>> good evening everyone, welcome to a special two hour edition of the readout, which begins with the republican long game in its quest to ultimate power. since the january 6th attempted coup in the capital, we've seen elected leaders purged or stripped of power for not falling instep with the big lie. while a sham audit in arizona made a mockery out of a fair election. the big lie infiltrates every corner of the internet, helping to boost legislation making it harder for people, brown and black people, to vote. while empowering partisan poll watchers to thug it out, i mean, keep an eye on things. critical race theory is a flash point, justifying censoring our school books and teachers to the point that even the mention

of race can be called into question. this is all the result of decades of work, even longer. even the united daughters of the confederacy bullied school boards to teach white supremacist propaganda as u.s. history. the latest strategy according to the propublica pieces to seize control of the gop from the bottom up. galvanized by none other than steve bannon. you know that saying, good artist copy, and great artist steel, bannon is activating his army of trump worship-ing conspiracy theorist to swarmed the precincts. let's be clear, the precinct strategy is in bannon's brain child, this is simply as propublica notes something that he plucked out of obscurity. wait a minute, this strategy, maybe not so obscure, republicans have been flooding the election boards, school boards and local city county

ranks for a long time. let's not forget there pinch off for purging the courts. it's just out in the open now. its use of intimidation has been truly unleashed. at this point, they are telling us exactly who they are, and what they want. the question is, what are we going to do about it? joining me now is a democratic poll strategist, a political scientists and cofounder of -- advisor for the dccc. i'm gonna start with you, he didn't come up with this and we shouldn't give him more credit than he deserves, but he understood how to use this age old daughters of the confederacy style of politics to get people at the lowest level on board, and start to recruit them from the school board on up. talk to us about that strategy and how closely it is aligned or if it's separate, or are they fused at this, point? >> i feel like you and i have

been having this conversation for like five years now i'm often said that when people unveils themselves to you it's best to take them at face value. i remember reckon 2016 when steve bannon declared that he was a leninist, someone who wanted to destroy the state, he said that is my goal, i've wanda bring everything crashing down and destroy all of today's establishment. look around, that is exactly what has happened right now. it almost feels like bannon is taking a playbook from al-qaeda and terrorists and inflicting guerrilla warfare at the lowest, local level to try to raise it on up income for all of us. we've been talking about this for so long. it's systemic, they start at the local level, they entrenched themselves and school boards, city councils, party, local party upper and they are going to affect the entire election process, that's the goal. democracy doesn't die in

darkness, joy, it it's happening in broad daylight and, they are saying this is what the plan isn't this is where we're going to do. >> let me read a little bit from this article, it talks about the fact that steve bannon calls -- here's the quote. propublica contacted gop leaders in 65 counties and 41 reported an unusual increase in sign ups since bannon's campaign began. we also look at equivalent democratic posting found no similar surge. rachel, this isn't an equal playing field right now, i've complained about this from much longer than i've known kurt. i've been complaining about since 2004. democrats tend to ignore local elections, school boards, while republicans are all over that stuff, and they just swarm these local elections. that's where scott walker came from. what do you make of this really not even wore at this point? >> that is exactly right. it's not an event of war

because their strategy and the infrastructure, the people of the party apparatuses that they have deployed, these are things that they set into motion back in the 19 eighties, they mapped out strategic plans to infiltrate politics at the place where rules get made. that's really important for thing to understand, the behaviors are caused by bread and butter, but behavior is conditioned by rules in the republican party figured out after the warren court in the sixties that they needed to tweak rules if they wanted to hold on to what is white power hegemon, bannon is of course one of these aggrieved white male supremacist that has unfortunately developed through the use of rhetoric and fear a really powerful platform, and now what they're doing with the local elections, that's the thing that i kept screaming

when i read the propublica report, is so important to reiterate, these people believe that the election was stolen, they believe that was malfeasance, but there was no malfeasance in the electoral process, and what they are doing when they replace these precinct chairs and they purchased the local parties and so on and so forth, is they are attempting to build an apparatus that they can use to discount and refused to certify legal elections that they lose in the future. >> and cornell, having worked for the obama campaign, you understand that they believe the elections were stolen because they don't believe it's possible for black and brown peoples decisions to hold and to be valid, they think that if black people vote it has to be some kind of scam, that they've come to believe that, and they believe that about president obama. his election was somehow the result of fraud. so i wonder if on the

democratic side, the ones that you can soul with, i feel like democrats are so fixated on the presidency and on the power of the presidency, for good reason, lincoln, fdr, lbj, jfk, presidents who feel like we can save us from the bad guys. but those presidents were able to do it when they had legislatures mainly from their parties. we forget. you don't get lbj unless he has two third of the senate, do you think it's because we're so fixated on the presidency that we forget everything else? >> there's a number of variables operating here, and i'll start where you began with president obama it wasn't just that they thought it was fraudulent at the ballot, it was fraudulent in a much deeper sense is that people that look like you and i aren't real americans, is who they value as real americans.

now they're saying the election is stolen, the election was stolen because people who quite frankly they don't value as real americans are flexing their political power and bringing that power to bear, you can see a great deal of that. my problem isn't with steve bannon weather trying to do, they're clear if they want to overthrow democracy, because democracy is no longer working for them as we see changes happening in the country, my problem is that, it's politics one-on-one, the big lie is part of some energizing and take back our country and now he's mobilizing them, using that energy to mobilize them to action, that's basic politics, my problem joy is that americans don't think that donald trump won the election, in fact more people voted for joe biden than they've ever voted for anyone in our country. and you got the majority of

americans who don't buy into this big lie but you don't see the same rallying on the left, you don't see the same sort of conversation on the left, most of us don't believe in this big lie most of us don't want democracy to end, but where is the cry on the left that literally says save our democracy, and one last thing and i listen to your show all the time and look, why people have rights in this -- the biggest problem right now is that they're taking away voting rights of brown people, know what they're doing is they're trying to end democracy, and how you get the white middle america that has skin in this game, because it's not gonna change unless they say wait a minute, i lose if we lose democracy. that is an energizing and mobilizing situation, and i don't see any call of that on the left and lord knows i keep trying. >> rachel, listen, i will say

the exact same thing, i think that is what you see a national democrats. people like kristen cinema don't feel in peril, people even at the chuck schumer level, i don't see their sense of being in peril, the only person in their, the people that i hear sounding the alarm in d.c. are they're squad, people like mondaire jones, people who have lived their life and the speaker. that lady from baltimore gets it. beyond her, i see a lot of white democratic senators who are very nice people, you know, but they don't get it. is it something like texas becoming the handmaid's tale state, and that goes after white women to, it's not the kind of thing that it takes for people to finally say oh, this affects me to? >> yes. here is one of the things of the many reforms i'm trying to get across, i'm trying to get

people on the left to understand, number one, you don't want wide people to co-op anything, but it's a true statement in this country that you must galvanize and threaten white people on this side in order to have enough voting power to win when you say i don't hear a lot of panic that's actually the opposite when i'm talking to the insiders everybody's panicking about democracy, the problem is there is this perception in the party that if you make people afraid on our side, somehow you're gonna generate larger turnout on the other side, let me tell you and i show this quantitatively in 2018, that doesn't happen. even if you don't talk about anything competitive or

anything inflammatory they are going to show up in huge numbers because their organization does that about us, right? the reason these people are flocking to precinct is that they have been told words the destroyers of democracy, they're in an existential fight for the survival of america, and they think that they are the good guys, right? >> that's right. >> it's definitely -- some of it is the fractional isaih shun of our media, nobody is watching one channel, right? many of us have better things to do, we but were always absorbed by politics. we have to make a way to make those people terrified. it's not just that texas is banning abortion, you have to be suburban mothers terrified that their daughters are gonna be forced to bear the baby of a rapist, or their babies gonna kill them and take their lives, until we meet suburban america,

that cuts across racism, and all the side of the left, including independent leaders, until we terrify them on the condition on democracy, we can expect a lot of trouble. >> kurt, it is a mistake to try to make voting an issue just about black people. then, a lot of white people can say, it's harder for black people to vote but that doesn't hurt me and i'm upset about it, i don't like it but i'm not gonna vote about it right, because this is everybody, once they start to take -- let me try to read something's, the republican party, republican lawmakers in 2016 pitched a plan for the state to seize control of the chicago public schools becoming one of the growing numbers of state that are moving to sideline officials, dissolve locally elected school boards and take over struggling urban schools, so what you have, you have white wing extremist who are taking over urban schools,

where lots of black kids go, public schools are becoming black and black or since brown be bored, they're still showing up when people don't go, we're gonna seize this school. we're gonna seize hollywood, they aren't slowed down by the idea that the things they are taking are mostly people buy black and brown people, i need you to tell me how to get democrats -- what should democrats be doing that would allow them to fight the way rachel bitecofer just described. >> i mean, this is the thing, and this is something that i'm very passionate about, and spend a lot of my time doing which is try to get democrats to understand that sometimes you have to fight fear with your, policy isn't always going to win the day, facts and truth's aren't always going to win the day. we have people injecting themselves with animal stuff to treat a disease which there is

a vaccine that works available to them. that's the world we're living in. whether it's climate change, hey, right now your house could be on fire, your place could be flooded, you're entire livelihood could be wreck, we need to scare people with that. when we talk about what's going on right now with texas, and it's just like you said, a rapist can impregnate shoot and that person has more rights than you do with your own body, that's what should be playing everyone this country right now. republicans have to invent things, they have to lie about things to scare voters. we can just tell the truth about what is happening. we can tell the truth about republicans, it's not that hard, it's not that complicated, democrats need to get away from this novelty that they have that somehow the best policies in the best ideas are always going to win, it's not, that's not the world that we live in right now, certainly we have to get things done, we have a functioning majority we should make laws that make american lives better, but it's going to

run a sustain -- to win this election coming up. they spent the last 20 years running a brand defensive against the democratic party, they have the people thinking that -- they convince the entire country that they have a monopoly on patriotism, and liberty, wait till we see ad nauseam the stuff coming from republicans, it's gonna make us all sick because they're gonna lit the place on fire, we have to fight back. you said rene, so cornell, but you talk to these people, these are your clients. can you work with me here? they named something before the people act, gun in your, head most people cannot tell you what is in. it the thing the for the people out is all about is the thing john lewis wanted, but they didn't name that the john was act, they named the other thing the john lewis act. which couldn't even impact a single law that has been passed

for this last cycle because it is about protections of preclearance. they named stuff like after historic figures, right? while republicans are like, the planned plan, that sounds like money. why are democrats so bad at coming up -- they are so busy doing their coup government stuff. we are going to build bridges, roads, we are gonna get that for. you and republicans are saying, the president of the united states moderate, completely normal, nor me, normal joe biden is a marxist! they are saying that with a straight face! and they don't even know how to counter. and i don't have a question, just talk! they are your clients! >> sometimes. there are many ways in which i am outside here's the problem. i think there is a desire among

progressives for americans to be rational. and for americans to see things completely in rational ways. so if i give you health care and if i want -- to raise minimum wage, therefore, it is transactional and you should go vote for me. i also voted for howard dean and he's an outsider, how it in said, they are voting for the higher interest. one too often, democrats and progressive see all the world through transactions. and you know what that americans, middle america, in the middle of iowa and new hampshire, and ohio, who are seeing their factories go away, and their jobs go away, they see their lives through the prism of their values and their aspirations, their hopes. not everything is a transaction.

and often -- not everything is about an economic consideration. and i think that's a big problem for a lot of progressives, especially our progressives along this northeast corridor that we live in who actually see the world through economic transactions. >> amen. i should amend what i said, they should listen to you, they would at least get some names -- they should put that on you. >> that is a deeper conversation. >> hire more consultants who are diverse, let's start with that democratic party. that is something you all need to do. hi will -- please listen to people who know what they are talking about. coming up next, form extremist groups plan their next move following the failure of the coup. and a district in texas is trying to fight racism while

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comcast business. and the eight months since of powering possibilities. an army of die hard might go supporters stormed the u.s. capitol in the attempt to overturn the election, more than 500 people have been charged with federal crimes. these charges range from trespassing to destruction of government property, to conspiracy and use of a deadly weapon. the upside down world we are living in now, some of them are telling us, trying to tell, us that the images do not depict the insurrection. and that those are -- those who are arrested are private political prisoners. and most of, all they are coming back in two weeks. >> we have our next rally planned. it is in the middle of september, september 18th, and it will be huge. when will define it is where it is going to take place. we are going back to the capital right where it started,

on september 18th. and we are going to push back against the phony narrative that there wasn't an insurrection. >> great, as we told you last week, the d.c. police is going to increase its present presidents for this supposed peaceful demonstration. far right extremist groups like the proud boys are planning to attend. i am joined by scott mcfarland and clint what, former fbi special agent and his bc analyst. i want to start with where we are with these cases. before we get into what is going to happen on september 18th. there are more and more high-profile members of this original siege of the capital that are coming to trial. give us the latest update on that. >> a series of plea agreement schedule for next week, and one high-profile agreement today. jacob chansley, the so-called qanon shaman, he was raring a headdress, horns, and red white and blue face pay. he pleaded guilty to one felony

count, obstruction. the estimate right now, joy, roughly four years in prison. that is the sentencing guideline the judge will have to work with. but here is the thing. this ties into september 18th. we spoke with his defense lawyer, a couple of hours ago, his defense lawyer says one of the obstacles to getting chansley to plead guilty, others close to chansley are telling him, don't plead guilty, wait for the pardon from donald trump. here we, are eight months later, that's still the mentality, and i've been talking to a number of members of congress of the last few days, they haven't yet been briefed on what the security protocols and upgrades are going to be for september 18th. but in light of that comment, in light of all of this chatter about justice for the jan six defendants who are in the d.c. jails, has a lot of people concerned. >> wow, clint watts, having absorb that, how concerned are you that since there are some people in chansley's family

where he is facing up to four years in prison, where he still believes that trump will be reinstated and broad pardon him. how worried are you about the september 18th event? >> it's hard to tell right now, joy. i think next week is when we will know how serious it is. i thi can tell you, this since january, six that there has not been a rally that has generated this much noise in the social media space for a lot of these groups. until september 18th. that is when it -- the first one that has gotten a lot of attention. we are starting to see things like people making t-shirts, doing some of the paraphernalia around this given day. you have media personalities and politicians both talking about that day and a potential rally. so that is tipping and queuing as we saw on january six. remember, it is going to be wild. that was a signal to be there. but i don't know though is how serious people will be. in some of these tunnels that you might have watched on social media, you have many

antagonist who are saying, don't be so stupid to go to d.c.. you know they are ready this time. sort of speaking to the truth, like hey, we have a lot much stronger law enforcement there. there are lot of investigations going on with coconspirators. so the ones who do show up, those are the most harden supporters, and they are also the ones that will believe absolutely anything. they will go into in a complete alternative reality and pursue that no matter what the truth is. >> more on that, lauren windsor does a lot of these videos where she goes and pretends to be one of these mockup people and talks to these members of congress. this is her talking to jim jordan about that rally, and it is interesting what he says when he thinks he is talking to a maga supporter about that rally. take a listen. >> are you gonna be there on september 18th? >> on september 18th? >> it's going to be a rally.

>> there's gonna be a big rally in d.c. and a lot of people are gonna be holding it. [inaudible] >> so i'm gonna stay with you on this one clint. it seems that behind closed doors, when they don't think donald trump is listening, members of congress are starting to realize that this might not be the smartest thing for them to do. especially considering the last insurrection. >> exactly, the consequences for them currently could be quite high. particularly as people have eyes on them for incitement, for example. the other thing is, this is ultimately about fund raising and motivating around the next election, that is the only way to look at it. when you heard these comments, it was johnson last week, i, think in this case, it is jim jordan. we know that it is a scam. and there are two fundraising mechanisms that are powerful right now. the insurrection, not so action, and voting recounts, like this

bank audit down in arizona. these are the two mechanisms where they can keep people going. chris bannon and his media outlet, if he was not talking about the insurrection, what would he be talking about? they are not elucidating anything. so conspiracies, quebec conspiracies, for example, the more people talk about it, but you are actually killing people, your audience, overtime. so they need these mechanisms because they have no new ideas. >> right scott, the thing is these people are selling this to the believers. this is one case, his name is doug jansen and he was told to stay off the internet. this is all he needed to. do he is now back in jail. he was initially released prior to his trial on precondition that he would stay off the internet. but he got caught in his grunge -- garage, but he was watching the my pillow ceo video. i wonder --

backpedal. how many of these guys are still doubling down and still spouting this stuff even though they are facing jail time? >> not only was doug jansen caught watching the mike lindell cyber symposium on his phone when he was banned from the internet, he was caught the first time the court came to check on him, the first unannounced vin visit. he has disavowed qanon, he says. jacob chansley has disavowed qanon, he says. but i want to go back to chansley again. his attorney specified that chansley has a soft place in his hartford donald trump. in his words, quote, like your first love. you don't get over it. there is a mentality out there. and these are the defendants who were, or, are in pretrial detention. and that is with the group is coming for september 18th, joy. they are coming to protest, and it's to ask the court, the

police, to release the people in jail. i met with a group one sunday earlier this year at the jail with picket signs, they said that they are trying to release the president -- prisoners of biden. >> just to remind everyone, madison cawthorn mused about busting those people out of jail. so this is some dangerous stuff. they are not the brightest bulbs in the fixture, but they are being and sided on and lie to by members of congress. gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us. coming, up the nbc news podcast south lake explores at the racial tensions in texas. more on that next. more on that next. ♪ ♪ and one we explore one that's been paved and one that's forever wild but freedom means you don't have to choose just one adventure ♪ ♪

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weaponize the term, have led efforts to train activists to fight much of the critical analysis of american history, which by the, way is not critical race theory. the city of south lake, texas, 30 miles northwest of dallas, is the prime example of how our country, parents, and schools, are grappling with this very issue. the new six-part podcast from nbc news documents the issues of the school district to address this after a video went viral of highschoolers chanting the and word. two years after the video, the school ruled out a plan to include diversity and inclusion training. within days, parents, most of them, white formed a political action committee and began packing school board meetings to voice their strong opposition. and, may voters delivered a resounding victory to a slate of school board and city candidates who oppose the plan. the debate guarded national attention and brought conservative voices to the town,

like allen west. here is a clip from the podcast. >> the most important elected position in the united states of america school board --

nbc news correspondent antonia joins me now who started this

podcast. thank you for being. here allen west is also when you come here. he is originally from atlanta, georgia. and i remember him because he was a congressman in florida. so he is not from texas either, i just want to throw that in. there he ran out of congress after one or two terms because he was not really up to the job of representing the united states and. congress >> people -- people have definitely pointed that out too. >> let's talk about what happened to this. town it sounds to me like some white parents got upset that kids were using the n-word and being derogatory towards students of color and the why parents did like the idea that their children should be -- they created a political pack. is it as simple as that? >> well, it was once a simple story but also a complex and inter personal. one in 2018 but this video coming, out at the time, when these issues were not as

politicized as they are now, the community on all sides of the political spectrum came together and were conservatives on the committee that developed this diversity and inclusion plan. while the plan is not ready until 2020, and it is presented to the community in the months after george floyd's murder. we are seeing at the time, mike, my co-host, and, i we are reporting on the backlash of communities in the united states. when schools would try doing clued in the curriculum a new way of talking about race, discussing what happened about george floyd, the plan is brought to south lake at an incredibly volatile time. you cannot disconnect the plan and the local politics here from what is happening there on the national level. so there is this feeling, i spoke to parents at these meetings, where they felt there was this pendulum swinging. that after george floyd, that the pendulum swung so far in

the diversity conversation. they felt like this was reverse racism. and even though this plan in south lake had been in the works since 2018 with all sorts of parents and community leaders on, board it is seen in that contests, suddenly in 20, 20 after george, floyd as a, threat it becomes a nonstarter. >> it feels right. it feels like parents who are uncomfortable with the idea that their children are waking up to the idea that racism is real. and that whiteness has power. they don't want. that they want their children in the bubble. what has happened with that student -- the students who started this specifically? did anything ever happen? any discipline at all? >> well, the district cannot comment on what they do in disciplinary matters for minors. there are rumors around town about what happened to the students, when you speak to students of color who went to that school at the time of the video, they tell you that they feel like the consequences were handed out did not meet the crime.

they describe the girls and the boys who are in this we're back into the school quickly. they felt like teachers and administrators were more students -- more concerned about the students who did the video safety than there's. we know that a lot of students of color felt like it was an. enough >> surprised, to. prize at the end goal is for whiteness to continue their power and for there to be no consequences for racism because that is the only thing that will be considered fairness, surprise! not surprised at all. antonio hilton, thank you so, much we appreciate. you i know that the pockets is doing very. well congratulations. cheers. up next, my fascinating discussion with frank schaffer on religious rights corrosive effect on voting rights, women, rights and the fight against covid. we will be right back. right back. ♪ ayy, ayy, ayy ♪ ♪ yeah, we fancy like applebee's on a date night ♪ ♪ got that bourbon street steak with the oreo shake ♪ ♪ get some whipped cream on the top too ♪

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country shaping elections, legislation, and supreme court nominees. but what the legislation right says about its rally cry abortion, it is untrue. but the bible forbids abortion? that is. allied that abortion is murder, that legal abortions are dangerous? none of that is. truth this movement is for full of misinformation that it is -- it's very origin is alive. back in 19 seventies, evangelical christians were largely a political. and paul ray rick wanted to change. that historian randall bomber in his office cited peace for political, wrote the hypothetical moral majority needed a catalyst. a standard around which to. rally the galvanizing issue was not abortion. it was, in fact, an organized fight to protect christian schools from racial integration. religious leaders blamed president jimmy carter for irs actions at the time that removed tax breaks previously

enjoyed by private schools that fail to integrate. the movement was. brewing but as bomber knows, defending schools segregation was not the best. look so evangelical leaders search for more palatable rare rallying. cries which became abortions. joining me now is frank schaffer director -- author of a book called why i'm an atheist who believes in god. when i called on, you it is for dark and difficult. reasons but let me just play paul rework real quick. >> tell us about him. who was this guy? that >> it's interesting you mention professor rental bomber,

i just interviewed him on my podcast last week in conversation with frank schaffer. and randy and i talked for over an hour about part of my family played in the 1970s. my evangelical father francis schaffer and i went all around the country. including our biggest appearance in dallas texas where we helped found the evangelical win of pro life movement. there was a roman catholic activist to try to involve evangelists and building a right-wing coalition based on racism. he wanted to cash in on the hatred that many white evangelicals had for the u.s. government because it was questioning the tax exams status of all white academies that were a reaction to integration. then they turn to the abortion issue as another piece of red meat with which to enrage their followers.

now when we went out to pitch the, quote, unquote, pro life movement. which in fact was fake family values, thinly veiled misogyny, keep women in their place movement. that is what it was. it was not about bush. and why reckon and others decide they could take that energy and bring new voters to the republican party. this is a point that most people don't understand, joy. when we went out, the reverend billy graham, the evangelist, and doctor chris wall, who at that time, was president of the southern baptist convention, pastor of first baptist in dallas and president of dallas seal -- you don't get more conservative evangelical than that. he was pro-choice. not ambivalent. pro-choice. our first job as right-wing activists, and i was my dad's nepotist a psychic and i have said the rest of my life repentigny for the fact that i did so much harm to so many people by helping to energize

this anti-women movement. it was not antiabortion, it was anti-woman. when we went, out evangelicals where the people who wanted to be a part of this and we had to talk to them and tuck them into this. crusade fast ford 40, years we have a situation in texas, right now, tonight, where the american taliban, because that is what it is, there is not an american evangelical right wing movement, there is an american taliban, is weird least some other and so many ways to the middle eastern islamist terrorists. and here is another weird one. you know a few years, ago some of the islamist terrorist activists in pakistan and other countries were murdering vaccine doctors and nurses who are coming in to try to vaccinate against polio with some mythological conspiracy theories about how this was part of the u.s. government. plot thi think about this tonight, . the evangelical voter in texas is now also the voter who is

calling vaccines some sort of government conspiracy and wanting to stop joe biden's program to deliver our country from the covid virus. there is a weird convergence of factors here whether it is head needs tail or taking away women's rights, or whether it's the anti-vaccine movement that has grown out of this weird fascination with conspiracy theories and misinformation, wherever you touch it, the evangelical movement is no longer the only one that my dad tried to talk into radicalism and where to successful into doing. i want to say this again, there is no evangelical political movement. there is an american taliban. and their goal is theocracy, to take our religious beliefs, which for them are old testament law, not christianity, and force secular americans, non-evangelical americans,

progressive americans, women, people of color, into that box and this is not hyperbole. this is happening right now, tonight, in texas. this is happening right now with the people dying of covid, children dying of covid, because pro lifers have seen fit to stand against joe biden's vaccine as a way to own the lid's. and their prices to be literally bio terrorists. that is where we are tonight, joe. this is not back when i was in the 1970s talking to billy graham. i was with him and mayo clinic. so doctor bomber from -- when he talks about this right-wing movement to sort of fuse the anger of anti integration with the beginnings of this thing called the anti-abortion movement. it is totally correct. >> wow. it is frightening.

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begin the read out to night with the jihad, the house minority leader kevin mccarthy are waging against the selective -- select committee investigating january. six kevin is now claiming that congress doesn't have the right to investigate the violence. most laughably, he is comparing the insurrection to a bank robbery. >> should members of congress do investigation when someone robs a bank? they let long forsman do.

it but now what the democrats are doing, they are trying to use an unconstitutional, unlawful ability to go after americans who they think disagree with him philosophically. >> but beneath his bluster and law, is kevin is clearly running scared. putrefied that he might be more deeply implicated in the events of that. day multiple outlets are now reporting that mccarthy's phone records are also subject to the preservation request that the committee issued on monday to more than 30 media until come companies. that means that he might be the target of a potential subpoena. that explains his panic when he is issued an unprecedented threat to those companies on tuesday. effectively vowing to destroy them if they comply with investigators. mccarthy is not just a men being that -- he is running a protection racket. not unlike the mafia. but the threat of retribution -- he is extorting private sector

companies for guarantee of safety. which bears the question, what is exactly is he trying to? hide let's look at little kevin, he is one of almost a dozen republicans to have his information targeted. an all star list of maga boot liquors. many people are saying that the republicans are threatening to sue the telecom companies if they will comply. the investigation is on the right track, then. as rick wilson said this, week their guilt is rolling off them in waves, they are drowning in a ocean of flop sweat. they are not afraid of the committee, they are also afraid of their own. congressman andy bigs who is also a target in the investigation is now lobbying to expel the republican, the two republican members, of the gop caucus in the committee. he is saying that congresswoman cheney and congressman adam kinzinger are too spice for the democrats. --

of course he wouldn't be so paranoid if he didn't have anything to hide. here with me right now is dean obeidallah, juanita tolliver, and rick, the aforementioned that i complemented about the flop sweat. also with you wreck. it's almost as if kevin mccarthy who said he signed -- held a sign on himself saying that i did not commit these crimes. it could be more. obvious >> it's like he is in the mafia. it's as though he's -- it would be a shame if something happened to. them it's so crude and so clownish and so putinesque that it really gives away the game where people -- this is not a conservative political party, they are kleptocrats. they need shine your suits and

slicked back hair. it is really reached the point of absurdity. >> they should have striped zoo suits, go full. on when eta, you know, i don't know why they think that this is going to work. subpoenas are perfectly legal, there's nothing wrong with the subpoena. they will have to comply. they are not donald trump. he thought he had immunity. no one will respect. that do you think that this winds of making the committee more aggressive because it does make it look like they did something wrong? joy, i sure hope so. because all this did was kick a hornets nest. they don't know which way to go. and they are all scrambling. and that fear that they are demonstrating with every letter they write, with every person they tried to throw under the bus, should reaffirm the january six committee. don't to turn course, don't back, down if, anything push harder. because americans just -- deserve the truth. anybody who participated in any

way, those members of congress should be expelled and held accountable. so the select committee should keep on going. >> you know dean, i'm gonna take advantage of the fact that i your my friend so i know that you are a hilarious guy, but you're also a lawyer. this was in the washington post. what's federal laws can kevin mccarthy site when he threatens telecom? firms they are actually isn't anything he can do to stop the subpoenas, right? >> joy, you're seeing republicans need laws? are you making things up? they make up anything they want! it's like being peter pan. whatever you wish will come true. come on, and hold my hand wendy, let's fly. when they get the records -- we've trace the, call it's coming from inside the house. the house of representatives. it's kevin mccarthy and jim jordan talking to donald trump. this is 20 years ago, after 9/11, when requests of republican, but would he say?

where they now? trump's terrorist or -- this is actually what we are watching now. it is stunning to see -- i hope people -- january six was an act of to mess dick terrorism. let us frame it. what are you with the united states america, or are you with trump's terrorists. put your patriotism on the line day in, day out. no more ambiguity. this was a terrorist attack. fbi's words, not. mine >> i feel like rickie, in a lot of ways, you are the guy who got out of the hell bought group before they got that matching headbands. or before they set up shop in ghana. you survived getting out of time. let me read you one another guy who seemed to have survived the freedom so from it. he was a bush speech writer. this is mike bruce. and for years --

rick he is not a credible gangster. no one -- people are scared of speaker pelosi because when she speaks you better listen to her. no one is afraid of the sky. is there any possibility that that caucus, if they somehow managed to turn this nightmare into getting back the majority, are they actually going to make this full speaker? is that something that could happen? >> that is the reason why kevin is doing this performative. stuff that's why he is saying like, this is like a speeding ticket, it is nothing. big he is doing that because he knows that there are now a large majority of the house who are not guano crazy. they are out of their minds. they are out of their minds. >> the church ladies will come

for you! you understand the church ladies will come for you they have their hats on and they are waiting for you! >> they know very well that kevin mccarthy's tiny circle of allies that there is a greater chance that matt gates, or marjorie taylor greene, could be elected speaker. or donald trump. then kevin mccarthy. so he is going to act like a jackass, he's gonna do all this performative stuff because, look, he thinks of himself as better and different from the rest of the people on the mutant parade that are on that list of other people getting subpoenas. he thinks of himself as much more elevated than those people. he is not. he was -- he has lied down with dogs, get up with margaret taylor greene, the rest of the cooks. >> listen juanita, in all seriousness, crew is looking into this, they are looking

into this. this is actually serious. making threats against private companies, which is again, not only is it a conservative move, it is a dangerous move. as much as me laugh at the idiocy of these people. they have governmental power and the idea that they are using that to threaten private companies to try to tell them you are to not comply with legal subpoenas, is actually quite dangerous. i wonder how seriously it should be taken. i think it should be absolutely taken seriously, but where you can stop the seriousness is in the fact that, as been said, there is no legal authority that mccarthy has to issue such threats. as rick said, this is thug like behavior. it's just being delivered that in a way that he thinks is elevated. what is frustrating about all of this is that in my mind, where was this energy two months ago when trump used the doj to -- no one was ringing alarm bells.

then no one was saying americans all across the country are having their cellphones threatened. but now they are? it is, week it is pathetic. they cannot even deliver it well, joy. look at mccarthy stumbling over himself trying to get out of these, lies get out these messages that we know appealed to an audience of one, donald. trump and it is a reminder of who the republican party is. if the party of trump, it's the party of lies, the party of violence, it's the party of fools. you cannot take them too seriously. >> we played in the last, hour when he thought that jim jordan -- was even ron johnson dropping to the cuckoo bird mask when you think that donald trump cannot hear him. they understand that this stuff is bs. they know it is untrue. but the fact that they are willing to play along. anyway it is. dangerous the hard cores that show up on september 18th, those are the people we actually have to worry about

trying to get a gun magazine through the airport. or acting absolutely wild and crazy, and defecating in the capital. it turns out that even if you don't believe in something, you can prompt dangerous people to do dangerous things, dean? >> absolutely you. can and that's what donald trump did on january six. joy, every time i talk to, you i plead with someone to wake me from this nightmare. we watched donald trump, literally radicalize people, he pick the date. he said january 6th, we. there he gave them a speech. he said brigadier go down, there are gonna stop. them he does, it and he's not being charged. democrats, i'm not saying chant -- cannot welcome. up i'm saying that he is still radicalizing people. we had a guy two weeks ago driving in the capital with bomb making material. please repeat after me america, donald trump is the osama bin

laden of january 6th. without donald trump, there is no january six. and democrats who think that -- it is not partisan to call for prosecuting someone who incited a terrorist attack. it is patriotic. so be patriots, my fellow democrats and call for him. to be prosecuted. order gonna see more terrorism as we saw this last month. there's an increase of chatter from people on the. right there is the kind of pick up trump. this is happening in front of us. no one's being charged. it's unbelievable. >> he's also the son of a builder that inherited all this money. frank rick wilson, this is something that have to ask you as someone who's been on the business who's been on the other side of the outdoors, you guys are good at the. stuff at what point is there a tipping point where enough independents threw up their hands and do what you did saying i can't be a part of this anymore.

at some point, does this jumped the shark, his fig gangsterism, the bounties of what? at some point, does it jumped the shark? >> the yeehaw scott se the one to establish in texas to report women for seeking an abortion, it is going to have an eventual blow. back because a lot of suburban women who are not hyper political, who are not overtly political, are going to say enough of this crap. and it is not just about choice and abortion. it is about covid, desantis, abbott, and other republican governors who are doing, where putting the kids of these suburban republican women in danger. you are going to see a division between them. you will see people making a

choice between the trump hobby -- lobby and america. you will see the make that choice. they made that choice in 2020 by a narrow margin, but i think the republicans may be setting themselves up for backlash here that is beyond -- because, look their bases starting to shrink it, is starting to contract, as a, contracts it is like a dying star that becomes hotter and crazier. there will be gettable votes out there and the suburbs in particular among educated female voters, among independent leading male voters, that democrats can pick up. and they don't have to convince these people to come super hard-core progressive, they just have to, say i do want to be with the crazy guys who are storming the capital. i do want to be with the covid truth or -- deniers, or the anti-vax troopers, and all the crazy's. >> that feels right to me. at a certain, point you just

want your kids to survive. well i want to let covid into the elementary. school i don't care that the pediatric units are full of children who are sick and die. at a certain point, i feel like people i know we are starting to call florida desantistant because they're sick of him. he's turned this date into an outlaw nation full of children in icu. do democrats understand how to take advantage of this, not an across, way but to wake voters up to the urgency of denying these people power. i'm talking with the local power, school board, and up? heto that point about local impact, it's all about the negative harm that people fill in their every dare lives. we also saw in 2018 when suburban women also turned away

from trump and republicans. so i think we can expect a degree of. that but for all the messaging in the world, joy. none of that voter suppression tactics will ultimately give republicans a leg up at the local, state, and federal level. on top of that messaging and reminding people of the harm the republicans are doing across the country, whether it's related to covid, rather it's related to voting, rights or reproductive rights, abortion, care this ultimately comes down to voter turnouts and who actually can access the ballot box easily. >> when it be nice dean if we had a party that try to get rid of the filibuster and do something about? it >> there -- you know what is remarkable, when you watch america, it doesn't seem that democrats control the house, the senate, and -- it seems like the republicans control everything.

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providers in texas got a small reprieve after a brutal week in the courts. the travis county district course granting a temporary restraining order stopping the white ring group from bringing lawsuits to planned parenthood and other texas health clinics while litigation to the six-week abortion law continues. other states are trying to pass their own versions of this bill now that the supreme court can help them circumnavigate roe v. wade. as the new york times points, out the court spent less than three days dealing with the texas case. there were no oral arguments before the justices. the majority opinion was unsigned and one paragraph long. in her dissent, illinois kagan wrote that this along with the texas case, the supreme court

overturned biden's eviction moratorium. and required biden a ministration to restart trump's remain-in-mexico program. the frequency of shadow docking cases have increased over the past few years and they have tended to favor conservative priorities. according to the washington post, the trump administration had positive rulings in 28 out of the 41 emergency applications from their doj and were only outright denied four times. those rulings included trump's travel ban, the ban on trans people serving in the military, and the go ahead to execute people with lethal injections. the judiciary committee -- with me is elie mystal, justice correspondent for the nation and melissa murray and why you professor of law. both of you have talked a lot about this shadow dock stuff. most people don't even know

much about this. it feels, in a lot of ways, like the court is using the shadow docket the way that republicans use these local government orders and the sort of laws to try to get through legislation like what they are calling the soothe a neighbor bill in texas, but they cannot get by asking the majority. you know what i? mean they are not getting it from the majority, so they just sneak it through and sneaky ways. is that a wrong way to look at it? >> they are also cowards, right? let's not forget the dripping flaming cowardice of not even being able to sign your name to the opinion, ripping away 50 years of constitutional protection. the shadow docket is supposed

to be for emergencies. aliens come to earth and biden is like, oh no we should stop them! and the court says we have to decide very quickly. the shuttle docket, that is what it's supposed to be here. there is no emergency here. row fierce is wade's a 50 year old law. planned parenthood is all old. law for them to throw out that law because they don't know the law -- they are the supreme court, we literally have them so that they can make these decisions! they say it's too complicated, so they're gonna throw away 50 years of law? that is craven, that is, cowardice trying to do something while avoiding the new york times headline, supreme court overturns roe v. wade, that is what they were trying to get away with. all these people -- owe texas abortion law severely weakens row -- that's what they want people to say, not the truth. that roe v. wade is dead letter

law now if texas and illinois, and florida, and missouri, and arkansas, and indiana can just ignore women's rights issues. >> and i feel like that is what they got. melissa, that's how i. feel they are trying to get away with implementing very unpopular right-wing ideas that they believe in because of their own reading of the christian faith, and i want to do these things. but to do them through a normal case would be very bad headlines for the roberts court. so they are doing it in the sneaky way. it almost feels like bush versus gore. you've had some thoughts on him. before he seems to have bought their plan and says, see? they did overturn row people are acting as the row has been overturned. i would welcome that outcome and it may eventually be, but it has not been overturned yet. at all. this is a procedural ruling

that was the correct one. there was no harm here yet. >> so that's a conservative activist pretending that he is not seeing but happen because it is the better pr strategy. yet some thoughts on twitter is that you wish that you could respond to. that you are here to respond now. >> i appreciate the opportunity to say forthrightly to say that that is absolutely absurd and really has no business being broadcast on mainstream television. this was a procedural ruling, that is absolutely correct. but first procedural rulings have locations. this particular one effectively got runway. with two, three decades were of supreme court precedent. roe v. wade is effectively dead in texas. it is, as you, say working on the shadow docket. the court can do things that it would not be able to do on the merits docket where there is far more attention. the silver lining of this entire week actually being

used for more, and more consequential litigation that gets decided without the benefit of full briefing and oral argument, and without a lot of elaborate explanation. the kind of explanation that in a democracy the public deserves. >> you have seen a lot of responses to what is happening in texas, they're saying that they're gonna cover the legal fees for uber drivers. donations the plan parenthood. you have people trying to find ways to find -- ways around because they know they can be sued. that uber drivers could be sued because they took a woman to a clinic to get an abortion. it's insane to think about. it but i can remember, i'm old enough to remember when

republicans used to accuse the democrats and liberal-leaning justices of legislated the bench. they were mad about things like brown v. board. things on race and things on equality. in this case, it feels like it's between gutting the voting rights act, the way john roberts quoted, gutting roe v. wade. they know that this is not with the majority of the public wants but they are finding a way tolegislate. >> you are absolutely. right i just want to ask that rich lowry is trash and everything he said is wrong. completely. you are right. they are legislating from the bench. there is no big version of legislating from the bench that overturning the voting rights act that was passed by a vote and in congress, 93 to 6 in the senate. signed by george w. doesn't care about black people bush. that is judicial activism.

you're, right the reason why they're doing that is because they are broadly unpopular. people do not like these. lost the american public does not want to have a ban on abortion. writes it's like, if you look at the, polls basically are in the middle. abortion should be illegal sometimes but illegal other times. that is the law. now that is the actual law right now. if people were just look at. it republicans cannot overturn these laws through popular votes, so they use, this is why mcconnell stole a seat from barack obama. why they pushed forward an alleged -- why they were so eager to get any conan baron on the bench. this is why they have tried to control the courts. now, as we -- as winston churchill would, say or al gore would, say we are living in time of consequences. when our fundamental inaction, and inability, to stop republicans from taking over the court now has consequences

on the american people and on our rights as citizens. >> you know melissa, what scares me is that despite the fact that, as elie says, there are large majorities who still want democracy, who still believe that everyone should be able to vote regardless of race, regardless of age, regardless of what state they live in, and everyone should have equal access to the, ballot they believe that when someone wins an election and when someone loses, that should, carry should be able to flip it and give it to you what. the things that vast majority people, one that woman -- between republicans who don't respect the rules and the laws, and who are willing to cheat and willing to do whatever it takes, and of the courts be on their side, and there are now being a solid majority of them who want to enact hyper right-wing, basically, a certain type of evangelical

rule over us, which is taliban -ism, right? this is our sect and you will live by our sect whether you want to be a part of it or not. that scares me because if the court is willing to do that, where do we go from here if we don't expand the court? i cannot think of anything else to do other than expand the court. i think this is a critical. issue it is an issue that democrats should have been banging the drum on for the last 20. years and they never. did we saw the democratic national convention last summer, they talked all about the violence -- they talked about voting, rights immigration. no one said anything that all of those legislation efforts had been gutted in the supreme court. we have to take the court seriously. we're in a moment now, we have the senate by just harris breath, and we need to be moving. we need to be putting judges on the bench in the same way the trump administration. did the trump administration did zero on their domestic policy except put judges on the

bench. and they did at every level of the federal judiciary. >> they are stacked now to suburban our democracy to their particular version of right-wing evangelical, what they call christianity. and are gonna force the rest of us to live under those. rules that is no different than taliban-ism. we are watching that happen. wake up everybody! democrats, wake up! elie mystal we'll be back later, melissa murray thank you very much, it's good to have you back on the show. still, up the danger of covid misinformation being spread by the rights. as ivermectin overdoses already strain overrun hospitals. we will be right back. l be right back. it's the biggest sale of the year, on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it's the most comfortable, dually-adjustable, foot-warming, temperature-balancing, proven quality night sleep we've ever made. save 50% on the new sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. celebrate the final week into

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the summer. but if you are not vaccinated, cdc director is asking you to stay at home. that warning comes as the new variant as mu it's described as a variant of. interest doctor fauci told reporters that it is not an immediate threat. currently the delta variant continues to ravage the country finding willing hosts among the unvaccinated. according to the new york times, the number of daily deaths has quadrupled since august. and just yesterday, florida broke another record for the states largest number in dates. georgia also ranks sank get behind kentucky. health providers in idaho are prepared to follow crisis standards of care which

requires giving scarce resources to patients less likely to survive. things are, bad but things are worse by people who refused to take the vaccine instead are swallowing horse paste. one town in oklahoma is overwhelmed with people overdosing on ivermectin. it is getting so bad that gunshot victims are having to wait to be treated. by the, way the pharmaceutical company that produces ivermectin had to tell people that there was no scientific basis or evidence for using ivermectin when it comes to covid. despite, that these folks would rather eat the horse deworming medication then take the free. shot with me is doctor the me roy, and nbc news reporter ben collins. doctor lippy roy, it has to be frustrating. it's frustrating to me to hear people who are willing to take a horse medicine and drink that

because they think they are evading big pharma, and it is bit made by big pharma, and it is not for covid. how frustrating it is that for you that people are not taking up hospital beds because they chose to drink, consume, ivermectin instead of taking the shot? >> happy friday joy, good to see you. i want to make sure your viewers understand that inappropriate administration of medications can have a constellation of harmful side effects. in the case of ivermectin, which by the way, to be very clear, is not fdr approved for the treatment of covid-19. it is approved for treating parasitic illnesses, like malaria. but not covid-19. ivermectin, especially when people are overdosing on, it can cause a lot of serious side effects including seizures, coma, and death. people need to just stick with

the evidence based medication treatment and the global standard right now is prevention which is the vaccine toy. that is the message people need to. no >> the reason why we have you here ben, in a covid segment, where normally we would have to doctors, is because people are listening more to social media, which you cover for us so brilliantly, that people they are listening -- then they are listening to doctor lipi roy. so why should they go -- or do they think that they should go to the feed store, pick up something, and drink? it >> they are getting it from podcasts, from face, but they're getting up from insular groups which are distrustful of the government. when you are thinking about a large section of donald trump supporters, is, think about what the government is saying, assume it is a cabal to hurt you, and do the opposite. the opposite here is don't do -- don't take the vaccine and do a therapeutic that people guess works. there is no proof that it. works the problem is we are up

to 80, 90,000 prescriptions of this stuff out. there are so people who need it cannot get it, so they are going now, all of these people who are trying to get some, it is so overprize, it is hundreds of dollars instead of tens of dollars, what it used to be. they are going to the feed store instead, they are taking five times the amount that is regular for a person because it is meant for horses. and they are getting really sick. and people like joe rogan who are out there saying, who has covid, and he is very popular, younger people are listening to people like. him there is that 30-year-old activist in texas who treated himself with ivermectin instead of getting the shot and doing the normal things he would do. he was now dead at 30, leaving children and a wife. do you see evidence that people are turning up dead from doing this and the stories that people dying and people getting sick from trying to do these other drugs are having any impact on the -- in this world, these facebook

feeds, when they see people are dying, the do they change their minds? >> it is not falsify-able. the problem with the sort of thing is people don't go back to sharing their failures in these places. this is a widespread extremist problem that you have. people who are, for example, incels. once they are no longer in, says once they have a girlfriend, or a job, they don't go back to the insubordinate say hey, guys i got a, job everything is fine now, it's okay! it doesn't happen that way. with ivermectin, is kind of similar. people in the ivermectin facebook groups don't go back because they are embarrassed. if it didn't work for, them if they got covid anyway, if their family got sick and died for it and they treated them with ivermectin instead of taking them to the hospital, they don't share. that they're too embarrassed to deal with. at that is the problem with these faces. they are so close to from actual medical reality that they never see the reality themselves. >> so doctor roy, is the answer now going to be got hospital should all go to that clinical

-- study emergency standard of care, meaning that -- should hospitals be pry or ties-ing children, because they cannot help being unvaccinated, people who have gunshot wounds and cancer, and the things that are on preventable and nothing that you could've done about it, and rather than allowing the ivermectin people to take up all of these beds? because it feels like at a certain point, there are limited resources, human resources, care resources, and physical resources, and it feels like people who have other issues are just getting crowded out. >> yeah. what happens in hospitals is that when the patient presents, they are is a triage in the waiting room. and people who are most clinically unstable, low blood pressure, though hard, great bleeding profusely, they will be prioritized. so the respective of cause, those people who are most unstable, respiratory distress,

prick guard this of the, cause they are the ones we're gonna go first. but what is happening is that people who are sick of our people with covid next -- covid-19 and are in vaccinated. >> let me ask you really quickly before you. leave people are wondering if they should get the flu shot. in addition -- now there is the question of if you are vaccinated, you are trying to do the right, thing is it important to also get the flu shot now? >> 1000% please get the food shot. remember influenza is a different virus that causes flu. so please get that. it will also reduce your risk of getting hospitalized and reduce the burden on health care workers who are trying to take care of people. already >> last question. there's back and forth on whether people should be getting these. boosters do you have an opinion on that? >> i do. i have mixed feelings, actually. i am illegible to get the booster shot in a month or so. but the problem is, when the rest of the world -- the majority of the world is still unvaccinated and we know

that new variants emerge in communities with low vaccination rates, that is going to be a problem. because delta came from other countries, right? so it is in our best interest to have everybody get vaccinated. >> everybody. -- exactly. if we are already on mu, that means that we breezed past orlando. we already on mu. it is getting worse, and worse, and. whereas this is terrifying. thank you very much to both of our guests. calling yourself a pro life, pro family party while restricting women's rights and covid misinformation is just backwards. i'm looking at you gop. g at you gop

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by banning mask mandates and schools and businesses and raising doubts of vaccines. especially if your policy ideas bring death to your own stars, spokespeople, and activists. republicans are among the least vaccinated group. and they are driving covid cases and deaths. among their own children to. and a lot of other people's children. and are largely responsible for the overwhelmed hospitals that we are seeing. today that is not pro family, and it is definitely not pro-life. you cannot call yourself a pro life, pro family party if your policy goes or to put bounties on pregnant women and to force teenage girls to give birth after getting pregnant as a result of incest and rape. that is literally the plot of the hand maids tail. but pro-life, it is. not especially for other core policies are to oppose giving those children you demand to be born health care. if you oppose giving your parents a living wage so they can afford to feed them. and you oppose funding free lunches that school if the parents can't afford.

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contractors can break in the dough. that is not pro-life. the republican party is a lot of things, anti-democracy, anti-voting, anti-history, anti-facts, deeply opposed, anti racist with. they are not is pro-life. take the governor in mississippi who told us -- southerners believe in eternal life makes them less scared of covid. okay, that is a demonstratively pro death statement. and republican parties now revealed itself to be loudly and proudly the pro death party. and for that, they are tonight's absolute worst. we who won the week is straight, ahead stay with us. d stay with us can help. align contains a quality probiotic developed by gastroenterologists. it adds more good bacteria to your gut to naturally help soothe your occasional bloating, gas and abdominal discomfort. support your digestive health with align, the #1 doctor recommended probiotic.

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it to friday. thank god. it is time to play our favorite game. who won the week? back with me is a doctor lipi roy and elie mystal.

doctor lipi roy greg key who won the? week >> pro hammer organizations. as a doctor, as a woman of color and a doctor, to disenfranchise certain women, i from the texas abortion law heinous. any law that forces pregnancy and women derails women's economic and educational activities. that's why i found these tiktok activists brilliance. they bombarded the texas whistleblower website with fake tips where what -- texas lawmakers are getting a taste of their own medicine, joy. >> don't mess with those tiktok kids, they are something. else they i love. it elie mystal, who do you think won the week? >> justice, sonia, maria such a myo. she -- we just talked about how the

republican majority was so craven and ludicrous. they couldn't even sign their names, their decision taking away women's rights do. you know who wrote her? name she did. good at the end of the day. people like governor and amy cornyn barrett who will be remembered as deplorable humans on the path towards justice in this nation. whereas people like sorriest murder saw the evil in realtime and did what she could against. that i hope that her decision will stay on much longer than these texas right-wing -- >> i have needed to have off the news entertainment to keep me sane during all of this madness. so i'm going to pick somebody who picked directed a movie and

my pick is nia de costa. she got 20 million in the bank for her film candy man. the first woman black director at number. one thank you very much to our guests. that is all for tonight. >> i see her laying there on the floor. and i see a person i've never seen before in my house. and i'm looking at him and he tells me i'm next while he's reaching for a butcher knife. terrified. >> i just walked in and i saw blood everywhere. it was her mom who found her. >> her daughter's laying there. a young girl coming home from lunch getting brutally attacked. >> blood on the floor. a shovel. duct tape. a knife. >> i rushed home. i truly thought brittani would die. >> somehow she battled back. a fight to live. >> it was a struggle. it was a huge struggle. >> she is the definition of grit. >> she didn't give up. >> he's hurting me. >> the detailssh