we are back with tonight's hypocrisy hot take. let's check in with senator john kennedy. this week the louisiana republican who sits on the judiciary committee shared bizarre expectations for biden's supreme court pick. president biden has pledged to nominate a black woman for the court, and kennedy said he had two main criteria for the nominee. the senator reportedly requested a nominee that, number one,

knows a law book from a j crew catalog, and number two, someone, quote, who's not going to try to rewrite the constitution every other thursday to try to advance a woke agenda. a j.crew catalog? let's put kennedy's obvious sexism and focus on the second priority. someone that won't advance a woke agenda. he's afraid of a democratic appointee pushing a partisan policy. well, if the senator from the louisiana is so terrified of a politicized court, then i'm sure he is downright disgusted to find out what happened in florida yesterday. on friday supreme court justice neil gorsuch took the stage at a banquet hosted by a federalist society. at this point i'll typically show you pictures or play a sound bite of justice gorsuch's comments, but, sadly, i can't do that. why?

because had media was barred from listening in. doesn't sound shady at all, right, senator? it's a highly influential organization for conservatives and libertarian lawyers. it has served as a vetting pipeline for many republican judicial choices, including gorsuch himself. if you're doubting just how political this event was, other speakers included former haven't mike pence, florida governor ron desantis, ex-trump press secretary kayleigh mcenany. it's not exactly a who's who of bipartisan politicians from both sides of the political divide, is it? does that speakers list sound like a nonpartisan organization to you? senator kennedy, while you seem to be spending a lot of time, energy on the impartiality of a future justice, i can't help but wonder if your time would be better spent worrying about one already on the bench. congratulations, senator. you earned our hypocrisy hot take of the week.

coming up, donald trump's loves saying the quiet part out loud. will he ever learn? i'll ask my saturday night panel. a wild week in florida as the federalist society hosts their annual conference. the speakers of who's there and the ones who shouldn't be there. then, love him or hate him, everyone has something to say about tom brady. but i'm going to share my thoughts about the greatest of all time. i'm ayman mohyeldin. let's get started. gold finger? dr. no? moon raker or donald trump? >> do you expect me to talk? >> no, mr. bond. i expect you to die. there is nothing you can talk to me about that i don't already know.

>> the former president is giving classic bond villains a run for their money as he hides his crimes in plain sight for all the world to see. he may not have a license to kill, but he is taking a thunderbolt to diplomacy, justice, and our entire political system. in a classic villain trope, he spent the week saying the quiet part out loud, revealing his master plan during a campaign-style rally proclaiming if he wins in 2024, he'll consider pardoning those charged over the january 6th insurrection. it's a familiar plot. he's done it plenty of times before for his criminal companions. it's even something robert mueller brought up incentivizing bad behavior with a get out of jail free card. but the buck didn't stop at potential witness tampering. he implored his minions to take to cities like new york where prosecutors are investigating him and his businesses taking action against him. fighting legitimate judicial

process with mob rule. and then, of course, there was this week's gotcha moment where trump decided to openly admit that his plot from january 6th was to overturn the election. releasing a tweet disguised as a presidential statement saying mike pence could have overturned the election. it didn't sit well then and is not sitting well with his side kick. >> president trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone and, frankly, there is no idea . >> soon he'll no doubt learn it's a case of cross donald trump if you dare because this villain has big backing like the rnc who voted to censure representatives liz cheney and adam kinzinger because of their work investigating the attack on

the capitol. instead, republicans deeming the insurrection legitimate political discourse. it has been a ticking time bomb for cheney and kinzinger. trump's crimes not only on full display, but fully endorsed by the republican party. it will take a skeiffle for the gop to turn against their criminal mastermind. we got lots to dig into. let's bring our all star panel. kimberly atkins store, "boston globe" columnist also msnbc political analysis. and josh gojdsman, comedian, writer, and coexecutive producer. it's great you have to back with us on this program. to keep on with the theme of villains, i want to start with a game of who said it first, trump or a movie villain? here's the quote. the point is, you can never be too greedy. i'll start with you, josh. who said it, trump or a villain?

>> i mean, trump or a villain is -- that's a fun dichotomy to have to take. i would consider him pretty invincible even without a laser to destroy the moon. is it gordon gecko from wall street? >> hayes? >> i'm in the same boat as josh. i really got to say that it's movie villain. that's my guess. final answer. >> kimberly? >> i'll just be con trainer here and say trump. >> kimberly, you're right, it is trump. it feels like an easy one to start with, but you're right, it is him. this guy has the ability to say things like my supporters can go on fifth avenue, shoot someone and they'll get away with it because that's how much they love trump. i mean, that tells you how much of a villain he is. let's talk about january 6th for a moment, kimberly. a lot of republican voters still believe that this insurrection was a bad thing.

so isn't this idea of pardons just going to put people off within the republican party? or has donald trump reinvented the narrative around january 6th that he can get away with saying he wants to pardon people that were involved in an attempted coup in this country? >> what i think has happened is that it's not just donald trump at this point, right? it is the position of the republican party writ large that january 6th was nothing to see here. we see that with the rnc's decision to reprimand the two republican members of the january 6th committee who are doing nothing but their jobs. so this is beyond donald trump. i do -- i think that it is important that we do talk about his actions both relating to january 6th and everything that he has done since to continue to push the big lie, but i don't think we should act as if this is one man alone doing this.

the republican party has not only embraced trump fully, it continues to embrace trumpism, which includes pushing lies to create this falsity to try to convince voters there was fraud in this election and damage democracy in the process. >> yeah, you bring up a really good point and some would argue embracing trumpism is more dangerous than the republicans embracing trump. what does it mean for the republican party and the voter base? is there a division or is that much ado about nothing? i don't know if you saw our earlier conversation we were having, but essentially i was making the point that, look, mike pence, you know, on january 6th essentially did what he said just yesterday. i have no idea why it took him an entire year to say it, and i'm not sure that what he says now actually has any bearing given the fact that for the last year trump was able to run rampant with his lie. >> yeah. so pence, he said exactly what

he did on january 6th, which is i don't have the power to overturn the election. what's different about this time around is he was willing to call out trump by name and say, no, again, my guy, i do not have the ability to overturn the election. you, mr. former president, i'm talking to you. that's the biggest difference, he's willing to say this so directly. but if you listen to his speech, one of the things that's interesting, he got so much prays for saying that part, which he's been saying, but at other parts of the speech he's still alluding to the basis of the big lie which is that there was fraud and irregularity within the election. and that is still the baseline of the republican party at this point. that's the basis of the legitimate political discourse that rnc was referring to. they wanted to be the case that everything that the trump campaign and all of trump's advisers et cetera did in the aftermath of the 2020 election

making people less certain about the election and the gathering of fake electors who would sign forms. the lead-up to january 6th, all the rallies, they're saying this was all legitimate, all politics as normal, which clearly it wasn't. it was all part of an overarching process to keep trump in power. that is the really dangerous part here. kudos to pence for saying it so directly this time that he could not overturn the election. i'm glad that we have senators working to try to fix the electoral count act, but he's still not, you know, firmly saying, yeah, this was a clean, fair election. the department of justice said so, everybody is saying so. that was not pence's message. >> so josh, which of these is the most concerning to you, the pardons offered by president trump, the censures, or the call to arms over these legal cases from the republican party, or is it the plot that we have learned

more about to seize voting machines or plant fake electors? the list can go on and on? >> >> this is quite a buffet to choose from. to me the scariest part is that you called this saying the quiet part out loud, but it's no longer the quiet part. when you keep saying it, it's just the loud part now. nobody's ever, like, oh, i can't believe john bon jovi is singing "livingin' on a prayer" out loud again. pat sajak is buying a vowel, there's no attempt to disguise it because it's becoming as the panelists said, this is becoming the party line. >> yes. kimberly, why are we seeing cheney and kinzinger being targeted, in not pence after yesterday? people like mitt romney have been vocal against the former president. he voted to convict him twice in

both of his impeachment trials. he didn't get censured. >> yeah, but listen, we saw the video of him coming within moments of being confronted with these insurrectionists that stormed the building. look, these four individuals we're talking about, including mike pence, haven't been trump's inner circle, certainly not in the last year with three of them. they really never have fully -- we saw romney sort of try to walk a line and play a weird game of distance footsie with trump for a while and he saw that didn't work out for him and that gave him the ability to take a forever stance against him. but these aren't the people that the republicans see as republicans. they're seeing as somebody who is anti-trump. and so i think that mike pence trying to rebuke trump in a way but still embrace trumpism to some extent is exactly what he did for four years while he was

in the white house. we saw as vice president him standing behind donald trump gazing at him and nodding at everything that he said and did for four years. so just the fact that when it all came down to him and the buck stopped with him, and also when his life was in danger on that day on january 6th, now he's speaking out on that front. but i don't think that suddenly gives him a political future. i think he's trying to protect his political future, but i don't see where there's room within this republican party for him to have a future. >> all right. australia panel, stick with us. we have a lot more to discuss. next, mike pence wasn't the only one making headlines at this year's federalist society conference in florida. former miami dolphins head coach brian flores is shining a light on racial discrimination in the nfl. but first, richard lui with the headlines. hey, richard. >> good evening. some stories we're watching for you this hour, the mayor of minneapolis put a halt to no-knock warrants friday after the fatal shooting a my mere

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i don't know if there's something in the water, but governor ron desantis started radiating toxic levels of florida man energy this week. during his speech at the federalist society on friday in between rants about illegal immigration and obamacare, desantis proudly proclaimed freedom was the guiding principle of his pandemic strategy, not data, not science, freedom. after two years of this pandemic, is there still not one thing we can agree on? i don't know where to begin, but unfortunately we still have the

panel with us to break it down. hayes, i'll start with you. desantis took to the stage right after mike pence. he touted this freedom default as the corner stone of his pandemic strategy, and i want to talk about that and how florida has fared through covid-19. the answer, not well. florida has a staggering number of both hospitalizations and deaths. >> yeah. part of me still wonders why on earth ron desantis, who is a politician, is invited to speak at the federalist society to talk in conversation with a former white house press secretary. none of it was about the law. if you want to give him some sort of credit, i mean, ron desantis is speaking to the right audience about freedom being the basis of his pandemic strategy, the idea that certain individual liberties are much more important than whatever public health benefits would come from actually using the law and using government structures

to actually prevent further deaths. that's a position. it's a terrible position in my opinion, but it's certainly the right room to make that position too. i mean, ron desantis is there because he wants to be in well with the federalist society because they have been king-makers in terms of conservative judiciary in the last four years, especially under donald trump, and he wants to be president someday. so he's saying all the right things to the right people, but in doing so he's ignoring the fact that his policies have led to a terrible track record with covid. i mean, the idea that you can put individual liberty as the baseline over preventing deaths on a large scale, it feels morally like that's a terrible choice, let alone legally. but this is where ron desantis wound up, i suppose. >> yeah, and it's a weird place for him to be. we're going to talk about more about him.

later. the federalist society conference, i got to say it's making a lot of headlines in just the last 24 hours or so. we have desantis' remarks, mike pence's comments, but i thought one of the more interesting things was neil gorsuch, justice neil gorsuch deciding to give or agreeing to give a speech there that i should note closed-door , no media allowed, at this openly political conservative organization. and it begs the question, what do you make of that given all the recent republican talking points about how biden's scotus nominee shouldn't be too progressive or political ask they want someone as justice kennedy was saying, rewrite the constitution and be political? >> nobody is trying to claim the supreme court should not be viewed as political louder than the supreme court justices themselves. but you're absolutely right, ayman. the fact that a justice is

appearing and speaking to an activist group, it's made up of lawyers, but it is by all measure an activist group in the first place is problematic. now, do the more liberal justices speak at other organizations like american constitution society on the left? yes. but you have justices that refuse to do either because they realize that it's a bad look. but on top of that, to bar the press -- i have been a reporter covering federalist society events and speeches many times. the press is usually never barred. i don't put the bad on the federalist society. it was neil gorsuch who decided to keep the press out, and i think that it is a terrible look for the u.s. supreme court justice to speak to an activist group behind closed doors, specifically in a way that the american people can't see. and so if they complain about the way the supreme court is viewed as political, i believe that they have themselves to blame.

>> yeah. and you bring up a really interesting point. what is it that neil gorsuch is going to say to this highly partisan, highly conservative group that he does not want the rest of the country to know? it is just absolutely unacceptable. it's one thing to speak to them, but if you're confident what you're going to say is not political, say it to the rest of the country, not just to a small section of it. josh, back to ron desantis. he was given a layup of a question. i'm sure you're aware there's been this rash of neo-nazis demonstrations in florida recently. desantis was asked about them, just basically asked to react to them. as my league rachel maddow noted, it was a slam dunk of a statement that he could simply condemn them. but watch how he responded. >> please respond to the nazi demonstration over "n" orlando over the weekend. >> so what i'm going to say is these people, these democrats who are trying to use this as

some type of political issue to try to smear me as if i had something to do with it, we're not playing their game. >> doesn't look like he's police station playing their game, but to condemn neo-nazis in your state, sounds to me like he's taking a page out of donald trump's very fine people on both sides charlottesville playbook here. >> yeah. i mean, it's so easy to condemn nazis. you don't even have to talk about whether they like him or not. just go, oh, there's nazis, that's bad. if i see someone doing a nazi salute wearing a tiny mustache at a rally, i would say screw those guys. i wouldn't wait to see if they were charlie chaplain super fans greeting each other from a distance. i would condemn them first and then apologize if it turned out they were suffering from shoulder pain and their facial hair was an homage to that one hanes ad.

look, i don't think ron desantis is a nazi, of course, but i'm pretty sure he's counting on every nazi in florida to vote for him next time he runs for president or for governor. even if he's not a sympathizer, it's clear from his noncondemnation he would like the neo-nazis to be ron desantis sympathizers. >> it's unbelievable that he just could not simply condemn that in that moment and move on. here he is just trying to make this about political theater because he couldn't condemn it. on the other side you have rudy giuliani who was unfortunately revealed this week as one of the participants on the mask singer scarring all of us, i think, for the rest of our adult lives. this man who has so openly embraced in my opinion if a cyst tactics to undermine american democracy. what is wrong with entertainment companies and production companies in this country to try and do this once again with somebody like rudy giuliani, a man who attempted to overturn

our election in the same way that we saw a company do with sean spicer, a man who lied to the american people from the white house? >> let's not forget, before there was rudy giuliani on the masked singer, there was sarah palin. the producers were like, how could we possibly top that? who could we get to cause people to tune in, and somehow they landed on rudy giuliani. does rudy have pipes and we don't know it? i guess we'll find out, question mark. i'm horribly embarrassed about how curious about what song giuliani performed. it wasn't a very good performance, so at least we have that going for us that, yes, rudy giuliani was invited on to try to launder his reputation much as he has tried to launder lies through the court saying donald trump won the election, but much like the courts, he got his stuff back into his face and i'm sure that we're going to see

many, many clips of him being kicked off the show when that episode airs. i am very curious to see what the ratings look like, and i really -- i just -- how do you get to rudy? who was going through their phone rolodex and be like, ah, i got rudy giuliani's number. we should call him. >> kimberly, your thought on this? how do you take someone like rudy giuliani and try to, as hayes was staying, launder his image or repurpose his image by day overthrowing our democracy, by night singing to americans front of their tv? >> i think it's an example of the maxim that we began this hour with from donald trump that it's about greed. i think if the company thought -- if the show thought they could get ratings and advertising dollars from this stunt, they were willing to take that chance on it. but it's really horrifying that

people who participated in such a clear and well-documented way to try to undermine the very nature -- the nation's democracy can be given this kind of treatment, i thought it was an onion article at first. there are few things that shock me, but that's one of them. >> all right. hayes brown, kimberly atkins stohr, thank you so much for joining us this evening. greatly appreciate it. enjoyed your insights. josh gondelman, stick around. we got one more with you. coming up, people around the globe are talking about tom brady's retirement. i'll share my thoughts on the greatest of all time next. on t greatest of all time next. ♪♪ ♪ real cowboys get customized car insurance with liberty mutual, so we only pay for what we need. -hey tex, -wooo. can someone else get a turn? yeah, hang on, i'm about to break my own record.

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the world paid tribute to a once in a generation athlete when tom brady announced his retirement from football on tuesday after 22 seasons in the nfl. we know about his super bowls and passing records. but i'm not here to tell you about what he accomplished on the field. instead, let's look at how what he did there reached the far corners of the world. for decades american football has been massively popular here in the states, but has famously failed to find its footing internationally. superstars like terry bradshaw, jerry rice, mean joe green, may be known to the average american, but not in london, sydney. it wasn't until a kid from san mateo, california, made it so. back when he first entered the league, he wasn't picked first, second, or third. he was picked 199th after days

of emotional waiting. his name was finally called when the new england patriots took a chance on the young kid and gave him a spot on the bench. just a year and a half later, the kid who had failed to impress any scouts and had almost walked away for good was leading the patriots to their first ever super bowl in 2001. and that was just the beginning. within a few years he was the face of the nfl, but he still didn't let anything take his focus away from the game. he was the consummate pro, a poised and mature leader whose teammates looked up to and rallied around. when the patriots became linked to scandals, he always kept his head high and chose to respond on the field with ring after ring after ring, even if it seemed hard to get behind the guy after a friendship with trump became widely known, his buccaneers team visited president biden at the white house last year. watch. >> but we found our rhythm, we got on a roll.

not a lot of people, you know, think that we could have won, and i think 40% of the people still don't know think we won. you understand that, mr. president? >> i understand that. >> but brady's legacy actually goes beyond the u.s. in fact, during his career, brady took trips to places like ghana, china, qatar, connecting with new fans around the world. to this day the patriots remain the league's most popular team abroad. you'll see blue number 12 jerseys all over europe. in brazil, brady's treated like royalty as the husband of supermodel gisele bundchen. this week tributes from fans in mexico, england, denmark and australia have been pouring in to honor the legendary quarterback. athletes from around the globe paying their respects as well. like another footballer or as we say here in the u.s., soccer superstar harry kane, captain of the english national team. even those who don't watch

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last month but quickly became a top coaching candidate. he lined up an interview with the new york giants but claims it was simply for show solely to satisfy the nfl's rooney rule, which requires that each team interview a minority candidate for all of its top positions. but the nfl new york giants denied the allegations. flores spoke with reverend al sharpton earlier about why this suit matters. watch. >> representation matters. there's just a lack of representation for black and minority coaches and executives and just representation in leadership positions as a whole in the national football league. that's got to change. this lawsuit isn't about me. it's about that lack of representation. it's about the people and the generations that are going to come behind me. >> so far this off season five nfl head coaches have been hired, all of them are white. let's discuss this withter erroneous moore, national sports columnist for "forbes" and

author of "the real hank aaron." great to have all of you. flores did something a lot of people didn't think was possible, he turned the miami dolphins around from a failing franchise to a team that nearly made the playoffs this year. yet he was fired. he's now taking on a very powerful organization in the nfl. let me play for you just a little bit of what he said to my colleague. >> it's hard to step out against the national football league for a lot of reasons, number one being we love to coach. i love to coach and you're putting that in jeopardy when you challenge the national football league. but it's bigger than football. it's bigger than me. >> so he's putting his entire career in jeopardy to try to address this problem. i want to know what you think,

the effect of what he is doing may have on the sport if nothing else, could it force changes to this meaningless, toothless rooney rule? >> i'll start with something nobody else is talking about. little quick history here. jimmy the greek snyder was an nfl analyst for cbs back in the day, '70s and '80s. he was huge. in january of 1988, he gets fired. i'll bet you all the people out there when they heard he got fired by cbs, you're going to say, oh, yeah, he got fired are because he said the reason black athletes were so great was because of their big mothers and their big thighs going back to slavery and being bred that way. that is not why he got fired in january of 1988. i wrote the reason he really got fired and caught hell for it, and that is in the rest of that

interview, he was asked why at the time there were no black head coaches in the nfl, no black people throughout sports, and his response was very telling. he says it's because if we give those jobs to the blacks, there wouldn't be anything left for whites to do. that's what we're dealing with here. people have it all wrong. it's not that the nfl or society in general don't think these black coaches can't do it, they're afraid that they can. about a week or so after jimmy the greek made that statement in january of 1988, i was there in staying at the super bowl. doug williams became first black quarterback to win a super bowl. at that time it was all this stuff out there that blacks couldn't play quarterback, again, all wrong. they were afraid, the powers that be, that blacks could play in the national football league, and we see the results of that now. so let's get that straight before we go anywhere else. this is all about the fear

factor since 70% of the nfl is black players. if you start giving the jobs to the black coaches, there's going to be a problem. >> yeah, i want to draw on history as well myself. i want to play this clip from a video that's gone viral this week. it's from 1986. it's a "nightline" interview ted koppel kid with an executive about the mlb's lack of diversity in management as well. >> there are a lot of black players, there are a lot of great black baseball men who would dearly love to be in managerle positions. >> i don't believe it's prejudice. i believe they may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager or perhaps a general manager. how many pitchers do you have that are black? >> but i mean, i got to tell

you, that same like the same garbage we were hearing 40 years ago about players. >> so that was 1987 cavita, and 40 years later are we seeing the same kind of garbage from the nfl? has nothing changed about why we are not seeing a league that has a tremendous amount of black talent at all levels continue to rise in the ranks of organizations? >> i wouldn't say necessarily that nothing has changed, but it's the same token by a different name, right? we have this conversation as the point was previously made about black quarterbacks not having the football iq. now we're having the conversation about why we don't have enough black head coaches, which we've been having for 20 years now. and it really does come down to an idea that black men and women are not smart enough maybe to lead these teams in the ways that we deem fit. i do want to point out, though, that as the clip that you just played was about baseball, we've also seen this dearth in

basketball as well and the nba is one of the most progressive leagues we have and we still don't have enough black gms and head coaches in any of these leagues. one of the things that brian flores did in his lawsuit, which was incredibly brave, was to make recommendations about how we can actually fix the rooney rule to this end. it's not just about equal opportunity and equal outcome. it's about equal chances of actually having the same kinds of status and the same kinds of delineation being lent to your own role. there's an expertise there that needs to be acknowledged and it's not right now. >> staying on the nfl for a moment, some other big news from the nfl this week. after 18 months, the washington football team, josh, now has a new team and logo. they will be officially known as washington commanders. it's hard to say with a straight face, i know, but back in november while the search was

still ongoing, one of the team's star young players, chase young, was actually asked what grade would you give the team if they chose the commanders? he literally gave them an "f." that was before they actually did that. what grade would you give it? what name would you have selected? >> i'll go with a "c." this is an average name, right? commanders, it's got kind of a military connotation. you picture someone in a headset. it's not descriptive and nonoffensive. since the team plays in washington, it should be something that has to do with the local culture. i was thinking maybe the washington disillusionment with the legislative process. but that's just me. i'm not a professional football analyst. >> i thought you would have gone with the washington filibusters myself. what grade do you give the name

commanders? what do you make of this? >> i mean, a flat "f." whoever came up with this should've been fired on the spot. listen, when the washington football team was here in atlanta this season, i went around the stands and had tons of washington football team fans out there. and they all wanted either red wolves, hogs, red tails, they didn't say commanders. this is ridiculous. it's better than the old, old name, which was racist, but the commanders? i mean, took them seven minutes to think this up. >> i'm surprised they didn't go with red tails. it would have been both a nod to the heroism of the black air force members who fought during the wars, but at the same time a tribute to the military which seemed was on the minds of the washington organization. we'll see how it goes. thank you very much. greatly appreciate your insights this evening. up next, how china's fake

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