joining me now is michelle goldberg.erica has been brutal, biden is trying to change that," she writes -- >> michelle, thank you for joining me. this piece really spoke to me, i've got to say. you think about the last time there was major legislation when it came to paid family leave. that was the fmla act i believe in 1993. a pew research study saying when it comes to government mandated leave for parents, i wonder if you think this is the biggest provision, the biggest change that is happening with biden's plan? >> you know, i don't know if i could separate out paid leave from subsidized child care from universal pre-k from the continuation of these direct cash payments to parnls that are the continuation of payments that are in the american recovery act. the entire thing would take the united states from being this wild outlier among developed countries, the country where it is by far the hardest, the most expensive to be a parent and make us a normal country, a country where parenthood, you know, isn't this insurmoun

i'm joined by michelle goldberg.ublicans could steal the 2024 election, looking at the wider plan or conspiracy to potentially abuse the machinery of government at multiple levels. definitely want to get to that, but first your thoughts on what we see in this shift to what is call, call me old-fashioned, a coequal branch of government that is supposed to do its own independent work but is living in the shadow of the president who lost the last election. >> well, first of all, i mean, there is no one in american life that i can think of who is more craven than elise stefanik. this is someone who was vocally anti-trump in 2016 in the run-up to the election who used to be, you know, who used to pride herself on her moderation. that's what's so interesting here, is she is somebody that had a moderate voting record, particularly compared to liz cheney. but none of that matters to this party. the only metric or ideology is absolute feelty to this man who is no longer in power, so it can no longer be about fear of trump. it

mckay coppins, and michelle goldberg, who wrote, impeachment offers grace, they don't want it.ou. republicans can't turn on trump. because he would take a huge chunk of the party with him, and what they value more than anything are winning elections. if something were to come along, to sort of -- a thing to come in like a helicopter, whoop, off the scene of american politics and still also fuel the maga base with resentment and anger. that would be essentially, i think, a weird win-win for kevin mccarthy and mitch mcconnell, what do you think? >> yeah, that is key. and a certain way, the manhattan d.a. is doing the dirty work for republican party leaders. like, you know, i think back to the first impeachment trial, and a quote i got, if we could magically remove trump from office without any of the political blow back, most of the the republicans in the senate would do that in a heart beat. what was keeping them, the political blow back they knew they would suffer if they can removie trump from the political stage or sideline him while directing that away from him, that is the

michelle goldberg is a "new york times" columnist and msnbc political analyst. she recently wrote a column entitled, "how republicans could steal the 2024 election" and she joins me now. the arizona situation is so fascinating to me for a bunch of reasons. what do you make of it? >> well, i think that they do need a level of plausible deniability of these voting laws. so the people who want to change the law for these honorable public servants you just saw, the maricopa officials who said this is ridiculous, what you're seeing in some other states are laws that are designed to disempower them and to vest power with the legislature that tends to be much more partisan and stay much more in line. but in order to do that, it doesn't really help you if you have a bunch of crazy people looking for bamboo fibers or whatever it is that they're doing in arizona, right? it's not great for them that this becomes a national laughingstock. also the longer they drag it out, they keep whipping up animus against the local officials who, according to the true believers, won't --

joining me now is michelle goldberg, columnist for "the new york times" and an msnbc contributor, andme start with infrastructure. after president biden prepared and presented a pad-down compromised package, the republicans came back with a proposal that first looked like it was around half as comprehensive. but upon further inspection, more than two-thirds of their package is comprised of funds already allocated in existing federal spending, so the actual republican proposal is about 15% of biden's. michelle, how should democrats react to this kind of bad-faith negotiation? >> well, they're in a difficult spot because obviously republicans are not interested in helping democrats legislate or govern. at the same time, democrats are hamstrung by the two members of their caucus, kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, who are really devoted to bipartisanship as a goal, even more important than effective governance. so what democrats will have to do is either try to operate in good faith as much as they can, to pretend that republicans are operating in good faith to demonstrate to joe manchin th

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joining me now, "new york times" columnist michelle goldberg and msnbc political analyst and republicanmichelle, i want to start with you and continue my conversation that i had with my last guest, professor kendi, about the gop culture war taking place inside of america's schools. you wrote an op-ed piece in "the new york times" this week about it. this really stuck with me. you wrote, quote, telling parents that liberals want to make their kids hate their country and feel guilty for being white might be absurd and cynical. it also looks like it might be effective. why is the right focused on bringing false and racist rhetoric into public schools? >> i think that the right sort of has always fought its culture wars in public schools, you know, from segregation, obviously. the birth of the christian right was really about the reaction to an irs ruling that said that segregated christian academies were no longer tax exempt. once the christian right got going, it fought a number of culture wars over sex education, creationism. you remember when there was a lot of hysteria about schools tr

i would bet they're getting their messages from the dark corners of the internet. >> michelle goldbergboth very much for being on this morning. richard haas, thank you, as well. >>> it's just past the top of the hour now. welcome to "morning joe," everyone. by the way, joe, you have a 6'4" 12-year-old -- >> he's not 6'4" -- >> he is so tall! jack turns 12. >> i can't believe it. >> we all remember -- and this tells you how old we are, we remember 12 years ago, jack, of course, was a premie, born pretty darned early and it was a pretty rough month that first month for poor jack and i remember, we actually -- you told me that a guy named jack scarborough was going to be okay, but it was touch-and-go for a while. and now 6 feet tall and, man, he is active. but, it's been a long, long time. >> i remember -- like it was yesterday. i hate to use the cliche, but i can't believe he's 12 years old and i remember what a tough time that was for jack and for you and for your family and to hear that he's this big 6' dude now, given how tiny he was 12 years ago in this moment, it's a credit to all o

the piece, by left-wing columnist michelle goldberg was originally entitled "attacks on jews over israelime quickly changed that "the crisis of anti-semitic violence" without including an editor's note of the change although it does acknowledge the print version ran with the original headline. your response? >> well, i think it's thinly-cloaked and of course it's not politically correct to talk about anti-semitism, right, harris? in europe it's much more apparent but in the united states it's more thinly-cloaked and i think that's what led to the zionist movement, i think the op-ed in "the wall street journal" this week was right about that, the zionist movement basically came to be because he didn't trust the idea that we could just rely on liberal ideas, on socialistic ideas that everyone is equal so in a way it's hard and israel's resolve now, all the skirmishes around the united states, mobs attacking random jews has hardened israel's resolve. israel is a state that came into being because of the holocaust were 6 million jews were incinerated by hitler. it has a right to exist and by

swain is one of the reporters from "the washington post" who broke that fascinating story, and michelle goldberg is a reporter at "the new york times", and they join us now. i thought this was such an interesting and important piece of reporting for a bunch of reasons. how did you follow this thread, sort of all of the same themes we have seen and the same wild paranoid intimations we have seen post-2020, appearing all the way back in 2018? >> that's right. so russell ramsland is a wealthy businessman in dallas, texas. back in 2018, after the midterms in that year, he and his associated became convinced election voting machines were being hacked. that votes were being rigged. votes were maybe being sent overseas and tampered with in other countries. and he was briefing people like sydney powell, who later, after the election, was advising donald trump. louie gohmert, one of donald trump's closest allies in congress. really, those ideas made their way to trump himself. and as we saw, into the wider republican community after the election. >> michelle, what's illustrated here to me, which is so im

i'm joined by former rnc chair michael steele who endorsed joe biden and michelle goldberg. michael, when gaga is right, she's right. >> she is. >> and we may be going from maga to gaga, if you will, but tell us about this bad romance. >> yeah, it is a bad romance. it's an abusive relationship that is very, very one-sided, and it's unfortunate that those in the room, if you will, watching the abuse unfold could not step in and stop it as they could have over the last four years starting with lindsey graham who now is like, oh, you know, i have concluded that we can't win without trump. well, you haven't won. you lost the house. you lost the senate and you lost the presidency. tell me what the hell have you won? and how do you plan to win in the future if that's, as you just pointed out, you have lost 7 out of the last 8 elections nationally? so where do you go from here? you know, you will just continue to get pounded by trump inside the room. folks outside the room are like, we'll just leave that alone. we'll just move on to something else. and that's not where a party, at

john is one of the reporters of the washington post who broke that fascinating story and michelle goldberg is an opinion columnist of the new york times and they both join me now. john i thought this was such a really interesting and important piece of reporting for a bunch of reasons. but first, just give us -- how did you follow this thread? this sort of -- all of the same themes that we've seen and some of the wild paranoid intonations we've seen post-2020 appearing all the way back in 2018? >> that's right, so russell ramsland who's a wealthy business man in dallas, texas. back in 2018 after the midterms in that year, he and his associates became convinced that the election both voting machines are being hacked. the votes were being rigged. that votes were being sent overseas and tampered with and other countries. and he was briefing people like sydney powell who later after the election was advising donald trump. louis gohmert, one of donald trump's closest allies in congress. really, those ideas made their way to trump himself and as we saw into the wider republican community after t

joining us now, columnist for "the new york times" and msnbc contributor, michelle goldberg. there were weeks in 2020 where one of my children just a few years into elementary school would fall asleep crying almost every night, listing all the things they'd lost and the months which then turned into a year they'd never get back. so i was apoplectic, perhaps, unreasonably so, when the new york city department of education announced on tuesday that it was replacing snow days with remote learning days for the coming school year. it seems like callousness, bordering on cruelty to scrap one of childhood's greatest pleasures in favor of a rehash of pandemic life. the department of education insists that the calendar has given it little option but to eliminate snow days if meeting a rigid 180-day benchmark means forcing children to relive an experience from the pandemic rather than play in the snow, then the benchmark is a problem. michelle, how about like, meeting in the middle and having snow days be reduced days, so they can play in the snow and do like three hours of school? >>

john fav row, michelle goldberg all coming up. >>> checking the "all in" calendar, rudy giuliani is 77 years young today. and i already know what you're thinking. what do you get for disgraced former trump attorney who's already under criminal investigation? how about another investigation? that story, ahead. rformance to a new level. that's why in parts of many major cities where people can use massive capacity we added verizon 5g ultra wideband, the fastest 5g in the world. nice. it isn't just a step forward, it's a leap forward. because the more you do with 5g, the more your network matters. it's us pushing us. it's verizon vs. verizon. and who wins? you. [sfx: kids laughing] [sfx: bikes passing] [sfx: fire truck siren] onstar, we see them. okay. mother and child in vehicle. mother is unable to exit the vehicle. injuries are unknown. thank you, onstar. ♪ my son, is he okay? your son's fine. thank you. there was something in the road... it's okay. you're safe now. it's okay. you need an ecolab scientific clean here. and you need it here. and here. and here. which is why the scientifi