the russian oligarch, informa, wagner, leader. yes. guinea pig goshen posted his last video in africa before he was killed in a plane crash north of moscow. in august 2023. his death obviously created uncertainty about russia's plans and wagner's future re not for sure. so we're sending it to somebody to the right. but then we'll stop at costco, but i have to move them, which will they will spoil? so probably under that on this, i will just let it provide to the is that i was charged on the hold on for the system. well, i think is that same as the pos doors, is that what you tell me on my desk? i don't know what kind of each of the guns get this is not opposed to me. pretty egoless. i wonder what somebody was that there were shots the other more store, national for them is that fortunate but it always just stuck on there. those are some of the follow up is boards on it for a couple of them would have something not, not positive. it doesn't show a come on to the premier of a group of the corners and sydney of the most part. i'm not

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the russian oligarch, informa. wagner, leader. yes. guinea for goshen. posted his last video in africa before he was killed in a plane crash north of moscow. in august 2023. his death obviously created uncertainty about russia's plans and practice future. we not for sure. so when we're sending it to the freight but then we'll stop at costco, but i have to move them, which will they will spoil? so probably under the mass i will just buy it by to uh, is that the guy was charged on the hold on were it system on everything? is that same as the bus tours? is that what you tell me if my desk at the college of the casket this is not opposed to me political as to why there was somebody that there were shots the other more store national for them is that fortunate for those rest? so i find that those are some of the follow up is boards on it for a couple of them would have some of the not, not, but it doesn't show a lot of on the peninsula of the group of the corridors, assuming the most part i'm not familiar with not pushing his problem.

but wagner forces had also been accused of committing human rights abuses against civilians. the fiscal policies are, you see you this evening, joy, you g i, you'd, if you'd assume the loan. so that means it's got the book and want to schedule a showing the logic with the default is obviously up to 10 default. so because that's off next, what does that seduce poseida? i mean discussed book a multiple schedule. doesn't look to look into these accusations. you have to go to be a small town that was freed from rental control in 2021. however, bria has been the location since 2015 of one of the biggest spaces of the un mission in the central african republic called minnes. com. it's mandate is to protect civilians with $15000.00 soldiers. it operates on an annual budget of $1000000000.00 us dollars, roughly a 3rd of the see us gross domestic product. one other thing called the or not the blend. they will not just give full full cotton some of the above labels are fees seen is on the bus on thought. well, no sea level. the, the after local people sold effectiveness of the fact tha

fort wagner. the next day on the 18th, the fort itself was manned about 1700 confederates, 17 artillery pieces, and was encircled by three foot deep, dry, a formidable obstacle that the 54th was going to assault. and despite to make the assault across a mile length of open beach chauvin volunteered the 54th to lead the attack. fort wagner. other regiments would then follow support and so late in the afternoon on the 18th, the 54th formed up on the beach, waiting the command to advance. at that moment, the brigade commander, shaw superior, officer general george strong up on horseback, encouraged the men, telling them, don't stop to fire or get across the killing ground quickly as you can and then rely on the bayonet once you get to fort wagner. now, in the film facing his men, colonel shaw asks, pointing a finger at the flag. there, and he asks if this man should fall. who will lift the flag and carry on. and at that point, shaw boyhood friend thomas steps and says, i will most of you remember thi

tonight -- graham norton, alex wagner.new "closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening everybody. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." we hope you're doing well. and now if you don't mind, we're going to get to the news. president-elect trump will be sworn in next week for his second term. "well, i'm out," said everyone doing dry january. [ laughter ] president biden on wednesday is set to deliver his farewell address from the oval office, though i think he already did that during the first debate. [ light laughter ] bye, bye. former vice president mike pence revealed on friday what he said to president-elect trump at president jimmy carter's state funeral. it was, "no, i don't know how long this is going to take." [ laughter ] "fox & friends" aired an interview today with incoming first lady melania trump. "so, how's donald?" asked melania. [ laughter and applause ] in the same interview, melania trump said that she's excited about another four years in the white house. in fact, w

and he is from a range of voices from former wagner commander myra. it's gotta be duly defeated, one dish special adviser to see president twice the lead free read the code was already v. i little for the mid of the month on this thing in of do perform a new will depressing. remind me your system on plus. so you remember this one is up there. some of these are the only thing that transfer them over. there are the love identity, loved to so many live text him and met blue. most of these on the remember the one that would include him on that issue to minutes does not equal please don't feel like you fit, but assume this environment with what they do not feel should be there shows shows you this if the case is the coordinator, for an n g o documenting abuses against the civilian population for his own safety, his face can't be shown. he says that since the arrival of the russians in the central african republic, the country has been gripped by fear and power. no. yeah. but not everyone agrees with a little less or a very good level. you see, does that mi

a great new podcast trump planned with alex wagner.been loving the podcast, by the way. thank you. fantastic. and one of the things here is just the crazy inversion of secrecy, like this whole thing is it's transparent. we're telling you, no one knows anything they're doing. and you've been talking to people on the other end who they don't know what's happening until. >> well. >> it's like the free speech thing, right? >> yes. >> until it's not about. >> free speech. it's about turning. >> twitter into a cesspool for right wing paranoia. it i will i will say this. i was outside the treasury building last week. and the musk thing, i think is a real problem for trump. he is not donald trump. and as we know, the trump glow does not extend to anyone else in his orbit. >> and musk is a very easy i'm. >> not going to say target because i think it's earned. >> he is a. very easy. >> narrative for democrats. right. >> unelected bill, the. >> tesla guy is tinkering around with payrolls. he's firing government employees. >> he's not doing it. >>

wagner tonight.nd also trump world. with trump trump land. >> i mean trump land. >> it's. >> i mean it's. >> it's a world. >> yeah, yeah. >> vaughn i do want to go to you first because this is a stunner. i'm just assuming that there is a lot of reaction right now to what we just heard. official reaction. >> please share. i mean, actually, i think a few people. and there's just silence. i mean, let's be very clear outside of jared kushner making a passing remark, a seemingly passing remark back in march of gaza having beautiful waterfront property, we have not heard the words of candidate donald trump or president trump suggest the takeover of a land where millions of people call home, the moving them out and the taking over and the ownership of the united states. and i think that what this represents, i think, cannot be overstated here. back in the first trump administration, there was some semblance of a, of a of a governing structure in the trump administration in 2020 with the help of jared kushne

>> i don't feel safe. >> joining us now is the great alex wagner, who has been doing frontline reportingrst 100 days of the new administration. alex, i have been keeping your seat warm and trying to do right by you and holding down the fort while you have been out in trumpland. thanks for being here. how's it been going? >> oh. >> rachel. >> it's tough out there. >> you know. >> i will say. we talk a lot about how crushing this fear is, how omnipresent it is. >> the fact. >> that sometimes the. ice agents may show up at schools or hospitals. they may show up at church, they may be wearing ice uniforms. they may not. they may have. >> a warrant. >> they may not. and certainly. the communities, these marginalized communities that have been thrust into the shadows feel terrified, right. that part is working. but at the same time, you know, these trainings that are happening across the country, led by community groups, are a form of. empowerment that i honestly wasn't expecting to see. right? one of the things they. do is. they run these role playing exercises for what, you know, immigrants

why wagner mercenaries i have the cds, but everyone is fully aware that the russians haven't come here out of the goodness of their hearts. what's available is some of the company policy companies that may be putting this into the videos in the monday. really the news when it's over there, it's already so popular place. yeah, yeah, i'm in the middle motion, so it's just a flow of my skin and bones. it's a domestic, it gives you a problem. the problem is to don't actually give it the the the, the yeah, they made good. no, no, no. it's the let me see here. let me put you on a monthly fee, billed month to see oh the go button. yeah. so the missing is that the missing that yeah. send it putting more of a so called was it really did. it was a bill that was on the to repeat the mess and it was, they did not want to know when, when i went, when i was, when i, when, when i, when, when i went out to open a 0 there button there. so many people when i went to reduce my back, oh, there's a little bit that knows. hm. yeah. me see the notes in there and my show me the message would like to know when

putin, calling trump, wagner putin, calling each other... in this and the idea that are wwwwware going are going to be ignored is message i think that a message i think that they will try to get over munich. will try to get over in munich. over the next few days. will the exist united, over the next few days. will the easier united, the are trying to say brits are trying to say keep calm, don't overreact. some have been saying the europeans have been saying the lilo- are appeasement, the brits are trying to let's try and trying to say, let's try and ,, down. the suspect in yesterday's munich attack appears what the suspect himself has said, she would call this comfortably say that we see an islamist motive. what we also want to say is that there is no indication that the suspect was part of an islamist i was the only of the march, we were just walking march. we were'just walking the street when i heard a down the street when i heard a loud motor engine revving followed by a crash, i turned around and i saw dozens of wwww lwying wing éawwwww

my friend and colleague, msnbc anchor alex wagner, host of the new podcast trumpland.ton this week and talking to federal workers targeted by musk and his aides. what did you learn? >> first of all, i think the vengeance with which this is being taken out should not be understated. >> i was. >> talking. >> to some. >> of the folks who worked at usaid, in particular a woman named christina drye, who is the now one of the now former spokespeople there, and the absolute disregard for not just the people who work in the federal government, but the people they then serve the american public, but also the global community. we have national security interests in doing this work. let's just put that out there. in addition to the humanitarian aid, there are scores thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who are in real need who have no idea what america is doing. i want to play you a little bit of my interview with her, where she gives us kind of a sense of the chaos that's unfolding behind these walls. >> in addition to the us aid folks. >> that are losing their. >> jobs wi

the new episode of alex wagner's podcast trumpland just dropped today. this episode is called the war on yolk. it's about how the avian flu, the bird flu, is messing with everybody from farmers to consumers to everybody who has to do anything with eggs. it's really, really good and i recommend that you should listen. anyway, just came out. you can use that scan scannable code on your screen there to get it. all right. i'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the last word with the great lawrence o'donnell. good evening. >> good evening. rachel. >> you know, your last segment there about donald trump and elon musk setting back alzheimer's research 20 years. that final response in your discussion was really stunning, but also completely understandable. that's the way medical and scientific research works. your your lab specimens aren't going to sit there waiting for you to decide about funding. and it's and this is exactly the kind of thing that donald trump and elon musk do not comprehend in the slightest. >> no. and to know that to hear one of the

he had been the secretary to senator robert wagner, the father of social security in the lab wagner labor relations. and then he moved on from that to being a supreme court judge appointed to that position by governor franklin delano roosevelt. now, there some theories as to what happened to the crater. none of them stand up to absolute proof. he may have been propositioned by legs dimond, who had a grudge with them and taken to coney island to have sense, beaten into him and they beat us a bit too much sense into him. and he buried under the boardwalk. that's a or that one of the things which i talked intersectionality or didn't talk about prostitution that he may have gone to one of polly adler's infamous or famous brothels in the city and had not survived the evening in a different form and was dumped in the hudson river. but you paid your money. you take your your choice and happened to him speak easy's speakeasy is are just everywhere particularly in the west fifties texas guy conan is is the most famous operator hostess there are movies made about her while she's doing this helen mo

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more on this, kurt wagner joins us now.ngton versus x getting better as a platform for marketers to be on? kurt: the influence part from elon musk is a huge factor here, right? if you look at what it looks like today versus six months ago, there's not a huge difference. the marketers i spoken to don't see a huge difference. what has changed is, of course, his role in the government and the fact that it is now out suing brands that aren't advertising on the platform, right? if you are a marketer you are sitting there going -- is it worth spending money on this service or getting in the crosshairs of elon musk right now, given his power? some brands are choosing it's the time to return for them. tim: at the end of the day, though, does it work? does it work better than instagram, meta platforms, tiktok? kurt: as far as advertising goes, it has never worked better. it's a different type of ad. usually with x, twitter, you would be doing a digital version of a tv ad, which can be great if you are in the super bowl or the grammy

caroline: kurt wagner, thanks so much. do tech -- check out the tech in depth newsletter.p this conversation going when it comes to doge. jennifer pahlka is here with us. former president barack obama's chief technology officer. you co-authored a report providing a roadmap for improving government performance. structural, cultural challenges. do you see the positives of this doge drive? jennifer: i think i hoped to see positives. i have been a big advocate for significant renovation of government for a long time, and as kurt said, i had been hoping it would move faster. unfortunately what we are seeing is moving far too fast and not with the right intent. if you want to renovate government, pulling it back down to the studs, but we are seeing now is pulling at the core foundations of our government, the principles on which it was established, and that is not going to increase state capacity, which is what our report is about. state capacity is the ability for government to achieve its goals. we have incredibly important challenges we need to face as a government. we need a

alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people most impacted by the policies. >> were you there>> there on. >> january 6th. >> did it surprise you that you were fired, given how resolutely nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast trumpland with alex wagner. >> welcome back to politics nation. legal rights groups opposing the trump administration have their work cut out for them. in the midst of trump's war on di and the rule of law. those assaults are now landing in court, even as the administration is now flirting with simply rejecting legal rulings it doesn't like. joining me now is damon hewitt, president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights. damon, good to see you. the lawyers committee has been pushing back at trump 2.0 since day one. i know, and you publicly oppose the nomination of pam bondi for attorney general. you are pushing colleges and universities to continue diversity efforts despite the ban on college affirmative action and trump's war on dei. you've also come to the legal defense of capitol pol

. >> wagner will be. >> bringing clarity to the policies being implemented.ll be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories are going to be told through field work and frontline reporting about the consequences of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across the country and the rachel maddow show weeknights at nine on msnbc. stay up to date on the biggest issues of the day with the msnbc daily newsletter. get the best of msnbc all in one place. sign up for msnbc daily at msnbc. com. >> that is tonight's last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. >> tonight, a series of high profile resignations after a federal prosecutor defies the department of justice's order to drop the corruption case against new york city's mayor.

it's president trump's first 100 days, and rachel maddow and alex wagner will be bringing clarity toies being implemented. alex will be in the field reporting from the front lines. >> what issue matters to you the most? >> and rachel will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories. >> are going to. >> be told through field work and frontline reporting about the consequences of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across the country and the rachel maddow show weeknights at 9:00 on msnbc. >> as the nation rightfully mourns the deaths of the airline crashes both in washington and philadelphia over the last several days, let's not forget the loss of life from those that suffered from the wildfires in california and those who lost loved ones. and i remember having on this show zaher from altadena, who lost his sister d others in this mostly black area that was burned, some to the ground, all of what they owned, all of the heirlooms of their families. they should not be forgotten. and this thursday, i am keeping my commitment i made on this show to zaher and attorney

alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people most impacted by the policies. >> were you therejanuary? >> i was. >> there. >> on january 6th. >> did it surprise you. >> that you were. >> fired. >> given how. >> resolutely nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast trumpland with alex wagner. >> throughout his political career, donald trump has been a stickler for the rules when it comes to the alleged conflicts of his perceived enemies, from hillary clinton's speaking fees to robert mueller's unpaid golf club dues. but trump has always counted on america taking a blind eye to his own questionable dealings and those of his closest allies. the wall street journal reports this week that trump's election has resulted in a nearly $80 million windfall for the trump family, as corporations line up to do media deals and donate to the president's library fund. and that's not even counting the crypto coin offering made by trump and the first lady on the eve of the inauguration. elon musk, the man trump has put in charge of cutting government spendin

alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people most impacted by the policies. >> were you theren. >> january 6th. >> did it surprise you that you were. >> fired. >> given how resolutely nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast, reporting, follow her podcast, trumpland with alex wagner. keith morrison (voiceover): it was a kind of obsession now, the determination to give her back her name, to identify the anonymous young woman murdered and set on fire and then buried here in longview, texas. god knows law enforcement had tried every trick in the investigative book, except for a new book, if you could call it that, the dna doe project. a bunch of amateurs really, but committed? oh, yes. it's not that law enforcement has not tried. most of the cases that come to us were kind of the last resort. keith morrison (voiceover): us meaning a group of people who had never actually met in person, who labored away in a kitchen or a bedroom or a basement, who knew each other only online, like lori gaff, a former black hawk helicopter pilot who stumbled

. >> it's president trump's first 100 days, and rachel maddow and alex wagner will be bringing claritycies being implemented. alex will be in the field reporting from the front lines. >> what issue matters. >> to you the most? >> and rachel will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories are going to be told through field work and frontline reporting about the consequences of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across the country and the rachel maddow show weeknights at nine on msnbc. >> this is from the boston globe, 1990 5th july 1995. quote, serb forces in the conquered un safe area of srebrenica yesterday completed one of the largest ethnic cleansing operations in the bloody 39 month long war. serbian television showed the genocidal military leader handing out chocolates to children and cigarettes to adults. quote you don't have to be afraid of anything, he said as he guided refugees onto busses. quote. most of them did not return. that reporting was special to the boston globe from bosnia. it was filed by a woman named samantha power, a reporter at the time.

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alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people most impacted by the policies. >> were you thereth. >> did it surprise you that you were. >> fired. >> given how resolutely nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast trumpland with alex wagner. >> we are filling up the bleachers. we get on control. >> and we're going. >> to have to. >> not allow. >> anybody. >> else into the gym. >> so folks on the back wall. >> that was hillsboro, oregon this weekend as a middle school gym. obviously a very hot ticket. a very full house. and that was not like some highly anticipated local sports playoff that was not very well attended. auditions for the middle school musical. this was a political event. this was a town hall. all these people turned out in person on a saturday night in hillsboro, oregon, to come talk to and hear from their u.s. senator, senator ron wyden, and that announcer who was saying she was going to have to call capacity. she did end up calling capacity. they had to close the doors and not let anybody else in. so many people showed up at

days, and rachel maddow and alex wagner will be bringing clarity to the policies being implemented.he field reporting from the front lines. >> what issue matters. >> to you the most? >> and rachel will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories are going to be told through field work and frontline reporting about. >> the consequences. >> of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across the country and the rachel maddow show weeknights at nine on msnbc. >> as the super bowl gets ready to kick off and we see the removal from the end zone of the slogan that's been there since 2021, in racism and be replaced with choose love. well, what is the point? certainly, people should choose love. they should also eat healthier. they should exercise. that's not making a challenging statement, particularly when you had in racism as a result of where we saw division and hate and race play at that time, that has not ended now with black and white wealth still at a very disproportionate end. and where we see black unemployment still a lot higher than whites, we still need to conti

and rachel maddow and alex wagner will be bringing clarity to the policies being implemented.will be in the field reporting from the frontlines. >> what issue matters to you the most? >> and rachel will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories are going to be told through field work and frontline reporting about the consequences of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across the country and the rachel maddow show weeknights at nine on msnbc. >> a brand new video shows the moment that a delta plane carrying 80 people crashed in toronto on monday. this footage captured from the cockpit of another plane. watch this as the plane lands, shows the flight from minneapolis landing at toronto's pearson international airport yesterday. it appears to land hard. flames start shooting out and then the right wing hits the ground. the plane flips over onto its top and keeps skidding down the runway. billowing smoke and fire. but as you see in this footage shot by passengers, everybody survived as flight attendants jumped into action to evacuate the upside down plane.

alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people most impacted by the policies. >> were you there on january? >> i was there on january 6th. >> did it surprise you. >> that you were fired, given how resolutely nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast trumpland with alex wagner. >> right now. >> on anna. >> cabrera reports. a ton of news from capitol hill this hour. the final confirmation vote for rfk jr. as head of health and human services. will any republicans come out against the longtime vaccine skeptic? plus, critical steps forward now for two other trump picks kash patel, former fbi director, and linda mcmahon for education secretary. the hurdles they both face this hour and we're following breaking news out of munich. dozens injured after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians. what we know about this incident the day before a major security summit there. hello, i'm ana cabrera, reporting from new york. let's begin with that. breaking news out of germany. at least 28 people injured after a vehicle ramming incident in munich. police

alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people most impacted by the policies. >> were you there i was there. >> on january 6th. >> did it. >> surprise you that you were fired, given how resolutely nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast, trumpland with alex wagner. >> 34 past the hour. more breaking news on capitol hill, where right now, a house subcommittee related to tech mogul elon musk's department of government efficiency, or doge, is holding its first hearing. the hearing comes as musk and president trump are facing some questions about musk's efforts to slash government spending and the government workforce. moss defended his actions during an appearance in the oval office with the president and with musk's four year old son. >> it's just common sense. >> it's not. >> it's not. >> draconian or radical. >> i think it's. >> really. >> just saying, let's look at each. >> each of these expenditures and say. >> is this actually. >> in the. >> best interest of the people? >> now, a few hours after that meeting, the president fired the i

>> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast, trumpland with alex wagner. >> the wave of high level resignations in response to the trump administration continues to swell. this is not people being fired by the trump administration, or people taking them up on their threat to resign, or else. this is people resigning on principle after they tried to stop the trump administration from doing something they're not supposed to be able to do. late last week, you will remember the department of justice had seven high profile resignations, all of them over the decision by the trump administration to drop corruption charges against new york city mayor eric adams, which the trump administration was demanding explicitly in exchange for a promise from mayor adams that he would help with trump's anti-immigrant policies. to understand why this was such a rubicon, that principled, even conservative members of the justice department were not willing to cross. today, a former u.s. attorney named carol lam drew an analogy in an op ed for the new york times that i think is quite clarifying. she

>> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast, trumpland with alex wagner.ators, the despots. >> and the enemies of science. >> yeah. >> all over. >> america we. >> are going to build. >> up massive. >> herd immunity to the fascists. >> in america. that's what we're going to do. >> today, hundreds of federal workers and others gathered outside the health and human services headquarters in washington, dc, to protest elon musk's cuts to federal science research. it was just one part of a series of nationwide protests today in support of federal employees who have been targeted by donald trump and the oligarchs that he enables as they run roughshod trying to dismantle the entire government. and i think it's worth asking yet again, when americans went into the voting booth last november, did anyone actually vote for this? do the american people want the world's richest man to fire federal scientists who are doing cancer research? senator bernie sanders is an independent of vermont. this week, he's launching a national tour to fight oligarchy here in america. he'

alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people most impacted by the policies. >> were you therere. >> on january 6th. >> did it surprise you that you were fired, given how resolutely nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast, trumpland with alex wagner. >> there will. >> be accountability within the fbi. >> and outside. >> of the fbi. the men and women at the fbi. >> i have. >> your back because you. have the backs of the american people. you will have you will be held to the. >> same high standard. >> any deviation from that standard. >> will. >> not be tolerated at this federal bureau of investigation. >> well, that's a fun first day message to start with. that was the message of donald trump's newly sworn in director of the fbi today, kash patel, a trump loyalist with an enemies list who has repeatedly attacked the bureau and vowed retribution. kash patel was narrowly confirmed yesterday despite bipartisan opposition, with two republican senators citing concern that kash patel would use the fbi to settle political scores rather than to

. >> it's president trump's first 100 days, and rachel maddow and alex wagner will be bringing claritycies being implemented. alex will be in the field reporting from the frontlines. >> what issue matters to you the most? >> and rachel will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories. >> are going to be told through field work and frontline reporting about the consequences of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across the country and the rachel. >> maddow show weeknights. >> at 9:00 on msnbc. >> it's been three weeks since several devastating wildfires ravaged los angeles, destroying over 50,000 acres and over 10,000 homes. today, some good news. california state officials now declaring the eaton and palisades fires completely contained. but for families who lost everything, it's just the beginning of a very long and hard process of picking up the pieces. and one organization is hoping to comfort this disaster's youngest victims. working mom notes a new jersey based advocacy group is offering to find replacements for stuffed animals that little ones lost in the fi

>> and for more in depth reporting, follow her podcast, trumpland with alex wagner. >> president trumpn president volodymyr zelensky is not, quote, very important to be at meetings end quote, when it comes to negotiating an end to the war in ukraine. let me repeat that. trump doesn't think it's important for the president of ukraine to be involved in meetings about ending the russian invasion of ukraine. trump made those comments yesterday on a fox radio news show. then he. president trump talked about his desire to abandon ukraine and coddle vladimir putin. that exploded into public view this week. on tuesday at mar a lago, president trump attempted to rewrite the 2022 invasion of ukraine by claiming zelensky was the one who started the war. >> you've been there for three years. you should have ended it three years. you should have never started it. you could have made a deal. >> let me be clear. russia invaded ukraine three years ago tomorrow, a sovereign, democratic nation. putin made false claims about ukraine and nato to justify his invasion. zelensky didn't start this war at all.

. >> it's president trump's first 100 days, and rachel maddow and alex wagner will be bringing clarityng from the frontlines. >> what issue matters to you the most? >> and rachel will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories are going to be told through field work and frontline reporting about the consequences of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across the country and the rachel maddow show weeknights at 9:00 on msnbc. >> all right. i'll see you tomorrow on velshi. while the republican party stands by and allows elon musk to gut the federal workforce and access government computer systems, there are some democrats fighting back. i'll speak to the democratic congresswoman of massachusetts, ayanna pressley, and the colorado attorney general, phil weiser. one of the ags who sued donald trump and the treasury tonight. that's tomorrow, 10 a.m. eastern. and that is tonight's last word. the 11th hour with my friend stephanie ruhle begins right now. >> good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle, and welcome to the nightcap. we end this week. >> on day 19. >> god,

. >> wagner will be. >> bringing clarity to the policies being implemented. >> alex will be. >> in the to you the most? >> and rachel. >> will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories are going to be told through field work and frontline reporting about the consequences of government action. >> alex wagner. reporting from. >> across the country and the rachel maddow. >> show weeknights. >> at 9:00 on msnbc. >> welcome back. president trump is set to host israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house today. he'll be the first foreign leader to meet with trump since he started his second term. their meeting lands in the middle of the first phase of the cease fire agreement between israel and hamas. they'll discuss the terms of that agreement after the hamas terrorist attacks sparked 16 months of war in gaza. joining us now, msnbc columnist naira, naira. i want to circle back to some comments that netanyahu has made in advance of this meeting. but first, what does it tell you that this is the first official meeting with a foreign leader, face to face, that trump

and rachel maddow and alex wagner will be bringing clarity to the policies being implemented.field reporting from the frontlines. >> what issue matters to you the most? >> and rachel will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories are going to be told through field work and frontline reporting about the consequences of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across the country and the rachel maddow show weeknights at 9:00 on msnbc. >> 24 hours this morning, new escalations in president trump's immigration crackdown as he marks four weeks back in office. here's what white house border czar tom homan had to say about the pace of immigration arrests. >> i'm not happy with the numbers. >> because we got a lot of criminals to find. so what. we're talking about right now are increasing number of teams, increase the targeting. we got to do more. and i've been real clear on that. and that's why we're making the operational changes. now that i requested. >> this is the justice department fired multiple immigration judges despite a backlog of around 3.5 million pendin

wagner will be bringing clarity to the policies being implemented.rom the front lines. >> what issue matters to you the most? >> and rachel will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories are. >> going to be told through field work and frontline reporting about the consequences of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across the country and the rachel maddow show weeknights at 9:00 on msnbc. >> tonight, a new documentary reveals the shockingly turbulent life of oath keepers founder stewart rhodes. king of the apocalypse delves into his family life and the spiral that led him to the capitol on january 6th. all told, from the perspective of his ex-wife and estranged son. here's a quick look at his last interview before being arrested for his actions on january 6th. >> i kind of want. to just hear. >> like what your last six months has been like. >> as expected. >> except for all the. >> demonization from the so-called right. i'm getting people declaring that, oh, he's a fad. he must be a fad. he hasn't been arrested yet. so it turn

>> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast trumpland with alex wagner. >> welcome back. agencies have been affected by the trump administration's continued mass layoffs across the health and human services department. that is, of course, just one. but several sources tell politico the cuts have hit staffers at the food and drug administration, as well as the centers for medicare and medicaid services, centers for disease control and prevention, and the national institutes of health. the firings were part of cuts affecting about 3600 probationary employees across the department. joining us now, white house correspondent for politico, adam cancryn. adam, first, trump officials are saying that these are methodological firings and that they are meant to serve the larger goal of cutting 10% of the workforce. but there are actual tangible impacts to this. >> there absolutely is. anytime you do. >> a. >> culling of. >> this many. >> people and we're talking. >> about the administration is said about 3600 people across. the health department that's. >> going to hit several. >> o

it's president trump's first 100 days, and rachel maddow and alex wagner will be bringing clarity totlines. >> what issue matters to you the most? >> and rachel. >> will be hosting five nights a week. >> important stories. >> are going to be told. >> through. >> field work and frontline. >> reporting about the consequences. of government action. >> alex wagner, reporting from across. >> the country and the rachel. >> maddow show weeknights. >> at 9:00. >> on msnbc. >> i want to speak directly to all of our federal workers about this, because they deserve better than to be pushed out the door with a nine day pressure tactic that comes with no clarity, no details, and a lot of questions left unanswered. i personally am deeply skeptical of any offer from a president like donald trump, who has so consistently shown he will try to stiff workers at every opportunity. >> today, a federal judge temporarily blocked the trump administration from trying to pressure government employees around the country into a mass resignation. 2 million federal workers started getting emails from the office o

through field work and frontline reporting. >> about the consequences of government action. >> alex wagnerrachel maddow. >> show weeknights at nine. >> on msnbc. >> new orleans officials say the city will be the safest in america for the biggest game of the year. the super bowl while millions are watching on tv, heavily armed national guardsmen will be patrolling on foot. helicopters will be circling above and police boats will be out on the water. the security preparations come just over a month after the new year's day terrorist attack on bourbon street that killed 14 people. and it's even more heightened now that president trump plans to attend the game. the first sitting u.s. president to go. nbc's priscilla thompson is on the ground for us in new orleans. and priscilla, we know that there are nearly 3000 police spread out all across the city. and i wonder what's it like there ahead of the game? >> well, chris, you certainly feel that police presence on the ground here. you've got nearly 3000, many of them in uniform, but some of them also not in uniform. and that is across federal, lo

alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people most impacted by the policies. >> were you therew resolutely. nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast trumpland with alex wagner. >> all right, before the break, i told you about some heartbreaking stories about ukrainian authors, journalists and publishers working to keep ukrainian literature alive. joining me now is yaroslav trofimov. he's the chief foreign correspondent for the wall street journal. he's the author of several books, including the new historical novel no country for love. yaroslav, thank you for being with us. we appreciate you taking your time this morning. you recently wrote a piece in the wall street journal titled russia wants to erase ukraine's future and its past. and you detail the soviet era atrocities that russia committed against ukraine, from famine to the mass murder of the ukrainian people in the 30s. you write about how intellectuals of the time writers, historians, artists, teachers, they were specifically targeted and murdered, not incidentally. so this is v

alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people most impacted by the policies. >> were you there surprise. >> you that you were fired, given how. resolutely nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast trumpland with alex wagner. >> well, we made it to the end of another week, which means it's time to play our favorite game. who won the week? back with me are wajahat ali and eugene craig. wajahat ali, who won the week? >> democratic women. governor. governor mills, aoc. jasmine crockett. senator warren with chutzpah, with fire, with boldness. punching a bully figuratively in the mouth. democratic men. schumer. pay attention. follow their lead. >> a man who beat that? eugene craig. who won the week. >> listen. well, my book. erica claudio, the chair and founder of my body pac black women, led us this last cycle and lead us this next cycle. and she's the tip of the spear, charging the resistance. young black women taking lead with my body. pac. >> okay, both of you guys picked women. so let me go and help out the men. i'm going to pick the men o

ann wagner missouri. sherry biggs, south carolina. great job. nancy mace, where is nancy?here's something. are you a believer in what we are doing. nancy takes it on right from the start. would you like to say something? would you like to say we are doing the right thing? good. thank you very much. [applause] pres. trump: stephanie bice, oklahoma. thank you stephanie. diana harshbarger. thank you diana. good job. tim burchett and i watched you on television the other day, you are unbelievable per you ripped that guy apart. that poor guy he started getting a little fresh with tim and tim ripped him apart. i left a message. that is good. great job tim. monica delacruz. ronny jackson. ronnie, dr. ronnie. he is a doctor, a great doctor and great admiral and a great congressman. he has his choice. what do you like doing best ronnie? [laughter] pres. trump: who is the healthiest patient you ever had? [laughter] >> donald trump. pres. trump: you know why i liked him? the fact he was asked, he had obama, bush and trump in the white house, the white house doctor and they asked him

>> t for president trump's first 100 days, alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people mostnuary? >> i was there on january 6th. >> did it surprise you that you were fired, given how resolutely nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast, trumpland with alex wagner. >> for the second week in a row, donald trump welcomed a head of state from the middle east to the white house and claimed the united states would be taking over the gaza strip, which is currently home to around 2 million palestinians. this time, it was jordan's king abdullah who, unlike israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu the previous week, did not share trump's enthusiasm for what would amount to an ethnic cleansing. but what the meetings did share in common was this. world leaders and regional powers continue to discuss the fate of palestinians without giving the palestinians themselves any say. now, this dynamic not of people determining the lives of palestinians without their input, along with trump's takeover plan, prompted the prominent palestinian poet mosab abu