newsmax is we don't know you.the wonder kid of the maga movement and now everybody is like new phone, who dis? >> joy, first of all, on tucker carlson, the reason tucker reacted like he did is because it probably wasn't tucker's wife at that dinner and matt gaetz probably forgot about that. but look, the only open question on matt gaetz at this point, particularly given this afternoon's reporting about him showing nude photos of other women is whether matt is just a dirtbag or whether he's a criminal. because it's one or the other. for those of us who watched his rise in florida politics, you knew eventually either matt was going to find scandal or scandal was going to find him. the only concern in this moment is that the scandal actually involves a victim who if the story is true was a 17-year-old woman -- or young woman, i guess. and that's a very real crime if that's the case. so look, the courts will have its way. it is very telling, though, that matt gaetz is somebody with very few friends right now, even amo

others like myself get to sit back and talk about criminal justice issues on newsmax or on bill o'reillyand now we all come together because we have a passion and an understanding. what is that understanding? it is a different day and age for conservatives running for office and the criminal justice system, so we are going to kick this off. i'm going to start with you, representative. tell me, what does a conservative candidate have to do in order to get elected when it comes to dealing with criminal justice issues? >> i think that's a great question. what you really have to do is make two important acknowledgments. the first is that we must have a criminal justice system that actually punishes and completes the punishment of people who do wrong. [applause] but here's the second part -- hold on, don't clap for me yet. the second part is we also have to acknowledge that people who have broken our laws are still american citizens, and there must be a pathway, a conduit for them to come back into society and be citizens once more. [applause] now you can clap. there you go. >> conservatives

i'm not a broadsheet like the new york times or newsmax. let's pretend i am. then you can say, they say this will make us competitive by going to 20%. i thought i'm going to get these international negotiations going so anybody raises their taxes. well, senator joe can go along with the tax. everything passes by 50 bucks these days. -- by 50 votes these days. they will get their tax, they will get their worldwide minimum that relieves us of the competitive burden of having such a high tax rate. sometime in 2055, 2555 or the next millennium, it is not going to happen in any timeframe soon. i really wish i can speak personally with the treasury secretary, but, because i would be amused by your answers. it reminded me of the time where i said we needed electronic currency. and they told me he wasn't interested in that. guess what happened yesterday? the chinese gave electronic currency. one of the things you can count on, in the world of economic policy, is economist tend to have their fleet -- have their feet planted in the past. it is hard to get them looking f

there may be a political motivation and it requires physique to do that, and thehe w york times or newsmax or what have you. but let's pretend that i yam, then you can say when they say this is going to make us uncompetitive by going to 28% they can save going to get the international negotiations going so everybody raises her taxes so will make it noncompetitive. senator joe can go along with the tax and give them the boat everything passes by 50 votes these days. and they'll get their tax. and they'll get there worldwide minimum that relieves us of the competitive burden of having a highbu tax rate, sometime in 20, 2555 for the next millennia. but is not what happened any timeframe soon. i really wish i could speaksh personally with the treasury secretary. because i really would be amused by her answers and reminded me of the time that i said we needed an electronic currency and secretary mnuchin told me he was not interested in that, get to happen yesterday one of the things you can count on of the world of economic policy is economist have to deplaned in the past and it's hard to get t

there is always someone willing to lineup to be the next newsmax superstar of the republican party rathern actually trying to pass policy. is he going to lose his job? >> i think he is going to eventually resign. it does not mean that in a year and a half he won't have a job somewhere. there is no shame for these kinds of situations. he will claim the deep state destroyed him. i am waiting for the matt gaetz show to begin in the springtime of 2023. >> jason johnson, great to see you guys on a friday night. i don't know if bill will be able to go to bed tonight. anyways, thanks to both of you. coming up, we are going to talk to one of my msnbc colleagues who wrote a book about his personal journey told during a tense time in the asian-american community. e asian-american community. >>> unfortunately this past week saw even more reports of crimes against asian-americans. our local affiliate in new york city reports two days ago a 25-year-old victim was sitting outside an ice cream shop when a stranger made anti-asian comments and then slapped her. a survey found anti-asian hate crimes rose

yesterday, kemp appeared on newsmax and he gave advice to hungry voters, who will be forced to wait inr hours: >> they can order a pizza. they can order grubhub or uber eats. >> stephen: it's that kind of care for the people that's captured in his campaign slogan: "let them order cake." let me get this straight: so, you can order a pizza, but you've got to eat the entire thing, because if you share it with other voters in line, you could go to prison. or worse, papa john's. we're getting more details about the most wonderful terrible story in the news: the federal investigation into florida representative matt gaetz, seen here saying, "you must be no taller than this to ride matt gaetz." gaetz is currently under investigation for allegedly having an allegedly sexual alleged relationship with a 17-alleged-year-old. and now, it turns out, that may not be the most illegal thing he's allegedly done. i'll give you all the disturbing updates in our recurring segment: "gaetz-gaete!" >> yo, you need a ride home from swim practice? >> stephen: we just learned that federal investigators are now

congressman louie zboemt,, gohmer promoting this, on facebook, also on conservative tv channel called newsmax. it was also featured on one america news. they even broadcast a picture of the map that was supposedly found on the servers that were seized in the raid. the map showed, among other things, that trump won california. the company that got hit with this conspiracy theory, the company that was supposedly at the heart of this conspiracy theory, they had to put out a statement. that must have struck them as insane to even have to write. they're like, number one, we don't actually tabulate votes in u.s. elections at all. number two, we don't have any offices or any servers in frankfurt, germany, and why are they having to say anything at all? by members of sitting members of congress included, the conspiracy theory was that trump supporters, prayers for election integrity, which was the name of that facebook event november 12th. the contention here was their prayers for election integrity, their fight to make sure that trump's election was somehow secured and not stolen and allowed to be,

somebody is always lined up to be the next fox news, newsmax star of the republican party. >> do youlose his job? >> i think he's eventually going to resign. i don't think he'll be able to run again, because somebody will probably primary him by next year. but in a year and a half, he'll have a job, he'll be on youtube, he'll have a podcast. because there is no shame anymore, he'll claim the deep state framed him, and i'm waiting for the matt gaetz show to begin sometime in the spring of 2023. >> ugh. >> jason, bill, great to see you on a friday night. i don't know if bill will be able to go to bed tonight. but anyway, thanks to both of you. >>> coming up, we'll talk to one of my msnbc colleagues about a particularly tense time in the asian-american community, when "the 11th hour" continues. he 11. we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. . usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he

former president donald trump celebrating the possible pipit by the biden administration telling newsmaxthink it is great they reversed themselves, but a lot of damage was done." by the way alejandra meyer chris said no more deep and to build the wall something the trump administration did. but do keep this in mind illegal migrants are being housed at the o.d. facilities all over the country at taxpayer expense. shannon. >> shannon: kevin, we will see you in a few minutes. >> indeed. >> shannon: thank you very much. ♪ ♪ first step in tonight's news ramped up ended on ceo jeff bezos jeff bezos voicing support for a hike in the corporate tax rate. well, not explicitly beckon president to raise the rate from 28% to the current 21%. the corporate tax rate/tundra former president trump in 2021 from 35% as part of the 2017 tax code. in pennsylvania, the commentator and veteran kathy barnett is joining 2022 race to replace retiring senator pat toomey and looking to become the first black republican woman ever elected to the u.s. senate. >> i'm black and up because i just won't shut up and do as

boycott of delta and coke among others but in a phone interview with a conservative cable news network newsmaxd some fire at mcconnell, of course harshly criticized him for his role in the january 6 riots. >> frankly, republican conservatives ever got their act together, which they should, if we had real leadership instead of mitch mcconnell and the group if we had some real leadership, what you'd be doing is something much different. they'd be boycotting these companies and those companies would be coming. that's what liberals do. they boycott anybody that speaks out they boycott them. they cancel them and boycott them. we have more people than they do. >> lots to sort through. joining me are abbey phillips, and paul begala, veteran democratic strategist and political commentator. abby, what does it say this issue of the georgia voting law pushed republican leader slip to attack corporate america because they have traditionally been go allies? >> well, it does seem to be kind of like a canary in the coal mine if you're a republican. for so long corporations spoke out about taxes and regulatio

our former president popped up on newsmax today, where he encouraged maga-heads to boycott baseball,this is the move, now that things are going well, they can't possibly credit joe biden for turning the country around. so trump and company like to say someone else must be running the country. >> i think other people are making most of the decisions, but i may be wrong about that, i don't know. look, i don't really know him very well. but to be honest with you, somebody's making decisions. let's put it this way. bernie sanders, if he ever won, he would never have gone anywhere near this. he cannot believe what's going on. this is bernie sanders on steroids. our country's becoming a socialist nation. this is bernie sanders on steroids. >> jimmy: bernie sanders on steroids. i wonder what that would look like? oh, right? not bad at all. [ cheers and applause ] he's feeling the burn in the gym. last night, i turned on pbs. i know, i didn't know you could still do that either. [ laughter ] i did, i turned it on. the minute i turned it on, the doorbell rang and a totebag showed up. it was u

and so he was telling his supporters to switch to go to oan, to go to newsmax and so i think within fox'sderstood they needed to keep trump supporters on board. and the best way to do that was to put familiar faces from the trump administration, from the trump family on the network. as you say, this is a choice. i mean, you are not hiring donald trump's daughter-in-law for her sterling commentary, you're hiring here because you want to hire donald trump's daughter-in-law. for what that says about your network. >> yeah. here is some good news that might seem unrelated to your job at media matters. covid vaccination are hitting another record. 4.6 million shots recorded on saturday, half a million above the prior saturday and it is important to see all of the tv anchors, personalities showing themselves getting the shot. we've seen a lot of vaccine selfies from lots of folks at different networks. it is been really inspiring to see. the "today" show even brought the co-host outside for a live group vaccination this week. and rachel maddow on friday on msnbc talked about how she was fearful

had this stuff not come along, he might have wound up as axios first reported with a newsmax contractt gig or a media gig on some other network. but right now, that's probably on ice. >> right, you know, we've talked about this before, david, that there are this sort of cadre of sort of creepy young trump bros who seem like their whole purpose in running for office was to become twitter famous and to become famous on the right, madison hawthorne, matt gaetz, who now we're learning more and more about his behavior in tallahassee. politico, mark's outfit, reports that gaetz's own aides would regularly send embarrassing videos of their boss to other gop operatives, meaning they didn't even like the guy himself. i wonder why this model, if it's so unsuccessful at politics, at mark just said, they don't accomplish much for their constituents, why does this seem to work so well in the gop? >> well, look, politics has changed, and you could make a case that congress is not as serious as an institution that it once was. evidence being matt gaetz's election and his continuance in service in th

find yourself a fox or newsmax and take over that chris hansen role on -- you know, reboot the programator" because i think matt gaetz would be perfect for the role. >> according to what you are saying, it is shawn hannity playing on the side, which is a little odd. the text or cob rates some of that because he's in this role helping a member of congress. this from the former daughter-in-law of allen weisselberg. you were in a knowledgeable place here. in fact, you testified previously about why weissen berg was key. this was to congress. >> in the office with me was allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the trump organization. allen weisselberg made the decision. that was allen weisselberg on the check. mr. weisselberg for sure. >> what do you know about where this investigation is going? what, if anything, can you tell us relevant to the fact that you have been cooperating and testified several times? >> right. so obviously the cooperation is not over. the district attorney's office has millions of pages of documents. without the documents provided by jen weisselberg, wit

i watch you, i watch fox, i go to newsmax, i come back to cnn.is amazing how two weeks ago, fox was running on the cuomo story but you hear nothing about the matt gaetz story. on msnbc, they run the virus but oann is talking about under bite and. -- hunter biden. they are picking and choosing what they want their audience to hear. they are not talking about anything good or foz it is -- good or positive. on fox, they say nothing good about biden, and cnn has a totally different spin. if you're are watching russian television or rushing -- russian tv, it is a madness about what to believe and that is how you end up with qanon. people are just a total wreck. host: appreciate your input. betsy klein from cnn about the indianapolis shooting. president biden will be reeves this morning. at least eight people dead after another mass shooting at a fedex facility where the story is taking place momentarily. caller: good morning. my main concern -- well, there are a lot of concerns. but with covid, i was concerned when i saw the masses coming from the bor

and so many of the decisions that political leaders are making in the republican party is based on newsmaxsean hannity and 10% to 15% of the country which is the activist wing of the republican party. and so as a democrat, the healthiest thing we need as a country is for the republican party to heal itself and become more competitive because we are going to live under constant threat of this democracy vanishing. they have fully embraced autocracy now. there's a lot of odious parts of the bill in georgia but the state legislature saying no matter what the voters say, if we don't like the outcome, we can overturn it. similar efforts in arizona. this is a very dark time for democracy. there's no optimism in the republican party right now. it's all darkness and grievance and blame game. it's about as far away from ronald reagan's message as you can imagine. >> yeah, a lot of people thought, claire mccaskill, there was a little bit of light when asa hutchinson said we're not going to ban health care for transgender youth in our state and what happens? his veto gets overridden. >> yeah. you know

i want to be fair i watch fox and newsmax, they say he came from the nation of islam.hat lady probably knows and does not want to say because that would not be right in these times of propaganda people want to use one way or another. to fit the narrative. if this is true, somebody should look into louis farrakhan and all of the hate he spews out. i wish everybody a happy easter. be safe. host: let's go to card from mount union, pennsylvania on the independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. the attack is a statement of a larger problem within the united states. what you have is a lot of people placing all of their focus on race. when you do that the population begins to reactants but up into groups. they want to attack everybody for everything that is not like them. there is a bigger question going on. i understand security is of utmost importance. when you begin to destroy this society by focusing on drinks -- race, white, black, asian, these are the results you come up with. host: let's go to dairy from illinois on the democratic line, good morning. -- derr

then you flip over to the conservative oen, the newsmax, and the famous fox and they just constantly- they are brainwashing their viewers to their side and cnn and msnbc are also doing the same thing. they are telling their viewers what they want to hear. host: but when you say the freedom to be able to choose which news you want to hear would be a strong part of democracy? caller: i think it was a lot better in the 1980's when we had the fairness doctrine. do you know what i'm talking about? host: oh yeah. caller: i recently heard that term and it was very informative as to what has happened to our media in the country in the last 30, 40 years or whatever. i get my news from judy woodworth and the pbs newshour let. -- pbs news outlet. but the republicans just go along with trump. they might lean -- i don't know. host: let's go to brenda calling from new jersey on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning, america. i am calling in regards to i feel matt gaetz is innocent until proven guilty. i listen to all the news stations and they pull him apart. the man has not gone

caller: when you listen to right-wing media, oann, newsmax, breitbart, everything out of their mouths far-left, far-left. i am a political liberal. you hate success, you want to punish success. the producer class are the tens of millions of people who work in the nonunion factories and corporate retail outlets. they struggle on meager means. people who struggle on meager means who are productive people are told we don't take personal responsibility. it is the u.s. chamber of commerce, the association who have all the power. host: why do you identify as a democrat? caller: historically since fdr and don they have always taken the side -- there has been some disingenuous along the way. they have pretty much always taken the side of david over goliath. the gop and the conservatives have always favored goliath as the hero, the people on top usurp power. you feel like you listen to the gop rant and rave, us versus them mentality, it is almost like and are the offspring of ayn rand and joe mccarthy. host: let's go to our next caller. republican line. caller: i am a conservative because i h