a heaping dose of real talk for your stocking stuffer from claire mccaskill, john allen. thank you guys both for joining me on this very special evening. i wish you happy holidays, lots of rest for the months and years to come. thanks, my friends. >> thanks. >> happy holidays. >>> still to come tonight, how donald trump's love of crypto could make some rich folks even richer all at taxpayer expense. >>> plus, anti-abortion activists are emboldened by what they won during the first trump administration, and now they have a wish list for round two. that's next. wish list for rouno that's next. emergen-c crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back. and who doesn't love a good throwback? ♪♪ now with vitamin d for the dark days of winter. with dexcom g7, managing your diabetes just got easier. so, what's your glucose number right now? good thing you don't need to fingerstick. how's all that food affect your glucose? oh, the answers on your phone. what if you're heading low at night? [phone beeps] wow, it can alert you?! and you can even track your goals. manage your diabete

and to senator mccaskill's point, a lot of things he wants to do blow up the deficit. in theory, budget reconciliation is intended to help balance the budget, to close the gap in deficits, to bring down debt over time, and practical reality over time, it has been used to do the exact opposite, and all of these proposals that trump has on taxes would explode the deficit and add to the debt, so it is not clear what all he would do to offset that. i know elon musk is looking at government programs that he thinks he can cut. i don't think the votes are going to be there in congress for anything close to what you would need to offset set what this would do to the deficit. >> unsurprisingly, i look at the landscape and icy chaos, claire. not just because of the thin majorities, but the fact that you have republican senators who are up for re-election in 2026 might not get on board with mass deportations. you have elon musk and vivek ramaswamy literally dictating moves in the house and perhaps even in the senate. i mean, this just speaks to the center of gravity that is dispe

in the senator mccaskill i know the seven indicted say them on my show all the time. >> why would you say it's a miracle and a bottle expanded my job on the show is to ensure the audience when they don't think they have hope or can makee it happen i look everywhere including alternative traditions for any evidence that might be supportive of them. with the amount of information i have i feel uncomfortable telling folks you can buy a record old version of it and i do this all the time. i don't sell it and it's not for long-term use. it's one poundnd a week over the duration of the different trials have been done. there were different amounts of weight loss by the 100 so folks that came on the show. we gave fake bills and give it to half the people in real pills to the other half. if you can lose a pound a week more than he would have lost doing the things you should have been to an already if that trial data is what's benefiting your life and you get if you pounds off and you keep going and start to follow the things we talk about what those seven items i think it makes sense. i'm will

joining me now are claire mccaskill, former democratic senator from missouri, and john allen, senior politics reporter. it's great to have both of you here, wise people, sage people, fortune tellers. claire, i wonder -- you've been through trump one, and i wonder how you're thinking about the dawn of trump two, and how some of the very big promises, bigger even than the promises the first time around will be. >> he was going to build a wall the first time around, no. he was going to repeal obamacare. he blew the deficit up. really there were very few promises he kept in the first administration except cutting taxes for wealthy folks, and he managed to do that with a republican-only vote in the senate and also in the house. i'm not even thinking democrats voted for it in the house. there may have been a few, but bottom line is he's now promised a mass deportation. you know, that is way harder than it looks, and i don't think a huge chunk of folks who voted for him are going to like the way that looks. he says he's going to take off taxes to social security, all kinds of things to blow

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and claire mccaskill.you hear statements like that from rick spot, that sort of confidence bordering on bluster. what do you think about that. >> let me correct him on a couple of things. since the clinton administration, they typically either a would not be nominated because they would not be taken seriously or b they would withdrawal the nomination after they saw they had significant opposition. there's a lot of people that have been nominated that have not been confirmed. we can two history and tick them off. even under the clinton administration even. so, i think the idea here is these are not serious nominees. and republican senators know it. and the question is just this, will the susan collins and plus one more stand up to the institution of qualified nominees for very serious positions in face of nonserious nominees being forwarded by the trump administration. >> yeah, i mean, i sort of feel like we've been to this party before, tim. where we're like what would susan collins do. then the spectacle

i started in the senate in 2007 with a class of ten new senators, webb, mccaskill are no hoerng in the senate. -- longer in the senate. to the remaining three, senators klobuchar, sanders, and whitehouse, we count on you to carry on our class traditions, i was blessed to have two seat mates during my 18 years in the senate who are trusted friends, senator barbara mikulski who made my transition so productive and senator chris van hollen and i have worked in unity for the people of maryland many i know that he will continue to serve the people well as the senior senator along with newly elected angela alsobrooks. with the partners who made it possible for me are my family. myrna and i met in elementary school and last month we celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. amising she put up -- amazing that she put up with me all these years. i could not have had the career i had without her unconditional support and confidence. she shares my commitment of giving back to the community and she keeps me properly grounded. when i became speaker of the house, she sent me a card to remind me of th

so is my honor and my pleasure to introduce john mccaskill, who will introduce his panel of the buffalo soldiers soldiers. first of all, good morning. so let's just set the stage age, i think history better served when we tell the entire since that first shot fired from lexington, massachusetts in 1775. black americans have defended country all the way up to the civil war. mr. lincoln's emancipation proclamation was really unenforceable without a victory on the battlefield. but there was one clause. he wrote any man of african descent who must survive for the union army or the united states navy will be to do so. over 209,000 men of color defended the united states as a result of their efforts after. the war they authorized. it was like six units at first to carve four infantry. and by 1869 it was down to 224, 25th infantry, the ninth and 10th cav. they fought in spanish-american war, they fought world war one, 1925. the united states army did a report called the use of -- manpower in wartime, essentially. here's what they said. black folks are leaderless. they are not superstitious, sm

senator webb, mccaskill, and corker are no longer in the senate. i regret the senators will be leaving with me at the end of this term. to the remaining three, senator klobuchar, sanders, and white house, we count on you to carry on our class traditions. i was blessed to have two mates during my 18 years in the senate who are trusted friends. senator barbara who welcomed me to the senate and made my transition so productive, and senator holland and i have worked in unity for the people of maryland. i know that he will continue to serve the people well as the senior senator along with -- but the partners that made public service possible for me are my family. we met in elementary school. last month, we celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. amazing that she has put up with me all those years. she has my strongest supporter and i could not have had the career that i had without her unconditional support and confidence. she shares my commitment at giving back to the community and she keeps me properly grounded. when i became speaker of the house, sh

is not the flowery language senator mccaskill to criticie for.ld him where to go to buy the products. i wanted to stay above the fray and felt in my own mind if i talked about specific companies selling high quality products it would seem like i was supporting those companies. i never gave them the audience an idea of where to go to buy the stuff. that opened up a huge market for folks to make stuff in storage use my name to try to sew. i left my audience hanging think he is doing the thing. i provably if i'd gone on and called it a miracle and get i'm not it's not a miracle but it's miraculous it's out there we don't know about it. if i told them go by these for my company is products, reputable, it would've killed this off. i blame myself. >> what stop you from doing it? >> i thought it was commercial, if i come a doctor should sell products. you wouldn't trust me if you came to me for advice and i said you've got a steptoe, take my version of a cream here. doesn't sound and feel right to me. i feel in the internet age taking bricks and mortar

we'll bring in claire mccaskill. claire, have you ever seen anything quite like this before?lic power and public authority to someone like elon musk? >> yeah, who does he think he is? and let me -- first of all, let me just say this about you, nicole wallace. i want your audience to understand that most people would not be in your chair today. you clearly can't talk and i want to give a shout out to you for sticking in there and trying to be there for your audience today. i know that they all -- >> stupid, stupid. >> okay. so here's the thing with elon musk. how did he get here? well, he got here because donald trump was enamored with the idea that the wealthiest man walking the planet, certainly in the united states, is elon musk. the richest. i mean, he's got hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and donald trump has maybe if you count his stock in truth, which is -- maybe he's got 4, 5, 6 billion. so that's how he got in the room. then he stroked a $250 million check to get trump elected and took over a large part of his campaign operation. now -- and they said stoc

the variety of details here, as senator mccaskill recently mentioned. we also need to entrust the next secretary of defense to continue to address issues of military sexual assault and harassment in the military and how can we trust somebody who may be a harasser themselves to do that job? >> allison, let me show you what somebody who this job mark esper had to say about what pete hegseth's mom wrote. >> what do you think something like this says about his fitness to lead the department? >> i saw that story as well and kind of shocked by it. it's one thing to have your political opponents attack but it's it's pretty damming when you get one from your mother. the more you're exposed, the more it is to opponents and others to pick at your resume at what you've said and done in the past. at this point in time trump has done a good job in terms of proposing a full cabinet at this point in time but they are going to sit out there rest of december and early january and no nomination hearings until after january 20th. that is a long time to be out there. you c

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reid was majority leader and we were not voting literally , it was finally cleric macau school -- mccaskill said it was a voting insurrection. i did not come to sit in a chair and glorify this job if we are not legislating, debating, talking about the issues of the day. everyone criticizes c-span, i think when the cameras came in congress -- god -- the -- the institution plummeted in terms of favorability because all they saw was an empty chamber, nothing. i went to gary and said can we just vote? i said i'm the most vulnerable democrat and if i say i will vote everyone should be willing. one of the problems in the senate is they do two things. myopically focus on protecting the executive if the executive is of their party and protecting their majority because when you get things done 51% are happy and 49% are unhappy in the most important part is there was a time when the leaders led the senate, they represented the institution tt tradition, he said i'm going to manage to get things done. john mccain had the maximum advantage of getting things done and when leadership is myopically focused

senator and former prosecutor, claire mccaskill. monthly," chris matthews. our thanks to you both for joining us. we are, of course, now just less than 24 hours until a government shutdown, and congress still has no path forward. capitol hill in complete chaos yesterday after president-elect trump and his top adviser, elon musk, torched the bipartisan agreement to fund the government through march. congressional leadership and vice president-elect jd vance spent the day working on new legislation that would appease trump and the already very small gop majority. after hours of negotiations, the group managed to come out with a much smaller bill that did have trump's seal of support. however, it did not have the backing of the republican conference. the slimmed down, alternate package iled, 174-235, falling far short of the two-thirds majority it needed to pass. moments after the bill failed on the floor, republicans blamed democrats for tanking the legislation. but democrats say that it was the gop who backtracked on the original dea

i started in the senate in 2007 with a class of ten new senators, webb, mccaskill are no hoerng in the senate. -- longer in the senate. to the remaining three, senators klobuchar, sanders, and whitehouse, we count on you to carry on our class traditions, i was blessed to have two seat mates during my 18 years in the senate who are trusted friends, senator barbara mikulski who made my transition so productive and senator chris van hollen and i have worked in unity for the people of maryland many i know that he will continue to serve the people well as the senior senator along with newly elected angela alsobrooks. with the partners who made it possible for me are my family. myrna and i met in elementary school and last month we celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. amising she put up -- amazing that she put up with me all these years. i could not have had the career i had without her unconditional support and confidence. she shares my commitment of giving back to the community and she keeps me properly grounded. when i became speaker of the house, she sent me a card to remind me of th

> joining the conversation we have nbc news and msnbc political analyst former prosecutor claire mccaskillttorney george conway joins us. republican senator thom tillis of north carolina is warning the so-called pressure campaign being waged by the trump's tran six team could backfire. speaking on fox news yesterday, he criticized those who arethreatening to fund primary challenges against republican senators who have been critical of trump's picks. >> what is amazing to me is how people. we're not even in the new administration. and we're -- we have not even seen the background checks which i know the administration is sending our way. but there's a lot of information that needs to be gathered and these folks who are making primary challenges and running ads they seem more like political opportunists than me than thoughtful members of the republican party. lot of this are a third parties that are making money from the fundraising campaigns to put some ads in there. but double digit percentages are going into their pockets. here's what i would tell them. if they really support president tr

she talked about -- claire mccaskill, let me take through a timeline of this because you've worked onallegations from california. it lines up with the charges, the whistle-blower charges from when he worked for the two veterans organizations. the alcoholism, or the problems with alcohol lines up with his own fox news employees who are not only telling -- >> colleagues. >> colleagues. they're not only telling nbc's courtney kubi these stories, but also the trump tion team have heard over the past weeks or so, and we have heard it from friends that we know over at fox news. so i understand a mother trying to do what a mother would try to do, but -- >> this is a really important job. >> this changes very little, and it changes very little because it's what i said about matt gaetz. the old midas commercial, you can pay me now or you can pay me later, like, pete hegseth can step down now or he can go to hearings where as steve deucy asked -- well, what do you say about those other people who are going to come and actually talk about these charges and this letter? and basically going to con

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store web, mccaskill corker are no longer in the senate. regret senators tester, brown and case of believing with me at the end of this term. to the remaining three, senator klobuchar, sanders and white house, we count on you to carry on our class traditions. i was blessed to have two seatmates during my 18 years in the senate who are trusted friends. senator barbara mikulski who welcomed me to the senate and made my transition so productive. and senator chris van hollen and i have worked in unity for the people of maryland. i know he will continue to serve the people well as the senior senator along with newly elected angela alsobrooks. with the partners that may public service possible for me, my family. myrna and i met in elementary school. last month we celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. amazing that she is put up with all those years. she's my strongest -- could not of had the queer without her support in congress. she shares my commitment of giving back to the community and she keeps me properly grounded. when i became speaker o

i mean, and it was, finally, finally claire mccaskill told us the haiti insurrection. finally, i just said this, i came to vote. i came to do stuff. i didn't come to just sit in the chair and have people, you know, whatever, glorify this job setting in this chair done it if we're not legislating, if were not debating, if are not talked about the issues of the day which honestly everybody criticizes c-span because they say it's when the cameras came and things didn't get done. i don't think that's true. i think when the cameras came in that's when congress, with the institution plummeted in terms of favorability. not because they were doing too much. because all they saw was an empty chamber. all they saw was nothing. quorum call. i went to harry and i said can we just vote? he said you know, heidi, there's a lot of issues people don't want to take a vote on. i said you know what, harry? on the most vulnerable democrat in this entire chamber and if i say i'll though, and everybody should be voting. right? one of the problems when you look at leadership in the senate is

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