Really happy to have you here. First things first, I have an announcement to make on next week's show, this time next week, next Monday, September 22nd.

Kamala Harris is going to be here. This is going to be her first full-scale news interview since the 2024 election. She will be here live on set with me for the show. I have roughly 400,000 things I want to ask her about. But I will get my chance. We're going to have that sit down one-on-one, one week from tonight right here, 9 p.m. Eastern on MSNBC. That's next Monday, September 22nd. I'm very excited about that.

In the 10 months or so that have transpired since the 2024 election,

it feels like we've had about 10 years worth of news, of course.

But in thinking about talking to Kamala Harris next week,

I realized that there's a lot on the record

from her campaign and from her time in public life

that is kind of helpful right now,

especially helpful to the point that we shouldn't kid ourselves

that anything that Trump has done is surprising.

We shouldn't kid ourselves that the way he has behaved in office in the second term is a surprise.

I mean, clearly looking back at Kamala Harris' campaign against him,

looking basically to anybody who has been

paying attention anytime in the last, I don't know, a few years, it was not that hard to see it

coming.

Donald Trump has told us his priorities for a second term.

He has an enemy's list of people he intends to prosecute.

He says that one of his highest priorities is to set free the violent extremists who

insulted those law enforcement officers on January 6th. Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens.

Pretty much nailed it, right?

That was a week before the 2024 election.

Kamala Harris speaking at the ellipse outside the White House.

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