edss, headache, shivering, fever, and upset stomach. ask your pharmacist or doctor about shingrix. shingles doesn't care. but you should. that does it for us. "the reidout" with joy reid starts now. >> have a good evening. we begin "the reidout" with the largest ground war europe has seen since the closing days of world war ii. russia is on a hair trigger positioned to launch a full scale invasion of ukraine at any moment. here is what antony blinken told nbc's lester holt moments ago. >> do you have reason to believe that before this night is over, russian forces will be engaged in something that came to a full invasion of ukraine? >> i do, unfortunately, russia positioned forces at the final

point of readiness across ukraine's borders to the north, to the east, to the south. everything seems to be in place for russia to engage in a major aggression against ukraine. >> to be clear, you think tonight that could happen or will happen? >> i can't put a date or an exact time on it. >> a senior u.s. defense official also tells nbc that russia has brought in nearly 100% of all the forces we anticipated putin would need. quote, they are literally ready to go now. additionally, russian state media reported late today the russian backed militants in eastern ukraine have formally requested military intervention from putin. the request could serve as the pretext that putin needs to justify his invasion. ukrainian president zelenskyy pleaded for peace tonight in an emotional national address saying putin wouldn't accept his phone call. this comes as ukraine calls up reserve troops to bolster their

defenses and after their parliament today declared a state of emergency. they're also warding off another cyber attack which the white house says is consistent the type of activity would carry out. the first wave of sanctions he began to issue yesterday. today he announced new punitive sanctions. a move that comes after germany demonstrated their resolve by officially halting that project yesterday. but in contrast with the response we've seen from the biden administration, nato and the entire western world, maga republicans have responded to putin's aggression with flattery, admiration and approval. russian state tv is reportedly showcasing how former secretary of state mike pompeo gushed about putin with school girl enthusiasm praising the russian

tyrant for his eloquent sophistication. >> very capable. have enormous respect for him. i've been criticized for saying that. i have enormous respect for him. i consider him a eloquently sophisticated counterpart. >> like-wise, tucker charleston has been embraced by the kremlin and an absurd rant last night, he said the united states has no reason to oppose putin. >> hating putin is the central purpose of america's foreign policies. what is this really about? why do i hate putin so much? has putin ever called me a racist? has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? has he shipped every job in my town to russia or have a

pandemic that wrecked my business or kept me in two doors for two years and teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination and making fentanyl? >> the supreme leader of the republican party, donald trump, released yet another statement supporting putin over biden today after he praised russian aggression as genius and parroted putin's propaganda russian troops are acting as so-called peace keepers, which they are not. trump and his fan club are actively siding with a dictator seeking to up end the world order that prevailed since the fall of the soviet union but in an epic twitter thread today, this is par for course for the party of trump. quote, they like the man they're defending, have attacked the very foundations of our system of democracy. they, like putin sought to discredit our electoral system and cheated. they engineered a coup and are

still defending it. this also marks an ironic pivot for the party literally built on soviet communism including accusing civil rights leaders of being a fifth column against american greatness. it turns out, okay, yes, there is a fifth column inside the republican party in the media apparatus, which apparently clearly has fallen in love with russian autocrats and advancing putin's goals here at home, they have officially broken with the former saint ronald reagan who famous recalled soviet russia an evil empire. joining me now is former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. julia, founding partner and washington correspondent for puck news and david, columnist for the daily beast and "usa today" and the deep state podcast. david, it was your rant that captured my attention today because it -- i've come to expect very little from the

republican party to be blunt. i understand that they prefer autocracy and believe white christians need to rule the united states without elections. got it. but this is really at this point open. this is nevell chamberland behavior. that is new, i feel like that is something trump brought to the the table, your thoughts? >> i find the whole thing hard to believe, you know, in most of our history, when we were threatened or our allies were threatened by an enemy, we tried to come together. doesn't mean we always agreed but we tried to make an effort to present a united front to the world and we looked after american national interests first and foremost. here, you have an entire movement within the republican party that is praising a man who is threatening an innocent

democratic country at his borders, has moved in 190,000 troops and may at any minute unleash carnage on innocence. the president of the united states has worked with our allies in europe, with nato, with the e.u., has worked with ukraine in order to try to mount a defense to dissuade putin from doing this and these people are praising putin. the president, the former president of the united states trump is calling him a genius. you showed mike pompeo fawning over him before i came on i just noticed that mike pence is going on another network in a little bit to talk about the weakness of biden. nikki haley talking about the weakness of biden. this is outrageous behavior, and it would be more shocking if the russians didn't help elect donald trump in 2016, if donald

trump didn't embrace putin and value him over our intelligence community, if donald trump did not cater to russia interests ahead of u.s. interests time after time after time. we've hit a switch. there was one party in the united states that supports u.s. interests and there is another party that actively opposes them. >> julia, just to be clear again, they are not supporting, you know, germany who are -- or britain over the united states saying they like that. russia, this guy, vladimir putin ex kbg hates the united states and wants to destroy the united states, hates nato, hates the west. siding with someone who am i wrong here, hates us?

>> he sees us as his main adversary and wants to be our equal in the world and restore this cold war balance of power. we should get back to it. i do think that some of this gets to our toxic political culture where at least on the republican side, it's more important to be against the other party even if it's the president of the united states who is dealing with an international crisis and if that means siding with a foreign dictator, at least you're not siding with the democrat. the other thing i will say is that what you're seeing is just the kind of cherry on top. there have been connections at the grass roots level and at the kind of donor level for well over a decade between the american right wing and right wing elements in the russian state. so for example, the world congress of families has worked really closely with

organizations in russia to for example help them write these laws that gave propaganda in russia. they are helping russian right wingers and the russian orthodox church push the government to ban abortion in russia which is legal since 1920 and not a topic of discussion and settled at this point. american conservatives are going over there pumping money into it and working to overturn this issue. you saw maria, the red headed influence agent, i guess, i'll call her who worked very closely with the nra and her political patron who was then a member of the russian parliament, went on nra and hosted them in russia. there is an ideological affinity there like you said. they see russia as a white christian conservative nation where there are only two genders and only one kind of sexuality that is not an accurate picture of russia but they think that

that is the kind of, you know, white christian autocracy we ought to be more like and the team sports nature of the american politics has taken on in recent days. that's what i think is going on. >> absolutely. the reality is former ambassador mcfaul, to have this part, he's always needling it. putin does. he understands where to stick the pin in because he understands that exists and did it with donald trump and stokes it on the right and understands that any weakness between the two parties, any division he can exploit because he does want to replace us. he doesn't want what you have as a u.s. led global order. he wants it -- he wants to be equal or superior to us in that order. i wonder from your point of view what he's doing now to me feels

irrational because being cut off from the financial system, he may be able to survive that but not everyone in his country can. the body bags aren't coming to his door but the russian people's door. is that irrational behavior? the things that can be done and- devastating, he doesn't seem to care. >> he doesn't care. they're not going to hurt him and this is not about where the stock market and russia is go to be in a week or a month. putin is playing a long game. the word is very elastic term, irrational or not but an idelog. he has an ideology and followers not just in the quite but throughout most of europe. there are pockets of people that think like him and line up with him along the ideological way but there will come a moment of truth very soon. there is good and evil in the world. there is an autocratic putin

that will attack a democratic ukraine and if all the predictions that we have, all the intelligence is right, tens of thousands of people are going to die and mr. pompeo's comments he made yesterday or today and mr. trump's comments he just made are going to look really, really silly. they're going to look bad when it was good and evil, they stood next to evil and the next thing they don't get. we talk about biden's weak, biden's weak. what makes us weak in the world is this kind of division. this is exactly what makes us weak. when we are divided amongst ourselves when it's a clear cut thing between good and evil, we are on the eve of probably the biggest war on europe since 1939 and what are they focused on? attacking the president of the united states, that makes us

weak. >> yeah, even ted cruz figured out that the right thing to do was to stand down on blocking those state department nominees and praised biden for at least being strong in the face of putin. i want to ask you quickly, ambassador mcfaul, germany is having to have resolve here because they will be helped economically. they stood strong. we have sanctions against people on the russia side that did it. dimitri tweeted snack saying well, i guess europe will have to get used to really expensive gas and thinking that europe won't hold because their economic interests will eventually over take their understanding of good and evil. what do you make of the potential fortitude of our nato allies of europe, of the e.u.? >> well, i think if what everybody thinks is going to happen, putin goes in big and there is a massive war, there will be comprehensive sanctions and i think they'll stand together. i think the biden administration

has actually done a pretty incredible job of building that coalition. i would not have said that just four or five weeks ago and i want to say bluntly, i support it 100%. if you want 100% sanctions, i want 110. if you want to go after their kids, i want to go after their grandkids. on that dimension, it's absolutely right we do whatever we can and at the same time, i have no illusions that threat of sanctions is going to affect's calculations. >> indeed. the term rationality will be debated. >> i want to show you powerful images in support of the people of ukraine. in berlin, the gate was lit up in the colors of the ukrainian flag and in paris similar with

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attacks. today the websites of foreign ministry and state sec t securi service were down also known as a ddos attack. the attack also impacted some ukrainian banks, the white house told nbc news quote we consider these further incidents to be consistent with the type of activity russia would carry out in a bid to destabilize ukraine. ukraine suffered a string of cyber attacks kyiv blamed on russia. last week a separate cyber attack targeted the online networks of ukraine's defense ministry and two banks. joining me now is clint watts who worked with the counterterrorism division and distinguished research follow at the foreign policy research institute and malcolm nance a former u.s. naval intelligence officer and the author of the upcoming book, "they want to kill americans." clint, i'll start with you. explain what the ddos attack is and how likely is it that

ukraine would know for sure that it emerged out of russia. >> yeah, joy, this is a hacker penetrating into a system and shutting down a computer network. instead, the whole idea is that you call up massive numbers of computer, to essentially get a website request at the same time. imagine a hose and funnel, you're overflowing the funnel with water, the systems can't respond to it. we see this when we have very famous fixers, maybe show up on social media and somebody says the system goes down, they do except it's not intentional. it's very hard to prove exactly where it comes from because it's literally leveraging millions of computers around the world using a bot net to threaten that energy in one single target in cyberspace. difficult to prove. when you look at the timing, the consistent pattern, this mirrors the same target and technique last week and what did we see last week, ramping up military

action by russia and what do we hear about today, the exact same thing. >> you just recently returned from ukraine, malcolm. how vulnerable are they to this and how prepared do you think that they are? >> well, they're extremely vulnerable because they're almost depending on cellar networks throughout the country. they are a very wired country. i've been to some extremely small villages out there that were very, very solid cellar networks with 5g. and that's the way that they comm communicate. i'm surprised how many didn't have satellite television but use i.p. based information. the russians will attack that

infrastructure, actually blinding the entire country almost simultaneously. i know we're constantly worried about the cyber threat and the cyber threats themselves may in fact spill over to the west, you know. i mean, if i were the russians, i would ensure that at the time that the world is looking at ukraine on the initial assault that maybe they do have a very soft cyber attack against the west just to stun us for a short bit and to make it appear that the capabilities they're exercising in ukraine are far larger than they actually are. >> that brings me to the question i had for you, clint. russia's hybrid war, many mirky actions from cyber attacks to assassinations abroad and the threat of invasion are labeled as forms of hybrid war.

they're a country known to our government, that's been known to do that so i guess those in our audience would wonder how vulnerable are we to russia deciding to expand their attacks as malcolm just said beyond ukraine to the west including to us? >> i think it really depends kind of on what russia assesses in the coming days. the threat is from things like sanctions or additional levering you might see from nato and partners. right now, they're going to use it part and parcel with the ground campaign inside ukraine. this is very traditional, could last eight years in ukraine. they've been under non-stop cyber attack. they're used to it. definitely causes a lot of havoc and problems but they are somewhat resilient to it. in the u.s., if netflix goes down for an hour, the country goes into chaos. we're not used to this kind of sustained cyber attack. we expect to have everything at our fingertips and not to be interrupted.

beyond that, we see what is going on inside ukraine now, the next layer is really germany, france and the u.k. is the backbone of nato. they're the ones that have to bring a lot of these sanctions and suffer greater cost. this is where cyber and information come together. you'll see a lot of cyber attacks directed i expect germany would be number one because they're only on nordstream two and information pushing into the western european countries trying to pit them against the elected leaders and joy, i don't have to tell you if you watch another network, you'll see the success here in america where those lines are scouted by former politicians and people with a very loud voice. >> i have to ask you about that, as well, malcolm. we're seeing the former united states secretary of state, i'm sure tuckhams and donald trump being used by russian state media, controlled media using americans now as sort of their

chief propagandaests, your thoughts? >> you know, i find it absolutely fascinating as a student of world war ii that at the end of world war ii, tokyo rose and lord haha two of the largest propaganda, one for the germans and one for the japanese were tried for war crimes. we actually have an environment now where hiding behind the first amendment and they have a right to say what they do say. i'll defend that right with my life. but they are aiding at a time in an attempt to dismantle a democracy as it is facing a huge threat and acting as advocates for foreign power. look, i just left ukraine this morning. it was a very teary heartbreaking scene, leaving this country and people behind we've known and worked with over

this time and they just cannot understand donald trump, you know, and they understand paul manafort. i mean, the man worked trying to dismantle their country but all the rest of the republican party siding against them is absolutely heartbreaking to them. look, these people now have resolve. one last thing, joy, i want to make clear, when they do this hybrid cyber warfare against ukraine, it will be followed up almost instantly, if not within the hour of a massive kinnetic attack. they will use long range ballistic missiles. they're not just going to jam ukraine, they're going to blow up all the cellar networks and use air strikes and physical attacks that will kill thousands. so when we say cyber warfare and

hybrid warfare, we're moving where they dominate the ability to kill ukrainians and that's going to be a big part of it. >> it is. and yet, you have americans siding with them, which is insane. malcolm nance, clint watts, thank you. clint is sticking around. new information from the fbi reveals how many hbcus were targeted by the avalanche of bomb threats and the numbers, oh, they're alarming. stay with us. numbers, oh, they're alarming stay with us ll prescription-str? reduces inflammation? thank the gods. don't thank them too soon. kick pain in the aspercreme. it only takes a second for an everyday item to become dangerous. tide pods child-guard pack helps keep your laundry pacs in a safe place and your child safer. to close, twist until it clicks. tide pods child-guard packaging.

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the fbi announced today between january 4th and february 16th, a total of 57 historically black colleges and universities, houses of worship and faith based and academic institutions were targeted by bomb threats. that's more than one threat per day and doesn't include the latest incident, hampton university in virginia receiving

a threat this morning. the fbi notes their investigation is of the highest rye priority and involves 31 field offices and say they are rationally or ethnically motivated, violent extremism and hate crimes. no explosive devices have been found, the fbi says it takes all of the threats with up most seriousness and will remain vigilant to protect our communities. by our count, 35 hbcus received bomb threats this year. 30% of the hundreds of thousands of students attending an hbcu had their education disrupted and safety put in question. hbcus are havens for the black comm community, the first schools educated the formerly said enslaved people and gave black americans the space to learn when they were excluded from other institutions and now, those schools are under threat. back with me is msnbc national security analyst clint watts and

howard university president dr. frederick. dr. frederick, i'll start with you. talk about what these threats to your school, howard university and other hbcus have done to the community that attends and works at these colleges. >> yeah, it certainly has been disruptive and instilled fear in the community, some apprehension and to be quite honest, fear. you have young people that are disadvantaged coming to our institutions to pursue a better opportunity, pursue a better life in earnest, not really causing anybody else an type of trouble and having these attacks, i mean, even without finding any devices, et cetera, as you can imagine, we had to sustained spent class and using more resources for security we could be putting into these young people so it's extremely disruptive. most importantly, the mental health when you look at the

impact of the pandemic and this, it's a lot of mental health stress so we had to increase resources there, as well. we'll be resilient. >> indeed. i want to put up this map for you, client. this is the hbcus targeted this year, 31 schools. it looks like the old confederate states mainly in the south. of course, many, many hbcus in the south and i wonder just as somebody who worked for the fbi, how do you go about figuring out who did this? they definitely already determined at the doj these are hate crimes and racially motivated. >> yeah, i think it obviously looking at the pattern someone has gone down the full list to intimidate and threaten people across the board based on a specific thing, which is race and that's why you see the hate crimes division take on this. you have different modes and mechanisms of communication however, all of those leads and

the threats in the online portals, i'd imagine the fbi is the only organization in the world to put those pieces together and will start to move and hunt that down right away. i think the next thing is how quickly can they put those pieces together and they end with a lot of dead ends. it depends on the sophistication of the people perpetrating this. if they don't understand the internet and technology, this could move quickly. however, it could be tough to put together if they know how to hide themselves online and change the pattern with the threats, if that's the case, that would mean a more sophisticated actor and a more sophisticated threat beyond just hey, i'm going to organize this campaign of death threats against all of these universities, it could be they had the sophistication to put a plot together, as well. so i'm hoping it's the former rather than the latter. >> i said 31 schools, i meant 35

schools have been targeted just this year and dr. frederick, how has the university had to sort of thing the way things operate on campus? i know some people are now back on campus. everything is sort of hybrid because of covid but how have you had to change the way things operate at howard due to these threats? >> what we've been doing, first, educating the entire campus how to react to these threats we have obviously, we have locked downs, we have where we want people to stay in place, et cetera. so we had training recently. the fbi participated in that and again, as i can tell that creates a lot of psychological stress and undercover security, as well, across the campus looking for any suspicious activity and had to increase patrols, as well and especially in the residence halls because actually, our residence halls are full. we're back to face-to-face for the most part so majority of our

campus is back there, just as important, we want a hospital and having a bomb threat on campus when somebody doesn't specify a location, and having to evacuate a hospital in the event something does happen is a different circumstance. planning those logistics is the other thing we've been doing. it's been taking up a significant number of resources and manpower, as well, to be quite honest. >> yeah, yeah, i'm sure. well, wishing everyone the best and it is notable, i think we should note that these ramped up with the start of black history month, not probably coincidentally. thank you both very much. stay safe. up next, tiktok, the white house will have a supreme court nominee by the end of the month, which is monday. we need to talk about today's resignation of two manhattan prosecutors working on the investigation into trump's shy business practices. what does that mean for the trump investigation? back after this. s that mean for

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happy black history month, tucker and desantis, it is still legal. let's talk about something white ring. first black elected manhattan burro president and that's a fraction of why she's a legend. she was the first woman attorney a key role in ending segregation and as the first black woman to argue before the supreme court, she won nine of her ten cases and led campaigns to desegregate southern universities including the university of mississippi. she's pictured here with james meredith before she became the first black woman nominated to

the federal bench by lyndon johnson in 1966. the democratic dixie cat chair of the senate judiciary committee and notorious racist delayed her confirmation process for seven months and as "the new york times" reported at the time, eastland tried to smear her as a communist. sound familiar? at any moment president biden is expected to announce his nominee to be the first black woman to serve on the supreme court. he's interviewed three candidates and plans to announce his choice by the end of the month. the finalists, federal judges brown-jackson and michelle childs and california supreme court justice leondra kruger. elie, always great to see you. let's talk. biden, it is allegedly down to three. the thinking is that it's probably brown-jackson. do you have any scoops or any other intel for us?

>> no, i have no insider information about this. i called the white house, they don't always call me back, know what i'm saying? but as much as around brown-jackson and i think that's who the pick is going to end up being, let's not minimize the importance of these interviews. the president of the united states and their supreme court nominee do develop a relationship. they have to kind of be in it together. it's funny, this is the nominee to replace stephen breyer. one of the reasons why ruth bader ginsburg was nominated before breyer is for this kind of final interview process breyer was on a bike hit on percocet. he didn't like him. that's one of the big reasons breyer didn't get the job the first time around. you never know what will happen

in the first interview phase, the final rose phase. all of the power right now seems to be behind brown jackson who let's remember has been the front runner for this job -- >> the whole time, right. >> not just -- for six years. she was in the final room when obama nominated garland. she has been the person for awhile now. >> and i mean, the thinks was merrick garland going into a.g. is what opened the seat for her because she's been the person that's been the focus but i have to ask you what have you made of the kind of internal attempt to sort of elevate childs, right? there was a pretty overt campaign, i would say, by jim clyburn to do that. what did you make of that? it seemed like there was a lindsey graham clyburn attempt to push her that i don't know, what do you make of it? >> i mean, we're democrats, right? democrats don't know how to do this any other way than having

internal strife and battles. i try not to pay too much attention to the internal divisions. one of the things i'll say and i wrote about this from the nation is that while i do think that in general the supreme court and courts in general are not diverse enough in terms of professional backgrounds, in terms of educational backgrounds, i think that's a really strong point and a strong point in childs' favor in fact. however, for this appointment, i would not denigrate the women who did go to the elites ivy league school for this position than no other reason than going to elite ivy league school is a way as minority and black woman you protech yourself from the baseless attacks that we know conservatives will make about their intelligence andbrown-jac better on a test than you mr.

hawley and mr. kennedy and mr. graham. it important for her to represent that through the elite educational institution so i don't take points away from her just because she went to harvard and harvard college. >> yeah, absolutely. and wicker, too. wicker tried to throw some shade at her. she'd do better on a test than you, too, man. >> this is not -- >> easy, easily. when she was half asleep she would be able to do that. let's talk trump for a minute, let's make a turn here. this shocked me today. i saw your twitter and i know it shocked you, too. two of the prosecutors that are leading the new york trump organization inquiry resigned. carry dunn and mark submitted resignations after manhattan district attorney indicated he had doubts about moving forward with a case with trump without the commitment to move forward, they postponed a plan to question at least one witness before the grand jury. they've not questioned any witnesses in front of the grand jury for more than a month.

shocking to me, shocking to you? what do you think? >> this stinks. alvin brad needs to answer some questions soon, right? there are two important questions he needs to answer, i believe, for this they are very respected prosecutors within the new york legal circles. so, why did they think they had a case that they could pursue against the grand jury but brad did not? what? he can't just say, we didn't have a case because many prosecutors thought we did. so you have to explain it to me why you have this, let's say call it a minority position compared to the other people in your office about the culpability of one mr. tucker. number two questions asked to answer, as you said, as the times reported -- they haven't interviewed people for a month. he has only been on the job for two months. so, what did he know before he was elected, about this case

that made him want to back off of that case? and why did he not bring that up during the election? because i don't know, new yorkers might have wanted to know his thoughts on the trump prosecution that he clearly premade before he got into office or lte wouldn't have been able to -- so quickly. so, i'm going to reserve some judgment but mr. brad has some questions to answer about this decision. >> i have a third question. i'm not a lawyer, but how could michael cohen have testified under oath that trump -- depending on whether he wanted to get a loan or -- and how did he go to jail for signing a document to give money to donald trump? first of all, donald trump was having an affair -- that's a crime. but when he literally gave him documents allegedly, i'm sure he's given prosecutors evidence -- and you're not going to prosecute? if you are either that, i bet you they would prosecute us.

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to regain control of congress this fall, they've been unwilling to explain what their agenda would actually even be. >> if republicans take back control of congress after the midterms, what would be your agenda? >> that is a very good question. and i will let you know when we take it back. >> this comes as no surprise because the republican party has no real positive agenda for the american people. their 2020 platform could have been written on a cocktail

napkin. it was the word trump. they are the party of the -- which is why we saw more than 100 -- lock down to mar-a-lago today to kiss the ring of their dear leaders stubby little finger. but despite mitch mcconnell saying, don't say nothing! if you still want to know what direction the party -- rick scott, who leads the republican election effort to take over the senate, is giving us all a sneak peek. scott released what he called his 11 point plan to rescue america, which is a mix of conservative red meat, culture war detritus, and weird manifesto stuff that sounds like a bad b movie. his leading pillar is that, our kids will say the pledge of allegiance salute the flag, learned that america is a great country. will inspire patriotism and stop teaching revisionist history of the radical left. i assume by revisionist history he means the accurate history of our country, even the parts that might make white people feel uncomfortable. we'll starve washington's --

and reduce the government workforce, 25% in five years -- now, he's talking about creating massive unemployment because 25% of the government workforce would mean laying off more than half 1 million people. and while he's doing that, he's indicated that he and his comrades will be raising taxes on millions and millions of americans. including those living in poverty. he writes, all americans should pay some income tax and that is -- even a small amount. clearly, over half -- wait, hold on a second. did mitt romney say something like that before he lost to president obama? 47%, anybody? then, florida's dollars toward baltimore proceeded to try to deny what's written in his own plan. >> jackie schumer said that your plan is to raise taxes on more than half of americans. i didn't see that in your plan. did you have that in your plan? was it in invisible ink in the company that i got because i didn't see that. >> chalky. and then his manifesto gets even we are. he ends it all, federal

legislation sunsets in five years. if a law is worth keeping -- congress would have to re-paso shull security, medicare, and the civil rights -- okay, rick, what happens if someone commits massive fraud against medicare. then, medicare -- trick see ricky -- for those who say congress would never let those things expire, i note the balance against women's act -- scott plan even adds a -- he declares, men are men and women are women. -- and no republican agenda would be complete without paying jews to orange julius cesar. it not only calls for finishing along the southern border, but also naming it after trump. and of course, there's a section devoted entirely to our elections, which says -- by a voter of the -- shelby counted ever. so, wait. does not mean that the

thousands of -- working overseas, should their vote not count? the fact that the republican leadership decided to meet a -- only to have a troll like rick's top fill it with a laundry list of republican grievances, that is tonight's absolute worst. and that is also tonight's read out. -- tonight, on all in, -- why would we have -- i'm totally confused. >> undermining democracy at home and supporting an autocrat abroad. >> very -- i have enormous respect for him. >> tonight, new russian aggression. new american sanctions on lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. then, as ivanka trump begins talks with the january six committee, why they may also want to speak with the wife of a supreme court justice. all that and one states