ways of sounding the alarm and traditional media could be that vehicle but to do so, they're going to need a hard looking inward of the kind that dana has so rightly suggested is well over due. >> absolutely. that will be a difficult turn. so glad to have you on to talk about this. thank you for writing that piece and fighting the good fight. nancy mcclain, thank you. jason johnson is sticking around. up next, stepping up for voting rights taking texas to court over just absolutely egregious redistricting map. today's talking points include catching covid is good and cancer apparently is contagious. plus, for republican politicians, more examples of how the term pro-life only applies before birth. and tonight's absolute worst is so incredibly insensitive. you actually have to see it to believe it. "the reidout" continues after this. believe it "the reidout" contins ueafter this