Happy holidays. We begin the Special Edition of the readout with a look back at what has been a monumental year for the democrats historic performance in the midterm elections, to the january six hearings, to the Supreme Court overturning roe v. Wade. The fbi rating the home of a former president , and everything in between. 2022 has been incredibly consequential for and politics. I hear thats left us rights as human beings, and whether you have more of those rights if, say, youre a former president. Or if you are if you have a uterus and live in a red state. Well, 2023 maybe the air we finally got some answers. To start, well learn who exactly will be running for president in 2024, and, who if any in the Republican Party, will stand up to donald trump. Though, maybe dont hold your breath on that one. Speaking of which, we could find out if the twice impeached disgraced former president will actually be held accountable and any of the laundry list of investigations that he is under. Th
happy holidays. we begin the special edition of the readout with a look back at what has been a monumental year for the democrats historic performance in the midterm elections, to the january six hearings, to the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. the fbi rating the home of a former president, and everything in between. 2022 has been incredibly consequential for and politics. i hear that s left us rights as human beings, and whether you have more of those rights if, say, you re a former president. or if you are if you have a uterus and live in a red state. well, 2023 maybe the air we finally got some answers. to start, we ll learn who exactly will be running for president in 2024, and, who if any in the republican party, will stand up to donald trump. though, maybe don t hold your breath on that one. speaking of which, we could find out if the twice impeached disgraced former president will actually be held accountable and any of the laundry list of investigations that
disgraced former president will actually be held accountable and any of the laundry list of investigations that he is under. the new year will also present the biden administration with new challenges as the president, faced with a split congress.cone senate, republicans controlling the house. what will the next three years look like for president biden? how much will the republicans little investigations block legislation from getting done? what the president make another run for the white house, or will you pass the torch? joining me now is a brilliant panel. i m excited about this panel. michael steele, msnbc political analyst, former chair of the republican national committee, and host of the michael steele podcast. michael glassless, nbc news presidential historian president and ceo of voto latino an msnbc contributor. i feel in this company. impossible. so i m just gonna throw it
find someone fdr who did this well. you mentioned, michael, the huge subordinate events that caused the midterms to go different really. abortion was the event and the cycle. you can just overturn the rights of half the population and have that not impact your political party. and so, in a way, it s mitch mcconnell s fault and not donald trump s. first, yes, it s absolutely abortion. it s also coming out of the pandemic. when you mentioned where crises. this is america in a moment of crisis. we had a president who understood how to govern, not just from the white house, but he brilliantly understood the machinations of congress in the senate. how to pull the levers. he came in, saying i m gonna be a bipartisan president. people chuckled on all sides, and if you look at most of the major pieces of legislation he passed, it was bipartisan. done by both parties. but on the roe v. wade, the republicans don t want to talk about it. they didn t want to talk about
and so, yeah, the bus logan was fired pelosi, but it was really about how you would affect change. and wanting to draw people to a conversation about, okay, what kind of health care d1? this is what we re proposing. this is what we think. we ve seen since then a lot that went off the cliff with repeal and replace. we had nothing to replace what we intended to repeal. therefore, we couldn t repeal it. but i always admired the way she operated. and joe a, you know, on this air, i ve always said, if nancy pelosi wanted to be speaker again, and he will be speaker again. she knows and understands the politics as well as the people. you know, all the dust up around arasi, she only has four votes in congress. right? she s got to work with nancy s house. so it s understanding who she was in the context of history. but, also in the context of the