and took a iberty few years to get it right, george white, shirley chisholm, jackie robin son and so many more heroes. but here's the cool part of the story, we never quit trying until our actions matched our words that in america that all men would be created equal. one of the privileges i have had is to serve with john lewis and cross the edmund pet ties bridge -- pettis bridge. whether republicans or democrats, relationships is the conduit for good policy, people before the politics. you don't have to throw what you believe your values or principles, do we show up, do we have to be the key note speaker at times? i was committed to doing this to be both a conservative and a bridge builder. and our team committed to that. hardly a week went by that we didn't answer the question, are we making an argument or are we making a difference. in this town, those who make the most noise get the key roles, but in looking back, making the difference is ultimately the price. the successes where i believe it's simple, staying close to the lord and having the people pray and wrap their arms aroun

because they've been home cleaning up their physical freedoms have been restricted and so when when george white died right on camera which was only it may 25th because we cannot forget pre-op it's hell or and i'm out our green moon died in march right as coach it was taking over the news some people asked like why wasn't about briana taylor aside from her being a woman and the messiah journey in that it's that george happened may 25th after people have been cooped up for 2 and a half months and they've been without a comfort zone and i have mine and people are just like what the heck what is the government doing to us oh my god they're doing to us what they've been doing some black people for centuries we need to join come together so there's not not everybody that's out in the streets it's poor george lloyd and i know that. or using him almost as a martyr which we shouldn't do because he did not deserve to die but he's become a symbolic because it happened as a perfect storm of things coming together economic turmoil you know the system is showing itself to be what we've always known it's been

the change is going to occur in police reform because of george floyd, because ahmaud arbery, because we got a white folk in this country did not believe -- this is a generalization -- but did not believthese type of encounters took place. but the change happened in minute 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 that his knee was on georgia's neck,th becaus level of inhumanity is something that people cannot comprehend.h and so i pck on the framing of the question, only to say that it's not the protest that happened after anit's not the rioting or the looting or however we want to describe it. >> or thgracious forgiveness. >> or the gracious forgiveness. it's -- the reason we have the change is because of the black blood that flows. but anger is not a sin. that needs to be stated. anger is not a sin. and for many of us who may not be as far as some ofur religious journey those individuals who forgave, i'm still angry as hell at dylann roof. i still am. i still have thaanger that's harbored inside of me now. it's not a paralyzing anger like sometimes it can be. and there still are many people in this community who havef

fighting for rights in the workplace, and i'm out here with all these college-educated white women, now when george floyd is dead, i want you marching with me. like, you can't be selfish this movementgle. is a two-way street. >>o last may, last month, the black unemployment rate wa16%, compared to 12% of white americans. how much do you think that plays into the protests? >> a lot. what we're seeing right now is -- this is me putting my analyst hat on -- we're seeingin somethat we haven't seen in the history of this country. we're seeing 1968 meet 1918, with a splash of the great depression. >> with 1929? just did it for the hoover, didn't you? just for the hoover. >> just a little bit. i wasn't gonna mention it. but just a little bit of '. and so -- and what we need right now, in this moment, democrat or republican, is leaders with empathy,co assion, understanding, and someone who has a bold vision for the future. and i'm not sure that's what we ve in the country right now. >> let's get to the policy solutions. >> sure.yo >> the reasore inclined towards public service is because you want to fix it

>> i went on to work in the white house of george w.at election, and i will say, i have never thought more highly of al gore, especially with this kind of historic context. and even then with that incredibly graceful concession that was true to the spirit of the founding and peaceful transition of power, there was still a very lack of democrats and progressiveses who believed george w. bush's presidency was illegitimate all throughout his presidency. now, imagine if al gore had not had that kind of concession, that kind of a graceful and appropriate peaceful transition of power. that's what we've got now. and, you know, if that's your baseline, add 20 years of hyperpolarization and fraying of our civic discourse and our faith in institutions. >> and social media. >> true. >> we have a recipe for a lot of instability that, let alone the pandemic. this is truly problematic. >> to answer your specific question, i mean, this is specific to this party at this time. democrats in 2000, al gore won the popular vote and george w. bush won a crit

and took a iberty few years to get it right, george white, shirley chisholm, jackie robin son and so many more heroes. but here's the cool part of the story, we never quit trying until our actions matched our words that in america that all men would be created equal. one of the privileges i have had is to serve with john lewis and cross the edmund pet ties bridge -- pettis bridge. whether republicans or democrats, relationships is the conduit for good policy, people before the politics. you don't have to throw what you believe your values or principles, do we show up, do we have to be the key note speaker at times? i was committed to doing this to be both a conservative and a bridge builder. and our team committed to that. hardly a week went by that we didn't answer the question, are we making an argument or are we making a difference. in this town, those who make the most noise get the key roles, but in looking back, making the difference is ultimately the price. the successes where i believe it's simple, staying close to the lord and having the people pray and wrap their arms aroun

conservative lawyer george conway, former white house counselor kellyanne conway's husband, outraged tonight by the game playing on capitol hill and warning it is very dangerous to our democracy. >> what we're seeing here is a neverending downward spiral into delusion and unreality and into just lies about the integrity of our democracy. and that is profoundly dangerous. these individuals are seeking to advance their own political careers and do so at the expense of trust in our democracy. they're fomenting these lies, fomenting these fears of an illegitimate election, and they're doing so for their own political benefit, and it's destructive of democracy. it's horrible. and nobody's ever done this before. >> all right. so it's obvious, right? that senator hawley's motives are pretty transparent. he's perfectly willing to ride the president's crazy train all the way to the end of the line if it means he can appeal to loyal trump fans, positioning himself for a white house run. good luck with that. but the fact is all these people think they can go on fox news and all of a sudden that

zerlina maxwell, sirius xm and host of the show "zerlina" on peacock and former aide from the george w. bush white house and senior adviser to the lincoln project and contributor to the "l.a. times." new one for you. nbc news and "usa today." welcome all of you. zerlina you first. this christmas weekend, millions of americans hours away from losing unemployment benefits. millions on the brink of eviction. got millions more hungry and the bill that could provide relief is just sitting on the president's desk. how frustrated are you seeing our country in crisis, while politicians are really playing politics when people's lives are on the line? >> i think it's nothing new for this administration, but particularly galling, because not only did he blow up the deal after it was passed, all he needed to do was sign it and then could have gone play golf. instead, chose to blow up a golf and now sitting at his resort, alex, while people are waiting for relief. i can't think of anything more representative of this administration. callous disregard for the safety, lives and security of the american people, a

the police people who killed george floyd, two white men, a black man and an asian man.hat is diversity, but toward an unjust goal. that is diversity but without equity being embraced so mitch mcconnell is articulating the noble ideals and words but he is falling short on follow through with black people always dealing with this from the very beginning. this ain't the first time. we believe in people who transcend barriers and we know that blackness will survive even this -- [ inaudible ]. >> the book is long time coming. reckoning with race in america. another must-read book from michael eric dyson, my friend, thank you very much. appreciate you being here tonight. >>> don't go anywhere. my interview with comedian leslie jones is up next. you do not want to miss it. stay with us. with us ♪ sanctu (kids laughing) (dog barking) ♪ sanctuary music it's the final days of the wish list sales event sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first month's payment. and a complimentary unlike ordinary memory want supplements-ter?

george w. bush's white house staff and a member of two gop presidential campaigns. john, your reaction to another trump official apparently being diagnosed with coronavirus. >> team trump has been a hot zone. the white house seems to be going for a form of herd immunity. it is troubling to see rudy walking around the georgia state capitol at a time when he might have been maximally infectious because the radius of damage could be great. as you know, many folks know, i worked for rudy for many years. i was his speechwriter, and worked on capitol hill where margaret and i met. i care about him as a person, and everyone should wish anyone who gets covid well. he's been behaving recklessly and i'm concerned there's going to be a radius of damage as a result of his actions. >> margaret, before you chime in, i want to ask john a quick follow-up because you know rudy personally. he's 76 years old. that makes him at higher risk just given his age. do you know if he has other health issues that would make him at even greater risk? >> he had a well publized bout with prostate

he ran a campaign for ronald reagan for george hw bush and yet ronald reagan chose him to be his whitese chief of staff. and he was seen as probably the most successful person at that job of this modern time. how did he do it? >> that is a great question because he didn't really have a background that would necessarily suggest he was going to be successful. he had been a lawyer up until he ended up running gerald ford's campaign in 1976 coming in from nowhere after watergate and at that point the previous group had been sent off and opened up a world for people like jim baker, dick cheney, brenda scowcroft and a whole generation of people who kind of came to the floor. in his case, an example of seeing what made sense for him outside coming into washington but he wanted to get things done so the organizational skills and as you said i can't think of another president who ran not only once but two campaigns as the chief of staff ended up being a smart choice on his part. >> what was that quality in jim baker that made him successful and he went on to become treasury secretary and pulled

the police people who killed george floyd. two white men. a black man. an asian man.t's diversity. but diversity toward an unjust goal. that's diversity. but without equity being embraced. so, mitch mcconnell is articulating the noble ideals and words, but he is falling short on their followthrough. but black people always been dealing with this, from the very beginning. this ain't the first time and we gonna keep on standing up. we believe in people who transcend barriers and we know that -- will survive. >> the book is longtime coming, reckoning with race in america. another, must-read book from michael eric dyson. my friend, thank you very much. really appreciate you being here tonight. don't go anywhere. my interview with comedian, leslie jones, is up next. you do not want to miss it. stay with us. ot want to miss it stay with us >>> the pandemic has -- has upended all of our lives. the past ten months have been a stream of unrelenting pain and agony, quite frankly. trump's abysmal performance in the face of the pandemic has only added insult to injury. but, rest

. >>> and "outfront" now, doctor jonathan reiner who was medical adviser to the george w. bush white house for eight years and dr. ashish jha. you just heard what she said about the new variant in colorado. what is your reaction? >> first of all, thank you for having me on. i think this strain probably has been around for a while. obviously the person in colorado doesn't have a travel history, did not get it directly from the uk, picked it up in the community. that means other people in colorado have it. and there's no reason to think it's somehow confined to colorado. it's really an issue that we have not been doing gentlemen nomic surveillance in the way the uk and other countries have been. we've got to step up and be looking for these kinds of things. much easier to track it if you're looking for it than to be surprised by it. >> it seems to be a pattern where we feed had to step up. testing being one of them as well. dr. reiner, he's con iffident t vaccine will work. when it comes to the vaccine, the numbers don't lie. nearly 2.6 million vaccine doses given, a far cry from the 2

the police people who killed george floyd, two white men, a black man, an asian man, that's diversityiversity but without equity being embraced. so mitch mcconnell is articulating the noble ideals and words but he is falling short on their followthrough. black people always been dealing with this from the very beginning. this ain't the first time. >> yeah. >> god who will overcome, we believe in people who transcend barriers and we know that -- >> yeah. >> -- black people will survive. >> the book is longtime coming, "reckoning with race in america." another must-read book from michael eric dyson. my friend, thank you very much. really appreciate you being here tonight. >>> and up next, my people are on the show tonight, my people. tiffany cross, jonathan capehart, they will be here with a big announcement. do not go anywhere. tions. like an "unjection™". xeljanz. the first and only pill of its kind that treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or moderate to severe ulcerative colitis when other medicines have not helped enough. xeljanz can lower your abili

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. >>> joining me now from sirius xm and zerlina on peacock and former aide in the george w. bush white house, and msnbc analyst. zerlina you first, the president's comments on the massive cyber attack what do you make of that and mike pompeo saying russia is behind it. why can the president not say that? >> the first thing i thought, alex, when i heard russia had attacked so many entities in the united states, private and government, is that this is the president that said, russia, if you're listening, why don't you go hack hillarys emails and try to find the so-called missing emails? so the russia, if you're listening, president, he isn't going to say that russia is behind a hack when he was the one asking them to hack. in 2016. ever since he's been essentially a putin apologist, always siding with the russian president, and even in helsinki. i think that all of this has been troubling since the beginning. since that moment he said, russia if you're listening. i remember at the time it was shocking not just because it seemed as if you had an american president asking a foreign entity,

george h.wd yet reagan chose him to be his white house chief of staff and seen as probably the most successfulat that job of this modern time. hough did he do it? >> he didn't really have background that would necessarily suggest he was going to be successful. he had been a lawyer up until age -- and he ran -- ran gerald ford's campaign in 1976, from nowhere in wreckage after water gait no republicans left of his generation at that point, the previous group had been convict, sent to jail in the nixon scheme, and opened up a world for people like jim baker, dick chippy, brent scowcroft and a whole new generation of people who came to the fore. in his case it's an and emthat is -- seeing what made sense for him. an outsider coming into washington but wanted to get things down and didn't pick ed meese who had the organizational skills to run a white house. didn't understand washington. jim baker did. and another president would pick the guy who ran not just one two but two campaigns against him in as his chief and staff and ended up being a smart choice on his part. >> and susan what was that qua

george w. bush , into the white houth 537 votes in orida making the fference, but he also had a booming economybubig projected et surpluses, a republican congress, and a much less polarized politicaclimate. after september 11, a strong hunger for national unit strengthened bush' political hand. barack obama took the oath in the midst the great recession, with 600,000 jobs lost in just his first month. but big democratic majorities in congress gave pom just enough itical muscle to get his recovery plan-- and his affordable healthcare act-- into law. but for joe biden, there is trouble on every front. he will take office when wter is at its worst, making the pandemic dangers especially severe. even his inaugural will have none of the celebratory trademarks of that event. even if vaccines become available in the spring, the virus's economic impact will cloud his first months, with countless families struggling to find food, save their homes, grapple with the challenges of remote schools. on the political front, biden will have a house with a razor- thin democratic majority anda senate that will be at b

at the white house, a special welcome is given to war veterans. george marshall was appointed secretary of state and becomes the president's chief adviser on foreign relations. signing the bill which provides aid to 15 european countries. american goods going abroad under the european cover program. the other major candidate, governor dewey, began his career in new york city. as district attorney he headed a drive against crime which made him a gangbuster. albany, the state capital, where thomas dewey serves as governor of new york. being governor of new york eventually leads to a candidate for the presidency. governor dewey first received the republican nomination in 1944. defeated that year, he was nominated again in 1948. he and president truman campaigned against each other across the country. >> i pledge to you that your next administration will make the piece of teace of the worldt and foremost objective. >> peace, my friend, is the goal of my public life. i would rather have a lasting peace in the world than to be president of the united states. [

. >> dylan george is a former white house adviser for biological threat defense. >> in any given yearro to one to two people might get infected from rabies in bats or potentially from foxes or raccoons or skunks. >> rabies has actually been around for 2,000 years. for most of that time if you got it it was a death sentence. without treatment it's 99.99% deadly. one of the big problems in europe and the u.s. used to be wild rabid dogs. >> ancient, you know, medical experts developed a lot of odd ideas about how you would cure rabies. they used to believe that one way to stop rabies from killing you was to take a hair from the tail of the rabid dog and insert it into the bite wound, and this is the origin of the phrase "hair of the dog" which we talk about in the context of hangover treatment. >> then along came louis pasteur in the mid 19th century. he'd been working on a vaccine for years and eventual lly decid to try it out on a young boy who had been bitten by a rapid dog. the vaccine worked. >> most of the cases in the united states do come from bats. but the risk is low. so unless

taylor griffin is a republican strategist who worked in the white house under president george w bushut republican reactions to president trump's attempt to derail the bill. it was a big surprise. these are provisions that the president's own negotiators and republicans, especially in the senate, had been opposing all along because of the high price tag of a $2000 check. president trump did not raise objections at the time of the $600 check, so it was surprising, after the bill was passed, and the president's advisers and cabinet members were celebrating it as a huge triumph, that president trump turned around and said, no, he was opposed to it and was going to veto it. it's hard to reach donald trump's mind, but what do you think was behind it? on the surface, i think president trump is asserting himself as a populist. that is ultimately what got him into office in the first place. donald trump is more of a populist than a republican ora more of a populist than a republican or a conservative. he wants to be the guy handing out the checks. if you remember, the last time we had cheques

2024 nominee for the republican party joe watkins republican strategist and former white house aide to president george h.w. bush sarah thank you so much for sharing your views with us thanks. now early voting has begun in the us state of georgia in a race which will ultimately decide who controls the country senate 2 seats are up for grabs and democrats need to win both to gain control of the upper chamber republicans have long dominated in the southern state the president elect joe biden's win there last month as boy democrat hopes either way the outcome on january 5th will heavily influenced by the ability to carry out his campaign promises. coming up on this news hour from london sierra leone sees a sudden rise in child brides after the pandemic pushes families into poverty nigerian police deploy extreme vesta gaiters to find hundreds of missing school boys days after an attack in the president's home state and cleveland's baseball team drops indians from its name after 105 years gemma will have the details later it's for. at least $400000.00 people have now fled their homes in northern mozambique

george h.w. bush and yet ronald reagan chose him to be his white house chief of staff the scene is probably the mostperson at that job of this modern time. how did he do it? >> that's a great question because he didn't have a background that would necessarily suggest he is going to be successful. he had been a lawyer until -- he ran, ended up running gerald ford's campaign 76 coming in from nowhere in the wreckage after watergate were no republicans left of his generation. the previous group had been convicted, sent off to jail in the nixon scandal. it opened up a world for people like jim baker, dick cheney, red skull crop and holy generation of people who came to the floor. in this case an example of a president that is ronald reagan seeing what makes sense for him. he was an outsider coming into washington but he wanted to get things done so we didn't pick ed meese with his confident. jim baker. another present president woule guy who ran not one but two campaigns against him as his chief of staff went into that thing i think is you said ended up being a smart choice on his part. >> susan, what w

george floyd roiled the nation. within days, protests spread nationwide but nme just in his >> ahmad arbury was chased and killed by two black -- two whitee was jogging in a neighborhood. >> it is time for us s tond up in the name of george and to say -- get your name off our next -- >> police are trying to disperse peaceful protests near the white house. >> the investigation aerounced today he use of federal force in portland and elsewhere came as many cits pushed back on the president's actions and plans. >> standack and stand by. >> the african-amey can communitstood up again for me. they always have myac and i will have yours. robert: something erupted in 2020. i wonder, dan, was it again to something we saw in the country in 1968. dan: i think this was somewhat different then 1968. -- than 1968. there were tremendous protests in the wake othe assassination of dr. king. this was different. this was an awakening of a different type in 2020. when everyone saw what had ppened to george floyd as ly watched h being killed in broad daylight. it set a different message. it sends a message that desomething waly wrong in this country. and wha

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to think attorney general barr we're going to see kind of the white washing of his time in history like we've seen with george bush bill kristol you know another kind of bush era people you going to like how he's going out is going to bring you know kind of like fame and fortune but they received in the next few years actually no i think that for individuals who are tied to the trump administration it's going to be very hard partially because of the because of the alliances that hollywood has with being on the left anyway george bush has a little bit different because he came from a plethora of money and connections before he was ever president but i also feel like he was smart enough to know when to be quiet george bush was not a public figure for a long time after he after he left the white house he was paving or do whatever he was doing with his grandkids at that time and he was being altruistic island i think that for bill barr because he was such a close friend of donald trump and he was he was part and parcel acting not only as the chief judicial response for america but he also acted as though he was t

do you think attorney general barr we're going to see kind of the white washing of his time in history like we've seen with georgebush bill kristol you know another kind of bush era people you going to like how he's going out is going to bring him that kind of like fame and fortune but they received in the next few years actually no i think that poor end of it. rules were tied to the trumpet ministration is going to be very hard 8 partially because of the because of the alliances that hollywood has with with being on the left anyway george bush he was a little bit different because he came from a plethora of money and connections before he was ever president but i also feel like he was smart enough to know when to be quiet george bush was not a public figure for a long time after he after he left the white house he was painting or doing whatever he was doing with his grandkids at that time and he would be an ultra silent i think that for bill barr because he was such a close friend of donald trump and he was he was part and parcel acting not only as the as the chief judicial response for america but you also acte

well joe watkins is a republican strategist and former white house aide to president george h.w. bush chose we know via skype from philadelphia to talk on the program again mr watkins welcome to al-jazeera obviously another crucial role in all so many have obviously said and i'm the president has also said it will also determine really the flexibility for not just the republicans but the flexibility that president elect biden has to govern. that's absolutely right because what happens is if the 2 republicans win those senate seats then of course that means that mitch mcconnell continues on the leader in the u.s. senate and republicans control the senate which means that joe biden will 'd the u.s. house of representatives under democratic control but if the democrats win those 2 seats in georgia of course that means joe biden will control the senate with the help of kamel harris who is the sitting vice president cast the deciding vote in the u.s. senate and then also a democratic house of representatives that will have the house and the senate under democratic control so this is a

joe watkins is a republican strategist and former white house aide to president george h.w. bush he says trump hopes to continue to influences space. 2 republicans win the senate seats then of course it means that mitch mcconnell continues on the leader in the u.s. senate and republicans control the senate which means that joe biden will only have the u.s. house of representatives under democratic control but if the democrats win those 2 seats in georgia of course that means joe biden will control the senate with the help of kamel harris who is the sitting vice president cast the deciding vote in the u.s. senate and and also a democratic house of representatives that will have the house and the senate under democratic control so this is a very very important election from the standpoint of republicans and democrats the president is prying trying very hard to retain his base he won over 70000000 votes in the november election and the best way to retain at least a good portion that base is that going to continue the challenge of the the election results i don't think is going

george h.w. bush and as ronald reagan's white house chief of staff and treasury secretary.e is interviewed by baylor university law school hosted the conversation and provided the video. >> hello, my name is brad tobin and i am the dean at baylor law school. thank you for joining us today as we have a virtual front-row seat to listen in on a fascinating discussion between our friend, talmage boston, and former secretary of state, james baker iii. as you know, secretary baker was a powerhouse in washington, d.c., in the beltway, and literally around the globe as he served as the united states secretary of state and also further served four united states presidents over the course of three decades. secretary baker was scheduled to be our capstone speaker at the 2020 vision for leadership conference. however, he and mrs. baker contracted covid-19. i'm pleased to report that they now have covid-19, the illness, in their rear view mirror. today, the secretary will be interviewed, as i noted, by talmage boston. talmage in his own right is a high-profile persona in texas and acros

and elise jordan, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department. got to -- let me just run the table here. the likelihood, one, of congress tomorrow following through and passing the $2,000 increase in stimulus funding for every american that the president wants, and the idea that the president -- it will pass and the president will actually sign it, starting with shawna. >> i think that it is unlikely that congress can get it done by tomorrow. inside of congress there was a lot of back and forth about this number before. there are a lot of republicans who don't want to put out that large of a check, you know. there are still a few people who care in the republican party about fiscal conservatism and so that was part of the conversation. i don't see how they get that together that fast. and what that means is if the president follows through -- and he hasn't actually promised to veto it, but if he follows through on just waiting, as you pointed out, the government shuts down very early in the morning on tuesday. doesn't mean that people will necess

not only was one of the largest histories around the globe, but white brothers and sisters who saw georgec said, we've all got to be our screens. so we're looking, so it came across as a very powerful moment. and then white brother brothersd sisters, among others, saw that the covid pandemic had already assaulted black bodies. so they were more empathetic. so as a result of that, george floyd got to them in a way that, say, eric garner had not, in a way that other black deaths, walter scott scott and mike brown had not. so take this moment of reckoning and use it as an opportunity to reflect more critically upon our lives and figure out how we can extend it beyond the yahoo, and the celebration, and the right on to something deep and sustained. >> stephen: one of the rallying cries-- i want to get to another one. i want to get to "i can't breathe" in just a moment. but one of them was defund the police, calls to defund the police. barack obama said this week that defund the police, he called it-- let me get this right-- a snappy slogan that lost a big audience. do you agree with him that

$22 million continues a relationship that helped put koch operative naomi raul from george mason into the trump white house and then on to the d.c. circuit court of appeals to do the koch operation's business from behind rogues. and remember those special interests front groups that tee up legal cases for the judges and justices that have been ushered on to the courts? the koch foundation turns up there, too. the koch foundation has spread $6.2 million around ten separate amici curiae, friends of the court that showed up in the case called americans for prosperity versus becerra and what do you know. yup, americans for prosperity is that koch political operation main front group. such a small world. why would koch political interests want to fund ten amici in a case where a koch front group is already the plaintiff? well, let's look at that case. the becerra in americans for prosperity v. becerra is the attorney general, nominee for h.h.s. secretary now, i gather. the case is an abstruse technical challenge to how the i.r.s. shares tax information with states. why this gathering of the koch-funded cl

well just before i made that declaration the white house announced presidential pardons for 15 people the list includes george peppard uplifts who pleaded guilty in the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election several former republican politicians had all or part of their sentences commuted u.s. president elect joe biden has criticized donald trump for failing to protect the country against cyber attacks by these claims a recent attack of the u.s. government is not under control yet and he pledged a tough response against those responsible israel will be holding its 4th election in 2 years that's after a coalition that briefly united long time prime minister benjamin netanyahu and rival benny gantz collapsed parliament was dissolved after failing to meet the deadline to pass the budget snap elections will be held in march french truck drivers can now once again cross the channel from britain as long as they have tested negative for covert 19 this comes after the european union urged its member countries to end the blockade of u.k. freight more than 40 countries banned arrivals fro

voters against trump and elise jordan is back, time magazine contributor and former aid to the george w. bush whiteere is this, i won't call it an impulse, there is a reflex among senate republicans that they think they could move straight ahead with trashing without acknowledging that joe biden is the president. >> i think there is this idea that trump could just be excused. co be easily forgotten. he could be -- we're going to move along and it will be in some sense business as usual. but that is just not the case when you have such extreme degradation like trump has participated in over the last four years. and it is not just going to be easily brushed away when he tried to destroy the underpinning of the democracy and americans' rule of law. and it is outrageous that we're at this point where so many republicans seem to think that they can go back to business at usual. >> well, tim miller, it begs this question, what about trump, are they ready to move on from if they cannot yet acknowledge the result of the 2020 election? >> yeah, they can't move on. they like to pretend like they can. politic

surprising turn of events and in the marches and aftermath of the tragic death of george floyd one could see i think many white folks participating in protests in a way that suggested we are regarding ourselves and our history and identities in a fresh way for the first time. it is a historical shift in consciousness the way in which the protest almost immediately moves to the takedown of monuments and the interesting turn i think it's encouraging having said that, we also see that white supremacy doesn't fly dormant. it grows more sophisticated and it finds new commanders to carry out these desires. and i don't think that we are going to fall into a bed of roses in our racial climate going forward. but it's a very interesting change of tone. >> please tell the audience about this what you would call a massacre or battle that was one of the larger parts of effort to end the reconstruction. >> sure. it's a complicated story in 1874 the civil war has been done for for nine years and the white militias that are described they are educating, night riding and one of the militias attracts thousands of members in the

they view the world in black and white and that reminded me of what george w. bush had said after 9/11 when he says you are with us or against us. there is a way of looking at the world in black and white. that always struck me as a dangerous way of looking at the world around us. even in terms of our identities. none of us are just one thing or another, not just you are a woman or a citizen or a mother or i don't know, you are a part of multiple identities, to approach the world, the world was complicated in these specific ways, extremely poisonous and dangerous. and so in the essay i talk about my realization i have always lived in the gray zone. i grew up in arab and muslim countries and my earliest acquaintances, all of these people were christians or atheists. that was ordinary to me because that was my life. it was a massive city of people from all over, 40% of people in la are foreign-born, all of these different languages and races and religions coexisted and going about their business. so most of us living gray areas and are used do it. this idea that t

let's bring into our conversation elise jordan and a former aid to the george w. bush white and state department and donna edwards, columnist to "the washington post" and an msnbc contributor. donna, what do you think? >> well, you know i'm of mixed mind. if i were just deciding tor myself, i probably wouldn't give them the vaccine. but for continuity of congress, it is important for every member to be vaccinated. we're going into a year at beginning of the year, where important decisions need to be made, choosing a speaker of the house and then the elections in georgia and down to legislation in advance of joe biden taking the oath of office. i also think it is important for them to demonstrate even if they're late comers the importance of taking the vaccine and the importance of continuing to wear mask wearing and not joke about it. this is no joke. people are dying. and we need to make sure that we get all of our front line workers vaccinated. i'm worried about whether we'll have enough vaccine in enough time to make sure we're fully vaccinated across the country. >> you

white ministers. are are we seeing now even in the 21st century after george floyd the resistance, the same with some ading churchmen in the white community, the largest denomination of propertestants the country? >> the answer is yes. but let me elaborate a little bit to say that this is not new conduct for these denominations. they have often given us rhetoric, rhetoric that is not backed up in actions. there is a merging in america in colleges lick ole mississippi and others of people beginning to rise up and affirming the critical race theory. for these seminary presidents to come out and disown the impact of racism on black people is a betrayal of the gospel. not only is it a betrayal of the gospel, but they have failed to demonstrate radical change. the white church was a participant in enslavement and southern baptists apologized for that. but unfortunately they have turned around. this trumpism, this whole mentality of trumpism that has invaded american culture being carried out now in the church and is being carried out in their actions. they want a reversal where we made progress on inclusio