MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Zohran Mamdani speaks with Jacob Soboroff on ICE, his closed-door meeting with Trump, and how "surreal" it is to become NYC mayor.

TONIGHT: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social joins @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

“For the law to have meaning, there has to be accountability for all of us… I think if an ICE agent is breaking the law, then that is a law that they should be held accountable to.”

“I told the president that these kinds of raids that we’re seeing here in New York City, they’re cruel and inhumane and they do nothing to serve the interests of public safety."

just met up with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. our conversations air on @ms.now today at 4PM ET.

“To be clear, the Trump administration is targeting a college student’s family because that college student spoke out about the unjust way that she was treated by the federal government." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

"This is family separation." www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vzM...

"Not all of us are criminals."

"I wasn't able to let them know that I was going to get deported. I didn't even know I would be deported until I was on the plane."

FULL INTERVIEW: I spoke with Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, the nineteen year old Babson College freshman who was deported when going home to surprise her parents for Thanksgiving. "People say we're criminals. It's just not right." youtu.be/UuldnddRc10?...

holding FIRESTORM for the first time. spent 2025 writing about experiencing the L.A. fires. digging deeper. learned so much about what happened, our future and myself. met people I’ll never forget. can’t wait for you to read it. out January 6. preorder: www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...

He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he’s running for Congress. wapo.st/3KdDBQ1

“Today, family separations are back, only now they are happening all across the country.” www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August lataco.com/everyone-kid...

experiencing my hometown burn as a native Angeleno and covering it as a journalist was not possible to process in real time. that’s why I wrote FIRESTORM. I cannot wait to share the book with you on January 6. available for preorder now: www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...

“Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, members of at least five formerly separated families have been removed from the U.S. against their will.” www.thecut.com/article/fami...

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if you watch / listen to one thing today let it be @chrislhayes.bsky.social x @eltragon.bsky.social on the ongoing indiscriminate roundup of people across the country by Trump’s armed, masked federal agents. youtu.be/7H4aYsxnH9M

“it is bonkers, frankly, when you see [what is happening in Charlotte] yourself.”

Jacob Soboroff points out that part of the benefit of the protest training taking place in Charlotte is to defy the narrative that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want to use to smear the protests as violent and unruly.

there may well be more citizens showing up here in Charlotte to learn how to peacefully resist Trump’s indiscriminate mass deportation effort than federal agents on the ground here, as we saw firsthand last night.

huge turnout in Charlotte tonight for @siembranc.bsky.social’s “Safe to Work, Safe to School” training for people who want to learn how to protect their neighbors from Trump’s mass deportation effort.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

Sacramento right now. Huge turnout.

voted. now headed to Sacramento for special Election Night coverage on @msnbc.com. hope you’ll join us.

proud to be a part of this team. ❤️

“They’re out there looking like Buzz Lightyear… they’re fat… just ridiculous. They’re quirky, they’re dorky, they can’t run, they fumble their guns… they can’t even chase after their own cars.” @eltragon.bsky.social of @lataco.bsky.social on his lack of surprise about ICE’s recruitment issues.

“If you do not measure it you can’t manage it.” We may never know the final cost of the L.A. fires because Trump stopped keeping track. Scientist formerly in charge of the project joined me on @lastword.msnbc.com ahead of the release of my new book “Firestorm.” preorder: a.co/d/83fAJtc

hi from the studio — recording the audiobook for FIRESTORM, out January 6 and available for preorder now. cannot wait for you to read or listen. preorder now: a.co/d/j9eGjHv

in for the great @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com the rest of the week. see you at 10PM ET on MSNBC. @msnbc.com

“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄

standby for video of the pink unicorn interview.

Downtown L.A. right now.

MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings

worst of the worst?

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

for over four months I’ve reported as Trump has put troops and federal agents in cities across America. more than ever I’m seeing and hearing from people pushing back — standing up for immigrants, democracy and members of our military who don’t want this.

The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

"It is truly sickening to speak to somebody who raised three boys to go into the Marines because of how much he loved and believed in this country, only to be treated like that." @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social discusses Narciso Barranco, ICE, and more with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Pod

"Her mother died suddenly. And so Nori, 18 years old, was in a country that she didn't know, without the family that she grew up with, with basically no place to go and nothing to do." @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks the reality of Trump's immigration policy with @timmiller.bsky.social:

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come." @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

“Military occupation doesn’t make our city safer. Resources and investment makes our city safer.” thank you Bri and all the other protestors who took the time to speak with me last night in Chicago.

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Michigan Avenue right now.

just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.

Gov. JB Pritzker advises Chicagoans to knows their rights and to film everything after President Trump deployed the Federal Guard to the city.

“If you come for my people, you come for me. So come and get me.” IL Gov. JB Pritzker talks to @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social about Pres. Trump's call for the governor to be jailed

I met Samantha after Trump’s agents took her mom off the street yesterday, which she confirmed by watching video we showed her. “She looks ready to cry… she wanted to go to the store. She wanted to make some albondigas which is basically a meatball stew” youtu.be/9dx266qOOic?...

“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”

two men were taken at a bakery by armed and masked federal agents in Cicero, Illinois this morning while having coffee before work. we were there moments later. Trump says they’re going after the “worst of the worst” around Chicago. that’s not what we saw. youtu.be/EkCcsaFdpsw?...