the other party, the purpose of politics isperformative. it's about theater. acting out the worst part offense their voting base. they passed two major legislations. hr1 that would expand access to the ballot creating nationwide voter registration, restoring voting rights to the formerly incarcerated and the long overdue policing overhaul. two real pieces of legislation. they did it with zero support from republicans. sort of. one republican voted yes on the george floyd bill. texas republican lance said he oopsied and pressed the wrong button by accident. soon after every republican voted against police reform, one rose to address the most pressing issue of our time. >> we should all respect and honor dr. seuss and forget this cancel culture nonsense. >> let's be clear. the purpose of politics is supposed to be to do politics. to enact policy. you are simply not a serious political party if you're using your time on floor of the u.s. house of representatives to harp on how to grinch stole christmas. this very unserious political party with no agenda other than opposing anything the democrats do and trying to trip up people of color and anyone else who doesn't vote republican on their way to the ballot box to stay in power to do nothing but wage meaningless culture wars over not being able to say merry christmas. you can say it or mr. potato head needing a gender. it's a potato op whining about dr. seuss being cancelled over old time racist cartoons. the publisher stopped printing himself. if you caught any of the cpac political conference in florida over the weekend, this should not be a prize. >> there's nothing the radical left won't cancel. >> cancel culture. >> the cancel culture. >> we have to cancel, the cancel culture. >> the radical democrat, the fake news media and their toxic cancel culture. something new to ear ears. >> sorry about including your toxic ex. the latest embarrassing gop evidence was evident when kevin mccarthy snuck in a lie of his own earlier this week. >> under the constitution we defer to states and counties to run elections. democrats want to change that. first, they ou out law dr. seuss and now they want to tell us what to say. >> y'all didn't seem to defer to the states on january 6th. what does that mean about the dr. seuss thing? what does it mean? then there's the republican senators who are less concerned with passing a covid relief bill than performative displays and wasting time. enter the way of senator from way of moscow. ron johnson. he decided to delay a vote on the package by forcing a full reading of the bill. he explained that on a wisconsin radio talk show. >> i don't want to sound like a leftist but i'm going to resist. the first way is i'm going to go down and object to the waiving of the reading of the bill. i will make them read their 600 or 700 page bill. >> when he says them, who he really means are the senate clerks who are still reading the entire 628 page bill. they have been for the last three and a half hours. it could take them up to 15 hours. despite that, making the 30,000 dollar salary guys read the bill while the $174,000 senators do nothing but complain about dr. seuss, senator johnson's buddy took a break from tweeting about dr. seuss to drop this gem of what aboutism. >> we're getting ready to go through an unfortunate bit of political theater. the reason for that is that the democrats have made the decision to be hard partisans rather than to work together in a bipartisan manner. >> theater, you say cancun cruz. joining me is a democratic strategist, michael steel and charlie sykes. thank you for being here. >> the bull work is sort of policy ideas, reconstructing what conservatconservativism. it strikes me all the republican party, at this stage in its life, is just a theatrical enterprise. you can't say merry christmas, about mr. potato head needing to have a gender. it's not a living thing. it's a literal potato with ears stuck on it. these things seem stupid. i'm shocked they have been able to get away with it for so long. >> you're right. the side show has become the main event for a party that used to say we're the party of ideas. we used to have debates about the stimulus package or health care. when is the last time you heard a republican on the floor of congress talking about how do we reform access to health care. perhaps some substantive policy issue. this, i think, is a sign of the dominance of the entertainment wing of the republican party. you have more and more people who come to congress and they're job is not to sit in a room and write legislation and solve social problems or even talk about the problems that real americans face. it is to build followers on social media. it is to be famous for being famous. they are celebrities. you have people that put together a staff that's all communications as opposed to legislation because they are not in that business at all. what you're seeing in the republican party is in the middle of an economic crisis and a covid crisis they are all culture war all the time. frankly, think about it. it's march 4th, 2021. half a million americans have died and our political dialogue is consumed with the gender of mr. potato head and dr. seuss who wasn't really a doctor. >> it's insane. you ran this party, my friend, michael steel, i feel like we had a preview of it when you start -- you go from mitt romney being the governor of massachusetts and helping to craft the predecessor to obama care to all republicans being against something that the heritage foundation had ideas upon that wound up in obama care. >> i think a lot of it accurately puts it. it's not just the entertainment portion of the program we're seeing. it's the grifting portion that we're witnessing. from that entertainment comes gobs of cash. everybody's making some money. the reality for the party and something i witnessed when i was there which is why the folks on k street hated my guts because i was cutting off the cash. i wasn't spending money. i was putting it in the states to actually win campaigns. when you have a party where very few state parties have websites, you got to spend some money. we spent $6 million to build freaking websites because it wasn't about doing the basic hard door to door stuff that's required to win the public. that's what we're seeing played out right now on a day-to-day basis. the grift along with the entertainment. we witnessed that at cpac which is not even a good former shadow of itself. that's not what a political party should be about today particularly in the age of covid. >> there's no policy. you think of matt gate who is is a twitter role for $174,000. jim jordan calling for a literal hearing. calling for a hearing on cancel culture. >> first it was the muppets and now dr. seuss. they also came after you guys. they came after fox news and news max. this is frightening where the left wants to go. i've said i think this is the biggest threat to freedom we face. >> this guy has got ethics issues. he needs to worry about his own hometown. they're not worried about that and even protecting themselves from ethics issues. they are worried about having hearings on cancel culture. fox news has talked about dr. seuss 33 times since monday. 33 segments. only once did they show any of the dr. seuss images because they don't want to show the racist images because they are like they hate dr. seuss because he had a cat. there's a cat on the cover and they hate things with a cat. they are trying to pretend they don't know why they have a problem with. dr. seuss enterprises cancelled it. your thoughts. >> well, first of all, the fact that this is a complete and ridiculous lie the democrats had anything to do with this is indict tifr of this party that doesn't care about facts. all of this is a republican strategy to dummify this american public. it's to make sure that americans are deaf, dumb and blind to what government is supposed to do for them, to facts, reality, to science generally. the whole idea is to throw rope a dope out there and make you believe your government isn't actually supposed to serving you, working for you, creating any opportunity, any equality, anything. there's this sentiment that for some to be a republican is to be anti-government which is extremely ironic because all these people are running for office to get the jobs they say they should defund and the jobs should do nothing. they shouldn't do any work. they should talk about cultural phenomenons. really at the end of the day the heart is about eroding civics, eroding democracy and making sure the public is a bit deaf, dumb and blind to all things going on that impact our well being. that is what makes me so, i would say as funny as it is sometimes, it's really quite frightening. when you can deconstruct the entire society and have people believing that those who elect you are supposed to do nothing for you and that all this is about is some kind of cultural war then where are we? where are we as society that's supposed to come together to serve all people? we're nowhere. that's the play book. that's what's sinister. it's far bigger than some of the gaffes that we think are a bit laughable. there's really play to make people disbelieve in the fundamentals of our society and that is not only tragic, it's really dangerous. >> charlie, the right loves to talk about vir which you singal -- signaling but all they do is their virtue signaling. they decided their actual job is to constantly signal outrage over some culture or another that is unimportant to people's lives. here is mrs. potato head. does she matter in your life? is this what's important to you that she is able to be a girl mrs. potato head. this is what they're talking about. charlie, this is more important to them than health care. >> it does feel like we're living in a movie version in idiocracy. you mentioned virtue signaling. what's wrong with signaling virtues at a certain point. virtues are supposed to be signalled but they are this perpetual outrage machine. when you have run out of things to be genuine outraged about, you're out raged by mr. potato head or dr. seuss. you can't make this up. you can't make this up. you have members of congress standing on the floor in the midst of all of this and they could talk about the minimum wage. they could talk about putting money, how do we accelerate the vaccines and instead we're talking about how we can make people mad at one another and it's not just dumbing it down. it's a way of basically saying these other people don't share your values. they are so -- they are out to get you. they hate you. they will destroy everything good and beautiful and the symbol of good and beautiful today is you're holding in your hand that we must fight. we must fight for mr. and mrs. potato head. the gender. >> there has to be gender. she got a cute little hand being bag. michael, it seems ridiculous for me to be sitting here on a prime time news show with a mrs. potato head next to me. this is what they're doing on the right. this is the equivalent of what republican governance has become. hanging around with potato. that's the republican platform. >> ii had known mrs. potato head would show up while mr. potato head was out, i would have brought my spud in my closet over here, in my pantry. that could have been an interesting program. . >> nobody is trying tosoever the problem. i think that's the thing that is so disconcerning to me. i live in trump country now. they have no expectation that government is designed. people are dropping left and right from covid. i don't know whose problem that is. i can't afford to pay my mortgage. i guess nobody is supposed to deal with that. it's crazy. >> it's the problem of politics are what we have to solve. the purpose of politics is to solve problems. >> it goes to cultural impact it has. >> they are still a lot of consternation about it. i've had this conversation. how did we lose the culture war on abortion? how did we lose the culture war on gay marriage? how did we lose the culture wars on families that don't look like my white picket fence family? that's juan of the more animating principles right now than gets back to charlie's first point about the entertain m and the grift. when you put those two in that space, you can a gran diez it and raise money off of it. they don't care about the real cultural impacts. >> people are selling dr. seuss books for $3,000 on etsy. i couldn't find it in the store. people are making money on this left, right and center but no one is getting any policy solutions. thank you for joining us. you didn't have a lot to say. thank you for being here. the threat of violent new plot had the capitol on high alert for the dangerous and deluded far right. this was supposed to be the day that orange julius caesar to return. governor ron desantis had nothing to do with how a very wealthy florida enclave got 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capitol and remove democratic lawmakers. the capitol police released a statement on a possible plot to breach the capitol by an unidentified malitia group. speaker nancy pelosi acknowledged it was made for security reasons but down played the significance. >> if there's any troublemakers around, it made sense. i don't think anybody should take any encouragement that because some troublemakers might show up that we changed our whole schedule. we just moved it a few hours. largely will accommodate the republicans going to their own session. >> d.c. has been heavily fortified since the riot on january 6th. the capitol police requested a 60-day extension for the national guard to continue to protect the capitol. in an exclusive interview, dhs secretary detailed the seriousness of the threat that domestic extremism poses. >> we're watching the threat stream, the information, social media, other sources with respect to this particular day, march 4th. we're vigilant every day as we must be when the threat is as acute as it is in the domestic violent extremism context. >> joining me is former assistant director for counter intelligence. you have a piece up on msnbc now. i'll read a bit. you said one truth went unspoken during the testimony on tuesday about the january 6th attack. how the january 6th attacks were allowed to occur in first place and by whose hand. i want you to get more into that. it does seem that at this stage, all of these agencies of government are being extra protective. today was supposed to be the quote, grand reinauguration of donald trump according to qanon. they really sort had the battlements up for it. what do you mean by that? do you think they are doing better now? >> the january 6th insurrection didn't spontaneously come bust. it didn't happen overnight. it was encouraged. until we come out as a nation, leaders, law enforcement and call that out and say we're holding hundreds of people accountable by arresting themg for the violence that koured on january 6th but until we say, that you guys, in the house, in the senate and former president trump made this happen, facilitate and enabled it and you are radicalizers, until we hold them accountable, we'll have violent extremism in our society and continue to see extensions of national guard and millions of dollars have to be paid to secure the iconic symbol of our democracy. it comes from the top. until we acknowledge that and hold them accountable, we'll continue to have this problem. >> there's a lot of conservative angst and complaint about the ongoing security posture. the national good troops are there and makes us look like we're an embattled, banana republic. they are acting like they didn't hear any of the testimony. the acting capitol police chief said they want to blow up the capitol. she testified to that. they want to blow -- let's play it. this is cut three. >> we know that members of the malitia groups that were present on january 6th, have stated their desires that they want to blow up the capitol and kill as many members as possible. >> yet let me hear what representative michael waltz. he's from florida. this is what he claiming about the security protocol. here it is. >> january 6th was horrible. everybody should be prosecuted that participated. i'm just not seeing the specific threat that keeps the soldiers here. i've been asking official after official for that briefing and we're not getting it. >> what does he understand about they want to blow up the capitol and kill as many members as possible? i don't see how we can get anywhere on this, frank, if you have one party that's decided it will pretend it doesn't hear what we all hear. >> this is feigned ignorance. the truth hurts. the truth is the threat is us is what he's saying. every time he pretends he heards the briefing, he doesn't know what the threat is, he's acknowledging the threat is me and i have to get with the program now. look, one of the most disturb things about the fact that business at the capitol had to be altered today and some ways shut down is we're sending a message that it's like the kid who doesn't want the math test today and called in the bomb threat to the school, to close it down. we can't keep having this conversation. security's got to get tighter. from a national security perspective, i'm also concerned about the message it's sending to foreign adversaries who clearly are saying that place is still insecure. still can't repel a small handful of violent malitias so what are we going to do about this? the review can't come out fast enough. they'll have to add another thousands security personnel to the capitol police. let's do it. let's get.net. -- get it done. let's not close down the capitol again. >> how concerned are you about threats in the house. there was a guy senior no the state department who had to be pulled out afghanistan that america is over without donald trump in place and making racist statements about the vice president. there's people in our government that are carrying trump banner. >> government agencies are not a monolith. they reflect the division in our society. they cannot remain if they're going to espouse violence or false conspiracy theories. it's part of the new administration's job to ferret out violence and falsehoods within the u.s. government. that's got to be a priority. i'm not really hearing about that enough from new agency leaders, new cabinet members. moving forward, you're going to hear a lot about it. >> yeah, indeed. thank you. always great to talk with you. still ahead, the dangers of trump in political exile. republicans are not content to let him slip quietly into the water hazard. she's still running the show from his resort home in florida. will they never, ever learn? from fidelity -- a visual snapshot of your investments, key portfolio events, all in one place. because when it's decision time, you need decision tech. only from fidelity. donald trump did not emerge from retiermts to be inaugurated once again. that's not surprising given how ludicrous that idea is. the fbi warning of potential violence is a reminder these kinds of beliefs are potent enough to represent an ongoing threat. as the events of january 6th showed, we're witnessing a new brand of right wing thinking. foe meanted by the former president and encouraged among his base. it remains one of the lingering dangers of trumpism even though trump is out of office. now there's a cautionary tale in new yorker warning trump's path to regaining power is already clear. he offered the alarming example of auto cattic rise to power. like trump, he continued to claim that the election had been stolen because in his view, if he wasn't in government, then the government had been hijacked. those attacks fueled his comeback in 2010. by that time government institutions were widely viewed add ill legitimate and easy to corrupt or dismantle. joining me is staff writer at the new yorker. very excited to talk to you. you wrote a cautionary tale in 2016 warning the institutions would not save us. we barely were saved by them this time. we say we were one corrupt georgia official or one corrupt official away from having the election stolen. talk about how this might work. donald trump is sort of installed himself as president in exile from mar-a-lago. how could that help bring him back to power? >> i went back and look at some instructive examples from poland and hungary. there's two things. victor obin who was out of power for eight years launched an attack on the legitimacy of the party in power. the legitimacy of the entire system as soon as he was voted out of office. he positioned himself as the only true hungarian, the only true representative of hungary. there's a fraez that he said the homeland cannot be in the opposition. meaning that the only true hungarians were with him. donald trump is doing something very similar. the kachensky party, the law and justice party, which was out of power for a similar amount of time. what they did wa was instructive is over the years they were out of power consolidated a conspiracy world view which came the ultimate world marker. if you believed in the conspiracy about russia blowing up the entire polish government on a plane then you're a true patriot, you're a true pol. if you didn't believer it, you're european and all the wrong stuff. we're seeing a combination of these things as trump positioning himself as a president in exile. i'm concerned about this attack on the legitimacy of the party in power and the government as its constituted. >> yeah. basically what you're saying is that donald trump -- he is. he's constructing the same idea that the election itself, he keeps saying it in these official looking documents that the election was stolen. we know we really won. we, the true americans really won. we had this kmpgs on one of our team calls that it's like if he were just doing that on his own, like he was the new florida man, it kind of wouldn't matter but he's subdued every single member of republican leadership so they do it with him. let me play this. this is bit long but i want you to listen to this. this is republicans then and now on trump. take a listen. >> i don't get angry often. you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. you're a coward. leave heidi the hell alone. >> honored that president trump is here endoring my campaign and i look forward to campaigning alongside him in 2020. >> i think donald trump is a con man. i'm not going to support somebody i don't believe is republican. >> i like the president. i hope he's successful. he's been a friend to me. >> president trump's actions preceded the riot for a disgraceful, disgraceful dir election of duty. >> if the president was the party's nominee, would you support him? >> the nominee of the party? absolutely. >> do you think the subservience of republican leadership serves to make this thing, this horror show more likely? >> yes, i do. i think that one of the scariest things we heard last weekend at cpac was donald trump saying i'm not leaving the party. i'm not forming another party. my favorite auto kra si experts who have literally written the book said that's really bad sign. it's not -- we don't want the never trump republicans to leave the republican party either. he said that would be terrible solution because whoever leaves the party loses. basically we have lost the republican party. we lost the republican party to this position of attacking the legitimacy of government. it's a permanent war against the american system, the political system. the republicans aren't going to same themselves and save us. it's up to the democratic party to engage the political audience, at least part of it that trump has engaged. >> it's scary to think about this. we'll recommend every one read your piece. thank you as always. everybody read that piece. thank you. up next, 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>> if you come to my office and you have a blood pressure problem, i don't give you a depression pill. if you have depression, i don't give you an antibiotic. you cannot give the same medication for every disease process. texas is diverse as a country. in the very south, completely different than our brothers that are in corpus and dallas and houston and san antonio. incidentally, i was giving a conference to a large group of people via zoom day before yesterday about the importance of mask wearing when someone in the audience says, and what do you think about the governor's announcement? and he puts his phone up to the zoom, and at the same time that i'm enforcing the use of masks, our governor is saying the exact opposite. so you can imagine our embarrassment, our despair. you know, we always want to be professional, so we don't do personal attacks. but it's a very hard position to defend and, remember, we're the group of people that were the hardest hit in the country in july, and it was only after the governor took the individual flexibility, maneuverability from my county, and we went from 13 deaths in five weeks to 50 a day after the same medicine for everything. we cannot have the same approach if you live in big bend or if up live in mcallen texas. >> he also added this nice racist twist to t blaming migrants from central america for bringing covid. this sounds like the old days when people used to attack haitian migrants and try to blame them for hiv and try to stigmatize, or what we just talked about yesterday on the show, asian-americans being completely, unfairly stigmatized and in some cases beaten and harmed because of the previous president attaching covid to anyone who is asian-american because he blamed it on china. what do you make of that racism? >> well, i have two comments. number one, back in july when there was the same size fits all, we didn't have an immigrant problem. and yet we immediately became a chaos without the influence of immigrants. obviously you cannot deny that 9,000 undocumented folks or documented folks, people that are coming, it doesn't matter if you're going from oklahoma to florida or to alaska f you're haing folks coming in from central america, 9,000 in our community, not tested and released, it absolutely contributes. however, that's not the predominant problem. the predominant problem is that we're just breaking through. i don't think it's the migrants' fault although quite frankly releasing 9,000 people from different communities, it doesn't matter if you're from finland or el salvador, it's a problem. >> a lot of people aren't thrilled to have people coming from texas to their states now that it's all open for covid. dr. ashby, the runner-up to absolute worst tonight was the governor of florida, who is always in the running. there's a different twist in florida where essentially it's like vaccines to the highest bidder. it feels like florida is becoming sort of a gangster's paradise of vaccine selling. is it as bad as i feel like it is? >> joy, love the green top first of all. and every time i'm on here, you try to get me in a good mood, but i'm not right now. dr. melendez, pleasure to be back on here with you. so just to be clear, okay, florida's governor, desantis, is the worst, okay? so we're talking about the revocation of mask mandates without consulting the experts. try not even putting them in place in the first place. we don't have any, okay? so that's one. and let's take it a step further. desantis from the onset of this pandemic has made consistent decisions that prioritize profits and the economy over the public interests and the health and wellness of the population. and he is has now moved to a next phase where we're dealing with the vaccine distribution. first of all, there's no transparency with the vaccine distribution strategy, right, at all. we don't know how the rhyme or the rhythm -- the rhythm as to how they're distributing the vaccine. we have no idea. so that's all being concealed from us. all we know is that governor desantis has used his executive action to, on a whim, do pop-up clinics here and there, and this proportionately went to the communities with the wealthiest zip codes, the communities that donate to his campaign. he has had the highest fund-raising since the 2018 election over the past two months. and down in the keys, one of his wealthiest donors gave him $250,000, and they got their vaccines back in january. mind you, my patients back in january, back in february couldn't even begin to get access to the vaccine. and these are the type of things that just piss me off because at the end of the day, dr. melendez, i respect you for being gentlemanly and being respectful, but i don't play when it comes to my patients. i don't play when it comes to my community. i'm going to go off on you because when it comes to life and death, i don't play. >> well, let me respond. >> go on. yes, please do. >> i'm going to respond. look, i don't respect the message from the governor. i don't respect the policy. i don't have to disrespect him as a man. i'm very upset too. i can tell you, you know, my uncle died, my neighbor died. i intubated my sixth grade schoolteacher. i caught the disease myself. i've lived it. if i had to go back in the last year and mention three of the moments that i scratched my head absolutely this is on the top of the list. when you have only 30% of your people vaccinated and you're rolling back, absolutely. so, you know, i understand the passion, and i feel it too, and i completely disagree with what he's doing. but i think what we need to do is we need to just be consistent with the message and say, hey, here we are. get our opinion. include us. let us be part of the solution. >> it doesn't seem like that is the plan, however. but dr. bernard ashby, and dr. ivan melendez, thank you both for being here. appreciate you both. appreciate the passion. that is tonight's reidout. 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