that was preempted by breaking news, but dr. fauci will still be on "the beat" tomorrow. our thanks to him for his flexibility. dr. fauci on "the beat" tomorrow at 6 p.m. eastern. my friend and colleague, joy reid continues our special coverage. joy? >> thank you, so much, ari. it is dramatic history in the making as always. thank you, sir. really appreciate it. good evening, everyone. we to begin ""the reid out" tonight. the house of representatives voted to strip georgia congresswoman and qanon devotee marjorie taylor greene from her committee post. the other story is 199 republicans voted to back green despite a recent past that includes physical threats against other members of congress, including the speaker. it is another chapter in the tale of two parties. one focused on accountability

and one that cowers in fear of its apparently extremist base. the sad truth is that democrats in congress had to discipline margie q greene because house minority leader kevin mccarthy was unwilling to do so himself. mccarthy was willing to hold a secret ballot on the fate of republican congresswoman liz cheney, his own third in command who received a resounding if anonymous show of support to remain in republican leadership last night but he couldn't muster the courage to reject the qanon congresswoman. with this vote tonight, house republicans, many of whom stood up and gave greene a standing ovation in a caucus meeting yesterday will now be defined as supporting someone who backed calls for assassinating speaker nancy pelosi and threatened the non-white women members of the squad in social media ads. she promoted an anti-semetic and

islam mow phobic video that had been reportedly circulating among neonazis. it claimed a, quote, unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists and zionist supremacists have schemed to promote immigration and miss seg ge nation. take that in. mother jones revealed that greene was a moderator of a facebook group that was a hotbed of violence and racist speech. one user posted this image of a noose in that forum with the comment, start with hillary and obama. greene backed the conspiracy theer rethat the parkland school shooting was staged and she physically harassed an 18-year-old survivor of that shooting, david hgg. she even said there's no evidence that a plane hit the

pentagon on 9/11. just last mon she sat down with right wing british columnist katie hopkins who compared african migrants to brittain as cockroaches. all of this represents a fraction of what ms. greene has said she believes. however, with her committee assignments on the line today she tried to walk back at least her support for qanon. >> i stumbled across something, this was at the end of 2017 called qanon. and i got very interested in it so i posted about it on facebook. i read about it. i talked about it. i asked questions about it and then more information came from it. the problem with that is though is i was allowed to believe things that weren't true. later in 2018 when i started finding misinformation, lies, things that were not true in these qanon posts, i stopped believing it. >> allowed by who?

her speech was heavy on excuses and short on contrition. she said the media is just as guilty of spreading lies as qanon. her faux contrition on the house floor was just a fraud. just this morning greene played a victim in a fundraising appeal repeating the very same kind of lies and conspiracies about members of the squad that got her in trouble in the first place. >> the gentle woman from georgia, as we speak, continues to fund raise off these disturbing rumors. i'm not sure what she said to the republican conference last night, but just last night she tweeted about raising $175,000 off of this and said, quote, we will not back down. we will never give up. that's not contrition. >> for more i'm joined by angela

wry. charlie sykes, editor at large and brandon wolf, pulse nightclub survivor and vice president of the drew project. ang will wry, first of all, welcome to the show. i wanted to talk to you about this. you have been staff. what do you make of what we saw on the floor where only 11 republicans voted to strip marjorie taylor greene of her committee assignments, including education given what i just -- the laundry list that i just read about the things that she has said. >> yeah. you know, joy, what is so crazy is people kept saying donald trump is not so bad. it's fine. you know, he's just flamboyant, arrogant and loud but harry reid called donald trump the republican party's frankenstein and this is why. this was the beginning of the monster that was constructed and

built. this was the beginning of a problem that was only getting worse, right? like this is something that not only the republican party but really since the foundation of america we have dealt with issues around race, white supremacy, racism, xenophobia, all of the phobias, and she is the latest version of the republican party's frankenstein. so they can blame qanon, but they also have to blame themselves. to your point, joy, 11 republicans voting to remove her of her committee assignments. they should be calling for her resignation. she has threatened her own colleagues. this is just fresh off of the heels of what i have been calling the capitol hill terrorist attack. she is part of the problem. it is people like marjorie taylor greene -- she said in a tweet last night they don't like me because i'm one of you. one of you is a white supremacist. one of you is someone who would target with violence your own

colleagues and then raise money off of it. that is the exact opposite direction of where this country needs to be. instead of talking about how we're going to continue to save lives and ensure people are going to survive in the middle of a pandemic, we are talking about a woman who has demonstrated she is ignorant, she is a bigot and she will threaten people whom she has to put her own voting card in right next to. that's a problem. >> to that very point, charlie, we're talking about a workplace on top of everything else. marjorie taylor greene was still lying about the squad, who are women of color, young women of color who have been elected. you had one black woman congresswoman have to move her office because this is also somebody who evades the gun -- you know, she doesn't want to have her gun checked in and brags about being armed. let me tell you what steny hoyer had to say because he talked about the facebook ad that she

ran in which she essentially -- it was sort of a fantasy about physically harming the squad members. take a listen. >> they're people. they're our colleagues. and, yes, you may have disagreements, but i don't know anyone, including steve king who you precluded from going on committees for much less, and this is an ar-15 in the hands of ms. greene. i have never, ever seen that before. i urge my colleagues to look at that image and tell me what message you think it sends. >> charlie, at this point republican party candidates are getting the affirmation of all but 11 republicans who are essentially having a murder fantasy ad about people who are now her colleague. i don't know how it gets any

worse than that. >> it will get worse than that unfortunately. your comment about the workplace is interesting because republicans always said they wished government would be run more like a business. there's no business in america that would not fire marjorie taylor greene for her behavior, her comments, her incitement of violence. look, here's the republican party today. it has no functioning immune system to crazy whatsoever. i thought it was interesting that steny hoyer mentioned the case of steve king. this is really political malpractice, this vote tonight by the republicans. if they were concerned about political hygiene, if they were concerned about telling the country they were a serious governing party, they would have taken care of this themselves like they did two years ago when steve king was kicked off the judiciary and the agricultural committee when questioning why white supremacy was to bad and

making racial comments. marjorie taylor greene is much different. what's changed? what's changed is, of course, two more years of marinating in conspiracy theories, lies under donald trump who has been the conspiracy theorist in chief but also watching how those conspiracy theories lead to acts of actual violence less than a month ago. so it's really extraordinary to me that republicans have the opportunity to clean this up themselves. they've done it in the past. they refuse to do it and now, 199 of them are on record, the ads write themselves, basically backing marjorie taylor green's position in congress. it's a really bad moment for republicans but also it's a good moment, i think, to draw the line especially after what happened on january 6th. >> well, i mean, and brandon, it's this noxious combination of

white supremacy, which marjorie taylor green isn't even embarrassed about. it's a combination of that and this mania for guns, this mania for guns everywhere. i want to play you -- you are the person who alerted me to the fact that marjorie taylor greene was a high school student when there was a gun incident in her own school so you think she would be more understanding of it. this is part of her defense of herself today. >> oh, okay. so -- well, we don't have the sound of her actually defending herself. this happened when she was in 11th grade and a student at her high school held other classmates hostage for more than five hours. she defended herself in a media interview as well as on the house floor today. how is that in your way -- what do you make of that as a defense, saying that she had been in that kind of a situation as a high school?

what do you make of that as a defense of herself? >> well, it makes it worse. what i told you is i was shocked and i can speak for everyone in this country, i was shocked because i have been harassed by people like marjorie taylor green before. for the last five years i have been confronted in restaurants. i have been followed around at events. they ask me how can i sleep knowing that i invented a tragedy and the best friends that i buried in the summer of 2016 and every single time it happens you know what i told myself? i didn't find myself angry, i just felt sad for those people. i told myself it was because they couldn't process the pain of what i had been through, that they were using this conspiracy theory as sort of a way of escaping it, a way to avoid grappling with the idea that anything so horrific could happen in this country. and i told myself that if anyone

had ever had to grapple with that pain of staring at an empty seat at the dinner table, they would not be capable of treating someone like they were treating me. so i was shocked when i learned that this congresswoman, by the way, someone who helps to run one of the most powerful countries in the world, has spent the past few years traumatizing survivors like me when she is also a survivor of school violence herself all along. it is almost incomprehensible for me knowing how she can lay her head on her pillow inflicting pain on people who are in incredible pain. >> angela, to that very point, you can wield incredible power on these committees. lay out for us, what has she lost being stripped of these committee powers? i mean, education is pretty important and also she's on a labor-related committee. what kind of power is she now losing? >> yeah, so the education and

labor committee chaired by bobby scott, they consider everything from wages to funding for schools, ensuring that schools are authorized at the same levels. if it's an hbcu, twi, hsi, all of that is in consideration. her ability to question and oversee the department of education, of course, it's an administration that she wouldn't be too friendly towards so she would probably help her constituents, whoever they are who voted for her, to ask questions probably conspiracy ladened. she was also stripped of the budget committee which, of course, ensures that they would enact the president's budget and make any reinvestigations and changes. i think the challenge that she has now is what do you do when you don't have committee

assignments? how are you serving your constituents? how are you serving the country and your greater good? to me the question is why would she be expelled? is it tough to get her expelled with 2/3 required? absolutely. seeing as how most of the republicans want her there. in some ways they wouldn't even proceed with removing her from her committee assignments through the republican conference which they could have done. them taking a more courageous step to vote with democrats to expel her, i don't think that's likely to happen. >> really quickly, charlie and then brandon. she had the free speech sign over her face on the mask that she's probably very reluctantly wearing, but that's the thing she cares about most, right? she represents a part of the conservative movement of the republican party that cares less about policy than they do about being able to say whatever it is they want no matter however

offensive and hurtful it is and they field aggrieved if they can't do it in polite society. >> they don't want to take responsibility for their words and don't want to be held account annual and they don't think there should be consequences. until five minutes ago conservatives believed in that personal responsibility. she wants to play the victim. she wants to make this about the cancel culture as opposed to consequence culture. that's why xu's raising money. this is a problem for republicans that they reflexively regard any sort of politicization and censoring them. this is about saying if you promote violence, there is no place for you in this poddy. that is not cancel culture. >> very quickly, brandon -- >> yeah. >> -- at the same time they want to be able to call normal, political, social -- things like social security communism. they think that that kind of

speech is okay. >> yeah. i think you're right. this is not a marjorie taylor greene problem, this is a republican party problem. let's be clear about this. marjorie taylor greene is not an aberration or outlier, she is an eventuality. this is what the lack of accountability looks like. this is what we are all paying for them to embrace the fringe to amass power. this is the cost of lowering the bar. he gets hundreds of thousands of people killed with his total disregard for the truth all because you want to pack the courts with your favorite judges. these are republican leaders who have for years weaponized elected democratic women of color in order to scare people into there's an america you won't recognize. kevin mccarthy is wholly owned by the qanon caucus. the question is with two years, what can democrats do to protect voting rights and protect

tangible results. >> great panel. thank you all very much. coming up, much more on tonight's house vote to strip marjorie taylor greene of her committee assignments. she's still there in congress. a "reid out" mention. pete buttigieg sworn in. mayor pete is now secretary pete and he's coming up. "the reid out" is coming up after this. r this ♪ ♪ ♪ smooth driving pays off. ♪ with allstate, the safer you drive the more you save. ♪

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qanon devotee. she peddled conspiracy theories about school shootings, 9/and yet only 11 republicans joined democrats. joining me is john crow and elizabeth newman, former assistant homeland security secretary. i want to get your thoughts, congressman crow, to the fact that only 11 republicans thought marjorie taylor greene should be stripped of her assignment including the education committee. >> there should have been more. it should have been a unanimous vote. it says a lot about where we are in the nation that only 11 folks would come across to do that. it's disappointing to say the least. that's not the way to capture it but we have to continue to press. i am reminded about something

president biden said in his inauguration address. the story of our country is not overwhelming majorities coming together, he talked about enough of them. we make progress and stand up against injustice and stand up against violence, enough of us can step forward to move things together. i'm drawing inspiration and hope. >> laura hobert has said some whacky things. you served in the united states army, 82nd airborne. you've been deployed overseas. the reality is we go into kurch countries that have insurge genesis and may have ties to element in the government. it's hard to argue we're not like that. >> it makes it hard for us to

continue to promote democracy and rule of law throughout the world. i can remember when i was in iraq after the invasion and iraqis in baghdad came to me to adjudicate their dispute. there were no justice, no courts, no recourse. it was then that i started to realize how special our system is and how unique it is but also how fragile it is. the thing about rule of law, you don't choose when you're going to apply it. you either do it all the time or you don't. and your last guest brandon said this really artfully. you know, we have to stand up against this because it's not just about marjorie taylor greene. we're not talking about somebody standing on a street corner shouting absurdities. we're talking about a member of congress sitting on capitol hill sewing insecurities and we see what happens when we don't push back against that. we've seen that with president

trump and it leads to violence. that's why we took a stand tonight. >> you know, to go to you now, elizabeth newman. when it's in iraq it's the uni/shia divide. they had a sunni dictator. when it was knocked out there was an insurgency. there was a governmental connection to the insurgency. those out of power forming an insurgency. you now have this woman who is connected not just to racism, katie hopkins style extreme racism. violent fantasies that she put in her ads to run for congress. we now have inside of the state of georgia where she's from, the leader of a private paramilitary group. they're called the georgia 11% martyrs. they provided security to marjorie taylor greene.

the leader of that group has said he's formed alliances with other far right groups to advocate for georgia's secession of the union. it's now a blue state. how concerned are you that marjorie taylor greene, despite not having committee assignments, she still has ties to what sounds like a paramilitary insurgent group in georgia. >> let's start with facts first. there is no such thing as a legal private militia. all 50 states have laws on the books that ban militias. meaning if she was using them for security at her campaign rallies, that's illegal. so the states need to do a better job of enforcing their laws. quite frankly we need to do a better job of educating people in the country that there is no such thing as a legal private militia. there's a lot of beliefs out there that it is a secretary amendment activity, but the militia referenced in the second

amendment, that is the national guard. it is not a private militia. so if -- that fact alone tells me she is ignorant if not willfully acting with an enemy, what we consider a domestic enemy of the state. as an elected official where you swear an oath to the office, swear an oath against all enemies foreign and domestic, you have a conflict there that needs to be resolved. i personally think there are enough grounds here for expulsion. i'm glad she had her committee assignment strichd. we need to stop playing footsie with these extremist groups. they have a radical ideology. they are an enemy. we need to treat is seriously so more people don't accidentally stumble into this extremism. the more you have a person like her talking about this, it creates this mainstreaming effect where it seems like it's

okay to join a militia, it's okay to join a white supremacist group like the proud boys. it is not okay, it is illegal and they have very violent aims at the end of their ideology. you don't want to be associated with them, therefore, get anybody in our government that's associated with them out. that's the best way to start to stem the threat that we're facing. >> congressman, we've got the pentagon ordering a pause. lloyd austin, former general law austin, ordering each branch of the military to stand down. we had people with military credentials that were part of the insurgency. we had the off duty police officers that were a part of what happened on 1/6. we've now essentially -- not essentially, we had a domestic

terrorist attack inside our country. it's led by a man named donald trump. he still commands the absolute allegiance of people like marjorie taylor greene who's still in congress, still wields power. how concerned are you that this man who said he is not going to testify in his impeachment trial still essentially is the head of a paramilitary white insurgency? >> i'm very concerned. anybody should be concerned. you should be concerned about the fact that a very large number of the people that were in that mob on january 6th were people that come from positions of public trust, current or military of law enforcement officers. we have a problem. the origins go back decades looking at waco, ruby ridge, other incidents that have helped grow this movement.

january 6th is a catalyzing event. a lot of these terrorist movements have catalyzing events that propel the movement forward. we have to be very diligent. we're going to be dealing with this for years to come. this is not new and it's not going to go away tomorrow. we have to make sure that we are dealing with this first by ensuring the integrity of military law enforcement organizations that are going to be called on to deal with this. i'm going to push secretary austin hard to make sure we root this out. >> it would be okay to not have okayed violent white nationalist ideas in congress. we are where we are. jason crow, elizabeth newman, thank you. america's newly minted transportation secretary is here for his first official interview. we will talk about how he is making history, plus how he plans to address racial and

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take, for example, highways. dwight d. eisenhower's greatest achievement, besides being a hero of world war ii, achieving the desegregation of some southern schools and being the last great republican president. his greatest achievement was the great national interstate highway system in the 1950s. he made it a personal and absolute decision to see that the nation would benefit by it. it was a breathtaking achievement connecting the country with more than 40,000 miles of highway. but in some ways it showed that the price of progress in this country is often paid by people of color as many of the highways cut an ugly swath through neighborhoods like historic overtown in miami, once considered the harlem of the south. its little broadway was a mecca of black culture anchored by the lyric theater. jazz grates like duke ellington, ella fitzgerald and billy

holiday would perform into the night. they would say, i'm going overtown, that's how it got its name. the biggest black stars weren't able to sleep in hotels in segregated white miami beach. the thriving overtown was vivisected by ice sen hour's highway. it's the latest target for gentrification in miami. transportation has been a highly racialized issue in cities across the country, not just miami. on the flip side, transportation could be the key to making america a more equal place. the post eisenhower, republicans don't love that idea at all. take florida's republican senator rick scott. in one of his first acts in his form injury role as florida's governor, in 2011 he turned down nearly $2.4 billion in stimulus money from orlando to tampa.

who was the man pushing for massive national investment in high speed rail? why joseph robinet biden, amtrak joe championed the plan to promote the high speed intercity rail network because he gets it. having logged thousands of round trips between wilmington and washington, d.c., on amtrak during his decades as a senator. it would seem this is based on nothing more than a mania for letting private entity be the only ones to benefit from everything, including transportation. evidenced by rick scott's own back flip on high speed rail years later. the wealthy executive built a private company in florida. scott tried and failed to grill president biden's nominee, pete

buttigieg, and here's how that went. >> there was one study that said the green new deal will cost almost, what, $100 trillion. so how -- you know, what impact -- if we did something like that, what impact would that have on our economy and jobs and all of our businesses -- >> are you referring to the president's? >> no, the one -- >> the president won our primary and the election and that will be the vision that goes forward. >> bloop. after the break the brand-new secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg, joins me live. m. and save on your auto policy. h but it's even nicer knowing that if this happens... ...or this happens... ...or this... ...or even this... ...we've seen and covered it. so, call 1-800-farmers to switch your auto policy and you could save an average of four hundred seventy dollars.

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united states, that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office which i am about to enter so help me god. congratulations, mr. secretary. congratulations. >> yesterday the nation's first black and asian woman vice president swore in the country's first openly gay cabinet secretary, pete buttigieg, one-time presidential candidate. i am joined now by the self-saved secretary pete buttigieg. i want to thank you for making this your first interview. i've got to take you back to that moment. what was going through your mind. you're standing there making history, breaking the internet, you, chastin, and the vice president. what was going through your mind at that moment? >> it was extraordinary. the vice president said make sure to be present because it will go by quickly.

she was right. i'm glad she did. when i pause just to think about what it meant, to have my hand on the bible that my grandfather gave my mother when she was a child held by my husband, taking an oath administered by the first woman, first black, first asian vice president, what an extraordinary moment. the second gentleman stopped by and joined us. he's friends with chastin. to be able to say a sentence that the vice president and her husband were there with me and my husband chastin shows we have a long way to go. >> i could spend the whole rest of our interview asking you have you moved, how are you loving d.c.? i'm not going to do that. i am one of the small people in america because i am obsessed with trains. i love trains. i am actually excited about the secretary of transportation

position in general but you being in it changes the game, not only is it making history but you have a chance as a former mayor to really dig in and make some changes. how long is it going to take before i get my high speed rail? >> well, i'll tell you, i can't wait. i feel the same way as you do. as you know, the president is a big believer in passenger rail, too. we've been asked to settle for less in this country. i just don't know why people in other countries ought to have better train service and more investment in high speed train service than americans do. you know, amtrak has done a heroic job with the constraints that have been placed on them. now we've got to take things to the next level. you know, you look at whatnot just famously, you know, let's say our fellow counterparts in japan get to enjoy. u.k. and turkey, i want the u.s. to be leading the world when it

comes to access to high speed rail and i think we have a real opportunity to do that especially with the bipartisan opportunities before us this year. >> it felt bipartisan at some point. we had infrastructure week during the previous administration. republicans talk a good game saying they want it, too. it creates jobs and opportunities at this. they keep hedging because they want it to be privately owned. that was the rick scott issue. they didn't like the idea of the public investing in high speed rail. they wanted it private companies. how do you break that log jam? if you can answer that, how do you ensure we don't get another overtown. >> that piece is especially important. today is transportation equity day because it's the birthday of

rosa parks. the example of rosa parks reminds us how much is at stake. it's not just about things like what the government bus boycott was about and equitable access to transit, it's the fact that sometimes investment came to black neighborhoods all right but it came in the worst possible way. a highway destroying that. you shared the overtown example. examples of nashville, richmond, pittsburgh. we have to make sure, first of all, that our policies recognize that history, that history of harm where this magnificent thing of creating the interstate highway system was so often done with terrible consequences for communities of color. now we have a chance to get it right. we have a chance to make investments and expand opportunity be at this instead of cutting people off from opportunity. build and enrich neighborhoods instead of breaking them up.

that has to be essential. we're working with states, cities, towns, territories, tribes. tribal citizens in this country have a lot at stake. it's the right moment to be looking at the equity implications of everything we do in the federal government, but certainly when it comes to transportation and transit. >> so everyone has lots of ideas. i'm sure you're getting everyone who has your foehn number saying, hey, i've got ideas. new york transportation said you should electrify every fleet, eliminate the gas tax, dig the gateway tunnel. we had another viewer who had an idea. sam houston, i'd love to hear about investments in bridges/highway infrastructure to help us prepare for raising sea levels. do you have an idea about how to do that? >> yeah.

our planning has to reflect the realities of climate change. first of all, we have to prevent climate change. if you look at greenhouse gases, if you look at the biggest sector going into that is transportation. which means we good we get as w must with electrification and reducing emissions, we still know that sea level rise is happening right now. the reality is a flood plain map 50 or 100 or 30 years from now will look different than it might have when it was drawn up. these are the things that our transportation plans need to take into account. look at the experience of sandy just one example of how planning -- when it comes to roads and bridges and tunnels -- needs to account for the increased frequency and he have -- severity of the weather event.

we have to make sure it's factored into our plans. a lot of cost benefit goes on. we have to make sure costs and benefits are done in a way that accounts for climate reality and climate opportunity. >> i think this is why you were called potentially biden's secret to the climate agenda. we will keep you here, if you don't mind, over one commercial break. secretary pete buttigieg will stay with us. one senator's unique criticism of secretary buttigieg's commitment to justice. we remember rosa parks on her birthday. they are ensuring equity is central to everything we do. we will be right back. sarah shopped for the lowest mortgage rate and chose amerisave, the one choice she'll never regret... ...unlike buying a do-it-yourself orthodontics kit... or marrying eddie... visit amerisave.com now.

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after pete buttigieg's confirmation on tuesday, one of the republicans who voted against his confirmation, tennessee senator bill haggerty, cited buttigieg's plans to use the department for social, racial and environmental justice causes in his reasons for voting against the confirmation. pete buttigieg is back with me. i hope you plan to do what you were accused of. do you? to use your position for -- >> absolutely. i thought that was something that everybody could get on board with.

look, why would we want social, environmental or economic or racial injustice to be attached to our transportation policy? this is a chance to get it right. look, every time you are spending taxpayer dollars, every time you are shaping american lives, you have to be thinking about whether that's being done in a way that's just or unjust. at this moment, where the country is wrestling with these issues, that should be part of even the most mundane decisions, because it affects every part of life in this country. >> yeah. let's talk quick will airlines. we talked about trains. there are furloughs happening, layoffs. the airline industry is hurting because of the pandemic. in your view, should there be another airline bailout? is there some other way to help that industry? >> there's a lot of active conversation going on to make sure there's the support to get everybody safely in the air. a lot is making sure that we have that perception and reality

of safety so that the demand returns. one thing that airlines were compelled to do earlier was kind of figure out one at a time what their policies were going to be. it's why i think the president's swift action on a mask mandate for airplanes and airports helps the airlines focus on business and clears up the question and makes it the same across all carriers. there are so many americans whose livelihoods depend on the aviation sector. folks we think about like pilots and flight attendants and ground crews at airports, but also folks you might not think about who are involved in the supply chain. building aircraft involved in this, too. we have to make sure we support this vitally important sector in our country. we will work very hard to do that in the department and in the administration. >> you can't leave out cars. we talk about the transportation matrix. most people, that's the way they get around if they are not using

a bike. my lease is coming up soon for my truck. i'm thinking, i want to try to get a hybrid or electric. in a lot of cases, these are expensive. how can we get to the scale where we can start to convert our automobile -- the glut of cars we have on the road to more electric, to make that more accessible? >> i think you used the right word, which is scale. there's remarkable invention and innovation. what drives the cost down is when it represents the majority of sales instead of a small percentage. if you look at what companies are doing, including some of the traditional automakers in detroit who are getting very ambitious about electric vehicles and not just smaller cars, but pickups and other vehicles, too, it's incredibly exciting. two things need to happen for most americans to be able to make that choice. first, cost has to pencil out.

they are cheaper to own. you don't have to fill them with gas. fewer moving parts. that up front sticker, we need to watch that come down. then we have to make sure everybody knows they can be confident of being able to find a charging station. the president's commitment to create a half million charging stations across the country is a very important piece of that. last thing i will mention, the federal government buys a lot of cars. we have to lead by example. that's another thing the president is challenging the agencies to do. >> secretary pete buttigieg, if anybody can make transportation cool, you are the captain of planes, trains and automobiles, you can do it. go to fox and talk republicans into voting for this. it will be help. secretary pete buttigieg, congratulations. all the best to you. thank you very much. appreciate you. as i mentioned earlier, it was on this day in 1913, 108 years ago, that rosa parks was born.

she's remembered for becoming the symbolic spark of the 1955 montgomery bus boycott. her activism went beyond that. for more than 30 years, she worked to reform our judicial system so black women who were assaulted could have confidence they would be heard. a fight that continues today. tonight on "all in" -- >> i urge my colleagues to look at that image and tell me what message you any it sends. >> history in the house of representatives. >> this is about whether it is okay to encourage the murder of the speaker of the house. >> tonight, the bipartisan vote to sanction a republican member for extremist remarks and espousing violence and what it means for the country going