A week after their Election Day defeat, Republicans signaled unwavering support for Donald Trump by electing Rep. Jim Jordan, one of the President’s most loyal lackeys, as House Minorty Leader in the next Congress. Rep. LaMonica McIver, one of several lawmakers the Trump administration has directly targeted, joins The Weeknight table to respond.

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After a historic victory in the Lone Star State, Democrats are aiming to disarm the Texas GOP’s long-standing partisan legal apparatus in the state Attorney General’s office, which has functioned like a MAGA law firm for more than a decade. Texas’s Democratic Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson joins The Weeknight.

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MS NOW has exclusively obtained audio from a combative town hall with Navy leaders and 500 family members of sailors in the USS George H. W. Bush carrier strike group. MS NOW Pentagon Reporter Priya Sridhar has more details. Retired U.S. Army Lt. General Mark Hertling joins Alicia Menendez to share his reaction.

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The White House is threatening to open a criminal probe into Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and other Oversight Democrats over their plans to investigate President Trump and his administration. Rep. Garcia joins Alicia Menendez to share his reaction.

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Democrat Scott Colom has defeated Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi’s closely contested Senate race. MS NOW’s Ari Melber is joined by Ali Velshi, Michelle Goldberg and Reverend Al Sharpton. (The Beat’s YouTube: https://ms.now/ari)

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