clive davis the map behind the music april 21st wherever you stream your musicprogramming. thanks for spending time with us on "the beat." keep it locked. "the reidout" with joy reid is up next. good evening, everyone. we begin "the reidout" with a scene that feels like something out of world war ii and putin's missiles reeking destruction and horror. this time at a rail way station in donetsk where rockets hit as thousands were trying to evacuate. a day before the air strike on the rail way station a ukrainian shared this video. as you can see, this was an area packed with civilians attempting to flee the war. including children and the elderly. john sparks of sky news was on the scene shortly after the attack. with a closeup of one of the missiles and the haunting message written in russian that

was discovered on it. >> just to focus on the words on the side of that missile, it means for children or for the children. explosives from that missile have dropped here. they seen it. they will -- they would have been killed. a lot of them. there is a small crater here you can see. probably where the explosives hit. punched a small hole in the platform. this would qualify as a war crime. this is clearly an attack on

civilians. >> russia has denied carrying out the attack with the defense ministry calling ukraine's accusations a quote provocation. joining me from lviv is ali velshi and maxine, a mariupol city council member. ali, we seem to be reporting on what appear to be war crimes every day at this point. what is the point at this stage of russia's denials because nobody is listening? >> reporter: actually, some people are. that's the problem. in fact, i had a conversation with a number of young people in lviv whose parents live in russia or crimea. russia not only denied responsibility but came up with two different theories why ukrainians why it was responsible. it was meant to give the west what it wants with weaponry and the other one is it's a ukrainian launched missile that didn't hit the target between the russians and ukrainians in

eastern ukraine. both of those arguments are non-sense but so are the arguments about how the russians, the ukrainians killed civilians in bucha. it's having impact on russian citizens and conspiracy theory circles in the united states and remember, there are still some very, very powerful and populous countries in the world still on russia eastside of this. india and china are not pushing back on russia. the bottom line is they do get something out of denying this. i'll say on the ukrainian side, it only gets people more frustrated and perhaps more motivated for ukrainians to do everything they can to win this war and they are prepared to do it but cannot do it without the weaponry they are requesting from the west and without the cutting off of oil supplies from russia. >> you know, maxine, i want to get your response. we'll show this missile again. this is the missile sky news, this is the imagery. for the children or for children written in russian on it.

when you hear the russian government is lying and trying to blame ukrainians like ukrainians would slaughter their own citizens and people just to blame russia, how do you feel when as, you know, ali said, some people are listening, even in this country on another network, the most popular host on that network said it's childish to portray the war in ukraine as a simple battle of good and evil when what i'm looking at is evil and he doesn't seem to see it that way and he's telling 2, 3 million people a night that. i wonder how fris frustrating ts for you? >> horrible to see the scenes because sometimes russia state tv channels and luke was a show to the russians and it's a blame in ukrainian soldiers that they

are in the answer what is done with mariupol. they said that it not russia who destroyed mariupol with bombs from their planes. that ukrainian military is blaming for because they don't give up to russians. if they give up, if mariupol still denies its horrible to hear this and it's always a tactic of the russians. remember, march 17 the same tactics of course they say they shot down the mean and then they said it's not us, the same situation. it was they said in their public telegram channel, they said it's we on the ukrainian soldiers and deleted messages and say it's ukrainian soldiers make this

terrible sense. it always the tactic of russia and the troops no stop killing civilian people in ukraine and in europen countries. before we stop the russian, if the west side don't make real strong sanctions, not with the steps but all and once gas and crude oil, all the things which russia are selling and getting money for the war and if ukraine side don't get real weapons, jet planes, special systems, modern systems, not all systems, because if we don't get the war continues and more people die. how much peaceful citizens need to be queued to politics to understand that they are not statistics.

that some were children, some were friends, some were parents. not only statistics. it's people. >> let me may for you, quickly, ali i want you to respond to that. we're so blessed to have you in this world and reporting for us because you're a finance guy in addition to being a brilliant reporter overall. this is the thing i don't understand. because you know, as said, they could cut off the oil. i get it. nobody wants to pay more in europe but it seems to me if you're not cutting off the oil, you're not all the way serious. there are mass graves in bucha. you can see it. they're there. if that doesn't move you to say whatever we have to do, we're cutting off the oil. why do you suppose they're not doing it? >> there is three problems. one is plane ol' politics. nobody wants to have people pay more for gas and get thrown out of office, which in europe is a real possibility.

right wing parties are surging. you saw again another victory for viktor in hungary the other day. that's an issue. people are getting fatigued and tired of it. it's easy to look away. you're tired of seeing the death and destruction. it's horrible. the third problem is let's say the baltic states have cut off their oil imports from russia but let's say everybody in europe actually does it. india is not doing it and china is not doing it. these are countries consoling more and more gas, oil and coal every day. russia can create an entire system around the world with the republics they control. the countries that they influence like georgia and chechnya and central asian republic and india and china and any other rogue nation that want to buy their oil a little cheaper or coal a little cheaper than world prices. so it really got to be a

globalized effort to say not just the european union and nato and the united states but then those countries have to put pressure on other countries to say you will ruin your trading relationships with europe and the united states if you continue to back channel your support for russia. russia makes most of its foreign currency off of oil, coal and gas. if that stops and really gets cut off, russia will be hobbled but until then, russia can keep on going. >> too bad we don't live in a modern world to come up with another way to fuel cars, means and trains. oh, we do. you can come up with technology but crack addict addiction to oil around the world and refusal to pay attention to climate change turns out it's allowing evil to thrive. let me play volodymyr zelenskyy. an interview with him will be featured on "60 minutes" this week. >> translator: we are defending the right to live. i never thought this right was

so costly. these are human values so that russia doesn't choose what we should do and how i'm using my rights. that right was given to me by god and my parents. >> what did you see in bucha? >> translator: death. just death. >> death, just death. maxine, this is the reality for ukraine right now. ukraine is essentially paying in blood for the world's refusal to stop using oil. it's horrible that it sort of comes down to that. what would you say to these countries saying we can't find an alternative, we got to buy the oil? >> i don't have words to say what to say to the people in this countries. today they think they in safe position, that the war is far away from them. but it's not like this.

russia is not -- is not possible to stop without a war. if they continue, they continue to erupt and the problems is even now europeans see how many peoples go out from ukraine, women and children and europe need to react to this situation and if it go further, the problem is small, bigger and another problem is ukraine is make a lot of wet with this war a lot of countries have impact on their food supply. so it's not only about ukraine. it's about also the world and if the west today is -- starts to ignore this problem and people start to, how say? to look away from the problem, the problem not going anywhere.

it's still here and it's moving forward to the war. >> can we -- as we leave and i thank these two gentlemen, ali velshi and maxine, very quickly, let's play this week 13-minute sound bite what molly hunter saw. >> reporter: the town surrounding kyiv are russian troops are completely gone for now, they left evidence of atrocities here in bucha, officials say a new mass grave discovered here in the shadow of a church. >> we're not tired of seeing it. okay. coming up next on "the reidout," this is a big deal, one of the proud boys' leaders is cooperating and expected to testify on the planning that went into the violence on january 6th. also, time to celebrate at the white house as judge ketanji brown jackson is formally introduced as the next associate justice of the supreme court. plus. >> he's saying it's going too

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a leader of the proud boys, the right wing militia group pleaded guilty today to two felony charges and has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in one of the most significant cases to emerge from the insure -- insurrection. charles donohue admitted guilty to assaulting and impeding police officers. video evidence from january 6th shows donohue admitting on camera he stole a riot shield from police. another video shows the defendant among several others completely overwhelming a thin line of law enforcement officers trying to block their advance on the east side of the capitol. the graphics on the video were not added by nbc news. he is the first person in the proud boys leadership to plead

guilty. he has close ties to enrique. his cooperation could provide vital information to theinvesin the attack. the proud boys leader, he's got all these charges he's facing, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and destruction of law enforcement and resisting and impeding. those are the charges against enrique. donohoe understood the group would pursue the goal to block the certification through the use of force of violence to show congress we the people were in charge. sounds damming to me. your thoughts? >> joy, the plea agreement is chilling. in open court, donohoe admits to

assaulting law enforcement officers. he admits that the purpose of the rally was to stop the certification of the election and that he understood that violence would help accomplish that goal. joy, we had factions of the proud boys that were operating as para military unit and inrick -- enricky was the general. this is another reminder how close we came to carnage on january 6th. even more carnage. carnage and the cost of human life and carnage in terms of the democracy. >> how do you as a prosecutor use him. enrique is in charge of the proud boys. the idea is they weren't a bunch of losers that decided to arm up

and attack the capitol. they had a plan to understand what they were doing could stop congress from certifying the election and keep trump in power. if he starts to point up and say i've pleaded out but look at that guy and that guy, how high could this go? >> it could go all the way to the top. and the question is who is at the top? so this guy is looking at six years and that's why he flipped. enrique is sitting in jail on the six felony charges including obstruction. so joy, when prosecutors work a conspiracy case, they start today bottom and try to get folks to cooperate and then hand over the real bad guys. so if we think of kind of a lieutenant, let's say, tarrio is the general, somebody else is involved. again, the question is whether the department of justice will have the resolve to go all the

way to the top. >> so if we're talking about the king's court. let talk about the royal fool this is cnn reporting. nbc news has not confirmed that don junior texted mark meadows, the chief of staff to donald trump, ideas for overturning the 2020 election. now here is the key. he didn't do that on january 4th, 5th or even january 6th. he did it days after the election. just after the election. it very simple trump junior texted to meadows on november 5th adding later, if we have multiple paths, we control them all. don junior's strategy was nearly identical to what played out filing lawsuits and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying results and having houses put forward slates of trump advisors. we're seeing planning. we're not saying he wrote the emails. royal fool but sending them out to mark meadows. your thoughts?

>> emails that seem to concede that his father lost the election and joy, this is a huge development because it goes to criminal intent. donald trump senior's defense and the impeachment trial, the second impeachment trial was that he sincerely believed he had won and he was just trying to stop the steal. this text that junior sent out suggests that they all thought the american voters were basically irrelevant on the issue of whether trump had a second term. the text said we control them and the key, joy, investigators to figure out who we includes, is it ginni thomas, steve bannon, whoever sent this text and approved this text seemed determined and fully prepared to keep trump in office by any means necessary. >> long before even the december post by trump saying it will be

wild. join me on january 6th. they seemed to be planning right before the election before the votes were counted and certified. one more headline, powell. this one shocked me today. the citizens arrest because they didn't like covid restrictions all three seemed to be walking. deadlocked on the other two, four i should say. this say woozer for me. what do you make of it and what does that message send to far right wingers that want to do similar things? >> the message is if they get the right jury, they can get away with it. joy, the evidence in this case is overwhelming but as a prosecutor, you never know what a jury is going to do and these defense attorneys were able to persuade that this violent act, this act of again trying to subvert democracy in a different context wasn't a crime and when

folks look at some of the plea agreements in the january 6th cases, and ask why is the government settling for that? in part, because it's a sure thing and sometimes as a prosecutor, you having to will be to accept a sentence that doesn't affect the crime or seriousness of the crime just to get a sure conviction. >> yeah. >> they didn't get that in this case in michigan and as a result, we are less safe. these people are cooky and victims of acquittal. >> indeed. wow, paul butler, thank you very much. still ahead, judge ketanji brown jackson speaks at the white house after her confirmation and president biden has a few choice words how she

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insurrection booster josh hawley is throwing a poop in his pants temper tantrum since last september in protest of our withdrawal from afghanistan. that included delaying the confirmation of a russia expert even as russia's invasion of ukraine loomed. well, a wise senator brian schatz absolutely annihilated him on the senate floor yesterday as he pulled the stunt on another nominee this week. >> he's blocking the staffing of the senior leadership at the department of defense. this comes from a guy that raised his fist in solidarity with the insurrectionists and this comes from a guy who before the russian invasion suggested that maybe it would be wise for zelenskyy to make a few concessions about ukraine and their willingness to join nato.

this comes from a guy who just about a month ago voted for ukraine aid. he said it's going too slow. he voted no. this final insult is until, what, secretary austin resigns that's not a serious request or a reasonable request from a united states senator until the secretary of defense quits his job, i'm going to block all of his nominees. that's preposterous and coming from a person who exonerated donald trump for extorting zelenskyy for withholding lethal aid. so spare me the new solidarity with the ukrainians and with the free world because this man's record is exactly the opposite. i yield the floor. >> well, this, of course, follows a month where josh hawley made fools of themselves with their harassment of judge

ketanji brown jackson. i'm joined by dean ogeidallah. dean, any thoughts on josh hawley? my only question is how we -- he drinks with that chin. any thoughts on him or brian schatz? >> josh hawley apparently took a break from researching child pornography to make this ridiculous speech about hastening the amount of military aid to ukraine when scha the, z called it beautifully. look what brian schatz did. he made a two-minute video that went viral called messaging is the ultimate tiktok video. senator schumer, take an improve class and do this stuff because he has good words but no passion. schatz showed democrats you can go viral with content just destroying josh hawley. everyone will share it. we need more democrats like that. i can't applaud it enough. >> i agree with you.

the whole weird thing about josh hawley being like he lays awake at night worrying his little kids will get child pornography on his computer. i raised three children and i never laid awake with that. what's on your computer, bro? what's your parenting like? christina, what are you google? how would they get it? let's move on to some other members of the goon squad that decided they would harass the soon to be associate justice of the supreme court ketanji brown jackson. lindsey graham made a whole video. i was in it. here is a little of it. >> remember amy coney barrett how they came after her? remember kavanaugh. i do. compare that hearing with what happened with judge jackson is ridiculous. she wasn't ambushed. i asked her hard questions and she gave bad answers. when we nominate a qualified african american woman, they filibuster her without apology. >> i can assure you she would

probably be filibustered. >> when we ask hard questions of an african american nominee that's liberal, all of a sudden, we're racist. >> i remember those hearings, too. justice kavanaugh was incredibly accused of sexual assaulting a 17-year-old girl and amy is barely qualify d to be a supreme court justice. your thoughts? >> amy coney barrett couldn't list the five freedoms in the first amendment. this is something that my intern of politics freshmen know and this is someone that wants to serve a lifelong appointment on the highest bench on the land. when lindsey graham says we -- they did not ambush ketanji brown jackson, they were asking her insane questions. how many times did she say that's not in my per view, that's not something i ever had before the court. this is not something you-all should know. if you want to keep my personal life out of my traditional

positions, don't ask me these lindsey graham with josh hawley are disingenuous. they stood by donald trump and antics for four years as he almost tried to drag our country off a cliff and take the rest of the world with him. and they have gone deeper and deeper and the lack of self-respect that republicans had especially on display during the ketanji brown jackson hearings lets us know the die ex-that the republican party has gone since i would argue 2008 when sarah palin showed up in 2010 when the tea party really arrived and they are no longer the fringe. they have taken over the party full stop and sadly, so many senators have fallowed suit. which is sad. we didn't have that many republicans this egregious this many years ago. >> the issue, dean, too is he's not running for reelection in four and a half years. if he's so proud of his parking, you know, dixiecrat performance

screaming at the woman and not letting her finish sentences. if you're not proud of it, why did you make a video? they will keep talking about janice brown. here is a black lady we like. she had a record of extremism fully justified democrats' opposition. october 2003 the post editorial page called brown one of the most unapologetically ideological nominees of any party in many years. a june 200 a headline rejects justice brown described her as a judge who has been more open about her enthusiasm for judicial adventurism than any nominee of either party in a long time saying no senator will have standing toislaing from th. the bottom line is they pretend they like -- that they want diversity, too, but your views have to essentially be anti whatever group you are. so you have to legislate if you're, you know, you have to legislate to basically harm

people in order to prove your fealty to them. >> right. listen to my show, skin folk isn't always kin folk so it doesn't -- the same race doesn't have to share the same values. here is the thing. donald trump had three choices for the supreme court. did he pick a black woman or hispanic woman? >> no. he went team white. he picked 231 judges. how many were black? two. that's the lowest since ronald reagan. donald trump's choices for federal judges all together, the lowest people of color in decades. so when donald trump had a chance to put a black woman on there, he didn't do it because that would not have made team white happy. this is the white right i should say. all team white. it's remarkable. there is one more thing, joy, i noticed the white right is upset about strong black women if it's vice president harris, maxine waters, judge jackson or someone named joy reid because joy reid

really charges them and i'm so proud when you do. it makes my heart grow three sizes. >> i live inside their heads rent free. i don't even pay rent. christina, the thing is they deployed, you know, tim scott to like moan and complain i was one of many people who were -- i felt bad for him. he is somebody who is going to go into the history books as having voted against this african american woman, representation matters. his representation matters as a black man of the united states senate but if he said that, they will turn on him. he has to endorse white power structure and cannot step off that team for not even a little. i feel sorry for him he has to go into the history books this way but apparently, that's where he has to be. >> for a penny and pound. if he was that distraught, he cold leave the party. he stood by donald trump for four years so, you know, i'd like to think of it this way. everything i do in my life is to make my ancestors happy and to

really help sort of lead a life to acknowledge and honor the sacrifices they made. tim scott will have to face his ancestors one day. i don't know what kind of people they were. he will have to answer for the choices he made and decisions. he said ketanji brown jackson's nomination was historic and said she was a radical justice and couldn't provide receipts if r that statement but parroted a lot of republican talking points. yes, on the days i have compassion in my heart, i look at people like clarence thomas and tim scott and wonder what happened to you in your life? what is going on you decided to cast your lock with people who have gone out of their way to make sure that inequity and that people of color, poor people, the people who are in need in this country are the least among them? so the days i don't have compassion for tim scott, i view that he has made his bed. he lays in it at night and seems quite happy with the choices he's making.

>> baby, you had one shot to make a difference and put yourself in the history books. you had police reform and i'm going to repeat what i tweeted since you didn't like it. you let lindsey graham dog walk you on that. he put the sheriffs against you when there was an agreement you were negotiating. this could have been your bill, sir. you decided to back down from police reform when you let that man, your fellow south carolinaens who didn't have your back, did not let you make history, did not let you have a big accomplishment, don't blame that on me. blame that on him. have a conversation with obeina greer, thank you. the don't say gay bill, will arkins joins me next. y bill, wil arkins joins me next

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with contradictions. today, we saw the first black woman celebrate her historic ascension to the highest court in the land. at the same, time hundreds of thousands of lgbtq kids have become victims of craven republican politicians. according to nbc news, state lawmakers have proposed a law record to about 200 -- just this year alone. that is more than three per day. half of them target transgender people specifically. these bills, like florida's don't say gay bill, would restrict talking about lgbtq issues in schools, allow

religious exemptions to discriminate, and limit trans peoples ability to play sports, or receive gender affirming health care. these bills are not passed in a vacuum. they have very real consequences. according to the cdc, one in four teenagers who identify as lgbtq said they attempted suicide during the first half of last year. in many of these kids are fighting back. more than 500 students staged a massive walkout at a high school in winter park florida, in protest of the don't say gay bill. the walkout was organized by will large, and the president and a cofounder of the school's queer student union. will testified before florida senate committee when don't say gay was under consideration. >> i have heard different members of the legislators say something along the lines of parents know what is best for their kids. when it comes to the core community, that is not true. if parents know what is best for their kids, why did my best friend it kicked out of his house and have to live with me? why is 40% of the homeless youth queer will only making up 5% of the general population.

why do so many kids got abused for their sexuality and gender identity? for some reason, if a quirk it comes out to a teacher, and it turns into a discussion, and the parents of the right to know that, that endangers us when we are already in danger. >> joining me now is will, high school junior and president, and cofounder of the queer student alliance at winter park eye school in florida. every time i have a young florida student on, i am amazed, and feel much more confident about our future. will, thank you for being here. i want to talk to you about how this law is impacting students like you in the real world. for the people who are in favor of this don't say gay bill, and they say, it is just because we shouldn't be talking about sexuality in schools to third graders, what would be your response to them? >> i would argue that teaching about sexuality, and gender identity, it is the most vital in those formative years. i grew up not knowing that the

lgbtq community existed, and my classmates didn't either. because i was the only non-binary person that i knew, and it was very obvious to other people that i was not like other boys, i dealt with a lot of bullying. i dealt with a lot of salt hatred. i didn't know why i was the way i was. and if somebody had just told me in k through third thought not being like this is okay, the course of my childhood would have been completely different. >> and you, know it strikes me something you said in your testimony to me is so powerful. these laws are not about the kids. they are about their parents. they are about trying to get their parents to vote a certain way by scaring them, and making them think that the mechanics of sex are going to be taught in school. which is ridiculous, and it would never happen. so, does it offend you thought students, kids, are being used

-- not because anyone cares about the kids, but just to get their parents to vote a certain way. >> absolutely. i mean, they are putting an entire generation of lgbtq people and danger in order to push this false, and disgusting narrative. and first of all, there was an amendment filed by republican senator in the appropriations community that would change -- and it was voted down by republicans. they are not trying to get sex ed, which was never being taught in k through third out of the classrooms. they are attacking queer people. it doesn't even affect just k-12. if you actually have read the bill, it says k-12, or k through third, or through 12, in a manner that it is deemed inappropriate. >> just from a personal level, you talked about the fact that in your testimony you said you had a friend who had to come and live with you. just to reiterate for those in the audience who may not have -- where people in their, lives or

may not know they do, what is it like as a kid to know that you cannot even talk about your own, or your parents, or your friends identities? >> it is really scary. i mean, being queer, and being surrounded by other queer people, every single one of us, even me, i was lucky enough to be with parents that i never feared would abuse, or kick me out for being myself. but i still went through extremely traumatic things, because of my identity. every single queer person i know, especially being the president of the queer student union, every single person has gone through something horrible for it. if we are taking away school, which is supposed to be a safe space, so many of my friends are literally living homeless, and school is where they are able to be amongst pierre's. and able to be somewhere safe. and now we are trying to attack that. we are making it less safe.

we are making teachers feel less safe to talk about these important subjects. all the way through senior year. not just in k through third. >> and have you heard from teachers? because this bill targets them, as well. >> absolutely. you, know there -- teachers, now in florida, and all across america are already not being treated as well as they should. they are underpaid, they are overworked, and i have actually had a couple of teachers this year quit in the middle because they got better paying jobs. and i have a teacher who is not returning next year because they have to leave the state because of the anti-trans attacks, and their son's trends. one of the biggest part of their teaching is being there for queer kids, and they're not going to be able to in the way that they would like. i know so many teachers who are thinking of leaving because they are not able to safely be

there for queer people, which makes it even worse for us. >> yes, indeed. well, we'll, thank you so much for being here. i wish that i would have been together as a 17 year old as you are thank you for your advocacy. we would love to have you back on the show. >> i will be back anytime. thank you so much for having me. i appreciate you guys. peace and love. >> peace and love, cheers, okay. that is tonight's read out. what a wonderful kid. all in with chris hayes starts now. all in with chri>> tonight on a. donald trump junior enters the coup plotting storyline tonight. you're reporting on don junior 's list to stop joe biden certification. including his text to mark meadows that quote, we have operational control to do it. and why the january six committee now believes the capitol attack included a coordinated assault by the oath keepers and proud boys. and stunning evidence of what looks like a delivered attack