"the katie phang show" begins right now. >>> this is the katy tur. i'm in nor katie phang. news to cover and questions to answer. get started. 51 days with just over seven weeks until he's all in grated again as president of the united states. donald trump is going full throttle on his mass deportation plan that not only threatens to destroy millions of families, but potentially upend the american economy, too. >>> plus, fragile peace. while the shaky cease-fire agreement in lebanon between israel and hezbollah continues to hold, big questions remain about whether the lebanese army will maintain it by keeping hezbollah militants along the border at bay. >>> then, shopping small. why you should shop at mom and pop businesses this is small business saturday and help local businesses fight the good fight against the big box giants. >>> and later, talking tariffs. the real dollar danger of trump's proposed tariffs on imported goods could pose to your pocketbook. >>> all of that and more coming up. >>> with 51 days until inauguration day and his matsch are cabinet picks in place

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i'm katie phang in for ari melber. today leaders who succeeded in beating back some of donald trump's most controversial first term plans are warning that round two is now here. as trump takes his first post election steps on immigration, elevating hard liners while plotting raids, camps, and mass deportation. steven miller, the architect of the notorious family separation policy is expected to be named trump's deputy chief of staff for policy. trump also tapping as border czar, tom homan who has touted work place raids and mass deportations. both officials known for echoing trump's language, demonizing immigrants while implementing his plan. >> on day one, my administration will terminate every open border policy of the biden administration. we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in american history. >> i will run the biggest deportation operation we have ever seen. >> america is for americans only. >> they are poisoning our country. >> getting them out will be a bloody story. >> if you come back, yo

. >>> i'm katie phang, live from seattle, washington. welcome to the katie phang show. we begin this hour with some breaking news out of the white house. president joe biden has announced he will host president-elect donald trump in the oval office this wednesday. after his win this week, trump is beginning to reveal how his second administration will be staffed. the president-elect named his campaign manager, susie wiles, as white house chief of staff. she is the first in a long list of roles that trump will need to fill in the coming weeks. in what is perhaps a preview of his foreign policy approach, we also learned that billionaire elon musk briefly joined in on a call between trump and ukraine's president zelenskyy on wednesday. as for the state of play in d.c., republicans did regain control of the senate, though we learned overnight but the credit senator jacky rosen was able to hold onto hurt nevada senate seat. on the equally important health side, there is still a dozen races yet to be called, with republicans only needing six more seats in order to secure a ma

katie phang picks up coverage right now. >>> i'm katie phang live from nbc headquarters in new york te city. with just three days to go until election day it's all gasi and no breaks for vice president kamala harris and donald trump as both campaigns try to reach as many voters as they can in these final hours. right now we are keeping an eye on north carolina where donald trump is holding an event. also this hour in florida, hillary clinton is stumping for vice president harris who herself is holding a series of events later today and the important battleground states of georgia and north carolina. advocates are hitting the campaign trails across the country. the latest early voting numbers show over 70 million people have already cast their ballots. with this race as tight as it seems, every vote still counts. joining me now i have more barrett in green bay, wisconsin at an early voting site. it's good to see you. this is one of the last chances for early voting in that state.i what are you hearing on the ground from voters? >> reporter: early voting in wisconsin has broken records c

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be sure to catch the katie phang show saturdays at 12:00 p.m. right here on msnbc. "the reidout" with joy reid is up next. >>> tonight on "the reidout" -- >> this behavior when there was an attempt on his life, you know, i was impressed. he's a courageous person. a person shows their true color in these emergencies. and this is precisely one of those cases, and i think he acquitted himself admirably. >> putin knowing that flattery will get you everywhere with trump, was quick to pivot to publicly humiliating the president-elect to show him and us who's the boss. also tonight, the truth about what went wrong for democrats. spoiler alert, it wasn't the fault of black men, indigenous americans or latino voters. plus, the gathering storm. trump prepares to let loose his most ruthless allies to carry out a mass deportation that one particularly sadistic fox host said would be hysterical to watch. but we begin tonight with the ongoing saga of a russian oligarch that relates to our own politics right here in the usa. in june of 2009, in an event broadcast live on russian s

subtweeted and said, um that that one should not normalize even though as joe said, he was normalizing katie phangrespect her immensely for the courage to do that i wonder what all the other msnbc hosts must have been saying as they sat at home and did a spit take, trying to figure out what to do now, and it puts, i think, them all in a difficult position. yes, the ratings are down on msnbc. the ratings, i think here are down too. i don't think it's because it was liberal or democrat or conservative. i think it's because we're all exhausted. we're need journalists to be able to represent our interests and to cover what's happening and not kiss the ring, is it? >> but can i go back to something you started with? is it your view that msnbc is the only correct journalism of donald trump until this moment? because you cast aspersions on the times, the post, cnn, you seem to indicate that they gave trump more coverage or normalized coverage than he was due. is is it your belief that msnbc was the only people doing it right? no, i didn't say that. what i will say, what i've written in columbia journalis