. it's the 10th avenue revvie awards. from rockefeller center, here's your host, al sharpton. >> good evening and welcome to "politicsnation" 10th annual revvie awards. it's where we celebrate the best and worst in 2020 and give awards to those who deserve it. i'm honored to have been bringing you some of the most significant and memorable moments this past year, and what a year it has been. let's bring in our esteemed panel. joy reid, msnbc host of "the

reidout." ally velshi, msnbc host of "velshi" and susan de. first we have some breaking news. let's go to my colleague for the latest developments on the tennessee explosion. >> let's go straight to the news conference ongoing right now, rev. >> and that is based on the evidence that we've gathered to this point, we've come to the conclusion that an individual named anthony warner is the bomber, that he was present when the bomb went off and that he perished in the bombing. we base this conclusion on forensic evidence, including dna evidence that you'll hear about as well as evidence that was gathered at the scene of the bombing. because this was a collaborative effort, what i want to do is turn the microphone over to each of the agency folks here. they're going to talk about their agency's role in the

investigation and how the evidence they gathered and the tests they conducted e led us to this conclusion. let me start out by introducing tennessee bureau of investigation director david roush. >> thank you. i first want to say that we appreciate the collaborative effort that has taken place in this investigation. local, state and federal authorities have worked hand in hand in tandem around the clock since the incident, and it's paid off. tbi agents, analysts and scientists have been assisting in this investigation from the start, gathering data, checking leads, coordinating interviews, and processing critical evidence in coordination with the fbi and the atf. overnight, tbi forensic scientists processed evidence from the crime scene for dna testing. the evidence was compared to evidence collected from a vehicle used by the person of

interest in this case. at approximately midnight central time forensic scientists with tbi confirmed a match of the dna at both locations belonging to the person of interest in this case. tbi continues to support this ongoing investigation. thank you. >> good afternoon. again, i'm special agent in charge of the memphis field office responsible, which also covers nashville. i want to take a moment to update you on the intensive efforts of our team. today, as dr. roush mentioned, the tennessee bureau of investigation as well as the fbi laboratory completed their dna testing of a sample of human remains recovered at the scene. those results were consistent with the suspect identified by

u.s. attorney cochran. we're still following leads, but right now there is no indication that any other persons were involved. we've reviewed hours of security video, surrounding the recreational vehicle as well as we saw no other people involved around that vehicle. again, this information is what we know after just a few days of investigative efforts. crucial tips from the public corroborated by other investigative activity by our team initially identified a likely suspect. some expert work by the tennessee highway patrol subsequently uncovered a vehicle identification number from the remains of the suspect's rv that were positively matched to a vehicle registered to that individual. we continue to ask that those who may have known the suspect or encountered him contact their team at the 1-800-call-fbi phone number.

these pieces of information will help us understand the suspect's motives. these answers won't come quickly and will still require a lot of our team's effort. though we may be able to answer some of these questions, as our investigation continues, none of those answers will ever be enough for those who have been affected by this event. we still have work to do. our evidence response teams will continue to process the scene downtown, and our agents will continue to follow on every -- each and every tip that we receive. as is often said by fbi, the greatest crime-fighting weapon we have is a cooperation of all law enforcement with the help and understanding of the citizens we serve. thank you, and i'd like to now turn it over to atf special agent in charge french. >> thank you. my name is micky french. i'm the special agent in charge for the atf national field division. i would like to depend all my fellow state and local partners.

we've had a tremendous working relationship in this investigation. atf's brought unique resources to this center to include the explosion training and research. atf's accredited national response team and all its specialists as well as the united states bomb data center, these were crucial and instrumental to provide links and resources in this investigation. additionally, the ability to leverage technology with traditional law enforcement techniques has been crucial in bringing this case to a relatively close. although we still have a lot of investigation to do, we've gotten off to a great partnership and great start, and it's been tremendous. thank you.

>> i cannot truly describe all the hard work that has gone into this investigation since friday's explosion. we've had hundreds of atf, fbi, thp and tbi partnered with us in this investigation. and we can tell you that anthony warner is the man believed to be responsible for this horrible crime. there is no indication presently that anyone else was involved in this crime. as said earlier and several times before, nashville is considered safe. there are no known threats against this city. a renewed curfew is going into effect beginning at 4:30 this afternoon in the area impacted by the blast. james robinson parkway to fourth avenue to broadway and the come cumberland river.

the curfew will be narrowed tomorrow to impacted area around union, fourth avenue north, broadway and the cumberland river. the footprint will get smaller as processing of the blast scene continues by the fbi and atf. thank you. >> okay. at this time we'll try to take a few questions. i know it's kind of hard to hear out here and we'll address it to the appropriate agency. just a second. >> i didn't hear the question. >> anything on motive or why he wanted to set off this bomb? >> that's all still early in the inve investigation right now. >> was warner on any authority radar prior to the explosion? >> no, he was not. >> can you talk about the vin number, the vin number that was found. >> vin number, you want to talk

about that? >> how were you able to find that vin number? >> our special agents with tennessee highway patrol are trained in that. we have responsibilities there and we were able to start out starting christmas night and coming again once daylight came up the next day, yesterday, and just help identify on particular vehicle parts. >> the vehicle part found -- [ inaudible question ] >> i can't answer that exactly. vehicle parts help connect the vehicle to the suspect. i believe tips and other information came in to help identify him. >> have there been associates of warner that have been questioned about paranoia he may have had? tell us about that. >> right now we're look at any and all possible motives. we're not in a position to speculate on that right now. we're interviewing individuals

we have identified are known to the suspect. >> tennessee law enforcement are answering questions from the press. they are on location. the headline right now, they have identified anthony quinn warner, 63 years old as the person of interest, as the person who is behind that rv explosion. i want to go straight to clint van sant, msnbc contributor as well as former fbi agent and profiler. clint, you know, you look at some of the profiles of who he was, an i.t. specialist, somebody who owned some sort of home security business at some point as well. it appeared that somebody that was not necessarily in the best spirits during this time. >> well, that's what i think the fbi's working with right now. we know, for example, he allegedly gave the deed to his property away to a woman who lived in -- on the west coast.

she said she's not had contact with him since about thanksgiving. he indicated he was going to spend christmas in the woods with his dog. as you and i know and your audience knows, you know, christmas can be a wonderful time for all of us if we have family and friends. but if you don't have someone, it can be the most lonesome time in the world. also, the fbi was supposedly asking questions concerning anthony warner and any type of high 5g conspiracy. this evidently has come up in the investigation. again, this has gone on for at least a year or more in this country and the uk and others where people are somehow trying to connect the new 5g technology for cell phones with the covid-19 virus. so, these challenges are out there. the fbi now, atf and others, they've got all these puzzle

pieces, richard, just like the pieces of this vehicle that blew up. and they're slowly putting these pieces together. they have the vehicle. they have the bomber. but we all want to know the motive. >> right. >> but just like steven paddock, the shooter in las vegas three years ago, he hid that motive from us. hopefully we'll find the motive in this case. >> all right. msnbc contributor clint van sant, also former fbi agent and profiler. anthony quinn warner, 63, named by law enforcement as the individual behind the bomb in nashville on christmas. now, back to the rev and the revvie awards. rev. >> thank you, richard, and we'll be following that. our prayers for those that were affected. let's get right into our first revvie, the ridicu-list. this is a compilation of p events i still cannot believe

happened in the year of 2020, as bizarre as the year was. and here's what we've got. the national archives doctoring a 2017 women's march photo to sensor an anti-trump sign. the iowa caucus ad debacle. i'm still not sure who won the iowa caucus. kanye west's presidential campaign. a random dutch man hacking into the president's twitter by guessing his password, maga2020. and the infamous four seasons total landscaping press conference. let's go to you first, joy reid. what was the most r idicu-list of this year? >> you made that difficult, they're all ridiculous. i have to go with kanye west. and the reason is because particularly in the wake of

donald trump going on an execution spree with four out of five of the people that he and william barr are executing being black men. >> right. >> and you contrast that with all the pardons that he's given away to convicted war criminals and corrupt politicians and his cronies in the whole ukraine-russia mess. >> during the same time, this is all within the same ten days of the executions and the pardons. >> exactly, all bunched together. i think about the people like kanye west, like ice cube, like the van jones' of the world who all tried to tell us, the kim kardashians, saying give donald trump a chance on criminal justice. he's going to try to do the right thing. you know, and meanwhile you had kanye west being put up by a bunch of republican strategists who cynically tried to get him on the ballot in multiple states to try to deprive

african-americans of the candidate of their choice, trying is to sneak him on to the ballot. the cynicism of a kanye running for president having benefitted from the ppp program to the tune of something like $2 million when businesses are struggling and we're in this moment when people are starving and being pushed out on to the streets and can't pay their rent. the rich people like kanye, honestly, have benefitted in this really unique way from being trumpists and being friends of trump and you contrast that with the average person, typically the average black person, we're disproportionately dying of doefd, disproportionately out in the street. i just think that everything he did during the trump era, including running for president, was ridiculous. and it was -- it was bad for the culture. it was bad for the country, so i'm picking kanye. >> joy says the most approximri, kanye west. what sayeth thou ally velshi?

>> i'm picking the landscaping in philadelphia. for all those things on the list, i can understand motive and execution. i can understand why someone did it and how it happened. i don't understand how the four seasons landscaping thing happened. i get it. somebody called the wrong place, booked the wrong place, thought they were going to the four seasons hotel. but as the cars start pulling up -- you guys know philly. you can't mistake where the four seasons hotel is for where four seasons landscaping is, as you know beside an adult bookstore and crematory yum. you can't get that wrong. at some point, somebody was in the car, why didn't somebody get on a phone and say this is not the right place, call the press and tell them we'll get back to them in two hours. and that told me everything i needed to know about this effort to overturn the election in that moment. that's who's running it. everybody else calm down. it's going to be okay. >> and the team that they have helping to do their logistics is the same team that investigated all of their criminal and civil

components about the election. if they couldn't get the four seasons landscaping right as opposed to the four seasons hotel, no wonder they didn't get anything that made it in court. susan, what is the most ridicu-list. >> i have to go with ali on this. i thought the four seasons but for a different reason. i showed how full circle rudy giuliani came. he started off in new york, fighting time square, cleaning up the sex shops and look where he returned with donald trump standing right there. i can't help it. >> all right, susan. >> some of us could have told you he was a bad guy all the time. i'm sorry, susan, some of y'all were trying to tell you when he was mayor he wasn't a good guy. >> no doubt about it. now let's go to the revvie for the worst trump moments of 12020. and it was a hard one for me coming down to this when i would be on almost until reid out

starts tomorrow night if i did them all. let me get down to the one we came with. there are so many to count but we managed to narrow it down to a few winners. trump ignores russian bounties on u.s. soldiers. he suggests injecting bleach to deal with coronavirus. and he generally ignores and/or lies about the severity of covid pandemic. let's start with you this time, ali. >> well, look, we know because we're people, joy used to be here at msnbc. we were talking about covid in february and in march. we knew back then that it was serious. remember when we first heard the term "community spread" and "social distancing." we didn't know those words one year ago. so, the idea that in march president trump said it's going to disappear, it's going to go to zero. we knew -- people who don't have research teams and experts knew that not to be true. and then we know from bob

woodward's book that he knew too, and because of that, we are where we are. it's not that people wouldn't have gotten sick and wouldn't have died, but i didn't know the president was as important as i now understand had the president to be because that leadership was really important. it's one thing to get things wrong. we all make mistakes and we should have big hearts and we should forgive mistakes. we know he lied. and that's why that one makes it the worst for me. >> all right. susan. what is the worst for you of those that we've listed? >> well, i'm right in sync with ali lately. i would go with covid for all the reasons that ali mentioned but i would like to give a runner up place to the undermining of the election and what he has done to our democracy. he didn't tear down the pillars, but he came very close to it. and especially up until today, the way he has handled himself and talking about a rigged election and talking about potential, people getting ready to go on january 6th. he's practically inciting

violence, and that is, i think, the attack of who we are as a country. >> joy reid. >> it's a tough one for me too. the bounties is just stunning, but it's sort of par for the course of donald trump being more pro-russia than pro-american. i have to go with ali on this one. donald trump knew in january. some senators did as well, who played the market on it. the idea that anyone in leadership in this country knew not only that covid was deadly but that it was airborne and that trump would actually call up bob woodward -- remember, he called woodward. >> right. >> and said, oh, i got to tell you this. this thing is deadly. and then he turned around and went to rally after rally maskless, the fact he ripped off his mask after having covid, setting that poor example. the fact that he has sat back and done nothing but golf while

330-plus-thousand americans have died. rev, you and i are both new yorkers. i'm still shaken by 9/11. the death toll gives me nightmares. the idea we're having that a day and it's nothing to an entire political party. >> outrageous. >> this death toll keeps me up at night. i can't take it. you and i and ali and we report on these shows all the time. i don't know how we even do it. it's hard and people are suffering and dying. and the fact that man knew he could have saved lives and he didn't do it, it is the crime of the century. >> he called woodward and volunteered that he knew in late january -- >> yes. >> -- and knew he was being recorded. woodward said okay, he knew he was being recorded. >> yes. >> which means that he thinks everybody goes along with this insidious kind of behavior. >> that's right. we're just getting started here. before we continue, here's a look at some of the year's most authentic political impressions.

>> where are they going? where are these ballots going? who's getting them? >> and tonight we're not going to stand here and gloat. >> well, maybe -- >> we're not rubbing our victory in everybody's face. >> but like just a tiny bit. >> can't you see my press conference today. it was at the four seasons. fancy. >> yeah. sounds fancy. but it was at a landscaping company called four seasons. was that a mistake? >> what? >> time now to discuss the best moments in political and social activism. here are some of the highlights. black lives matter marches all over america. the commitment march on washington in august. nascar's banning confederate flag during the race car competition. sports boycotts after the killing of george floyd. and the wnba wearing anti-kelly

loeffler shirts on the court. and the push for juneteenth to become a national holiday. let me start with you, susan. >> i think it's the black lives marches around the country without a doubt. really at a time when we were fighting the coronavirus, to see people gathering and really breaking barriers for the first time that i've seen. we're used to seeing these marches and maybe it's young people. maybe it's people of color. you didn't see the amount of white folks marching with people of color that we did this summer. and it really broke through generationally. i think when people see the suffering, they get up close and what george floyd meant and people go into the streets -- >> yep. >> -- it broke through really, really different way this time. now, i can't relate to it as some of you on the panel can,

frankly, but i can feel it in my heart, and i could listen to a lot of people i know who never really paid attention who actually felt it deep inside. and it really touched them emotionally, and again, it just broke through. and i think that means so much for our country. >> i think you're right that it broke through, and even with the commitment march. a lot of people who never paid attention before, the pandemic was shut down. they didn't really pay attention to the eric garner videos and other videos. i think george floyd because when it happened and it was over and over again and people were glued to their set because of the pandemic, wanting to know when the break would, it got through intergenerational and interracial. what do you think, joy? which of the ones we listed is the moment? >> i'm going to agree with susan. i think black lives matter.

and rev, you know that i've written about and really sort of poured a lot of thought into the movement. and you know as somebody who was the younger generation of the civil rights movement, you know, as you were coming up, you know how difficult it is to make that transition of a movement to the next generation and to have it be coherent and cohesive. so, i would even combine the black lives matter marches, which i think were revolutionary. they are the next generation of the movement -- with the commitment march, with the march on washington. you had a peaceful march of tens of thousands of people. but the black lives matter movement in general i think is the movement of our generation. and it's so important, but you have to combine those two because the families -- you preached that funeral, rev. the families have to be part of it. it can't always be front and center. it can't just be the movement. it has to be combined with the activism from the families. >> absolutely. you must always remember the

victims. ali. >> look, i'm with you there. i was in minneapolis for the first days of those rallies and those marches. and while there were real efforts to paint them as violence and thug ri and hoodlums -- i was in front of buildings that were set on fire. there's no question about that. but in fact the majority of the people participating in these rallies were not doing that. there were peaceful marchers. they were black, white, young, old, dogs. this was a real actual movement of people. and while we in tv try and show those things, what tends to happen is certain elements got hold of videos of people looting stores and setting fires to things that made it seem like this was thuggery. this was the biggest movement -- rev you've seen it in your life. i hadn't seen it in my life. this was the first time i had ever seen people coming together and not having had this experience, being able to say i

can empathize, figure it out, take responsibility without taking blame. and on our shows the number of people who tweeted what can i read, what do i watch, what do i need to know that i didn't know? i think it's not just the movement but we have moved the needle on how people see race relations and social justice in this country. >> now we must turn that pain into power in '21. we have more of the revvies coming up for you and more light-hearted moments from the year. let's take a look at some of the 2020s best political sat fire. >> all this mess happened in iowa because of an app. hey, i have an idea for app. it's called no apps. no apps, no computers, no gadgets, no gizmos. >> i'm speaking as part of arizona, some parts of texas. i speak. >> i am sandman. i understand. >> i don't think you do. >> you're really doing a great job. >> it is creepier when you're nice, but thank you. >> no, really, you're taking really good care of us tonight. could you just tell us about the specials please. >> oh. he

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we are back with our panel, msnbc host of the reid out, joy reid, ali velshi. this year was rich with political theater and people who were willing to tell it all. let's talk best political tell-all books. "the room where it happened" by former ambassador john bolton, "disloyal," by michael cohen, "too much and never enough" by trump's niece, mary trump, "rage" by journalist bob woodward, "a promised land" by former president barack obama, and last but not least "rise up" by reverend al sharpton.

y'all know him. what do you say, joy? >> i'm tempted to say, "rise up" but i'll make you a tie with mary trump. boo john bolton. should have testified. no respect. i'll never read your book. sorry. i thought mary trump told the deepest truths this year, and she took the risk because she is in litigation with her family who all tried to scam her side of the family out of the inheritance of the grandfather. if you really want to understand who donald trump is and you don't know reverend sharpton personally so you can't call him and be like, is this really what this guy is like, you need to read that book. mary trump told it all. >> she told it all. ali. >> "rise up" for me as well because you have helped us narrate what we have seen in this, the most important year we have seen since the civil rights movement, and that we will probably see for another 20 years. to joy's point, i like michael

cohen's book for the same reason. he's an insider. he really was right deep inside donald trump's brain and told us stuff that we thought we knew but really brought it home for us. he's somebody you've spoken to as well. i thought that was a meaningful read, giving us insight into who that is. between michael cohen's book and mary trump's book, i thought we got a good picture of donald trump, if we needed a better picture than we already had. >> susan. >> "rise up," i mean, rev, we get to talk to you all the time, so i take joy's point very well. congratulations on the book. it really teaches us a lot, but what's interesting is that we have this dialogue with you every weekend. so, it's interesting to be able to put that all into perspective. but, again, i'm going with joy on mary trump's book and not just because of everything she put in there but because of the tapes that got released along with it to promo it.

i mean, those were something. to hear donald trump's sister talking that way, it backed it all up. and it was also entertaining, if we're allowed to be entertained. >> well, let me just say this for full disclosure, joy saying "rise up" first is not because network staff fractured by joy reid is required reading. let's move on to the "politicsnation" favorite, the alfred c. sharpton, blueberry pie achievement award. every year we look around and ask who has the most blueberry pie on their face. this year, well, president trump. who else? and that time he skipped out of the second presidential debate. is there anyone else who even would come in as a close second? i don't think so. but since i'm talking about that, i think that i'm hanging

out -- i'm handing out blueberry pie slices. i've decided to hand out a few extra slice awards this year. it goes to the following three trump associates, attorney rudy giuliani, sweating brown ink or whatever it was coming down his hair. donald trump's 2020 campaign manager, brad pascal, comparing trump's re-election efforts to a massive space weapon designed to obliterate peaceful planets, calling it a death star. and former trump legal adviser sidney powell for when she filed an emergency petition for the u.s. supreme court to hear one of her wildly maligned kraken lawsuits, which is rife with conspiracy theories in an effort to reverse the election results. let's pause for a quick minute on that and hand it over to my colleague richard lui for a

quick update on today's news stories. >> a very good day to you. some of the stories we're watching this hour on msnbc. first off, just in to us, 30 minutes from nashville law enforcement, they have identified anthony quinn warner, former i will a person of interest in the nashville christmas bombing as the person behind that bombing, that person now deceased, they are reporting. also today, the u.s. has exceeded 19 million coronavirus cases with 1 million added this week alone. meanwhile, almost 2 million americans have received the first dose of either the moderna or pfizer vaccine. more than 9.5 million doses have been delivered to states, territories and federal agencies. new developments about the potentially more contagious coronavirus as well, that variant was discovered in the uk. it has now been documented in other countries, including japan, australia, canada and throughout europe, despite efforts to curve its spread.

the united states has also put new travel restrictions in place that a negative covid test is needed for any passengers flying into the country from the uk. all right. let's toss it now back to reverend al sharpton and the revvie awards. rev. >> thank you, richard. let's take a quick moment to admire my sweat band game. even the madness of 2020 didn't stop me from getting my pre-dawn workouts in. remember get your body right, get your mind right. okay. our next award goes to some unsung heroes of 2020. some of the nominees, stacey abrams, all the black women activists, all the health care workers and first responders, and the fly on mike pence's head during the vice presidential debate. all right. susan, you up first this time. >> i'm going to go with the health care workers and the first responders. from what we saw in new york

city beginning in march and into april and may and what they went through and continuing through and looking at what is happening across the country now, i think every new yorker can really feel for the people around the rest of the country who are going through these horrible, horrible numbers. and they put it all on the line for us. they did -- they said good-bye to their families for months on end just to be there and do their job. and it's just a shame that the president just didn't have their backs. and, you know, they really do deserve the biggest shoutout there is. >> ali velshi. >> i remember, you know, those early nights of covid at 7:00 every night in new york people would open their windows and clap for those health care workers. and the good news is i'm not choosing them because i actually feel they're not unsung. there's one lesson we've learned is that you owe these people a hug and a kiss for saving our lives. i think the same thing for

stacey abrams. i think you may have begun the year, some americans who didn't know who she is. hopefully very few people know who she is now. i will pick the fly on mike pence's head for personal reasons. the weekend after the vice presidential debate i was doing a live show in arizona and a fly literally landed on my head, and the director said, there's a fly on your head. and i thought, yeah, right, i just fell off the turnip truck. of course there's a fly on my head. and i didn't remove the fly from my head because i thought he was making a mike pence joke. so, i sat for four minutes on national tv with a fly on my head thanks to mike pence and could have ruined my career. >> ali very well cher, i'm not what the weird obsession donald trump has with you, but i get it. i think you're amazing. he's obsessed with ali. what is happening? i think it's because you're an original kenyan muslim. i think that gets to him.

i'm going to cheat again and pick a tie between the health care workers, who i think are the heroes of the whole world. but also the black woman activist. stacey abrams, but also people like latasha brown. it's a three-way tie. >> absolutely. >> sri to say these health care workers are battling -- they're fighting a war against covid. and they could not, i don't believe we as a country could not have taken four more years of this kind of leadership. and i think about what they'd be going through if people like latasha brown, people like stacey abrams, if the black lives matter activists, wnba strong young women hadn't come out and said we are changing the politics of this country for the better. wither going to stop donald trump and make him a one-term president. i thank god every day for the activists who won this election. >> absolutely. >> and the voters and activists who made it happen. we can't do for more years of that. >> absolutely. i think it's a three-way tie,

the health care workers, absolutely and certainly stacey and the black women activists that did black lives matter and the commitment march, ebony riley and others. >> yes. >> and you must remember, unlike ali, when i was a kid in the civil rights movement, we did this one this year in a pandemic. we had to organize huge marches -- >> yep. >> -- and hope nobody got sick. more big awards are on the way. first time now for a look back at one interesting interview i had with the terminator, the terminator, on "politicsnation." >> i'm so happy that you are exercising every morning. i see you when you post in the gym, with the head band around it and sweating. that's the proof that you're actually working out really hard. you're sweating. this is really great. this is another thing we have in common is interest in being fit. >> that's right. have to be fit. have to be fit for the fight. >> that's right, yeah. >> thank you.

>> thank you very much. thank you, al. thank you >> thank you very much thank you, al. ma

welcome back to the 2020 revvie awards from rockefeller center. here's your host, al sharpton. >> our next category has so many possible nominations, we couldn't fit them all in. i'm talking about the worst trump tweet of the year. here's a few to get us started. trump tweets are always a fountain of disinformation, but this tweet from october 5th may just be the most dangerously dishonest ever. president trump urging americans not to be afraid of covid and claiming to feel better than he did 20 years ago after receiving highly experimental treatments for the coronavirus that most of us still don't have access to. don't try this at home, folks.

trump's may 26th tweet, claiming mailboxes will be robbed if mail-in voting is allowed. it was a bit of a milestone. his first tweet to be flagged by twitter for election misinformation. but certainly not the last. three days later on the 29th, another infamous trump tweet. the president threatening that when the looting starts, the shooting starts. as many americans were taking to the streets peacefully to protest racial injustice. and you can't really talk about trump's twitter feed without acknowledging the strangeness of it all, the odd capital zagss and nicknames and seemingly random retweets. this september 2nd tweet may have been the first time a sitting u.s. president ever attacked his political rival in emojis.

but alass, it was a campaign tactic that was quickly abandoned. let me go to the panel. joy, what is the worst and most startling of the few we named? i know we could be on the rest of the night if we went through all of them. >> absolutely. it's really hard to pick. you know, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. he's quoting an old miami racist sheriff from 1968. having lived there for 14 years, i'm tempted to say that. i can't get past the death toll. with 330,000 people dead, it's don't let covid dominate your life. donald trump pretty much, that's been his policy. it's been basically let everybody get sick and he thinks herd immunity is going to happen and it isn't. he's responsible. he's sitting on 330,000 bodies. i'm going with don't let covid dominate your life. that's his legacy, that death toll. >> the stock market one got my attention because what donald

trump doesn't get is that most people, half of americans, don't have stock and most of the stock goes to a very small number of people. the top 1% get most of it, the top 10% get the rest of it. and once you're past the top th country, you've got nothing meaningful to do with the stock market. the idea that he associates with economy with the stock market, and i was out there for a few months before the elections talking to americans every weekend. and people were falling for this. they kept telling me how great the economy was. it's like, the economy is not great at all. we're in a recession. there are food banks, there are people who are food insecure and homeless in this country. there are people sleeping on the street. what are you talking about. but this mantra of carrying on about the stock market. and i'm a stock market guy. i'm a capitalist, i'm a business reporter. i've reported on the stock market for more than 25 years. i get what the stock market the for. this isn't hit. so i think that that's really damaging, because it continues to let people think that there's some connection between the stock market and the well-being of everyday americans.

>> susan? >> i think it's "don't be afraid of covid." and when he tweeted it, he was leaving walter reed hospital after being treated for it, with a staff of doctors, which the president is entitled to, but americans don't get -- every day, americans don't get to have that. they don't get to have the special treatment that he got, that his friends now get if they get covid and if they take care of rudy giuliani because they know the president. and it goes to obvious point two. if it's good for his friends and the elite, it must be good for everybody. just the callousness in which he operates is just horrible. and those -- that number, 330,000 people died under his watch and it could have been stopped. don't be afraid of covid. be very afraid of covid, because it's still happening and we're about to go into a dire season for the next couple of months. so we should all be afraid and take every precaution we can.

>> absolutely. and joy, did you hear ali velshi say he's a stock market guy and a capitalist? he must think we don't watch his show. we know that. >> i know! >> keep it right here. we've got some predictions for 2021 that you don't want to miss. stay with us. >> announcer: the tenth annual revy awards will be right back. l revy awards will be right ba ck when you're through with powering through, it's time for theraflu hot liquid medicine. powerful relief so you can restore and recover. theraflu hot beats cold. my kids, they know i'm a scientist. but it's hard to explain to them what i do every day. ♪ right now, i'm working on purification technologies that help advance vaccine and therapy research for covid-19. one day, they'll realize i wasn't just trying to help them go out and play again. i was trying to make it safer for the whole world

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i predict that if donald trump, who i think will lose the

popular vote, but whatever happens in the electoral college, if he doesn't come out on top, i think he'll take it to court. i don't think he will accept losing, if, in fact, he is declared the loser, and i think that regardless, i think we're going to end up in court, in part also because of a lot of chicanery around voter suppression. >> susan? >> well, i do believe donald trump will be acquitted by the senate once he's impeached by the house. i believe the majority of senators will vote to have him leave and not vote -- yeah, i think -- >> you think -- >> yeah, i think it will -- or more. i think you see four or five republican senators vote to convict donald trump. >> yes, we're wrapping things up here at the revvies, ending with a look at our judge's great expectations, their predictions for 2021. as you can see, we'll be saving this tape to embarrass you all at the revvies next year, so

choose wisely. each panelist has just 30 seconds. let me start with you, susan. >> well, first of all, hands down to joy reid. i mean, she called it. i didn't. i got it wrong. but i will say, my prediction for 2021 is that even though -- while donald trump's inauguration speech in 2017 scared a lot of americans and sent a chill through us, i think joe biden's inauguration speech in 2021 will lend us hope and inspiration and hopefully create a unity among this country. >> ali velshi? >> well, listen. you know, we saw civic activism and civics lessons for all of us in the last four years and particularly in the last year, but it's still been spent on dealing with a guy who takes all of the oxygen out of the room all the time. i think now americans are in a position to move this

conversation forward on things like climate, on things like social justice, on things like poverty, on health care for all, on peace and these wars that are going on around the world. i think we are going to take this energy and move it into actually taking a leadership role again in the world and making this a better place. it's going to be -- the lift is as heavy, the work is going to feel better. >> and joy reid? >> well, you know, i'm going to be ironic, given that my name is joy. i, unfortunately, predict that we are in for a period of incredible instability, hopefully not violence between the sixth of january and the inauguration on the 20th. i think that trump is in it to burn everything down on his way out. and i think that from the day that mike pence hits that gavel and announces that he, indeed, lost the election, until the inauguration, he's going to incite incredible instability, maybe violence. i think we should be very careful and very wary. >> well, i think that '21 is full of possibilities. the question is, will we make

possibilities realities? i also think that it is going to be in the history books, 20, 30, 40 years from now that we had the first african-american president and then the first african-american vice president and sandwiched in between was some poison and some things that people should not eat. it will be ironic that he will be sandwiched between two african-americans first. only god could have that kind of set-up. that does it for us. we'll have a lot of fun as we go forward, but seriously, trying to make joy come to the world and justice to all of its people. joy, ali, and susan, thank you for being with us this year. i'll see you all back here next weekend. both saturday and sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next, my colleague, alicia menendez picks up our news

coverage. >> reporter: you've been watching the 2020 revvie awards! brought to you by reverend al sharpton and "politics nation." thanks for watching! we'll see you next year. have a happy holiday season! a major break in the nashville explosion. minutes ago, federal investigators identified the suspected bomber and confirmed he died in the blast. the big question remains, what was the motive? also tonight, pleading with the president. a group of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle urging president trump to sign the emergency relief bill or veto it immediately. and attorney general william barr may be gone from the justice department, but his legacy on civil rights will be felt for years to come. how will the biden administration restore faith in the system? this is "american voices." #