fortunate to run against trump, if trump came back in, that would be easy for biden and another source says biden thinks he's the on democrat that can beat trump. the white house didn't come on "the hill" story. all of this is a dance because nobody likes to volunteer that they're a one-term lame duck president for any reason but it's interesting the way this is being leaked out right now and that's our update for the end of the year. "the reidout" with joy reid starts now. >> good evening, everyone. we have a lot to get to including the recent intern turned trump appointed judge. it raises the danger in a surge of cases thanks to a single judge appointed after practicing law for eight years and rated not qualiied by the american bar association. we'll have much more on that

coming up. we begin tonight with the second phase of vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine. now fully underway, the devastation is already evident across eastern ukraine in what a senior u.s. officials called a prelude to a larger offensive operation in russia's so-called battle of the donbas. sergei lavrov said the goal of the offensive is the complete liberation of the donbas. well, here is what their version of liberation looks like. fresh attacks near kharkiv where at least four were killed. mark stone from "sky news" reported from the region. >> reporter: the monday russian barrage is remarkable. 700 miles from the attacks of lviv. ukraine's second city bombarded

and resisting occupation. here is the cost. the victim is her father. >> the same city came under attack where russia attacked the train station this month killing dozens of people. russian troops seized control of one city according to the regional governor. ukrainian troops withdrew. russia added two additional units adding tens of thousands of troops in the new phase of russian aggression. today president biden held a call with allies to discuss support for ukraine and ways to hold russia accountable and plans to send another round of artillery to ukraine and the white house is preparing to announce another substantial military aid package this week. meanwhile, in a meeting with the heads of the imf and world bank, janet yellen blamed putin's war for worsening international food

insecurity, a situation that's critically felt in mariupol cut off from food and water for weeks now. as russia continues the campaign to take what remains of the city, the last ukrainian forces are barricaded in a steel plant defying russian calls to surrenderer. one ukrainian commander said hundreds of civilians are sheltering in the plant, which ukrainian officials say is the target of anti bunker bombs. russia's defense ministry claims there will be a seize fire in the area of the plant tomorrow but as the russian army, which ukrainian president zelenskyy called the most barbaric inhumane in the world, are trying to wipe cities like mariupol off the planet. the woodro wilson center noted the on going incomprehensible russian brutality toward ukraine is explained by the russian ukrainians and their culture. he writes, the assault now

symbolized with a z, isn't motivated in the name of security, alliances or political affiliaion but the need to extinguish wrong cultural memes and impose correct ones and said the invasion happened because russia never accepted the existence of ukraine in the first place and by russia, i mean not only the state but also the people, especially the cultural elites. joining me now is former nato supreme ally, admiral jails. he's msnbc chief international security and diplomacy analyst and historian and phd student at the pennsylvania department of history. i want to start with you, professor, on the last point. what this thread is laying out is the west is trying to look at this as some sort of conventional armed conflict that has to do with russia's, you know, sort of fear for its own security or their fear of nato or paranoia but what he says

it's about something worse. it's about russia's attitude that essentially ukrainians are inferior russians who have been brainwashed by nazis to not believe they're russian if they would accept becoming russian again, they would deserve to live but if they don't, they deserve to die. your thoughts? >> i have to agree and i think we can take this from putin's own talking points before the war after he wrote a 7,000 word essay about his conception of russian history and denies the sovereignty and existence of a separate entity. we've seen horrifying discussions on russian channel one part of the state media talking about using ukrainian pows for labor to reeducate them. this is very much an issue of trying to erase the cultural legacies of ukraine and this is very much kind of part of the

reason we're seeing this against ukraine. so to approach this from a conventional stand of wars to misunderstand the point of this, this is about ex termination. >> to stay with you, it talks about the russian's orthodox church involved in the complicity and moscow patriot against each other in an especially untenable position. the patriots blessed the war and toted russian soldiers for defielding the father land. so when you throw in the religious can't, it sounds like isis more than a conventional state. >> it definitely is a marriage of church and state and if you think about it, you won't see the marriage of church and state from 2014 and the annexation of

crimea an active fan of the war in ukraine so i think it does alienate thousands of people in ukraine that practice russian orthodox but alienates people part of the ukrainian orthodox church that recently became a couple years ago. i think we can also understand not only as a political problem, this is also a destruction of ties forged over centuries. >> how does one fight, you know, a war that is not about anything convepgs l l but a belief the people you're fighting don't exist and another part of this thread said at first, russians thought of ukrainians as redeemable by the fact they're resisting being reconscripted, they deserve to die. that soul most isis-like thinking. how does one fight an army that is thinking like that? >> you fight it with the truth and, you know, this is

reminiscing of many struggles we've seep. this is a genocide. these are people of ukrainian origin being destroyed because of their nature and ethnicity and position in history. we've seen it in the way armeniaens and jews and many races are attacked in genocidal ways so start with position of telling the truth. number two, tactically, i'm picking up my cell phone here. you very consciously think of this as a weapon in this war. you tell the truth. you videotape. you show the atrocatrocities. you give voice to the victims. by doing that, you rally the world ultimately against this behavior. it's a long, hard struggle but the most important one of our times. >> i'll going to show you,

admiral, this map that we have that shows what russia controls now, the physical territory they control. they're trying to squeeze in from the east and squeeze in from the north. they have already lost the idea of going right for kyiv but can the weapons that you know of ukraine have right now and that we are sending them, is that enough to repel russia and stop them from essentially annexing the entire eastern part and southern part of ukraine? with what they have now, can they repel this? >> i think they can. at the end of the day in the conversation, you and i and kim kimberly are having, it's about will and the power to resist what is wrong. and that is the center of gravity in this fight. it is what the ukrainians have and what president zelenskyy person person sonifies.

i think they have everything they are going to need in terms of will and spirit. our job is to win the foot race, get them the weapons and tools. they will do the job. >> let me may for both of you president biden and he's asked whether or not he plans to cyst kyiv. ever blam la . >> i'll start with you admiral. would it matter if the president were to visit ukraine himself at this time? >> well, it would be enormous and symbolic for my money, the person we ought to send to ukraine is lloyd austin. he's the secretary of defense. he's a former again real. he's a big imposing figure. he's well-known. he's the right symbol of the quite of america in my view.

let hold our president back for the moment. i think joe biden in his heart he wants to go and be there in the fight. our job is to put the right president there at the right time but for the moment, my vote is for lloyd austin secretary of defense. >> i would not be against that at all. he's a bad ass if i can use a bit of cussing on this show tonight. >> what the president of ukraine, president zelenskyy who is an incredible figure, a hero to the world said we're already in world war iii. do you believe that? >> i think for ukraine this is definitely world war iii. this yet again them being brutally attacked and invaded and genocidally brutalized by an invader but this time for their war, the invader fought along in world war ii and now that brutal genocide country is russia who is calling them nazis when they

used to fight nazis together. i think for president zelenskyy, he very much is fighting world war iii. for ukrainians, this very much is world war iii. >> what a great duo to start with tonight. you two are wonderful. thank you both. up next on "the reidout" a maga judge uses junk science to strike down the mask mandate on public transportation and january 6th puzzle pieces are all falling into place. we're learning more about which trump officials and members of congress are coordinating with groups like the oath keepers. my political panel joins me on the toxic social media count fueling the fake republican outrage machine and in a brand-new interview, prince harry talks to nbc's hoda about

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>> that was the reaction by some passengers when learning that the tsa will not enforce a mask mandate on planes and public

transit. this comes after a trump appointed federal judge in florida single handedly struck down the cdc's requirement ruling the federal agency over stepped authority. we got breaking news, biden administration officials say the justice department will appeal the florida judge's ruling if the cdc says masks are necessary. the doj will not seek an emergency stay of the order. earlier today president biden briefly weighed in. >> do people need to wear masks on planes? >> many u.s. airlines were quick to drop the mask mandate after the ruling with uber, amtrak and publish transportation in new jersey, philadelphia and new jersey. questions and fears remain as coronavirus cases are rising again in major cities. questions remain over filing of appeals. former white house senior advisor on the nation's covid

response and the host of "in the bubble podcast" and international president of the association of flight attendants. where to begin? i want to start with the reaction that we saw on that flight, sarah. let me just play -- i want to play for you, this is cut four for my producers. i'm skipping around a bit. i understand what people on planes have been dealing with because i've flown a lot in the last several months, a lot more than i thought i would and people's attitudes are for me a lot. i don't have to work with them and fly -- i don't have to do it every day. let me show people a little taste of what night attendemts have been dealing with.

>> turn around! >> get him off! get him off! >> that said, did announcing the end of the mask mandate literally in the middle of the flight kind of let those a-holes win? >> not just that, joy. it's that in the middle of the flight, people took off with one set of rules and landed with another. and the crews, once again, on the front lines are left holding the bag to deal with this. so you had people on the plane who were immune compromised, you had people on planes with little kids below the age of 5 who decided to fly only because the mask mandate was in place and they couldn't get their kids vaccinated, this is really not fair to put the flight crews in the middle of managing this on our planes when people are expecting one thing and getting something else and that has been the problem through this whole pandemic is that this has been about saying that the mask

mandate or anything to do with this pandemic is political, ator than a public health issue and we did not take a position on whether or not to extend this mask mandate. remember, it's only supposed to be in place until may 3rd. we did not take a position because we have flight attendants who have been very tired of dealing with that every single day, dealing with people who check a box who say they agree to wear a mask when they buy their ticket and check in for the flight. these are grown adults who say they will follow the rules and they're not doing it. they're tired of doing it and wearing the mask for 14, 15, 16 days. we also recognize that air travel is only possible if we do this with the spirit that we're all in this together and we had other people who were expressing serious concerns about going to work in a space where we have no idea whether or not people are vaccinated, whether or not they're sick or bringing that into our space and it's a confined space where you can't walk away if you think there is

trouble. >> here is the thing, andy. thank you for being here. you're in a tube where i feel like people cough more. you get on a flight and everybody is hacking up a lung and people like yay, whipping off the masks. to the point sarah made is correct. if i got on that flight and there was an announcement mid flight, i can't get off the plane and because this judge, who was rated unqualified, like she was an intern like six years ago is now a federal judge that got on at 33 years of age. trump's appointment, she's basically one of the people tired of wearing a mask and ruled as such. i don't see anything -- this is part of her ruling. this is the genius ruling. wearing a mask cleans nothing. at most, it traps virus droplets but it neither sanitizes the person wearing the mask nor sanitizes the conveyance. this is a lady that never tried

a case in court. her only experience is an intern in college. for her to by herself be able to say by herself say no mask mandate is outrageous. your thoughts? >> donald trump appointed 234 judges. this is a judge he appointmented after he lost the election. she was a clarence thomas clerk and she's going far beyond what you're supposed to be doing as a judge. she's going far we yonld what the law allows her to do. the public, when you're a flight attendant or passenger on a plane, you deserve to have the decision made by public health experts, not mob rule, not ceos of airlines, not a judge in a district court. but you want someone that will look at the data and say hey, we'll do this softly and carefully and indeed, it may have been about to come down but we certainly don't want it to happen this way because this is

not how the public is going to have their best interest looked out for. >> andy, do you think the cdc is like -- i mean, if it's up to them, they have shown themselves to be occasionally seemingly influenceable by political sort of needs and corporate needs and got a lot of corporations that are sick of having to be the front lines of, you know, enforcing these mandates. you got a lot of businesses that want the mandates off. what do you make of the fact the cdc number one is the one that will get to decide whether the justice department appeals and what feels like a reluctance to appeal, which i actually understand. i don't think i would want to appeal anything with those six judges on the court because at least five of them are, you know, they are absolutests. they have a certain ideology i think i know how they would rule. >> well, look, people don't fully appreciate how difficult the job of the cdc is. they have to make decisions that will be unpopular with about half the public and people always think they're a little

too slow or a little too fast. they have to make tough decisions with imperfect information. the thing the biden administration has to be careful of, they have a ruling that's not presidential. the most important thing for the cdc and all of us in this country is to preserve the ability of the cdc if we should have a worse emergency, if we should have a big breakout of cases in the fall or winter to be able to use basic public health measures and the worry if they appeal it is they find a judge like one of the other 233 judges trump appointed or the supreme court because we won't have the ability to keep taking care. >> that's my nightmare. people like desantis and this judge, they are extremists. and i worry that the next thing

is measles or ebola or some other god forsaken, some other virus breaks out and they say absolute, we don't want any protection. the government can't do anything to protect anyone from anything and then they're on a plane with us. >> you know, joy, you're absolutely right. andy knows from being in the obama administration and i was a new president of my union at the time. our union worked on stopping the spread of community disease at its source for decades. we have a checklist in place in january of 2020 and started with thatairline. this is normally coordinated between private business and government and government is leading the way bringing the stake holders together, bringing the different departments together. i have been trained as a flight attendant, 25-year flight attendant but we stop the spread of communeble disease.

we need the ability for the coordinated rollout to the parties communicated in an orderly fashion so everyone understands what they need to do in order to stop that spread and you're exactly right. the only reason we didn't have an outbreak of ebola in this country is because we took those exact steps and stopped it and we used the role of the government and private industry working together and working as a team with public health officials giving us good information to be able to take the steps to stop that, coordinated with tsa and cbp and everyone else and we stopped that and made sure that did not become an epidemic in the united states. that's the kind of thing we have to be able to do in the future and i'm really concerned with what we have gone through through this whole process making this political, atrather than having a government in place to express our freedoms because we keep the safety in check. >> absolutely and the confusion

is the worst part of it. by the way, you still have to throw out the drinks. you're acting like the airport is a free for all, it's not. you have to take off your clothes and shoes. >> behave yourselves. >> exactly. andy, sara nelson, behave like a human being on a plane. up next, the revelations between the oath keepers and trump in the days leading up to the january 6th insurrection. we'll be right back. y 6th insuen we'll be right back. what does the future of strength look like? it's dynamic weight that adjusts for you in real time for a more efficient workout. and you can only experience it... (sigh) on tonal. ♪♪

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if you listen to the republican party, january 6th was a peaceful protest. the investigation what led up to that day is a democrat led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in political discourse. the facts just don't support that. since the insurrection, we've seen a deluge of evidence that strings together a concerted effort from individuals in the trump white house supporters and two right wing extremists groups working to undermine the election. according to federal prosecutors, the proud ways and oath keepers discussed ways to stop the lawful transfer of power including preparations for the use of force and urged those listening to participate. 11 people affiliated with the oath keepers militia were chargedsay

sedicious conspiracy. we see how entrenched they were with allies. the oath keepers discussed of private security for michael flynn, alex jones and stone. they discussed at length the types of weapons they could bring to the capitol. joining me now is joyce vance. joyce, give us sort of help us explain, understand the significance of what does seem to be just increasing evidence of this sort of massive conspiracy of violent groups. >> sure. so obviously, this creates a new web of co-conspirators working together potentially that investigators for the january 6th committee and justice

department will want to talk to but on a more specific level, because there is a conspiracy indictment in place for the oath keepers, this web of communications opens up the possibility now members of the proud boys will also be indicted for conspiracy. the element they have to prove is the desire to use force and bring about their aim and because they're talking about protecting people and bringing weapons in, it seems likely this is one of the missing pieces of evidence that doj needed that kept it from indicting the proud boys for seditious conspiracy. >> i'm very predictable at this point. you probably know what's coming. i always say this, here is where the web happens. they all had the same idea. whether it's eastman and his memo, we have to find a way to pressure congress is not certify the election and put these other

electors in instead. you had donald trump junior had the same idea. you had these people saying well, you know, this is one way to pressure congress to do what we say. we'll use violence. they have the same idea. how do you knit it together? very quickly, this is the oath keepers january 6th. ronny jackson was sent on january 6th. dr. ronny jackson on the move needs protection. he has critical data to protect. if there were members of congress, members of administration and members of the trump family, including donald trump who knew that that was the plan, shouldn't they also face indictment? >> they should be but doj will have to get that evidence. for instance, jackson has denied that he was involved with these folks. it's not enough just to have these texts. prosecutors will actually have to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that jackson reached out and was in communication with them. that might seem obvious but it's

not obvious in a criminal trial where you have to prove at each level with competent evidence that is admissible in court, you know we had this conversation before, this burden that prosecutors face, this is why they climb up the food stain to go to culpability. >> this is why you're like a cup of coffee to my bender. i try to go there and you're like hold on, lady, you got to have proof. let's talk about marjorie taylor greene really quick. there is a legal effort to prevent her from being able to run. she -- so this case can proceed. can you explain this because this has to do with the civil war, the 14th amendment. why did her case seem to get through when some of the other attempts to do this did not? >> so we're going to do constitutional law in 30 seconds here, joy. section 3 of the 14th amendment says if you participate in an

insurrection, you can't serve in congress. voters in georgia challenged marjorie greene's ability to be on the ballot. what they're doing is now she has gone into federal court to try to say that those voters don't have the ability to challenge her candidacy. that's what is coming up in the air. the federal court has said the state can go ahead, there will be a hearing on friday. interestingly in north carolina, where the courts had originally said that voters couldn't challenge representative madison cawthorn's presence on the ballot, the fourth circuit has now reopened that matter and they, too, will have a hearing. we'll see progress with no guarantee that the outcome will be removal of the candidates from the ballot. best case it would be something like the votes for them couldn't be counted and there would be signage saying if you vote for one of these candidates, you ballot won't count. >> fascinating. we'll have to bring you back to talk about this one because yes, this is constitution 101. i love this stuff.

interesting. this is why we have to understand the civil war because the outcomes of it have to do with this case. joyce vance, always wonderful talking with you. thank you very much, my friend. still ahead, a preview of nbc's exclusive interview with prince harry, which reveals new details about his recent surprise visit with queen elizabeth and life with meghan markle but first, please exit through the grift shop. ah-ha. how fueling the conservative outrage machine is generating big, big bucks for the pundits. s

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if the republican party stands for anything these days, it's the fake outrage machine. teachers are grooming them to be don't say gay. and all the othernonsense. "the washington post" has what is fueling that machine. the libs of tiktok that reposts content from lgbtq people to generate outrage. the account shaped right wing media and directly impacted anti lgbtq plus legislation. fox hosts create news packages around the tweets and ron desantis credited the account with opening her eyes when it comes to discussion of sexuality in schools leading to the don't say gay bill. this account is the latest champ how this content quite literally sells with the woman behind the

account turning it into a full-time job. it's really all one big political and financial grift. it's why alex jones is able to fund raise through his bankruptcy and tim scott is using his speech to reassert he's anti critical race theory teaching kids they're oppressors and it's why hill billy hedge funder j.d. vance has gone from calling trump maybe hitler to becoming his loyal court jester and feeding non-college white voters the same thing he accused trump of doing a few short years ago. i'm joined by dccc advisor and contributor to the l.a. times and iesha mills. i want to read a couple examples. it sounds super any teacher that

says i came out to my students should be fired on the spot. it was revealed a michigan school placed litter boxes in the bathroom for students who identify as cats, unbelievable. washington post calls this claim. stop sending your kids to government run indoctrine nation camps with a parade picture. we kind of assumed that the republicans because this is their strategy to beat glenn youngkin naturally grifted on over to anti lgbtq after doing anti black because this is what they do but it turns out they've been getting from tiktok and using regular stuff and making it insindiary, your thoughts. >> we have been fighting against this type of crazy just kind of lies, deceit, misinformation,

disinformation turning nothing into something for decades. the difference now is that they have media. so tiktok can give you 30 seconds that is quick that you can turn into something else and it can go viral. so what is crazy about all of this is that the attacking black people, queer people are the same. they're trying to hyper sexualize and make a community seem like they're degenerates when in fact, they're healthy humans. it's absolutely lucrative which so much of the problem is this craziness sells. >> i don't want to do it but i'll play ted cruz. this is so bananas and so dumb, if i read it to you, you would think i was embellishing. here is ted cruz about disney. >> there are people who were misguided trying to drive, you

know, disney stepping in saying in every episode now they're going to have, you know, you know, micki -- mickey and pluto going at it. >> thank you for that image, senator. >> these are kids. you can always shift to cinemax if you want that. >> god. >> a mouse is like this big and a dog -- okay. first of all, curt, that is so dark and bananas that it makes me worry that maybe josh hawley should be investigaing ted cruz because where his mind goes is deeply, deeply creepy stuff. if he's imagiing a mouse and a -- okay, i'll go ahead and let you comment. in his mind that works. politically they decided they're at war against disney. their fighting cartoons.

your thoughts? >> well, number one, joy, i think we just got a really disturbing look at what ted cruz fantasizes about. i don't want to go into that. that's out right disturbing. number two, it speaks volumes as the rest of us are engaged now in a conversation about fighting for democracy and democratic values, the republican party would rather fight mickey and minnie mouse. this is just an ongoing -- this isn't new, folks. this is something that's been going on for so long it just so happens there are new medians and platforms like tiktok to use the propaganda machine white outrage and scaring the crap out of people and all the while, they're hoping those very white people don't notice it's their tax bill that goes up when

their republican policies get enacted and their lives get harder when republicans hold power. they're hoping all of the smoke and mirror culture wars keeps the people in the dark that they're targeting and messaging to because god forbid any of these people wake up and see it's actually against and, you know aisha -- you have ron desantis and company, rejecting 41% of math textbooks in florida claiming they have critical race theory, i wonder what's state is gonna buy, and which allies are donor are gonna make the new right-wing approved textbooks that are good, right? it's going to be from their people. he used covid to enrich one of his donors by this miracle cure by his donor, it's a grift also. look, we laughed a lot about

tucker carlson's testicle tanning thing. they're gonna sell a lot of testicle tenners to a lot of middle aged white guys who vibe out on fox news, and then worry that their sperm crowd is too low. they are gonna get them to bias supplements, and testicle tanners, and they're gonna be roasting there bits, and the money is gonna be coming in. your thoughts? >> i really appreciate that joy, because it really is about following the money, at the end of the day. so the question of who is getting rich on our backs, literally black and brown people, and queer people on our backs, by defying entire communities billionaires are becoming billionaires, by products they sell. the product that is most nefarious, that i never want to look away from is who is actually putting these people in power, and to drive what policies. now, the social issues, certainly the don't say gay bills become the thing that make the headlines we'll talk about. but what is also happening, in

the underbelly of this, is you have lobbyist groups that are going around, and driving some of the most anti-environment, anti-people, and pro the wealthy policies that you can imagine, that they're trying to push through the senate and otherwise. this becomes a grift, and it also becomes a lookie-loo. let's not make fun of people over here, and everybody clamoring about the trans kids, when we're actually enriching billionaires over on the side and lining their pockets. that's where the politics gets so murky when it comes to money, we need to be monitoring the campaign finance aspect of all of this as well. >> indeed, people should never forget that ron desantis was a deep yarder, a lot of this is funded out of their, who funds that he party? the coconut work, they use the marks, these angry middle aged men who are terrified that they're losing their steam, they need a child's wife from tennessee, they get them all pumped up an angry at black

people, and queer people, and everyone else. at the meantime, they are marks, because what they want to do is put in place policies that enrich the superrich. they use them and their anxieties, and their faint racism to explain why they don't have the bigger house, the cars that they want. they're using their anxiety, because it's the same old rich people who are going to get richer. >> that's right, joy, that's why i think that for democrats, we spent a lot of time talking about, what do democrats need to do messaging wise, how do they communicate with american people? this is how you do it right here. number one, it's big government republicans who are in the pockets of big banks and thickness, that's the reason why you don't have working rights in this country, you don't have paid family leave, you don't have prescription drugs, you don't have expanded health care access that other countries that are the u.s. have. we need to start painting the republican party for what they are, they are bought and paid for by special interest groups. they're in the back pockets of

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