democracy by refusing to say whether they will accept election results they don t like. also tonight, what s next after a very bad week for trump with the special master telling his lawyers to put up or shut up and new york s attorney general exposing years of alleged fraud. and as kevin mccarthy makes his pitch for speaker, president biden reminds americans exactly what republicans want to take from you if they win. things like reproductive rights and social security. good evening, everyone. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with the cancer that continues to rot what s left of the desiccated corpse of the republican party. moments from now, the former president will stand shoulder to shoulder with ted budd, north carolina s republican senate candidate. he refused to accept the results if he loses but voting to certify the 2020 election as a member of congress just hours after the attack on the capitol. and he s not the only one. from the carolinas to
britain s strawberries and how british cheese could be made, and making good old fashioned english fishermen where her nets. there was even a column about the evil making condoms too small. none of this was true but he seemed to think it was all great fun. he told an interviewer quite, i was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall and listening to the amazing crash from the greenhouse next door over an england. everything i wrote from brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the conservative party. it really gave me this i suppose rather weird sense of power and quote. his right-wing newspaper would splash its headlines over the front page of the secret evil plans of european bureaucrats to take over british life and rule the u q k from afar. and this newspaper for readers learn to distrust and hate the eu. those readers included a lot of your conservative lawmakers and he watched with glee a civil war broke out in his own party about how anti europe they
biden s message to the american people. next hour he s expected to talk about the american rescue plan and what it means for local economies. msnbc will bring that to you live as reactions pour in after president biden delivered a blistering speech last night about what he calls maga republicans and called out former president trump by name. the president accused trump and his closest supporters of peddling lies about the 2020 election, an ideology he says that poses a threat to the foundations of our republic. democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election, either they win or they were cheated. you can t love your country only when you win. joining us now with more on this is nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell. yamiche alcindor, an nbc news washington correspondent and eddie glaude is the chair of the department of african american studies at princeton university, he is also an nbc news political analyst.
former vice president mike pence was asked by a federal grand jury. is this investigation farther along than we thought? president biden says he does not expect the u.s. economy to enter a recession, but what do new numbers from walmart tell us what is really going to happen. and as china gets ready to speak with xi jinping, is china gearing up against taiwan. and for the first time since leaving office does his vision resonate with voters. and new cnn reporting this morning and new revelations that a trooper was on the scene of the uvalde school shooting earlier than previously thought. what the body cam video shows. and did the u.s. wait too long to contain the monkeypox outbreak. dr. fauci is joining us. and will john berman and i be at work tomorrow as the mega millions reaches 900 million. i ll be here. i m not buying a ticket. we start with marc short telling cnn that he testified in front of a grand jury. i can confirm that i received a subpoena from the fe