Kristi Noem made final call on deportation flights after judge ordered planes to turn back: DOJ

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Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Kristi Noem made final call on deportation flights after judge ordered planes to turn back: DOJ

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe.
0:10.1	It is Wednesday, November 26th, and we have a lot to get to this morning.
0:15.4	Is it Thanksgiving Eve?
0:16.8	It is.
0:17.2	It is.
0:17.8	It is.
0:19.0	A lot to get to, including the FBI, now seeking interviews with six Democratic lawmakers who President Trump called traitors.
0:29.0	After they posted that video telling service members to simply disobey unlawful orders, something that's part of their oath.
0:38.6	It comes as defense secretary Pete Hegesath has ordered the Navy to investigate.
0:43.6	Democratic Senator Mark Kelly will go through those developments.
0:47.3	Plus, we'll dig into a story, a big story involving the president's special envoy as transcripts appear to show Steve Whitkoff coaching a Putin aide
0:58.3	on how to pitch a plan to President Trump.
1:03.4	With us, we have the co-host of our 9 a.m. hour, staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire,
1:09.2	co-host of the Restis Politics Podcast, the BBC's Caddy Kay,
1:14.3	columnist and associate editor at the Washington Post, David Ignatius,
1:18.4	and managing editor at the bulwark, Sam Stein,
1:21.9	who's not running for D.C. mayor, but he was considering it during way too early, Joe.
1:26.4	It was something that just, you know, a thought that popped into his head as a possibility.
1:32.1	Can I just, can I just say, first of all, it was not a Sherman-esque pronouncement.
1:38.8	I think he may well still run, and I think he would serve.
1:45.8	And I'm thinking right now there are candidates for mayor, potential candidates for mayor,
1:51.5	who are afraid that like Mom Donnie, this young whippersnapper from Connecticut, from the most Tony, Tony parts of Connecticut
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