in an exclusive interview with nbc's kristin welker that aired today on "meet the press."l, quote, likely pardon those jailed for attacking the capitol on january 6. trump offers his thoughts on the fate of the january 6 committee members including former republican congresswoman liz cheney. here is part of what he had to say. >> and cheney was behind it. and so was bennie thompson and everybody on that committee. >> we're going to -- >> for what they did. >> yeah. >> honestly, they should go to jail. >> so you think liz cheney should go to jail? >> for what they did. >> everyone on the committee. >> i think everyone on the committee, everyone that voted in favor. >> are you going to direct your phish director to send them to jail. >> not at all. i think they'll have to look at that but i'm not going to -- i'm going to focus on drill baby drill. >> joining us now, april ryan, seen year white house correspondent and washington bureau chief for the agreo. she's also an msnbc contributor and author of "black women will save the world, an an them." thank you for being here. le

trump previously confirming his support fohegseth in an interview last week with nbc's kristin welker. >> do you still have confidence in pete hegseth? >> yes, i do. i really do. he's a really smart guy. >> reporter: trump's renewed backing a boost for hegseth who spent many days in one-on-one sessions with s senators will need to win over. and breaking late today, court filings showing a settlement has been reached between abc, abc news, anchor george stephanopoulos and president-elect trump. abc agreed to make a $15 millioion donati to a future trump presidential foundation and museum, pay $1 million to pay legal fees and publish a statement of regret to settle a defamation lawsuit trump filed against abc, abc news and george stephanopoulos in march. he said that trump had been found liable for rape in the carol case when, instead, trump had been found civilly liable for sexual abuse. >> reporter: jose, the trump team is referring us back to the court filing. a spokesperson for abc news said, quote, we are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit. jo

here he is with kristin welker. >> reporter: you are now proposing tariffs against the united states'ipes say that ultimately consumers pay the price of tariffs. >> yeah. >> reporter: can you guarantee american families won't pay more? >> i can't guarantee anything. i can't guarantee tomorrow, but i can say that if you look at my just pre-covid, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country, and i had a lot of tariffs on a lot of different countries, but in particular china. i think tariffs are the most beautiful word. i think they're beautiful. it's going to make us rich. >> katty. >> the problem with protectionism, two can play the game, right? america can impose tariffs on canada and mexico and china and a whole host of other countries, and donald trump at one point has suggested that there's going to be blanket 10% tariffs across countries -- imports from every country in the world, higher from china even, but then those countries retaliate. they don't like having tariffs imposed on their goods and the only weapon they have at their disposal is to impose tariffs on ame

>> kristin welker pressed him on that.aid. >> i want to look at everything. >> okay. >> i'm going to be acting very quickly. >> within your first 100 days, first day? >> first day. these people have been here 3 to 4 years. >> the first day he says, that has not been a popular position among voters. this is one of the topics that his campaign repeatedly tried to keep him away from but he continued to talk about it. again, he is the president- elect, no more campaigning, so he can do what he wants here. >> and i want to bring in lisa ruben, your reaction to these promises of pardons for january 6th rioters and would trump's new attorney general have legal grounds or standing to go after january 6th committee members? >> let's start with the second one first. the legal standing to go after the committee members, i know sarah mentioned this earlier, it's not clear what crimes they believe that these folks have committed. but even if they were to articulate a basis for prosecuting these people, then we bump up against the const

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>> i think you wants to and what donald trump did with the kristin welker interview on meet the press was put that aside because he said i'm not out for retribution. my success will be my retribution which he has said before. he left the door open, truthfully, to pam bondy and cash patel following criminality if they find it, that's reasonable but this idea firstly to politico that the white house was going to issue a slew of pardons to anthony fauci, adam schiff, all these people, that was to hide the fact that biden would put halle biden in there and jim biden and other people that we know took money from hunter biden's nefarious activities in ukraine and china et cetera. i think it was a smokescreen and i think donald trump toppled it by saying no, i'm not out for retribution. stuart: the last few days before january 20th -- liz: let's hope we get to january 20th, you look at joe biden and it is scary. he's not in charge. stuart: thanks for joining us, appreciate it. back to the inflation report out this morning, consumer prices up 2.7% in the last 12 months. the market seems to li

trump has announced plans to pardon most of the people involved on january 6th, telling nbc's kristin welkery one. >> you promised to pardon those who attacked the capitol on january 6th. are you still vowing to follow through with that promise? >> we're looking at it right now. most likely yeah. those people have suffered long and hard, and there may be some exceptions to it. i have to look. these people have suffered. their lives have been destroyed. i'm going to be acting very quickly. >> within your first 100 days, first day? >> first day. [applause] >> hey, first day! if you need some help, i know a guy who is an expert at giving pardons. [laughter] okay. what do you think, adam? does this make you trust the government more or less? >> well, covid made me trust them the least and we're in the basement now in the trust department with the government after the whole covid thing. oh, i'm back! an innocent joke about riding a kid! okay, so they always say it's the lie not necessarily the crime. like, martha stewart had to go in the joint not because of the selling off of the property, the w

nbc did not cover what we found as the me immediae attacks trump over his interview with nbc kristin welker and christian whiten is here and major eric adams said yes, get rid of the sanctuary city status of new york and stop sheltering criminal illegal aliens in new york city. then this story. >> i want to thank the american people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47tr 45th president. liz: we're finding trump's victory way more historic than realized. a whopping 49 states are leaning red. but we'll show you the sound. one of kamala's top democrat allies now trying to claim kamala ran a flawless campaign. former trump deputy press secretary hogan gibbley will take that on tonight and even bill clinton is criticizing biden's pardon of his son, hunter. greg jer jar regregg jarrett tad president trump steps into the leadership -- gregg jarrett taking this on and biden is angering democrats saying he's hurting their resist trump push. we're staying on the story and people not waiting for january 20th and people are leading america and senator tommy tuberville and stay with us.

we have some highlights, my friend, from the incoming president's interview with our colleague kristin welkert going to fire. these are the things that i found most interesting. and emphasis on deporting those in the u.s. legally but wants a deal for dreamers. this -- the most -- given the time line here, first day action to end birth right citizenship and pardon january 6ers, what does that tell you about the priorities of this incoming administration. >> this is priorities that he said were his priorities. he's never hidden that he's going to pardon january 6 and all of the democrats who are wining and bemoaning hunter biden's pardon, he was always going to do that. he told you that a year ago he was going to do that. so why are you crying about joe biden's pardon of his son. so, again, this idea that trump -- the behavior of others dictates trump's actions. and that in terms of giving him permission to do things is just silly, stupid conversation. get your head in the game, folks, if you're going to survive in the next four years and understand what you're dealing with. so that is what tha

speaking on truth social, writing on truth social, and then of course, speaking to our colleague, kristin welkeris education, an ivy league school, and then swerving the national guard and deploying to combat on two different occasions. we heard on camera from vice president-elect j.d. vance about pete hegseth also defending him while he was on a tour of hurricane damage in north carolina. here's what he had to say. >> pete hegseth will get his appearing before the senate armed services committee. not a sham hearing before the american media. we believe that pete hegseth is the right guy to lead the department of defense. that's why president trump nominated him. we're not abandoned this nomination. we're not going to make it easy for people. donald j. trump who just won an election by a very significant margin. the senate is who determines who the secretary of defense is. >> reporter: and yamiche, one piece of language, or message that has really changed is now we're hearing more people talking about, look, hegseth is going to get to a committee hearing and that is where this will be decided. t

else comes out, so if more allegations come out who knows how lindsey graham votes come he told kristin welkerss that pete hegseth told him that he would release the woman who accuses him of rape from the nondisclosure agreement you signed when pete hegseth paid her an undisclosed amount of hush money, pete hegseth's lawyer immediately threatened defamation lawsuit against the woman if she speaks publicly adding i suspected that she is not going to come forward at all and there is no benefit it's all downside. and the downside now includes threats of litigation from hegseth, he claims the encounter was consensual and no charges were ever filed against him, no criminal charges. former heroin addict and convicted drug criminal, robert kennedy junior has become the first nominee for health and human services secretary who has ever been questioned about his support for the polio vaccine. >> what is your position on the polio vaccine? >> do you mind repeating what you said previously about the polio vaccine? the you supported? >> he has said that the polio vaccine has killed people who doesn't know

interview since the election less than a couple hours ago, president-elect trump sat down with nbc's kristin welkerer the next four years? >> well, i think you have to do it. howard: and, jacqui heinrich, it reminded me of the two interviews i did with the president-elect this year which is she asked a lot of follow-up questions on each. what did you make of that exchange? >> you know, i thought that he was basically saying take me at my word about what i said on the campaign trail in terms of we're going to get this done, close the border, deal with people who are in the country illegally and shouldn't be here. sort of also echoing what tom homan has been say, what his middle east envoy's been saying about the hostages in gaza. you don't want to weaken your own position by saying, actually, i'm not going to do this. so, you know, let him get there and see how he approaches it, but i think he, you know, backed up what he had said before about his plans. howard: i also think trump made a little bit of news by saying he's not planning to enforce the dreamers to leave the country, and he'd work someth

my colleague kristin welker asked trump about it on meet the press and he was like tiktok, the youth left me on tiktok. he's not going to let tiktok leave this country. what do you think is going to happen? >> and i am imagining something here, stephanie? once upon a time, donald trump wanted to ban tiktok. >> once a time -- once upon a time he was a democrat. >> there is a law that was passed, bipartisan lee, if that's a word, by congress, signed by the president of the united states, saying tiktok had to divest itself, bytedance had to. now suddenly, i mean lost just don't apply anymore. i don't understand, there is a law, you may like it or not, i don't know, but it should be abiding by the law, they should divest this asset, there are plenty of people who want to buy it, and just like you know, when anthony scaramucci wanted to sell sky bridge, he could into a, bytedance has been ordered to sell tiktok. it is a law and they should go through with it. >> maybe trump will use it as a bargaining tool but roger, there's so much focus on who owns tiktok and yes, it was assigned into l

the first interview he did was with kristin welker from nbc news.y to him during the election. so i think he's shown that he is willing to work with anybody who's willing to to genuinely work with him. that's who he wants to do. and he's going to reach out in a bipartisan way. that's the key to his success. howard: i also thought trump was restrained enough that when one reporter asked are you going to retaliate against iran if the hostages aren't released, he said i'm not going to answer that question. and it's a question she shouldn't answer. i know you disagree with him, laura, but he seems more serious and focused because, you know, during the campaign there's a lot about, you know, arnold palmer and mcdonald's and all that. but i thought he was responsive to questions from the press. >> i feel like i'm having a flashback to 2016 when everybody would comment on whether or not he had a moment of being presidential. we might be there again. but, again, what's he going to do with all of that goodwill? with the congressman saying he won the election

you just saw kristin welker's exclusive conversation with president-elect trump. this week she will have exclusive conversations with bernie sanders and lindsey graham. that's sunday on "meet the press." >>> some scary moments on an american airlines flight out of new york after a bird flew into its engine on takeoff forcing it to make an emergency landing and all of it was caught on camera. oh, gosh. imagine being that passenger, getting that video. the plane just took off. it was on its way to charlotte, north carolina. after the bird strike, the flight was diverted to new york's other airport, jfk, landed safely. there were no injuries there. >>> to the middle east and the power shift unfolding in syria. u.s. officials now in the region pushing for a peaceful transition after the fall of the assad regime. this as the discovery of an american freed from a syrian prison raises hopes that other americans held there could soon be found. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel joins us once again from damascus. richard, good morning to you. >> reporter: good

that he was unfairly prosecuted for political reasons, and slamming wray in an interview with kristin welker over his role in the classified documents investigation. >> i can't say i'm thrilled with him. he invaded my home. i'm suing the country over it. he invaded mar-a-lago. i'm very unhappy with the things he's done. >> reporter: trump also seized on wray's testimony to congress saying there was some question whether a bullet grazed trump's ear during an assassination attempt last july. >> he said, oh, maybe it was shrapnel. where's the shrapnel coming from? is it coming from -- is it coming from heaven? i don't think so. >> reporter: the fbi later confirmed trump was struck by a bullet. trump has already announced his choice to replace wray with kash patel, meeting with republican senators wednesday. >> we look forward to a very smooth transition at the fbi and i'll be ready to go on day one. >> reporter: a former federal prosecutor and controversial trump ally, patel has vowed to go after those he says unfairly targeted the president-elect, and recently made this provocative promise. >>

authoritarianism, against the idea that any president wants to seek retribution, in those interviews with kristin welker, for what? doing her job as a member of congress, under the rules of the house, formally voted on by the members of that house, placed in that committee by the speaker of the house? what is the basis, and yet, we walk around like oh my god, there's nothing we can do. that's just you know, donald trump is upset so let's figure out how we can make it better and fix it read to with that, that's just crazy. and that goes to the press, that goes for politicians , that goes to people who think they are playing an inside game and think they are going to be nice, you are going to get smacked upside your head at some by donald trump and what are you going to do then? a whole lot of folks are going to be off in concentration camps or jails because you didn't hold the line, so, two marks point, we've got to recognize the opposition, yes, it is loyal. it is not loyal to trump. it is loyal to the country, and that resistance is going to be the resistance to making this country something it's not.

it, andrew, because they didn't get into it last night, but the part of the constitution that kristin welkerolks who are subject to the jurisdiction of the united states. it's unclear in our legal system as to what that means, to whether or not someone was here illegally can have that child, or they're subject to the jurisdiction. i thought it was a nuanced question. staying with immigration for aexd a second, i thought something else that was important was a comment about the dreamers. you talk about nuance. he didn't talk much about dreamers, but it sounds like there's a deal to be had in washington, d.c. which is trump is willing to talk about some type of status for the dreamers in exchange for more assistance on deportation and border security. so yeah. listen. if you don't like trump's style, you don't like trump, you didn't like the interview, i get that, but if you are looking at hints for what the second term will look like, i thought it was interesting things. >> let me ask one question as it relates to tariffs. he talked about tariffs and maybe this is a negotiating tool. this isn