and jelani cobb, staff writer for the "new yorker" joins me now.great piece and i thought of it today when i saw that blunt video because it just felt like it was beamed from another dimension. i don't mean to say this to praise blunt who, you know, voted for the tax cuts and to kill off the aca and acquit the president twice and whose politics in my humble opinion are not great. but what he views as his role, the thing he thinks he's doing as a u.s. senator is so wildly different than what josh hawley and ted cruz or donald trump think they're doing. >> right. and he's not the only one. i mean, there's a whole list of people we talk about who come to similar conclusions. not all of whom are kind of well-known elected officials but many are the people who served in posts in previous republican administratio.÷) who are quietl leaving the party. i think the difference is culture war as kind of a means to win a position that allows you to legislate as opposed to culture war for culture war's sake, which is what seems to be the identity of the party no

. >> i'm joined by eugene daniels, author of the political playbook, and jelani cobb, a staff writer.h are msnbc contributors. eugene, mayorkas was out in full force. >> why the challenge at the border is as difficult as it is now, even though we're tackling it and will tackle it successfully, is because the entire system was dismantled by the trump administration and we're in the midst of a pandemic. so it makes the challenge more difficult, but we know how to meet that challenge. the personnel of the department of homeland security will and are meeting that challenge. and we will execute this successfully. >> eugene, a little later in the show, we're going to talk about the humanitarian challenges happening at the border, the real cost there, but i want to ask you about what is happening in washington as a lens through which to understand what's going to happen to these people at the border. your sense of what the administration believes it is up against. >> they have constantly said that, you know, telling people not to come to try to cross the border. they said that before they we

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. >> iq for joining us for this conversation among our authors and annette gordon-reed and jelani cobb. we have striven to publish books that relevant and contemporary issues and what gives me great pride with my own historical background is that we also strive to create in these books the historical route underlying our most entrenched social dilemma. it's not just part of this but we really want to get at the roots . each of these three scholars very important new books that provide fresh insight to the long shadow of racial injustice in america . i'm familiar with all three of the books and from the struggle to set aside a national holiday honoring emancipation including personal memoir, annette gordon-reed to a re-examination of a 1968 current commission report showing how relevant it is, he would have to read that book to get insights into the election, 2 from elizabeth hinton an extraordinary history which shows linkages of social movements and social rebellion which have always been denigrated as rise, it can create a new history and movement in each of these dollars present ove

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and jelani cobb on the staft a republican party that didn't lift a finger for an american rescue.t and big news on the new covid treatment and new cdc guidance for people who have already been vaccinated. when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. well, it looks like it is really actually happening. the most shockingly aggressive re

jelani cobb, who's got that great piece in "the new yorker" you should check out, thanks for making time tonight. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" on this monday night. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining usmonday. >>> this weekend, the great state of new hampshire got 11,000-ish doses of the one-shot/one-dose johnson & johnson vaccine for covid, and they decided to use it all instantly, in one, big, mass vaccination blast. and they targeted an interesting group of people. everybody eligible for the vaccine in new hampshire who had already signed up to get a vaccine but had been put at the end of the line, had been told they couldn't get their shot until april or may, the state called all of those people in the state, everybody who had late appointments, and said, we know you're interested in getting a vaccine, how about this weekend instead? and in one weekend, they did a drive-thru mass vaccination clinic for more than 11,000 people, and they did it at the

despite a fair housing law in 1968, evidence showed that as late as 1985, jelani, i believe you and ireal estate agents steered black renters and home buyers to a section of town where they were the majority. 1985. i think one of the meaningful things about this is we're talking about a group of people, this is not slavery, which was a long time ago. this is the 20th century. and for people who have trotted out the argument, oh, this happened a long time ago, why should we be doing this now, this neutralizes that argument entirely. >> it absolutely does. when people are talking about slavery, first off, slavery is not that long ago. we kind of see the impacts of that. but even if we didn't talk about that, even if we started from simply the 20th century and respotted people, all the discriminatory practices that happened before then, we would still have a huge debt, a huge set of inequalities that were engineered by public policy. and, so, this is not alarming or shocking. the other thing is that as housing was created, city after city after city evanston wasn't alone in this. this wa