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Were watching obstruction of an investigation in plain sight. Every single thing that the Trump Lawyers, that donald trump himself can possibly do to get in the way of this investigation, they are doing it. And it seems to be if we do it in plain sight, they cant impeach him for it, can they . Thats the bet, right . John dowd, yeah, we talked to manafort about pardons. Rudy giuliani being like, yeah, we sort of had manafort squealing on the special counsel he was supposed to be cooperating. Yeah, we did that. Trump is saying when i put Matt Whitaker in there, its a lot of hooey. The confession will be boring because weve heard it all before. Its all there. Its all in plain sight. Thats the Extraordinary Part of it. Thank you, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. As i said, it is an important night of breaking news in the modern investigation with a new leaked document from that investigation and this document was leaked deliberately by one of the criminal suspects in the investigation. He leaked that to nbc news today. That was our lead story about the Mueller Investigation until, in the last hour, the New York Times broke an even more important story, much more important story, about why Paul Manaforts cooperation deal with the special prosecutor completely collapsed. The headline of todays tonights the New York Times story is manaforts lawyer said to brief trump attorneys on what he told mueller. The times reports that Paul Manaforts lawyer, kevin downing, quote, repeatedly briefed President Trumps lawyers on his clients discussions with federal investigators after mr. Manafort agreed to cooperate with the special counsel. This is as strange a legal story as has ever been reported by the New York Times. And because it involves donald trump and Rudy Giuliani, it gets even stranger. The source, the source for the New York Times story about this terribly incriminating story about what is essentially an ongoing conspiracy between Paul Manafort and donald trump, the source for that story is rudolph giuliani. He is the source by name in the New York Times. Giuliani told the New York Times that robert mueller, quote, wants manafort to incriminate trump. That news came after another Strange Development in the mueller case today when jerome corsi, who is a target of the investigation, released a guilty plea agreement with the special prosecutor which describes perjury committed by jerome corsi. It is a plea agreement that in the end jerome corsi decided not to sign. This, again, is something we have never seen before. A target of the federal investigation about a president deciding at the last minute not to sign his plea agreement and instead releasing his incriminating plea agreement to the press, first to nbc news, and then to other news organizations today. The document says that jerome corsi lied about his communications with roger stone about contacting Julian Assange and wikileaks in order to obtain incriminating information about the Clinton Campaign. And Clinton Campaign stolen emails. Emails stolen by russian agents and provided to wikileaks. The corsi matter also involves collusion with the Trump White House and the Trump Lawyers. The Washington Post is reporting that jerome corsi gave a copy of that plea agreement to the Trump Lawyers a week before thanksgiving, and that is exactly when donald trump tweeted this. The inner workings of the Mueller Investigation are a total mess. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers that they want. They are a disgrace to our nation. Leading off our discussion of this breaking news, jill winebanks, former assistant Watergate Special prosecutor, jane advance, professor at the university of Alabama School of law, both nbc legal contributors. John heilman, nbc news, msnbc, he cohosts the circus. Ive never seen anything like this. Ive never seen anything like either one of these developments in a federal case, a cooperating witness sharing information with another party under investigation by the prosecutors that he is cooperating with. I feel like im watching an episode of the americans where you have a double agent because theres no other explanation of manafort and corsi as well that they are cooperating with the prosecutor at the same time as they are cooperating with the president. And that just is really an incredible thing. And every time you think that things cant get more interesting, they do. Or every time you think the president cant go any lower, he does. So this has been a really interesting evening and its going to take days of discussion to really figure out what is going on here. Jill, it seems like pardon is the only logical end game. Its the only thing that i can see when i look at both of these cases. But especially the manafort case. Manafort facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison and at this stage, the only person who can save him from that is donald trump with a pardon. Well, he cant actually save him completely. Donald trump probably has dangled a pardon, and manafort probably was arrogant enough to think that he could have his cake and eat it, too, that he could possibly get away without having a second trial, not spending the money, that he could lie and get not caught. And that if he did, it wouldnt matter because hed get pardoned. So he thought he had it all to himself and that he could get away what all of this. But a pardon definitely wont save him from a state prosecution for some of the crimes that are both federal and state crimes. All the financial fraud things could lead to a state indictment. So he could end up in jail for all of those and his plea is not reversible. He pled guilty to at least two counts and so hes not going to get away with that. Now he can be pardoned for it at the federal level, but he cant be pardoned right now because even, even the most loyal Trump Supporters are going to go berserk if that happens. Because you were right when you said this is all happening in plain sight. We dont need to hear tapes of president nixon. We are seeing it on twitter and on tv, and in newspaper reporting every single day right in plain sight. You were exactly correct on that one. Yeah, and, joyce vance, if this were any other group of people, the sourcing of this story tonight for the New York Times would not be the president s lawyer, would not be Rudy Giuliani. It would be something that they were desperately trying to hide and would never want to be made public. What do you make of the fact that Rudy Giuliani is the New York Times direct and named source for this behavior by the Trump Lawyers and the manafort lawyers . Its really hard to figure, lawrence. Its almost as though he didnt see anything wrong with what they were doing. You know, i suspect that all over america, federal prosecutors are scrambling to add new language into their plea agreements. Up until now, i think most prosecutors never felt a need to put into their plea agreements with defendants, language that said, and, by the way, if youre cooperating with the government, youve got to cut all of your ties to your former codefendants, and you cant share information about our investigation back with them, right . Everyone understood that that couldnt happen. Its arguably obstruction. Giuliani seems to be the only lawyer in america who couldnt sort that out for himself. And, joyce, to that point, when i was reading this, i thought, are there some possible malpractice implications for Paul Manaforts lawyer . Because these actions that he took have created another kind of jeopardy for manafort. Hes lost basically what the continuing cooperation of the special prosecutor, hes lost whatever sentencing benefit was going to be. There are a lot of potential implications here. I think we would have to know more about the facts to be certain. That kevin downing, Paul Manaforts lawyer, could be looking, for instance, at action by the bar that issues his license. There could be some violation of bar rules. Its also possible that if there was a protective order, that mueller had entered into with manafort and his lawyer so that they could share information during cooperation, that that may have been violated when they went back to trumps lawyers to share information. Also, if they thought that they were still acting under some form of joint Defense Agreement, they were just wrong. No joint Defense Agreement existed once manafort began to cooperate. And so any conversations that were had between downing, manaforts lawyer, and the president s lawyers, would be fully discoverable by muellers prosecutors. And i feel sure that theyll aggressively try to uncover the substance of those communications and even consider whether they can be used in evidence. Everything that happens here is really unprecedented and really unusual. Hard to believe that smart, good lawyers could have thought that they could get away with this without any repercussion. Joyce, that is a great technical point, that a joint Defense Agreement is about defense. And once you have surrendered your defense and pled guilty, how can you possibly in any legal sense still be engaged in a joint Defense Agreement with those lawyers. And so that is obviously a big hole in whats happened here. John heilman, the president tweets about the Mueller Investigation from time to time, and when in the moment of those tweets theres a lot of speculation of what happened, what happened inside the white house, whats the latest thing that trump just discovered about the Mueller Investigation that has him so animated today, and now we know. Jerome corsi handed over to the Trump Lawyers his plea agreement that he was deciding not to agree to. And in that agreement, there is this language that says that there was direct communication. Roger stone was understood to be in regular contact with senior members of the trump campaign, including with then candidate donald j. Trump. Washington post reporting tonight that donald trump was infuriate today discover that his name actually appeared in the in this plea agreement, and thats when the tweet storm went out against mueller. Let me interrupt you for a second. We do have a call in the senate race in mississippi. Nbc news is projecting that cindy hydesmith is the winner of that race. Mike espy coming up short in mississippi. And, john heilman, that doesnt come as a surprise according to a poll that indicated all the information indicated mike espy was going to have to pull off something of a miracle tonight. Well come back to that later in the hour. But to this point that we can now plot in realtime trump discovers x and tweets y about mueller. Right. We saw there was one particular trump tweet that came out i cant remember exactly how many days ago it was now where he said, he indicated he had inside knowledge what was going on in the Mueller Investigation. Everyone noted he fact he seemed to be claiming in a way that trump as delusional as he sometimes is it seemed not to be fabricated in the sense that it wasnt like there was anything on fox news. Again, there are a lot of people who are criminologists, whats the source, where did he pull this from. There was nothing in public media accounts that would have led him to make the assertions he was making about people screaming and people being badly mistreated and being tried to be forced into lies. It made you feel as though somebody privately was telling him something, true or false, they were telling him something that gave him a sense that he had inside insight into the investigation and was clearly driven crazy by it. Was made madness, the madness of king trump which turned up to 11 at that moment. So now we know. And i do think that the right answer here, with both these guys, one of the things about the people around donald trump is that they all none of them are that smart and all of them think they are very smart. And so some of these elements here are classic instances of shocking, but not surprising. That Paul Manafort would think there was a way to game this out and it explains a lot of his behavior, that he went to trial knowing he was guilty of all these he knew he was guilty of all the things he was being accused of. He knew the paper trail. He knew he was going to be convicted. Why did he go to trial in the first place . Why did he spend all that money . There was a whole bunch of questions before he was going to make the plea agreement, why not make it before the trial if you knew you were guilty and get convicted . All of it makes sense through the twisted prism of someone who thought they could play this double agent role if they believed he believed in the end there was a pardon at the end of the line. I dont think the kind of relationship exists between jerome corsi and donald trump, anything of that relation exists like donald trump and Paul Manafort that goes back decades. Im certain now, my gut and intuition, the reporting out there and the reporting i have suggests to me this is exactly whats been happening with manafort throughout. He had a game plan. We all look at it now and say it was mentally ill to think it would work. Its pretty clear it all makes sense now once you adopt that view of the world and the game he thought he could play. And, jill, it is a game weve never seen before. And as john describes it, it makes a certain sense within that realm. Its go to trial on the first case so that you can always claim in the future, i got railroaded. But then when you do get that guilty verdict and you have to face the expense of a possible second trial, then you plead guilty for a couple reasons. One, to save money, but then also to get inside the Mueller Investigation. Right. Deliberately step inside the Mueller Investigation and then while inside the investigation, finding out what they want to know, communicate every bit of that directly to donald trump through the lawyers. I agree with both john and joyce. They are both correct, as are you. And it is crazy to think you can get away with it. But also to further something that joyce said in answer to your question, i think that one of the things that is wrong with the lawyers doing this is either theyre guilty of malpractice for not having advised their client that he could lose the entire deal if he did this doubleagent thing and didnt warn them, that would be malpractice. But it also may be that they warned him and he said, i dont care, im going to get a pardon and so im willing to do this because i can help the president. I can even give false information to them that will throw them off and cause them to waste time. So it could be that he acted the lawyer acted with the clients knowledge and the client approved it so that it wasnt something that, although the lawyer should have known that the agreement evaporated upon an agreement to cooperate, that i think joyce is completely correct that everybody should be adding it to any deal going forward, that you cannot share any information that you learn from our questioning or from the documents we show you. So thats an important thing that we should take away from this and that every prosecutor ought to be busy amending their standard forms. And, joyce, what do you make of the jerome corsi development where he publicly hands out his own plea agreement, which in the end he decided not to sign . Its really intriguing. On the one hand, corsi is saying hes not guilty. He didnt lie to prosecutors. On the other hand, hes passing out sort of like, you know, halloween candy these very damaging documents that establish essentially beyond a reasonable doubt that he, in fact, was guilty. There is a time line. Theres a course of conduct. Theres information shared. So corsi, who perhaps is trying to make some sort of a public case is at the same time really condemning himself. He looks like someone who just really likes publicity, who cant stand to be out of the limelight. And i think maybe we get a little bit of a hint about whats going on in some of this paperwork where we learn that prosecutors, for instance, expected him to surrender his securities license as a condition of pleading guilty. Perhaps he wasnt willing to go quite that far. It was a really good deal, no jail time. But maybe he felt like the loss of his livelihood was something he simply couldnt agree to. And, john, on the pardon question, Rudy Giuliani telling wall street journal, asked if the president would pardon manafort or corsi, giuliani said, quote, right now would not be the time. It seems the time would be the day after the reelection in which President Trump either wins or loses, and at that moment he can pardon manafort. Manafort is going to have to do, you know, the next 24 months, but thats a small price for manafort to pay. Thats less time than he would have gotten in the plea agreement. He is now used to the orange jump suit. Hes worn it for a while. Hes in solitary confinement for his own safety, which is not the worst place for Paul Manafort to be given some of the connections he has in the world and some of the things that could happen to a guy like him given the way the russians tend to treat people who have run afoul of their interests. Just think about jerome corsi and Paul Manafort in this way. So much of this by biography is destiny, these people are who they are. Jerome corsi is the guy who was perfectly happy to be known throughout the world as the author of and the chief propagator of, beyond donald trump, the racist Conspiracy Theory that barack obama was not an american citizen, was born in kenya. This was his joyce is right. He doesnt care what he gets attention for. Hell get attention for whatever. Hes a kooky man who found a way to get famous, he was the author of this nut house theory that brought him to prominence. Then you have Paul Manafort. Remember Paul Manafort, what has he done for the latter part of his career . Hes in places like ukraine. Hes in places doing dirty deals with crooked politicians, corrupt magistrates, dirty businessmen, russian mob roadsters, all these people. That guy is the guy who thinks about the fact that he could become a character in a doubleagent plot that would somehow end up with it all working out fine for him and getting the president ial pardon. Thats the kind of thing if youre a political consultant in the ukraine, ten years ago, that you are advising your clients, hey, well work it out. Well pay the magistrate. Well payoff the new president. This is how it works. All systems are gamable. Thats the Paul Manafort kind of touch stone of how he operates. And, of course, when he then found himself in jeopardy, he would think about it the same way. That is such a great point about manafort. Within his experience in dealing with russians and the ukraine, this is simple stuff. Yes. Elementary. John heilman, thank you very much. Jill winebanks, joyce vance, thanks for starting us out tonight. When we come back, the Trump Administration is now trying to avoid revealing what the cia knows about the killing of Washington Post journalist jamal khashoggi. And Steve Kornacki is going to join us with the latest developments on that mississippi special election race. Breathe freely fast, with vicks sinex. My congestions gone. I can breathe again ahhhh i can breathe again ughh vicks sinex. Breathe on. The full senate is scheduled to receive a full briefing from saudi arabia and defense secretary james mattis. They will not hear from gina haspel or any other intelligence officials about the murder of Washington Post journalist jamal khashoggi. According to the guardian, officials said the decision for haspel not to appear came from the white house. One Senate Staffer told the guardian the decision to not have a single infell jensen official at the briefing is, quote, totally unprecedented and should be interpreted as nothing less than the Trump Administration trying to silence the intelligence community. The report led to this question being asked of National Security advisor john bolton today. Tell me, the other question. Gina haspel from sharing information with members of congress. But, of course, if the cia director does not attend a briefing that the senate wants her to attend, that can only be because the president is forbidding her from attending. There is no other reason. Tomorrows briefing comes as the senate is expected to vote as soon as this week on a resolution to cut off u. S. Support for saudi arabias war in yemen. In response to the khashoggi murder, the Trump White House does not want that resolution to pass. Gina haspels absence has been frustrating even for some republican senators. It would be very good for the cia director to be there, too. I think people are going to care a great deal about whats happening in yemen, no question. But they also are going to care a great deal about the cia views on the crown prince. In a new interview tonight, President Trump told the Washington Post this lie about the crown princes involvement in the khashoggi murder. Quote, maybe he did, maybe he didnt. But he denies it and people around him deny it and the cia did not say affirmatively he did it either, by the way. Im not saying that theyre saying he didnt do it, but they didnt say it affirmatively. That is a lie. The cia did say affirmatively that the crown prince ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi. Cia director gina haspel has listened to the audiotape of the murder and other evidence in the case which would make her the most valuable participant in tomorrows senate briefing. Today, National Security advisor john bolton offered an embacilic reason for why he said he refuses to listen to the audio recording of the murder. No, i havent listened to it. And i guess i should ask you why do you think i should . What do you think ill learn from it . Youre the National Security advisor. You might have access to that kind of intelligence. How many in this room speak arabic . You can have access to an interpreter. You want me to listen to it . What am i going to learn if they were speaking korean, i wouldnt learn any more from it either. The interpreter would be able to tell you then i can read a transcript, too. Im just trying to make the point that everybody who says, why dont you listen to the tape, unless you speak arabic, what are you going to get from it . Of course, because this was a white house briefing, there was, of course, no followup question asking him if he even read the transcript. Joining us now is ambassador Wendy Sherman, former under secretary of state for Political Affairs and an msnbc contributor. Back with us is john heilman. And, ambassador sherman, i want to start with your reaction to john bolton saying, because some foreign intelligence is in a foreign language, no one in his position should avail himself of that intelligence. As i understand it, we have not been gathering english Language Intelligence on possible adversaries or contentious parties out there since the civil war. Indeed, lawrence. There are two reactions. First, torture, terror, murder, the sounds of all of that are universal. You dont need an interpreter. I think that john bolton doesnt want to listen to the tape. I think President Trump doesnt want to listen to the tape because they want deniability. They dont want to hear the horrific sounds of that tape. And, yes, they could listen to it with a transcript sitting by them, or with whisper interpretation while theyre listening. But i feel like this is see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, three monkeys sitting on a couch not willing to accept what the cia is trying to tell them. And quite frankly, it is so i was trying to think of an instance where i went up to capitol hill on a very serious security issue without the cia. I know that the republican majority would have insisted upon it because, quite frankly, theyre more interested in listening to an intelligence assessment than to a policy makers assessment because they think it will be more factual. And without politics, and i think thats exactly why john bolton and the president see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. And, ambassador sherman, it also seems like they actively do not want to listen to it because they do not care, that there is nothing that they could possibly hear in that recording that would in any way affect their thinking about saudi arabia. Indeed. I think that the Trump Administration, quite frankly a lot of leaders around the world, have decided to give the crown prince of saudi arabia a pass. But if youre going to give him a pass, which in this case i would not do, but if you are, end the yemen war. Stop offensive weapons being sold to saudi arabia. Get them to try to patch things up with qatar and find a way forward with all of the gulf countries together if you really want to deal with the security issues, if you really want to deal with irans behavior in the region. There is no strategy to do any of that. The senate and it was interesting to hear bob corkers comment. Bob corker has always been someone who in his own words would lay down on the Railroad Tracks to ensure that saudi arabia got whatever weapons system it wanted. Hes now saying hes changed his mind. And besides the resolution on ending our involvement in yemen, there is a possible war powers resolution that would come forward, which would be privileged. The mcconnell could not stop, that would say we cannot sell weapons as long as this goes on and there are no answers for the u. S. Senate or the u. S. Congress. So, it would be interesting days ahead to see what happens here. John heilman, the cia director gina haspel listened to the audio. She actually went to istanbul where the murder toolk place. She did her own hands on investigation. No one more valuable, no one higher ranking in the Trump Administration who knows more about this. Shes the obvious person for the senate to hear from tomorrow. Washington post reported weeks ago that the cia found that the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman, ordered the assassination, and they hold that view with what the cia calls high confidence. Yeah. That is what the Trump Administration does not want the senate to hear tomorrow. Yeah, yeah. I mean, i find the whole discussion, to be candid, a little ridiculous on some level. Your point is the correct point. I dont know about john bolton. I dont know what where hes at on this. There may be some level of denial and he doesnt want to hear the screams and all that stuff. Donald trump knows by the way, it may be he has listened to the tape and hes lying there. Totally possible. Everything is possible. The donald trump thing is simple. He knows what happened. He has no doubt in his mind. Hes not actually i love Wendy Sherman. Shes right about almost everything. Trump did not is r 0 in denial. He just does not care. He does not care Wendy Sherman is a diplomat. He does not care that khashoggi was murdered at mbss order. He does not care. What he cares about is himself and money and he has had longstanding ties with the kingdom. Hes had longstanding ties with the prince. His family has had longstanding ties with the prince and he knows hes going to be out of office at some point. If he stays tied with the prince, he can make more money staying tight with mbs than turning against him. Its simple. Hes a collectocrat. He doesnt care about journalists lies, this journalist, was dismembered, had his body scattered. All he kards about is whats his best financial interest, yesterday, today, tomorrow. That makes him say, i dont care, im sticking with mbs. Were going to have to leave it there. Wendy sherman, john heilman, thank you for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. When we come back, Steve Kornacki will skroin us with the thats a win. But its not the only reason i switched. The geico app makes it easy to manage my policy. I can pay my bill, add a new driver, or even file a claim. Woo, hey now thats a winwin. Thank you switch to geico®. Its a winwin. [deep breath] i receive travel rewards. I visualize travel rewards. Going new places going out for a bite going anytime. Rewarded learn more at the explorer card dot com. Ayep, and my teeth are yellow. . Time for whitestrips. Crest glamorous White Whitestrips are the only adaaccepted whitening strips proven to be safe and effective. 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I do think when all is said and done its likely mike espy the democrat will be within Single Digits in mississippi. Just to put that in some perspective for you, lawrence, if espy hes at 45 now. If he were to get to 46, 47, Something Like that, look, Hillary Clinton got 40 here in 2016. Very red state. Barack obama, this is like the the high water mark. Barack obama got 44 in 2012, 2008 he got 43 . Basically what happened here for democrats is theyre getting huge support as youd expect in black areas. They made some inroads, a very interesting thing tonight, suburban memphis right here, giant county compare this. Look, mike espy got 41 , Hillary Clinton only got 31 here. So you do have some of these sort of collegeeducated white voters who flipped over. What saved hydesmith is, look, these sort of rural, heavily white areas. Shes getting trump numbers as you can see this these places. No slippage there. We look next door in alabama, those are the kinds of places where roy moore had slippage. None for cindy hydesmith. Its enough for her to win, a high single digit for her in the red state. It continues the trend weve seen in gaga, alabama, now mississippi. Democrats really closing the gap, really movie back into competitive postures there for the first time in many decades. Thats the thing. Mississippi does not have a lot of these sort of big metropolitan suburban areas. You see a hint of it here. What youre seeing more broadly across the rest of the south, when i say desoto county, this is one of the biggest counties in the state. Look at that jump for espy here. Mississippi is just more rural than a lot of other states. Desoto, what you saw in this county, you see it outside atlanta. You see it outside houston. You see it outside dallas. That could be the future for democrats in the south. Not necessarily mississippi. Thats always going to be a stretch. But the desoto counties of the south, outside memphis, a little bit more sort of commuter class right there where you can combine strong support from africanamerican voters with some of the sort of white collar professional white voters. Thats the combination that helped democrats. Probably elsewhere in the south more than mississippi. Steve kornacki, thanks. On our final Election Night in america this year. Thank you, steve. When we come back, what the elections, the full count in the midterms, mean for President Trump and how trumpism will now be stopped cold by the Democratic House of representatives. But some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. Fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. Some only call when they have something to sell. Fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. And while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. Fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. 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And, elise, i want to go first to mississippi tonight. You are from mississippi. I want to get your reaction to that senate race and what we saw there. I think what mike espy did pretty much unaided by the National Democratic Party Establishment is pretty incredible and impressive, and he has shown that democrats should compete in the state and that they have a chance in mississippi. He was up against an incredibly weak candidate. Donald trump pulled her over the finish line. And you look at where mike espy did make inroads in places like desoto county, suburb of memphis, tennessee, more educated population. It mirrors the National Pattern of educated professionals moving away from the Republican Party, even in mississippi. But then you look at other more rural areas of mississippi and cindy hydesmith managed to even outperform, you know, say mitt romney and was at a very trump level of support. So donald trump is as strong as ever in the rural places of our country and in the suburbs, even in a place like mississippi, so red, his support is slipping. Jason, one of the big lessons out of the south this election season is the republicans now, for the first time in many, many decades, have to spend serious money trying to hold on to seats in places like mississippi, alabama where they lost a senate seat, georgia. The idea in the Republican Party was, well, were never going to have to spend money in any of those states so we can devote all our resources to more swing states where a senate seat can go one way or the other. Yeah, i mean, the lesson that im glad the democrats finally figured out this year, is you should compete everywhere. There should be no more gimmee states. There should be a 50state strategy. Everywhere you go put up a good cant dat. Doesnt matter if its georgia, florida, alabama, mississippi. You never know where there is an opportunity to make inroads. Heres whats really key. In mississippi, yes, mike espy is likely to lose, its the down ballot races that also matter. There are africanamerican men and women running for important judicial positions at the state level. District appeals courts, local magistrates courts and they are being propelled forward because of the work of mike espy. Just like we were saw in georgia where Stacey Abrams efforts ended up helping lucy mcbath. The south should not be forgotten about. Mississippi should not be forgotten about. There will be some victories tonight even if its not the top of the ticket in mississippi. And, elise, mike espy, when he was a member of congress from mississippi, he was serving in a democratic majority. Were going to see another democratic majority standing there now basically as, first of all, a complete roadblock to everything with the word trump on it. And so donald trump is going to not have such a fun time dealing with the house when it comes to the new session of Congress Starting up. Its going to be a different ball game for him and hes going to have a check on himself for the first time in his lifetime. You look at all of the corruption of this administration, and i truly hope that there is going to be some oversight and some check on Donald Trumps excesses and his flagrant treatment of the rule of law. Even the midterms have ended the whole charade, including his biggest charade about mexico paying for a wall, hes now saying in an interview to Washington Post that he realizes democrats in congress are going to have to vote to pay for his wall. So hes gone from demanding that mexico pay for it to now requesting politely that democrats and the house of representatives pay for his wall, which i think we can all bet is not going to happen. Yeah, not likely. Well, look, lawrence, remember, trump did get his wall. It just happens to be a blue wall of democrats in the house and theyre not going to let him pass anything. Thats what hes really looking at right now. I think whats key, whether its the wall, whether its future immigration plans or even immigration, the president cant negotiate with people who he spent the last two years insulting and diminishing. Elise jordan, jason johnson, thank you both for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. And when we come back, it is giving tuesday. We have a reminder about that. Theres no excuse for what they did to you. Its a hate crime. Its a miracle he survived. Argh i got your back. Based on an inspirational true story. They knocked me down, but ive created a world where i can heal. Hey, looking good. Welcome to marwen. I got dreams in my head and they wont go welcome to healing. You need to face those jerks who beat you up. Welcome to hope. I have my friends, and they cant take that away from me. Hell yeah. 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I met girls and delivered desks to schools, and after talking about a lot of that last night on the show, many of you devoted your giving tuesday to the kind fund. Last night maya tweeted, tomorrow is giving tuesday. Teachers in my family including my mom will be getting donations to the kind fund to help kids in malawi. Goldie writes, i remember when being a teacher, i have been in awe of this magnificent cause from the beginning and the impact it has made and continues to make for so many. Anna claire says, there are so many kids in need of desks. Tia said, just donated 500. You can donate any amount of 10 is helpful, 5 is helpful. Any amount will help contribute desks or to scholarships of girls. You can make a gift from anyone on your wish list and they will thank them for their gift. Tia says, i actually doubled it after reading the website, lawrence. Ive been blessed and i hope it helps. It really does help. It really does change lives. 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Results from Election Night in mississippi, Steve Kornacki at the big board as the 11th hour gets underway on a busy tuesday night. This has been an eventful day. 677 of the Trump Administration and once again tonight we begin with breaking news, the first of which from the New York Times. Michael schmidt, whos standing by to talk to us as part of a triple byline story that says Paul Manaforts lawyer apparently briefed trumps legal team on what hes been telling the special counsel mueller and what theyve been asking manafort. The reporters write that manaforts lawyer repeatedly briefed President Trumps lawyers on his clients discussions with federal investigators about mr. Manafort after mr. Manafort agreed to cooperate with the special counsel according to one of mr. Trumps lawyers and to other people fil