the status quo. that s not true. so, the mayor just recently had a fund-raiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900 a bottle wine. think about who comes to that. i have not denigrated your experience as a local official. i have been one. i just think you should respect our experience. you actually did denigrate my experience, senator. it was before the break and i was going to let it go because we got bigger fish to fry here. now, as we take the wide view of 2019, it is clear that some things have changed, like the diversity on the debate stage and some things have stayed pretty much the same. joe biden still nationally leads basically where it was this time last year. and with that i d like to welcome in my panel. with me on set, author of the washington post s power up newsletter, jackie. national security correspondent for politico and msnbc contributor natasha bertrand.
registration, mail-in ballot standards, election security measures and other obvious reforms. it looks like such a bill just might be in the works. last week several senate democrats met to work out a revised voting rights bill, one they said could be released in the coming days. the urgent need for federal voting rights legislation is where we start this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. jackie alamainer, author of the washington post power up newsletter. joining us, madd dowd, political strat ji and founder of country over party. eddie glaude is here, chair of the department of african-american studies at princeton university and an msnbc political analyst. i am excited to talk to all of you. jackie, i want to know from you. i had the privilege of speaking to a lot of the texas democrats who are in washington. to a person they all say, we like the for the people act a lot, but we just need an inch,
writer at-large at the bulwark and an msnbc contributor. also, robert gibbs, former white house press secretary as well as an msnbc political analyst. and jackie, author of washington post s power up newsletter. thank you all for being with us. jackie, let s start with you. has trump s delusion, which was in full display in that clip we just listened to, is his delusion becoming the gospel in the republican party? absolutely, claire. that s what we re seeing really from the loudest voices in the party. yes, you have people like congresswoman liz cheney, who would say, in her opinion, is on the right side of history when it comes to calling out the president for his repeated lies and calling out her members for the propagation of those lies about election fraud. but i think that we heard time
constitution. so, jackie, what are you guys looking at this morning in the power-up newsletter as we start off the week here? well, sort of in this vein, we re looking at critical race issue, more of an issue, but a web issue. republicans see it going into the 2022 midterms. it s a decades-old academic theory that teaches that racism is bigger than individual prejudice and is actually ingrained into our education systems and american institutions and really permeates society as a whole. republicans have seized on this and making it the latest wedge issue to campaign against, claiming, you know, that the federal government is trying to, you know, teach our children bad values about american history. so we go into that and also looking ahead to the senate
that the trump team is leaning on vulnerable democrats there. whipping it appears. why not on your side whip the votes? because it s not a political issue. this is about our country. i m an american and i am going to vote the way that i do because i m an american. and my job is to protect this country. our national security. and our democracy. and that will be what my vote is on. not based on what anybody says to me in this district. i listen to them. i care and i respect it. but it s what i, morally, believe to protect our country at this point. from the great state of michigan. congresswoman debbie dingell. thank you, representative, for taking the time today. thank you. appreciate it. let s turn to our panel. politico white house reporter. author of the washington post power up newsletter, jackie. former republican congressman from florida, david jolly. and former director of paid media for hillary for america, joel pane. dan, what do you make of the reflections that jus