i'm joined by a friend of the book club, maulik pancholy. great to see you.let's just start with the obvious. the book banning problem is not close to over. it's probably going to get worse before it gets better and tuesday's election result did not help that cause. >> yeah. i think it's, you know, it's a tough time because i think the attack on books is probably going to get more challenging. i think the school boards might feel more empowered to pull books off shelves that parents, communities who don't want books being shown to their kids might feel more emboldened to make those cases. i think that teachers and librarians have already had such a tough time and now i think they might face even further threats and possible legislature just for handing a book to a kid. so i think there's, it's a challenging, challenging time for sure. >> which is why when thinking about this in the context of the election, our first thought was let's talk to maulik because something, we showed that conversation you and i last had. after that, you actually did that event. the

. >> maulik pancholy is author of two books. my next week on the club, we're going to speak with one of the most prolific and celebrated authors of our time. her best seller has been widely banned across the country, but she's not just fighting for her book. don't miss my conversation. thank you for watching. catch me back here tomorrow morning. watching catch me back here tomorrow morning. >>> 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

joining me live on set will be maulik pancholy, whose book is about a kid like himself, a gay indianwest. a pennsylvania school board took issue with him and his book citing the author's, quote, lifestyle. but this is a rare case where a book intaning story takes taurn, where a community and a school and an author came together and changed minds. that story tomorrow morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern. that's tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with stephanie ruhle begins right now. >>> oh brother, good evening

joining me live on set will be maulik pancholy, whose book is about a kid like himself, a gay indian middle schooler growing up in the american midwest. a pennsylvania school board took issue with him and his book citing the author's, quote, lifestyle. but this is a rare case where a book intaning story takes taurn, where a community and a school and an author came together and changed minds. that story tomorrow morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern. that's tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with stephanie ruhle begins right now. >>> oh brother, good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle, and we're going to need like a four-hour show tonight. because in ten weeks, donald john trump will reenter the white house as the 47th president of the united states. he won an election of which saw most of the country move to the right. trump's administration is already beginning to take shape. his campaign manager has been named chief of staff. democrats are regrouping, trying to figure out what comes next for them after such a stunning defeat. and everyone is wondering and waiting to see what the nex