it will protect t president and protect these zones 24/7 using patrol boats and helicopters until the president departs. and that's fine, except the coast guard is getting no extra funding to do this. the coast guard is already responsible for protecting 100,000 miles of u.s. coastline and inland waterways. in addition to its mission of saving american lives, an average of ten a day, it does this very well and with very little fanfare. but the administration's draft budget has called for cutting the coast guard budget by tens of billions of dollars. they've called for a $54 billion increase in military spending. none of that is going to the coast guard. they're cutting the coast guard by 14%. the coast guard is going to see its budget cut. even as it is now spending every weekend taking on the extra job of securing the president's golf club. whether or not you are upset about the president's travel costs, one thing you might be upset about is the lack of respect for the coast guard,

even as they're busy saving his bacon day in and day out. all of our bacon, frankly, including the president's while he golfs. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. you know what is coming up next? because you know the president was just watching that segment. his next paycheck is going to the coast guard. and there is going to be a coast guard guy standing there with that look on his face, you know getting the check. >> that's exactly right. >> for the 82,000 bucks. thanks, rachel. tonight we will be joined by jon ossoff, the democratic candidate for a vacant congressional seat in georgia. he has a huge lead tonight over the republican in that race for a seat that has been held by republicans for 38 years. also tonight, a new report that foreign intelligence agencies were the first to uncover contacts between the trump campaign and russia. and nbc reporting tonight that the trump white house has a plan for a preemptive strike on north

korea. but first, is there any nonpropaganda reason for giving a bomb a nickname? >> the u.s. has dropped the largest nonnuclear bomb ever used in combat. >> its nickname, the mother of all bombs. >> they were going after some isis on province fighters. >> did you authorize this? >> everybody knows exactly what happened. and what i do is i authorized my military. we have given them total authorization. >> was today's bombing about defeating isis or flexing muscles? >> what's your position on north korea? >> i don't know if this sends a message. it doesn't make any difference if it does or not. >> we're dealing with a nuclear power nation. if we were to try to attack them, they would virtually wipe out seoul. >> north korea is a problem. the problem will be taken care of. >> it's time to call out wikileaks for what it really is. >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> a nonstate hostile

intelligence service often vetted by state actors like russia. >> i reject the idea that assange is a russian asset. >> do you understand why you're a suspect? >> i understand why i have been blamed. but there is no evidence. >> everything here was just happenstance? >> yes, absolutely. >> the irony of roger stone rejecting a conspiracy theory. and so today, april 13th, 2017, was the day that america woke up to the sudden knowledge that bombs have mothers. that all of the conventional nonnuclear bombs in the american military arsenal have one big beautiful mother. and there she is. the bomb's official name for bookkeeping purposes in the military is the gbu-43. the letters on the side of the bomb describe its function, what you can expect from it. massive ordnance air blast.

but the military doesn't want us to call it the gbu-43, or the moab. names are important to the military. they name their bases after war heroes, after general, including generals who have committed treason by fighting in the confederate army against the united states of america. the biggest u.s. military base in the world, the one with the biggest military population is in fort hood in texas, named after treasonous confederate general john bell hood. but the military's most important names, the names that are designed to deliver a message sometimes subliminal, sometimes very direct are the names of weapons. the military's best names for weapons humanize the weapons. that is what they are intended to do. the gbu-43, the biggest nonnuclear bomb the united states has never, ever used until today, april 13th, 2017.

the gbu-43 had to wait years for its first use. during the bush administration, it replaced the blu-82, which until then was our biggest bomb. the blu-82 was used frequently in vietnam. the military ace name for it was the daisy cutter. not the baby killer. not the family killer. not the village killer. the daisy cutter. the military's nicknames for bombs are designed to do two things. impress you with something about the bomb. its precision, its power, its enormity. but the best military names for weapons and bombs are designed to inspire awe and affection. and so the bomb that the bush and obama administration refused to use and has now been used by the trump administration is called the mother of all bombs.

when the president was asked today about using that bomb for the first time in history, it sounded like he did authorize t the bomb in that instance. it sounded like perhaps he had given the general authorization to general mattis to use whatever weapon he decided was right for the mission. >> did you authorize it, sir? >> everybody knows exactly what happened. what i do is i authorize my military. we have the greatest military in the world and they have done a great job as usual. we have given them total authorization. and that's what they're doing. frankly, that's why they've been so successful lately. >> the president got glowing review last week from most of the media in his first use of tomahawk missiles, his reviews on the use of the military's most destructive nonnuclear bomb will have to wait until there are at least initial reports on the number of civilian casualty, if any, and what tactical gain was achieved by the gbu-43.

now to the news that donald trump cannot bomb away, the guardian is reporting that british intelligence first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious interactions between figures connected to trump and known or suspected russian agents. this intelligence was passed to the u.s. as part of a routine exchange of information. sources also told the paper that over the next six monday. until summer of 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between trump's inner circle and the russians. the european countries that passed on electronic intelligence included germany, estonia and poland. according to the guardian, the alleged conversations were picked up by chance as part of routine surveillance of russian intelligence assets. at no point was british intelligence carrying out an operation against donald trump or his campaign. former trump campaign adviser carter page, who was the sject of a foreign intelligence surveillance court warrant last summer said this morning that he

may have discussed lifting u.s. sanctions on russia during a trip to moscow last year. >> it sounds like from what you're saying it's possible that you may have discussed the easing of sanction. >> something may have come up in a conversation. i have no recollection. and there is nothing specifically that i would have done that would have given people that impression, george. >> but you can't say without equivocation that you didn't discuss the easing of sanctions? >> someone may have brought it up. i have no recollection. and if it was, it was not something i was offering or that someone was asking for. >> president trump's a cia director mike pompeo said this today about wikileaks. >> as long as they make a splash, they care nothing about the lives they put at risk or the damage they cause to national security. wikileaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. it's time to call out wikileaks for what it really, a nonstate hostile intelligence service

often abetted by state actors like russia. >> and here is what his boss, the president of the united states has had to say about wikileaks. >> now this just came out. this just came out. wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> boy, that wikileaks has done a job on her, hasn't it? >> this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. >> joining us now, malcolm nance, msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst. david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and an msnbc political analyst. and david frump, senior editor. i want to talk about the massive bomb that was dropped today and your interpretation of its use and what you think it might have been able to achieve in that usage. >> well, the gbu-43 is really just an area destruction device. it's designed to make a big blast over pressure.

a lot of earthquaking, knock down tunnel, destroy people and tunnels that are out in the field. it's just another bomb. and i think people are sort of looking over the fact that it was dropped in a combat zone. a b-52 carrying 32 j-dam bombs could have caused much more devastation with much more precision. the air force wanted to use this device, and they did. >> david fromm, the reports today, it wasn't just the british picking up something involving trump world and the russians, estonia, poland. it sounds like there was a lot to pick up. >> and the polls have particularly sophisticated intelligence service, and have been very interested in the ukraine case. poland and ukraine are neighbors with deep historical relationships. poland contains many more consulates in ukraine than the united states does and it knows a lot about the career of paul manafort.

that name would ring some very noisy alarm bells in warsaw. >> david corn, the way the -- we just heard the cia director talk about wikileaks compared to the way the president has talked about wikileaks. it's another one of those moments where you see that at least in the instance of his choice for cia director, there is no inhibition about saying things today -- i mean you have to know if you were the cia director and you anticipate other human beings' reactions to things, you had to know that i and others were going to put those two hunks of video together tonight that what he had to say today about wikileaks and what donald trump said about wikileaks during the campaign. >> well, it's all very head-spinning. during the campaign pompeo himself was putting forward on his twitter feed and his campaign account information coming from wikileaks. so by his own definition, he and the guy he works for who happens to be the president of the united states were in league with the wikileaks operation

which was of course his own predecessor says was part of a russian clandestine operation to subvert the american election. so if you really start thinking what he says, it is mind-blowing. and you know what? maybe we should have a congressional -- i don't know. that's crazy talk. but nevertheless, it is so absurd, you know, because at the same time donald trump still says this is all a hoax. >> malcolm nance, you have literally written the book about this, about the russian influence in this election and what they were up to. just give us your assessment about the last 24 hours of new information. >> well, i'm afraid to say this is what separates intelligence officers from journalists, you know. i wrote this almost seven months ago now. that if you were ever going to get a scoop with relation to information coming out about the trump administration's activities related to foreign

intelligence, it was going to come from a foreign intelligence agency. pretty sure that i said estonia would be the first one. because as we learned, they have very close ties with the united states and other allied nations. and they're very, very good at certain types of special intelligence. that's what we call signals intelligence. and our sister gchq and dgsc in france, they have a vested interest in knowing what is going on there. on the other hand, it was very surprising to finally hear mike pompeo come out and declare wikileaks a nonstate hostile intelligence agency. i wrote a whole chapter in my book about how wikileaks was nonstate intelligence company and a subsidiary of the fsb. that being said, it's going to be fascinating for anyone who has now been found to cooperate withwikileaks. because this is essentially him verbalizing in an unclassified setting an intelligence finding that they were in league, not

only with russian intelligence perhaps by extension, but now a designated nonstate hostile intelligence agency. it's going to make for some very, very interesting congressional investigations and trials. there. >> are people in the trump administration, pompeo and tillerson who are trying to go legit, as activists who move from one country to another kind of work. and they are trying to hem the president in. one of the interesting questions, and we'll be studying this in political science for a long time, can you hem in the president? can you remove the president's agency and authority? because there is this group of now pompeo, now tillerson, before that mattis, before that mcmaster who want to encourage the president to golf more and watch more television and let them run the government. in other circumstances, that would look like a rather sinister thing. in this circumstance, it may look like the second best option. >> david corn -- go ahead, david. >> i was just going the say the

question is, can they really wipe off the stench of donald trump's campaign? and if not the collusion encouraging this putin operation to subvert american democracy. i mean, they all admit it happened. tillerson admitted it. nikki haley admitted it. mike pompeo said it today. while roger stone is out there pushing conspiracy theorys on this network and others. so can they kind of act as if they're legitimate, even when they're working for a fellow who denies the original sin of this administration and still continues to say things that make no sense? >> i think the answer to that, david, would be from a moral point of view, maybe not. from a practical point of view, everybody has to be less fussy. >> malcolm nance, isn't it a question of what are they saying from ts point forwar when you look at what tillerson

was saying the week before the emical attack in syria, he seemed like he hadn't even found his way around the office yet and didn't have the vaguest idea what a reasonable talking point sounded like on syria, saying he was going to leave it to, what, the democratic expression of the syrian people, what would happen to assad. everything he has said since the chemical attack has been a strong statement about both syria and the russian involvement in that, including him speculating that russia could possibly have known about it before the fact. so is it one of those things where like with pompeo today, you pick a spot and you say we're going to start watching him from here forward and see what he does? >> well, yes, because prior to last week, things were pretty rudderless in the white house. and that rudderlessness came from the palace intrigue that was going on between jared kushner, steve bannon, donald

trump jumping in both feet in certain things. but now you have general mcmaster and you the secretary of defense mattis giving strong indications that there has to be a certain way. most interestingly is nikki haley as u.n. ambassador has been far ahead of even mcmaster and mattis. and the strength of her statements about russia and syria. and so now it appears that it's coming together at least on these two points, even though as i contend, the attack on syria was a complete wash. we didn't destroy anything. we didn't destroy chemical weapons. we just showed that we knew how to turn the key and launch cruise missiles. so i think that the white house in some respects is coming together. and if these threats and statements about north korea are true, as we're going to talk about a little later, they had better get their acts together. because this is the sort of talk that will bring this nation io war or to a crisis that will, you know, resemble the paces to

war. >> david, when you talk about hemming in a president, that has been done in the past in a more subtle way. just the advisers would basically -- the experts in the areas of defense or whatever it was would present a set of possibilities. only one of which looked possible and the others just weren't. and so that was always the traditional way if the advisers were trying to hem in the president. >> well, it is a more extreme way, which you'll remember from the history, james schlesinger in the last days of watergate telling the nuclear command by the way, i'm putting myself as secretary of defense into the nuclear command. if you get any funny orders from the president, just run them past me. >> this was when president nixon was up drunk late at night in the white house. >> taking pills. >> and approaching the point of being forced to resign. his said don't take any nuclear orders from him in the middle of the night. >> right. unless you cleared them with me. so presidents can be hemmed in. the question, how many weeks did

that occur over? >> relatively short period of time. >> can you do it over four years? probably not. in the end, the president fires a all of these people. and one of the things that donald trump's displayed is, and he has done it now to his white house staff, steve bannon and others, he doesn't like it when anyone near him gets too big. and right now mattis is very big, and tillerson is getting bigger, and nikki haley in particular is getting very big. how will the president feel about that tomorrow, next week, the week after that. >> david corn, isn't that a matter of how "saturday night live" treats it? if "saturday night live" says nikki haley is the brains of the trump white house, that's when the clock starts ticking? >> i would amend david's astute observation. it's not how people around donald trump getting big. it's how it's portrayed and perceived. and because that's really how he views the world. he views the world and how the world is viewing him. the reality doesn't matter as much. and if we talk about hemming in and mastersetting his hands around the national security

council and mattis, we see it only takes trump seven seconds to say something or even less seconds to tweet something about north korea or something else that can be incredibly destabilizing. so you can hem in a guy to a certain degree. but when he is up at 6:00 in the morning, i don't think mattis or mcmasters or even his wife are looking over his shoulders. so there still is a lot of instability there. >> should nbc have some kind of corporate ethics officer in the "saturday night live" writings room saying please don't say anything about nikki haley overnight. >> no, no corporate interference there. >> but maybe for the sake of the country they should. we don't want those jokes. >> they're all patriots at "snl." they're all patriots. >> that's right. they're right upstairs. david frum, a pleasure. coming up, nbc news exclusive reporting that the trump white house has a plan for a presumptive strike on north

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the last few days we've seen a number of shifts by the american president. what should the american people make of the shifts? >> i think you can look at it what you're referring to as a shift in a lot of ways. if you look at what's happened, it's those entities the or individuals in some cases are issues evolving towards the president's position.

do you authorize the bomb? >> very, very proud of the people. really another successful job. we're very, very proud of our military. just like we're proud of the folks in this room. we are so proud of our military. and it was another successful event. >> joining us now, the former ambassador to the african union. and deputy assistant secretary of state for african affairs. back with us, david corn. ambassador, i want to get your reaction to the bomb today. you studied the aftermath of bombings, especially as it affects the civilian casualties and other unintended consequences. what do you expect to find when we finally see the results of this bomb? >> well, lawrence, the first question is what was the target

and why was the target necessary to be attacked with this particular weapon. and then the second question is what was the calculus that the military made with the regard to the potential impact of civilians in that area. the gbu-43, the so-called mother of all bombs is an 11-ton weapon that has blast effects that go well beyond a mile. and it's frankly hard to imagine a circumstance on which you could drop a weapon like that without having any consequences whatsoever on civilians. so i'm very interested in asking the questions about what exactly was the target, and how did the military make the calculation that attacking that target would be worth whatever potential impact it would be on civilians. >> and ambassador, do you sense that in the decision to use this particular bomb, that there was an intent to deliver a message with it that ts bomb delivers because malcolm nance has mentioned in the previous segment that you could have done the same destructive work with other devices.

>> well, there certainly could be some sort of signaling or psychological impact on what the use of that weapon. although what would expect that that desired effect would have been taken into decision, if that were the case works have been taken at a higher level. could be there were particular aspects about the contours of the target that were being attacked. but that's the problem. we don't know. for the unprecedented use of a weapon like this, there are certainly more questions than answers. and as they say, asking the question what exactly was a target that justified this kind of weapon is something i think we simply need to have a responsible. >> let's listen to what secretary of defense rumsfeld said when this bomb was first being brought online for the military and first being tested, he was asked about this new bomb. let's listen to this. >> is there a psychological component to this massive new bomb? there. >> is a psychological component to all aspects of warfare. the goal is to not have a war.

the goal is to have the pressure be so great that saddam hussein cooperates. short of that, an unwillingness to cooperate, the goal is to have the capabilities of the coalition so clear and so obvious that there is an enormous disincentive for the iraqi military to fight against the coalition. >> david corn, the bomb was available to the bush administration. it was available to the obama administration every day. they chose never to use it. and we have yet to find out exactly what went into the decision for the trump administration to use it, and whether the president even knew that it was being used before it was used. >> let's start with the principle, the assumption that the people who were bombed know they were bombed. and so nothing that happened is a secret to them. they know where they were. they know what happened. i think the american public is now owed similar information.

as the ambassador said, what was the intended target, and did it hit the intended target? why was this weapon needed when other alternatives were not used? and you know, what can we learn about civilian casualties and collateral damage as they you have micall it. this one weapon, we can get maybe overly overwrought about it. but i still think since they used it for the first time these questions still should be answered. i don't see any reason why the american public can't get these simple answers. >> it's a $15 million bomb. highways what they dropped from that plane was 15 million. ambassador bringingety, why did the bush administration, the obama administration decide never to use that bomb? >> there could be any number of reasons. one might be frankly that the

particular tactical circumstances never presented themselves. and by that to be able to use a weapon that is -- that has that kind of blast radius, you would have do be very confident of one two of things. either that there would be virtually no civilians that would be impacted by the blast, or that the target that you were attacking was of such profound military value that it would justify the sorts of civilian casualties that would result. so one could be that neither the bush administration nor the obama administration ever found themselves in that particular sort of circumstances. another could be that frankly, the weapon that is that large, it's hard to imagine environments short of dropping it on the moon that you would like not be likely to impact civilians. and frankly, what we may be seeing is frankly a very different set of calculus that are being taken by the trump administration as impact for

civilian casualties and the willingness they're prepared to give to the military commanders to have that sorts of flexibility of decision making on the ground. >> how long will it take to get the after action report on this bomb? >> it depends. it depends on how much access u.s. and coalition forces have to the area, whether there is a permissive environment that will allow that. frankly, it also depends on whether or not other hostile forces take their own crews in to make videos of potential civilian casualties for their own propaganda efforts. so we'll have to wait and see. >> we'll leave there it for tonight. david corn, thank you very much for joining us. ambassador brigety, we're going to need you for one more segment here. coming up, the reporting that the president trump administration has a plan for preemptive attack on north korea. but every administration has such an attack plan, has had such an attack plan on north korea. will this one be used?

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our breaking news tonight. nbc news is reporting that the trump administration has a war plan for a preemptive nonnuclear strike of north korea if they believe north korea is about to test a nuclear weapon. back with us, ambassador reuben brigety is back with malcolm nance. my understanding is the defense department has a war plan for many, many, many countries, most

countries, that they are on shelves, they're revised every several years. and of course 99.9% of them are never used. what would be different about this, about the trump administration having this plan? is it the fact that what nbc has picked up is the conditions under which the trump administration would be willing to use that plan? >> well, it's quite possible that now that the conditions have changed, north korea may in fact be either planning an atomic detonation, or some sort of surprise with regards to their intercontinental ballistic testing machine. just in case. the problem here with the trump administration is over the last two weeks they've used phrases from the secretary of state himself like "imminent threat

clot." those words that if china doesn't help us, we will go it alone. those words resonate. not just to the north koreans, but to everyone in the entire region that maybe this time the war plan the united states has is something that they're taking very seriously, and that they tend to intimidate north korea. north korea doesn't intimidate very well, and that these words could have very, very serious dramatic action. >> let's listen to what former obama cia director and defense secretary leon panetta said about this tonight. >> there are no good options here. if we were to try to attack them, they would virtually wipe out seoul. and if it became a nuclear war, which is likely, millions of lives would be lost. and that's the reason we haven't pulled the trigger. >> ambassador brigety, is it possible, is there another possibility that if a weapons system was attacked in north

korea from the united states, that north korea would simply take the hit, that they would just absorb the hit and not attack south korea? >> i have never heard of any analyst that follows the region that thinks that's a possibility. we have is a very mercurial regime in pyongyang, particularly under this younger ruler kim jong un, who has not only demonstrated his willingness to show blelligeren through mill tests but willing to kill his own kin, as we s by a successful assassination attempt by his half-brother in kuala lumpur. we certainly have uncertainty on the leadership on both sides of this equation, uncertainty with the leadership of kim jong un, and frankly, and respectfully uncertainty in regard to

president trump who has demonstrated the ability to change 180 degrees, whether it be syria, on china, with regard to the irrelevance of nato, his view on profound pillars of the international system. and that level of uncertainty on both sides of the equation is what is new in this particular circumstance, and frankly, what is so disconcerting. >> malcolm nance, if you war game this out for the president, he takes a preemptive strike against north korea. you have to then war game for the president what north korea is going to do. would there be anyone war gaming that in the pentagon or in the white house with any credibility saying that no south koreans would then be killed by north korea? >> well, yes. we've been red teaming this, war gaming this since 1953. and in every scenario, like the ambassador said, north korea, you know, they have this

proclivity towards moving to the extreme. and for them sinking a vessel, coming out, you know, interdi interdicting commercial and naval traffic throughout the sea of japan, or launching thousands of rockets into south korea, that's the way they red team this game. they understand and they know that america knows that the only options here when given this, and this is why leon panetta was so distraught in his words is that they have the option of creating massi numbers of casualties. in south korea, whether it's going out and engaging on a military force. but let me tell you. one last thing. this isn't my usual area of expertise. you know, in the western pacific. however, there is one thing that i do know. north korea is so dug in with their weapon systems since the korean war, since 1953 when it ended that the only way you're

going to get rid of that nuclear program is to burn it out with a nuclear bomb. and we are not going to carry out that type of attack. north korea now has demonstrated atomic weapons systems. and we don't know how their delivery systems or whether they've been perfected. and they don't have to be perfected. they can put out out on a trawler in the sea of japan and detonate it and make things very unpleasant for japan and south korea. it's something we shouldn't even be discussing is now being discussed. >> we're going have to leave it there for tonight. malcolm nance gets the last word. ambassador brigety and malcolm nance, thank you for join us. coming up, coming up on tuesday in georgia, democrat jon ossoff has a big lead in that race. and he will join us next.

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>> that's republican senator jeff flake at a town hall meeting in mesa, arizona tonight. it is still happening. that'shappening. that's a live image of what's going on there right now. we are joined now by john ossoff a candidate for congress in georgia's sixth district this. district has been republican for 38 years. it was newt gingrich rich's district. tom price had an easy re-election there. but the striking thing there is donald trump won the district by only one point. how did that happen? tom price won by own 20, and donald trump on the same ballot took it by only one. >> thank you for having me. this community where i grew up is a moderate pragmatic district. economically minded. it recognizes that extremism is bad for business.

i wasn't effective principled leadership. doesn'tize identify as partisan or idea logical. i think that's why the president had a probable re. i'm focusing on local economic development and shared values in the community that bring people to go. >> how much of an issue has the republican repeal of the affordable care act act -- how much has that been an issue in your district? >> it was of major concern. you are talking about a proposal to throw 24 million off of their health insurance back into the emergency room at taxpayer exsense. it also would have gutted the georgia based centers for disease control and prevention which helps the whole country. it was an unpopular bill here. so, too, as today's closed door signing of a bill attacking family planning and reproductive health been greeted with concern in this district. >> there has been a lot of

outside help for you in this campaign. the fund is obviously surprising everyone. it is a massive amount of funding for a congressional campaign. were you surprised that you were able to attract that much campaign help? >> it has taken on a bit of a life of its own. i'm proud of the fact that it's small dollar grassroots fun raising. the average an trick to my campaign is $42. when you have super pacs from washington coming in with cynical partisan attacks on candidates like me who are standing up against corruption and for a change in corruption i'm glad it's grassroots funding if no one clears 50% on tuesday. the runoff will be on june 20th.

the early numbers suggest an outright win on tuesday is possible. either way we will be ready to fight and win if there is a runoff. >> in your strategy, do you have to hold some of your financial resources for that possible runoff and not go all out on advertising spending between now and tuesday? >> we doublg down right now on a win on tuesday, because it is within reach. the grassroots intensity in georgia is unlike anything that i've seen in this community before. there are thousands of volunteers knocking on doors and making phone calls. it's a hopeful and inspiring scene here in georgia. folks in the community are really standing up. it's a broad coalition ready for some fresh leadership and i think we have a great shot on tuesday of an outright win. >> this was not one those campaigns that you could plan, that you could look out two years out and say i think i'm going to go for that seat. this suddenly came up because there was suddenly a vacancy, donald trump surprises the world, wins the election, and then chooses your congressman for his cabinet.

when did you decide to make a run for this seat? >> well, after the presidential election, i began to think about whether i needed to get more involved directly now. i asked i myself if not now, when, when i learned that my hometown congressman was vey kagtd i started looking at the race. the moment i set my heart on it was after a meeting with john lewis. he told me i should run and that he would endorse me if i did and i walked out of that meeting with my mind made up. >> john ossoff, candidate for georgia's sixth congressional district. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. coming up, donald trump versus donald trump.

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>> so what you are saying is assad can stay in power. that's not your interest. >> no what i'm saying is we have bigger problems than assad. >> tonight i ordered a tarted military strike -- a targeted military strike on the air field in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. i'm going to instruct my treasury secretary to label china a currency manipulator, the greatest in the world. >> in an interview with the "wall street journal" mr. trump said his administration won't label china a currency manipulator late they are week. >> we are giving countries a free ride. nato is obsolete. it's old, it's fat. it's sloppy. and we are -- and it doesn't talk about terrorism. >> the secretary general and i had a productive discussion about what more nato can do in the fight against terrorism. i said it was obsolete.

it's no longer obsolete. when i see a story about donald trump didn't fill hundreds and hundreds of jobs, that's because in many cases we don't want to fill those jobs. >> you have 600 open jobs though that you can appoint. what's going on -- >> a lot of those jobs i don't want to appoint because they are unnecessary to have i am waiting right now for so many people. hundreds and hundreds of people. >> you are upped staffed. >> and they will say why isn't trump doing this faster? you can't do it faster because they are obstructing. they are obstructionists. i have people, hundreds of people that we are trying to get through. >> did i just hear donald trump say nato is old, it's fat, it's sloppy? good thing he lives in the whi house instead of -- go ahead, fill in the blank. a glass house. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. tonight, the u.s. drops a massive bomb on afghanistan. the largest non-nuclear bomb ever to