>> uh-huh. >> why don't we see if we have michael steele.ping for joy reid. but go ahead. >> this is a disaster. >> whenever i see a hurricane and 125-mile-per-hour wind, hang onto a pole. >> you do have a nice head of hair. >> it's the only thing democrats and republicans can agree on. >> do you have time, though, for a bad, passover joke? >> do you have a favorite economist joke? >> you know the rapper 50 cent, right? given recent inflation, his name is now 64 cent. >> oh. >> it's so like dorky dad. >> we think of it as more nerdy than dorky. do you have any polling on dead armadillos? survey says, they're dead, i guess. you didn't just take the high road, you took the high road really fast, because you're fast on the road. >> could extra snaps be exchanged for extra stuffing or leftover cranberry sauce? is just a fancy snickers. >> everybody gets a high-five. >> if you don't know, now you know. >> that does it for us, tonight. you can always catch the beat week nights on msnbc at 6:00 p.m. eastern. we want to wish you and your families a

joyce vance and michael steele is back with me. welcome to you both and welcome back, michael. hopefully you had a drink of water in the break. joyce, let's talk about this idea of a wave of honestly, i don't know how the conversation goes. hey, man, let me by outon the li list of pardons and they are saying what did i do wrong? the criminal exposure some of these quote unquote associates have and friends and family talking about the kids for instance, why would he preemptively pardon his daughter, sons, son-in-law? for what reasoning? >> this is just unlike any parten process we've ever seen before. it's not unusual for a president at the end of his term to go ahead and engage in some pretty significant numbers of pardons but usually lly it goes throug justice department's office of the pardon attorney. there is an effort to look at cases and to do justice or grant mercy and cases are evaluated. judges who tried cases are talked to. the parties and victims are consulted. the defendant's record and a decision is made about whether to pardon or not based on advice of a lot of di

larry, msnbc viewers have come to know the many michael steeles.ke better the original rnc chairman, the new michael steele who said that because of trump's leadership and record he was breaking with his party to endorse joe biden, or the third choice, the original muppet michael steele? >> i'm always going to prefer the muppet because the muppet has a type of facial hair that humans just can't achieve, you know? and it's fantastic. it's this fuzz that kind of -- it's coming at you, but it's kind of spreading out at the same time. see what i mean? it's like, it's just a beautiful type of thing. >> hold on. fact check. are you talking about the fuzz -- the blue fuzz or the actual mustache? >> yes. no, no, the mustache and the hair on top. all of it. i mean, you can't duplicate that. it's fantastic. >> no, you can't. >> michael's been -- >> i've tried. >> michael's been trying to duplicate that but he's

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what's your reaction to that, michael steele? >> i don't think they'll get far with that. i'm focused on the future. i think the presidential election is in the past. as a republican, we lost the presidency. we lost the majority in the house. we are desperately clinging to a majority in the senate and most important thing we can do is win those two georgia senate races and the most important thing we can do to win those races is convict republican people that their vote counts so all of these efforts to undermine confidence in the result of the elections particularly in georgia are counterproductive to the goal of making sure republicans keep the majority in the senate and keep some measure of influence in washington. >> now, james, you've been out here and as i said known as a strategist. have you seen in your career a president, incumbent president that seems more bent on trying to continue to propagate what is blatantly untrue that he won the election and in many ways discredit the system of voting at the expense of maybe senate seats for his own ego. i mean, have you s

larry, msnbc viewers have come to know the many michael steeles.ke better the original rnc chairman? the new michael steele who broke with his party to endorse joe biden, or the first one, the muppet. >> i'll always prefer the muppet. the muppet has a type of facial hair that humans can't achieve. it's fantastic. it's this fuzz that -- it's coming at you but it's spread out. see what i mean. it's just a beautiful thing. >> fact check. are you talking about the fuzz, the blue fuzz or the mustache? >> the mustache and the hair on top, all of it. you can't duplicate that. it's fantastic. michael's been trying to d duplicate that, but he's not been successful. i don't know if he's trying to act like he's a woke one too. whatever, michael. >> larry, i'm running out of time. there's a lyric that applies to this. >> uh-oh. what can it be? >> from young m.a., we in the streets like sesame. >> there you go. >> there you go. and the day's number is three. >> i thought, michael, the number of the day was 270 and only one side has it. >> look, the only thing i

now a host of the michael steele podcast and a senior advisor for the lincoln project. gentlemen, good evening. and michael, since i'm going to start with the republican party, i'll start with you. go back as far as i don't know eisenhower, f. dirkson, howard baker, ronald reagan. can you imagine any of them calling their followers victims, any of them calling their country a third world country? and i guess my question is when do you get your party back? >> well, to the first one it would be unmanly. to the second it would be unseemly, and it may be gone for a long, long time. you know, when you look at the great stalwarts of the party, the men and women who, you know, laid down the bricks from its founding in the 1850s to the reagan era, there was a general consensus about things when it came to governing the nation, when it came to dealing with our allies and enemies, and when it came to how we saw ourselves. the fact the president has now basically made the claim that republicans have always made about liberals, that they're all about creating victims, and they're a

>> yes, but i don't get the relevance. [ laughter ] >> if michael steele were the judge here, he would say irrelevant. inadmissible. >> objection sustained. [ laughter ] >> exactly. >> michael, your thoughts on all of the above? >> well, look, the professor and the prosecutor have said the framing of this expertly as smart people do and they -- you know, whether it is an academic exercise or legal one, you still come back to the same question. so why are you so worried about being prosecuted? why are you so worried about being pardoned? d what did you do? the reality of it is, you know, trump's problem, he may be able to escape the federal hook, all right? whatever that may or may not be. his problem is what he did in his business is what he's done with his taxes or failed to do. it's what he's done in his financial dealings as a private citizen, that's what the state of new york is looking at and if that bled over into his operationalizing activities as president meaning members of his family acting on his behalf because as we all know, donald trump doesn't give up control of anything

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you live it. >>> our pals, former senator claire mccaskill and former rnc chair michael steele are backl, you were talking about the craziness in your party. you have had 126 members who signed onto that texas lawsuit. you're talking about kevin mccarthy, who would be speaker if the house were to flip, steve scalise, he's in leadership. mario diaz balart in florida and others. you had them running away. kevin mccarthy, steve scalise refusing to make any comments about the supreme court loss, just pretending it didn't happen. i want you to listen to a guy named paul mitchell. he is quitting the field rather than standing and fighting as his party goes downhill. take a listen. >> as i saw that amicus brief as well as the discussions over the weekend in the national media, it became clear to me that i could no longer be associated with the republican party that leadership does not say up and say the process, the election is over. it's over today. i saw the president tweet out it's not over until january 20 and he's going to continue to combat this. the people have voted. as i said in my le

democrats hope that trend continues when we go into january 5th, chuck. >> michael steel, and i'm goingo ask a question that we all know the obvious answer to in some ways, but i've got to put up the two tweets from president trump yesterday that singled out doug ducey and brian kemp. i'll put them up. the doug ducey tweet. why is he rushing to put a democrat in office when so many horrible things concerning voter fraud are being revealed at the hearing right now and he cites onn. what is going on with doug ducey? republicans long remember. then on on kemp. why won't brian kemp use his emergency powers which can be easily done to overrule his obstinate secretary of state and do a match of sig achs on envelopes which will be a gold mine of fraud. it's amazing how many elected republicans are shrugging their shoulders at the president's demand that other elected officials violate the constitution. >> yeah, i think, look, let's start with the bottom line. both of these republican senate candidates in georgia are probably going to win in these runoffs. very likelihood that any other lower t

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and joining me now is former senator claire mccaskill of missouri and michael steele, former chairman of the rnc. and, michael, i want to start on that last point because, you know, donald trump is just openly using the white house as the backdrop for his infomercial. >> yeah. >> but he's always doing the same thing, right? you know, i interviewed people when i wrote the recent book i wrote about trump, and they said to a person they didn't think he was going to win. they thought it would be great marketing for his hotels to run for president. he's been using his presidency to suck money out of foreign diplomats. people with him are in on the scheme. everyone howled michael flynn calling for martial law to overthrow the election. it says contribute now! right? you have sidney powell, her organization is doing these loopy, nutsy cuckoo lawsuits. her organization directs donors to write checks payable to her law firm. it is all a scam, michael. >> i'm not going to argue with one bit of that. the great little dirty party of this is donald trump right now, joy, is raising money at a faste

joining me now, anita kumar and former rnc chair michael steele. welcome to you both, guys.joining me this afternoon. anita, i want to start with you on this and the reporting that you know so far on possible preemptive pardons here. talk first about the possible criminal exposure any of these individuals could have from the president's children to his son-in-law to his lawyer, rudy giuliani. >> well, let's start with saying that there are no charges pending against any of these people that we're hearing about. you know, the president's children, primarily don jr. as well as rudy giuliani have faced some investigations, but no charges were ever made. his son-in-law, jared kushner, had some questions raised about his security clearance and what information he gave for that. but what the president and his allies are looking at doing is saying, let's just do this blanket sort of pardon. so that later on down the road, when joe biden comes into office, when the department of justice is looking at investigations, that they won't face these really long partisan investigations, as

former republican national committee chair michael steele. gene sperling, former director of the national economic council for presidents clinton and obama. and from missouri, democratic senator claire mccaskill, an nbc and msnbc contributor. thanks so much to all of you. gene, let's talk about janet yellen and other members of the team and why janet yellen is the right person to run treasury, the first woman and obviously someone with superb qualifications. >> i mean, janet yellen, it's hard to think of someone who has not just her resume but her heart, her academic brilliance, and someone who absolutely commands respect on both sides of the aisle, and globally. and at a time of crisis like this, go to someone where there's such competence in her head and her heart and her experience, makes that very, very strong pick. but i think what's really distinctive about this team is that, to use words i like and i think joe biden does, this is an economic dignity team. this is a team of not, you know, ivory tower folks. this is a team of people who

back with us are mike memoli, michael steele, and kristen welker. let's talk about pete buttigieg, among the things he said is he will be the second biggest train enthusiast now, as you've noted right in the shadows as you are in wilmington of the joseph r. biden amtrak train station, we've seen him on the train ourselves many, many times, we know that's how he commuted for decades back and forth to wilmington, never having a washington place when he was raising his kids, and also that pete buttigieg is another first, biden going through a litany of all of the firsts in his new cabinet in terms of diversity, women and blacks and hispanics and south asians, of course kamala harris representing several ethnic groups as well, a black american woman who is of south asian descent, as well. now the first openly gay nominee for the cabinet. it does raise the risk in all of this history-making, and a cabinet that will look like the face of america, of how much he is being pressed by different groups for diversity and how that has delayed some key appointmen

kasie hunt and former chafe of the republican national committee and msnbc political analyst michael steele is with us. we have a lot of developments in terms to the coronavirus to get to this morning. the u.s. is inching closer towards approval for a coronavirus vaccine, but the white house coronavirus task force is out with a stark warning that we're not likely to see a substantial reduction of viral spread, hospitalizations or fatalities until late spring. right now the u.s. is in the midst of the fastest, wide effort and longest surge of new covid infections yet. meanwhile, yet another member of the president's circle has tested positive for the coronavirus. this time it's his lawyer jenna ellis who attended a white house high-level staffer christmas party on friday. someone pointed out on twitter that there are now more trump attorneys with covid than they have election challenge wins. and that's where i think we'll begin this morning. willie? >> yeah. another big blow to president trump's efforts to overturn the election. this time all the way to the top in the united states supreme c

and michael steel.mer chairman of the rnc. thank you both for being here. mayor i want to start with you. do you agree with the spokesperson for the republican attorney general of georgia and what she said about what the texas attorney general is doing? >> first of all, congratulations to you. secondly, i do agree. i am finding myself at a loss for words. this abuse of power and attempt to interfere with elections is astonishing to me. it's disturbing. i feel when i'm watching the news and having some type of outer body experience. it's difficult to concept liz this is america in 2020. you win some and lose some. i lost my first election and came back and beat seven people without a run off. because i learned something from the loss. that is what good elected officials do. this is not little league baseball. everybody doesn't get to go home with a trophy. sometimes you lose. donald trump lost. >> chairman steel, can we talk about your party and the people in your party? with these lawsuits and hail mary

and michael steele, former rnc chairman. michael, one of the takeaways of the night was senator loeffler declining to say that president trump lost the election. i mean, republicans seem to be stuck between having to claim this was rigged and, yet, need people to trust the system and get out and vote. i mean, do you think her refusal to say the president lost ultimately helps her get votes, or does it keep people away? >> i think it helps her with the base people who are with the president and with her. the question is, will that be enough to win a special election on january 5th? they have -- i mean, calling it conflicting messaging would be an understatement. it is just, you know, factually devoid. it is misleading. it is undermining the very goal of the georgia republican party. to turn out the vote in what is an election about the balance of power in the united states senate. the president, up until now, has told everyone that vote by mail is not good. now, they're trying to claim that, well, but we still need you to vote

>> i have a lot of respect for michael steel. i get where he's coming from.rsonally, there comes a point when the home isn't worth saving. a home can be rebuilt and be replaced. it got to be bigger for than if mer. i didn't want to be in that home anymore. things were so contaminated and the cancer that is trumpism. it's throughout the entire party. there was no going forward for me. that was going to be okay to be a part of that. or work with the people. they reached the point of no return. i personally believe that's the point where you have to decide you'll build a new home somewhere else. >> i can hear my democratic friends my hard core democratic friends hearing your story and going i don't know what the hell took you so long. we have been trying to republicans for years. it's not worth saving. the treatment of people of color or willingness to demonize lgbtq people. or willingness to start wars around the world that are unnecessary. and smirk at low income people and make tax cuts for the wealthy. for you listen to the democratic friends sooner you coul

. >> let's bring in our panelist, daniel moody, host of the podcast, and michael steele, former seniorle, i want to start with both of you. you have seen michael flynn right there with that and even more frightening i would say, you have scott o'grady who is a nominee for the pentagon position who is also calling for martial law. should people be concerned right now? >> i think that people should be concerned right now. because the republicans are held-bent on creating a coup. and it's not a joke, and it's not anything for us to be laughing, that the fact that they are working overtime to try to undermine our democracy. voting is a fundamental part of our democracy, and over 100 million people voted before november 3rd. people stood in line for 11 hours in order to vote. there has been no fraud. no fraud found anywhere. and so i think that it is incredibly irresponsible of senators, like senator grassley, to get on television, and to say, oh, well there hasn't been fraud but that doesn't mean that there isn't any. actually that's exactly what it means. if he's looking for something --

. >>> audioi'm joined by michael steel, former spokesman by john boehner. ist for "the washington post." thank you both for being with us. michael, president trump is turning on every republican who will not defend his allegations of voter fraud. and that's including mitch mcconnell. in fact, trump's special assistant sent an email at his request to republicans attacking the senate majority leader. so politically speaking is trump hurting himself and his political future by doing this, or is the support among his base still solid enough to support these types of attacks? >> i think he's definitely -- chances of a comeback in the republican party. i think that he is -- the pandemic, our economy, or working effectively to help win those senate georgia runoff races which are the top priority for republicans and conservatives. he's dealing in this fever dream of conspiracies that he somehow didn't lose the presidential election, which he obviously did and there's no good that can come of this. no good that can come from tightening his -- to this small kernel of

. >> hey, me again, michael steele.will be jammed with negative ads from the washington crowd. grainy pictures and spooky music saying steele hates puppies. and worse, for the record, i love puppies, and we deserve better, real ideas for change, like a ban on gifts from lobbyists. that's a start, because washington can't fix our problems until we fix theirs. i'm michael steele, and this is my message. >> i don't know what it is about black men running for office and puppies, but it seems to be important. what's the message here, dr. greer? what is it that african-american candidates often have to do when they're running statewide and how do we see it in these two ads? >> i mean, jason, they have to operate on multiple levels because there's no state in the union that has a majority african-american population, and we have a very small history. zero black governors in the history of our country, only two black female senators elected. we had two black male governors elected, some were appointed, and a handful of black me

>> and here with me to discuss, washington post columnist donna edwards, former rnc chairman michael steelehael harriet. and also maria hinojasa, author of once i was you. thank you all very much for being here. this is an historic day for the country, for eye inside with the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. let's take a listen to what hhs secretary alex -- no, i'm sorry, what mr. hahn had to say earlier on cnn. >> hhs second and schls secreta the u.s. was on track to have doses ready for 20 million americans by the end of the year. 20 million, that is just 18 days away. you have 2.9 million going out right now. that doesn't seem possible, does it? >> i think that it is possible. you know, certainly heard those discussions and i think that is a reasonable prediction and i have confidence around that. >> okay. having heard that, let's go round robin and see if anyone else is confident. congresswoman edwards. >> i'm confident. i mean, i think that they have done exactly what they need to do and they will get these vaccines out especially our first responders. and then make sure that all am

michael steele, i know we're ten train stops past the prize, but where is the condemnation from anyoneacy. >> well, they're not governing in this democracy. they haven't been governing for a while now. they've ceded that. you're talking about a party that has no ideology morings that couldn't sit in a room to come up with a platform to decide and define for the country who we would be and what we would say to the country in this most previous election cycle. so, the realities are one of, you know, as the secretary of state said, what does donald trump want us to do, the only question we have is how high. and that is what we'll do. how high do you want us to jump? we'll jump. how low do you want us to go, we'll go. and this is probably the lowest that any elected official could go, particularly as senator lamar alexander put it for a party that prides itself on the supporting the tenth amendment, state's rights, the individual decisions made by the states. if there is any inkling of anything saying anything remotely close to federalizing elections or having across the board standard for

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i want to bring in our experts tonight, michael steele is an rnc chair that supported joe biden in the campaign and "the new york times" michelle goldberg. michael, it doesn't feel like it's getting better right now. your thoughts? >> it's not and it's not for a very good reasons because the leadership of the party along with certainly the president of the united states continued to allow to fester out there this notion that this election was rigged, this idea that there were criminal acts, you know, heaped upon donald trump and his campaign and that quite frankly, the election was stolen from him. donald trump telegraphed this back in august when he indicated that, you know, if i lose, it has to be rigged because we know everybody in the country is voting for me. well, duh, they are not. the reality is they now are having to give cover, you have a political apparatus who feel tlaented by the process we're going through because they don't know, ari, how someone will interpret donald trump's crazy rantings. they're just not sure whether or not a mob is going to show up at their home as

nations leading governors and i would like to bring in two of my favorite people, john delaney and michael steele. they have a lot of common. both have presented the great -- represented the great state of maryland and both have suffered the slings and arrows of independent thought in pursuit of outcome, and i think most important, they are both board members of the bipartisan policy center and we have the great benefits of an exceptional board who gives us tremendous guidance and works hard to keep us or move our recommendations into action for it as we forward next year of our solutions. we thought it would be great to have two of our board members share thoughts about where you think the country is in the idea that we are working on that makes you proud to be a part of the bpc. with that, i'm out. michael, take it away. [laughter] >> thank you, jason. i appreciate it, man. great pleasure to be a part of this solution summit with an incredible array of talent ed speakers and policy proposals that i think will be important certainly going forward over the term, for the early the incoming adminis

claire mccaskill, michael steele, thank you very much. "all in with chris hayes" is up right now. chris. >> thank you so much, joy, appreciate it. nice to see you in person. good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. it has been a really remarkable day of news. we just heard president-elect joe biden delivering a speech in wilmington, delaware, on a truly significant day as we're right now looking to turn the page on the two biggest stories of this brutal, brutal year. so today members of the electoral college met across the country to formally cast their ballots. now, this happens every four years. this is usually a pro forma thing that's not really covered. it happens in the background because the loser of the election by this point has already conceded and everyone has accepted the peaceful transfer of power. but because the president and his party have posed an unprecedented nearly challenge to the peaceful transfer of power, we have been following and covering in minutia the guts of the electoral college system. this was the moment that the california delegation voted, putt

that tweet is from michael steele last night after this -- first out agains reported by politico.he new york times with more about the historic nature of a general austin confirmation to defense secretary. they note it would be particularly pointed for black rest point graduates. he was reared in thomasville, georgia, the same town that produced10 -- henry flipper, the first african-american graduate of west point. that is how the end of their column today -- that reporting today on this appointment that is expected to come at some point today. we will look to the announcements from the joe biden -- president-elect joe biden's campaign, the office of the president-elect is what they are being called these days. greg is in mechanicsville, pennsylvania, an independent. caller: good morning. interesting comments here. number one, i am a west point graduate. probably the same time general austin graduated. i am the class of 1970. i think it is interesting that everybody wants to play the race card. this guy is being nominated for a position to be secretary of the department of defense

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steel. this is "the european close." govecabinet mr. michaelells lawmakers that the check this more likely they want secure an agreement less than 50%. brussels isrom maria. i can't get my mind around it. the rhetoric seems relatively positive, inching toward a deal. where are we in reality and where are the sticking whites? maria: that is a good point. even though we hear from the ,.k. site that this is likely the reality is in brussels, talks have been happening around the clock. get leaks at we don't know what is happening in the room. we don't want it to be shut down or killed before it can lie. it shows they have to some extent entered the tunnel, that is a term for the final stretch of a deal. ,n terms of where we are at was is interesting, there an issue that had been resolved and this comes down to the fish and a level playing field. it is quid pro quo. moves, the u.k. moves on something else. i wouldn't read that is a bad thing, it is a good thing. the fact that it is working and nothing has leaked. fisheries seems to be the sticking p

steel, with guy johnson in london. this is "bloomberg markets." industrial output and retail sales reinforcing expectations of healthy growth in 20 anyone -- in 2021. michaelckee joins us with those numbers. michael: the u.s. is tightening up, and china growing strongly. moving ahead of other industrial economies on the strong data we have seen from retail sales, industrial production, and investment. industrial production up 7% in november. then we's all retail sales rise by 0.5 percent. as you can see, with the fixed income investment rising 2.6%, the basic thrust of all of this is to move up. that sets the stage for a strong 22 anyone. -- strong 21. -- strong 21. the world is buying a lot of ppe , medical equipment, and work from home electronics from the chinese. they still have work to do one imports because at this point, it is an export driven recovery, but is still good move -- good news for them overall. it likely that china is going to be the only major economy to grow this year. the forecast is for a 2% growth rate for the year, and then you look at 2021, they haven't had this kind of growth since 2011. a very strong year ahead for china based o

michael o'rielly joining us there. joining us.iley your options, futures, stocks, indexes. we will talk to the qbr founder. -- q.v. are founder. vr founder. this is bloomberg. ♪ york, i'm from new alix steellondon -- guy johnson london. markets bombarded by swings and traders got bombarded with volume. bloomberg'ss applico doolittle. abigail: what is happening with the spinal tenia's -- with the simultaneous ending with action and volatility. we were talking about the 300% above average volume and at this time we are expected to have the number of shares traded on the day be about 3 billion as opposed to 2.5 billion. volumes are surging on this day of expiration of all these different futures and options. as for the impact on the futures, you see the current contract up 1/10 of 1%. for the next contract, the march contract, down .6%. this is typical in have been all the way back to march 2019. yet the current contract up in the next contract down. , the witchingume date we are member is march of 2020, the past march, where we had huge volatility. volumes were the highest going back to 2011. the volumes for today not expected to be as much. there is march 20, 2020, the biggest volume day g

steel. we really have to do a better job telling the story, jonathan. i know you and michaellocal reporting. it just couldn't be more important for us to recognize that if we are going to get out of this crisis in our democracy and this incredibly divided time in our country, one of the ways we can do that is by recognizing the importance of local news, supporting local news, and hopefully calling this new generation of journalists to come forward and be a part of report for america. >> so i want to ask morgan a question in just a second about the reporting that she has been able to do. but, charlie, i want to dig into what you were just saying for a second because i just think it's important for all of our viewers to understand the kinds of stories that are told at the local level, the way in which local reporters, local papers hold politicians accountable. what kinds of stories are these communities able to consume because of this project that you have undertaken. >> these are the stories that matter most to communities. these are the local issues like what's happening with