jason johnson is still with me.on the panel and newest member of the congress. you just got off your own campaign, so you have seen what it takes to do that g.o. tv game, get grass roots out there. with rampant voter suppression happening across the country, i'm curious your thoughts can the democrats hold the majority without passing legislation to protect voting rights in this country? >> thank you for having me, happy new year tiffany, and my colleague and dr. johnson. we need to talk about what's happening across america when we look at the bills that have been passed, i think there's 34 laws in 19 states restricting voting rights. we have to make sure we are doing everything in our power to stop that. so a coordinated campaign on these baseless accusations of voter fraud and election fraud just really needs to come to an end. protecting our voting rights is a constitutional thing. so we have to make sure that we are doing everything in our power to address that. so this isn't about party benefitting, one party

jason johnson a resident at morgan state university. we like to do a segment called who won the week. you guys are all veterans. we want to know who won the whole year. chairman steele, my friend. we are going to ask you a big question. >> big one. >> in your mind, who won the year? >> i am ready for that. i am so happy to be with this crew. this will will be a great conversation. in my book only one person. the honorable nancy pelosi. she has demonstrated time and time again a level of political resilience that is unmatched in modern politics. i know this firsthand. i am the guy that got her fired in 2010, right. >> i remember. >> i know what i am talking about. from her leadership, her tenacity, i disagree vehemently with a lot of the policies that nancy is out there promoting and i am ready to get into the trench and do it all over for the fight. but in terms of trying to hold the line on our democracy, number one, and at the same time trying to navigate and move the biden administration into a position where she can get a win. you h

aaron haynes, jason johnson, thank you and appreciate you both. i want to bring in sheilyn eiffel. you heard what they said. there is not a lot of box left for president biden other than the rhetorical box, which he used today in which vice president harris used today. so let say the vote goes on the floor of the senate and manchin and sinema decide we're rolling with that. we'll be the strom thurmond end of the party. then what? >> thank you. much of the power around election protection is going to rest with the department of justice. i don't have any worries that the department of justice will not pull out all the stops to do some of the important things that we need to protect the vote. that was the whole point of ensuring that there were, you know, former civil rights attorneys and voting rights attorneys in leadership the head of the civil rights division is christian clark, an experienced long time voting rights litigation. so there will be things that can be done through the doj for sure and i think many of the ideas that jason talked about and we have pressed the president

joining our conversation, jason johnson of morgan state university, and an msnbc contributor.ly is here, now the national chairman of the serve america movement as well as an msnbc contributor. and my friend and colleague, nbc news white house correspond end mike memoli. he made news of his own today. he has been following president biden for more than a dozen years and now today announced he is working on a book about the president. called the long run. it comes out in 2004. congratulations on that mike memoli. i have pushed the white house, i am sure you have better reporting than i do. there wasn't a plan b if the supreme court came to this conclusion today. what do they do next? >> yeah, the white house was clear throughout this process that they felt that this regulation was on firm legal ground, that they had the firm legal footing from federal law to do this, that the workplace standards they could set would be supported. the president released a statement a short time ago essentially saying there is nothing we can do here, this is up to the states and private businesse

our lyme disease syndrome, you yourself encounter, you know, have a fearsome allostatic load as jason johnson calls it because of the racism you suffered, that seems plain as day to you, but the pain of other people including those with life syndrome or with, who are suffering from diseases of despair or addiction as i i suffered from for a long time, you are absently sure that your pain is not only be on unimpeachably unimpeachable is true, but that it takes precedence over the pain of others. i think there is a willingness when both, both sam and batya talked to say a a certain kinf pain, let's say religious discrimination and bigotry is real, or classism is real. that's a kind of suffering that feels palpable to you, where other kinds of suffering say this allostatic load that what you might call, what the two of you might call woke late jason johnson says they suffer from is somehow less real. or the suffering of the followers of jordan peterson, the sort of right-wing folklore expert who's become here to young men, he has i think some people on the right for you quote in your book includ

some democrats are just saying that out loud.rm here is msnbc jason johnson pai to get working hard toer sa republican party again because are not a saparty, they are a d store front for terrorist movement. >> they follow dc gun laws because you can get in trouble if you don't. these people. up front for a terrorist movement. do they really mean what they say? whon knows if they mean it. they're acting like it and that's a problem. out of the rest of us respond a the re- u.s. government redefines people who disagree with their political beliefs as terrorists. they're is only one way and it' a nine violent way the refusal to play along.ed don't pretend they're sincere, they are not sincere, tell the truth. call authoritarianism what it is , preferably with a middles er finger extended. that's what man called he is a political consultant who dares to work for whcandidates runnin against the january 6 committee. you don't want to do that. just days ago the senior counse on that committee demanded an interview essentially. i feel sorry for you that you have to deal with the likes of liz ch

here is msnbc's jason johnson. >> i'm working hard to never say republican party again because it's notarty. they are the plo to hamas, they are a dime store front for a terrorist movement. >> tucker: but they follow d.c. gun laws because you can get in trouble if you don't. these people. a front for a terrorist movement, do they really mean what they say? who knows if they mean it? they are acting like it and that's the problem. how do the rest of us respond as the u.s. government redefines people who disagree with their political beliefs as terrorists. there's really only one way and it's a nonviolent way, the essential way, refused to play along. don't pretend they are sincere, they are not sincere, tell the truth. call authoritarianism what it is, preferably with a middle finger extended to. that's what a man called alex russo it's dead, he's a republican political consultant who dares to work for candidates running against members of the january 6 committee, you don't want to do that. what happened? here's how he responded. "i feel sorry for you that you have to deal with the likes

or just do another night m of january 6h coverage -- listen to msdnc extremist jason johnson comparingcans to the terrorist group hamas. >> i've been saying this for a while i'm working hard to never say republican party again. it's not a party. they are the plo to hamas. they are a dime store front for a terrorist movement. they didn't have a policy in 2020 except loyalty to trump. they are asking their 2024 nominees did not engage in presidential debate, they are no longer a party. nothing surprises me anymore. >> sean: the biden agenda is failing on every front, costs are up, wage gains are being wiped out by inflation, people are leaving the labor force biden has revealed himself to be an empty suit, empty promises overseeing empty shelves. despite campaigning as amp unitr biden is doing nothing but divide the country. he even compared americans against his federal election takeover scheme to george wallace and jefferson davis. are you starting to feel the unity? he's brave enough to show up i have no idea why, former obama economic advisor austan goolsbee. i'm just waiting for the

jason johnson. a politics and journalist professor at morgan state university. jason, good morning.friend. happy new year. i did not get to toast last night. so i brought our little bubbly here on the set. >> this works for me. >> so we can welcome in the new year together. >> so the world knows this is orange juice for me, i'm lame. it's just orange juice. >> this is not just orange juice for me. but happy you're enjoying your orange juice. what did you do last night? >> i did a lot. but all safe. all covid safe. no photos of me on ig or anywhere else running around -- >> if folks have photos of you, please tag me. >> please don't. i don't need that. so i had been on planes for like a day and a half to get here, we'll have a conversation about covid and travel. i got together with two friends, masked indoors and we did a manifestation ceremony, we talked about things we wanted to manifest in 2022, what we wanted to let go, we wrote them down, burned them, put them in a buet

morgan state university professor jason johnson, and nyu law professor melissa murray. welcome to both of you. jason, i want to start with that point about the economy, because as joe scarborough, a former republican congressman, was just saying, and others are looking at this, it seems like a great result for a first-year president to hit at the time where he also has the wind at his back on these other stories. >> usually, cash rules everything around a president, ari, but not in this particular case. people may not feel this economic growth the way the numbers seem to be playing it out right now. look, you can have all sorts of great things happening in the stock market. you can have all sorts of fantastic things happening with large businesses, but on people's day to day lives, they're still seeing gas prices go up, foodup, and they're still concerned about the safety of their job. this is no longer a raw numbers situation. joe biden's responsibility in part is to give people a sense of comfort and money alone won't do it. i can tell you quite frankly that most peopl

anna, what about jason's point, that actually we want to feel a little bit of sympathy for boris johnsonovernment. and - even involved him. yeah, but it is under his government. and to - even involved him. yeah, but it is under his government. and to be| under his government. and to be fair, _ under his government. and to be fair, we _ under his government. and to be fair, we have all struggled through the lockdown restrictions. all of us, i_ the lockdown restrictions. all of us, ithink— the lockdown restrictions. all of us, i think we all do recognise the weight— us, i think we all do recognise the weight that he carries on his shoulders as we are navigating through— shoulders as we are navigating through a _ shoulders as we are navigating through a very unprecedented period of our— through a very unprecedented period of our times. because we have never seen _ of our times. because we have never seen anything like this before. sol think— seen anything like this before. sol think no— seen anything like this before. sol think no one is diminishing that. but what — think no one is diminish

jason, before we scoot on out of here, there is one that boggles the mind. at the beginning, we set if we ever get a vaccine, we are gonna mobilize it. johnson & johnson came out one that did not have to have all of the fancy refrigeration. now that jerry is out on whether it helps against omicron. you are going to take it into those mainly black and brown neighborhoods, where are the ideas with this administration? >> jason: well, the president is now admitting that you need to do it state-by-state. you look at ron desantis -- >> harris: that's what he is admitting. >> jason: yeah, exactly. they don't have a plan. i challenge anybody to sit down and write out what is the biden plan to tackle this? when you are going to spend $73 billion to have testing for everybody, that's more than $200 per person. but if you go to get a test, you're going to be waiting in line, or you're not going to be able to find one. so instead of targeting those who are the most vulnerable, those that really truly needed, we are going to start sending out testing kits to everybody across the country even though they may not need one. it doesn't make sense. >> harris