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your family members. >> that video is part of a night mare story detailed in two-must read reports that shed light on the disturbing power of the big lie. the video recorded at a police station shows the 62-year-old freeman with a woman that threatened freeman that people were going to disrupt her freedom. and as unbelievable as it may sound,cutty is a publicist for kanye west who is friends with donald trump. cutty showed up saying she was sent by a high profile individual to give freeman an urgent message, confess to trump's voter fraud allegations or people would come to her home in 48 hours and she would go to jail. that's why they agreed to meet at a police station where cutty put freeman on the phone with someone that tried to get

freeman to implicate herself in committing voter fraud on election day. despite their attempts to indim -- intimidate, according to freeman, the fbi called her the next day and urged her to leave her home of 20 years because it wasn't safe. freeman describes in a lawsuit how she left hours before a mob of angry trump supporters surrounded her home shouting through bull horns. she's moved from house to house in fear of her safety. as disturbing that is, it's one part of the intimidation act against freeman and election workers like her. she was put through a living hell and the threats have not been investigated by local police or state authoriauthorit. it is clear evidence of how the big lie trickled down among

trump's devotees before come the siege of january 6th. all had a role in coordinating the rally at ellipse that preceded the attack on the capitol. joining me is tim miller and barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney and msnbc analyst and i'll start with you barbara. this is wild. this story of ms. freeman who had to change her appearance because she was afraid her photograph was widely circulated by right wingers after the election to interview her reuters had to agree to the to describe how she looks today and 850 threats and harassing messages including about 100 that legal experts say could be prosecuted under federal law but almost nobody so far has been held accountable. how is it possible, how is it

possible that this woman could be essentially tortured and tormented by someone who is kanye west's publicist and it not be a crime? >> well, certainly, joy, it's very disturbing that people who are the backbone of our democratic process, the people who work at our elections, i think about my own polling place, it's mostly senior citizens that go in there and work long days to make sure everybody's vote gets cast. it's thankless work. it's very low paying work, and they do it because they love democracy and love america. and now we see people being threatened, harassed and harmed. this is the very kind of thing that the justice department has made it a priority to prosecute and that in all that backlash from republican senators saying you're trying to stomp on people's first amendment rights to speak out against, you know, the election officials and

school board members and others. we really have to change that narrative and protect people like people who are working as poll workers as election officials so that we can continue to have those people in those places and so, i don't know why a decision has been made not to file charges in a case like this. i would hope that someone is seriously considering the facts, identifying the perpetrators and making sure that justice is served because it isn't important just to protect this individual but nationwide have people feel comfortable continuing to serve in the important roles. >> you know, i think about the people that work where i vote. they're elderly women, black women in the case of where i vote and they're -- as you said, they're not getting paid a lot of money to do this, tim. this is a low paying job people do because it's their civic duty where i voted for years in new york. they are always there and show up every year and yet, someone like ms. freeman. let me play her 911 call.

again, we know one of the names. they don't have to search for them. reuters found them. this is them arriving at the door and ms. freeman calling 911. >> they keep saying time is running out and i'm going to need some representation. they saying that i need help, and they can help me because they say they coming after me. >> do you know who these people are? >> no, that's why i wanted the police to come and i go outside and talk with them with the police being there. i'm not talking now. >> this is a thugocracy. this is something you'd see in a third world country, this is war lord-ism. that's what the republican party is up to now and that's what donald trump unleashed on this party and this country, your thoughts? >> it's not a one off, joy. i know you've covered this before. the salt lake tribune wrote

about this thing called the utah voter verification process where people are going door to door in utah, a state trump won by the way to try to identify fraud in order to prove that there is likely fraud in other states, i guess, is their four dimensional chess thinking. that's intimidating. it's not the same as ms. freeman but someone is coming to your door, demanding to see documents to prove you are who you say you are. that's a thugocracy and intimidating. the down stream effect of this is it's not just obviously we should be concerned about the largely seniors as you point out, people that vote -- excuse me, that work at the polling places but this goes up to people who want to work in local election administration jobs. who would want these jobs with that kind of intimidation and we saw in my home state of colorado in mesa county an insane maga election administrator in the western slope in colorado tried

to fabricate fraud on her own machines to prove there was -- so they could help prove there was fraud in these other states and so if you look ahead to 2022, 2024, you can see just a natural decline of normal regular folks, some republicans by the way that are like my do i want to have this trouble? they will be replaced by people who are looking to potentially cause trouble, looking to undermine our democracy. so, you know, i think there is a lot of down stream effects of this kind of intimidation. >> indeed. barbara, i can go back to 2012 when this organization called true the vote was running around bragging that they wanted black voters to feel like there was a police officer following them, that that's the feeling you should have when you go to vote in their view and their thing was to watch voters in an intimidating way the try to bull think them, right? to bully particularly voters they assumed would vote democratic. you have the supreme court look the other way as state after

state like texas and georgia passed laws to allow more poll watching, more voter intimidation. they won't use that on white voters. they will use that on white voters in rich counties and go into black and brown counties to make voters afraid. this is not democracy by any stretch of the imagination. what do you make of the fact that so far our judicial system has done absolutely nothing to stop this and to protect the voters in this country and to protect people like ms. freeman who, i mean, the three percenters, tim talked about colorado. that same utah story talked about the fact that the version of that in colorado, the three percenters are involved in that. those people are former law enforcement. they're armed people. this is terrifying. it is not democracy. why isn't the judicial system doing anything about it? >> i think the first step, joy, is the prosecutors have to do something about it. we need to have cases coming to court so judges can make decisions on them and you're right, this is in effort to

intimidate people to keep them away from the polls. i know we hear stories about people who, you know, show up in a business suit holding a clipboard trying to appear they're someone official and saying things like i hope your child support is all paid off. i hope nobody has outstanding traffic warrants because when you get to the front of the line and show your i.d. we'll be arresting people. people trickle out of the line because they don't want to risk those things. of course, that's not true. that's a farce designed to discourage people from voting. we're seeing an increase in population in black and brown voters and people that want to cling to power in the way they've always known things to be and want to suppress those numbers. if we had a majority rule in this country, we would see democrats winning handedly in races and because people know they can't win a fair game, they're trying to cheat and that's what we're seeing here. intimidation at the polls. you need to win elections through hearts and minds and ideas, not intimidation. i'd like to see more prosecution

of those intimidating voters and poll workers. >> it's the '80s south africa strategy, you suppress the majority, liberal whites and the voters of color. they're attempting to suppress it. the investigation with the january 6th committee. eugene robinson has a piece out saying it's too slow and this tidy and calm response and the committee i'm sure is doing great work. they're interviewing lots of people. is it taking too long and do you think that strategy is effective, that it's not on tv every minute the way republicans did benghazi not in your face pushing. do you think that's a mistake? >> i'll get to that. i want to object a little bit to one point you're making, it makes the voter intimidation thing worse, i don't know there is proof the more people vote helps democrats. the biggest non-voting

demographic this this country is working class white people. that's the biggest by raw numbers of people who don't vote. if everyone voted there would be more working class white voting -- >> to be more specific, tim, it's poor white people. you know who doesn't vote? poor white people. not even working class white people but poor white folks. they trying to appeal to say don't think about what you can get from government, just think about being white. think about the fact that non-white people are trying to take over the country. think about every minute think about how afraid you would be if non-white people ran this country. they're trying to appeal to the worse instincts the triable instincts because they know that. they ain't doing this, they're doing this to get out more of these people. i'm sorry, go ahead. i think we agree. >> i think there are some folks participating in that. my point is that like, the undermining democracy isn't even necessary. it's bad strategy and it's

corrupt. right? so i think that is to me important to understand that they're trying to cut these corners but suppressing vote when they have a lot of opportunities. on january 6th. this is a criticism that we could maybe level next spring. talk to me next spring. you know, i have friends working on the obviously not sharing private stuff but they are going through a thorough process but what is leaked about what mark meadows gave them alone before he quit to get back in mr. trump's graces is really damming. and so look, i think that if we're in the same place now next july, you know, there should be a pitch fork out there saying what are you doing committee? let's get on tv and do something. i think there is a reasonable amount of time, there is lot

of folks they need to get through. he worked in the white house and moved to work for mccarthy. a lot of obstruction from mccarthy is he knows he's got people inside his own house and i think it's note worthy. >> so these hearings that will take place on monday, we'll be covering them on this show and we'll talk a lot about that power point presentation that mark meadows is apparently turned over. 38-some odd page power point a step by step how to overturn the election and the memo he stated that the vice president of the united states could legitimately ignore the election and essentially steal it for donald trump. there was a systematic attempt to steal this election from its rightful winner to force donald trump to stay in power. it's frightening how detailed and how thorough these people were but hopefully that is what the january 6th committee will bring out and whoever they have

to subpoena, if they have to charge everybody with obstruction, please get this information out so this doesn't happen again and next time they're not successful. tim miller, robert mcquaid, thank you both. up next on "the reidout" the united states supreme court leaves the supreme texas abortion in place but that's not the end of the battle and the stunning level of food insecurity in america. my award winning conservation with chef andrew zimmer. >> hungry children don't study well, more prone to disease and they costs escalate because they become a health care problem. >> "the reidout" continues after this. blem. >> "the reidout" continues after this ♪ limu emu... & doug ♪ ♪ superpowers from a spider bite?

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the rule will remain in place as the legal challenges play out. it places a bounty on abortion providers for anyone that aids and abets those getting an abortion. sonya said this right will have far reaching repercussions. i doubt the court let alone the country is prepared. the court should have put an end to the madness a month ago. the vast majority of abortions remain inaccessible. even more harrowing the texas law is just the beginning. joining me is dr. kumar who is an abortion provider and christina greer. let's start with you first, dr. kumar. can you talk about the real

world repercussions of the supreme court allowing this texas law to withstand. >> it's been 100 days since the senate bill passed and when you ban abortion it doesn't stop people so we continue to see people that need to not be pregnant. unfortunately, the vast majority of people we see, we can't help. they have to go out of state to find child care, time off of work and financial resources to travel while still under a global pandemic and for many patients i see that's not a reality or possibility so many people are forced to carry the pregnancies unwantedly. >> it's a forced birth law. nothing humane or pro-life about it. it's just forced birth. they want to make people give birth and really could give a damn what happens to the woman or child. they don't care because this is

only about controlling woman because they want women to be in control of the men. how far women would have to travel one way to seek an abortion if a total ban is put in place. in louisiana you'd have to go 666 miles. 575 in florida, 545 in texas, 495 in mississippi, 394 in montana and we're talking about 26 states that would instantly have laws that would ban abortion if in fact when roe goes. sonia is a hero. she's on her own. there are three votes and the other side has six. >> absolutely, joy, we have to say i'm very critical of former president barack obama but we have to say this appointment of

sonia soto mayor to the beach, -- bench. democrats have fallen into the trap of pro life, pro-choice. this isn't a discussion about pro life. they don't care when a baby is born and by in large don't believe in the death penalty. we're talking about pro-choice or anti-choice. does the woman have the autonomy over her body to make decisions she thinks is correct? we have so many men and i'm sure the doctor can say so many men don't understand the phisiogogy, most women don't know they're pregnant at four weeks or six weeks. the pure bottom line how we even know about pregnancy and know about sex and we know it's not going to happen.

i mean, absent, high rates of people having unwanted pregnancies or using sort of abortions like the '60s. it's an assault and attack on women and will be a real assault and attack of women that don't have the same financial means. as we've seen, 500 miles is time and cost, not just the emotional cost, the physical cost of buying gas, finding someone that has a car, we know many women actually don't have access to that. so staying over some places that make you wait, say 24 hours. you could lose your job while waiting so you're making a choice for yourself and your family and there are so many brave women that spoke out about getting abortions and how it really saved their life to actually do the thing they wanted to do later on in life and i think a lot of men and

women, republican women don't understand it and sadly, many of them are on the bench. >> well, i mean, you're in a state dr. kumar, these states trying to ban abortion are at the bottom when it comes to maternal health and women being able to survive childbirth period. they won't expand medicaid so a lot of time 18, 19% of their population are poor, don't have health care. they're at the bottom for education. the bottom for children going hungry. so once these children are forced out, you know, force women to carry the children, it's not they're getting great health care in the state of texas. it's not like they can be warm in their home. they don't even care about the power grid or if these people live or die after they're born. there is a story here in texas who lives in the rio grande valley. we're looking at 12 plus hours to get your abortion appointment. many people don't have paid time off. that's just the beginning. there is child care, money,

lodging, food. can you talk about the women coming in and getting care? because i think a lot of republicans believe that abortion is some casual thing people are choosing to do like a fun thing to do on their day off and they don't care and there is no emotion involved and they're not concerned. can you just talk about the women that you're seeing and who are they? >> yeah, just to respond to that, you know, i don't think it's republicans don't understand. they don't care. it's the caring part that is missing for so many of them. the people i see are thoughtful. they know what is best for them. they often times have kids at home. they know what it's like to be pregnant and it's important to think about pregnancy in and of itself. carrying a pregnancy has physical tolls and mental it wills -- tolls and that's something someone has to decide and consider to take on if it's right for their family and them and everything they have going on and then if they've been pregnant before, they know what it's like.

they know what it's like to have a child. they know what resources are required and many patients are saying i simply don't have that to get. i don't have the financial resources. i don't have the ability to parent a child. i'm not in the right place and making a decision that's smart. i'm making a decision that's mature, thoughtful and rational what is best for them and often times what is best for their families and it doesn't mean it's always easy but they know it's the right decision and we do that all the time in our lives. we make decisions that may be difficult and complex but we know it's the right thing to do and that's what all of my patients are experiencing. >> indeed. there are no republicans don't even want to allow the state to make a decision that they should protect other people by wearing a mask over their face in case they have covid. they want that decision to be up to them whether or not they infect other people with a potentially deadly virus but they believe women should not have that agency and essentially be in local parentis by the men

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the world has been grappling with the grueling realities of the covid pandemic for nearly two years now. and while things have improved for many of us thanks to the vaccine, covid-19 claimed the lives of nearly 800,000 americans. stress and anxiety have taken a brutal emotional toll on millions more. many lost their jobs and homes and are struggling to feed their families, which has exacerbated

food insecurity. researches found 15% of u.s. households and 18% of households with children reported food insecurity early in the covid-19 pandemic. nbc ali vitali spoke with a family about what it's like to feed their family in this challenging new world. >> if i can feed my family for 10, $12 a night, that works. >> reporter: what happens when you get to the end of the month? >> what's next? >> reporter: this father lost his home and job during the pandemic and joined snap, the government supplemental nutrition assistance program previously called food stamps to help feed his family. it's forced some tough choices in the checkout line. what has that been like? >> humiliating. you got to pick and choose your battle, who will i upset? my kid? what kid? it won't be the full fulfillment of a meal. >> reporter: the decisions made in the aisles go beyond dollars and credibility cents.

staying on budget could mean the fruits or vegetables being swapped out for less processed foods. >> nearly 38 million were in food insecure households and 9 million adults with low food insecurity and 6 million children lived in homes where food and adults were food insecure and 584,000 children lived in a very low food security house. i spoke with the goodwill ambassador for the world food program andrew zimmer and asked how covid exacerbated the problem in this country. >> just like don globally, we experienced a potential 15-year set back in the fight against hunger and the fight against food waste. you know, globally, it's the same story as it is here at home. it's conflict, climate change, covid-19 and the rising cost of

food. and it is absolutely staggering to me that in america of the end of 2021 that we are still sitting here talking about a problem that is solvable because we produced enough food to feed all americans as well as the 7 billion person global population. i will also point out to our viewers that the numbers you put up on the screen are probably anywhere from 10 to 25% too low. one of the problems of stats when it relates to hunger and food insecurity, there aren't a lot of people jumping up and down. those willing to say yes, yes, yes, i need food. i'm not able to feed my family. that very brave man in the scene we just saw that ali was reporting on is a responsible parent who is out there saying

yes, this is the situation that i'm in but we have found there is so much stigma attached with hunger, it's the people who were above the poverty line precovid that 15, 18% of americans that dropped below the poverty line in march of last year, april of last year. those are the ones who are not jumping up and down raising their hand. it's absolutely heartbreaking and it is all related to those four cs, climate change, cost, covid and conflict. >> it's interesting that you mentioned climate change, cost and covid and conflict. there is a big debate right now about whether or not democrats can get through this build back better act, which a lot of what it addresses feels like it's about this. you and i talked almost a year ago about the restaurant act and trying to help people at every level of the food chain. you need to make sure the restaurant workers can still work and the people doing the meat packing can work and make sure it works and there was help

for people but now it's like how are we having this fight whether to extend the child tax credit, give people more money to buy food with? it is -- does it strike you as just insane that we are still talking about whether to spend more money to make sure people can get three square meals a day? >> i think it's beyond insane. you and i have talked about this so many times. i've used the word criminal when we talk about hunger. it is not a problem that we don't have a solution to. we have enough food in america. we don't have the political will to actually change the laws. when you just talk about children, we have schools all over america. if we passed a national school meals program where we fed young people and used schools as the hubs, they are all over, whether or not a child is attending a certain educational facility,

there are schools spread out all over. they all have cafeterias, if we subsidize schools to the degree we subsidize farmers growing crops for export by the way, farm to freighter, not necessarily food for human consumption, we would be doing ourselves a much greater service. not only are we consigning those children to hunger, but remember, there are greater chances that their outcomes will be less sufficient than we would want. hungry children don't study well, sleepless more prone to disease. the cost escalates because they start becoming a health care problem and get some of the big food related diseases like diabetes and heart disease as young adults and we're seeing early onset pediatric diabetes numbers going through the roof because we saw earlier people areories instead of healthy calories.

we have a national embarrassment and we need congress to take notice of this. it's shocking to me. >> when we were kids in denver, we went to the elementary school, we could get a meal and that saved a lot of kids and parents who didn't necessarily have money to pack a lunch in the summertime. last thing, there is this diagram, let me put up the states you have the biggest food insecurity. the same states of the lowest rates getting vaccinated. where medicaid wasn't expanded and just this part of america unfortunately, red america where you're seeing all of this isn't it the case that the more that kids are out of school, let's say because of covid, they have to learn at hole, the more they're away from a good nutrition program, the more that they're basically trapped by covid, the hungier kids will be. don't we have to solve covid to solve hunger?

>> i think it's -- you're not incorrect and i agree with you. i know where you're going with this and i agree with you 100%. it's really a strip. so you just have to sort of drop in anywhere on that strip and solve the problem and eventually, if you go astronaut style question by question and solve it, you can solve it. i'll describe it as slightly different. we have talked about those near 800,000 people dying. some people say they have died of covid, some people have asserted they've died of disinformation. i did not clone -- i've cloned that comment. i did not create it. it's the same thing with the hunger issues as well. there is disinformation about food in those states, about nutrition in the states, the disinformation battle is being lost and that is increasing our hunger challenge, as well. >> yeah, absolutely. if you increase the co-morbidities like diabetes, et

cetera makes you more vulnerable to die. always appreciate the chance to talk with you. >> thank you, joy. all right. who won the week is still ahead but first, sorting through an absolute avalanche of political news from across america and around the world with dean obeidallah and tiffany cross. that is next. dallah and tiffanys that is next and it works fast. in as little as 7 days try fast acting biotic gummies from align. the #1 doctor recommended probiotic brand. ♪day to night to morning,♪ ♪keep with me in the moment♪ ♪i'd let you had i known it, why don't you say so?♪ ♪didn't even notice,♪ ♪no punches left to roll with♪ ♪you got to keep me focused♪

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on assault. >> joining me is dean obeidallh and tiffany cross. watch and listen to both programs. let's talk about this democracy challenge. i'll start with you, dean, it was great to see cheryl out there speaking about democracy. i'm glad their giving attention to it. do you think calling attention to it in the way that they did, is that a good first step or what are your thoughts? >> i think we're almost to the point where western democracies will hold a democracy about our summit if the democrats don't show the fierce urgency of now. i've never been more concerned about my democracy, this democracy ever. what is concerning to me is there was a poll, 40% of democrats think our democracy is

understand attack. the gop leadership saying they're taking away your right to vote and voice and democratic leaders are making a speech here and there and not one unified loud voice saying our democracy is under attack. this marks the summit, sure. we need one in america. we need president biden, vice president harris and a democratic leader and chuck schumer traveling the country talking about this and even if it alienates some republicans because these guys passed 33 laws in 19 states. our democracy is under threat. >> joe madison, you know, the black eagle is currently on a hunger strike for voting rights. we found out today some arizona students are on a hunger strike to push kyrsten sinema to at least care about voting rights, that's what she says she does. we have a headline, tiffany, that during the whole, you know, hold up a bible photo op that donald trump wanted to do, according to mark meadow's book

he told staff he wanted police to bust some heads of black lives matter protesters outside of the white house. he said not only do you have the authority, i want you to bump heads and make arrests. we need to restore order. he wanted that to happen so that he could go up and do his bible photo op. this is an autocrat, not a normal president. the fact that's in a book and that he got away with it, your thoughts? >> so here is my thing, joy. i'm really surprised and other people are surprised when more revelations about his inciting violence comes out. we always knew what this man was. on the campaign trail -- >> hold on one second, tiffany. you're -- we're having issues with your audio. i'll let sound work on your audio. hold that thought. i want you to come back and finish your thought. we'll get your audio cleaned up. i'll go to you on that, dean. the treatment of protesters in this country is something if it was another country, we would be saying oh, we need to get the u.n. in there or get an agency

in there because this is a country that is not normal. we said china, there is something wrong with the way you're treating protectors. the president of a united states wanted the moment to have a photo op. >> and you're absolutely right. other countries, our own state department would want sanctions against another country if they were doing that to their people but in america, the gop has no problem with it. it's the same donald trump that really is the conner of the 20 year what he wanted to use violence against black people and white allies that simply wanted equality for black people, simply wanted black lives to matter. the same donald trump that said nfl players who took a knee in silence was too much for them and called them s.o.b.s and said they should be fired. donald trump is consistent about one thing, demonization of people of color and sadly, joy, sadly it plays well in the gop. >> yeah, he's mad at netanyahu,

he said f him. he said that guy is a complete fan of him. his anything trump wanted, a hero in his country and israel and the way he talked about jewish people thinking american jewish people werestuff, netany fine with all of it. i want to talk to you about this other thing because we've had this rash of republicans who are like posing with their children with guns, doing these sort of demonstrations of sort of this is our potential level of violence that we can show, which we know, you know, either a muslim or black family would be attacked for doing it. and just that sort of reveling in violence and reveling in shooters and lifting up and building up people who shoot and kill people as heroes. very quickly, dean, and then i want to get tiffany back in. >> it's part and parcel of this gop. it's authoritarian plus embraced violence which is why we say academically it's a fascist

movement. they do not fear threatening us with weapons or a january 6-style attack. they are literally defending the attackers. as a muslim if i ever dared defend any terrorist, i would have been destroyed. but the gop is literally defending the terrorists who attacked their capitol and they're fine with it. that's who the gop is. >> tiffany, we got your audio back. finish your thought about the violence that was perpetrated for the book hold up photo. >> not only would dean be villified if he defended but this society requires every muslim you know come out and distance themselves from these kind of attacks. i think we need to start demanding the same of republicans. speaking of violent republicans, yes, the trumpster fire that was donald trump, he called for violence on the campaign trail, joy. you remember he would say knock the hell out of them, i'll pay your legal bills, and his supporters were violent.

this is all cyclical. this is why i have a challenge when they say this ain't your grandmother's republican party. i beg to differ, this is the only republican party i've known. do we think what happened on the edmund pettis bridge was peaceful? do we think the lynchings and jokes about lynchings that still exist are just hyperbolic? i mean these are things that are rooted in historical facts and data that they are adamantly trying to keep taught being taught anywhere so they can reinvent a narrative. but we have the memory, the scars and the receipts, joy. the republican party has constantly been rooted in this kind of political violence. >> my favorite when they try to dunk on us and say social media and say that's the democratic party. we remember the white flight out of the democratic party when black folks started voting in it. y'all left and went to the republican party which everybody thought they would never want to be republicans because of their hatred of abraham lincoln, but they hated sharing the party

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well, we've made it to friday, once again, folks, so now it is time to play -- oh, yes, who won the week? back with me dean and tiffany. dean, who won the week? >> well, it was your birthday so you sort of won it. but somebody else you mentioned earlier, joe madison, legendary radio host. i consider him a friend. he's finally getting the press attention after over a 30-day hunger strike. he's lost over 20 pounds. he's a 72-year-old black man risking his life so that we can

all vote. the reason i think he won the week, he's finally getting press and social media went viral. democrats, president biden, chuck schumer, get out there for joe madison and for all of us, do it now. >> we talked about it earlier in the show, some arizona students have launched their own hunger strike that are matching what he is doing. it's a movement and do not let this man wither away for nothing. come on, administration. come on, democrats. come on, kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, step up. democrats can do this on their own if you get with the program. that's a good who won the week. we love joe. tiffany cross, who won the week? >> okay. well, after that depressing topic reminding us of our falling democracy, i just want to give your viewers a little bit of joy and say clifford smith won the week. probably better known to your viewers as method man. why? because look at him. the man looks amazing.

>> he does. >> he just came out in an interview and said he wants to star in a marvel film and i say let's do it. he's 50 years old. he is laser focused on fitness. he made a beautiful transition from hip-hop to movies, and he's just doing such great work. and just for research purposes, i watch his fitness videos over and over because he's all i need to get by, okay? i say method man won the week. >> i'm just saying it's because he's fine is what you're saying, because that's true. we're just being objective. we're just being objective. he is fine. he should be a marvel he re. y'all should do that. please do that. i think the other person who won the week, not just because you chose the right fitness videos to watch, very good choice, but you also won the week, tiffany cross, because it is a one year, turning one year old is the "cross connection" on msnbc. i cannot believe it's already been one year.

"the cross connection" has hit the toddler stage, one year old. it has been an incredible, incredible journey. i watch it every saturday, i never miss it. in a normal world i'd say joe biden because of the economic numbers. thank you so much, dean, tiffany. be sure to join tiffany tomorrow. her guests include andre dickens. "all in with chris hayes" starts now. tonight on "all in" -- >> you know what was trending on the internet? where's ruby. because they thought she'd be in jail. where's ruby. >> what sure looks like another piece of the trump coup plot is exposed in georgia. >> we didn't wanting to frighten you, but we had to find this. you are a loosened for a party that needs to tidy up