sose you want to try that? >> yes, i do. >> do you like brownies, miss piggy? >> yeah. can you get the plate over here, please? >> yes, of course. ryan will bring them over to you. you can get to know each other a little better -- i want to see this. >> this is important. all right, miss piggy. we need you to get one, or i can >> i would like. >> just a little. i like you, fed by you, ryan. >> oh, my goodness. >> this is how you do it. melt the chocolate and butter in a heat proof mixing bowl over a pan of boiling water. mix in my wine followed by sugar, flower -- flour vanilla, eggs, coffee and bake between 30 and 40 minutes. what do you think? >> i think i could do that. >> yeah, yeah. it's try day friday, and these are cool. do you know what your state smells like? >> oh, gosh. surf. i'm from california. >> okay. we have a california sitting up here. is this the first one? second one. these are homesick candles created, a scent for each state. okay. we were going to go to new york first but let's do you. >> here we go. >> what doou smell, some you smell this, besides

lauren: soses of former astronaut and former senator john glenn.owa last night on the third stop of his thank you tour. he also brought on stage the man he's tapped to be the next u.s. embassador to china. that's iowa governor terry branstad. trump credittizing china once again saying the country is responsible for nearly half of america's trade deficit. listen. >> china is not a market economy. they have a lot of help and that's why we designate them as being a nonmarket economy, big thing. they haven't played by the rules and i know it's time that they're going to start. lauren: well, donald trump has another busy day today. we are going to get a preview on what's by connell mcshane. >> he will meet here at trump tower with the democratic senator joe manchin from west virginia. a red state as a democrat. he has been mentioned as a possibility of cabinet, one that's 50% announced. by midday the president elect will be thanking voters in baton rouge, louisiana. then grand rapids, michigan. you might remember the late night rally in grand rapids bef

and the ceo of the sose agency, as well as lauren suzka who works for "the new yorker". >> thanks fort i wanted to do, because i'm not actually pretend interested in what you have to say, i'm really interested in some of your thoughts on the year. we want to go around and say, biggest stories in politics and culture. it is msnbc, so, let's start in politics. biggest story this year? >> sure, well, i thought that when you asked that question, you were just sort of trolli ii us into all be like, trump is the president and we would all sit here and talk about that. so i, aside from that, was thinking about the way social media has impacted political discourse, which is maybe not a discreet story, but in terms of peop memes being part of our political conversation and the way we talk past each other online, but also the way twitter can be an informant and filling in the gaps that mainstream media sometimes misses. >> you wrote a little satire piece for the new yorker and wrote this in january, a year ago, before donald trump won the nomination. but you were spoofing the way it works with

which is a very nice, handy, sose yo lodgele argument. the more i delved into it the more i understand that these groups, these are savings and loan and credit associations that vary, as i studied them over a pord of 25, 30 years, vary in amounts between, like in this one, say, 1,000 pesos over 10 persons, to $25,000. let's say at the -- at one extreme, you have one that's basically made up of 10 people, each one putting in $25,000 every three months. so every three months, the other persons who participate in this, say there's 10 of them, they'll be collecting $250,000. less $25,000. actually, $225,000. they'll keep putting less back in. over a period of 30 months. they'll use that money for investment, or use that money, for example, take care of whatever expenses you have in a particular business. a lot of mexican restaurants, for example, participate in these kinds of things. so that's one extreme. at the other extreme it could be somebody, for example, who uses, say in mexico city, uses the 100 pesos, 900 pesos, buys a big box of kle