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formalized a deal that cements their control of the united states senate. president biden and his colleagues have made it clear that on covid relief, they have zero interest in waiting on republicans. yesterday democrats pushed forward with a motion to pass biden's $1.9 trillion covid package with or without republican support. mitch mcconnell called the move totally partisan. which is rich coming from a guy who used the exact same tool to pass a $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich. you'll notice that republicans love to wave the word unity like a bloody shirt when they criticize democrats. you know what's better than fake unity, action, action that helps people. that's the job of governing. in many ways, we're now down to just one governing party. this morning speak nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer led a congressional tribute to brian sicknick who died during the insurrection last month. >> each day when members enter

the capitol hill, this temple of democracy, we will remember his sacrifice and others that day who fought so hard to protect the capitol and the congress. >> that somber tribute stood in stark contrast to the other big story coming from the capitol today, the utter crackup of the gop. house republicans are currently going at each other over their support for donald trump in a closed-door conference meeting. in one corner is liz cheney who defended her vote to impeach the president. in the other are all the members who supported overthrowing the will of 81 million americans. another topic is what to do with marjorie taylor greene. not one to infuriate a core constituency of his party, kevin

mccarthy, issued a statement late this afternoon insuring that he gave her a stern talking to. he left the punishment, however, to democrats. the congresswoman remains unrepentant. >> just like every single other person, yeah, i have said things i shouldn't say at some time or another. i don't think i have anything to apologize for. >> america, and more importantly, the republican party, has faced this predicament before. back in the late 1950s and '60s, the far right fringe group was the john birch society cofounded by the father of the koch brothers along with robert welch. the society became so influential, it endorsed barry goldwater's candidacy for president and voter's association of him with them arguably helped bring it down.

remember, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. apparently extremism, it actually is a vice. unlike mccarthy, conservative leaders like richard nixon, william buckley, despite their anticommunist zeal, rallied to boot them out of the party calling them nuts who were devoid of conservative ideals and they chased them out, or at least they quieted them down. they opposed adding fluoride to the nation's water supply, saying it was a mass medical treatment and most of the united states government, including dwight d. eisenhower, were under secret communist mind control. today mother jones is reporting that greene was a moderator of a group that pushed racist memes

and championed the john birch society. she proclaims her hate on social media, a modern day bircher. joining me now is david jolly, and david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and the journalist behind that scoop on the "q" congresswoman. i will start with you david corn. so, today you had actually the speaker of the house refer to kevin mccarthy as "q" california because he just won't rein this woman in. we're hearing that marjorie "q" got a standing "o" when she gave a speech. are we basically back to the john birch society moment here

for the gop? >> we are, but it seems to be the flip side of that moment. as you noted in your great setup when the birchers were producing these crazy conspiracy theories about dwight eisenhower, that the civil rights movement was controlled by the communists, the big thing was this is all a giant international cabol and even ronald reagan, conservative champion, feared that the john birch society was tainting the conservative movement making them look like wackos and making it harder for republicans to win elections. buckley, who was the godfather of modern conservativism and reagan drummed the birchers out of polite company when it came to the gop and the conservative movement. 50 years later, we have a

similar situation except the leaders of the gop are not doing that. you have donald trump who has endorsed a lot of conspiracy theories and it's all the same thing. it's about the deep state, liberals being the enemies of the nation, paranoia and fear, get rid of the u.n. it's exactly the same thing, you'll see many of the exact same themes that the birchers were promoting. now, though, 50, 60 years later, you don't have the heads of the republican party trying to push the birchers to the society. they're embracing these ideas and kevin mccarthy is saying i can't do much about this because the party has become a radicalized base that believes a lot of the stuff that's been fed to it. it's like the '60s but backwards. >> right.

exactly. david, you were a part of this party. during the 1960s and going into the 1970s, it's not as if the people who pushed the birchers out were not also ultra right conservatives, right? ronald reagan who opposed medicare and thought it was some sort of communist plot that was going to destroy the united states of america, right? you had william buckley who opposed the civil rights act. these were not people who were, like, not conservative. liz cheney is a far right winger who has almost a perfect voting record with trump. what has happened is -- the speaker said they're going to give the keys to greene. she has the keys already, does she not? >> she certainly does. >> david jolly. >> yeah, so, she certainly does. and you're peeling back an

important nuance in the politics of this right now. these are not debates on the left/right ideological spectrum. if you look at today's democratic party, in november there was a debate between the moderates and progressives about who bore responsibility for the november losses. we see the debate over procedure, should they use reconciliation and go to 51 votes to get biden's agenda passed. those are traditional conversations and debates that are had within parties. these are not ideological left/right debates in today's republican parties. these are debates over fundamental values of democracy. was liz cheney correct in admonishing a president for inciting a violent insurrection against the united states? is marjorie greene right or wrong for elevating conspiracy theories that the fbi has suggested could be a threat to our own security here within our shorelines? those are debates within the republican party. and democrats are having debates

over ideology, values and frankly they're losing that debate in the eyes of the american people. >> and it strikes me, alex, what the response of republicans to these questions about whether or not marjorie "q" greene is dangerous, their response is ilhan omar, she's a muslim. that's bad. you've got now not only marjorie greene herself tweeting images of representative omar who they fix on along with aoc. you have a lawmaker, republican member of the house pushing to swap out the democratic push to get greene expelled and swap in congresswoman omar's name in there and that is sponsored by five republicans inside of the house including ronny jackson who used to be the white house doctor which scares me. it goes on and on and on.

it's all about the one congresswoman. you've been down in this district talking to her voters. are they just worried that that lady is in congress, not that their congresswoman is there? >> i spent the day in the 14th district of georgia which is, of course, marjorie taylor greene's congressional district and i was talking to one of the republican chairs about how they're grappling with this moment. i will say, there are a lot of ethical and logical pretzels that they're tying themselves up into. but they want to make this a false equivalence. democrats tolerate outlandish comments in their caucus, why can't we? this is an issue of cancel culture, liberal overreach once again. marjorie taylor greene is a fighter for us and she deserves

to stay on the committees in congress. that's the way they think they win this. they say greene was elected to congress to not pull any punches and we're going to let her do that. the more they can get away from space lasers starting wild fires and parkland being a false flag, the firmer territory they're on. you see that argument laid out in the pages of "the wall street journal," you see it coming from the minority leader's desk. they want this to be about the democrats trying to cancel conservative thought and conservative speech because that's the only way you get past the insanity of what marjorie taylor greene has endorsed in the recent past. >> and i think that is the perfect point to make, david jolly. this has been the big argument in conservativetism. it's not been about conservative ideas. it's been about that. it's been about the culture saying you can't say "x."

you can't use the "n" word if you're not a rapper. you can't disparage muslims because people cancel you. you get canceled if you're racist. that's what they care about. they only care about these culture things. "looney tunes" people can be speaking on college campuses without getting protested. that's all they care about. >> joy, there are millions upon millions of americans in the flyover states who feel that their values are disrespected by the political establishment, right, whether that's right or wrong, that is a motivating influence that informs their politics. republicans have seized on that but in a very dangerous way. they have lit a match to it and abandoned all reason and truth. i go back to this abandonment of reason and truth as such a critical matter. this is a national security test for republicans in this moment. the fbi has said it is not the rise of nationalism. we have always had nationalism

in our politics. it is the spread of disinformation that is most of thing -- motivating their actions. that's the disinformation on which marjorie greene has staked her platform. shame on kevin mccarthy. i guarantee you today that kevin mccarthy did not admonish marjorie greene. he counseled marjorie greene on how to get through this moment. kevin mccarthy needs marjorie greene. marjorie greene does not need kevin mccarthy. he's going to do what he can to help her through this moment. >> that's exactly right. how much into the so-called establishment did this group, this facebook group that marjorie greene was hosting dig? she isn't some aberrant figure inside politics. >> donald trump wasn't an

aberrant figure and he's been promoting conspiracy theories for years. birtherism got him into the job in the first place. to david jolly's point, john boehner wanted the tea party despite a lot of the hatred and some of the conspiracy theories they were pushing. and you have conspiracy theories about jewish space lasers and john f. kennedy jr. being killed in a mysterious way. you see this ready -- this appeal to violence with memes and other things that are on this facebook page. that's as important if not more important than her nutty ideas. >> you know, and, alex, that is what strikes me. there are all of these write-ups about the end of bircherism. it was going to inspire extreme

radicalism on the right which were they could devolve into conspiracy theories. when you walk through that district, how pervasive is the kind of thinking that we're seeing among marjorie green? i suspect it's more pervasive than we would like to think? >> i think it's probably a multistep process, right? just from talking to the number of folks in this sphere that i have, fox news is often the entry, the gateway drug, and there's social media and social media feeds that spin up some of the lunatic theories of the far right fringe. when they're sanitized into people's own facebook feeds, it becomes real. it speaks to the animating factor in republican circles right now which is fear and paranoia. when you add news tidbits to that, you can get spun up in this untethered web of at reality. that's what's happening to

people who are otherwise normal people living in the world, right? and as david jolly points out, the break between the reality of facts and figures and the paranoid rabbit hole into which a 33 to 40% of this country has fallen is the work of the 20th century and the work of republican leadership if they have any hope of saving their party. >> when you cannot explain the cultural change and why this panel doesn't look like it used to in the 1960s and somebody who is a congressperson or seems authoritative tells you it's because even if they say it's because of lasers, after a while, you start to believe it. it's wild to watch it happen. alex wagner, david jolly, david corn, thank you all three very much. today pete buttigieg took the oath of office as the nation's first lgbtq confirmed cabinet secretary. his husband held the bible.

fellow history maker and vice president kamala harris administered the oath. pete buttigieg will join me tomorrow for his first interview since becoming biden's transportation secretary. oh, and, yes, we will talk high-speed rail. up next, the democratic senate majority gets their gavels. senator raphael warnock joins me on what the new power-sharing agreement means for the democrats' go-big agenda. and south dakota's governor looks at the flaming wreckage of her covid policies and says, this is all fine. >> we did have tragedies and we did have losses but we also got through it better than virtually every other state. >> no, no, no. not even close, governor. back with more of "the reidout" after this.

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control of the united states senate after a power-sharing agreement was reached by party leaders. that should have happened two weeks ago after georgia's newest senators, raphael warnock and jon ossoff were sworn in. but, of course, mitch mcconnell, in a final power play before shrinking back into his shell as the minority leader held up the procedure hoping he could extort concessions to weaken the democrats' hand. that failed. and now democrats can move forward in cleaning up the mess of the past four years and getting to work for the american people. with me now is senator raphael warnock of the great state of georgia. senator, thank you so much for being here. let's talk about what you are going to be able to accomplish now that democrats finally have the majority. you're on agriculture, banking, commerce science and transportation, the joint economic committee and a committee on aging. what's your priority and what do you think you can get done quickly? >> well, thank you so much, joy. it's great to be here again with

you. you know, as i stand here in the rotunda of the capitol, i can't help but think about the fact that it wasn't that long ago that i came to this very rotunda as an activist and i was arrested in an act of civil disobedience standing up for the most marginalized members of our society at that time. we were protesting the fact that we were passing a $2 trillion tax giveaway to the richest of the rich while taking resources away from the children's health care program, resources needed from folks who are living on the edge. and today i stand here having moved to being a legislator with an opportunity to translate my protests into public policy and that's what we intend to do in this covid-19 relief package. we've got to get the people of america and the people of georgia the relief that they need. it is urgent. it needs to be quick.

it needs to be fair. and it needs to be equitable. and so we will be working hard to make sure that a vaccine is distributed, to make sure that we can safely reopen our cools schools and that people have the relief that they need right now as folks are food insecure and struggling in so many ways. and the committee assignments i have position me well to do the work that i promised the people of georgia that i will do. >> one of the things that you ran on, $2,000 checks for americans if you won. you won. are the checks that come to georgians going to be $2,000 or $1,400. if it's not $2,000, is that a problem for you? >> listen, i think that it is important that we get the people of georgia aid and that we get it as soon as possible. and that's what i intend to do. i think that the people of

georgia, while the politicians are going back and forth, haven't seen any relief at all. and so we intend to deliver not only on these checks, but we are very focused on getting people in rural georgia the assistance that they need. i've been standing up for farmers, people that i met while i was on the campaign trail, who have been slammed over the last few years and have not gotten the kind of support that they need. we got to make sure that workers get what they need, that they can have a fair wage. i'm a cosponsor on the fair wage act and we're helping people to get their voice and their own democracy. >> just to button this up, if the current bill, the 1.9 trillion passes and the checks are $1,400, will you push for another $600 to push that total to 2,000. >> i've been pushing for $2,000 to make sure the people get the

aid that they need. but i think there's more than one way to make sure the people get the relief they need and we're working on that. for example, i've been standing up for the earned income tax credit, the child tax credit. i think there are tools in the toolbox to get the people who are struggling the support that they need. >> i want to ask you about the voting rights act. there's a john lewis voting rights act that is in the legislation. just to be clear, if that passes, will it put us back to the preclearance standards of the original 1965 voting rights act or will it require that states show that they already engaged in discrimination and that there have been lawsuits that have proved that there's been discrimination in order for those states to be precleared? in that second instance, it seems that some states could get by and still discriminate

against voters. >> listen, voter suppression is something that we take very seriously. and i wouldn't be here if we weren't fighting so hard against it in the state of georgia which in many ways continues to be ground zero for voter suppression. you see that as a result of what we achieved in january, the georgia state legislature is busy right now. there are legislators who think, if they don't like the outcome, they ought to change the rules. we're working hard to pass the john lewis voting rights advancement act. it will provide the kinds of protections that you need to mitigate against the very tricks that we're seeing being played right now in the georgia state legislature. but in addition to that, i'm a cosponsor for the "for the people" act which will expand people's access to the ballot box. in the united states of america we shouldn't be making it harder

to vote. we ought to be making it easier. early voting, same day registration, by providing the states the kinds of resources we need to make sure that people have access to the ballot box. and we proved in georgia that when the people can vote, when all the people can vote, you get historic outcomes. and apparently there are some folk who don't like it, so they're trying to change the rules. which is why we ought to work hard to pass the for the people act and also the john lewis voting rights advancement act. that will take a long way with expanding access to the ballot box and providing the kind of voter protections we need. >> all right. senator raphael warnock, are you preaching on sunday? >> oh, absolutely. tune in. we're going to preach on sunday morning at church. >> thank you very much, sir. really appreciate your time tonight. and up next, a former

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>> those were just some of the words that ignited a full-scale maga invasion of the u.s. capitol last month. the events of january 6th were a culmination of a months long campaign by the president to discredit the vote, spreading the lie that the election was stolen for him. he stoked the tinderbox and lit the flame. according to his impeachment defense lawyer, the ex-president is not responsible for the things he says. >> just because somebody gave a speech and people got excited, that doesn't mean that the speech maker's fault, it's the people who got excited and did what they know is wrong that are at fault. >> okay, okay. only the maga mob deserves the blame, not their dear leader. got it. several defendants involved in the siege are pointing the finger right back at one of their lawyers argued in court, this offense must be viewed through the lens of an event inspired by the president of the

united states. joining me now is hakeem jeffries of new york, chairman of the house democratic caucus. it is very interesting, mr. chairman, listening to the argument that the trump lawyers are making. they're trying to divorce him from the events that took place on january 6th. what do you make of that argument? >> that's correct and it's an argument that i think should carry no weight. donald trump summoned the mob to washington, he then incited the mob during his remarks, and then directed the mob to march toward the capitol where we know there was a violent attack and an insurrection and an attempt to try to halt the peaceful transfer of power. and, joy, as you indicated, he also perpetrated this whole affair by fanning the flames of the insurrection by telling the

big lie, that the election was stolen from him, joe biden wasn't going to be the legitimate next president of the united states of america. and if they wanted to do something about it, they needed to show strength. and that's why donald trump needs to be held accountable for his actions and inciting a violent insurrection. >> the question is whether or not there are enough senators who will do that. you were an impeachment manager the first time. here is a potential witness. if this person were to be called, this is one of the members of congress who witnessed the attack and she's particularly compelling. jackie speier who is a congresswoman who survived the jonestown attacks before all of the people killed themselves in my mother's home country, the americans who flew down there and killed themselves, there was a shootout on the tarmac in the airport in georgetown in 1978. jackie speier was shot five times. we have a picture here of her

when jim jones' cult converged on them. here she was talking earlier today. she did an interview in which she talked about her experience then versus her experience on january 6th. >> there were 30 of us that were in the gallery when the pounding started on the doors of the chamber. and then a shot rang out, and i was thrown back in time to 1978 when i was lying on that airstrip and shooters came and shot us at point-blank range. >> would you call members like jackie speier? >> it's not clear to me -- >> as witnesses. >> but certainly i think there's videotape information that can be presented and jackie speier's story is particularly compelling as is the case with those members who were in the gallery. they experienced terror

firsthand. and as jackie speier as indicated, for a lot of members, it harkened back to some of the most traumatic moments they've confronted in their lifetimes. jackie speier has confronted a particularly traumatic moment and it's very tough. i would find that story moving. the house managers haven't revealed to us how they're going to approach the evidence and the information and the witnesses that they're going to present. but i do remain hopeful that the senators on the republican side of the aisle, at least enough of them, are going to follow the facts, apply the law, be guided by the constitution, and let the chips fall where they may, even if that means convicting donald trump. >> yeah, and, you know, congressman, you are -- among other things, you're a new yorker, a young black man. your dad -- my husband took classes with your father. i know you're somebody who is -- understands the struggle. what do you make of the easy treatment, the light treatment

so many of these maga rioters have gotten by courts around the country. "usa today" reports of one suspect getting to go on vacation in mexico. they asked for organic food. just as somebody who experienced the capitol riot yourself, how do you feel about that? >> certainly my hope that the relevant authorities will throw the book at those who violently attacked the capitol. these were domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, trying to halt the peaceful transfer of power. we need to see justice done and justice in this case means serious jail time after a serious prosecution. you had people who were killed as a result of this attack. you have over 140 police officers who have been seriously injured. many of those individuals have suffered traumatic brain or head

injuries. one officer has lost three fingers. another officer may lose sight in at least one eye. this is not a situation that should be treated lightly. those individuals who have been charged with these crimes should be held accountable for the serious nature of the offenses that occurred. >> and last question i have to ask, i hate to burden your time talking about marjorie "the q lady" greene, it seems she got a standing ovation today. what kind of house are you serving in that the caucus seems to report on the republican side? >> that's a tale of two cities. house democrats were on the floor starting the process to pass the american rescue plan to crush the coronavirus, to provide direct assistance and relief to everyday americans and begin the process of reviving our economy while at the same time the qanon caucus leader,

marjorie taylor greene, is getting a standing ovation and a pass from kevin mccarthy. the party of lincoln is gone. the party of reagan is gone. the party of mccain is gone. the party of marjorie taylor greene has taken over. it's sad and it's pathetic. >> congressman hakeem jeffries, my husband is texting me, it's his mom that my husband took classes with, not your dad. your family is great. thank you very much. really appreciate you being here this evening. still ahead, south dakota's kristi noem says her state is an example to the nation on how to handle the pandemic as if we'd really want to follow an example that left people as unwitting participants in a deadly herd immunity experiment. d immunity experiment.

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year fear to control people. and in south dakota, we just took a very different path. we knew the science told us we couldn't stop the virus. we could slow it down and protect people who might be vulnerable and make sure we had enough hospital capacity to take care of those who need it, but we were going to do it together and allow people to be flexible, to take care of their families and still put food on the table. that was a unique approach that for our people really worked well. we did have tragedies and we did have losses, but we also got through it better than virtually every other state. >> i'm sorry, i'm sorry, did kristi noem say with a straight face that her state has done, quote, better than virtually every state on coronavirus? that is, like, not true in the slightest. south dakota is the number two state in the entire country when it comes to the number of per capita cases, behind only north dakota. and they're not doing very well when it comes to deaths either. there's a reason south dakota is

in this position. kristi noem was one of the few governors not to implement stay-at-home guidelines at the beginning of the pandemic. that backfired with the smithfield pork processing plant becoming one of the largest coronavirus clustering in the entire country. when trump decided to start holding rallies again, she was right there with him at mt. rushmore. and then there was the sturgis motorcycle rally and it became one of the biggest superspreader events in the entire country. here she is encouraging people to come to the state. >> protect their health and still enjoy their way of life and events like the motorcycle rally. our economy benefits when people come and visit us. >> by november, the dakotas were leading the world in covid

deaths. and not only did she continue her hands-off approach, she made it harder for indigenous communities in her state to enact checkpoints to stop the spread of the virus where they live. it's a microcosm of what's happened throughout this entire pandemic. after the break, i'll be joined by the president's senior adviser for covid response and part of that response must contend with the fact that the virus is disproportionately hitting communities of color and with variants spreading, the disparities could get worse. a 35-year-old black man in alabama, one of the first diagnosed cases of the uk variant passed away yesterday. in a facebook post, his wife wrote that, quote, i wouldn't want -- wish this on anyone. you are now our guardian angel and you are at peace. ♪ breeze dn by you know how i feel ♪ [man: coughing]

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as new covid-19 variants n't er the country we are in a race against time to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible but vaccines are not getting to every community equally. the cd has demographic data available for just over half of u.s. vaccinations but the report in the first month of vaccinations white women over age 50 got a majority of the shots. white americans in general have thus far received up to 60% of all vaccines given out while black folk that is comprise nearly 13% of the population made up 5% of those vaccinated thus far in the united states. joining me is andy slavitt. i'm so excited to have you on because i follow you on twitter. the disparity between

african-americans and other people, it's supply having enough vaccine, distribution, getting it out and demand. which of those pieces is a problem here? is there not enough to go and, resistance of african-americans or something else? >> well, joy, this is exact right thing for us to be talking about. you people want to know what structural racism means. it means if the intended systems just naturally bias and favor, those with more access means an advantage. so i think things are going on at all levels probably and hard to parse it out entirely but we have things going on now which i refer to vaccine gentrification. so the vaccines we have put into low income communities, into communities of large proportions of racial and ethnic minorities,

people come from the suburbs that never visit the communities and getting in line where they know that's where we are putting the vaccines. we see people with kids getting on the iphones and i pads because they have the technology and get the first appointments. that is happening all of the place. unless an extended effort is made and there's extraordinary things we are doing and this will get worse and worse and cannot let that happen. >> so tell us what some of those ickes troid their things will be. we had dolly parton who i love, by the way, she said i won't get it and put a million dollars into the moderna vaccine and she said until even gets a shot i won't get a shot. people try to get it because they have access to technology and money. how do we change this? >> yeah. so i was talking to a couple of

different states where they were opening big stadiums to do mass vaccinations and one of them just did it the old normal way, put it out in a stadium and had naturally what you expect to have happen. the other arranged with local churches to provide buses to the first people out there were people from racial ethnic minorities and what they told me at least self reported is tripled the access. 30% of the vaccine went to minorities and the state averaging less than that. that's a good thing. we're shortly announce to move vaccine into federally qualified health centers and. many people don't have a regular doctor, use the emergency room. this is a function of the health care system. not just a function of covid-19. so for those folks we need to make vaccines available in

nontraditional places. there are people in states setting tents in churches because that's where people do go and there's probably also a hesitancy set of concerns in these communities, as well, not to take anything from those irses, but we have to make sure that the supply gets to the people who need it. >> yeah. please don't do what the florida governor did which is rely on public based on the money given to the 1- rallies and not located in communities of color, an issue the supermarkets don't locate in communities of color so if that's the basis of distribution no one will get it. there's mass covid vaccination sites, done that in california. is that the model state to do it? i think the question for everyone is, when can anyone that wants it can get access to

the vaccine? when do you think that that's going to be? >> first, thanks for referring to that announcement. in east los angeles, and in the east bay of san francisco, i should say oakland area, those are two of the first mass vaccination centers we are opening, being sensitive to the fact of people with the means to get anywhere they need to get to get vaccine and locating them where the communities are, easier for them so that's important. look. i think the message to the public is i love to tell the public overall to your question that we came in here and there's a stockpile of vaccines as i think we were led to believe, that there would be 100 million vaccinations by now, all kinds of parallel production of vaccine over the course of the last year. that's not what we found. there was no stockpile of vaccine and we are getting vaccines out the door as poshlt,

keeping two to three days of inventory in case there's production issues and we have over -- since january 20th increased our allotment of vaccines out by about a third so we are steadily gaining on it. there's no silver bullets. this administration won't promise but it's hard work, working aggressively and finding every opportunity. >> i really thank you for being here. 26 million cases, 451,000 deaths. sort of choking to give the numbers every night. it is terrifying. we are rooting for you, you are great. thank you so much. appreciate you being here this evening. we are rooting for you. finally as we continue to celebrate black history month the next time at a red light remember the name garrett morgan. in 1923 morgan invented the mechanical three-position traffic signal reducing traffic

deaths. this was not the first life saving innovation. in 1914 he invented the gas mask used in world war i. thank you, garrett morgan. we appreciate you. that's tonight's "reidout." at 9:00 rachel maddow interviews the new director of the cdc. you'll want to watch that. stay right there. . tonight on "all in," meet the new face of the republican party. >> is the type of direction satanic worship that possibly all these people are involved in? >> tonight how the qanon caucus won the so-called gop civil war going away. now democrats have to deal with it. then -- >> okay. can i ask our producers? can we get out of here, ea?