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The Rachel Maddow Show

Musk's influence on Trump: A national security mess at best, a global power realignment at worst

The Rachel Maddow Show

MSNBC

Madow, Washington, Rachel Maddow, Congress, Campaign, Policy, Election, President, Nbc, Public, News, Government, Maddow, Politics, Issues

4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Maddow looks at Elon Musk's influence in Donald Trump's campaign and his relationship with American adversaries and figures either Kamala Harris will have a national security mess to deal with or, if Trump wins, the U.S. will shift alliances toward Russia, China, and North Korea. Also, on the eve of Election Day, Rachel wonders if the prosecutions of Donald Trump's foot soldiers from the last insurrection will deter more violence this time.

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0:00.0

This is like the first, kind of the first time you've been on one of these particular roller coasters with us, Jen.

0:05.3

Yes.

0:06.0

You have been through campaigns in a lot of different ways and a lot of different capacities.

0:10.2

You've never been through one with the crazy town clown car of work that is doing it at MSNBC.

0:19.0

I have not watching you eat jerky and Nicole Wallace

0:22.5

eat pellets and Steve Kornacki run around. This is my first presidential journey of that sort.

0:29.7

What should I know? You know, you're better at all. You're better at this than all the rest of us

0:34.3

just arriving, just getting here this year. I mean, every election is

0:38.2

different. I'm going to hold you here while we wait for this because I think we're expecting

0:41.7

Kamala Harris to speak momentarily. Any moment, yeah. In Pittsburgh, this is the, forgive me,

0:47.5

Jen, but this is the rally. We've got Katie Perry, who's going to be performing as well. Senator

0:52.9

Federman spoke earlier at this rally. Looks like Kamala Harris

0:56.2

is due here any second. I'm watching monitors trying to figure out what we're looking at here.

1:02.6

And then, but this, am I right that this isn't the last rally of the night that even after this

1:08.0

one, which she's, she hasn't yet started speaking at nine o'clock,

1:11.2

we're still expecting a second, yet another rally from her later on tonight.

1:15.1

This is the night before the election, as Tim Wall says, you'll all sleep when you're dead.

1:20.5

And she certainly hasn't been sleeping a lot.

1:23.2

They're also doing seven other kind of remote rallies across the country, which I haven't actually seen done before as many of these as I've done to really reach people in all sorts of states outside of Pennsylvania, too.

1:35.3

Yeah. I mean, it's been, I will say, the discipline of the Harris campaign in terms of the way they have just absolutely run to every single corner of every one of the seven swing states.

1:46.3

We've got Colin Allred on the show this hour tonight.

1:49.4

And in prepping to talk to him tonight about his Senate race against Ted Cruz in Texas,

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