they have to make that decision. >> susan del percio, last question to you is, how contentious do youy call the former president to testify? >> it could turn very contentious. i don't think they will call the former president to testify because i think that would be too much of a circus and that the democrats are too smart for that trap. >> susan del percio, former congresswoman donna edwards, thank you both. very much appreciate it. that wraps it up for me. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "politicsnation" with the reverend al sharpton starts right now. >>> good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lede, the summer of our discontent. right now i'm still reflecting on something that president biden told me this week when i and other legacy civil rights leaders sat down with him and vice president harris at the white house to address the national right-wing assault on our voting rights. he said that action is coming, and i take him at his word, heartened that will travel to philadelphia next week to address

susan del percio is a republican strategist. both are msnbc political analysts. ill hold a rally in sarasota, florida. his most rabid supporters have been lining up for days. and as you see, thousands are there some three hours before the rally is scheduled to start. now it's his first appearance since his company and cfo were charged with running a 15-year tax scheme, and it's being held just a few hundred miles from the site of the horrific building collapse in surfside, florida, which according to "the washington examiner" angered republican governor ron desantis, although the governor now denies this. what political conditions is the former president in as he takes the stage tonight, susan? >> well, he is going to his people. so they are going to cheer and yell and hoot and holler, and my guess is we'll hear something about locking someone up, we'll hear enemies lists, and we'll hear a lot of witch hunts, but it will just be a rehashing of everything else he said. the only thing that may make a little news is that he'll respond to the charges put against him,

. >>> let's brick in susan del percio who has a lot of experience with politics. out plo says. where do we go from here in new york and what does this result actually tell you if anything about the national veernlt? do you think it applies or not? >> it's a little hard to say it will apply because it was such a unique situation, kasie, in that we were doing rank choice voting for the first time in new york city. and even though we heard a lot of people saying, oh, it was the first time, which is why it took so long to get the results, that wasn't actually quite right mostly because of our archaic election laws. what i learned in this race and it shouldn't come to many people's surprise, new yorkers are pragmatic. crime was the issue. and it wasn't just hearing about the statistics. it was that subway violence more than almost anything else that really stuck out day after day and the way adams attacked that problem, and he did it from a law enforcement background and yet saying you can still have progressive policies in policing. but it was -- that is what stopped

susan del percio is a republican strategist. both are msnbc political analysts.'s been nearly six months since former president donald trump left office and the tell-all books are starting to roll in. nbc news has obtained excerpts from "i alone can fix it" written by "washington post" reporters phil rucker and carol leonnig. listen to how they described the president's response to the january 6th storming of the capitol. at the white house, trump was back in his private dining room watching everything unfold on television. the president was riveted. his supporters had heeded his call to march on the capitol with, quote, pride and boldness. for trump, there was no more beautiful sight than thousands of energize people waving trump flags, wearing red maga caps and fighting to keep him in power. juanita, when you compared that with how the president behaved during the black lives matter protests during the summer of 2020, what does it tell you? >> it tells me that everything we knew about trump continues to track that he is this type of person who all he wanted was

joining me now a democratic strategist and founder of the national voter protection action fund, susan del percioa decision on whether he's going to run in 2024. he didn't exactly say which way he was leaning but did allude to the country needing him to re-engage. could the potential legal troubles throw a wrench in that? >> no, unless donald trump is in jail, he will be running for president. it's my belief. of course i'm not a republican insider and certainly not a trump insider. i think there are a couple of things going on here. as susan and david pointed out he needs to continue to keep his name in the public eye. and so to pay for this extraordinary amount of legal jeopardy that he's in. he needs to keep raising money. number two, nobody can beat him. he certainly might continue to try to appear in republican circles as an outlier and other republicans may try painting him where they do not see the future of the party and a place they don't want to go, but nobody else has the numbers to beat him. and i think that reasonable candidates like the former governor of south carolina might not ste

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joining me now is eugene daniels, white house correspondent for politico, susan del percio, republican strategist, and joan walsh, national affairs correspondent for the nation. eugene, i'll start with you because you cover the white house. i wonders if they get that. i do sometimes wonder just talking to people close to the white house myself whether they're fully aware of what a schismotic country they're covering. 47% of the people think qanon is real. >> usually what i find is the people who are a bit older and have been with biden longer tend to think the country can come back together and think that unity is something that is in our reach even. even sometime this year. the younger folks are a little more cynical. these are people who were on this campaign. this may have been their first and second campaign, out there in the world talking to folks. we spent a lot of time on twitter and twitter is not the real world but it does show and exemplify the schism that exists. i think the white house, some people know and some people don't, but i think all of them with president biden at

. >> with me now is susan del percio, a republican strategist. in a moment we'll be joined by congressman madeleine dean of pennsylvania. she was an impeachment manager earlier this year so she will certainly join us momentarily. we begin with you, susan. a lot of people yesterday, they were basically accusing officer dunn of making up the story that people were hurling these racist slurs at him. i want you to take a listen to actual audio of a voice mail that officer fanone received. people wanted proof. here's the proof. >> you're a punk [ bleep ], you're a lying [ bleep ]. how about all the scummy black [ bleep ] scum for two years destroying our cities and burning them and stealing all the [ bleep ] out of their stores and everything. how about that, assaulting cops and killing people? how about that, you [ bleep ]? that was [ bleep ] at the [ bleep ] capitol. i wish they would have killed all of you scum bags because you -- you people are scum. they stole the election from trump and you know that, you scumbag. >> this is insane. i see congre

perhaps there's a glimmer of hope for that. >> susan del percio, juanita tolliver, thank you both. on a sunday afternoon. >>> coming up, everybody, 4,500 tips and nothing to show for it. why the fbi failed to fully investigate claims including those of sexual misconduct against brett kavanaugh before he was confirmed to the supreme court. former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner joining me to weigh in on that and whether anything that can be done now to someone with a lifetime appointment. we will be right back. intment. we will be right back. being tired. what is even in this? clinically-studied plant based ingredients passion flower, valerian root, and hops. new zzzquil pure zzzs restorative herbal sleep. this is a gamechanger, who dares to be fearless even when her bladder leaks. our softest, smoothest fabric keeping her comfortable, protected, and undeniably sleek. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. (school bell rings) day one. ponytail game, tight. color pencil game, sharp. folders, alphabetically ordered by subject. the squad is back and we're about to slay fif

let's bring in host of the podcast branding, donny deutsch, susan del percio, and mark. i were republicans -- maybe you are still. >> i am. >> you can talk about your party. people have a right to be stupid but they shouldn't have a right to make our children and parents and grandparents sick. how long does this go with people like kevin mccarthy? when does he start following the lead of mitch mcconnell on vaccines, on masking? >> probably when he sees poll numbers reflect it. don't forget he's probably -- mccarthy is getting a lot of pressure from donald trump to play a certain game. one of the reasons why they meet and talk. no doubt about it, all mccarthy is going to do is whatever donald trump wants. but, you know, i think when this starts to change, there's got to be a couple of things, the cdc has to do a better job of communicating. >> yes, they do. >> this is where we are today and things can change. there's nothing wrong that science has shown us that we have to now mask up because people are not getting vaccinated. that's okay. but they need to explain that can

sam stein and susan del percio joining us as well. >> gary, what a great book.he didn't make the grits, i learned from her. what surprised me most about this clinton/jordan friendship is how much clinton relied on jordan throughout his life and presidency. as you just showed, without vernon, we may never have hollywood bill clinton as president. he was that distraught when vernon went down there in 1980 and basically said, you've got to stay in the game. he gave him a really stern talking to. two years later bill clinton was governor again. when he was elected president a decade later, clinton offered vernon any job he wanted, wanted him to be attorney general. he said no, i can be more valuable as your first friend. any time clinton needed help, he'd say call vernon. he was there every time. he was involved in every major personnel position, helped him on key policy decisions. most importantly, he was clinton's main source of relaxation, whether on the golf course or anywhere else. one of the reasons why i think he relied on jordan so much is because he had the

>> susan del percio, former congresswoman donna edwards, thank you both. very much appreciate it. that wraps it up for me. i'm yasmin vossoughian. "politicsnation" with the reverend al sharpton starts right now. >>> good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lede, the summer of our discontent. right now i'm still reflecting on something that president biden told me this week when i and other legacy civil rights leaders sat down with him and vice president harris at the white house to address the national right-wing assault on our voting rights. he said that action is coming, and i take him at his word, heartened that will travel to philadelphia next week to address this suppression campaign as vice president and attorney general garland play their roles in directing the administration's response to it. because whether the assistance comes from the white house, the people's house, or both, the only response that has ever worked to protect minority rights from abuse has been a federal one. teaching us by history, history teaches that left to their own devices, our state

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still with us, tim miller and susan del percio.arthy to be in my home state of new jersey other than to kiss trump's ring and assure him this committee will not hurt in any way. given that, do we have any reason to believe mccarthy will put country first and choose legitimate people for this committee? because let's remind you, that insurrection wasn't partisan. they were going after all of our government. >> there's no chance that kevin mccarthy will do the right thing. i've called them kevin mctrump because he's really just a little trumpster running around. i'm sure that donald trump gave him a list of names and said memorize these, this is who i want on the committee and do what i say. little kevin mctrump will go ahead and do that. >> matt lewis would agree. he wrote in the daily beast about mccarthy visit and i want to share a bit of it. he writes, forget kissing the ring, the point is that mccarthy is licking the bottom of trump's shoes. trump, not mccarthy, is the leader of the republican party. trump can be the 2024 presid

susan del percio, republican strategist and msnbc political analyst and former congressman from floridanbc political contributor. hi, guys, good to see you. what is more concerning to you, is it trump's delusion over the election or is it the crowd of people who are cheering on these lies? >> i think i'm actually growing in concern with both. we have to remember him and his entire family of businesses are in a tremendous amount of legal trouble from a civil and criminal perspective as well as any number of financial penalties if not jail time, so he has to keep the grift going. you have to keep it going with appearances and with statements or else he'll just fade into oblivion. you have to make the speeches no matter how nonsensical to raise money for the trump pac and this on going grift that he has going on. i'm not too concerned with the growing crowd. they are looking for something to do. this is the person who animated them the last five years, gave their lives some purpose. when the rock star comes to town, you pay to go see him and you might see him for an entire region. these ar