a preview, i think, of what we can expect next year of the way the trump white house will have its relationship with the hill, with the republican majorities in the house and senate it's a slim majority in the house and a wider majority in the senate, but still they are making clear they will win these fights if they are put to it. >> well, and especially if it's only one person. right, brad? >> well i think first off you have to. >> the 53 makes a big difference. republicans have 53 senators. and so susan collins and lisa murkowski, who have been noted outlie

. >> president elect trump has named former arizona senatorial candidate kari lake as the next director of the voice of america. he made that announcement on truth social tonight. voice of america is a u.s. government funded international media broadcaster operating in more than 40 languages, online and on radio and television. lake is a former news anchor and staunch supporter of donald trump. lake lost her election for u.s. senate in arizona last month, and was also defeated in the state's gubernatorial race in 2022. >> already, the dry weather is over. after a couple of weeks, i've got showers now in ukiah. rain showers or light showers in santa rosa working their way into marin county. a wet morning commute for most. >> also coming up, strong pushback against plans to alter the jonestown massacre site into a tourist attraction. >> horrified because it doesn't deserve to be a tourist attraction. >> tonight we are hearing from longtime bay area politician jackie speier, who was shot multip t (♪) when your child has moderate to severe eczema, it's okay for them to show off. show off th

senate candidate kari lake of arizona, said that republicans should be ready to fight those who stand in trump's way, even if it's within his own party. >> he brought down the obstructionists in washington, d.c. now, the bad news is we still have a few obstructionists. >> have we seen that in the last week or so and unfortunately, some of them are right here in our own party. and i hate to say that i wish we could say all of the trouble was over with the democrats, but we've seen how a few people with ours behind their name are trying to actually hurt we the people as we go into this next era where america first policies are going to be implemented to make our life better once again, and we need to bring down those obstructionists and help president trump. >> lake made those remarks at a gathering of republicans on saturday in arizona, and trump is expected to address that same audience on sunday in what his transition team is calling his first rally style speech since winning the election. steve contorno cnn west palm beach, florida. >> the u.s. is targeting military facilities linke

kari lake as voice of america.l the lies that he said. kash patel for fbi. there's a lot of problems with his nomination. remember, they can only afford to lose three votes. if they lose four, they won't get nominated. i'm sorry. they won't get confirmed. but he may be putting the full court press on, as we saw with some of those senators earlier this week. >> okay. really quick, before we go do about the doge. that's one thing. the department of government efficiency. is that something you think maybe will have legs and continue into maybe being successful? >> i do think so. and obviously with vivek ramaswamy and you know, these these people don't have to be confirmed. they can go about their business and, and try to make the cuts where they want. those of us who are in washington, d.c. concerned about a big reduction in force and a lot of layoffs going on with with the doge project. >> all right. certainly more to discuss. we will see you again. professor todd belt at the george washington university there in d.c

senate, this was a really great senate map for republicans, but go talk to sam brown in nevada or kari lake in arizona or mike rogers in michigan all of these were republican senate candidates who lost in states where trump won you are seeing a regulating impact on congress and could easily see that for the neck two years. >> threat of primaried if you voted against that, is that the case with 38 >> reporter: that's a great question, becky. certainly, we have seen trump come out against lawmakers that resulted in them losing. congress member bob goode is not returning for that reason next year two years from now is a long way away a lot will happen between then and now. i think it's going to remain a big question whether or not you actually see trump or see musk go against some of these lawmakers and what that could actually result in and how successful that might be >> emily, thank you. i appreciate it. >>> in the meantime, president-elect trump posting about tariffs in the early hours on truth social. in it, he said i told the piern european union they must make up the icit with the unite

kari lake says she will not seek office again in arizona. we will move on -- you know what i guess i should really look at what numbers i'm punching up here. i think this is en in orlando. i apologize. caller: good morning and happy new year. yes, i wasn't really sure how to approach this topic. i am definitely a much younger than the majority of people who call in the washington journal. host: how old are you ian? caller: i just turned 32 in september. host: are you a republican? caller: since i first started voting. my first vote legally was for mitt romney. caller: white -- host: why are you a republican? caller: my father mostly. i suppose he influenced me heavily as a younger kid. i haven't always been from orlando originally from new york. host: what do you think the party stands for and what you think it should stand for? caller: that's the problem. i don't know anymore because you have so many people these days where you share your actual conservative opinions if anything it's not related to the ma opinionsga then you are a rino. it

kari lake says she will not seek office again in arizona.will move on -- you know what i guess i should really look at what numbers i'm punching up here. i think this is en in orlando. i apologize. caller: good morning and happy new year. yes, i wasn't really sure how to approach this topic. i am definitely a much younger than the majority of people who call in the washington journal. host: how old are you ian? caller: i just turned 32 in september. host: are you a republican? caller: since i first started voting. my first vote legally was for mitt romney. caller: white -- host: why are you a republican? caller: my father mostly. i suppose he influenced me heavily as a younger kid. i haven't always been from orlando originally from new york. host: what do you think the party stands for and what you think it should stand for? caller: that's the problem. i don't know anymore because you have so many people these days where you share your actual conservative opinions if anything it's not related to the ma opinionsga then you are a rino. it is t

yahaira: president-elect donald trump cap to kari lake, former tv anchor, to be the next director ofshe ran an unsuccessful senate and gubernatorial campaigns are the bank of america promoted 387 employees to managing director, 16% more than last year. the promotions are according to people familiar with the moves. more than half of those elevated to the senior roles for women or people of color, marking the fifth year in a row that historically underrepresented groups made up the majority of the class. former new england patriot coach bill belichick is moving the college football. the athletic reports that he and the university of north carolina agreed on a deal worth $50 million over five years. it makes the 72-year-old one of the college game. in his 24 year tenure at the patriots he won 333 games and six super bowls. lisa: i think that we are going to leave that story there. the ecb rate decision will have the details. the reaction from j.p. morgan private bank, next. this is bloomberg surveillance. ♪ lisa: a little more than a minute head of the ecb rate decision, the broad expe

and i think we've seen that yes, there have been real extreme candidates like kari lake in arizona whoell short, at the vast majority of republicans now find it very hard to certainly publicly disagree with donald trump and to actually vote against them will be very challenging. host: vermont -- sorry, st. john's, wine for democrats. caller: thanks for taking my call. i'd like to ask why the democrats, why joe biden has had on his desk for all these years as did trump before him the passage of a constitutional amendment cap people rights amendment which guarantees the rights to women over there different bodies. and certainly i think all it would take his biden to sign it. it would overrule all those abortion laws that have been passed, the constitutional amendment over everybody has to obey it. and if he lets trump sign this, i don't know why he doesn't sign it, i always thought, luck -- kamala was always talking about women controlling their own bodies. trump had it for three years. he passed it on to biden's desk for all that needs as a presidential signature and it would become law

if kari lake wins the race for errors on -- arizona governor, she admitted she will do this on day one. as soon as early months on that year, we will have the opportunity to do this in two states? --./ they will not be able to vote across the border like they have done so but we look very similar to title 42. title 42 has been the public-health weight that has allowed for you to return the individual in mexico with 80% and 82 hours. it works in all of these things -- and all of these things -- host: you talk about giving governors to power or support directly. we see governors bussing people. are you saying taking those and sending them to original companies? guest: we won't use the word deport. newport is a federal immigration returned but we will move them across the border to mexico. that is the neon lights that turns it in reverse. water is close and stay work -- the border is closed and stay where you are. host: we start with dan in virginia. go ahead. caller: thanks. my question is why do we not hear anything about either -- being verified? all we care about is the physicality of

and mehmet oz, pennsylvania senate candidate who lost his race is chosen to run csa, and kari lake tog collins lost a jungle primary to loeffler in 2020 has been chosen to run the department of veteran affairs. and lee zeldin in new york, he overperformed in 2022, running close to trump but he did lose his race by 7 points. he was chosen to lead the epa. a trump transition official who is close to the process told my coing author for this, he values loyalty , hard stop, at times beyond all else. we are not surprised that anyone you mentioned was picked. he is trying to change washington and wants people who he knows he can trust. democrats are asking why is trump stocking his administration with electoral losers. they are wondering are they the best and brightest or is he rewarding the loyalists and trying to make them whole in some cases when they may have sacrificed they're lectoral careers to support him. >> yes, it is the latter, let me answer that. fascinating piece to read through, youpg. herschel walker getting a lot of mileage out of that relationship he built with donald trum

lakes, sunny and cool, as good. thursday morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall.ause you're about to be on tv again. all right. coming up, you guys. with christmas and hanukkah six days away, what are your gift options if delivery is not an option? christine romans is here with the host of last minute gift ideas, but first, th is is >>> welcome back, 8:35 with today's holiday consumer, christmas and hanukkah arrive in six short days. your window to check gifts off your list is getting smaller and smaller. don't you worry. we have nbc's senior business correspondent, christine romans to help. a lot of people are tough to shop for, but you've got answers. >> a lot of people this year, a big theme is buying experiences and gifting experiences because honestly we're buying everything we want for ourselves and we really are in this consumer media right now, so you can buy something like a new activity, and you can make a really beautiful card saying, i have bought you a cooking class at williams sonoma, at a local restaurant with two friends. a pottery class, painting

kari, we were just looking at that earlier live picture and it looked like rain too. yeah, so the temperatures have warmed up in the sierra and currently at lake tahoe it is 42 degrees, so way too warm for it to be snow just yet. and also we are seeing those raindrops on thlens at palisades tahoe. so that may be melting some of the snow. and we will see temperatures today headed for the low 40s. and we will also have that winter weather advisories for the higher elevations in the sierra throughout the weekend. so we're not going to see it really changing over to snow until sunday. and that's when we're looking at about 5 to 7, possibly eight inches of snow going into sunday afternoon. so we're watching all of that. if you want some ice without the travel, you might be heading to the sharks game tonight and it will be in the mid 50s. all dry as you're heading in. looks like a really nice evening. and also at gaugh kari at the oakland zoo. that continues. and we're seeing temperatures in the low 60s at 4:00 and partly to mostly cloudy into the evening. and it will be a mild night as well with upper 50s. on saturday we have the warriors game, so

lakes northeast. sunny in the southeast. rain in the pacific northwest rain sedrick northwest and sunshine for houston all the way to central. good tuesday morning. i'm meteorologist karicontinue to warm up through friday. then saturday our next round of rain comes in and it will bring in some cooler >>> huge crowd, so you know what that means? happy 13th birthday. going around the horn! whoo! here we go. gorgeous day. taking pictures with savannah, i love it. hey! happy birthday! here we go. lots of nice people here. shout-out to alameda county. dispatchers. and there you have it. ladies and gentlemen, one more time, around the horn! >> oh, all right, al. let's just walk slowly by this awesome crowd as we talk about what's next. coming up, we're all in with john mulaney in a star-studded show like none other. and his return to broadway. but, first, this is "today" on nbc. might be buying yahoo!. i love it. that's so sweet. it is like when two people in a nursing home start dating. they may not have much time left, but at least they will have each other. i love it. >> we're back. john mulaney appeared on snl's weekend update back in 2010 back when he was a writer at "s

lakes and down through tennessee and kentucky on sunday. the east coast warms up little bit, getting closer to average with highs in th good thursday morning. i'm meteorologist karie but on the cool side with highs in the upper 50s and lows down to 39 degrees. and the rain returns on monday in san franci forecast. >> before we go, where's that scarf? there's a scarf for craig somewhere. >> way down in the corner. >> where? >> it's coming up? >> go find that scarf. >> he's going to go grab it. >> i'll go get the scarf. >> you got it? he's running down there. there we go. there we go. >> what's your name? >> elise. >> where are you from? >> illinois. >> you made the actual scarf? >> my mom did. >> where's mom? >> home. >> thank you so much. i'm going to put it on. >> look at the label. it says "today." >> i love it. >> there's a label. >> that's really cool. >> look at that. thank you. thank you so much. >> very cool. well done. >>> all right, guys. coming up, dylan -- thanks, dylan and to craig. we're going to chat with lisa kudrow. she's joining the cast of "no good deed" and celebrating the 30-year anniversary of "friends," but this is "today" on nbc. ♪ smelly c