♪ it's the end of a historic turbulent and at times frightening year. a year that gave us the rise of a pandemic and the end of the trump presidency. for the next hour sit back and relax, we're bringing you interviews with some of the smartest, most interesting and entertaining people around. in a moment, my conversation with the great rachel maddow on the american politician who has rightfully been called trump before trump. former vice president spero agnew. >> he was pushing all of the

same levers that trump is pushing but he did it in a way that was arrow indict and correct and artic lit. >> later joe scarborough joins me on his new book about president harry truman. >> he came from missouri. his botparents were both pro-confident. and he moves to integrate the armed services. >> also author michael eric dyson taking on mitch mcconnell. >> he is enacting some of the worst practices we've seen in the history of this nation in regard to a senator blocking the coming to fruition of legislation that could relieve the hurt and suffering of black people. >> and at the end of the hour, the amazing leslie jones, need i say more. >> i let them know that i was

not going to do any interview first but yours. that is right. because i lovejoy. because joy to the world, joy to the fishes and the deep blue sea. i love joy. >> but first my conversation with the great rachel maddow. >> donald trump's presidency has felt unprecedented. but before there was a donald trump attacking the norms of our democracy, there was a spero agnew. >> a narrow and distorted picture of america often emerges from the televised news. >> if you want to discover the source of the division in our country, look no further than the fake news and the crooked media. >> liberalism today translates into a pussy-footing on the words of law and order. >> they don't like to use the words. >> the conduct of the high

individuals in the department of justice is unprofessional, and malicious and outrageous. >> our justice department and our fbi have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now. >> what is happening is a disgrace. >> in her new book, "bag man, the wild crimes, audacious cover up and downfall of a brazen crook in the white house" and then spero agnew ran from in the of the white house. the playbook he wrote to try to save himself was left its own long legacy for the elected official who prides himself on busting through norms. if saving yourself means undermining the institutions of democracy, the department of justice and the free press for starters, well, fire up the backhoe. i'm joining now by the host of

the rachel maddow show and author of the new book and peabody nominated podcast "bagman", the great rachel maddow. i have to start by asking how is susan? >> thank you. thank you, thank you, for all of that. i have never seen the juxtaposition in tape there of agnew and trump. i've bon done it. that was amazing. but susan is much better. she's dealing with the long tail of the symptoms that a lot of people have to deal with and that sucks but we are not scared in the way that we are and we are out of the woods as they say, and so, boy, it took us a full week to eat through the gift package that you sent but we buckled down and we did it. so thank you. >> i could be counted on, i get to be counted on for food and

drink. that is what i could do. i could do food and drink. that is the first and most important thing. aand i have to give it to up rachel who produced this segment. so you know our producers are everything. so she found that incredible video. and so the thing that is so amazing by that twoez, you write in your book, history is here to help and freak us out. because as i am reading through this book and dog earring it and destroying it, which is what i do to books, it is freaky. spero agnew is a version of donald trump, attacking the press, the racism, the anti-semitism and everybody loves me until i get into the white house and then everybody hates me. the attacks are so symmetrical. >> you talk about what people is trying to do to undermine democracy and the way that he plays fast and lose with

authoritarian trend lines and all of the stuff that he pushes and a lot of smart people will say, yeah, well, yeah, this is buffoonish and it is easy to fail and laugh at trump doing these things but what about when the slicker version of trump comes around, the less ham-fisted version of trump comes around to try to do these things and history is here to remind us that already happened. agnew was pushing all of the same levers that trump is pushing but he did it in a what that was arrow dicht and he was still seen as a crook and forced from office because of it. it is comforting because there isn't really anything new under the sun but the lesson of how to deal with guys like that is not that they go away on their own or they could be -- i don't know -- neutralized, but there were good people in office who put country above party, who put

duty above partisanship and they fixed it. >> absolutely. and i think that is the story. and you do write in the book and in the podcast that it is the story of these guys who stayed straight ahead and stared straight ahead and did their jobs that wind up fixing this but we have to count on enough of those to save our democracy. let's talk about the scandal. it is a wild story. george herbert walker shows up. but the fact that you have this crook operating a bribery scheme dating back to governor of maryland, a state people doesn't realize how corrupt it was, so he's operating as a corrupt figure and there is a bribery scandal but talk about the fact that you have this happening kind of simultaneous with watergate but they are not connected. >> exactly. and that is part of what i think was sort of forgotten in the history of agnew. if people remember him at all,

they think it must have been a watergate adjacent thing. there is a lot of people who went to jail or got charged in watergate adjacent things and it was nixon with the cover up and the people involved if the crime and his attorney general went to jail. you remember that there were so many -- you assume that it must have been that way for agnew, too. no. totally separate taking bags of cash for kickbacks for government contracts and he started doing it as baltimore county executive and as maryland governor and he kept taking the bribes, envelopes stuffed of cash while in the white house. that is what confronts elliott richardson. one of nixon's attorney general that didn't go to prison and nixon fired for not doing his biddy. nixon is like i'm get crazy phone calls every day from nixon and nixon is in the hospital with pneumonia, the watergate is

gearing up and richardson is clear that nixon is holding on by a thread in terms of the presidency. what happens if nixon goes. agnew goes into the oval office and he knows that agnew is taking cash bribes as vice president and it is a whole different type of felon and this is a national security imperative. the idea that the country might collapse if a president is forced out from book a crook, immediately elevating his vice president who is then has to be forced out for being a cook. i mean, what happens? so it really put the fire, i think, under richardson in terms of how to deal with it. and that is one of the things where there isn't a parallel of trump because there is no way to force him out of office for facing indictment but that is where they landed with agnew. >> and the thing that is fascinating is that you confront this country, confronted this question about whether or not you could indict a president.

but there is that olc memo on whether or not you could indict a vice president. and you have agnew and nixon asserting that you could not. they are protected absolutely by the office from indictment. talk about how that connects us to where we are now. because there has been a lot of this talk about whether donald trump, who is also seen by a lot of people as corrupt, maybe criminally corrupt, could be indicted, particularly on something like say obstruction where he seems to be dead to rights named in the mueller report. talk about how the agnew scandal relates to that. >> and you could call him president individual one. he's already named by federal prosecutors in the michael cohen hush money case. he is named by prosecutors as being the person to directed the commission of the felonies. so it is a live issue with trump. but this is some of the stuff that made me want to write the book. we advanced reporting on this

after the podcasting came to what an unsettling revelation about that. presidents, including donald trump, do have a get-out-of-jail-free card from the just department because of the policy that a president can't be indicted. where that comes from is the agnew scandal and it comes from nixon and agnew hating each other. and nixon and agnew having separa separate scandals at the same time. agnew went to the democratic speaker of the house and said i would like you to impeach me. and the speaker is like, no, i don't want to do that. but if he thought if he was impeached, that would keep him from getting indicted. his lawyers are saying, no. and what the office of legal council comes up with, and check the way nixon wants it to come out and what they come up with is that the vice president could be indicted and the president cannot.

and that was specifically because nixon didn't want the impeachment machinery to start for agnew but if he was going to get indicted, he didn't want to get indicted himself. he was trying to face himself in the face of his gangster vice president getting thrown out of office. it is not so founding fathers on a tablet given to moses. the get owl of jail free card keeping him out of jail is from this fight between these two felons. >> it is a mazing. this era has been so toxic. but the '60s and '70s keep coming like hold my beer. we'll show you crazy. you're great, rachel. what an incredible book. congratulations on "bag man". >> and no one could read my book. and still ahead on our reidout

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in his new book saving freedom, truman the cold war, joe scarborough details the way that the truman doctrine has shaped the foreign policy and american's roll. when trump struck a nerve with voters his ignorance of history preventing his administration from making progress on any significant foreign policy issue over four years. back with me is joe scarborough, author of "saving freedom," and i'm enjoying this a lot. >> all right. >> i am really intrigued by harry truman. i'm a history buff any way. but he's an interesting figure

because he's this guy, sort of racist senator from missouri who writes his wife a little note about n-words and chinamen and then comes in and does more to actually advance the cause of racial equality for black americans than fdr did. taking -- allowing black people to get into the military and the federal work force. he did a lot in changing. how do you think he also changes our foreign policy? >> well i want to talk about that first, because it is fascinating to see how much he grew. he came from missouri. his parents were both pro-confederate. he had a racist background and yet here is a guy in 1948, election year when he knows it is going to hurt him politically, he moves to integrate the armed services and sure enough therman breaks out and they walk out of the convention in '48 and he's

getting attacked by henry wallos on the left and thurman on the right and he frankly didn't give a damn, as clark gable might say. he thought it was the right thing to do given the service black americans gave during world war ii and he thought it had to be done. and it is another example of how harry truman grew in his life. this is a guy that was mocked and ridiculed when he came to washington, d.c. he was called a rube by the "new york times," "time magazine" called him a mousey little man from missouri. and yet after he became president of the united states, after fdr's sudden death, he had to guide this country through the end of world war ii, but also into a very turbulent peace time when americans and especially republicans in the senate were isolationists. they didn't want to be boeshthe by europe or the rest of the

world. they had just gotten past defeating hitler but joseph stalin and the soviet union had a great risk to central europe and across the world and truman marshalls the resources and support from republicans and democrats alike to actually stand up and contain the soviet union spread and to ensure freedom in europe and created really more than any other president over the past 75 years, created the world that we live in today. >> and it is interesting because there is ambivalence about him. there is the hiroshima and nagasaki which was cruel to have done and we are the only country that has used nuclear weapons but he is somebody in a did grow as president. contrast that with the current guy because he is not growing. >> it is hard to contrast with the current guy because truman believed in plain speaking.

he said the buck stops here. he likes making difficult decisions and slept better at night after he did what he thought was the right thing to do. he didn't blame other people for his mistakes. he took responsibility. and i believe at the end he changed the world for the better. >> he was an adult. joe scarborough, it is great -- >> he was an adult. >> it helps. author of saving freedom, pick it up. still ahead, michael eric dyson has proof that america's real religion is whiteness. we'll be right back.

in the opening of his new book, michael eric dyson writes directly to elijah mcclain. a 23-year-old man who died in police custody. we are about to see if it is true that we are one, to see if your death and those of ahmadar bury and and others are viewed as worthy of the moral revulsion and from there the change of practice and belief that would prove a real reckoning is taking place. congress has not yet passed police reform. some have met their unlikely death in grim reaper mitch

mcconnell's senate. and the author of long time coming, reconning with race in america. michael, it is good to see you. we'll talk about the book but i want to ask you, what you make of this attempt by mitch mcconnell to rebrand himself in part by touting police reform, having signed a police reform bill. we know he blocked the one during president obama's tenure and if the house had passed a much more comprehensive one with choke hold bans and getting rid of qualified immunity and they shoved tim scott out front to be the face man for it. do you think there is a way that mcconnell could launder his reputation based on that. >> no. it is utterly ridiculous. first of all, this revisionist history before our very eyes. usually people a wait a couple of years to try to tell the story again of what they did and did not do. and yet mitch mcconnell here is

caught in the very vice grip of a kind of revisionist aesthetic that said we're going to paint everythinglike we did it great back then and he wasn't as great as he said back then and he isn't as great as he thinks he is right now. and to stand in the way of making sure that a comprehensive piece of legislation passes, after one of the most rancorous and horrible summers that we've ever endured in the long trek toward transformation of race in this country, suggest that mitch mcconnell is not only tone deaf but he is color blind in the worst sense of the fashion, the worst sense of the word. he refused to acknowledge the persistence of color in this culture and that black continues to be a thing that generates such deep and profound opposition that a policeman could put his knee on the neck of a black man laying on the pavement and his pallet and

asphyxiation him before our very eyes. if mitch mcconnell is unwitting but a accomplice and now to portray himself as somehow martin luther mcconnell is problematic. >> and in your new book you talk about reckoning with race in america. and i think about mitch mcconnell centrality and his filibusters, using that good old fashion southern technique, this is a man from alabama who used it against president obama, said you can't even put anybody on the federal court, you don't have the right. you're not a real president. and then to try to tout his deputy becoming attorney general of kentucky and for that black man to lie about the grand jury proceedings so that he could let white officers off for killing

breonna taylor, i feel like mitch mcconnell is just as center to the sort of diminution of black life that we've seen over the last ten years as trump. >> there is no question about that. that on the one hand, i talk in the book about fast terror and slow terror. fast is when bombs drop and they hurt us by the police who hurt and harm and kill us. slow terror is kicking kids out of school, denying them opportunity to be fed, both mentally and physically. mitch mcconnell in this sense, if donald trump is a fast terrorist, a fast racist, then mitch mcconnell is taking a slower train toward racial revulsion. he is enacting some of the worst practices we've seen in the history of this nation in regard to a senator blocking the coming to fruition of legislation that could relieve the hurt and suffering of black people. and to proudly stand up and say that he wanted to make obama a one-term president, this shows us that the real religion in

america is whiteness. the wheel politics in mitch mcconnell's orbit are whiteness. the worship of whiteness at the altar of whiteness and therefore donald trump is the product of a womb that has generated this disfigured third person in terms of politics, but mitch mcconnell is part of that couple. mitch mcconnell gives life and breath to the very denunciation of blackness that donald trump has been so vehemently denounced for and puts forward a black face representation in daniel cameron so there is a vent rillo kwix going on and mitch mcconnell's thoughts are coming through his tongue. this is the worst geppetto we've seen and pulling the strings was one of the worst white supremacist enactments in the last 15 years in american politics. >> and you write about reckoning with race. and talk to me about how we do

that when somebody like this guy can start off at the march on washington at 20 years old and get all of the way here, right. get all the way to the place where he's denying a black president's humanity and right to even occupy the office. if he could fall that far, i mean this guy was against, he was for having sanctions on south africa. that is a true thing. for him to have devolved into whatever this is that mitch mcconnell is now, blocking the john lewis bill on voting rights from getting to the floor, blocking people from getting rent relief, people are hungry, people are standing in food lines, people are suffering and he doesn't give a damn. if people could devolve that mu much, i don't know how we reckon in this era. do you have an answer this in book. >> he was mistakenly there. he was accidentally there. he did not deliberately go to attend the march. he even mitted that he couldn't

hear the words martin luther king jr. uttered that day and this many years later he still could not hear the resounding echo of aetfying sonic appeal from a magic trumpet of conscience like martin luther king jr., he still tone deaf and incapable of listening to the calls and cries of black people who say what will be done in the senate to at least acknowledge the centrality of race and the degree which people are punished by legislation and practices on the street. so mitch mcconnell ain't never been there for real to begin with and even now, yes, how we reckon where it, because black foam folk know this is not the first time we've seen this. we've seen this from get-go. from the very beginning. white people who pretend to be our friends and then stab us in the back. and what we understand is that mitch mcconnell is showing us that diversity by itself without equity, without justice means nothing. think about it.

the police people who killed george floyd, two white men, a black man and an asian man. that is diversity, but toward an unjust goal. that is diversity but without equity being embraced so mitch mcconnell is articulating the noble ideals and words but he is falling short on follow through with black people always dealing with this from the very beginning. this ain't the first time. we believe in people who transcend barriers and we know that blackness will survive even this -- [ inaudible ]. >> the book is long time coming. reckoning with race in america. another must-read book from michael eric dyson, my friend, thank you very much. appreciate you being here tonight. don't go anywhere. my interview with comedian leslie jones is up next. you do not want to miss it. stay with us. with us ♪ sanctu (kids laughing) (dog barking)

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of our lives. the past ten months have been a stream of unrelenting stream of agoony. trump's abysmal performance has added insult to injure. but all is not lost. there are glimmers of hope and joy out there. take for example comedienne leslie jones and host of "supermarket sweep" who made her cable news commentary a favorite spectator sport. >> i came just so i could see you again, katie. fire is what i think when i see you. he's a trump impersonator. how disgustingly sad. that is why i want to know, georgia, what part of georgia is this? mitch mcconnell crying is like the devil weeping over not being able to kill 50 more people. >> that geraldo rivera? wait a minute. geraldo rivera is a trumper. you up here with a chart you

can't even read. he can't even read this chart. this is exactly what we supposed to be doing, just like he said, the government is supposed to look like what america looks like. man, i've loving it biden and kamala. >> and mostly sunny jonshe just instagram live event with candidate jon ossoff and leslie jones joins me now. i have to tell you, this is proof that god changes things because i was like, please could we try to book leslie jones because your commentary about politics is my favorite thing in the entire world. i pretty much only want to listen to you talk about politics. how did this begin? how did you start on this journey of commenting on everything that happens in politics on msnbc. >> okay, first of all, joy, i let them know that i was not going to do any interview first but yours. that is right. i lovejoy. joy to the world and the deep

blue sea. i love joy. >> i love you too. and i've gotten a chance to see -- mm-hmm. >> no, it started, i saw one day and i was like oh, my god and just started watching and i think at the time steve was at the board and i was like who is this guy? he's thorough and awesome. who is he? he looks concerned. i need him many any life. and that is how it started. >> so but let me quickly play a little montage for our audience that has not heard your commentary about all of those on msnbc. here it is. >> they are brother and sister. seriously. because they have both this sarcasticness and passive aggressiveness that we need when we're getting some [ bleep ] off our chest. >> this is lawrence. is this guy lawrence? >> i like that guy. he's very common. >> brian is petty. i love him.

>> i bow at the altar of the magnificent of the geometrical -- it is just -- he's not even moving. >> when nicki put ore glasses on, that means there is some [ bleep ] that needs to be read. i'm only here for nicki today. >> maybe he has a whole bunch of these pants? i don't know. but he's my hero. he's my hero right now. >> joy! do you see him, joy? do you see that purple suit? joy, do you know you talking to morris day? [ laughter ] >> okay, i fell on the floor. i mean, i watched that about 400 times because he did put that purple suit on. he meant it. >> it is not purple. it is blue. it is blue. i promise. >> he really truly did it with authority. but when you look at politics

today, i've had the blessing of seeing you do comedy live and you are obviously historically funny. but how do you find your ability to laugh at the way that things have gone over the last four years? how have you preserved that just for yourself? >> because i'm 53 years old, joy, i've been through a lot of presidencies, you know what i'm saying. >> was around with reagan. i've been here a long time and i have a great sense of humor. a and you have to have a great sense of humor in life. either you're going to cry all night or your going to laugh. would you rather laugh. >> yeah. >> you foe my favorite thing to do is to do crowd work and the person that i'm talking about make them laugh the most. i just find joy in doing -- joy, i find joy in doing it. it is so fun. and it makes everybody happy. and look, joy, people who didn't know each other before, now know

each other. like all of these people, i don't know them. madam albright, or somebody told me, i didn't know she was somebody. i thought she was a dude walking on a jacket. you know what i'm saying. james car vel, i couldn't believe it. i love it. i love that they love it. >> and you're making people love politics. so i have to ask you, you were just in georgia, you did an event for jon ossoff, i don't know if you got a chance to watch this debate that took place this past week but let me play a little bit of it for those that didn't see it. >> our senator has been absent, is absent, doesn't think he needs to be here answering questions. doesn't think he needs to be in washington passing relief for the people. >> when you receive the private briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic, you dumped millions of dollars of stock in order to protect your own

investments and then weeks later, when there came an opportunity to give ordinary georgians an extra $600 of relief, you said you saw no need and called it counter-productive. why do you think it is count counter-productive to help ordinary georgians in the middle of a pandemic. >> what do you make of this race and what do you think the stakes are for the country? >> well, i think everybody needs to know that the people that are in senate now, that need place taken, are not taking care of this country. that is what we need to look at it. it is very obvious. we have people who have died and people who are unemployed, people who are hungry and losing their jobs and their businesses and these, all of these people pay taxes. we were looking for america to take care of us. that is the first thing. second of all, what is at stake is our democracy.

you know, how can you not look at these two candidates and not want them to represent your state. what a man, what a man, what a man, what a good man. that is what we want our senate to look like. we want our senate to look like that. >> yeah. and let me ask you this, because i've gone to see new clubs and in comedy clubs and there are so many performers that are hurting right now that depended on live performances in nightclubs, on the places where you have done so much work to get where you are today, does it frustrate you and enrage you that it is so hard to get our representatives to just pass a bill that could help folks like that, the people who are suffering that way? >> you know, what i i'm more mad about it. i'm not as mad at them as i'm mad at us for people for not making them do it. do you have understand what i'm saying? how are we divided right now.

that makes no sense. how we made this pandemic a political thing makes me absolutely enraged. and it makes me go, okay, it is -- is half of our country selfish and are you not thinking, are you not taking this serious after you've seen 300,000 people -- and just the sight of seeing bodies in a freez freezer truck, joy, how does that not break -- even if you don't believe i'm going to wear a mask because i don't want to be part of the bad stuff that is going on. come on, you guys. when are we going to start thinking about each other and instead of our own agendas. >> absolutely. amen to that. i have to ask you one question about" supermarket sweep." so you need to give some advice. if i was on the show, would it make more sense logically to go

for the big mega pack of diapers or to go for the ham? because i feel like go for the ham is the way people want to go but which way should you go? >> well, the hams, i think the hams are priced at $65 and the diapers are priced at something like $47. so it is always good to go for the meat first. the meat. and then plus we have a lot of items that are marked with the gold, with a gold sticker so you know that it is over $100. so it is always good to go for the meat because they got $300 meat over there and they have -- all of the steaks are $65. it is always good to go for the meat first. i understand that diapers cost a lot. >> i love you. amen. leslie jones, i love you and there is nothing you could do about it. i adore you. thank you so much for being here. you have literally made our night. you might have made my year. i'm retiring now. i'm retiring now because you came on my show. >> before we take a quick break, take a look at some of our

favorite moments from the first six months of the reidout. >> good evening. my first guest is the man who will face donald trump in november. former vice president joe biden. former secretary of state hillary clinton, senator kamala harris of california. >> joining me now is stacy ab raps. >> nancy pelosi. >> and breaking news now tonight from the department of justice. >> from the streets of kenosha, wisconsin, where protesters are continuing after another police shooting of a black man. >> the most volatile post election transition period in modern american history. >> we have some breaking news that we have to report to you. unfortunately that news is that ruth bader ginsburg associate justice of the united states supreme court has died apparently. a short time ago donald trump left the white house and was flown to walter reed medical center in bethesda, maryland.

it was described as a precautionary measure after he tested positive for the coronavirus. >> there are moments in this job when you realize that your witnessing some of the great horrors of history. this is a president who was just hospitalized for an intensely contagious disease, he is still highly contagious, highly contagious and he took off his mask. a highly infectious person standing there surrounded by many other people. i'm joined by jerron smith, from the trump administration. >> do you accept and believe that joe biden is the president-elect of the united states? >> well, i think we should just let the nation kind of run its course on the investigations and lawsuits. >> what investigations specifically? >> well, i mean, there is a number of lawsuits that we filed that -- >> give me a specific one.

name me one. name me one that has not already been thrown out? >> i'm not going to get specific, but generally -- >> but you said it, but hold on, you said you think it should run its course in the investigations so you ought to know what investigations you mean and what you are alleging happened. >> well i wasn't being specific. i mean generally. >> i'm joined now by cory bush. >> you're a working class woman. do you think that that is what is missing in congress? so many of those people are millionaires and multi-millionaires. so many of them are not -- disconnected from the idea that $600 extra in your unemployment check could make all of the difference in the world. do you think the fact that you could relate to those kind of struggles and do you think that that would make you a different kind of congresswoman and in what way would you be different? >> yes.

it will make me a different congress person. someone who has lived out ever my car, let me tell you, that pain of the struggle that i've been through, i could still feel that pain right now. so that pain is walking with me into the doors of congress. and that is what is going to feed me. that is what is going to fuel everything that i do. >> and i'm joined now by jacob blake's father. i want to talk about how jacob is doing. how are his spirits? and what is his prognosis for recovery? >> he's heavily sedated so he's in and out of consciousness. and he's hanging on and he's hanging on so tough that they can't write him off. he's a tough -- he's a tough guy. >> if he's paralyzed, shackling him makes no sense, right. he's not going anywhere. >> it made no sense for the seven shots in his back. that made no sense. >> right. and is he charged -- >> none of this makes sense to me. >> kamala harris has now made

history. as the first black woman to join a major party ticket. today former vice president joe biden has chosen kamala harris to be his running mate. for a lot of black women in america, this is the ultimate affirmation. never again will little black girls and brown girls and white girls and asian girls think of the vice president of the united states and not see themselves. vote for all the people denied for centuries this buy sick right of citizen ship. the enslaved who still had to fight for the vote 100 years after the 13th amendment. women who went to jail for demanding suffrage and only got it on the 19th out of 27 amendments to the constitution. votes because our rights matter. our lives matter. our planet matters and because you matter. >> there is more to come on the reid out holiday special. don't go anywhere. reid out holiday special don't go anywhere. on a new cozy bedroom

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tonight on a special edition of "all in" american democracy dodged a bullet. now as we enter 2021 it's time to fix the system. >> in my own lifetime republicans have only won the popular vote once. >> if you're from a small town like me with more elk than people, your vote should count. >> we'll talk about big structural changes like apologize accomplishing the electoral college, adding more supreme court justices or two more states to change the balance of