Are they nice. Theyre fantastic. I believe this is the first time i have ever received flowers while not being in a hospital. So i think thats what we did today. I think this is that first. You know, mannish women, were good at this. It really lifted my day. And i think its going to show in tonights show, just the feeling you brought to my workplace today. So rachel, thank you. Youre welcome my friend. I wont talk about why i did it. No, but thanks, rachel. Well, President Trump was running scared in the final days of the Midterm Election campaign. He was obviously running scared. He was afraid of what losing the house of representatives would mean to his political life and to his legal life and legal jeopardy. And now that the president lost the Midterm Elections, the president is just losing it. He had a crazier press conference than usual at the white house this week, sending an intern to try a grab a microphone away from a reporter and then he denied White House Press credentials to some white house reporters. The president is panicked. The president is panicked by the Election Results, which are getting worse, worse for the president every day. As the democrats continue to win more seats in the house of representatives, as the final votes are being counted. And now the president is running scared again. He is trying to run away from the house of representatives investigators who he knows will be coming for him next year. And hes trying to run away from special prosecutor robert mueller. The president s criminal defense team is the single worst team of lawyers who have ever been hired to represent a president of the United States. And the president probably knows that. Thats why he tried to install an attorney general this week who will be his most effective criminal defense lawyer. That is clearly what donald trump expects from Matthew Whitaker who now sits at the desk of the attorney general of the United States but does not legally occupy that job. And every legal action that Matthew Whitaker attempts to take as an acting attorney general is now subject to a legal challenge in court. We will have more on the democrats election victory and the votes that continue to be counted later in this hour. But now consider where Matthew Whitaker sits tonight after completing his second full day claiming the title of acting attorney general. The wall street journal reports that he is being investigated by the fbi for his involvement in a company that Like Trump University has paid out over 25 million in settlements to defrauded customers. Matthew whitaker is being investigated for the possible participation in a fraud. Matthew whitaker knows that he is publicly suspected by me, as ive already said this week, and others as having been installed as an acting attorney general in order to commit crimes for donald trump. President trump is expecting his acting attorney general to commit multiple counts of obstruction of justice, if necessary, to prevent anyone named trump from being harmed by the special prosecutors investigation. President trump expects Matthew Whitaker to protect him. And Matthew Whitaker is now going to spend every workday of his life surrounded by fbi agents and federal prosecutors who do not trust him. Surrounded by fbi agents and experienced federal prosecutors who are much better lawyers than he will ever be. All of whom suspect and have every right to suspect that Matthew Whitaker has been installed in the Attorney Generals Office to commit crimes for the president if necessary. That is exactly what republican president Richard Nixon expected of his attorney general. And that is exactly why exactly what he got. Which is why Richard Nixons attorney general john mitchell, went to prison. And when nixons attorney general john mitchell, took office, no one, no one in the fbi, no one in the Justice Department suspected that he was capable of committing a crime. He was a respected new york lawyer. On Matthew Whitakers first day in that Office Everyone in the fbi and every federal prosecutor had every right to regard him and treat him as a potential criminal suspect. Every Single PersonMatthew Whitaker speaks to in that Justice Department every day is writing down every word he says to them, whether he knows that or not. They have all learned james comeys lesson of dealing with trump world. Write down everything they say immediately after the meeting. When Matthew Whitaker watches Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein or any of the other lawyers hes surrounded by all day leave the room after a meeting, they are all going to their desks to write down exactly what they just heard Matthew Whitaker say. They all know they are going to need those notes someday. They all know that Matthew Whitaker is going to spend many, many hours under oath against his will in the house of representatives next year and possibly in a grand jury room with a special prosecutor. We know what Matthew Whitaker wants to do for donald trump because he has said so publicly. He wants to end the special prosecutors investigation. If i could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesnt fire bob mueller but he just reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. If Matthew Whitaker isnt smart enough to know that everyone around him all day regards him as a potential criminal suspect, if he has to hear that from me in order to realize it, then he is not smart enough to realize the other very important thing about everyone he will be dealing with in the Justice Department every day. Every one of them is much smarter than he is. Every one of the prosecutors he will be dealing with from Rod Rosenstein on down are much better legal scholars and much better legal practitioners. They are profoundly dangerous to him every time he opens his mouth. And so when Rod Rosenstein was quoted today as saying Matthew Whitaker is quote a superb choice to run the Justice Department, that should probably be interpreted to mean Matthew Whitaker has not said one word to interfere with rosenstein or special counsel robert mueller. Not yet. That is probably Rod Rosensteins signal from within about what is not happening in the Justice Department. Matthew whitaker is not getting his way. Matthew whitaker has said some of the stupidest things that any Law School Graduate has ever said. He questioned the legitimacy of that First Supreme Court opinion we all learned about in history class, marbury vs. Madison. That obviously puts him in opposition to the appointment of jewish judges, not to mention muslim judges or atheist judges. Its hard for a Law School Graduate to sound stupider than Matthew Whitaker, but when Matthew Whitaker spent his first full day yesterday sitting in the Attorney Generals Office surrounded by the highest powered prosecutors in the world and experienced high ranking fbi officials his ego must have shrunk a bit. He must have felt a bit less confident about the blustery nonsense he has spewed on television as a pundit when he was actually using television to audition for a job with President Trump. This is Matthew Whitakers dirty harry moment. Its that line that Clint Eastwood made so famous when he confronted criminals in that movie. Clint eastwoods dirty harry said, youve got to ask yourself one question, do i feel lucky . So Matthew Whitaker has to ask himself, do i feel lucky . And Matthew Whitaker is sitting in that room with federal prosecutors and fbi agents who regard him as a suspect. Does he feel lucky . Because you would have to be very, very lucky to get away with doing what donald trump wants you to do as the attorney general of the United States. Youd have to be lucky and smarter than everyone in that building to get away with that. John mitchell must have felt pretty lucky as Richard Nixons Campaign Manager when they won the 1968 election and he knew he was going to be the next attorney general of the United States, he must have felt pretty lucky. He was sentenced. And Richard Nixons second attorney general was Richard Klein he sentencing judge said he had, quote, a heart that is too loyal. If Matthew Whitaker has a heart that is too loyal to donald trump, he will be very, very lucky to get off as easy as richard did. Donald trump could easily drive Matthew Whitaker into earning a prison sentence that sets the record for republican attorneys general of the United States convicted of federal crimes. Joining us now, democratic congressman steve collin of tennessee, a member of the Judiciary Committee and the house who was just reelected. And lawrence tribe. And professor, tribe, i want to start with you on this question which has now been weve had 48 hours of public consideration of it, and that is the legality of the installation of Matthew Whitaker in the Attorney Generals Office. Well, hi, lawrence. I guess ill say at the beginning you almost made me feel sorry for the guy. But i think i can resist feeling too sorry for him. He has no legitimacy, quite apart from the stupid things hes said and the fact hes obviously not a good lawyer and the fact hes a fraudster it seems is the fact there is no constitutional basis for treating him as legitimate. The appointments clause of the constitution makes clear that anyone with the kinds of responsibilities that this guy would have as the chief Law Enforcement officer of the United States supervising not only the Mueller Probe but every District Court in the country and every fraud investigation. Any such person has to be not simply nominated by the president but confirmed by the senate. Its not a little technicality. Its a really big deal. And i could go on at much more length than you and your viewers would be interested in about why all the Supreme Court precedence established why the constitution means exactly what it says. So we dont have to go chasing after technical statutory squirrels when theres a constitutional elephant in the room. Everything he does as you said is without legal affect. If he tries to squeeze mueller, to restrict his options, to deny him the right subpoena something, mueller has no reason to respect that. Mueller could just disregard it or it could go to court and get a judgment that says hes been given an order by basically a buffoon with no legal standing to give that order. And congressman cohen, your reaction to this acting attorney general and what the house Judiciary Committee might do under democratic control in january. You can request his testimony under oath in that committee. Well, we certainly can. We can have him come before the committee. We could subpoena any papers of mueller or reports he might try to keep from the american public. We had a Conference Call today and two this week. Weve shared our ideas and were going to try to pursue some actions in conjunction with the senate. I think the senate might have standing to pursue a legal action questioning his appointment that they were harmed, and mr. Rosenstein was stepped over. He should have been the logical person in the order of ascendancy in the Justice Department to take on this acting role. This fellow, hes indeed only acting. Hes not the attorney general, and as if obviously he appointed him because he was not the best advice but because he had people he wanted to knock off. Professor tribe, the president is one of the most transparent criminally minded people weve ever had in public life. Hes on Public Record saying he wanted a roy cohen type in the Attorney Generals Office he would protect him. He was a criminal himself a disbarred lawyer who operated exactly in the way donald trump would want. And so you have this public set of statements by the president of actually wanting criminal conduct out of his attorney general. And then you have you install someone who has made these Public Comments that are fully compatible with what donald trump wants, which is closing down the investigation. Donald trump seems to have an amazing compulsion to confess. He went on National Television and confessed to lester holt that the reason he fired james comey was to prevent the russia probe from Going Forward and to protect his former National Security advisor. He now makes it clear by picking someone who basically auditioned for the job of hatchet man, for the job of his roy cohn, he picks a guy who transparently has no qualifications to this job except hes president. Trump is wily, cunning, but he seems incapable of hiding his own criminality. I think Rachel Maddow in the preceding hour got it right. He has all these tells. When he says something over and over again like i dont know whitaker, i dont whitaker, you know hes lying. The more he says it, the more obvious it is that hes lying. And congressman cohen, in your discussions with the incoming democratically controlled Judiciary Committee, what has been the reaction to donald trump saying in the press conference this week that it will become warfare if you in the democratically controlled house do any investigating of the trump administration. Then he would consider that warfare, and he would somehow somehow have you investigated. I dont know if that means by the person hes installed in the Attorney Generals Office or he hopes by republican control committees in the senate trying to investigate you. Well, it was a rather bizarre statement. And i think we all basically agree that adam schiff, who was not a member of the Judiciary Committee who says its been warfare for it last two years. And nobody on the democratic side has cowered because of that war fire weve endured, nor are we concerned about the warfare that may came in the next two years. Weve taken an oath to uphold the constitution and were going to pursue what is the legislative authority of oversight. And were going to do that regardless of were basically distorted by the president who doesnt want any oversight. Thats part of the process. And the Founding Fathers saw checks and balances as being an important part of our system, and we havent had that the last two years. The house of representatives is known as the peoples house. Weve been the house of trump, the house of devin nunes, the house of bob goodlat. Weve done absolutely zero to check this president whos shown lawless tendencies towards the law, and thats going to stop. And his threats are not going to stop jerry nadler or any member of the house Judiciary Committee from doing proper oversight. Before we go i want to ask you one more thing about the scope the range of the risk that the Justice Department now suffers with what the president has done. And is it conceivable that criminal defendants, for example, around the country in federal cases, if theres some decision about their case thats been made at the attorney general level, thats been made by Matthew Whitaker or approved by Matthew Whitaker, does that open up an avenue of appeal to criminal defendants around the country to say this was an illegitimate prosecutorial action because there is no legitimate attorney general on this document . I would expect to see this. It would be hard to see donald trump arguing that his dad appointed an unconstitutional guy and therefore the prosecutorial action couldnt exist. When he talked about the warfare thats being declared on the house, but its not just bizarre. For the president of the United States to say to one branch of the u. S. Government if you perform your function and get too close to bothering me, im going to go to war against you. That is not only an out of you know, an out of the box statement, its part of an obstruction of justice. Its an impeachable move. To say that im going to retaliate in various ways to make your life difficult, if youve performed your constitutional functions, its essentially obstruction of justice on stilts, on steroids. And i think that the house Judiciary Committee is going to have to look closely at that in january. Professor tribe, thank you for joining us. And when we come back the wall street journal has the smoking gun on President Trumps violation of Campaign Finance law and why he has been named an unindicted coconspirator in the case against his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. And democrats are gaining ground tonight in two senate races and in other congressional races around the country. Votes are still being counted in arizona and florida and also in california. We have breaking news tonight about two senate races that are still too close to call. In arizona the latest numbers showed democratic Kyrsten Sinema has increased her lead to more than 20,000 votes. That has trump offering an insane tweet, utterly insane, asking for a new election. They havent even counted all of the votes yet in arizona. So it would still be premature to even and for a recount. In Florida Governor scott is demanding action in the senate race where his lead over democratic incumbent bill nelson has dropped to less than 15,000 votes out of over a total of 8 million votes cast. Rick scotts campaign got a judge to intervene today and to order more transparency in how Broward County is handling its ballots and voting records. Last night rick scott said this. Tonight im asking the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate this immediately, and i am considering every single legal option available. Today the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said they are not investigating because they said there has been no accusations of any fraud. Joining us now mark kaputo, who covers florida politics. And david corn is also joining us and an msnbc political analyst. Whats the latest from florida . The latest from florida is were waiting until tomorrow when the supervisors of elections are supposed to upload their state canvassing boards and theyll officially certify the races that are not too close to call. And those races that have half a point margin or less are going to go to recount. That includes likely the senate race, the governors race, the state agricultural commissioner race, so were really close. A few lawsuits percolating as well. The supervisor of election said she could not meet a deadline to ballots for governor scotts campaign. And the Scott Campaign says its reviewing those documents. Lastly, senator bill nelsons campaign has sued to block or better said to allow people whos ballots, absentee ballots and provisional ballots have been thrown out because their signatures didnt match the signatures on file. Those votes will be counted. And it could count to retroactively affect the vote count Going Forward. Weve got a whole bunch of moving parts and a whole bunch in the air. One of those people whose ballot has not been counted is that of Patrick Murphy who actually tweeted that tweeted i just saw my absentee ballot wasnt counted due to invalid signature match. And so david corn, the invalid signature match is something that the democrats now want to take a careful look at. Yeah, it was a story that mother jones reported a couple of days ago because a florida voter had contacted us and said he got the same results that Patrick Murphy did. And the only reason he knew is because he went online and check. If you dont go online and check and you vote by mail or vote provisionally and your ballot is tossed out for a bad signature, they dont tell you that. So the lawsuit being filed by the Nelson Campaign is about really if this is fair thing to do. And i was thinking about it this way, florida is one of the only states in the country in term of the average person there. Signatures change, people as they get old may get neurological conditions. And so if your signature changes a bit, it gets tossed out by someone whos not an expert in matching signatures. So its really a way to throw out those votes. And its part of this big mess where you have one side, the democrats saying lets count every vote and rick scott saying, no, i dont want to do that. I think ive is signed thousands of books, and im sure you have too david corn. Im not sure my signature matches on any one of those books, any two of those books. Anything unusual or suspicious that you can actually see happening in this process . I guess im kind of jaded im used to close elections in florida. Im not used to having six recounts in one election. I still dont think this is at that level of dysfunction because now we have a more systematized way of reviewing disputed ballots. But really whats surprising here was the governor kind of went early and really went hard in alleging fraud, essentially, and alleging that the democrats were trying to steal the election before the votes were counted. And then he directs a request at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement review everything. And as you had mentioned earlier they then basically say theres no real allegation here so theres kind of nothing to investigate. Now, one of the problems you find is that nature abhors a vacuum and similarity politics abhors a vacuum of information. And the supervisor of Broward County rejection or refusal to provide a list or a number of the amount of ballots to be counted after election day kind of helped lead to a lot of this misunderstanding, lets say, of the phony trumped up or understandably exaggerated claims that there could be voting shenanigans or fraud happening. And now were at a point where we have a very polarized electorate. Please clear your schedule for next week so you can come back with i guess every night with the latest from florida. David corn, thank you for your input. And up next, the smoking gun. The smoking gun in the federal criminal case about the trump payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal. The rupert murdic owned wall. Alright, let me see. ready to juvederm it . Correct agerelated volume loss in cheeks with Juvederm Voluma xc, add fullness to lips with juvederm ultra xc and smooth moderate to severe lines around the nose and mouth with juvederm xc. 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A team of five reporters at the wall street journal have sources inside the federal investigation of donald trump and his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. The journal says they interviewed, quote, three dozen people who have direct knowledge of the events or who have been briefed on them. The wall street journal has the smoking gun on the National Enquirers illegal attempt to help president ial candidate donald trump by paying women to remain silent about their Sexual Experiences with donald trump. The article includes a description of a meeting during the president ial campaign in trump tower with donald trump and david pecker who runs the National Enquirer. That is the smoking gun meeting. A criminal plot was hatched in that meeting to have the National Enquirer buy the silence of women. David pecker was nervous enough about the legal risks he was taking that he consulted lawyers who advised him on how to avoid a violation of Campaign Finance law. Everyone involved except the president of the United States is now cooperating with federal prosecutors including david pecker who has been granted immunity for the crimes he could be charged with. In exchange for the information he is now giving to prosecutors about donald trump and what was said in that meeting. David pecker and others at the National Enquirer who are also cooperating with the investigation made a deal with keith davidson, a los angeles lawyer who represented Karen Mcdougal who was paid 150,000 by the National Enquirer who was paid for the rights to her story about her affair with donald trump. A story the National Enquirer never intended to publish but simply bury for donald trump. In that deal was a provision for Karen Mcdougal to contribute to articles about fitness in the National Enquirer. Sources told the wall street journal that the additional provisions of the deal were there if they needed to mount a Legal Defense against a crime of an Illegal Campaign contribution to the Trump Campaign. The 150,000 payment to Karen Mcdougal benefitted the Trump Campaign by keeping her quiet about an affair with the candidate. Donald trump was supposed to reimburse the National Enquirer according to everyone involved. But david pecker was ultimately afraid that the reimbursement part of the deal would be even more evidence of a crime. The wall street journal reports mr. Trump called off the deal on the advice from his lawyer. The executive worried it had undermine any argument. He told mr. Cohen to tear up the Reimbursement Agreement but mr. Cohen kept a copy. Federal agents found it in a search of mr. Cohens office earlier this year. It reports donald trump was fully aware of the payment to buy her silence. The journal reports Michael Cohen had to make the payment using his own funds because the National Enquirer refused to cooperate on that deal because david pecker, quote, didnt want his company to pay a porn star. The journal reports that donald trump told Michael Cohen to quote, get it done. During the president ial transition after donald trump was elected, donald trump thanked david pecker for suppressing the mcdougal story. The journal reports, mr. Pecker granted immunity for his grand jury testimony, told investigators about mr. Trumps involvement in the mcdougal deal. Joining us now barbara mcquade, a former u. S. Attorney and msnbc contributor. And david corn is back with us. Barbara, your reading of the legal implications of this wall street journal reporting. Well, its a very painstaking walk through the very same criminal information that Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to. They filled in a lot of the gaps here and filled in a lot of the blanks. It is protocol at the Just Department when youre not going to charge someone to refer to them by a pseudonm. Candidate one, executive one, et cetera. And based on the reporting we now know that President Trump himself, if this report was true was intimately involved every step of the way which essentially makes him an unindicted coconspirator. They would certainly have all the pieces of the evidence to charge the president with being a coconspirator with Michael Cohen based on that report. Lets listen to the president of the United States lying to the American People about knowing nothing about the payment to Stormy Daniels. Mr. President , did you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . Then why did Michael Cohen youd have to ask michael. Michaels my attorney, and youll have to ask michael. Do you know where he got the money to do that payment . No, i dont. David corn, when articles of impeachment were being drawn up for Richard Nixon one of them was lying to the American People. Yeah. And if thats the case the Washington Post has 6,001 articles of impeachment for donald trump just through september. Not only did he lie there but the journal about a week or so before the election broke the news to Karen Mcdougal and hope hicks, after talking to donald trump said theres nothing to the story, we dont know anything about this. Obviously that was another lie, a lie that happened very conveniently right before the election to prevent this from coming out. Listen, we already have michael cohn, trumps own lawyer, pleading guilty to a criminal conspiracy and saying trump was a party to this. Now, there are a about a gazillion things for the incoming House Democrats to look at when they get oversight responsibilities in the house in january. The president being part of a criminal conspiracy, its hard to look at that and not put it at least in the top 1,000 of things they should look at. I mean, this is serious stuff. It gets not as much attention as it should have. But i salute the wall street journal and reporters today for that piece putting it right back in the middle of the radar stream. Lets listen to another moment of donald trump lying on fox news on the question of when he knew about these payments that Michael Cohen was arranging. Later on i knew. Later on. But you have to understand what he did, and they werent taken out of Campaign Finance. Thats a big thing. Thats a much bigger thing. Did they come out of the campaign . They didnt come out of the campaign. They came from me. Barbara mccade, your reaction to that after what we learned from the wall street journal . Especially for a crime like this which requires willfulness, meaning you know what youre doing is illegal iseds of whats known as consciousness of guilt. When someone is changing their story or lying about the facts, then that is often evidence of consciousness of guilt. You lie when you want to cover something up. I think his lying there on air force one really suggests that he knew what they were doing was wrong. Barbara mcquade, david corn, thank you both for joining us tonight. Appreciate it. And when we come back, more Election Results and what this weeks results indicate about the next election. Stage one of the resistance to trumpism was a success. Winning the house of representatives for the democrats. Stage two is now under way, winning the United States senate and winning the white house. And the momentum for democrats in tuesdays election indicates that as of now both of those objectives in stage two are more likely to happen than not in the next election. Donald trump has never had the approval of a majority of voters. His disproval just continues to get worse. According to polls he has not changed one voters mind in his favor since he was elected president. The resistance will deliver an unprecedented level of turnout of voters against donald trump if his presidency even survives to the reelection stage. Republicans will have to defend double the amount of senate seats that democrats have to defend two years from now. Thats a reversal of what we just saw this week, and that will be a huge advantage for democrats in the next Senate Election just as it was for republicans in this weeks Senate Election. Beto raurk has shown even in Texas Republicans have to worry about the election. 6 million more people voted for democrats than republicans in the house races. That comes after almost 3 million more voters voted for Hillary Clinton than donald trump. Here are some of what the newly elected democrats in the house of representatives had to say on election night. With your help we will see a better day. We are the people who believe our countrys diversity is what makes us great. Yes, this is what democracy looks like. In this ground swell, this shift can break through concrete. Today we broke that concrete wide open. This is the fight for our lives. This is the fight of our lives. After a break ezra levine of the individual indivisivable project will join us what it indicates about the next election. [ phone rings ] what . ready for christmas . No, its way too early to be annoyed by christmas. You just need some holiday spirit thats it this feud just went mobile. With xfinity xfi you get the best wifi experience at home. And with xfinity mobile, you get the best wireless coverage for your phone. Youre about to find out you dont even know where i live. Hello see the grinch in theaters by saying get grinch tickets into your xfinity x1 voice remote. A guy just dropped this off. Hehehehe. The indivisible project was created to defeat trumpism at the next election. Tuesday was a milestone not a finish line, maybe your candidate won in this wave, maybe she didnt, but with regardless were part of a generational struggle were building for the long term and will keep building. Thats how weve won and thats how well win. Joining us now is ezra levin, executive director of the indivisible project. First of all, congratulations on all the work youve done leading up to this election and thank you because whenever i heard you either on this program or elsewhere discussing the approach to this election, i was always learning something i didnt know about what was possible this time. Your reaction to what happened tuesday night and the votes that are still being counted as we sit here. And what it indicates for the next stretch, the next stage, the next two years and where well be two years from now on election night. Thank you for covering this consistently over the last two years. It has been a wild ride. Let me tell you, we are elated, exhausted, but elated and ready for the next fight. Two years ago when we were first seeing this bubbling movement, this resistance that was forming, we saw the energy on the ground and we would tell people who were outside of it, hey, i think we can retake the house. We think this is doable. But towed say it in hushed tones. You had to say it likes, we think this can happen because people wouldnt believe you. What we saw on tuesday was the largest gain in democratic seats in the house house of representatives since watergate. We saw 35 plus even as the day goes on, were getting more and more seats racked up in california and elsewhere. We saw six new Democratic Party controlled states, seven new governors, 300 to 400 new state legislators. This is an incredible wave that is hitting all over the country, including in some really unexpected spots. Yet you pointed out that tweet i sent. We didnt win everywhere, but we are building for the future. Im really reminded of june of last year. The Indivisible Team was looking at the results for georgia 6. We were really hoping he was going to pull it out. That would show people that, yes, a wave was rebuilding. He didnt win, but what happened tuesday night was incredible because those same indivisible groups when we called him the that night back last june, we were calling them to cheer them up to say you did a great thing and were going to keep on building. But they said, were just excited. Were purple now. Were in a purple district. We can win this and we can build on this. Three days ago they took that seat. A leader in the black lives matter movement, an inspirational figure is joining the u. S. House of representatives in that same district and its not just her. You ran a clip of several candidates. Every single one of those folks are running based on grassroots support, by normal taking corporate pac dollars and are going to lead the change we need. This is just the beginningful we have started something incredible and i cant tell you how excited i am for the fights. You saw back when it was embarrassing to say it around professional pundits. Ezra levin, thank you so much for joining us. Well be right back. Firefightering resources have been stretched to their limit in california with deadly fires in northern and southern california. They have to choose between saving lives and saving property and in some cases theyre not able to save either one. More than 250,000 people have more than 250,000 people have been ordered to evacuate, including the entire town of malibu. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed. Everyone is hoping for a break in the wind to allow firefighters to try to establish some control over this deadly situation. Thats tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight President Trump lands in paris after an angry day lashing out at reporters, senators, local election officials, and the president of france just after touching down in france. He also said he doesnt know matt whitaker, his new acting attorney general. Problem with that is a month ago he told fox news not only does he know him but hes a great guy