side, how do you accept a guy whose entire story is completely fabricated? he s a liability for republicans. this is way beyond whether he s an acceptable candidate. it s a whole new world. but there s a lot of questions to be asked in new york democratic politics too, and there needs to be some serious soul searching about how this guy won and how democrats lost so many seats on long island and especially this one in a reasonably what has been a moderate district to a guy who s a complete fiction. and of course the person who used to hold that seat, steve israel, we had him on the show earlier today voicing his view on what happened, and we should note kevin mccarthy still silent on all of this. co-founder and ceo of all in together, lauren leader, thank you so much for joining us this morning. coming up on morning joe, big-name companies like facebook and google went all in on virtual reality. they spent billions. but is it paying off? we ll have that new reporting
that doesn t seem what donald trump seems to be suggesting in his speech. but he wasn t explicit about in rarlds to this case, wasn t explicit about saying this is now legal, you can do this, you can shalter windows, you can break into the capitol and chase lawmakers off the floor of the senate and the house. ryan, talk a little about the template or precedent this might set. there are still a lot of january 6th trials to come. and also talk to us about the significance that we talked about this morning about how the january 6th committee report has been cited now in legal proceedings. the one trial i m watching, they re doing jury selection, and there were a number of these transcripts that have come out that are related to that. i think it s definitely going to have an impact in terms of the transcripts as well as the report in general. i think the judge just wanted to sort of make sure that remember he s a bush appointed
they cannot win a mandate by being just the party of major you know, five major cities. we ve seen some candidates make progress there in reaching out to rural and working-class voters on the democratic side, but for the most part it s not been the frame. i think you re right, that democrats really have to start focusing on some of the issues of pain. obviously, that s what biden has tried to do. he s tried to be the empathy president. no one knows loss better than joe biden. but there s clearly a connection missing there with the working class that is going to have to be addressed. michael, one of your viewpoints that the new york times wrote about in recent week, democrats have done a good job of taking advantage of the public s disdain for extreme right-wing candidates, a lot of those propped up by donald trump in the most midterm, the kari lakes of the world. but my question to you is what happens after republicans witz up a little bit and they run more sort of middle of the
thoroughly protected by the first amendment. but, you know, i think it shows that the january 6th committee s report is having an impact on this process. it s certainly something that the justice department is going to be, you know, sort of bringing into the prosecution as well as judges. they re certainly reading through this themselves and recognize the broader scope of what s happening with the january 6th committee and their final report here. the thing i m kind of wondering about is we were promise alleged lot of transcripts, and we only have a few more days left before they do it. i think they ve released a little bit over 100 transcripts. but really we have a lot more transcripts to come, some of which could have really big implications on some of these ongoing cases and ongoing trials as we have about 900 right now, but, you know, the total could be 3,000, especially looking at resources that are being brought in as a result of the omnibus bill. republicans of course about
potential speaker kevin mccarthy allow this guy to be seated when he was smart enough to said he won t support mccarthy for speaker so he s clearly playing the game to get support from republican leadership. but there are other complicating factors in terms of what this says about new york politics. for those close to new york politics, we re all in this sort of stunning realization of just how broken the new york political system is on the democratic side too that allowed him to win. there s a really good piece by steve israel this morning in the atlantic that, you know, basically calls out the new york press missed the story that, in fact, oppo had tried to flag his issues to them. the bigger issue is there was really no infrastructure in the democratic races being run on long island or anywhere else, which led to this really terrible loss of seats for democrats, and the seat that s supposed to be blue. i mean, michigan turns out to be more blue than new york right now after the mi