joining me now are former democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri and former republican congresswomanrbara comstock. claire, let me start with you on this. that s how much -- what should the biden administration be doing right now? and is there anything that democrats in congress or the biden administration should be doing that can be done before the next election? >> well, i'm not so sure there's a huge role for biden and/or congress right now other than shouting from the rooftops that this law that the supreme court blessed -- and you can try to dress it up and put a bow on it, but they blessed a law that embraces vigilanteism, that embraces the most extreme position, no exception for a 13-year-old who has been repeatedly raped by her father who didn't know she was even pregnant until after six weeks. no exception for that. chuck, 63% of america supports roe v. wade. i guarantee you 80% of america does not want this law with vigilante embraced by the supreme court to become the way of life in america. i really think they've gone too far, and i will not accept both sides on this. thi

so i think that eugene and senator claire mccaskill are right. we are still weeks away. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer have shown before that they know what they are doing. >> great thanks to our stellar starting lineup, peter baker, eugene robinson, claire mccaskill while, friends of this broadcast. our thanks for starting us. off coming up'peril', bob woodward and robert costa, on the state of our democracy. and what's next for the only twice impeached retiree in the state of florida. and a green light for booster shots as we announced. but what if you are not 65? what if you got the moderna or j&j? we will ask the leading expert as the 11th hour is just getting underway on this wednesday night. wednesday night. you have always loved vicks vapors. and now you'll really love new vicks' vapostick. it goes on clear and dries quickly. no mess. just the soothing vicks' vapor for the whole family. introducing new vicks vapostick. i think democracy is hanging by a thread. it's not just the president's agenda. and i don't need to be in hyperbolic. to paraphrase president kenne

senator claire mccaskill, msnbc political analyst, and texas state representative ron reynolds is here. i will start with you, representative. what is going on in texas? >> well, nicolle, happy labor day. unfortunately, many in the republican leadership, it is a race to see who can outflank who in the next republican primary with red meat appeasing the trumpites. it is no longer about what is best for public policy. it is how to go to the far extreme where you don't believe in science and you don't believe in good public policy, but what is far right and can appease to their base. so we should be focusing on issues like health care and covid recovery and medicaid expansion, but we're focused on those red meat issues that you laid out in your opening monologue. i think that they are putting politics over the people, and it is unpatriotic and certainly untexan. >> i want to, representative, put your governor abbott's approval rating. only 41% of texans approve of him.

party also with us is claire mccaskill, and texas state representative ron reynolds. also with you representative, what is going on in texas? >> nicole, happy labor day. unfortunately, many in the republican leadership -- who can outflank who in the next republican primary with red meat appeasing the trump fights. it is no longer about what's best for texas or good public policy. it is how to go to the far extreme where you don't believe in science and you don't believe in good public policy, but what is far right and can appeals to their base. we should be focusing on issues like health care and covid recovery, and medicaid expansion. but we focus on those red wreaked issues that you opened up. they are putting politics before people, it is unpatriotic, and on texan. >> i want you to put up abbots approval rating, 41% of texans approve of, him 50% disapprove.

you asked the right question of claire mccaskill. by saying you can sue anybody who owns one. there's nothing conservative about how this is set up. i think it will fail, but if this ends up being the issue we're talking about in november, it's not just bad for mod ratsds. it's bad for everybody. claire mccaskill got elected in red state missouri on this issue. if this is the conversation we're having, it's going to be bad -- >> it's a conversation that the white house -- they're scrambling and the president put out a forceful statement saying we're going to have an immediate response, have the department of justice, health and human services look at this. the president is standing up as a catholic saying i support roe v. wade. he doesn't want to talk about afghanistan and some of the things making august and september so challenging for him. this is something where he can stand up and say i believe this and i will try my best to do something about it. >> every elected officia is going to have to go on the record on their position on

claire mccaskill, tim miller, thank you. >>> up next, greg abbott as we just heard claire mccaskill say there's no worry. there's no worry for women and girls that they can't get abortions if they have been raped in texas. he has got a plan. >> so goal number one in the state of texas is to eliminate rape so that no woman, no person will be a victim of rape. >> ipso facto, all solved. >>> meanwhile with the stroke of a pen today voter suppression is now the law in texas. plus jim jordan said real americans are done with covid-19. i'll get dr. anthony fauci's thoughts on that. and on the new covid challenges with schools reopening and people going to packed football games. >>> and he played some of the most ground-breaking characters in television history. my thoughts on the passing of michael k. williams. "the reidout" continues after this. "the reidout" continues after this [sfx: radio being tuned] welcome to allstate. ♪ [band plays] ♪ a place where everyone lives life well-protected. ♪♪ and even when things go a bit wrong, we've got your back. here, things work the way you wish they w

claire mccaskill, good to have you on.ant to start with manchin and i can't let go of this fact. chuck schumer, manchin shared this number with schumer two months ago. we've been the last two weeks there's been this public outcry. you know, tell us what to do. well apparently he did at least tell biden and schumer. what do you make of the fact that schumer knew? we could have been talking about what the numbers look like a lot sooner. what is your sense of why we're just pretending to fine out now? >> i think just making sausage, chuck. this is how you get deals. you don't get deals by running out publicly and talking about negotiations between a member who is essential to getting this across the finish line. so if you're joe biden and you're chuck schumer and you've been around the senate as long as those two men have, you know the way to get joe manchin where you want him is not to immediately run out and tell everybody what his starting number was. clearly that was kept close to the vest because they wanted to get him u

former senator claire mccaskill is here. also joining us political reporter for axios and matt miller is back, former chief spokesman for the justice department. lucky for us, all three msnbc contributors. claire, what do you make of the state of affairs here on this labor day? >> well, the supreme court has done something that is far beyond what i imagined they would do. i was very worried about roe v. wade standing in light of the case from mississippi that they're going to hear in a few weeks. but the notion that in the shadow docket, in the dark of night, they would have this kind of statutory bs is startling because, make no mistake, they put a bow on a law that says you no longer have to have standing to bring a social grievance to court. all you have to do is think you have some kind of proof that somebody intended to help somebody get an abortion. imagine a mother who is trying to help their 13-year-old daughter when she just found out that this daughter had been repeatedly raped by her boyfriend. imagine her being th

former senator and msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill is back.mer fbi assistant director for counterintelligence, now an msnbc national security analyst and host of "the bureau" podcast and carol leonnig is here, "washington post" national investigative reporter, msnbc contributor and coauthor of "i alone can fix it." carol, i start with you. i feel like this is more than an iceberg. a lot of this was public facing and some of it reported by you and your colleagues in the "post" and in other news outlets but this is the full monty this is, hell yes, we were asked to lie about the intelligence product when it came to russia, the border and immigration, and white supremacy. wow. >> wow indeed. i have to say that a lot of this, in some respects, as you perfectly described, feels really familiar, not only because of the reporting in the realtime but also reporting that we did later for our book, phil rucker and i, but i will say the wow factor is the trifecta you know, these three items we were instructed very explicitly to doctor, to jimmy, because

senator and now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill and sam stein. by point and met the criticism he's received, a lot of it from democrats, by the way, about his handling of this evacuation over the last couple of weeks. what did you think? >> well, i thought it was slightly defensive but brutally honest. i think he laid out exactly why he made this decision and why he's standing behind it. in many ways i found it refreshing. you know, nobody really believed that the afghan government would melt away as quickly as it did and that complicated this. but he's right about one thing, willie. you don't ever announce you're leaving the country and not have a rush to the exits. and that rush to the exits, whether it was at bagram air force base or at the kabul airport was always going to be really dangerous for the americans trying -- the military trying to process that because they became sitting ducks for suicide bombers. and that's exactly what happened. i thought it was very interesting that he made very clear to america that we're not done with isis, an

msnbc contributor, mike barnicle is with us. >> let's talk about the important stuff first, claire mccaskill beat the mets last night, something that mika's daughter, emelia is not happy about at all. but looks like the cardinals are putting themselves in a position to possibly get a wild card spot and get into the playoffs? >> let's hope. this has been a rough year for cardinals fans. this has been really frustrating and last night was like a typical game where, you know, we were ahead, and then they tied it in the bottom of the 9th and we go to 11 innings, and almost gave it away again with a stupid throwing error by the pitcher in the bottom of the 11th. so i'm hoping that we can keep this trend that our pitchers can quit walking people in late innings, and that we can do for yadi and adam wainwright what they deserve, and that is getting to a world series win. we've got wainwright turning 40. >> stupid throwing errors, horrible bull pen, a frustrating season. claire, i asked you to talk about the cardinals, and not the boston red sox. i'll ask you about the cardinals next. the dodgers, t

joining me, former missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill, also msnbc political analyst, and mattlaire, you come from a state i argue is sort of in this -- most people are within the 30 lines on abortion. either want it to be legal with some exceptions or illegal with some exemptions here. where is this headed in your view. >> i think texas has ignited the vast majority of americans in this country with what they've done. let's be clear. this isn't about polarization as relates to the texas law, this is about that 15% that wants abortion illegal in all cases, including a young girl who has been repeatedly raped by her father who has no idea she's pregnant until after six weeks. in texas, they put out private bounty hunters for her. i mean, that is beyond the pale extreme. i bet if you took a toll on that, it would be 90/10. that's what the supreme court said. >> the party that overreaches gets punished. is this an overreach? >> people are acting like roe has been overturned. i would welcome that outcome. it may be in this dobbs case but hasn't been overturned yet at all. this is a

claire mccaskill is still here.ver shy about speaking out about where you're from and talk about what you see when you see people looking back to the most horrific day, 9/11, and the unity that resulted. >> right after 9/11, in the days after, i remember a moment when we were one. we weren't democrats. we weren't republicans. we were americans. we had been attacked, one nation under god indivisible. there was a moment. and then it didn't last very long and then it went away. and we started to divide. there was another moment for the republican party after romney lost to obama, and claire would know better than i, but priebus said we need to open the tent and be more inclusive and he got the door slammed in his face there were the days of tip o'neill and ron reagan, took a couple drinks in the room, shut the door and came out with a deal. boehner and obama were at least talking about a grand bargain, and then boehner got his leash jerked, and he took it and went right out of congress. i think it's up to the republica

. >> i had this experience on television with my good friend senator claire mccaskill. citizen one from missouri, described before the people act. and senator mansion amendments is his version, his response to it. and when stacy abrams endorsed manchin's compromise blood described as the stacy abrams playbook and what he's trying to do is put a black face on it and the response was he's not embracing it, he's a nice guy. it was exactly this language. talk about how outwoke. >> i had about that example. that's where i take notes. yes. so outwoking is a move that white people often make. i'm more down than you are. i know more about this than you do. i'm actually more down than you and now i'm going to call you out. i've been studying this for three months and i'm going to tell robin d'angelo how long she is. i just got the call back. sometimes i'll go to youtube and now see something. five reasons why robin d'angelo is wrong. and the top one will be she says all white people are racist,can you believe that . what i want to ask is much every white person to do is take a m

joining me is claire mccaskill and joyce vance. a lot of this thinking is sort of main stream and main lined. it feels like what this is in the republican party is accept they did accept after president obama won, we have trouble winning voters of color. that was the old way of thinking wow, we need to rethink our strategy. the new thinking is yolo. we're going to pretend we didn't lose. we're not going to admit it and psychologically accept it's possible for us to lose. but what do you make of my theory? >> well, i think the problem here is you have a leader in the republican party who has no regard for truth, who has lied his entire life. i mean, this is a man who lies like other people brush their teeth and put on their shoes. it is his main way of come mup kating. when he doesn't like what the truth is, he makes up something else. look what he did today. his cyber ninjas basically say hey, guy, you didn't even get as many votes as you thought you got. you got less than you thought you got, and what does he do? he sends out the

and andy bashir to talk about the ongoing pandemic and as mentioned former democratic senator claire mccaskill and former congresswoman barbara comstock will weigh in on the abortion lau. we hope you stick here and in 45 minutes tune into "meet the press" after thinewscast. >>> president joe biden has plans to visit new jersey and new york to survey the damage done by hurricane ida. on tuesday he will travel to queens, new york, and manville, new jersey, where the storm brought major flooding and killed nearly 50 people. the toll was the highest in new jersey where at least 25 people lost their lives. this week the president issued emergency declarations for new jersey and new york and that allows for federal aid to help there. >>> help with airline tickets has become a crucial need during the pandemic and many frustrated families have turned to our consumer team for help. all of them hit some sort of ticket turbulence before they even got to the airport. consumer investigator chris chmura is here with a silver lining in that dark cloud. >> reporter: here's a scenario. you booked a nonstop fli

, my colleague sahil kapur on capitol hill, jeff mason reuters white house correspondent and claire mccaskill served 12 years as a democratic senator from missouri. sahil, i just laid out those three pockets for monday, based on all of our reporting what do you think is the most likely outcome? >> reporter: garrett, they look likely to attempt number three, but i think number one is the most likely outcome. they're going to proceed with that vote and as things stand it does not have the support it needs to pass. they have said there are dozens of democrats, as many as 40 or 50 ready to tank it. they are at least in the teens and the fact that house republican leadership is whipping their members to vote no strengthens jayapal's hand to tank this bill. at the heart of this, this is a bit of mistrust, a disconnect between the centrists and the progressives. centrists got language in the rule saying the house shall vote on the 27th, but progressives are worried if that infrastructure bill passes that the centrists will have no use for for that bigger multi-trillion dollar package and that is the

joining us now to discuss those changes are claire mccaskill, former democratic senator from missouri analyst. paul, a 9/11 first responder, iraq war veteran and the founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans of manager. and the founder of women for women international. thank you all for being here. claire, this is a big picture question. what did you feel watching memory box? what have you been reflecting on as we near the 20-year mark since 9/11? >> i think i felt vulnerability. emotional vulnerability. and i think that was an overriding sense in this country in the days after the attack. i think it was shocking to most americans that someone would have that kind of hatred and go to those extremes. and i look at the aftermath of 9/11 and what happened politically in this country, and it makes me very sad because we came to semithings like religious profiling. it is a very unamerican thing. but that's something this country was willing to embrace because of the fear and vulnerability they felt as a result of those attacks. >> and paul, you volunteered for the invasion of iraq after sep

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