Hi, willie, good to have you back. Weve missed you. Thanks, good to be back with you. I had an Eye Injury the last week, wish i could say i was on a beach but im here, not fully recovered but as close as i can get, its good to be back. We are glad to have you. Among the many stories were following, quote, theyre getting laughed Out Of Court. Thats what the republican partys top lawyers said in real time about the Election Fraud cases of trump. And this morning, michigan is calling the claims from Trump Ally lawyers fantastical. Well talk about the efforts to hold the former president and his backers accountable for spreading those lies about the election. Plus a dramatic escalation over the battle of Voting Rights in texas as Texas Democrats flee the state. Theyre now in washington to Lobby Congress. And the warning of the Johnson Johnson Vaccine amid a surge of covid cases. The Polar Bear does it again. Mets Slugger Pete Alonso wins his second straight Home Run Derby. He just completely dominated this process, this competition. A lot of talk about ohtani beforehand but it was alonsos night. Yeah, it was at coors field, the balls were just launching. But Pete Alonso the slugger repeating, getting that giant Spinning Necklace for a consecutive year. Hes into it. I need one of those. He likes that necklace. Lets get to the news. Well begin this morning in cuba where at least 80 demonstrators involved with recent protests have been arrested amid the worst economic crisis the country has seen in decades. Nbc News Correspondent Andrea Mitchell has the latest. Reporter thousands of demonstrators spilling into the streets of cuba this weekend, calling for an end of the 62 Communist Regime. Protesters dumping trash and throwing rocks. Demonstrations sparked by Food Shortages and blackouts. In miami protests in solidarity with havana. Maria has family in cuba. I dont even know what their situation is right now. Reporter an economic crisis exacerbated by the pandemic and no access to approved vaccines. A Perfect Storm for antiregime anger that spread rapidly as more cubans gained access to the internet. The cuban President Today blaming the unrest on u. S. Sanctions. Translator the lack of medicine and food, all those topics embedded in our society, what is the origin . Its a blockade . They simply are not hearing the voices and will of the cuban people. People deeply, deeply, deeply tired of the repression. Reporter President Obama established diplomatic relations with cuba and removed it from the list of State Sponsor Terrorism but the Trump Administration put cuba back on the list, imposing tougher sanctions which President Biden has not lifted. Refrain from violence, the attempts to silence the voices of people of cuba. Lets go to havana where we find ed augusta. Lay out for our viewers why were seeing the demonstrations in the streets. Weve heard reports of repression, author tear niche, covid and the lack of a Government Response to it. What are you seeing on the ground . Reporter the scenes i saw on sunday are things ive never witnessed in cuba. Ive been here for eight years in havana and across the country there were thousands of people. I saw youths throwing bottles at police, i saw one police being hit in the face before having to speed off with other policemen. Police for their part beating protesters, firing not sure if it was Rubber Bullets or not, using batons to hit them, pepper spray. It was a melee of violence between predominantly young protesters. I think the main driver for this has been the scarcity that cubans are living through. As you mentioned in the leadup, the Trump Administration hit cuba with unprecedentedly potent sanctions, over 200 sanctions against the cuban regime here in the trump time in office. And those sanctions have as fix strangled the economy. Thats Playing Out In The Street. I spoke to a Woman Yesterday who gets up every morning at 3 45 in the morning, has to hide from police because theres a curfew in place to try to keep covid limited until 5 00. She hides behind a Shoe Repair Place and then at 5 00 She Bolts to cue up for goods she doesnt know are going to arrive. Yesterday was a good day for her because she was only, she said, in the cue for eight hours and was able to get back before lunch with minced meat. Its this sort of desperation linked to u. S. Sanctions but inefficiency in the State Plan Economy and the pandemic which has removed all tourism for this country that led to this huge amount of anger that we saw explode in the streets on sunday. As you know for generation, the government has squashed quickly any sign of decent against it. Is this time different, this new generation of people were seeing in the streets, is it different this time . Reporter i think what were seeing right now is the government coming down hard on the demonstrators, especially demonstrators that were violent. But also there will be some prisoners of conscience. People arrested under House Arrest or currently interrogated. I think its a mix. Im speaking to you now from an island where the internet has been cut. The authorities likely cut that, one can surmise, to stop a repeat of the demonstrations that we saw two days ago. And in havana right now theres a very heavy police presence. Driving here on the way to work you see an expanded police presence. So authorities will be keen to keep a lid on protests if theyre able to. Ed, thank you so much. We heard from the cuban government this is all because of the united States Blockade of cuba, a Crutch Weve heard for many generations. I didnt see those protests in the crowd. Lets bring in white House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. Jonathan, there obviously are a lot of implications to how the Biden Administration approaches this crisis. Obviously diplomatic and also geopolitical and domestic considerations as well. The Biden Administration cant be seen sitting back as these protests go on 90 miles south of florida. No, joe. We heard encouraging words from the President Yesterday in terms of supporting the protests, the demonstrators. Taking a different tone that his former boss, barack obama, who sought to ease tensions with cuba to sort of normalize some relations there, even with the castro regime. That all went away under former President Donald Trump, who reimposed tough sanctions. Many of which these restrictions, the u. S. Government under biden have not yet released, have not yet changed, rolled back. I pressed Press Secretary Jen Psaki about that yesterday and she pointed to other aid that had gone there. I asked about the vaccine, cited as one of the issues in cuba, they were ravaged by the pandemic, the economy devastated by the lack of Tourism Due to the pandemic. She said because cuba was not part of the international vaccine distribution organization, the u. S. Was not able to send vaccines that way. So theres no obvious immediate solution to that. There is the domestic front we know how powerful the Voting Block of cubans is around florida, miami. We know President Biden lost florida in 2020 by a substantial amount. A lot of democrats had written off Florida For 24, especially if Donald Trump gets back in the race, thinking thats not going to come back to their column. But there are latino populations elsewhere in the country as well and there are, of course, other democrats other than Joe Biden who have political interests in florida. So theyre navigating carefully here and in the coming days the president promised wed hear more from him, perhaps with more concrete promises for cuba. And the u. S. Is considering Haitis Request to send u. S. Troops to help secure the infrastructure. When asked if its been ruled out, Press Secretary, Jen Psaki said, no. A u. S. Delegation is in haiti pushing for an accord that would enable the country to have free and fair elections later this year. To legal matters surrounding former President Trump. Allen weisselberg has been quietly removed from top positions at two Dozen Trump subsidiaries. But a person familiar with the matter said the executives overall role with the Trump Organization remains the same. According to filings with the Florida State Department first reported yesterday by the Washington Journal, weissleburg was removed from 20 subsidiaries. Nbc news reports one of the companies he is no longer listed as an executive at is Trump Payroll Corp. , which was hit with criminal charges on July 1st, along with weissleburg and the Trump Organization. He had been their treasure, Secretary And Vice president. Those roles now filled by Donald Trump jr. According to the filings. Two of former President Trumps most outspoken election attorneys are facing possible sanctions for their efforts to overturn Joe Bidens win in michigan. Sidney powell and Lynn Wood appeared via zoom. The two filed a lawsuit in november that was littered with lies, some of which were repeated by Donald Trump himself. The two now trying to distance themselves from the claims, wood saying my name was placed on there, but i had no involvement, i did not review the documents. The judge asked the attorneys how long they reviewed the Sworn Declarations that they told the court constituted efforts of fraud and irregular laters, this according to the Washington Post. The judge stated she believed she saw election workers switching trump to biden, the judge asked if she saw anyone do this and what led her to believe votes were switched. She was greeted with silence. Anyone again . I dont think ive ever seen an affidavit that made so many leaps. She also focused on a statement from a witness who swore he saw individuals placing clear plastic bags into a Mail Truck and believed they were ballots headed to detroits facility. The judge called that fantastical. Last week Rudy Giuliani had his Law License suspended in washington d. C. For similar reasons. This was weeks after a new York Court r took the same measure. This hearing in michigan was extraordinary, for six hours the judges peppered the attorneys saying you put into this Affidavit Stuff you read online maybe in a Comment Section and tried to make a legal argument. There are Conspiracy Theories you can find online, whether its russian disinformation or comes from a chinese religious cult that has a front in the united states or maybe Conspiracy Theories on facebook. And for attorneys to actually put that into a pleading, sign their name to it and then put it into Federal Court. Thats shocking. Its shocking for anybody thats ever really practiced law. I always joked, when i was an attorney in florida, i would do State Work but when you went in Federal Courts, something they taught you very early on, you better get all your facts right in those federal pleadings. Again they say the same thing about State Pleadings but you hear about Rule 11 sanctions. They come after you for sanctions. If its not filed in Goods Faith youre going to get hammered by federal judges. I dont think there was a lawyer that started at a Law Firm that they didnt get that warning. That was one of the things shocking to me, Rudy Giuliani was filing these things and Lynn Wood and Sidney Powell, they would file these crazy lawsuits and i would keep wondering, how are they doing this . How can they get away with this . Because i know if this had happened in Northwest Florida, in front of the three federal judges that were there when i was practicing, man, you would have lost your Law License in a second. They would have disbarred you in a second. I mean, seriously, it wouldnt have been a close call. And i know im i know im going On And on about this. But i just cant explain to people who arent attorneys enough how mind blowingly wild, how radical, how reckless, how stupid it was for these attorneys to put their names on Conspiracy Theories and then put them in Federal Court in front of federal judges. I just wonder why its taken this long. So i mean, im not surprised by the sixhour hearing. I guess im just surprised that it happened in july instead of in march but the wheels of Justice Turn slowly and perhaps these lawyers that made a mockery of these federal judges, made a mockery of Federal Courts, maybe they ultimately will pay the same price that every other attorney in america would pay, if they did the same thing. Lets hope there is justice for all. And then theres this. The republican partys top lawyer called Election Fraud claims by President Trumps legal team, a, quote, joke. According to a November 28th email obtained by the Washington Post. The republican national committees Chief Counsel discouraged from posting about Ballot Fraud on rnc accounts. Quote, what Rudy And Ginny are doing is a joke and theyre getting laughed Out Of Court. Theyre getting laughed Out Of Court. Referring to trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and jenna ellis, quote, theyre misleading millions of people who have Wishful Thinking that the president is going to win this thing. Lets bring in editor for the Washington Post, gene robinson. When i talked to friends who are Reading Conspiracy websites, reading Facebook Conspiracy websites, going to websites that are run by chinese religious cults, i say, listen, Rudy Giuliani, he got laughed Out Of Court. Rudy giuliani never would allege in Federal Court widespread Voter Fraud. All these Judges Trump appointed judges laughed these people Out Of Court in a minute. And still that Conspiracy Theory still holds. Heres another example, is it not, of all the institutions that may have buckled under Donald Trump, our federal Court System remains strong. Yeah. You know, thank heavens for the federal Court System because it did remain strong throughout this entire disgraceful process. Like you, im surprised that this hearing didnt happen in march or april as opposed to in july. But its really important. Its important because Federal Courts are not are not to be trifled with with just out and out lies. With rumor and Comment Section nonsense. The way that Rudy Giuliani and Lynn Wood and Sidney Powell did, and they are officers of the court. They are they have a responsibility and a duty not to do what they did. And i just hope that they face the most severe punishment possible, because its its just important for the nation to see this. To understand just how ridiculous, how fantastical, as the judge said, these arguments were and these pleadings were. There has to be some Fact Basis for this for this government and this nation to survive and to move forward. And the courts, thankfully, are sticking up for that principle, that there have to be facts. It cant be whatever you want to make up about alleged Voter Fraud that never took place. Joe, you, mika and i have talked so much about the institutions holding in the trump era. In this Case Weve seen again and again the courts around these Conspiracy Theories, these ridiculous lawsuits about the election holding. We saw it in michigan. Part of the damage done, perhaps irrep rep blah bli, the courts held but through the Media Ecosystem that so many in the country live in, they still believe there was something afoul about the election, despite what the courts and judges said. Look at all the people who stormed the capitol. Yeah. And you would have thats because Rudy Giuliani and other Donald Trump. Of these Scam Artist attorneys would be outside of a courthouse and they would be spinning Conspiracy Theories and then go inside the courthouse and maybe they would pull back on what they were suggesting. But again, maybe 63 out of 64 cases, trump lost 36 out of 64 cases there. You still had those Press Conferences that were still causing the damage. So again, you can only hope that if these attorneys are sanctioned, that that will make headlines, and that there will be enough information that at least that will move some people, 75 Million people, no. Like id settle for 100,000 right now. This is so, so crazy. And again, i just i pulled it up, Rule 11, just to let people know, and every attorney knows about this. By presenting to the court a pleading, Written Motion or other paper, an attorney or unrepresented Party Service to the best of the persons knowledge, information, belief, reasonable under the circumstances its not being presented for any improper purpose such as harass, cause unnecessary delay, the claims defense are warranted by existing law are nonexisting it goes On And on. It says if you violate Rule 11, you will be sanctioned by the court. Its hard for me to believe that all of these attorneys not only will be sanctioned by the court but also at some point, like Bill Clinton after impeachment was disbarred in arkansas and in front of the united states supreme court. If these attorneys literally tried to undermine the united states elections and under Mine Madisonian democracy, certainly they deserve to be disbarred in front of every court that theyre still able to argue in front of. Its not a close call. Lets hope again that the same justice that would apply to a lawyer on the streets of pensacola, florida walking to a Federal Courthouse apply to the same attorneys who tried to subvert American Democracy and overturn an election. Still ahead on Morning Joe, Texas Democrats flee the state in an effort to stop republicans from passing a new voting law. Well talk to one of those lawmakers whos now in washington d. C. Digging into President Bidens plan for tackling the surge in violent crime across the country. Also this morning, a new warning about johnson johnsons coronavirus vaccine. The fda says its been linked to a serious, but rare, Side Effect. And nominations for the 73rd annual Prime Time Emmy Awards will be announced this morning. 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Zach johnson tested positive for coronavirus, before getting on a Charter Flight for the tournament, forcing him to withdraw and ends his streak at 69 consecutive majors. This and Bubba Watson has also withdrawn. New york mets Slugger Pet Alonso successfully defended his Home Run Derby crown last night in denver. Walks it off. What a finish. Alonso defends his title, the 2021 champion put the belt on again. Get that belt. He topped tray mancini, a great story in his own right, recovering from cancer last year. Alonso the third Backtoback Champion in history. And Shohei Ohtani could not power past the first round, ousted after a swing off with juan soto. He has a 520 home run. The longest Derby Blast to have been a 524 foot shot by sammy sosa. That means he can save strength for tonights allstar game. Hell be the Starting Pitcher on the mound and lead off as the Designated Hitter for the american league. That makes ohtani the first two Way Hitter in the history of the allstar league. The derby was a blast last night. But ohtani is going to go on the hill, throw 100 miles an hour, then race to the dugout, get his bad and lead off. Weve never seen that. Its exciting. I will say im not sure if fonzi didnt jump the Shark Yesterday when the Washington Journal posted a Piece Ohtani is better than Babe Ruth. Obviously he played in an Allwhite League and obviously was playing in the teens, in the 1920s and into the early 1930s. Still, if were just compaing numbers, were just comparing an arc of a career, i dont know who in the world you compare to Babe Ruth. Babe ruth, just seems from those who played in that time, Babe Ruth was the greatest hitter of all time. And if you believe people, Satchel Page was the greatest pitcher of october. By October Ohtani may have had a better single season than ruth ever had. But you cant compare their careers. When we talk about ohtani, how long he keeps this up. Babe ruth was only a Pitcher And Hitter for a couple years before they realized he can hit, lets focus on that. Watching that derby last night brought the magic back. Itll be fun to see ohtani play tonight. That was fun last night. Im glad you mentioned the Trey Mancini Story coming back from cancer. Have you seen the grids where the pitches go . Every pitch was in the same sport, remarkable. Ohtani is the story here. Hes someone who up until the season the angels have babied, when he pitched they gave him a couple days off. He had Tommy John Surgery and missed a season. But this year they took the Leash Off of him and hes having an alltime season. Theres chatter about whether hes a good face of baseball. Baseball is lucky to have him. I will say walking around streets, whether its what, if anything, washington, New York, others, youre seeing ohtani jerseys. Hes a spectacular story, lets hope he stays healthy. The numbers at The End of the season could be eye popping. Hes emerged as a superstar that everyone is talking about. Kids are rifted by him. Jack is a huge Red Sox fan and we usually only talk all things Red Sox over the past several weeks im hearingo ohtani. He loves all the Red Sox, whether theyre in the allstar game or not, but he was looking forward to ohtani. Babe ruth, heres lifetime statistics. We know 714 home runs, held that record for my gosh were 40 years until Hank Aaron hit 715. But lifetime average, home runs, 714, Batting Average a cool 342 Batting Average. 342. A Guy Hitting for power like that. Runs over 2,000. Rbis over 2,000. Ops, 1. 164. Good luck finding anybody thats going to have two or three years backtoback better than that given an entire career. Thats the trick. To make a whole career out of it beyond a season. Dont forget it, he did it ordering hot dogs from his position on The Field. Not the same physical conditioning we see today. 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Social media Giants Facebook and twitter are being criticized over their failure to act quickly enough to stem the Racist Abuse of three black players who failed to score penalties in Englands Shootout Loss to italy in the European Championship final. A Facebook Spokesperson said the company moved quickly to take down the racial abuse aimed at England Players on its Instagram Photo Sharing app. Twitter removed more than 1,000 tweets and permanently suspended a number of accounts for violating rules. The Racist Abuse has led to calls for Social Media companies to do more in hunting down the perpetrators of the abuse. All three players targeted are part of an England Squad that has been widely praised for its diversity and social conscience. British police opened investigations into the abuse on monday. Gene robinson, you know, you worked over in britain, obviously, in london, im just curious what your experience was. You know, we americans often overgeneralize and we think of britain, we think of europe as being more progressive, more liberal, on many fronts. I talked to Business People, especially over the past several years whenever we talk about them living in europe, going to football matches, and theyre shocked by a lot of the racism they hear from The Stands, bananas being thrown out on The Field at the feet of black players. And so whats going on there . Is that just a small segment . And they talk about at times there really is just that sort of outright racism but also a lot of blind spots on racial matters in europe. What was your experience . Does this terrible chapter in football does that surprise you . It does not surprise me. Yes, there is a lot of racism in europe. And there is the difference is, here in the united states we fight about it. We talk about it. Its more sort of up front. We sort of work on it. Its a grinding uncomfortable process. Over there, in my experience, theres much less open acknowledgement that there is a problem. That there are racial issues in france, for example, has long sort of declined to count people, basically, to acknowledge that there are there are multiple racial groups in france. And the official position has been everyone is french and theres no difference between anybody so were not going to study like disparities and inequalities in a way that we do here in the states. So the result, in my experience, and this is anecdotal, but i think right, is that it sort of gets Papered Over and then you see these eruptions in particularly in The Stands at football matches. But you see it elsewhere as well. In the you know, the council estates. The Public Housing in england or in the the the racially mixed suburbs of paris. You see sort of real eruptions of a kind of racism thats always there. Its just its just not acknowledged as much. And, therefore, not dealt with. And i ultimately from all my time abroad in europe and in south america, i came to think that our way of dealing with these issues is better, its much less comfortable. Its a pain for all of us. Its difficult, its its not fun. But it actually does get us further, i think. Yeah. We we talk through it. It was first woke, then that battle, another network was talking about, and they change every three months now its critical race. But we talk about it, we debate it. Sometimes like you said its uncomfortable, but the debate is out there, has always been out there. Im thinking about my experience that i told you about. We integrated in mississippi in 1969. Theyre battles. Theres constant battles going on. But we talk about it publicly. Willie, a lot of times its not just people from projects in The Stands in an England Match that do this. Ive had Business People that have been in board rooms that have been shocked, again, by the insensitivities. Im not saying this as a negative statement generally towards europe. Im just saying, there are blind spots there that we americans wouldnt normally associate, again, with countries that are often considered to be far more progressive, far more, some americans would think, advanced socially than the united states of america. Blind spots. But we certainly saw it after the England Match. But we also saw a beautiful outpouring. We saw the Marcus Rashford Mural that was defaced and its now turned into this wonderful tribute not only to him but that great england team. What about garrett southgate, that guy has shown Dignity And Class throughout this process. Englands coach putting responsibility all on him, taking heat off the three players getting so much of it, particularly on facebook. Lets talk about facebook with reporters who are out with a new Book Today titled an ugly truth, inside Facebooks Battle for domination. Congratulations. We were talking about there have been so many books written about facebook, what else can you say . But turns out there was a lot in your book. We can talk about the insurrection of January 6th, the attack on the capitol and how much of that poison, how many of those Conspiracy Theories collected and gathered steam on facebook. And as you both write in the book, this is a feature of facebook that the platform is effectively created to get people engaged at whatever cost. Absolutely. We could see for months leading Up To January 6th that movements that called themselves stop the steal were spreading this emotive content, designed to misinform people and tell them the election was stolen from President Trump. This was being amplified by the president itself. Facebook saw it happening. While they did take action on some groups, there were many other groups they left online. Facebook will tell you we took down the posts any time we saw violence or a threat we took it down. How seriously do they take this stuff, Conspiracy Theories . Are they compelled because it does go against their business model, are they compelled to go after them . Theyre trying. Theyre hiring thousands of Content Moderators, expanding their Security Team but this is a company with 3 Billion users, theyre really playing catch up. What we found in our book, our reporting, really surprised us. We thought this was a company that had really gotten out of control. But its a feature, not necessarily a bug, that engagement is the Core Thing that theyre looking for. That means eyeballs there, checking back over and over and coming frequently. A spokesman from facebook released a statement on the claims that the company didnt do enough to stop the attack before January 6th. As weve said including before congress, our teams were vigilant in removing content that violated our policies against inciting violence leading Up To January 6th. We were prepared for this and have been more aggressive than any other internet organization. We banned hundreds of social movements, took down Tens Of Thousands of Qanon Pages and banned former President Trump for two years. Are they saying theyre not responsible legally but certainly general for what happens on our platform. Have they changed at all . Its the smartest Business Move they can make, see themselves as a neutral platform because it absolves them of responsibility. Thats what we saw in the early years of Facebook And Mark zuckerberg continues to hold it because its the right move for him business wise. I think anyone can say youre neither. Youre not a media company, youre not a platform, youre something else. We have to define that. Until we do, youre not going to hold yourself responsible and the government is going to struggle to hold you responsible. Joe has a question to you. I listened to that statement from facebook and they set the fire and then they brag about putting the fire out but the fire continues to spread while they set other fires. I just wonder, when you hear that statement and think back to the black Lives Matter protests and you think back to the federal agent that was assassinated in oakland by somebody associated with the boo Ga Loo boys, suddenly somebody looked and decided to look at what facebook did. If you go on a page, they start directing you towards right wing fanatics, and its the isnt it the algorithms that push people in more radical directions, which then causes violence and then they go we cleaned it up. When, in fact, theyre the ones that, like you said, are driving engagement. Even if that means pushing people to extremist sites. The algorithms and the tools they have are all designed to boost engagement, to get people to engage more with the site and that means pushing into groups with like minded people who are oftentimes pushing Conspiracy Theories in the far right and the most dangerous rhetoric occurring in the groups that are harder to patrol by this company. When i heard this statement i was thinking this is a whack a Mole Approach they have and theyre taking credits for the things theyve done, and they have done the things. But in the Whack A Mole the hammer is so small compared to what theyre up against. The scale of what facebook is t at, theyve created something thats harmful for content and misinformation. Theres a piece of the reporting that Mark Zuckerberg himself considered whether he should call the president of the united states and say what are you doing about this on January 6th. Despite the fact that many gathered on Facebook And Facebook had a hand in this, what was the decision to not make the Phone Call . They were afraid it was going to go to the press. Finally, people within the company are speaking up, theyre calling reporters such as myself and celia and trying to blow the whistle. In this case if we have him Call Trump its going to leak to reporters, and better not to do it. Facebook released a statement on this, whether its executives considered the Phone Call, no such discussion took place with mark, nobody suggested that he call, he didnt. If trump ignored the pleas of his own Vice President , nothing Mark Zuckerberg could have done would influence him. This started as a Dorm Room Project 17 years ago at harvard and now it has such influence, power, why would they be compelled to change . I dont think any change would come in. Theres nobody that has oversight over the most powerful person in the company, Mark Zuckerberg. Its unusual in that Mark Zuckerberg has so much decision over the stock. When a court threw out the lawsuit, an antitrust lawsuit, the Companys Stock soared and the company was valued at 1 Trillion after that news break. It turns out theres much more to the story than we knew about, inside the book an ugly truth. Thank you both and congratulations on the book. Thank you. Gene, they were talking about how facebook would talk about all they were up against in trying to chase down all these extremists online. What theyre up against is an algorithm, what theyre up against is a Frankenstein Monster they created themselves and refuse to have any meaningful oversight. Mark zuckerberg refuses to have any meaningful oversight. Their lies that they let spread on their platform have led to antivaxx Conspiracy Theories. The plandemic, they allowed lies to spread during the black Lives Matter protests that led to the assassination of a federal Law Officer in oakland. They spread lies that led to January 6th. They are the conduit for these lies. They publish these lies every day. And its their algorithms that push it. What theyre up against is what they created and what they refuse to regulate. And American Democracy and the health of americans is whats put at risk because of their recklessness in tracing a trillion dollar valuation. My question is, what do they do now . How because youre right, this whack a Mole Approach is never going to work with 3 Billion uses out there and an algorithm that boosts engagement in ways that, as weve seen, are damaging and harmful and sometimes violent. So what do they need . A million people to Vetting Content instead of the Tens Of Thousands that they have now. Do they need a sort of Uber Algorithm that regulates the algorithm itself. Something big needs to be done with this company that is now so big and so influential. 3 Billion users, thats a substantial portion of the people on the planet. And it just strikes me that its out of its out of their control and out of our control. And its very difficult for any of us, including them, i think, to get our arms around this phenomenon now. So you can call it frankensteins monster or whatever, but, you know, a few Ten Thousand Content Moderators is not going to make a difference. No and for a company thats now valued at a trillion dollars they can hire more. Eugene robinson, thank you so much. Appreciate you being with us as always and just your just important incites, greatly appreciated. But you know, if they Cant Control it, which by the way, is just garbage. They can control it. They can fix the algorithm so the algorithms dont push people. They can do whatever they want. But they dont want to do anything, they want to keep making money. If the argument is, this is too big for us to handle, then they need to be broken up into A Million pieces. They are a monopoly, they are crushing young entrepreneurs, the facebooks of the future. So why arent they broken into pieces just like the bells were broken in Bell Telephone was broken into pieces back as they continued to grow in the 60s and the 70s and the 80s. If it werent for the fact that bell was broken up, then we wouldnt have cell phones. We probably wouldnt have cell phones. Bell controlled everything. Absolutely everything. So the Federal Government actually, they did something pretty radical. They actually applied antitrust laws to break up the bells. And we are all better off for it. And i just im just seeing whats going on on Capitol Hill and washington d. C. And you just hear the sloshing of money going around for republicans and democrats alike. Facebook just passing out thousands and thousands of dollars to congress people, to senators, trying to do anything they can do to stop actually being held accountable. And trying to stop antitrust laws that were put in place to stop companies like this. To stop them from continuing to damage American Democracy, continuing to damage a free press, continuing to damage americas health care. Continuing to spread lies and claiming, its just too big for us. Its just too big. Sure we we actually were probably the main promoters at facebook of what happened on January 6th. Sure weve probably led to millions and millions of americans not trusting vaccines because of the lies that facebook spreads. Sure. But we just Cant Control. Federal government, do your job. Apply the antitrust laws that are on the books and apply them the way theyre supposed to be applied. The way they were written. Yeah. Because at The End of the day, yes, American Democracy is being hurt. Americas health is being damaged. But at The End of the day, if you give adamn about the Free Market if you believe like me in the invisible hand of capitalism, if you believe in the idea that young people, young entrepreneurs should be able to start a company in their garage and grow it into something like, i dont know, microsoft, which is exactly what happened, well, then you want to break these monopolies up and the Tech Monopolies keep getting bigger by the day, more powerful by the day, they keep getting more dangerous by the day. But again, forget that. Lets just talk about american capitalism. They block the entrance to thousands and thousands of new entrepreneurs. New Small Business owners. New people with new ideas that can create thousands and thousands of jobs and make this economy stronger and make this country more vital and make our Tech Industry more cutting edge. Even more cutting edge. Instead of just having these plotting five or six monopolies that were still allowing to rule over the earth like dinosaurs. Enough is enough, congress, do your job. Yeah. You also hear, along with the money sloshing around, people driven to the capitol to impale people with the american Flag And Trample over people killing them, trying to create an insurrection at the capitol all fuelled by messages send around on Social Media and the like. More now as were just past the top of the hour. On January 6th, a federal judge released two more Videos Yesterday at the request of Nbc News and other news outlets. This video contains graphic images and they are disturbing to watch. The video are evidence in the case of michael Steven Perkins of lakeland, florida, who can be seen attacking two Police Officers with a flagpole during the capitol riot. According to court documents after another suspect slammed into a Police Line with a stolen shield. Perkins can be seen on body cam video, Thrusting A Flagpole into an Officers Chest and then raised the flagpole over his head to strike an officer with him. Among the charges are assault and theft. This comes on the heels of what we showed you yesterday, new video released by the Justice Department of officers brutally beaten by Capitol Rioters while trying to help someone, a rioter, who had collapsed. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep]. Youre gonna die tonight. And, willie, these are the people who spent all last year talking about supporting the police, defending the blue. Would repeat it, i guarantee you, all of those people that were brutalizing those Police Officers, those Law Enforcement officers that right now the republicans wont fund, these protesters, so called protesters who were actually rioters, insurrectionists, were using American Flags to brutalize Police Officers, Law Enforcement personnel, hypocrites on supporting the blue. Hypocrites on supporting the American Flag. Defending the American Flag. Raising hell any time they believe the American Flag is not shown the proper respect. But you saw American Flags all over the ground in the video, picked up and then used as weapons of instruments where they beat Police Officers within an inch of their lives. So many Police Officers talking about how they were lying on the ground thinking they were going to die while American Flags kept being smashed into their heads. It makes your stomachs turn to watch the officers surrounded on the ground completely overwhelmed just as it did on January 6th when we knew officers were on the ground beaten to within an inch of their lives, saying i have children, accepting fate thinking about his daughters. Luckily he survived despite a Heart Attack from this incident. If youre still defending January 6th you can spare us the backing of the blue. If you believe police are heroic, i agree with that position, that video ought to make it sick to your stomach, appall you as you watch that. The lies persist, Donald Trump was out in an interview two days ago saying these were peaceful people, there was love in the air. I Go Back to the statement from Senator Ron Johnson back in march where he said these are people who truly love the country, respect Law Enforcement and thats why i wasnt afraid. Watch those videos. Watch those videos and stop lying to the people who follow you. Right. Well, they watched the videos and Donald Trump calls them patriots, he says theyre good people. Theyre peaceful. Ron johnson said he wasnt concerned, there was no reason to be worried. We had other people who were actually helping Police Officers barricade the insurrectionists from coming in and killing people inside the House Of Representatives saying it was just another day. It was just a and they wont even talk to Police Officers. Im like you, willie, i support the police. Ive always supported the police. Ill always support the police. I support them on the streets, i support them at the capitol. Its not situational. Yeah, i support police reform, too. But i back the blue. And i back the blue whether its on the streets of america or around the capitol of the united states. What these people did to Law Enforcement officers is grotesque. Judges should keep them in jail to the fullest extent of the law. If you can get 20 years for sedition but there for 20 years and then add assault, battery, whatever you can add and send a message that abusing our Police Officers, using the American Flag as a blunt Force Instrument against them, beating them within inches of their life, its just not acceptable in this country. Joe, you have members of congress Ron Johnson supports this, by the way. He says this is cool. Ron johnson says this is nothing. These people are patriots. Donald trump says these are good people. How about members of the media, Radio Commentators saying this was a chill day. A chill day. These people were here to be chill. Does this look like a chill day . Doesnt look like a chill day to me. Because i heard that. I heard that too. People continue to spread the big lie. And it doesnt matter if youre a conservative, a moderate or a liberal. You got to call this out. I dont care what your ideology is, you should be an american first, and you should call this out. And if you support the blue, you need to support the blue even after your guy loses an election. When your guy loses an election, its not a license to batter and abuse Law Enforcement officers with American Flags. Its just grotesque. Were going to move to cuba where at least 80 demonstrators involved with the recent protests there have been arrested. Amid the worst economic crisis the country has seen in decades. Nbc News Correspondent Andrea Mitchell has the latest. Reporter thousands of demonstrators spilling into the streets of cuba this weekend calling for an end to the 62 year Communist Regime. Chants of We Want Freedom echoing through the streets. Protesters dumping trash and throwing rocks, demonstrations sparked by chronic Food Shortages and blackouts. In miami, protests in solidarity with havana. Weve been waiting for change for so long. Reporter maria has family in cuba. I dont even know what their situation is right now. Reporter an economic crisis exacerbated by the pandemic and no access to approved Covid Vaccines. A Perfect Storm for antiregime anger that spread rapidly as more cubans recently gained access to the immigrant. Cubas president blaming the unrest on u. S. Sanctions. Translator the lack of medicine and food, those topics embedded in our society, what is the origin . Its a blockade. They simply are not hearing the voices and will of the cuban people. People deeply, deeply, deeply tired of the repression. President obama established diplomatic relations with cuba with removed it from the list of state sponsored terrorism but the Trump Administration put them back on the list, imposing sanctions which President Biden has not removed. Its trying to silence the people of cuba. Lets bring in Manny Diaz and Senior Editor for National Review, jay nordlinger. Who wrote about the cuba protests yesterday. Thanks for joining us. Jay, thanks so much. You followed this like me a very long time. 62 years of oppression in cuba, 62 years in political persecution in cuba. 62 years of religious persecution in cuba. What did they do a few days ago, did they round up military . No. They rounded up, poets, journalists, religious leaders. They rounded up everybody they could round up. My question, to somebody whos covering this for so long, could this be different . Could we be seeing a crack in the armor of the Communist Regime that has ruled like a force over cuba for 62 years . Possibly. When people lose their fear, a dictatorship is in trouble. And when cubans lose their fear look out if youre the dictatorship. Of course, the dictatorship is powerful and there are lots of people in exile, which is way the dictatorship likes it. But there are also a lot of fed up people on the island. I thought the protests were stirring and worrisome, too. Its dangerous to protest in cuba, even in great numbers. Theyre finding that out now. You watched the decent, you watched it squashed quickly in the last 62 years. Do you see anything in the streets, in the faces, that make it feel like this could change the Power Dynamic in cuba this time . A lot depends on the government and forces within the government. Are they sympathetic to the people . What about the military, how will the Military Tip . Will they do the necessary so called as In Beijing in 1989, you recall the regime had to call forces from Outside Beijing because the beijing forces wouldnt fire on those people. So a question for a long time has been what will the cuban military do when the hour comes, when the revolt comes . Manny, let me ask you, what should the Biden Administration do . What should congress do at this critical time in the history of cuba . Well, the president has already done what i think needed to be done, and that is to declare absolute decisive and firm support for the cuban people. You know, make a plea to the government that they should not use repressive tactics. We will frown on any kind of attempt to silence the people. What im hoping is that this statement and this position that our country has taken will be well received and will be joined by allies around the world and international organizations. The people of Cuba Need to understand that we are with them. That we are with them in the their struggle and that, you know, were going to stand by them. I think thats essential. Theyre not alone, thank god for Social Media that weve been able to get some of these videos, and i think we should all be outraged. I think we should continue to put that kind of pressure on them. If the government doesnt respond to the pressure, what else can the Biden Administration do . I think we should continue the pressure. For now, i think what is important is that we continue this pressure, that the people know that theyre not alone. You know, this is all new. The last time we had a substantial demonstration was really back in the 1990s when we had the Rafter Crisis and we didnt have any of this. So you might have had 50 people on one side of the island protesting but 50 people on the other side of the Island Wouldnt know that protest was going on. Now we have people we think back to the Arab Spring where people are learning others are revolting. To your earlier question when people say we are not afraid. Thats the kind of thing you can say on any Street Corner in america, but in an oppressive autocratic system, that statement can lead to a beating, an arrest, or maybe killed. What that was telling me, it was an emotional day on sunday as a cuban american, thats telling me that people have had enough. They cant take not just the Food Shortages and the medicine, medical shortages, but also the fact of just common decency and dignity. Theyve had enough and theyre willing to risk their lives today, regardless of the consequences to push back on the Government And Demand the Freedom Theyve been asking for. So jay, ill ask you the same question. If the cuban government is unresponsive to any and all pressure, whats The Next Step for the Biden Administration . Whats The Next Step for congress . Well, i think of the phrase all of the above. What can you do . Economically, diplomatically, in terms of moral support . Make it an issue. Make it a cause. Cuban dissidents ought to be famous. The way the soviet dissidents were. Theres a Man Named Antunas a woman named marta, On And on, i say, make cuba an issue, a cause. This is a brutal dictatorship 90 miles from our shore. Its been going on since 1959, new years day. Theyve had 62 years, the chinese dictatorship, that dictatorship In Beijing had 72. The soviets had 74. I was looking this up. The assads have been in power for 51 years. I mean, enough. Cuba ought to be an issue, a cause. These people are suffering terribly. The soviet union expired a long time ago, 1991. Yet this one Client State presses on. The castros have now departed the scene, although raul is still breathing, he relinquished the reins in april. Can this dictatorship survive the passing . I hope not. Thank you so much as always. We greatly appreciate you and love reading your pieces in National Review and thank you to manny rodriguez. Please come back soon. Thank you, both. Let me ask jonathan lemire. We talked about this last hour a little bit. Whats the Biden Administrations plans for cuba . What pressure do they plan to put on cuba moving forward . To begin with, its rhetorical pressure, we heard from President Biden yesterday, put out a statement and addressed reporters on the top of his event about crime in policing, saying he stood with the cuban people they would not tolerate any sort of Oppression Or Suppression of the protests there, that they would be carefully watching and well hear from him more this week about this had, perhaps with more substantial policy proposals. Theres also some talk behind the scenes of linking the making some sort of connection between whats happening in cuba versus our own country they say in terms of restricting access to the ballot. Well hear from the president later today, hes giving a speech in philadelphia in a few hours. But cuba and haiti, both in americas back yard, theyve been throw in a mix for an administration that hoped to focus on domestic issues this summer but now need some sort of response and want to, encourage the protests, those it should be denied, the cuban leaders saying the u. S. Is behind them. Thats not the case. They did not start them but theyre supportive of the demonstrators in the street. Still ahead on Morning Joe, Texas Democrats make a last Ditch Effort of republican voting bills, theyve left the state of texas and fled to washington d. C. Well talk to one of those democratic lawmakers next on Morning Joe. Plus with coronavirus cases on the rise, pfizer is working on a Booster Shot but u. S. Health officials say they arent necessary. And Senator Sherrod Brown of ohio will be our guest as democrats make progress on a second infrastructure package. Youre watching Morning Joe, well be right back. , well be right back. 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I am tired of sitting as a hostage in a House Of Representatives Texas House of representatives while republicans strip away the rights of my constituents to vote. We have courage, conviction, and a little bit of defiance. And we are here today to rally the nation. And we hope that the u. S. Senate will hear us. Democratic lawmakers in texas left the State Yesterday and are now in washington. In an effort to block republicans from passing a new voting law. Here is Nbc News Justice Correspondent Pete Williams to explain what is happening. Reporter democrats brought a Special Session in texas to a halt by depriving it of a quorum, republicans are pushing to end drive by voting and adding an Id Requirement but about 60 democrats left headed here to washington, to urge congress to pass a federal bill. A similar walkout by Texas Democrats in May Shutdown the legislature so Governor Greg Abbott called this 30 day Special Session. And heres what Governor Greg Abbott said last night about the democrats move. Isnt that the most untexan thing youve ever heard, running from a fight. This is not over. I will call Special Session after Special Session. Once they step back into the state of texas, they will be arrested and brought to the capitol and we will be conducting business. Joining us now one of the lawmakers whos currently in d. C. , Texas Representative jasmine crockett. Also with us Nbc News Capitol Hill correspondent kasie hunt. Jasmine, ill start with you. What do you make of the governors threats to arrest you . Im not worried about it. To give a little background, what i normally do is practice Criminal Law as well as civil rights. So there is no law that he can make up by himself to somehow make it a crime that we did everything we could under the constitution. We are out of the state so that we could get out of the jurisdiction of Dps Just In Case there was a Call Put on the house, which the governor doesnt do, the House Speaker has to do that. And so at this point in time, the governor is without any options. So whats going to happen today . What are you guys as a group, when are you headed back to texas, and whats the plan . So i wont Go Back to texas, nor will my colleagues, until the Special Session ends. Each session can only last 30 days, so August 7th is when this Special Session will end. We will not be in the jurisdiction of texas before then. What most people arent talking about is the governor decided to defund the legislative branch of government. That means that the legislative branch doesnt have the money to function come september 1st. So technically he can call Special Sessions but up until september 1, after that, theyre out of money and we Cant Function anyway. So the governor has really boxed himself in. And, you know, were prepared to fight. What were now seeing is a crumbling of our democracy. You guys talked about earlier the insurrection. That was kind of like that fever pitch, right now the next move has been to strip as many Voting Rights away from citizens here in the state of texas and throughout this country. And were prepared to fight back. Representative crockett, its willie geist, good to see you this morning. Arent you delaying the inevitable here . You get through this session but eventually you have to Go Back to texas at which point this law likely with republican votes will pass. Whats the End Game here . The End Game is to move the senate. As you can see our governor is being aggressive, so is our House And Texas senate, theyre all republican controlled. The opposite of d. C. , a democratic controlled house, senate and White House. Were asking for that level of aggression to do good because right now the republicans in texas are doing everything they can to do bad. So we want that backup. Historically, texas always gets in trouble by the time they pass a law, they are determined to be intentionally discriminatory. So we dont have that backup right now. Were impressing upon d. C. To do their part to give us backup. That way, once they pass this intentionally discriminatory bill we know we can have those portions struck down. Representative, its kasie hunt. What do you say to critics who argue that, you know, youre shirking your responsibility, youre supposed to be legislating, texas voters did send republicans to control these chambers and this is the will of the people who elected them, what do you say to critics who say you should have stayed in the state to fight . Yeah. You know, i dont represent anyone other than the people in district 100. I can tell you in House District 100 they are so happy that i got out of the state. They were calling and encouraging me to leave the state. Sending emails. We actually received calls from from all over, not just in the state of texas. We received calls from everywhere p. I am doing my responsibility. I am doing what is allowed for under our constitution. Just because its not what the governor wants doesnt mean that im not doing my job. In fact, i would argue just the opposite. I wasnt elected by the governor of texas, nor were the other republicans but they failed to listen to texans. When you Go Back and look at the testimony on saturday on the House And Senate side. The majority of the people that at the last minute drove from all portions of texas, when they testified, the majority of them said they were against this bill. They told their very stories, first responders talked about the benefit of having 24hour Voting after coming off a 24hour Shift knowing they would not have to stand in line and they could cast their ballots but those lawmakers they didnt care, they didnt listen to the testimony, because they are taking their Marching Orders from the government and thats not who puts us in office. It is the people. It is time for this government to start working for the people and not the governor. Texas representative jasmine crockett, thank you very, very much for being on this morning. Really appreciate it. Jonathan lemire, we know the president headed to philadelphia, hes going to be talking about Voting Rights. Do you think hell be touching on this . And if so, how . We think the president will make mention of whats happening in texas. He has said that defending Voting Rights is the central cause of his presidency but hes received a lot of pressure from civil rights activists, other democrats who say he has not done enough. White house officials said theyll be welcome to talk to the Texas Representatives in the coming days while theyre in washington but the Focus Today is the president s speech in washington, whats supposed to be a public Relations Bill pushing the need to defend the rights. But for now talking about it is the only thing the president can do because with the filibuster intact and Senate Math being what it is. Theres not an obvious path right now for a legislative solution. We talk on the show a lot about the two big Voting Rights bills before congress, one more narrow perhaps a slightly better chance of passing, the Jon Lewis Bill but at the Moment Wouldnt without republicans coming on board or a change to the filibuster. Thats what everyone is listening for today. Does the President Talk about the filibuster. In the past he said he was open to modifying it, going to the talking filibuster. But were not sure enough democrats in the senate would go to filibuster reform. Right now theyre saying the legal remedy is the best, pointing to the department of justice, ways to increase turnout next fall to hang onto the slim majorities put in place, even if theyre put in by republican members. But there will be a lot of activists looking at the president saying thats a good start but we need to hear more from you if you want to get more things done. Coming up, a warning from the new u. S. Commander in afghanistan amid the u. S. Troop withdrawal. Plus womens activism on the rise from the u. S. To china, brazil to pakistan how women fought for change and won. Morning joe is back in a moment. Ng joe is back in a moment the instant Air Purifier removes 99. 9 of the virus that causes covid19 from treated air. 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Nbc News Correspondent covering national security and the Pentagon Courtney Kube reports from kabul. A ceremony marked The End of the war in afghanistan. General Scott Miller handed over the reins to general frank mckenzie. You can count on our support in the dangerous and difficult days ahead. We will be with you. Reporter with them but in dwindling numbers. President biden declared the military would be out of afghanistan by august 31st. But nearly all equipment and troops have left already. At the same time a taliban offensive has been sweeping across the country as the after gan military no longer has military advisers. If this government is overthrown we can expect a Return To Medieval Standards here in afghanistan. Reporter The General with a stark warning saying the Al Taliban has their sights set on taking over kabul. Youve been here for almost three years what does it feel like to be leaving for the last time . Its different to be leaving for the last time certainly. That will be something to process overtime. Reporter after nearly two decades, americas longest war coming to a solemn and uncertain close. Reporter im richard engel, the taliban took over another base from afghanistan security forces. The taliban have not been this strong since the u. S. Drove them out 20 years ago when the militants ran afghanistan and hosted osama bin laden. One unit is fighting against the return of the taliban and new bin ladens, afghanistans commandos. We recently saw them in action. Their general says foreign extremists are rushing back to join what they see as the victorious taliban. These people who are coming to create trouble and problems for the world, for the future as they did in 9 11. Even worse than 9 11 im telling you. Reporter shes a Member Of Parliament and a negotiator with the taliban. Extremists tried to assassinate her twice. You have been in war and in war people dont distribute sweets, they kill Each Other. Do you think those who actually have been killed, they will not go for revenge and hostilities . They will. Reporter i put that question to a former taliban leader who new bin laden. Will afghanistan once again be a base for international Terrorist Attacks . The taliban signed a Peace Deal with the main point and they will not allow any terrorist groups to operate in afghanistan he says. One group is seeing the effect of the talibans resurgence. New reporting reveals women in afghanistan are facing harsh restrictions in the areas where the taliban has taken control. During americas time in the country one major area of growth was womens rights. Girls were allow today go to school and work. That progress now seems to be in serious je jeopardy. Joining us is the coauthor of the new book awakening, me too and the global fight for womens rights. Definitely want to talk about the book as it relates to this but lets talk about women in this afghanistan. How much of a setback will they endure over the coming months . Look, we know the situation on the ground is incredibly fraught. There are attacks happening around the country and its particularly dangerous for women who have been under assault. Afghanistan is a different place than it was 20 or 30 years ago. It has a constitution, girls have returned to school, women are in the work place. This is the afghanistan of today. And for the country to be in good standing in international community, womens rights must be fundamental. So in awakening you talk about the global impact of me too can it help the Women Of Afghanistan and tell us about the book. The book tells the remarkable story of the global impact of the Me Too Movement. Most people are familiar with the movement that swept the united states in 2017. But its now spread to over 100 countries around the world, including countries like afghanistan and what started as an online campaign against Sexual Harassment has now triggered the most widespread cultural reckoning on womens rights in history. So rachel, one of the stories you tell in the book is from pakistan where one Celebritys Courage could lead to removing the stigma around naming accusers. You write, meesha was the first famous pakistani woman to make public allegations against another leading celebrity, zafar, was also a pakistani Singer And Actor on television in bollywood. Zafar has insisted on his innocence, releasing his own statement on twitter, i am deeply aware and in support of the global Me Too Movement and what it stands for. I am the father of a young girl and a young boy, a husband to a Wife And Son to a mother. He rebutted meeshas allegations saying i categorically deny any and all claims lodged against me. I intend to take this through the courts of law. Those proceedings are ongoing, however the case is instructive in challening faced by women making allegations of abuse in pakistan. The women had seen the Me Too Movements global Power Online but worried about the backlash they may face for speaking about Sexual Harassment, a taboo in the country. For two Household Names to be involved was momentous and emboldening. Within that, perhaps more will come hopefully in pakistan. And i wonder, in your book, how you cover women speaking out, finding their voice, being heard, being believed with Due Process. You know, Due Process is critical. It is the Corner Stone of any reputable Justice System. But if we want women to litigate these harms in a court of law rather than in a court of public opinion, we need to ensure that access to justice is actually available. Too often the Court System is stacked against accusers and social norms questioning the voracity of those who come forward stand in the way of justice. So ensuring that women can actually obtain redress in the criminal Justice System is a precondition to addressing concerns about Due Process. Ondig concerns about Due Process extensive example from pakistan that wereex looking at here. Where else across the world do you seeth the Metoo Movement having an impact, especially in places where historically theres been more violence, perhaps, against women than we see inin other areas . I think it will surprise people who read the book to see how this movement has spread to some of the corners of the world where its hardest to be a woman. And in just three years, weve seen remarkable victories. Sports worldwide have reinterpreted existing doctrine and handed down sentences reflecting definitive cultural shifts that metoo has set in motion. Even in countries like sweden who are perceived to be gender equal yet have many challenges. In all of these countries weve seen Landmark Cases with movement for survivors. In morocco, we saw metoo also with Sexual Harassment but stalled marriages. The new book is awakening. Rachel, thank you so much. Willie . President biden is urging local officials to use covid Relief Money to combat rising violence were seeing across the country. Msnbcs Kelly Odonnell has the story. Reporter Violent Crimel on the rise. The president feeling the heat to react. Lets keep Each Other safe. Reporter convening his own Crimeon Summit to hear from Big Cityhe leaders. These parents and families are looking for real relief right now. Reporter in philadelphia, 77 people struck by gunfire during the first eight days of july. Smaller cities hurting, too. Rochester, New York, with 37 homicides this year. A sense of urgency. What can we do now . Reporter Police Superintendent David brown is from chicago. Meagan fitzgerald was there. Reporter 35 people shot, 11 people killed. Residents are calling onle the mayor, the governor, even the president to do something about theve violence. Reporter bute critics slam democrats saying they make policeyi recruitment harder. We declared war on the police and that is backfiring on those who have done it. That was Kelly Odonnell reporting there, by the way. This was part of the campaign when activists wanted to defund the police, and they said, no, we have to make them better, we have Toet Fund the police. So there is the message that democrats are trying to project to Voters T with midterms a yea and a half away. Its a tricky Balancing Act for this White House. The president himself is pretty much inoculated against the defund the police. He made it clear in the campaign he did not support that even as other democrats tdid, and they point to his long record on being tough on crime, in fact, with the 94 crime bill. So they think hes okay on that, but they do worry about democrats rrgenerally. Crime has gone up in a number of cities across the country, particularly shootings and violence, and there is a concern it couldgs drag them to crack dn in midterms next year with how thin their margin is. It was thegi second time in thr weeks the president has reconvened an anticrime event. That shows you how seriously theyre taking it. H Eric Adams is the frontrunner to be the next mayor of New York city. Hes a democratic nominee. Hes likely to win. He strikesik a similar balance almost to biden, almost a representation to the compromise theyre trying to stick. Yi he is not someone wanting to defund the police, in fact, he wants to increaseic police in n york, try to combat the Surge Theyve Seenom in shootings, bu at the same time calling for reform. He was part ofe al a group, 100 black Law Enforcement officers who care. He talked about his own experience of being abused by a police officer. So he is someone trying to do both, thread that needle, and thats why his Presence Yesterday Wasat so important. But the White House, again, much like their voting discussion, and ill be with the president in philadelphia today, there is a limit to what they can do on theirha own. The president has increased funding to local police departments from the covid relief bill, but the onus is on congress to pass some sort of gun legislation, and that doesnt seem like its happening any time soon. Andme you will be traveling, like you said, with the President Today. Ahead, a legal reckoning with President Trumps attorneys who pushed his fraudulent claims of Election Fraud. And senators appear to be at a stalemate over funding that agency. Ng Morning Joe will be right back. Agency Morning Joe will be right back id call my grandfather as a result of the research that ive started to do on ancestry. 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Among one of the many stories were following this morning, quote, theyre getting laughed Out Of Court. That is one of the republican partys top lawyers said in realtime about the Election Fraud claims by former President Trumps legal team. And this morning a federal judge in michigan is calling the claims from Trump Allied Lawyers fantastical. Well talk about the new efforts to hold the former president and his backers accountable for spreading those lies about the election. Plus, a dramatic escalation in the battle over Voting Rights in texas as Texas Democrats flee the state. Theyre now in washington to Lobby Congress to take federal action. Were also following the new warning about the Johnson Johnson Vaccine amid a new surge in covid cases. And the Polar Bear does it again. The Mets Slugger Pete alonzo wins his second straight Home Run Derby. Okay. Wow, willie, he just completely dominated this process, this competition. A lot of talk, obviously, about tani beforehand but this was all pete alonzos night. Yeah, it was in denver, too, with that thin air, the balls just absolutely launching out of there. Youre right, joe, pete alonzo, the New York mets slugger repeating, getting that giant Spinning Necklace. Hes into it. Hes into it. He likes that necklace. Okay. Lets get to the news. Were going to begin this morning in cuba. He does wear that. Where at least 80 demonstrators involved with recent protests have been arrested amid the worst economic crisis the country has seen in decades. Nbc chief news Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell. Chants of We Want Freedom echoing through the streets, protesters throwing rocks, and blackouts. In miami, protests in solidarity with havana. Weve been waiting for change for so long. Reporter Maria Figueroa has family in cuba. I dont even know what their situation is right now. Reporter an economic crisis expanded by the pandemic. A perfect regime for anger as more cubans gained access to the internet. Blaming the unrest on u. S. Sanctions. To lack of medicine and food. All of those topics are embedded in our society. What is the origin . Its a black aid. They simply are not hearing the voices and will of the cuban people, people deeply, deeply, deeply tired of the repression. Reporter President Obama established diplomatic relations from cuba and removed it from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. But cuba put themselves back on that list, citing sanctions which the president has not lifted. Can the Cuba Governor Refrain from violence in an attempt to soften the voice of cuba. Ed augustin, ed, its good to see you. Lay out why were seeing these demonstrations in the streets. Authoritarianism, we know economic conditions contribute to that, and also covid in a spread there and the lack of Government Response to it. What are you seeing on the ground . Reporter well, the scenes i saw on sunday are things i never witnessed in cuba. Ive been here for eight years in havana and across the country, there were thousands of people. They were throwing bottles at police, ripping up paving slabs. I saw one policeman almost running over protesters. Police for their part beating protesters, firing im not sure if that was Rubber Bullets or not, pepper spray. So it was a melee of violence between predominantly young protesters, many of whom are rioting. A Police Car is upturned. I think the main driver for this has been the scarcity in privation. The president has hit them with over 200 sanctions in the cuban regime during the trump time in office. Those sanctions have ruined the economy. The government does not have the money it needs to import the medicine that people need, it doesnt have enough money to import food, and thats Playing Out In The Street and adding to the tension. I spoke to a woman who gets up every morning at 3 45 in the morning. Has to hide from police because there is a curfew in place to keep covid limited. She hides behind a Shoe Repair Place, a cobblers, then at 5 00, they bolts to the queue for goods she doesnt even know if it will arrive. She was in the queue for eight hours and came back with minced meat. Of course, the pandemic, which has removed all Tourist Revenue in this country that has led to a huge amount of Frustration And Anger that we saw explode on the streets in cuba on sunday. Ed, as you know, for generations the cuban government has quashed very quickly any signs against it. Is this new generation of people in the streets that seem to be fed up with their government, is it different this time . Reporter i think what were seeing right now is the government coming down hard on the demonstrators, especially demonstrators that were violent, but also there will be some persons of conscience. There will be people arrested on a House Arrest or being interrogated because of that. I think its a mix. Im speaking to you now from an island where the internet has been cut. The authorities have likely cut that, one can only surmise, to stop a repeat of the demonstrations that we saw two days ago, and in havana right now there is a very heavy police presence. Just driving here on the way to work you see an expanded police presence. So authorities are going to be very keen to keep a lid on protests if theyre able to. N bnbcs Ed Augustin in cuba. Ed, thank you very much. And were hearing this is very much because of the blockade in cuba that weve heard for many generations. I didnt actually see those protests in the crowd. Lets bring out the white House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. Jonathan, there obviously are a lot of the implications to how the Biden Administration approaches this crisis. Obviously diplomatic and geopolitical, but also domestic considerations as well. The Biden Administration cant be seen sitting back as these protests go on 90 miles south of florida. No, joe. We heard pretty encouraging words from the President Yesterday in terms of supporting these protests, supporting these demonstrators. Taking, frankly, a markedly different tone than his former boss, barack obama, who sought to ease tensions with cuba, to normalize some frustrations there, even with the castro regime. Of course, that all went away with former President Donald Trump who reimposed sanctions. Many of these restrictions the u. S. Government under biden have not yet released, have not yet changed, have not yet rolled back. I actually pressed secretary Jen Psaki about that yesterday and she pointed to other aid that had gone there. I also asked about the vaccines, which is, of course, cited as one of the issues in cuba. Theyve been ravaged by the pandemic. The economy never great to begin with, but devastated by the pandemic. She said they are not part of covax so we were not able to send vaccines that way. So there is no obvious immediate solution to that. But there is the domestic situation, of course. We know how the Voting Block is in florida, particularly in miami. We know President Biden lost florida in 2020 by somewhat of a substantial amount. A lot of democrats have written off Florida For 24, especially if Donald Trump gets back in the race thinking thats simply not going to come back in their column. But, of course, there are latino populations elsewhere in the country as well, and there are, of course, other democrats other than Joe Biden who have interests in florida. So theyre navigating carefully here, and in the coming days the president has promised well hear more from him grappling with proposals on cuba. 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According to filings with the Florida State Department that were first reported yesterday by the Wall Street Journal, weisselberg was removed from positions with at least 28 trump subsidiaries. The Washington Post reports his removal from more than 40 subsidiaries, citing british corporate records. Nbc news reports one of the companies he is no longer listed as an executive at is trump payroll corp, which was hit with criminal charges on July 1st along with weisselberg and the Trump Organization. Weisselberg had been on the trump payroll corp, their treasurer, Secretary And Vice president. Those roles now filled by Donald Trump jr. According to the filings. So junior has those jobs now. And trumps most outspoken election attorneys are facing possible sanctions for attempts to overturn Bidens Election in virginia. They appeared for a federal Zoom Hearing in court yesterday. They presented documents that were littered with lies, some from trump himself. Trump attempted to distance himself from those claims. He said, my name is on there but i didnt review any documents. They spent hours asking the attorneys to explain how closely they had viewed vetted information submitted in hundreds of pages of Sworn Declarations that they had told the court constituted evidence of purported fraud and irregularities. This all according to the Washington Post. The judge noted one observer stated in an affidavit she saw believed she saw election workers switching votes from trump to biden. Parker asked whether any of the lawyers had spoken to the witness and inquired what exactly she saw that led her to believe votes were switched. She was greeted with silence. Anyone, she asked again. I dont think ive seen an affidavit that made so many leaps, said the judge. There was another statement from a witness who swore he saw individuals putting plastic bags in trucks and he believed they could be ballots heading to a facility. The judge called that really fantastical and speculative. Last week another trump attorney, Rudy Giuliani, had his Law License suspended in washington, d. C. For similar reasons. This is weeks after a new York Court took the same measure. This hearing with the federal judge was extraordinary. For six hours she peppered these attorneys, and it boiled down to, you put into this affidavit a bunch of stuff you read online maybe in a Comments Section and tried to make a legal argument without vetting any of it. Theyre Conspiracy Theories you can still find online, whether its Russia Information or whether it comes from a chinese religious cult that has a front in the united states, or maybe Conspiracy Theories on facebook. And for attorneys to actually put that into a pleading, sign their name to it and then put it into Federal Court, thats really shocking, willie, and its shocking for anybody thats ever really practiced law. Ive always joked about when i was an attorney in Northwest Florida. I did state law work, but man, when you went into Federal Courts, and its something they taught you very early on, you better get all your facts right in those federal pleadings. Again, they said the same thing about State Pleadings, but you would always hear about Rule 11 sanctions. They would come after you for sanctions. If its not filed in good faith, youre going to get hammered by federal judges. I dont think there is a lawyer in america that started at a Law Firm where there were older attorneys that didnt give them that warning. Thats one of the things that was shocking me in november and december, when people Rudy Giuliani, he was filing these things. Len wood and Sidney Powell, they would file these crazy lawsuits, and i would keep wondering how are they doing this . How can they get away with this . Because i know if this had happened in Northwest Florida in front of the three federal judges that were there when i was practicing, man, you would have lost your Law License in a second. They would have disbarred you in a second. I mean, seriously, it wouldnt have been a close call. And i know im going On And on about this, but i just cant explain to people who arent attorneys enough how mindblowingly wild, how radical, how reckless, how stupid it was for these attorneys to put their names on Conspiracy Theories and then put them in Federal Court in front of federal judges. I just wondered why its taken this long. So i mean, im not surprised by the sixhour hearing. I guess im just surprised it happened in july instead of in march, but the wheels of Justice Turn slowly, and perhaps these lawyers that made a mockery of these federal judges, made a mockery of Federal Courts, maybe they ultimately will pay the same price that every other attorney would pay if they did the same thing. Lets hope there is justice for all. Coming up, weve seen many disturbing images from the January 6 insurrection at the capitol. And these ones come directly from one of the senators who was targeted during that riot. Ohios Sherrod Brown released these firsthand pictures, and hell join us straight ahead on that, and the ongoing fight against infrastructure, Coming Up on Morning Joe. Joe. When subway® opened they changed the fast food game. But sometimes you gotta refresh. To be fresh. Welcome to the eat fresh refresh. Refresh where there is so much new, some say that it Cant Fit in one ad. I say. Were talking a new allamerican club, delistyle ovenroasted turkey and. Oh, thats the new steak cheese. Oh yeah, i knew that. Thats the one with the new. Seasoning. And that was the new mvp parmesan vinaigrette. Right. Which makes a next level foot. Hold up. The Subway Logo . Wait im out of time . 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Finding something and the us takes Gold Dream on dream on dream on dream on yes ahhhhhhh dream until your dreams come true the republican partys top lawyer called Election Fraud claims by former President Trumps legal team a, quote, joke. According to a November 28th email obtained by the Washington Post, the republican national committees chief council, justin ramire, discouraged staff from posting claims about Ballot Fraud on accounts. A spokeswoman in part, quote, what Ramire And Jenna are doing is a joke, and theyre getting laughed Out Of Court. Theyre getting laughed Out Of Court. Referring to Rudy Giuliani and jen na ellis, quote, they are misleading millions of people who have Wishful Thinking that the president is going to win this thing. Lets go to nbc political analyst eugene robinson. Gene, when i talk to friends who are Reading Conspiracy websites, who are reading Facebook Conspiracy websites, who are going to websites that are run by chinese religious cults, i say, listen, Rudy Giuliani, he got laughed Out Of Court. Rudy giuliani never would allege in Federal Court widespread Voter Fraud. All of these judges, trumpappointed judges, laughed these people Out Of Court in a minute, and still that Conspiracy Theory still holds. Here is another example, is it not . Of all the institutions that may have buckled under Donald Trump, our federal Court System remains strong. Yeah, you know, thank heavens for the federal Court System because it did remain strong throughout this entire disgraceful process. Like you, im surprised that this hearing didnt happen in march or april as opposed to in july, but its really important. Its important because Federal Courts are not to be trifled with with just out and out lies, with rumor and, you know, Comment Section nonsense. The way that Rudy Giuliani Lynn Wood and Sidney Powell did. Theyre officers of the court. They have a responsibility and a duty not to do what they did, and i just hope that they face the most severe punishment possible, because its just important for the nation to see this, to understand just how ridiculous, how fantastical, as the judge said, these arguments were and these pleadings were. There has to be some Fact Basis for this government in this nation to survive and to move forward. And the courts, thankfully, are sticking up for their principle, but there have to be facts. There cant just be whatever you want to make up about alleged Voter Fraud that never took place. Coming up, you might not have heard about it, but its a particularly sensitive time for northern island for several reasons, including President Biden. Nbcs Matt Bradley is in belfast with some important new reporting on whats happening there. Thats straight ahead on Morning Joe. 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Democrats considered it a nonstarter, saying it doesnt fully address all the costs incurred around the January 6 insurrection. Joining us now, democratic Senator Sharrod Brown of ohio. Also with us, nbc contributor mark barnacle. What is the difference between the Senate Version of this bill . Whats the difference between them, you say, joe . Whats the difference, yes. The difference is funding the whole complex which is what we need to do. I was just talking to Msnbc Staff here about how you guys, 24 hours a day, you have staff, you have a live camera here just in case, and its not like the country has settled into bipartisan happiness and that there arent still verbal and pretty nasty attacks on the system, on biden, on politics on staff, whatever. So its important we do this right. Thats why i spoke with Senator Leahy on the floor last night. He wants to do it right. He knows we need to go fulsome on this and make sure funding is done in a way that makes government run smoothly. After January 6, you would think everybody up there would agree with that position. Im curious, what is the stated objection you hear from republicans . And can you all bridge the gap . Well, im hopeful we can bridge the gap. I think well find a way to get this done close to the way that Senator Leahy wants to do it. I think the opposition from republicans, from your old political party, joe, is pretty inexplicable, just like all the votes against the January 6 commission. I was in the capitol, as most of my colleagues were. I spent the night in my office that night. I didnt really want to walk home 20 minutes away, and i wandered around and saw what damage had been done. Thats not counting the human damage because everybody was already taken to the hospital, and the people who had been terrorized, the food service staff, the custodial staff who arent paid very well, were terrorized in their little cubicles or holes in the wall offices or their supply closets during all that, and yet one party doesnt seem to think that much matters. Senator, you posted some pictures last week, just a few days ago for the first time. You said, this is what i saw in the capitol. You took those six months ago on exactly the evening youre talking about walking around the capitol. Theyre pretty stunning images. You began to answer my question which is your republican colleagues, your republican counterparts want to turn the corner and walk away from these pictures. They want to walk away from the images were seeing again and again come Out Of Courts across the country of Police Officers being beaten with American Flags. When you talk any of them privately, people youve known and worked with fire long time, how do they justify their position on January 6, which seems to be to turn the page . Well, they say lets move on, we have big problems to solve. Of course, theyre right as far as that goes. Those pictures, that is now my office in the capitol. That was not my office at the time. And there is a Half Moon Window you saw in those pictures where the rioters came in with their flagpoles, with trump flags and confederate flags and American Flags breaking that glass entering that room and just destroying everything in their wake. I was obviously not there then, and nobody was in that office then, but thats the kind of damage. And my colleagues all know that. I think the politics of it, i think theyre still i mean, theres still a fear that Donald Trump will attack them. Im seeing that play out in a Senate Race in ohio now for my Colleague Senator portmans open seat where theyre like kids in a playground sticking their tongues out at Each Other saying Donald Trump loves me more than he loves you. It doesnt get us far as a nation, and its so important what President Biden is doing and the Senate And House are doing on the Child Tax Credit, on the Pension Bill we passed. As you know, this week 39 Million children 39 Million families will get a check from the government, 250 or 300 per child every month starting this week that will make their lives better. Theyre doing the hard work in trying to raise children right. I did roundtables all over my state and heard these stories last week, or two weeks ago, of what these children face and these families face, and this is going to make a huge difference in the lives of literally tens of millions of families in this country, and thats what we need to be focusing on. But dont forget what happened six months ago, either. Mike barnacle is with us and has a question for you, senator. Mike . Sure, mike. Senator, you built a successful political career in the fact that you have a Relationship And Knowledge of what white working people, all working people, actually, do for a living, how hard they work in a paychecktopaycheck economy. So with regard to this bill by the Capitol Police, is there a single amount of money that would restore a Capitol Police Officers Faith in the system, in the people who he reports to, congress . Thats such a good way to pause at this, mike, because the fact that the republicans and democrats are fighting over how much we fund these Police Officers in this Capitol Security sends a message to these Police Officers, do they really care about us . I think were getting that message around the country. I know police in ohio increasingly understand that its democrats on their side because were the ones that put dollars in the local governments so they didnt lay off police and fire. And i think that thats not what really matters. What really matters is that these Police Officers know that we have their backs. Capitol police and police in my home cities of cleveland or where i grew up in Mansfield Or Toledo or anywhere in my state. Lets talk about the Child Credit Expansion a little bit more. Its interesting that in one lump payment, perhaps at the Beginning Or End of the year, this is a bit more unique from what ive heard on these tax credits. Theyre monthly payments, and theyre Up To 300 per child. It seems to be such a helpful, better way to approach this. Talk about it and how you all came to that view. Thank you, i would love to. I sat on the floor of the senate on march 6. I turned to Senator Casey when we passed that by one vote and over the course of 13 hours of voting on that Friday Night and saturday. I said, this is the best day of my political career, and something ive worked on for eight years joined by Senators Bennett and booker and warnock. We decided we were able to get the Treasury Department to do these checks monthly. The most important set of one lump sum. And the important thing is we trust families to make this decision on their own. When i was doing these roundtables, a woman in cleveland said to me, you know, im going to be able to pay for Child Care now so i can Go Back to work more hours. Another woman said, i can send my son to Summer Camp now for a week. A number of people in plays like sandusky or places like Fremont And Columbus and dayton said to me that, you know, i need the last week of the month i struggle with how im going to pay my rent this month, now i know im going to be able to pay my rent this month. Think of that. 25 of americans right now, before the pandemic, 25 of americans who rent spend more than half their income on rent. That means if one thing goes wrong this their lives, their car breaks down, whatever. So this is going to make a huge difference. Its going to lift 40 of people out of poverty, but its also going to make a difference for people who are on the edge, that this will make their lives a little easier and take a lot of that stress and let them focus on raising their children and going to work and paying for daycare. Sherrod, if youve got a minute, i would love to talk to you really briefly about politics, about your stay. You know, when you and i first started working together, ohio was a swing state, iowa was a swing state. You would see swings of republicans controlling it in two years. Two years later democrats would control it. Ohio seems to be a state that is broken more red than any other state in america, and youre one of these exceptions to the rule, it seems, in american politics where youre winning. Youre doing well. Youre thriving politically in a state thats not necessarily breaking your way politically. You talk about the Clown Show of people going from hating trump to embracing trump in your state to try to win his approval. Can you explain why you succeed as a progressive in the state of ohio when the state seems to be getting more red by the year, and what lesson other democrats can take from you . Im not sure of that. I Go Back to barnacles question about workers. My focus is unrelenting on workers, on how do we make lowincome workers lives a little better. How do we lift people out of poverty . A woman in virginia said to me where i chair the housing committee, she said the words poor and working should not be in the same sentence. Shes a woman who has worked hard her whole life and she cant get ahead. How do you reward work . How do you talk about the dignity of work . How do you help people who are working hard no offense to anybody on the panel, you or me or rachel or any of us, how hard were working, we work hard but so do a whole lot of millions of americans who dont get much of a break. My job is to help those people get a little more of a break, to strengthen the middle class, to enhance Peoples Ability to get to the middle class, and i think thats you know, theres some people who wont vote for me because of guns or wont vote for me because im pro choice always, i understand that. That may be 40 of the vote, but everybody else is available, and those who wont vote for me, i fight for them in the workplace, too. I always will. The Child Tax Credit is the most important thing ive ever done, working on this for a decade, but there are so many other things with the overtime rule, with all that matters, helping unions organize so they can collectively join a uniOn And raise their living standards, have more flexible schedules, all the things that carrying a Union Card means. All right, Senator Sherrod Brown, thank you so much for being with us, and congratulations on fighting for as long as you have on the Child Tax Credit. I know that means a lot for working americans across america. We appreciate you being here today. Thanks so much. Mika, we have some breaking news. Inflation jumped at 5. 4 in june. Thats the biggest rise since 2008. Its interesting, economic analysts keep bouncing back and forth on whether we should be concerned about inflation or not. A couple weeks ago the answer was yes, we should have been. 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Based on evidence that theres greater risk of infection six months after inoculation. Willie . A story out of ireland. A centuries old conflict between catholics and protestants is simmering. Joe biden this time is in the middle. Joining us, foreign correspondent Matt Bradley joining us live from belfast. Reporter good morning. I am in a catholic neighborhood. This is a protestant neighborhood. The police regularly close the gates to keep the communities apart when theres hiegt ened tensions. They saw some of the worst rioting the past couple years here. It goes to show in Northern Ireland, sectarian tensions, violence, theyre not just in the past, theyre very much in the present. You can still hear drums of war, rumblings of a disat that particular time past. A sectarian battle they have been fighting. Tensions between catholics and protestants are rising again, thanks to brexit, the vote to leave the european union. It drew a Customs Border between Northern Ireland and great britain. Angering protestants who see themselves as more british than irish. That seaboarder cheered on by an american president who wears his irish catholic american heritage on his sleeve. If youre lucky enough to be irish. My mothers Fathers Name was finnegan. Anyone wearing orange is not welcome. Reporter the comment in 2015 was a joke, but orange clad unionists, it wasnt funny. Joe biden, what do you think of him . Interesting character. Sorry, see him as a Hit Figure because his remarks arent welcome here. We are the orange. Reporter he has the orange order, they organize the marches. Want to be seen as supporting something tiresome, i dont think he supports it, but the ira murdered innocent people. Reporter that was during the troubles when catholics and protestants fought in the streets three decades. This is from a terror attack. How do you think i feel . I lost friends, so lets get this right. People can watch from afar and think they know it, they know nothing. Reporter depends on who you ask. Catholics support the republic, see biden as an ally. Grandfather, finnegan, left from that port there on a ship for america. Farming homesteads there with the church speiers there. Reporter he farms oysters he exports to european union, a catholic nationalist for sure but says the Border Deal is just good for business. Reporter when you hear Joe Biden talk about how irish he is, quoting irish poets. Hes just been so good for ireland, it is fantastic. All our christmas came at once. Reporter Northern Ireland can seem like a zero sum gain. Whats good for one side is catastrophic for the other. The sectarianism is symbolic, massive bonfires protestants burn every year. Loyalists that built this Wood Pile say it is the largest. On top, symbols of irish republicanism, they say they dont want war but theyre ready for it. Hoping it doesnt return. But if it does return, we are ready. Reporter it is already happening. Protestant loilists staged street riots reacting to the brexit trade deal. Northern ireland is like a big pile of tinder. All it will take is one spark to set it off. It is a particularly sensitive moment. 2021 is the 100th anniversary of Northern Ireland founding. This place was forged in flames, many worry with brexit and Joe Biden, belfast could burn again. The White House says theyre not bias in favor of catholics or republicans, they support the good Friday Agreement, the 1998 agreement negotiated with a lot of help from former President Bill clinton. They want to see a prosperous Northern Ireland, despite all these comments from Joe Biden that make it look as though he is more in favor of the republicans. Guys . Eye Opening State of play, matt. Thanks for bringing that to us from belfast. Mike barnicle, you covered this over the years, troubles lasting about three decades. Most thought the 98 good Friday Agreement was The End of those. Look at whats happening now, it is clear centuries old tensions are right near the surface. Oh, yeah. It is very thick, willie, and it is lasting. It is right now as Matts Piece just showed a part of it what they call marching season in Northern Ireland. Stems from beginning of june through end of august. Both sides, protestants and catholics, have bans and maran bon fires. But Theres Something else going on in Northern Ireland thats important to remember. Matt alluded to it, the issue of brexit, which turned Northern Ireland, many northern island protestants against great britain feeling they have been betrayed by brexit and new tariffs extended on goods coming into Northern Ireland. The other issue and it is a big one, the demographics of Northern Ireland. According to statisticians and people that study this in depth, within three years, catholics will outnumber protestants in Northern Ireland. Thats going to renew in the next two to three years the push for united ireland, north and south finally united. Well, that is obviously a dream of many in ireland. Had been for awhile. I will tell you, looking at that reporting, seeing the news over the past several months really takes you back to what Bill Clinton accomplished in striking a Peace Deal in Northern Ireland. It was really a remarkable achievement, an achievement that sometimes does not get the play that it deserves. In the short time we have remaining, willie, mike, quickly, what are you looking for tonight at the allstar game . Mike, ill be looking for mr. Otoni, show time for the homerun derby. He was good first round even though he won. To have a player, Starting Pitcher for american league, go to the dugout, get a bad, lead off as Designated Hitter, never seen it. We pay a lot of attention to it. Joe, you know we pay a lot of attention to it. Given the historical aspect of what will happen tonight, dont pay enough attention to it. It hasnt happened in 100 years. Babe ruth was the last person to do this, and ohtani who can hit it out of the park with average speed of 102 miles per hour, froze the ball from the mountain, might hit 100 miles per hour throwing the ball. Incredible. All right. Another night of joe screaming at the tv. Yay. All right. That does it for us this morning. Stephanie ruhle picks up coverage right now. That sounds terrible. Hi there, i am stephanie ruhle. It is tuesday, july 13th. Here is whats happening this morning. A brand new setback for johnson johnson, the fda putting official Warning Label on its Covid Vaccine, but telling americans the benefits still outweigh the risks. Cases and hospitalizations are rising in states with no surprise ver