going to want to see that. all that is coming up. but we start tonight in the summer of 2020, the first summer in which we were dealing with the ravages of the covid epidemic. and a sort of press conference, the summer of 2020, a bunch of people got up, on the steps of the united states supreme court, and they gave a press conference, they war white doctor s coat, the coats had embroidered on them a little logo, america s front line doctors, the point of that day wasdo to tell the american peop from the official looking group or sort of medical looking group that actually covid is no big deal. you definitely don t need to stay socially distanced from anybody else, businesses don t need to close, schools don t need to close, nobody needs to make any accommodation in their lives for it, you don t ned to wear a mask, none of those things willwe keep you from getting covid, everybody is lying for you and they tell you
0 we ll see what happens but so far he seems like he sitting tight. mark caputo, thanks so much. thank you. that is all in on this thursday night. the rachel maddow chill starts right now. right now. desparting supreme court justice stephen breyer at the white house today. the event basically formalized the announcement of justice breyer s retirement. president biden also invited justice breyer and his wife to have a sleepover in the lincoln bedroom sometime i president biden at the white house today, he reiterated his pledge to appoint an african american woman as his nominee to the supreme court for justice breyer s seat. even though other presidents including ronald reagan, including donald trump, have made pledges of that kind, to pick a specific demographic for the court. in reagan s case he pledged in advance to appoint the first woman justice and president trump a female justice and nevertheless, republicans and tearing their re hair out, so outraged that a black woman is fi
argument here. it s all about theory and politics. president trump campaigned on ending the illegal alien madness. so let s take a look at what he wants to do. right now, there are 654 miles of fencing along the southern border of mexico. that leaves 1300 miles of bordeh without a barrier. mr. trump is going to expand the fencing and rename it a wall. it will not be constant. there are areased that don t ned barriers because natural barriers prevent crossings. the primary reason a wall is needed is that tons of narcotics are being smuggled from mexico into the usa. that s a scandal. and mexico will not stop it, blaming the u.s. for drug consumption. but it s clear that mexico is a passive partner in the drug andy people smuggling industries. therefore, that country should pay for at least part of the wall. i mean, here s how bad it is.