rachel. rachel: thank you, jason.ing off the new area by implementing some of the most outrageous laws. here to break down some of them is writer for th "the washington examiner" tiana lowe. one of the rules that you say or one of the laws coming into effect here in the new year is the demilitarization of police uniforms in california. tell us what they want to do and why they are doing it and why it's a bad idea. >> so homicides are up 30% in los angeles. they are up 2% in san francisco, which is the second densest city in the country. they are up 37% in oakland. and naturally that means that california is focused on making sure no one is triggered by what the police uniforms look like right now. this is not something backed in any evidence in terms of sort of descalating situations with the police this is nothing to reduce the number of nonviolent felons in california prisons. and so it's a great way for californians to virtue signal without actually doing anything for their drastic cost of the police force and thei

aha, obviously a grim milestone to reach, isn't it rachel?— isn't it rachel?sn't it rachel? a very sobering figure come with that - isn't it rachel? a very sobering figure come with that reminds| isn't it rachel? a very sobering l figure come with that reminds us isn't it rachel? a very sobering - figure come with that reminds us of what we're talking about the vaccine roll—out here, as we said relatively succeeding at the moment is that covid—i9 is a global challenge, and individual country responses only take us so far. there will come a point when britain passed our population has been vaccinated sufficiently to reduce restrictions, but we can't give up than it we can say this is not a challenge to us any more, notjust out of our moral duty to other countries particularly developing countries, although that's part of it, but because one thing we have seen for the past year as of the virus is able to spread anywhere, mutations are possible and they can bring as mutations back into the country, so basically we want to be safe until every country is safe and i

>> you know, rachel, no, i don't. i mean, this has been a very well-planned out -- it's the national strategy for coronavirus and pandemic preparedness. it's about 101-page document. it's very finely detailed. and one of the things that i found really very encouraging and gratifying in the meetings that i've had, you know, first before, just a few days before the actual inauguration, and then yesterday, for example, when i was with the president and the vice president, to things that he said to us, myself and other members of the team in private, were just so encouraging. i mean, he said, let science speak. let science be the thing that drives us. let's just be open and honest and transparent. we're not going to get everything right in respect will be some mistakes, some missteps. the response to that is to fix it and not to point blame and point fingers. it was just an amazingly refreshing experience and conversation that we had, and he wasn't doing it for show. this was, like, behind closed doors in the white house

plus, stephen welcomes rachel brosnahan and musical guest julien baker.turing jon batiste and stay homin'. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater office building in new york city, it's stephen colbert! >> stephen: welcome to "a late show," everybody. i'm your host, stephen colbert. well, just when we all thought 2020 was the worst 12 months of our lives, 2021 said, "hold my year." you might recall that yesterday, the outgoing president incited an insurrection and unleashed an angry seditious mob that stormed the u.s. capitol in an attempt to stage a violent coup. to our worried friends and allies across the globe-- rest assured, america knows we have a problem, and are seeking treatment. soon. but as worried as our friends and allies might be, you know who sounds more worried? the president. because just a little while ago, my taping time, he released a video that, curiously, contained none of the bravado of yesterday morning. no cries of "stop the steal," no calls for action, no fomenting a mindless mob and declarations that he will never sur

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. >> good evening, rachel. great interview. this is a complete surrender by mitch mcconnell and i was struck by the strength of what leader schumer had to say about this point before we knew that he had won. >> yeah. >> and i'm wondering how much of your interview mitch mcconnell saw before he surrendered because chuck schumer just kept saying, we're not going to do it, you know, we're not going to go along with it. every member of the democratic senate agrees with this 100%. you could see he had that strength of every member which he's not always going to have. there are going to be some nights when he doesn't have every member, he won't be able to say that, and when you have every member like that, the other leader hears that and realizes there's no way around this. >> yeah. >> but it was quite a dramatic standoff and it is a huge win in that building for chuck schumer. not out there in the world, not out there to people who don't care and don't know about senate procedure. but within the culture, rachel, this was the first t

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us thus hour. so he fought in the union army during the civil war. he was wounded at the battle of shiloh, reportedly his horse was shot out from under him and he, himself, was wounded but kept fighting. stayed in the war. he was reported to have personally taken at least one confederate soldier prisoner by hauling him bodily off the battlefield by his collar. after the civil war president ulysses s. grant named him to be america of secretary of war and then stuff started to go wrong. on the relatively meager salary that came with that cabinet position, william buknap, disfing wished soldier, secretary of war, started throwing really, really laving lavish parties in washingtolavig i that was true with his first wife. also true with his second life. he was just very obviously living this ostentatious high society life of conspicuous consumption in washington that nobody knew he should be able to afford. nobody knew where the money wa

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> the "wall street journal" is, in fact, reporting that betsy devos has resigned. we are working to confirm it at this moment, but so far, that's a "journal" report. and you know, who knows, chris, at which point, do you bother counting the dominos or just put them in the bag and wait to start the next game? >> yeah, and whether this is, like, this is serious and this means that something's going to happen, or whether people had enough vacation days saved up that they're ready to head to the beach. >> yeah. the idea that they've just had, you know, the straw broke the camel's back, yeah. >> it's a little hard thing. >> thank you, polichris. and thank you at home for being with us this hour at this remarkable time in our country's history. the sergeant-at-arms in the house is responsible for security concerns at the house of representatives. house speaker nancy pelosi today demanded the resignation of the house sergeant-at-arms, and he complied with that demand a

creating this lineup and miguel, let's show rachel this entire lineup. i want the viewers to see the scope of police presence now that we have off the capitol hi hill. look at this, rachel. look at this. all the way down the line. you see this lineup. this is stuff that we are used to seeing. right? we saw this over the summer when they were trying to disburse crowds when it came to the black lives matter movement. we've seen this over and over again. this is something very strategic they do. this is what they learn to do to disburse crowds but every 90 seconds or so, they take steps towards the protesters to push them further and further away from the capitol. miguel, if you can push in on some of these gates here. rachel, see these gates in front of these, the national guards folks that have these shields in front of them. many protestors and rioters took a bunch of gates a couple minutes or so ago and tried to create a barrier of those gates so essentially, there was about 25 feet or so between this police lineup and those gates in which they wanted t

. >> thank you so much rachel.in your own words what you believe that your mission is, your vision statement for what you want to do at the helm of the democratic party for the first couple of years that president biden is in office. >> rachel, you know president biden's mission is to unite the country and to enact policy to really help address the issues that people are dealing with on a day-to-day basis. my job is his chairman of the democratic party is to make sure that we take his successes, the promises he made that we made sure the folks down in small towns in the cities understand that those are promises that are kept. it is also my mission to make sure that democrats build back better and we have a strengthened party in all 50 states in our territory. that we can give him more help in terms of the house, senate and state legislatures across the country. i am looking forward to doing that. i had calls into ohio today and to arkansas because of sarah huckabee sanders said she is running for governor. you talk

back over to you. >> thank you, rachel. truly remarkable to listen to david ignatius talk about the u.s. capitol today. we turn to our colleague vaughn hilliard who's on the scene. what are you seeing and where are you? >> reporter: nicole, i want people to see the perimeter that has been set up as congress prepares to enter into the joint session. this is for folks who have been to washington, d.c., you'll know exactly where i am. this is constitution avenue. it's run straight down towards the white house. the capitol grounds here right here on our left here, you can see where the police line has been set up. barricades are set up here. paul rigney is our great photographer. you've been seeing the senate office buildings. that's the russell senate office buildings. senators, there are three different senate office buildings and each senator has an office in one of those buildings. the same goes for members of the house. over on the house side three different house buildings. that's where you've seen a lot of members essent

i have to say while discussing with rachel, i think there was a sense that you were prepping in some way about possibly more information coming out about georgia when you co-wrote that impeachment article. >> absolutely. when we drafted the article of impeachment, we were very careful about the language that we used and the events that we referenced. that georgia conversation was part of an ongoing effort by the president, again, to corrupt the results of the election, to maintain power by casting doubt on the results of the election, even though they were all certified by all 50 states and accepted by all of the election officials. this was an effort by the president to feed lie to his supporters to the point that they became enraged and violent. they came to washington at his urging for the stop-the-steal rally, again promoting the story that he had won and i think just more evidence of his efforts to hold on to power no matter, which is why his conduct is so serious and rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors because it is a fundamental attack on our democracy, on our p

>> rachel, this was a labor of love for so many people, and this was -- this was the result of deep organizing on the ground for cycle after cycle. it didn't just happen in this presidential cycle. it wasn't just about donald trump. and when i look at the people that i 18 years ago i moved to georgia from alabama and got started with the young democrats. and i've been involved in some form or fashion with the democratic party in this state for the past 18 years. and i was vice chair of this party and interim chair back in 2013 and came back as chairwoman in 2019, the first black woman to ever chair our state democratic party. and i know that this victory belongs to so many people on the ground because i've been in the trenches with them doing the work cycle after cycle. >> when you said watch me work to lawrence o'donnell looking ahead to these runoffs, i remember that moment. and we are watching you work. we have seen you do what you and your colleagues pull off something tremendous magnitude, politically and in lots of other ways. congratulations tonight. i know there's a long way still to g

, rachel scott. that's a big deal. congrats to you. >> thank you, robin. >> also, a/k/a i found out rachel is we're joined now by three women who know harris well and were there during her formative years at howard, her sorority sisters from alpha kappa alpha, jill louis, lorri sadler and for the first time lisa jackson, good to see you. you had a chance to speak with kamala harris two days ago on a zoom call during your sorority's founders day celebration. so, lorri, what was that conversation like? >> oh, robin, that conversation was magical. it included our entire line, including madam vice president-elect and what i remember about that conversation that she shared was that we are her center and that was so special that she said that, because we all feel that same way about each other and that truly describes our bond and so that was something that i definitely remember. we had a lot of conversation and a lot of fun but that was certainly one of my key takeaway. >> and i hope a lot of laughter and

>> rachel. rachel. >> the naked cowboy. >> hi. aren't you freezing?t know that i needed to see that. a very new york moment in the subway. i caught elmo with his pants down paying on the wall. >> you are a new yorker. >> that's what did it. >> that's it for me. my name is midge. thank you and good night. >> she's a trooper. i offered her a hat, blanket. she said, i'm good. it was cold and snowy out there. that fourth season is coming later this year. "i'm your woman" is available on amazon prime video. big thanks to p.j. clark's for hosting our conversation. subscribe to the podcast to hear the full interview with rachel. find it on apple podcasts or wherever you get yours. >>> next week, a new sunday sit-down with rob lowe on his early success in hollywood, the pitfalls that came with it and his latest starring role on television. rob lowe next week on "sunday today." >>> good morning. another chilly start in the bay area. here's a current look at your temperatures as you head out the door. 40 degrees in san jose. 41 in los gatos. 30s through livermo

please welcome back to the show our friend rachel maddow how are you, rachel?s it feel real to you? does it feel real that this is the last full day of the trump presidency >> i mean, what are the odds that this time tomorrow trump's gone it just seems absolutely impossible >> seth: i know. >> i don't know. i mean, i know he's going to - in my brain, i know it's true, but in my guts, i feel like this is going to be a persistent infection. >> seth: i certainly agree with you on that. you know, but there is of course -- because it's the last day, we keep hearing the talk of maybe 50 to 100 pardons. we're talking at around 4:00 in the afternoon. they haven't happened yet. don't you think it will be a fitting farewell present from the president to you if he does it, like, five minutes before your show starts tonight [ laughter ] >> i am not egotistical enough to think that i have a place in his mind but he does do a lot of stuff at like 8:55. >> seth: yeah. >> and -- eastern time, right before the show starts and you know, everybody that i know in the news business

rachel? >> i do.ng us now on the phone from the stands at the inauguration is illinois senator tammy duckworth. she of course serves on the senate armed services committee. senator duckworth, we are so honored to have you with us today at this historic moment. thanks for joining us. >> oh, it's good to be here, rachel. >> can you describe to us where you are and what you're seeing and how you're feeling today? >> oh, well, i feel great. it's a gorgeous day outside, not too sunny, not too windy. i am on a little platform where they put [ inaudible ] -- but i am on the north side of the platform area about one story above where the president will be speaking. [ inaudible ] -- i'm on the right-hand side in a light blue shirt, jacket and i have on my kamala harris pearls and my joe biden aviator sunglasses. other senators are just filing in behind me right now. >> senator duckworth, i have to tell you your audio is competing with the sound of the band near you, but i think we can still hear. i think we've

>> rachel, i was in the chamber as the violent mobs were attacking. on the ground as other members were calling loved ones because they thought that might be the last phone call they made. to imagine colleagues of mine could have aid and abetted this is incredibly offensive and there's simply no way they can be allowed to continue to serve in congress. to attack other members of congress, to incite an attack on other members of congress, and to do so as we're doing our constitutional duty to certify the election. something that every member of congress should have really held sacred, an oath they took to the constitution to perform that, they will have to be kicked out of congress if that is found to be true. >> congresswoman mikie sherrill, democrat of new jersey, u.s. navy veteran. thank you for your service both in congress and in the military, and thanks for your time this evening. >> it's always an honor to serve. and thanks so much for having me, rachel. >> thank you. all right. we'll be right back. stay with us. if you need the key to fresh lau

this is rachel maddow in new york. hi, congresswoman. can you hear me? >> hello? >> all right, we'll come back to congresswoman houlihan when we can establish that connection. what we're looking at here are live shots of capitol hill. 5:02 is sunset in washington tonight. we still do not have clarity in terms of what we were seeing, in terms of gas on the balcony area of the capitol that we're seeing sort of center stage there. obviously, that's a familiar scene from the inauguration, from inaugurations past and from the inauguration that we will have in two weeks. we also heard recently, just moments ago from congressman jason crow, saying that as far as he's concerned, as far as he and his staff have been advised, it's not at all clear that the interior of the capitol is secure. as vaughn hillyard was just explaining, it's hard to get communication and media uploaded, for example, in and around the capitol right now. we're able to see what we can from these professional crews that we have got there. i will note that there have been some reports that journalists

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"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks, my friend. much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us thus hour. we are less than a week from the inauguration of president you receive r. biden. the country, of course, still reeling from the mob attack on the capitol last week by president trump's supporters. as more and more people are criminally charged for being a part of that attack. we're going to talk about some of those new arrests and new charges tonight. but it remains an open question, of course, what kind of repercussions the current president may face for inciting that attack. whether through the still ongoing impeachment process as he faces a senate impeachment trial, or whether through potential criminal prosecution. but with all eyes on washington right now, where the national guard is massing by the tens of thousands to protect the capitol in advance of next week's inauguration, we're going to start our news tonight with something that actually happened quite far from d.c. today, something that ne

here's abc's white house correspondent rachel scott. >> reporter: tonight, with less than 72 hours left in his term, president trump is isolated, his second impeachment trial looming. spotted at the white house this weekend, his personal lawyer rudy giuliani. sources say the president has recently grown irritated with guiliani, but he's one of the few allies the president has left. giuliani telling our jonathan karl he is part of the president's defense team. but the white house has not confirmed who will serve as the president's counsel, even though the trial could begin in days. giuliani, who led the president's failed charge to overturn the election, telling abc news he is open to having the president testify. he also addressed the crowd on january 6th. >> let's have trial by combat. >> reporter: the prosecution says they'll be ready whenever the article of impeachment is handed over to the senate. >> we're preparing as though we are going to go in the next hour. >> reporter: the senators who witnessed that deadly capitol hill riot will serve as jurors. >> this was the most serious p

i'm rachel maddow here in new york. thank you for being with us with our ongoing coverage of inauguration day. i'm with my friends joy reid and lawrence o'donnell. first, i went through half a box of kleenex just in case. >> i have to tell you, i was a bit worried about this inaugural having a feeling of just being the resistance to what we saw on 1/6, just being an answer to that and sort of being defiant. you know, i was sure it would be, in being this sort of attempt. we talked about it earlier, to sort of grab back, you know, the traditionalism of an inaugural. but what the organizers of this event managed to do is that they gave us that which we needed, right, we needed an answer, we needed that resistance. but they also gave us joy. they gave us fashion. they gave us celebrity. they gave us hope. we had an incredible inaugural earlier in the day where we saw the first black woman, first asian american woman, first woman, period, vice president, you know, do the walk, get sworn in, do all of that great stuff. we sa

rachel scott on the hill tonight. and rachel, tomorrow, senators, of course, will be sworn in as jurors but we know senate leaders have agreed the trial won't get under way until the week of february 8th. and you've learned that chief justice john roberts will not be presiding. that's a change from the first trump impeachment trial. what do we know among republicans tonight, that key number democrats need, 17 for a conviction of the former president. >> reporter: and david, republican leader mitch mcconnell has said that he is keeping an open mind. he has not yet decided how he will vote in this trial. and so far, we have not heard from a single republican senator who says they plan to vote to convict former president donald trump. and you mentioned that change, with who will preside over this impeachment trial. the constitution says the chief justice will preside over impeachment trial of the president, but donald trump is no longer in office. so now you'll see senator patrick leahy step in to preside over the trial.

rachel, thank you. >>> we're also tracking several storms on the move at this hour. alerts in at least 25 states tonight. and we have now learned that deadly tornado in alabama was at least an ef-2, winds of up to 135 miles per hour. a teenager killed while hiding in the basement with his family. tonight, the story of another family surviving, sheltering in a bathtub. marcus moore now from alabama. >> reporter: tonight, that powerful winter storm making travel treacherous for millions. up to a foot of blowing snow in spots and ice. in michigan, police dash cam capturing a car sliding off the road. in the deep south, tornado sirens piercing the night as the storm closed in on communities north and east of birmingham. >> so if you are in that polygon, this is the time to go to a safe place. >> reporter: first responders launching a massive search and rescue operation. this hotel ripped apart. terrified guests inside. >> the lights were gone. the internal sirens were going off. people were screaming. >> reporter: daylight revealing a town torn to pieces. meteorologists

eugene and rachel. i will start with you because you are our congressional guru and just quickly takeaways from that interview and i don't know that we broke a lot of news but yet, just give me a quick take away. >> will, it stuck to the theme of off-the-cuff this morning which is, you know, this sort of un- clarity about where exactly and how democrats will execute their agenda. i think mr. richmond came in and admitted it very clear that the pandemic will be biden's first priority and congress has to act but you know, beyond that he did not give specifics about how they will do that specifically and what is that next bill in that top priority that president biden wants to tackle but he mentioned immigration and things that, you know, the house does want to tackle immigration reform and i made a number of calls last night on this and heard democrats were very torn on this issue but some said the biden immigration bill is symbolic that there is no expectation that they would pass it or even perhaps take

thanks rachel. time now for a quick break but when we come back will the new york stock exchange a lot of china's top telecom companies to keep their listings now in the u.s. market with the buy administration in office or will trump never ending battle with china have a lasting impact for the gusset all that and as we go to break here are the numbers of the close. right now all the. people who are overweight or obese it's profitable to self. and sugary and solti undertake to it's not at the individual level and it's not individual willpower and if we go on believing that would never change this obesity epidemic that industry has been influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment. so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's called for both of. us think this is our 3rd administration we've been doing this show for going on 12 years anyway you know a big theme in $22026.00 t.v. was d. dollars they should do globalization and now it's all coming to. some rumors as soon as you go to s

because this rachel kind of a cross between mila can kunis an joey king, i think this is our pick, rachelght? >> i don't know what you are talking about. >> i don't know what i'm talking about either, that makes two of us. these are the top three, rachel, abigail, and bree and i just notice they all have kind of the same haircut -- >> yes. >> in fact, they all have kind of the same hair. >> what do you think of that, jane, you just got bangs, right, jane? >> yes. >> jane just got bangs we are excited about her new look for the year. it was her choice. >> already, well there you have it, so, who did you say rachel is going to be the? >> yes, i think it will be rachel. >> yes, and there had you go. rosetrodomous has spoken. thank you. >> you are so welcome. >> where is -- >> he ran out, he a temper tantrum because we could not find his t--rex. >> and throwing things. >> the brand new bachelor matt james is with us. we have music from machine gun kelly. and we'll be right back with gwyneth paltrow. stick around. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ when you drive this smooth, you save with allstate. the future of auto i

rachel?he physical component of which is about to start. we are expecting that to start shortly. i'll tell you that it will include president biden, vice president harris. there will be a military escort. with you see the police motorcade there. police motorcycle contingent that will be part of it. we're also expecting drum lines from the university of delaware and from howard university which is reason enough to stick with it to make sure you see it in person. we're going to take a quick break and reset right here. when we come back, we think we're getting close to the start of the inaugural parade, virtual and physical. stay with us. ♪♪ ♪♪ [ engines revving ] ♪♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. my nunormal: fewer asthma attacks. less oral steroids. taking my treatment at home. nucala is a once-monthly add-on injection for severe eosinophilic asthma. not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions

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it's absolutely appalling. >> rachel scott with us live from washington again tonight. and rachel, house republican leader kevin mccarthy has been under increasing pressure to try to stop the infighting among house republicans since these deadly riots at the capitol. he said that former president trump should, quote, accept his share of responsibility, but today, mccarthy was in florida, trying to mend fences with the former president? >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly right, david. republican leader kevin mccarthy requested this meeting. the two meeting today in florida. we know that trump was unhappy with mccarthy's criticism of his words at that rally. tonight, trump's team calling the meeting cordial, david. >> rachel scott, who covers congress for us every night. rachel, thank you. >>> we turn now to the deadly chemical leak at a food processing plant, this was north of atlanta. workers say they were overcome by clouds of chemicals. employees immediately falling unconscious. hazmat teams responding. and tonight, at least six workers have died. here's abc's steve os

rachel, what are you learning about the president's legal strategy for his second impeachment trial? we did see rudy giuliani there at the top of your story. >> reporter: well, tom, at this point there is no clear legal strategy coming from the president, and that impeachment trial in the senate could be starting as soon as next week. we know the impeachment managers have been meeting, building their case. we saw rudy giuliani here on the white house grounds. sources tell us the president is considering tapping him to help him mount a defense. but at this point with possibly just days to go, no clear legal strategy and no firm announcement on who's going to be leading that defense team, tom. >> rachel scott with that new reporting from the white house. rachel, thank you. >>> president-elect biden is bracing to take on the covid emergency, pledging 100 million vaccine shots in his first 100 days. but he's inheriting a rollout that's far from smooth. take a look at this -- several governors asking, where are the doses? accusing the trump administration of lying to them about vaccines i

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rachel was right. were right, the constitution is clear. >> so it is entirely possible, i've read mitch mcconnell's statement tonight and from a parliamentary standpoint i can't see way through it. he says it is impossible without unanimous consent to have a senate session before inauguration day, or january 19th, and surely one republican in the senate won't give consent to that. taking that at face value, there might be a way around it but assume it's the case. is there any value to beginning an impeachment trial on the first day of the biden presidency and the trump retirement? >> i do think that puts the cart before the horse. the first and most important question is, is there any value to impeaching this president immediately and doing everything we can to get rid of him, and answer to that is certainly yes. he has committed incitement to insurrection in front of the entire world, so there is no question of impeachable offenses. no one really doubts that. he can do enormous irreparable damage with

in way, rachel.ately, you have a lot of folks in this country who just want to be seen. who want to be heard. and they want to be valued. they want a government that will work for them. what i'm going to encourage folks to do. look past the d and the r and just ask the question. who is fighting for me? for my family? who is fighting for my community? and right now you don't see that from the other side of the aisle. they're too busy fighting amongst themselves. and that's the big question. joe biden understands we're facing four big disasters right now in this country. covid which you know, many of us have been impacted by. the economy is creating, so many folks are wondering how to make ends meet, whether or not they have a roof over their heads. the climate change that is bearing down on this country, and the racial end equities and injustices that have plagued this nation from its inception. those are the things that joe biden has that, i will move on them on behalf of the merge people. those are

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> chris hayes, if you ever wanted to write another book about the finance world and the stock market and wall street and its culture, i would i would p enough of those books to put you on "the new york times" best-seller list. you should write about that. >> you would create a subreddit that got a bunch of people to preorder my book and do to it what they did to game stop? that's a good idea. i could talk about this story for three hours. there's so much happening in it. it's fascinating. >> well, i am in the bubble with you on this one, chris. i want to hear you talk about it forever. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. >>> this time four years ago, the ceo of exxon was starting his new job as secretary of state for america, for the united states. whose idea was that? the exxon ceo. as you may recall, it did not go well. it did not go well for him. it did not even go particularly well for exxon, which was

this clamour as rachel said, is there, because people just want to get vaccinated as soon as possible and get back to some kind of normality, so i completely understand that —— this dire situation but if we were vaccinated 24 hours a day and i got a call to say i would go to get a vaccine at three o'clock in the morning, i can do that because i have a car, but not everybody can do that, people who are elderly, or don't have a car, soi who are elderly, or don't have a car, so i don't know how practical this is but it speaks to the wider public need to get the vaccinations going as soon as possible, but this plan the government has put together it seems to be pretty comprehensive. the ambitious target to inoculate 14 million people in five weeks, and obviously this government has a re cord obviously this government has a record of overpromising and under delivering on everything but if they do deliver on this then you have to think a lot of people will forgive some of the failures in the other areas of the coronavirus response. now to the daily mail. would you support a three metre rule

. >> hi everyone we're back with other, two other members of the playbook eugene and rachel. rachel i'm going to start with you because you are our congressional guru and just quickly, take aways from that interview with richmond. i don't know that you broke a lot of news. but yeah. just give me a quick take away. >> kind of to the theme of this morning which is -- this sort of unclarity about where exactly and how democrats are going to execute their agenda. i think mr. rich monday came in and made it clear that the pandemic is going to be biden's first priority congress has toil act. but you know, beyond that he didn't give a lot of specifics about how did i do that specifically and what a is that next bill that top priority that president biden wants to tackle he mention immigration, and he thinks that, you know, white house does want to tackle immigration reform and i made a number of calms last night on this and heard democrats were very torn on this issue some of them said that biden immigration bill is truly symbolic that there's no expectation that they would pass it.

rachel, thank you.who advise government, and that has always remained the case from day one and continues to remain the case. with regards to the jumping of cues around the vaccine, i completely echo the words of dr diwakar. quite frankly, it is morally reprehensible, because these individuals are putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk. the most vulnerable people at risk. the most vulnerable that have been prioritised by the government to receive the vaccine. because they are vulnerable in the sense that they are susceptible to notjust contracting the virus but could die from this deadly virus. as i have always said, we say is a government as well, all our measures are under review, and quite frankly, right now, our world—class, word leading vaccine roll—out programme is there, for the most vulnerable people, we have prioritised our cohorts and our groups, and the focus is getting the vaccine to the most vulnerable, so we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community as well, th

thank you, rachel, very much. really appreciate it. >> thank you lots. >>> well, the likelihood of donald j. trump becoming a criminal defendant this year just skyrocketed tonight with a breaking news report in "the new york times" that contains strong evidence of criminal solicitation to commit election fraud, which donald trump is already reportedly being investigated for by the fulton county district attorney, fani willis, in georgia. katie banner has released the most dramatic reporting yet on the final days of the trump presidency with a story that reads like a movie with a seemingly insane president conspiring with a seemingly insane justice department lawyer to try to overturn the results of the election in georgia, which would have been both criminal and utterly insane because, as i just said, if the plot had succeeded, which it never could have, donald trump still would have been the loser in the electoral college vote. as you consider the madness of the scheme, it will be described for us when she joins

rachel, abigail, and bree.ticed they all kind of have the same haircut. >> jimmy: yes. >> in fact, they all kind of have the same hair. >> jimmy: what do you think of that, jane? you just got bangs, right, jane? >> yes. >> jane just got bangs. we're very excited about her new look for the year. it was her choice. >> jimmy: there you have it. who did you say? rachel is going to be -- >> yeah, i think it's going to be rachel. >> jimmy: yes. there you go. rosetrodomous has spoken. thank you. >> you are so welcome. >> jimmy: where's billy? >> he ran out, he a temper tantrum because we could not find his t-rex. >> and he was throwing things. >> he was throwing things, yeah. >> jimmy: i'll see you guys in a minute. it's a homemade show tonight. the brand-new bachelor matt james is with us, music from machine gun kelly, and be right back with gwyneth paltrow so stick around. our new house is amazing. great street, huge yard. there is a bit of an issue with our neighbors fencing. neighbor 1: allez! (sound from wind chi