havea great night. >> you know me too well, alicia. have a great rest of your night. >> thanks. >> tonight, on the many hasn't show, no royal jubilees, sadly, but republicans have already started planning for their takeover of congress. how come democrats can't do big white ranging account of investigations of their opponents? i'll speak to congressman jones about his new democratic primary fight a new proposal for fixing broken supreme courts. senator mehmet odds, all as possible. a win on his candidacy. jason is here to make something of the gop -- he was at the nra meeting. stay tuned for that. it evening. i'm mehdi hasan. if you support the nima credit

party you probably not want to hear this forecast from election experts political analysts -- he posted this tweet last week projecting that republicans would gain a hefty 20 to 35 seats in the house in november midterm election. ouch. exactly the kind of defeat that president obama was called special lacking. republicans are already planning for that victory, full control of congress. what are they going to do? i'll tell you this. it's not gonna be health care policy or tackling prices. conservative think tankers on eastern shore of maryland trying to find ways to -- investigations into the biden administration. that's right. they're already looking for excuses to launch congressional probes according to axios, that retreat was painful at a heritage foundation by the conservative partnership institute and by the american accountability foundation,

which apparently is run by the trump administration. alumni. yes, the accountability foundation. any such thing as accountability when it comes to trump and his people. i'm joking. the republicans take the stuff seriously. h in the house transportation. that infrastructure committee. have to keep my head down if i were you. pete buttigieg -- and from the house oversight committee. and from the contended chin banks, they were all there. wait, there's more. aides from the office of the senate banking committee where there as well, as we're aides to senators rick scott and mike -- in the run up to the 2024 presidential election could look a lot like this. >> the star witness tried to stay above the -- unlike in 2013. with difference at this point does it make? >> this time he was praised, pushing back with putdowns. >> i read a whole chapter about this in my book, the i'd be glad to send it to you

congressman. i'm sorry doesn't fit your narrative, congressman. i can only tell you with the facts were. i know that's not the answer you want to hear. >> -- her husband bill. republicans are also armed and ready. >> it would sure be helpful if we could get to the answer a trick question. >> my ears. please. not mike pompeo! it was a trick question. they were all trick questions. let me 2014, not satisfied that the previous seven committees, seven! found no major wrongdoing -- the deteriorating security situation in benghazi, the house of representatives voted on party lines to form a special committee to investigate benghazi on clinton. again, it was a probe that would see congress spend more time investigating benghazi than it is september 11th attacks or watergate, or the

jfk's assassination, or pearl harbor. they spent nearly 8 million taxpayer dollars doing. secretary clinton asking questions about benghazi on capitol hill for more than 16 hours. that's compared to the one, two, three, four, zero hours trump has spent answering questions about anything in front of congress. you know how kevin mccarthy has refused to recognize the very existence of the january six committee? not so when it came to the benghazi committee. which despite having contended -- political attempt to smear the likely presidential front runner on the democratic side. you think? they think democrats gave the stunt legitimacy. participating in it. it becomes much harder to denounce the circus once you've joined it. i'm just saying. it's a pattern that repeats again and again. there's also the trump gop obsession with the hunter biden -- senator ron johnson told the hill, -- would be prime targets of a gop

senate if the party wins back control of senate committees in november. -- would want to investigate -- quote, like a mosquito in a nudist colony. it's a target rich environment. which is not, given the days in his committee releasing his report to the run-up of 2020 elections -- this is how senator johnson set expectations -- quote, he wouldn't shut up about the reports allege findings. quote, mr. johnson conceded in an interview that there would be no massive smoking gun, saying there was a misconception on the part of the public that there would be. did you get that? he's not gonna stop talking about the report, which is not much, really. it's maddening. but this also smart from the gop point of view. these gop bogus investigations, they keep going and going and going. as for the republicans, they

work. is this week on tuesday a federal jury from hillary clinton campaign -- not guilty of lying to the fbi. he was acquitted. it will flow from the trump administration -- into the fbi's investigation into trump's ties to russia. it was supposed to find a smoking gun for the gop. the fact that he did not doesn't matter to the gop. -- again and again. meanwhile, the lack of anything happening puts increased pressure on the justice department to wrap up ridiculously politicized gop led probe. the only thing that still moves glacially, global warming, is merrick garland. the gop successful at launching endless probes in investigations that create lots of heat, but she had very little light. while the democrats who have very legitimate things that need investigating seemed to have an allergy to going big on probes and investigations into actual scandals and crimes.

yes, the 16 hearings begin this thursday. finally, that's perhaps the exception. but even with that, it took half a year to get that committee off the ground. and, you know, after wet? 11 months of investigation? to get to the public hearing? is it likely the members will achieve what they need in those hearings? before republicans take the reins in 2023 as the polls suggest. meanwhile, there's been no subpoena of trump. no criminal referral to the justice department, and speaking of merrick garland, the attorney general made the decision this week not to indict former trump chief of staff mark meadows are accidents giving no for failing to comply with the 16 committee subpoenas. again, maddening. it's not just the insurrection. there have been four more headlines of clarence thomas complaining the trust in the supreme court is being eroded by others and there have been headlines calling out the very real conflict of interest polls by the political -- clarence thomas's wife jenny.

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we're talking about the republican party's obsession with investigating its opponents and the democratic

party. allergic reaction to such investigations. their witness here with me. -- msnbc political analyst is here with me. less, molly jong-fast a contributing leiter writer at the atlantic. she's also a host of the podcast, a new abnormal. thank you both for joining me. molly, are democrats, congressional democrats in particular, cut out from this particular moment that we are in? >> i would like them to be. i think there's an opportunity here. i mean, they've got it together. they've got, you know, they've got the information, right? we know a lot of stuff. we know there is gonna be, you know, tapes and videos and photos. and there is a lot of proof out there. clearly, trump did a lot of stuff, so the hope is yes. they steer away from such things because they work so well, or because they don't to seem part of it, or because

they think they're the good guys, and they'll win anyway. and as we've seen from benghazi, these congressional are extremely effective and successful. so let's hope this january six committee does change minds. >> indeed. david, you often hear from democrats off the record we can go after trump, or the chief of staff, or subpoena a member. we can't set precedents to republicans that abuse power, even though republicans have already done plenty private democrats investigated. you've covered the benghazi hearings. how do you think the democrats have handled the 16 committee? and how ideology have handled meadows and -- compared to the gop's handling of benghazi, a gender -- compared to an actual armed insurrection on our capital? >> i think these are two very different questions. the doj is doing -- having covered congressional investigations, i've been doing

this for decades. i think over the last few decades, the whole point of congressional hearings has really become -- that is because it's so politicized. and i think democrats and general haven't done a good job at investigating. and a lot of it because of the republican obstruction, about the ukrainian phone call. the democrats didn't figure out how to turn around. i'm impressed, though, by the january six committee up to now. i think they've been very smart, very good in what they put out. the information they have put out, and the hearings they have held. i think they have primetime hearings coming up next week. they have -- they will be creating articles to save -- i'm not sure there's a lot of persuasion to be done on this. we have all these people talking about, just wait to have a moment testified.

that's gotta change everything. [inaudible] >> so, molly, david makes a very good point. how many people are left to persuade? putting persuasion to one, listen to what law enforcement -- you talk about crime and stuff. where is merrick garland? is he playing checks and the rest of us don't get it? or is a small conservative judge who was once beloved by republicans by the late senate, just not the right ag for this historic moment? >> well, i hope he is, right? because it seems unlikely to me that biden will put someone out. and i saw the cases going, and there's still a lot happening. look, people don't care about things until they do, right? this january 6th committee, you know, it can't change hearts

and minds. and i think like we've seen a lot of incompetence recently, like the road leak. and when that happened, it didn't immediately change hearts and minds, but it did eventually change hearts and minds. so i don't know that -- we don't know what's gonna make people care, and we don't know what's gonna be the tipping point. i think that this is an important, historical event. and i think that people care about this kind of thing much more than we even assumed. so, i don't know how it's gonna go. i do think that merrick garland has a complicated job on his hand. i certainly hope that's what's happening. i've been expressing this and this could be, you know -- >> i, myself, as regular viewer of the show, and i'm very pessimistic about garland. but never have i wanted to be proved wrong. david you are writing a book about how broken and deranged the modern gop has become.

do democrats understand what kind of party is on course to take control of congress? what they're about to do when they get power back? do democrats, to the democratic leadership do they understand what's coming their way in a matter of months? >> they may understand, but they're not talking about it publicly. they're not creating a narrative. the republican party, they may come in. generally, as you know, we have 30, 40, 50 investigations. and unequivocally, they make sure that you can't expand medicare and extended coverage people to -- and, you know, democrats have done a pretty poor job of doing, saying, this is where the republican party is, and this is what it will do to regain its power, in terms of, you know social benefits, social welfare programs. or threats to democracy. whatever you want to pick and choose here. and i think that is

unfortunate. and merrick garland was correct. you've got more bases for a narrative there, but right now, trump is out there saying, democrats are destroying the country. merrick garland is out there saying, hey, we're doing the best we can. there isn't even a fight, and they're in for a world of [inaudible] if the republicans stay in power. >> well, later in the show, we're gonna play some tape of one democratic congressman who does seem to be doing a good job of picking a fight with republicans. stay tuned for that. but for now, david corn, molly jong-fast, thank you both for your analysis. appreciate it. >> and a quick programming note, please join me thursday on the peacock, msnbc hub, for special coverage of the january 6th hearing. you will be able to watch the hearings live, within 7 pm eastern, and it will continue with rachel maddow, joy reid, and nicole wallace. the house investigates

beginning thursday. now, listen to this. there has not been a single week so far this year without at least four mass shootings. not a single week. that according to the nonprofit, the gun violence archive. in just the last 24 hours, there has been at least two mass shootings, one in philadelphia, pennsylvania, and one in chattanooga, tennessee. this comes as a brand-new abc news ipsos poll shows that the vast majority of americans, 70%, believe enacting new gun laws, new lows to reduce gun violence should be a higher priority than protecting the right to own a gun. in fact, poll after poll show that most americans support some sort of gun reform, and yet nothing seems to be able to get done. and even if lawmakers were able to pass some gun reform bills, they face one huge problem, the supreme court 2008 decision, we see versus howler. and msnbc reporter writes, the majority decision, is essentially what the second amendment to guarantee, for the

first time, an american individual right to possess a gun, and that decision without being used in case after case to strike down local, state and federal laws drafted to reduce gun violence. plus, right now, the same supreme court is deciding on a new york case, which centers on restrictions for who can carry a gun in public. the current, 63, ultraconservative court is likely to strike that law. so it's clear that there can be no progress on issues like gun reform, without also fixing the gop pact. remember the stolen seat. the super right-wing, supreme court. the democrats have yet to make any move on that issue. with me now is new york congressman, mondale jones. he has, in fact, sponsored bills to expand it essentially we balance to the supreme court. and he's also running in the democratic primary for the tenth district. again, former new york city mayor, bill de blasio. congressman, thanks for coming back on the show. you are in the current supreme court, about to overturn roe,

probably about to overturn new york's gun control law to. so why is there simply no support from democrats by house speaker nancy pelosi, senate majority leader chuck schumer or even president biden, for real supreme court reform? for expanding the court, rebalancing it, as you proposed? >> you know, mehdi, when i speak to my colleagues behind the scenes, they tell me that they think it's a great idea to add seats to the supreme court. but typically, what happens is that for one or more reasons, they don't feel like now is the appropriate time to push that policy. but we know that it is the only policy that will ensure that the crises that have been created and advanced, frankly, by this far-right, 63 majority, actually ended. and it is through rebalancing the court, and it is something that has been done before, and it's something that is urgently needed now. it's fundamental rights issue on the chopping block. >> congressman, do you believe

democrats in congress can defy recent history, defy the polls, and win the midterms, hold on to power, with strong, blunt messaging on preserving abortion rights, on doing gun reform, and calling out republicans? and if so, what do you think that message, and that characterization of the current gop should look like? >> i think that we still got a chance to keeping the majority in the house. but we got a course correct. we gotta make sure that we are having up or down votes on any number of broadly, popular pieces of legislation. and that starts with the legislation passed out of the house judiciary committee, a few days ago, on which i serve. in addition to, a ban on assault weapons. we've also got to make sure that we are pushing forward other legislation that is supported,, legislation that's gonna bring down the price of gas, and the cost of groceries. and we gotta make sure that we are addressing other existential problems like the

majority in the supreme court, and messaging that we are willing to do whatever it takes, whatever it takes to help working people, to build an economy that works for everybody, and to stop the cascade of rights being undermined by the supreme court, and decision after decision, starting this term. we've got to make sure that the american people know that the democrats are fighting to but take away things that we believe in, rather than try to negotiate with folks on the other side, who know full well that they are not going to help do anything, in service of the american people. because they want to pin democrats as an abject failure, in order to further their goals at the ballot this november. >> so, congressman, let's talk about you. you are running in new york's nearly tenth congressional district. you put out a new campaign out. let's have a watch. >> since the stonewall riots, the neighborhoods in new york

deaf congressional district has been in hard progress. these communities have given so much to me. they gave me the courage to live in authentic life as an openly gay man, when i was still wondering that there was a place for me in a world full of -- >> so, you say you are running their, and because you are a gay man, with a personal connection with stonewall and the west village, but you currently live in and represent a district an hours drive away. so make the case tonight? why should voters pick you over someone more experienced, someone with a home in that district right now? i'm thinking former new york city mayor and south brooklyn progressive, bill de blasio. >> this is a district that i have worked in and i have spent significant time in, and i have a deep personal connection to. it is a district that deserves a progressive champion, with a track record of actually delivering results. and for policy's personal, and

someone who's been fighting for the communities that comprise this district, i have not been an active member of congress. i've been leading progressive in congress, who played a role in passing the american rescue plan which cut child poverty in half. and vaccinated a nation in the midst of a deadly pandemic, in addition to keeping small businesses, including small businesses in lower manhattan and in brooklyn, open. and keeping our public schools open. more recently, i think a leading role in passing, not just infrastructure investment jobs act, which is gonna bring billions of dollars to new york state, and millions to new york's residents, but also the house version of build back better, whose universal child care provision i coauthored. i'm a guy who also has had the courage to defy the president of the united states even, in pushing him at the capitol steps, to extend the cdc's eviction moratorium, and of course, i coauthored the john lewis act. some guy who's been fighting for the communities that comprise this district. and i look forward to making a case over the next two and a

half months, that when you put me up against the other candidates, there's no question about will you should vote for. for >> let's talk about some of the candidates. not necessarily just new district. new york magazine reports that you accuse sean patrick maloney, one of the -- democratic congressional campaign committee to try to nudge you into running against bowman and other black progressives. a longtime incumbent in 2028 and it's also citing sources saying you plan to challenge bowman anyways without maloney's encouragement. we it sounds pretty messy. >> redistricting has been a disaster in the new york state. anyone who's been paying attention realizes it. we got a primary between 12 congressional districts, which is deeply unfortunate. i did not want to run against trump -- the person whose job it is to help us keep the majority, had a majority moving forward because the alternatives of having republicans control the

house of representatives is too grim to even contemplate. as you noted earlier on the show. i'm really excited about this district that has done so much for me somehow has never had an openly lgbtq candidate. i was represented in congress and proud to make history back in 2020. openly black member of congress. i deserve to stay in congress, and i think people are going to see that over the next two and a half months. >> last quick question. you once served on the doj. what do you make of the biden doj, and attorney general merrick garland. we are learning he is not planning to charge mark meadows or danced veto for contempt of congress. >> i disagree with that decision. i think we gotta be making sure that we are prosecuting people to the fullest extent of the law and that we are vindicated. congress's prerogative here.

there's no option for people not to comply with subpoenas issued by congress. no one is above the law, by the way. not even the president of the united states of america. i think when we start to treat everybody equally, it sends the wrong message to the wrong people. -- the ability of congress to exercise constitutional prerogatives, in this case investigating fully and attempting to overthrow the government on january 6th. i think it puts us in a situation where we may see something like what happened on january 6th again. if we don't get to the bottom of it and hold everybody accountable. >> well said. we have to leave it there. congressman mondaire mondaire jones, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> coming up, is republican senate candidate and former tv star had a self cure for flip-flopping? first, richard louis is there with the outlines. >> good evening to you.

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these mass shootings will stop. so, i want to thank you, wayne lapierre. for all would have done for all your thoughts and all your prayers. [applause] >> of course that man was not a member of the nra, but the satirical comedy -- he joins me now. jason solving, the co-host of the good lies broadcast, welcome to the show this evening. jason first off, i'm deeply impressed with your ability to keep a straight face throughout all of that. i keep chuckling every time i see lapierre's face. you can't help but think what is he doing there. what was your reaction to the speech -- that people get it in the end? what's happened next? >> i think that wayne lapierre definitely got it. i made i contact with him all the time, and it was a little nerve-racking because he was

just staring at me the whole time. but people in the hall, i think also where, 50% of them. but as you heard, at the end, there was an applause. staying in the line of the fought -- so many times. that is the nra, i guess. >> indeed, they genuinely believe it. and addition to addressing wayne lapierre, he spoke to others at the nra convention, including a man wearing a t-shirt, and holding a confederate flag. can you talk more about that? >> they want to raise our heritage. some people will say that that flag symbolizes racism. it symbolizes slavery. and it might have some valid points there. their opinion, they're welcome to have it, but are you with slavery, against slavery? >> no comment. thanks for the interview. >> i'll give you one more

chance. pro or anti slavery? >> no comment. >> i'll give you one more opportunity to save your pro or anti slavery. >> no comment. >> so, all that exchange is him using. and it's also deeply disturbing. a lot of people told us that it was driving, you know, the politics on the right wing was economic inciting. there's no economic inciting that discussion. it's pretty simple in 2022 to condemn slavery. >> yeah, that was shocking. i was shocked -- i gave him the free opportunity to say that you're against slavery. and we see that a lot with people on the road, talking to, holding the confederate flag. they always say it's heritage not hate. and i always think, can it be both? is it hateful heritage? this approach --

the slavery symbol that you are wearing, it's been used for it as forms of intimidation for years and years and years. but this gentleman, he also wanted me to get away from him as fast as i could, when i asked him that question. >> so, rolling stone is out with a new piece, that sums up the strategy used by the right, by republicans, by the gun lobby, the nra, after each mass shooting. which boils down to stay cool run out the clock scare some gunman while you can but don't worry this moment will be over soon. could you sense some of that at the nra convention? we're not under fire right now but people move on. we keep our heads and carry on business as usual. >> i actually think that the gun makers see it as an opportunity to make more money, because a thing we kept sharing over and over from people there is we need to arm the teachers.

which to me seems like the most out there idea that there is. i mean, my ninth grade english teacher was great at teaching me the odyssey. but i don't think he should be carrying a firearm. i don't think that he should be thinking about shooting a gun man, or shooting one of his students. that should not be a thought the teachers have to deal with, on top of their teaching responsibility. and really, that's not the way for gun makers to make more profit and the nra has, you know, there is a whole new market for guns there, if they can on the teachers. >> yeah. they want to arm the same teachers who they spent the last 18 months saying, are trying to groom our kids and indoctrinate them. but give that weaponry as well. no consistency there. we appreciate you coming on and asking tough questions. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up tonight, at ten

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terrorists, the radical left. >> first off, ayman, it's not the radical left shooting of supermarkets and senate got. it's far-right supremacists. -- peddling the replacement theory. more importantly, have you noticed how republicans just doubled down and mainstream stuff like great replacement? now christian nationalism, which was once toxic and controversial. they turn into mainstream republican -- you almost have to see how they numbness to their extremism. christian nationalism is now becoming good and proud of? i could only imagine what would happen to -- if we pushed islamic nationalism as the solution to school shootings of all things. >> yeah listen, the idea that any form of religious nationalism is a solution to the endemic gun violence in this country is nothing but a destruction and a deflection from what everyone knows is the real issue here. and that is guns. and here's the thing, right?

i am not someone who is, and this is to your point especially with what qanon is doing here. it's dangerous. i'm not a political strategist. i don't necessarily know the difference between patriotism and nationalism. but it is for me like the love of one country. nationalism is when you believe that your country is far superior, regardless of any of its shortcomings. and to your point, listen to what the lieutenant governor from texas, dan patrick said about his christian nationalism. >> for those of us who are christians, we need to take hold of our country. >> what does that mean for the rest of us in this country? mehdi, you are muslim, or a jewish, or a fierce, these republicans just want so-called, christian nationalists, to take hold of this country. >> so called, indeed. i'll be honest with you, i'm not a question, but i'm a fan of jesus. and i'm pretty sure that jesus want to have nothing to do with

nationalism or ar-15s for that matter. >> i think you're right about that one, my friend. we leave it at that. good evening to you at home, and welcome to ayman. even more mass shootings overnight. i'm gonna speak to congressman jake auchincloss who is working to tear apart the nra. plus civil rights activist jim on how the end of roe could affect lgbtq people. and republicans break up with big business, spreading political differences. we'll talk about that and more. i am ayman mohyeldin. let's get started. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> all right, so we begin tonight with details of even more gun violence in america. at least, seven people are dead. more than two dozen injured, after shootings in philadelphia, chattanooga, south carolina, this as funerals are still being held in both