You may have noticed lately that the gop is working overtime to make the lives of trans people more difficult than their lives already are. The gop wants to kick trans people out of bathrooms, sports. 31 states introduced legislation. The military. Doctors offices. Antitransgender health care. And trans women especially are under threat at all times. Was shot and killed on an east dallas street saturday morning. Then those of you who know all thats awful call trans people brave for putting up with it. Trans people dont want to have to be brave. They just want to be. This week we are talking to black trans women in dallas, texas, about trying to just be. Im back in dallas, yall. Yay while we often think about the black Trans Community being in big cities like l. A. And new york, we need to see that black trans folks are everywhere. Even in a state like texas, where 70 of the population identifies as christian, and not just Easter Christmas christian, megachurch christian. That is exactl
too early with us. morning joe starts now. biden signed an executive order to control a.i. there is no one i trust more to save us from the rise of the machines than joe biden. as long as none of those machines is a bicycle. he s fine. he s fine. the late show having fun with president biden s executive action earlier this week on artificial intelligence. we ll have a lot more to get to on that this morning. including donald trump jr. taking the stand. how did that go? we ll get legal analysis on his testimony, which i think will continue now. plus, the latest out of the middle east. more wounded palestinians and foreign nationals are leaving gaza. it comes as there is a new threat from hamas. and on capitol hill, republican george santos survives an effort to expel him from congress. that s thanks to some help from democrats. meanwhile, it appears republicans are finally getting fed up with senator tommy tuberville s antics. we ll show you what his colle
You may have noticed lately that the gop is working overtime to make the lives of trans people more difficult than their lives already are. The gop wants to kick trans people out of bathrooms, sports. 31 states introduced legislation. The military. Doctors offices. Antitransgender health care. And trans women especially are under threat at all times. Was shot and killed on an east dallas street saturday morning. Then those of you who know all thats awful call trans people brave for putting up with it. Trans people dont want to have to be brave. They just want to be. This week we are talking to black trans women in dallas, texas, about trying to just be. Im back in dallas, yall. Yay while we often think about the black Trans Community being in big cities like l. A. And new york, we need to see that black trans folks are everywhere. Even in a state like texas, where 70 of the population identifies as christian, and not just Easter Christmas christian, megachurch christian. That is exactl
i m wondering, jon ralston, did you ever see a kind of warmer, fuzzier side of harry reid in all the time you covered him? let s not get carried away here, eugene. one day after actually, i m being somewhat facetious in the sense that harry reid, and most people don t know this unless you really got to know him. believe me, i had a roller coaster relationship with the senator. he didn t talk to me for years at a time because he was mad about things that i had written. but he had an amazingly funny sense of humor, very wry, dead pan. and once you got to know him, he could be personable, believe it or not. the guy, as i said before, who looked like he didn t care what anyone thought or care about people, there are countless stories that i know about now doing research for this book of
rand paul is the thorn in the side of a lot of colleagues in the senate, republican and democrats alike. but this is different than politics and policy. this is public health and rand paul says he s not anti-vaccine his other messaging and behavior is undermining mitch mcconnell s effort to get people vaccinated and protect them. not to mention, their home state of kentucky is seeing cases and hospitalizations on the rise. it s clear, mcconnell seems much more responsible. he seems responsible and rand paul seems irresponsible quite frankly when it comes to the way they re dealing with the coronavirus messaging. what does mcconnell think about rand paul behind the scenes? because he keeps it very much under wraps in public. he does. and they have somewhat of a roller coaster relationship. they don t always see eye to eye, but look in this case, i ve talked to people familiar with mitch mcconnell s thinking and they say that he believes the best way to deal with people