Then the spinning over what we know about the Police Gassing of peaceful protesters before trumps Photo Op. Plus, as talks continue, why any Infrastructure Bill that doesnt address climate change is not worth passing. And how one senator gave up the game during an interrogation of the first africanamerican Secretary Of Defense. Mr. Secretary, do you believe that our military is a fundamentally racist organization . Yes or no, please . All in starts right now. Good evening from New York. Im chris hayes. The Republican Party has found the achilles heal in the biden economy, expensive burritos. Chipotle announced they are raising prices to cover the cost of increasing wages for their employees. Heaven forbid. The Price Increase is all of 4 . Prices vary by location, but that basically means if your Chipotle Burrito Cost 10, it will go up 10. 40. Color me a little skeptical that is going to be the deciding factor in the midterm election. Never mind chipotle paid their ceo 38 Million. But you can understand why republicans want to run with this. This is from the National Republican Congressional Committee website. Your burrito just got more expensive. Now, this is a Core Animating issue of the right, of conservatives. Has been for decades if not centuries. Business owners and titans of capital and right wing square mongering about wages. Inflation is going up. You probably noticed it in your daily life. Theres new Data Out Taishoing the consumer price index. The price of a bunch of stuff is up 5 across the basket of items they monitor. Thats the fastest rate of growth since 2008. As weve talked about previously on the show, a lot of that seems to be transitory with the strangeness of the economy coming back to life after more than a year of a pandemic. Back in may of 2020, for instance, a lot of things like Air Fair and Car Rentals were really cheap because there was zero demand for them. As we get back to normal, demand and prices are back up. And in many cases we have a mismatch between the demand and the available supply, how many cars there are on the market, for instance. There is a good reason to think a lot of that mismatch is going to go away. Thats the bet the biden administratiOn And the federal reserve are making. The deeper issue here that is really animating the Republican Party and the Ceo Class is the fact that labor is scarce right now. It is hard to find people to hire. The Unemployment Rate dropping to 5. 8 in the may jobs report, yet companies still say they are desperate to find workers. The chamber is out with a new Report Today calling the Worker Shortage a national economic crisis. At the very moment that unemployment is rising, fewer people are working, american businesses say they cant find employees. This Labor Force Problem isnt just limited to the Restaurant And Service industries. Its impacting businesses across the board, including construction. Right now we are struggling with employees. Its the Work Force has been paralyzed. Across texas restaurants are hiring and getting creative to fill positions. This ones offering Room And Board and many now have signon bonuses to sweeten the deal for job seekers. At Dots Diner in new orleans, you used to be able to get sizzling bacon, eggs and grits 24 hours a day, but now im 20 employees short right now to be able to open 24 hours. Hungry customers are filling booths, but the Owner Cant Fill shifts. Why do you think people arent applying . Obviously in my opinion, its the fact theyre making as much money staying home on unemployment than they would at being back to work. Theres a lot of people who think that way and the data on that doesnt paint a very clear picture. But if youre the boss and youre looking to hire people, yes, it is easier if labor is plentiful because that is cheap. And then you can have your pick. A lot of people will apply to fill your position at your diner and they can say i like this persOn And not that person. When the Labor Market is not like that, when labor is scarce, you have to hustle or you may have to do something even worse, raise wages. But for republicans, conservatives, most bosses, ceos, you can tell from their burrito freakout, raising wages is not something they want to do. Heres how the former economic adviser to president Ronald Reagan put it. For those people, sandra, who are coming into the labor force, not old timers bho have been around for a while, the poor, the minorities the disenfranchised, those with less education, young people who havent had the job experience, these people arent worth 15 an hour in most cases. He just came out and said it. The poor, the minorities, the disenfranchised, the young, theyre not worth it. Im afraid youre wrong, art. Because economies this is how it is. Labor is scarce. Some are having to do just that. Some businesses have, quote, found a way around the Worker Shortage which is raising wages to 15 an hour or more, like the Pittsburgh Ice Cream parlor who did not produce a single application between january and march so he decided to double the starting wage to 15 an hour plus tips to see what would happen. The shop was suddenly flooded with applications. More than A Thousand filed in over the course of a week. This is, of course, elemental economics. When something is plentiful, its going to be cheap. When it is scarce, its going to cost more money. Another way to say Labor Shortage is just to say Worker Power. And Worker Power has been largely missing from the u. S. Economy for literally 40 years if not more. Since the reagan era and the last great bout with inflation, weve seen a vast transformation of The American and global economy. We created in reagans shadow a new economy that offers this mark, Consumer Goods are cheap, everything from burritos to flat screen tvs to all the stuff you can buy on Amazon Or Target because its made by people in other countries making very little money. Cheaper than theyve ever been to our door. For years people defending this model have saId Look how cheap the tvs are. How can you say people are poor when they have smartphones . Theres another part of the bargain, the key part is the cheap goods go together with low wages. Because youre getting those goods from folks making very little money. The only things that are not cheap on top of at all are the pillars of Middle Class life. Education gets more expensive every year, as does housing, as does Health Care. We might be on the precipice of a momentous change right now where we transform that bargain away from a cheap economy to a high wage economy. And that might mean Burritos Cost 10. 40 instead of just 10. It might also mean you buy a new television less often. There might be a tradeoff like that. Economics is about tradeoff. I think its a tradeoff most americans will willing to make. In fact, if americans agree on one thing overwhelmingly in a very polarized era where no one agrees on anything, its waging the Minimum Wage. 62 of u. S. Adults support raising the federal Minimum Wage to 15 an hour. If you go back to that republican Party Post if you reverse the messaging on the expensive burrito, their promise is essentially we will bring down the wages of chipotle workers. If you put it that way, it doesnt sound so appealing, does it . Sarah nelson, robert risch, author of the system who rigged it and they both join me now. Sarah, let me start with you. Youre representing folks in a sector that were seeing a lot of tumult. The industry was obviously utterly hammered last year, and when you look at that consumer price index, you look at flights, airline fares up 24 . What is the kind of situation for the workers you represent in one of those industries where were seeing this kind of rapid change . Well, lets be really clear, chris, saying that fares are up 24 from last year when demand was down 97 is maybe not a great comparison. Right. But lets talk about the airline industry. Were 80 organized. 80 of the Airline Employee versus a union. So, we were able to get the best covid Relief Package of any industry. What we got was relief that went just to workers. We had to stay in our jobs connected to k had, continuing to pay taxes, and we put a cap on Executive Compensation and a ban on stock buyback. What we did with the power of unions because we had the Union Voice and we were able to put the demands out front is that we were able to draft a workers up Relief Package. And that kept things fairly stable. That did not happen across the economy. Across the economy we had to have Safety Nets to catch people who were being pushed boo poverty by the millions if the government didnt step in and stand up because we had this problem before we even came into covid that The American worker was working more to make more, not making more to have a better life. So, all of that productivity was going into the pockets ofceos. We never talk about the price of a Ceo Pay going up, a tech guy. We only talk about this problem when we talk about low wage class worker. And that is the problem we brought into covid and the shared experience of workers understanding that we dont have to take that anymore, we can raise expectations, you are starting to see the Power Ft oworking class coming into play here. Let me give you the argument on the other side, which is not a crazy one and not ungrounded in economic literature, which is, look, if we have these government subsidies, the Bonus Unemployment Insurance which allows people to make more than they normally would in unemployment, were taking away a little bit of that incentive. And we want to get the economy roaring again, we need to get people back in the Work Force, Match Employers and employees and get everybody working together again. And right now this is a hitch and its bad for everybody that we cant find that match. That is total bologna. The listen its bologna. Wages in the middle have hardly grown at all adjusted for inflation for 40 years even though the economy is twice as large as it was. Where do all those benefits go . They went to ceos, the 38 Million decree o, but also gone to top executives and major investors. You know the shareholder class, the investor class, the executive class, they have done extraordinarily well. And the workers havent. And thats a problem for the economy because if you paid people more at the bottom, they have more money to spend. People at the top dont spend that much of their paycheck or their compensation. People at the bottom spend it. And one of the biggest problems weve had in this economy for the past 40 years is that you got a majority of american workers without the means to actually keep the economy going. Sarah, i want you to talk about from your perspective as a Union President what a tight Labor Market does for your bargaining power. Theres different ways workers can have power. One is to organize through unions. But also macroeconomic conditions can give power, Radio Significant if unemployment is low and labor is scarce, they have more power. If theres tons of people out of work, people banging down the door, they have a labor surplus, they dont. Does It Matter what those macro conditions are . It does, chris. But the fact of the matter is we have to grow the Labor Movement. This is what President Biden is saying and hes absolutely right. If we dont grow that sustained Labor Movement where workers can bargain for Health Care and vacatiOn And things that make it a meaningful life, then those things can change. The corporate elite can change them any day. So, you can have a whole bunch of Worker Power that gained something in one month and is taken away in the next month if you dont have a uniOn And the contract that is in black and white, just like those Executives Demand for themselves. Robert, do you think i mean, the question is how temporary this is and how structural it is, right . Because we have been pursuing this model for 40 years, which is breaking down in lots of different ways, which is being attacked from the right and left across the world in different ways. Were seeing this increasingly confrontational stance towards china. Do you see this moment as an opportunity to change that Trajectory Weve been on . Yes, its an opportunity. Sarah nelson is exactly right. We need stronger unions. And Thats Part of the structural change that is necessary to change the bargaining relationship. But also weve got to attack corporate monopolies. Those monopolies are dominating this economy. And not only are they charging consumers more, but they are also keeping wages down for a lot of hourly workers. We also have got to make sure that the economy is moving as rapidly as it can. And that is what Bideno Mic is is really about. Remember how we had an administration telling things that are untrue. So why is there a report defying all obvious logic and Common Sense . Thats next. S logic and Common Sense . Thats next. D. Fine, well sleep here. Its the easiest because its the cheesiest. Kraft. For the win win. Welcome to allstate. You already pay for car insurance, why not take your home along for the ride . Tate. 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Every Day U does good Unilever Welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about well, the names have all changed since you hung around but those dreams have remained and theyve turned around whod have thought theyd lead you whod have thought theyd lead you back here where we need you back here where we need you yeah, we tease him a lot. Welcome back, america. It sure is good to see you. No, hes not in his room. Dad, why didnt you answer your phone . Your mother loved this park. She did. One of the defining moments of last summer, which was quite a summer, which was in the middle of protesting against Police Brutality across the country, police violently cleared peaceful protesters out of a park across from the White House using Tear Gas and batons and rubber bullets. Its just before Donald Trump walked from the White House to that park to stage a ridiculous Photo Op in front of a church with the bible. It appeared to just about everyone so trump could take his pictures. But a new report from the Interior Department Inspector general found, the evidence we obtained did not support a finding the u. S. Park police cleared The Park to allow the president to walk to the church. Ill be honest, we have to not let our political and cognitive biases confound the truth. All that said, the Ig Report is obviously full of holes. It fails to clear at a logical level. The president walked to the church once The Park was clear of protesters. The Interior Department of the Park Police are not making the ultimate orders about that because the president is going there. So, if the Park Police had not cleared The Park to install their fencing, was Donald Trump going to stroll out amongst the protesters. Obviously not. What are we even saying here. The president walked to the place that had been cleared. So, it would make Sense Someone with the president s Security Detail was coordinating controlling what was happening. In fact, according to the report, the u. S. Park Police Incident Commander said the secret Service Uniform Division told him the president s visit would likely occur later that day or in the evening after protesters had been removed from the area. Right. So, trump would go after the protesters cleared from The Park, after the police cleared them. The report also says, contrary to the operational plan and before the u. S. Park police gave the first dispersal warning, the Secret Service entered 8th Street from madison place. That led to an earlier confrontation than was planned. The secret Service Lieutenant later apologized for the occurred. Well, i think i know. Pick me. This whole thing was completely absurd. They didnt even interview any of the most relevant parties like William Barr or the Secret Service. So, were supposed to accept the Park Police had this plan, right, to clear the square to build a fence and for reasons unbeknownst to anyone the Secret Service initiated that way ahead of time but definitely not so the president could walk to that park for his Photo Op. Carol Len Nick is national Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Washington Post, her book zero fail, joins me now. Lets start with Level Setting on the agencies involved here. This strikes me as very important. The Park Police are under the Interior Department. Its the Interior Department that has the Ig Issue the report. But there are other entities involved in anything involving the president s security, right . Absolutely. I think that youve hit the nail on the head, chris, about the incompleteness of this report. While the Interior Ig has the purview his territory is the Park Police, and he can poke as far and as deep as he wants to in that area, he chose, or opted, not to ask any questions outside his purview. And that makes this report really incomplete. And also kind of strains against what we all saw with our own eyes. And i must say what we at the Washington Post reported in real time. The White House was planning Monday Morning for this perimeter to be push. The president was planning for a movement to project his control over the city. He was doing that around 2 00 with his White House aides. And between 3 00 and 5 00, the White House Secret Service and the Deputy Chief of staff, who is the former secret Service Detail Leader for the president , were letting the Park Police most senior leaders know, hey, by the way, the president s going to be coming out. The president is their boss. And the question that continues to be left unanswered from this report, chris, is why the urgency, right . If it wasnt to move things out of the way for the president s movement, why did they have to use, you know, Pepper Spray . Why did they have to use Rubber Munitions . Why did they have to use shields to shove peaceful protesters as quickly as possible out of this area about 20 minutes before the president emerged . Right. Thats one of many logical holes. To your point if youre going to build a fence and you want to increase a perimeter area, you can take your time doing that. You can send people out with a bull horn. You can start to tick things off. Theres a bunch of things that do that dont require this very quick, decisive, suddenly announced action that we all saw the Park Police take with our own eyes. Absolutely. Keep in mind, there are many things about this report that are accurate. There was a Discussion Starting on saturday that, you know, weve had a lot of violence on Friday Night after the George Floyd protests began outside the White House. There was a lot of feeling at the Secret Service and also in the Park Police, but especially the Secret Service, that we were overwhelmed. We would not have been able at the Secret Service to stop a series of protesters from jumping the fence. We would have been swarmed and overwhelmed. There was concern about how to establish this perimeter. But lets be clear. The Secret Service and the Park Police have been trained how to move protesters carefully to another location safely where they can exercise their first amendment rights. And this did not follow any of those norms. It did not follow any of their training. And in fact, as my book reveals, the Secret Service officers and agents pressed their director after June 1 in a Town Hall Meeting to explain what is our use of Force Policy exactly because this didnt look like it. Yeah, thats a great point. The final thing i would say here again not to sort of center on the lonlic as opposed to the facts but a logical level, the butfor relationship, the causal relationship, is like, obviously if they hadnt cleared that area, the President Wasnt going to it. That is an obvious thats an obvious point. Hes not going to walk out like, hey, everybody, im in the middle of the protest. Obviously theres a relationship between the two at some level. 100 . The secret Service Director and the secret Service Detail Leader would throw down their badges and quit rather than take the president yes. Into an area where any of these protesters were. Correctly too. It would be professional malpractice for the Secret Service to do such a thing. And lets focus on the fact that the director of the forgive me. The Detail Leader for the president s protection division, who is now at this point the deputy white House Chief of staff, was on scene coordinating this. Right. The Secret Service had full knowledge. The White House had full knowledge of what was going on. Ironically, the police and most of the Park Police and the d. C. Police had no idea what was going on. Youre such a great reporter, and this is a beat that you have owned more than anyone. 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What were looking for is to see whether our colleagues are open to it, and well finally get out a piece of paper which lays it all out and see if we can get some people to sign On And have enough support. I think it has merit. When Senator Romney was asked yesterday about how the climate Agen Agenda is probably something they pursue by and large outside an Infrastructure Bill. Heres the thing, an Infrastructure Bill that is not climate focused not worth focused, probably worse than nothing because climate is the central Infrastructure Challenge we face obviously. Remember last month when one of the largest pipelines in the country was hacked and shut down for days. What does that Pipeline Carry . Its a Fossil Fuel pipeline. Remember what happened in texas during the winter storm. That was all energy infrastructure. What drives our roads and bridges . Vehicles almost entirely powered by the Fossil Fuel we have to keep burning so we dont heat the planet to a crisp. The infrastructure does not live outside the energy and climate system. It is the backbone to the energy and climate system. Not only that, but if you strip the Climate Plan out of the bill, youre going to lose a lot of democratic senators and will be left with nothing to pass. Senator Ed Markey told the New York times, quote, the plan cannot survive another successful republican obstructionist strategy. We have to have the climate at the center of the package to have my vote. No climate, no deal. And Senator Ed Markey joins me now. How are you feeling in the wake of the news from this another bipartisan gang. We got a new one. Yesterday there was the capital one. Now weve got this one. Im hoping we keep rotating new gangs On And On And on forever. The news they have a deal and the White House coming out with a wait and see message, whats your understanding of where things stand . It sounds like to me they have a package which is Climate Denial masquerading as bipartisanship. We cant have an Infrastructure Bill in 2021 that doesnt have climate at its center. And any other bill that we are going to consider that does not have aggressive solutions to the Climate Crisis will just have that response, which ive been giving, which is no climate, no deal. Thats the only way in which we can respond. This bill has to meet the magnitude of the challenges which the Climate Crisis is presenting to our country and to the planet. Lets talk about the politics here before we get to the substance. Youve like Martin Heinrich saying an Infrastructure Package that goes light on climate should not count on democratic vote. I tweeted earlier this week about climate failure. Im still nervous. We must get senate dems unified, lest we get sucked into Bipartisanship Mud where we fail on climate. How big do you think that gang is of democratic senators for whom this is a red Line Nonstarter . My view is that the democratic party won in 2020. Huh . Good view. On this issue, the house, the senate, and the presidency. And it was generally by millions of young people all across the country who rose up, we want out to the poles, worked hard and they have a big iou they should be able to cAll In. And i think that democrats across america are going to stand up and demand that we pass a Climate Package and Infrastructure Bill that is worthy of the name of the planet is running a fever. There are no Emergency Rooms for planets. We have to pass legislation that unleashes the wind, solar, all Electric Vehicle, plugin hybrid, Transmission Technology Revolution that we know is healthier. We can save all of creation by engaging in massive Job Creation, union Job Creation by the millions. But we need to have an Infrastructure Bill that embodies all of those ambitions. And i am afraid that this bill, as its being advertised, just does not meet that test. Well, you tick through some of the things that are in the sort of the initial biden american rescue plan proposal. You know, theres money for Battery Storage and research on that. Theres money for Electric Vehicle charging stations. Theres some talk about that moving to the transportation bill, although thats in the weeds. Theres a lot of stuff for the electric grid. Theres stuff on clean energy in terms of renewable portfolio standards, if i understand. Do you have a sense of what is or isnt out . Its just a weird thing with these Tensin Tors in a Room Trading this stuff away. Are you read in on what is in the package or not . I dont know whats in the package except what you just read which is that package will not be dealing with the Climate Crisis in any significant way. Bottom line is the gop used to stand for grand old party. Now its gop stands for the Gas And Oil party. We know the Gas And Oil is the largest contributor to the party. We do need new highways. We do need new bridges. But we also have to have an Infrastructure Revolution for the Energy Sector so that we are the global leader so the rest of the world says the united states is back and we believe in science and we know that we can solve this problem by unleashing this revolution. So, the President Biden can go to glasgow later this year and say we are back. We are no longer the laggard. We are the leader now and we must solve the problem for future generations. That is what this bill must have so that President Biden will have the credibility he needs meeting with the rest of the world later on this year. Yeah. No climate, no yes vote, Ed Markey is in that caucus. I suspect theres a lot more in that caucus as well. Wither going to keep following this. Thank you so much senator. No climate, no deal. Thank you, chris. Dont go away. We have Breaking News coming in tonight. I actually didnt believe this when it crossed my phone, but heres what we got. 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New york times reports, quote, prosecutors subpoenaed apple for data from the accounts of at least two democrats on the house intelligence committee, aides and Family Members. One was a minor. All told the records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early california, then the panels top democrat and now its chairman. Katie benin covers this for us. Thank you for joining us. Just walk us through what we know here. Sure. You know, the investigation really begins in 2017, soon after Donald Trump became president. As we all know, there were several stories, very unflattered to him that also involved the leaks of sensitive classified information, Jim Comey talking about in memos how the president pressured him to drop investigation to Michael Flynn, national security adviser, news about Michael Flynn and Michael Flynns questions with the russian ambassador and whether or not those were questionable. Story after story about the Trump Administration that were highly questionable, stories about the russian government, and the White House was determined to find out who was the source of these leaks. Administrations investigate leaks all the time, but we also saw as these leaks wore on, prosecutors started to think that they just never really closed and included things like subpoenas for information on Adam Schiff. Okay. So, thats where i mean, yes. Leak investigations happening basically in every White House. Every president hates leaks. Often there are leak investigations. Theyen even include subpoenaing reporters, which in my view is wrong no matter who is doing it. We know reporters were targeted in some of these investigations. Thats some of the reporting in your paper, the New York times. Weve got a statement from New York times lawyer about those. But subpoenaing a Ranking Member of a committee with oversight secretly was anybody notified about these subpoenas . Nobody was notified. So, to your point that was highly unusual and considered highly aggressive both when you speak to people who are members of congress. They cannot really remember anything like this. This is a really aggressive move because they not only subpoenaed apple for information on the Ranking Member of the committee, Adam Schiff, but also another committee member, current and former staff members of that committee, Family Members of the staffers, including one child. So, it was a very aggressive, broad reach into data of people associated with this committee. And much like some of the media requests weve seen, apple was actually given a Gag Order when they were given a subpoena. They were not to speak of it. And the only reason they were able to tell the committee in may that this has happened is because the order had lapsed and the Justice Department did not move to renew it. Also the committee found out from apple the democrats on the committee found out from apple, not from the Justice Department the Committee Members had to reach out to the Justice Department this may and ask about what had happened. The Justice Department closed the case in may, which is what they told the committee. But the Justice Department to this day declines to tell Adam Schiff or other democrats whether or not any republicans were investigated as part of this leak investigation. And we have not found any evidence yet that republicans were. What a story. I mean, all right. Im digesting this. Katie benner. That was thank you so much for hopping on the phone. Great reporting, as always. I should note Adam Schiff, who was the target of one of these subpoenas, will be on with Rachel Maddow in just a little short while. So, youre not going to want to go anywhere. 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Because we werent fighting the civil war, and theres no such thing as northern blood or southern blood. There can be no such thing as black blood and white blood when youre being fired at. Nearly 75 years after integration, the military has made progress, but problems still persist, particularly when it comes to racial diversity in military leadership. Remember in 2019 when thenacting secretary of Defense Mark Esper tweeted out a photo of the president and his top fourstar generals and admirals. You know, look at the picture. Its striking in 2020 to see that. It looks nothing, of course, like the demographic makeup of the country. And when you look back at the history of who this country had as, say, Secretary Of Defense, you get a very similar picture, that is until this year when the senate confirmed retired fourstar Army General and Form Iraq Commander Lloyd Austin. Yet today, as if we do not know this collective history, republican Senator Tom Cotton of arkansas grilled Secretary Austin on whether he thought the u. S. Military is racist. Mr. Secretary, do you believe that our military is a fundamentally racist organization . Yes or no, please . Well, i wont give you a Yes Or No answer on that, senator, because it deserves more than a Yes Or No. The military, like any organization, will have its challenges, but i do not believe it is a fundamentally racist organization. Thank you. Im sorry to cut you off, but our time is limited. I think it is a pretty simple question. Im glad that you agree it is not fundamentally racist. Do you believe that any Member Ead differently based on their Skin Color and sex . Again, Yes Or No will do. Again, this question deserves more than a Yes Or No answer. Mr. Secretary im sorry to cut you off. Our time is limited. It is a very simple question. Should a member of the organization you lead be treated differently in violation of the constitution, i would add, based on their sex or the color of their skin . No, i do not believe that, and that is the okay. That is why we have diversity, equity, and Inclusion Focus in the military. So heres what this jihad against socalled wokeness comes down to, right . Trying to badger the first Black Man to ever serve as the Secretary Of Defense into a Yes Or No answer about the complicated racial history of the nugs he runs so you can manufacture a Fox News Sound bite. Great question, senator. Why would anyone on earth have any reason to think the pentagon is anything but an absolute model of racial equity that just happened to never have a Black Man at its helm for over two centuries . Lane cooper covers the pentagon for the New York times, has written a lot about this very issue, including a great piece last year, titled africanamericans are highly visible in the military but almost invisible at the top, and she joins me now. I wonder, helene, as someone who covers this beat, if you can give a little context to the exchange today. What was going on there . Thanks for having me, chris. It was such a weird exchange. This whole specter of Tom Cotton very much badgering Secretary Of Defense Lloyd Austin just, i think, didnt sit well with a lot of people at the pentagon. A lot of this is going on because the right wing of the Republican Party, led by Tom Cotton and by senator crenshaw, dont like the fact that the pentagon at long last is starting to confront some of the racial inequities within the department of defense. They call this so now theres this new phrase thats been coined. Theyre now the woke police. Theyre going after the pentagon for being too woke, and the Pentagon Leadership for being too woke. They dont like the idea that, for instance, the pentagon is going to be having some putting out some sort of juneteenth observance, for instance, coming up soon. Theyre not crazy about the whole idea of renaming all of these confederate bases. Theres a whole list of things, but keep in mind that on january 6th, you know, as the capitol was being stormed by protrump rioters, we found out afterwards that many, many of them were former military. Mmhmm. And many of these extremists had military background and were even active Duty Military. Weve had active Duty Military now charged in the capitol riots. So the pentagon has now been confronting sort of this this this strain thats within The American military because it is its at the same time that its a reflection of american society, you have extremists within the pentagon, and Thats Something thats been going on too. But you have people in the right wing of the Republican Party who dont like that for whatever reason they may present. I mean, the piece last year, we have talked about the u. S. Military as a sort of model of raceblind american meritocracy. In many ways, it has been a more integrated institution in american life than a lot of other institutions, including neighborhoods in the city of New York, right . Yes. Thats right. But there are still issues there, which you write about. There are issues, and particularly when you look at whats at the top of that military and whos on the bottom, theres some pretty obvious color differences. There are. Its like its very The American military is quite integrated at the bottom in the enlisted ranks. Its when you get to and its not just the top, chris, where you see you see it all white and primarily all male. Its not just the general level even though that is extreme. The marine corps, for instance, has never had a fourstar General Officer who was not a white male. The army has had a few. The Air Force now has a black Air Force chief of staff. But these are all barriers that are being broken. Everybody thinks about colin powell. That was decades ago, and we havent had another chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who is not a white male since colin powell. So but beyond the leadership, which is extremely white, there are also certain Combat Units when you look at the pentagOn And you look at, for instance, you dont see a lot of Navy S. E. A. L. S who are not white or male. You dont see a whole lot of army rangers, the elite, the delta force, the green berets. When you look at the elite Combat Units, and these are the units that feed into the officer corps. These are the stars of The American military. You dont see much other than white males. So its not just a question of just the leadership. There are certain units within the military where a lot of black people, where hispanics, where women say theyve not been made to feel welcome. I have to say, i mean, you know, another generation ago, there was a campaign against political correctness, p. C. It was what people used to call what they now call wokeness. One of the targets was Campus Politics. Even though i thought it was excessive and insane, it was true that Campus Politics could be pretty radical. Targeting the pentagon, it just didnt even scan. Like what are we talking about . They are the least woke people i mean they are the they are not lefty. When i first started covering the Pentagon Beat in 2014, tom ricks, who is this veteran well known Pentagon Correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, took me to lunch and told me, you have to get used to the fact that youre going to be covering he said at the time its a tear party demographic, and i didnt know what he meant because i kept thinking theres so many blacks in the pentagon. I have cousins who served in the marines. I know plenty of black, brown, you name it who are in The American military. And i didnt understand what he meant until i actually started covering the beat. And it is very much a place that looks like america, but that means it does tend to skew a little bit more to the right because while you have a lot of black and latino there, you also have a very strong a lot of people coming from The American south and west. Helene cooper, who is a great reporter on this beat, thanks for making time tonight. I appreciate it. That is All In on this thursday night. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, chris. Thank you my friend. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. We have thrown out the show as we sometimes have to do because we need to start tonight with some news that has just broken on the front page of the New York times. This is a big deal. I will tell you were about to speak with one of the reporters whose is bylined on the story. Were also about to speak with one of the subjects of this story. But in all the time i have been