it is good to be with you again juanita tolliver at the end of 2021. weaponizing this pandemic is not a phenomenon that you make to the former president, and people like alex jones who are still committed to misinformation about covid-19 are not going to lead facts or president trump get in the way. we know who that is harming. you mentioned some of the groups that is harming at the top of the show. people we know continue to be disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. whether we are talking about testing. but now we are talking about vaccine and also the economic toll that has taken on people. what we know is that president trump doesn't need to be in office for his rhetoric or style or tone to live on. it is proved politically useful, and it continues to be useful. even if it didn't quite work for him. but remember, he still got almost 75 million votes in defeat. which means that there is still an audience for. him >> right. and 12 million more votes than he got in 2016. juanita tolliver, looking at the map of the vaccination rate across the coun

here to talk us through it, juanita tolliver, veteran political strategist to progressive candidatess. and mark mckinnon, former advisor to both george w. bush and john mccain. he is among the cohost of "the circus" on showtime. good evening, friends and welcome. juanita, i am hoping you can explain this to me. what is going on there? you look at mcconnell, who is still treated and carries himself like the majority leader. in this case, some days de facto. surrounded by members of his caucus. forgive me, grown men and women who are now going to take a dive on the debt ceiling vote. genuflect on cue on his command. tell our audience what is going on here? >> what's going on here is that mcconnell knows he is responsible to the corporations and wealthy donors that gift his campaign, who do not want to see that markets go haywire if the u.s. work to make a historic action at the full of their deaths. that is his sole motivation. that is the motivation of the ten senators who are willing to step up and pass the procedural vote to get this to a final, simple majority vote. and that is wha

the rule change when we have all input. >> still with us, juanita tolliver and stuart stevens. so, juanita, naacp president derek johnson is set to meet with senators on voting rights tomorrow. he released a statement. i'm going to read a little part of. the senate has failed to make voting rights a priority, and that needs to change. we cannot allow 2021 to end without voting rights protections. it would be unconscionable ... our crippling democracy is not waiting around for the senate to act. if nothing gets done, juanita, what should democrats be worried about heading into the midterms? worried ab>> they should be wort the voters who don't have the luxury of waiting in line for 8 to 10 hours to cast their ballots just staying at home. they should be worried about voters who said, you didn't fight for my rights, so i'm not going to vote for you. -- >> who wait to ten hours and then get turned away? >> and then get turned away. barrier after barrier is disruptive. only to those individual voters and their individual right to vote, but to our broader democracy, which we've alrea

still with us, juanita tolliver, mark mckinnon.ead you something our mutual friend, eugene robinson, has written. this happens to be about georgia. we'll talk about its applications beyond georgia after this. the republican party has lost both u.s. senate seats to democrats and stands a real chance of losing the governor's mansion as well. and all of this reflects the gop's into a cult of personality devoted to a former donald trump. mark, you're going to say something along the lines of our mutual friend may be right about georgia, but in other places it sells and it sells big. >> well, but the splinters are starting erupt, brian, in interesting places. georgia is a really good example of that where donald trump is now endorsing david perdue to run against brian kemp, and steve bannon's endorsing kemp over purdue or at least he's saying purdue is a ridiculous candidate and doesn't fit the mold at all. so he's crossed trump on the georgia race. and then dan crenshaw taking on the taylor greene, most of the the freedom caucus saying

juanita tolliver is back with us.ence, of civil war? >> it's a steady escalation that we've seen for years now. it started with donald trump declaring things like the free press being the enemy of the people, inciting violence against the media. we've seen it in the run-up to the 2020 election, the promise that if they didn't get the result that they wanted there would be hell to pay, there would be mayhem. we saw it on january 6, those words turn into actions. these people, this audience, the republican party, these extremists don't take what they're saying as sport or casual conversation, they take it as gospel and treat it as marching orders. we've seen it ever since january 6th. the republican deliberate effort to try to whitewash what happened and evangelize. it's all leading towards more violence, more mayhem. at the end of the day, the republican party has blood on its hands. >> kurt, you saw firsthand how breitbart galvanized people. do you see echos of that same playbook in what's happening now? >> yeah, it i

our thanks to juanita tolliver and susan for being with us tonight. coming up we'll update the challenges getting here to there during the holidays when "the 11th hour" continues. r" continus >>> well, i hate to be the bearer of bad news but travel nightmare continues. first it was getting to grandma's house for christmas. now spiking covid-19 cases continue to force airlines to cancel thousand of flights just as many of those travelers are trying to get home. and winter weather continues grounding hundreds if not thousands more. nbc news correspondent steve patterson has our report. >> reporter: tonight a travel nightmare forecasted for thousands of americans making the long journey home. more than a thousand flights canceled just today. >> we've been in an airport since about 7:30 this morning. >> reporter: in seattle snow and frigid temperatures putting the airport at the top of an unenviable list, the most cancellations in the world. >> we're actually on the plane. >> at the gate. >> for two and a half hours. >> reporter: in northern california, a

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and you heard juanita tolliver mention this earlier.npr reports people who live in pro-trump counties are at least three times as more likely to die from covid-19 as those who live in counties that went for joe biden in 2020. and, quote, counties with an even higher share of vote for trump saw even higher covid-19 mortality rates. this is in large part due to misinformation often spread by republicans. republicans are also playing the blame game when it comes to the economy despite the fact that the biden white house is ending the year with great economic news. according to bloomberg, america's economy improved more in joe biden's first 12 months than any president during the past 50 years. i'm going to say that again. biden's first year in office had the greatest economic bounce since the start of the reagan administration. unemployment claims have dropped to 198,000 ending 2021 back at levels not seen since before the pandemic started despite the omicron surge. the dow and s&p 500 closed at record highs, and in the christmas that repu

we welcome back to the show juanita tolliver. juanita, there as a lot to cover here.things is that we have now heard people relate that joe manchin has made comments about paid leave, suggesting that people might go hunting with their time that they're given, even though almost every other country in the world recognizes paid family leave and medical leave and this people with the child credit might use it for drugs. that's sort of an 80s trope to me. >> exactly right. it's the welfare queen trope that was targeting black and brown communities that relied on government assistance just to make end meet and here manchin is just to roll that out. just shows his lack awareness, his lack of empathy and lack of compassion for people who are in need at the same moment when he recognizes people are paying more for basic goods and due to inflation and yet he doesn't want to do anything about it. i appreciate the report from the a.p. that talked about the 400,000 children that benefit from this. when he can't break that down why that is helpful or why elder care or aid for fami

joining me now is our msnbc political analyst and democratic strat ji juanita tolliver and msnbc political analyst susan delpressio. juanita, let me go to you first. there's a lot of concern about roe versus wade after the supreme court heard arguments wednesday about mississippi's law that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. a ruling likely won't come until the summer, when the decision could have a major impact on the midterm elections. howl do you see the politics of this case playing out? >> i think justice sotomayor named the politics of the case during the oral argument when she said that this was brought forward, these legislators brought this case forward, brought this bill forward because of the composition of the court changed and trumpjust. this is something that is going to mobilize people up and down the ticket to get people out to vote in response to this issue, because the threat is so real, rev. and i think what justice sew mow mayor said it was kind of a wink to organizers say, don't just organize at federal level, but it's organize at the state house level whe

. >>> joining me now is juanita tolliver, democratic strategist and msnbc political analyst, and olivia troy, director of the republican accountability project, and performer aide to mike pence. juanita, longtime trump ally roger stone technically responded to a subpoena from the january 6th committee yesterday. but he refused to answer any questions. instead, setting his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. meanwhile, mark meadows was cooperating and then stopped. now, juanita, the house voted to recommend criminal contempt charges, but are they both just trying to run out the clock? and is it working? >> absolutely, rev. this is a tried and true play by republicans we've seen related to as trump has pushed off the release of his tax returns or pushed off other investigations and other white house officials like don mcgahn testifying before congress. trying to run out the clock through these court trials is something republicans are leaning heavily on. i won't say it's working, though, because the truth is still coming out. even mark meadows is no longer cooperating with t

joining me now are juanita tolliver, democratic strategist and msnbc political analyst, and aaron haines, editor at large at the 19th and an msnbc contributor. aaron, right-wing drivers of disinformation hurt their own supporters, but what about the impact this entrenched anti-vax minority is having on all of us including people of color? >> yeah, absolutely. and jonathan, let me also just thank you and thank brittny for illustrating the human toll of misinformation, and good on brittny for not giving up on her love ones. her sister getting vaccinated is huge. it's good to be with you and waneta. people like alex jones still committed to misinformation about covid-19 are not going to let facts or president trump get in the way. and, you know, we know who that is harming. you mentioned some of the groups that is harming at the top of the show, you know, people of ulcolor who we know continue to be disproportionately impacted by this pandemic which has been unequal from the start whether we're talking about testing and whether we're talking about vaccines and also the economic toll this ha

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juanita tolliver and tara setmayer. thank you, ladies, for sticking with me as well. this one and let's talk mitch mcconnell once again. we end on mcconnell. let's start on mcconnell and what he has said the piskt he has made essentially when it comes to this investigation which had a lot of folks scratching their heads wondering where is this coming from? saying this. it was a horrendous event and think what they are seeking to find out is something the public needs to know. this is something he said to spectrum news. what do you make, juanita, of this pivot we are seeing from the senator? >> i am stuck on the fact that now he thinks it's something the public needs to know after whipping republican votes against a bicameral commission, right? like he impeded that process and stopped it. he also didn't find it horrendous enough to convict trump during his second impeachment hearing about this. so i'm really confused about where this is coming from mitch mcconnell, especially when he is someone who knows how to say no comment when he doesn't want to talk about somethin