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>> it's a really important question, joy. and there are actually three critical unanswered questions about omicron. is it more transmissible, is it more dangerous? and how effective are our vaccines against it. i want to caution people against jumping to conclusions too quickly because there will be anecdotes that come out. but we have to actually look at the date the in aggregate to fully understand the answers to the questions. i guess that people are scared and tired. it's been 22 months that we've been dealing with. this and when you hear news like this, you think gosh, is this ever going to end? but what i want to say to everyone out there is number one, this will end, this pandemic. and we are much better off now than we were in march 2020. this is not about going back. even with omicron we have tools that prevent spread that we know work, masking, hand hygiene, testing as a layer of precaution. we also know that our vaccines, even though we're trying to figure out how effective they are, they will have some effectiveness against the omicron variant, especially for those who get boosted, which is why we're encouraging people to do. so. >> let's talk about that. i got my booster, very excited toette get it. >> great. >> and the next variants came out and now omicron. are the booster shots as protective against omicron as we at least assume they were against delta? >> that is the question that we have to figure out. but here's what we have seen with every variant to date, that when you actually get these vaccines, what happens is you boost your immune response in a way that actually helps you protect against the new variant, but when you get that booster, when you're fully vaccinated and when you get a booster on top of that, you boost your antibody levels to really high levels, and that's important because you can actually overcome some of the immune evasion that you see with variants if you get the immune system revved up. that's why we're encouraging people to get the booster. think of it, joy, as having a bigger army, a bigger number of soldiers in your body that are ready to take on that variant, even if it's heartier, you've got more soldiers. >> do you agree with dr. vin gupta who is our friend of the show who said it would be simpler if the language that the administration used is to be fully vaccinated, you need all three shots, instead of get a booster. three shots means you're fully vaccinated. >> i understand dr. gupta's point and he is a wonderful doctor and a good friend. i would say the cdc, they're the ones who make the definition about what's fully vaccinated. and they're looking at the data closely to determine if and when that definition should change to include the third shot. we still know people who get the two shots, the moderna, the pfizer, the j&j, that protection does wane over time. they will keep us updated on when they change the definition. the bottom line is right now, if you are six months out from your pfizer or moderna vaccine, please go get boosted. if you're two months out from j&j, you can get boosted too. >> you made the analogy of a football team or an army. we're playing right now with half our offensive line refusing to take the field. the quarterback is out there being okay, i got no offensive line, or if it's an army, half our army is sitting in the field, refusing to pick up their rifles and fight because a good third of our country refuses to get vaccinated. anything you tell them, nothing i tell them, even trump can't control that anymore. can we ever get past this pandemic if a good third of this country simply refuses to get vaccinated? that's my first question. my second question is why isn't it easier to get a test? i was going to bring it. i complete ply forgot it. i have these at-home test is bought at cvs. and they're like 20 bucks, which is fine if you have 20 bucks. but future a lot of people, they don't have the 20 bucks. why aren't we handing out free tests? >> great question. today actually what the president announced is we're going to be sending 50 million rapid antigen tests to community centers around the country so people can get them free. and on top of that, we're working to ensure that private insurance companies will now cover the rapid antigen test so people can also get them without having to pay a significant amount of money. because you're absolutely right. we need to make these tests accessible. my family got together over thanksgiving. they were all fully vaccinated, boosted. but have i two kids who are not fully vaccinated yet because of their age. what do we do? we use that rapid antigen test. we want that to be available to everyone. finally to the point about those who are not vaccinated, joy, i'm concerned than too. anyone who is not vaccinated in our country is more at risk of getting covid-19, more at risk of ending up in the hospital and dying. but we've got right now 80% of adults who have had at least one shot of the vaccine. we've got to get that rest of the 20%. but we're making progress. and with the combination of good vaccines with therapeutics on the who, not just the monoclonals, but the oral medicines, and knowing what we know about how masks can be used to protect us, we're getting to the place where we have more and more tools to get back to normal. while we want everyone to get vaccinated, while the requirements for vaccines will help in workplaces and other place, we're also -- we've got more tools than ever to get become to normal. >> and really quickly, i'm going to have to make a turn in a moment. do you think it might be better off to just take all of the doses of vaccine that these people are refusing to take in the u.s. and send them around the world? because countries that are poorer that can't afford them, if we got everyone around the world vaccinated, wouldn't that freeze out the 30% of this country who refuses? >> well, certainly we've got to get the rest of the world vaccinated, joy. this doesn't end fully until we get the world vaccinated. that's why we're leaning more and more to getting vaccine to the rest of the world. the $1.2 billion we've already committed. 250 million of the doses already out the door. we're also working to increase manufacturing capacity for the rest of the world, which is going to be absolutely essential. joy, one thing i just have to say, because it was world aids day yesterday, and i know you didn't ask about this, but hiv is an illness that has just destroyed millions of lives around the world. it was i started working in, i was 17 years old that got me into the world of public health. we've made incredible progress but we have a lot to do. part of that involves remembering the lives we lost. hiv was not overhyped. if anything, it was not given enough attention in the early days. and similarly, covid is certainly not overhyped. in fact, it needs more attention. the numbers speak for themselves. $750,000 lives lost. millions of people hospitalized. these aren't numbers on page. these are real people. these are my family members who have lost their lives and other family members as well. we dishonor the memories of those we lost we dishonor the families who are suffering when we fail to pay attention to a pandemic that is hurting america. we've got to put our full resources into it. so the president wants to do that. that's what doctors and nurses are telling their patients to do as well. urging that they get vaccinated. so we can get through this pandemic we will get through this pandemic. we've got to follow scientific guidance, and we've got to take care of people who are earning and the covid standing in our way right now. we can get rid of this. we can get over. >> thank you for saying that i literally find ron johnson so undignified that i did not want to dignify his comments, but you did an excellent job. thank you for saying that. i don't like talking about the former president, believe it or not. i find he also is beneath the dignity of the presidency. that's my comment, not yourself. when he was president, he had covid. he was ultimately hospitalized with covid. apparently got very sick, much sicker than we knew. but during the time when his former chief of staff mark meadows where's in his book that he got a positive test and when he claims he got a negative test later. but during the course of that and the time he was hospitalized, he did public events. he had sessions to prepare for a debate where chris christie probably got covid. he had a giant event at the white house to celebrate getting amy coney barrett on to the supreme court. he did rallies. he got in a closed vehicle with secret service agents who could not defend themselves against him and breathed all in that car when he knew he had covid. all the things that he did, that is a super spreader to me. he was a super spreader. if you get a negative -- let's say you get a positive test, and then you turn around and get a negative test, and these were two rapid tests, isn't the right thing to do to then go get the pcr test which is supposed to be the tiebreaker? isn't that what he should have done? >> for anyone who does get a negative pest and a positive or negative, you do need to get confirmation, and the pcr is the most effective way to got the answer as to whether you're sick or not. and here is another thing that's really important to mention. we have seen time after time people who have been infected good out and infect other people because they haven't taken the proper precautions. part of the agreement, the unspoken contract that we have between each other as members of society is to recognize that our actions sometimes impact other people, and to take every care and caution possible to prevent others from being hurt by our actions. right now we know and we've known for a while that if you have covid, you have to isolate. this is a highly transmissible virus. you can give it to other people. and even if you end up okay, some of them may not end up okay. so this is part of our social responsibility to one another. it's what you got to do to make society work is isolate if you're sick. take the precautions, make sure you don't affect others. >> i'm not trying to get you into politics but should he not have skipped all of those events if he knew he had covid? shouldn't he have skipped all those events? >> well, the medical advice and clinical guidelines are if you are infected, that you should isolate that means you shouldn't have contact with other people because you will potentially infect them. and you need to do that for a period of ten days until you have no -- >> you're a responsible person, and the president of the united states did that and then had a debate with a 77-year-old man who is now our president, he could have gotten him six or worse. i find that absolutely outrageous, but i think you. you are such a decent, decent person, and i'm really glad you're our surgeon general. that is my comment. i'm being a little unobjective, but i appreciate that you get out there and get into the community and tell people what we need to know, because people are scared. >> thank you so much, joy. separate. >> dr. vivek murthy, our surgeon general. up next on "the reidout," you may have missed this last night. trump's doj guy jeffrey clark will be deposed, although he intends to plead the fifth. this is a bigger deal than you might think. adam schiff joins me next. big names lining up to run, including the amazing stacey abrams and dr. oz who occasionally i'll sneak a look on tv. 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just back up for a second and put a pin in that. allow it to sink in your own mind. a former justice department official is pleading the fifth. that's a big deal. it's not an admission of guilt in a literal sense, but it means that clark, who used to be part of the department of justice reasonably believes that he could be prosecuted for scheming with trump and others to overturn the 2020 election. that is not a thing that happens often, if ever. let's not forget what clark's would-be co-conspirator said about people who take the fifth. >> the mob takes the fifth. if you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? >> joining me now is congressman adam schiff of california. he is a member of the house select committee on the january 6 attack and chairman of house intelligence committee. thank you congressman schiff for being here. i'm just going to read a little bit from jeffrey clark's letter to your committee. mr. clark has a reasonable basis for believing that his testimony before the committee could be used against him in a criminal prosecution. i personally have never heard of a former justice department official who apparently reasonably believes that he either did commit a crime or would be accused of one. have you? and how big of a deal is that in your mind? >> you know, i'm going to have to go back to see during watergate whether there were high-ranking justice department officials or the attorney general himself at the time who took the fifth. i don't know the answer off the top of my head. but you're right, joy. it is extraordinary. he was not just a department of justice employee. he was at the top of the justice department. reportedly, he was in contention with trump to be the attorney general. and for him now apparently to take a position that if he is forth coming with the committee and testifies and answers questions, he may be implicated in criminal activity, it's a pretty breathtaking thing. but then again, we saw a lot of that during the trump administration. >> he comes in this weekend and takes the fifth, is this going to be a televised hearing? because i almost feel like it's incumbent upon those of you who are in our government to let us see our former justice department official taking the fifth. if he does that, is he going to have to do that televised? >> well, the deposition will be private like the other depositions. and we'll ask him a series of questions on a number of topics of deep interest to the committee. he will be required to identify as to each question the basis of any refusal to testify. now, he has given us in his prior appearance before the committee a litany of reasons, i think all bogus, as to why he would not answer our questions. interestingly, joy, at that prior appearance before the committee, he never suggested that his answers would incriminate him, and that was the basis he was refusing. that was new. that was something that came out only on the eve of being held in contempt. whether this is a strategem to further delay or obfuscate, whether there is a good faith belief if he testifies truthfully it would incriminate him, we're going find out on saturday. but we do take the fifth amendment very seriously. at the same time, the fifth amendment does not allow him if the information wouldn't tend to incriminate him personally to cover up for the former president. >> if you ask him, for instance, did you talk to the former president about delaying or stopping the certification of the election or schemes to do so and he says no, does that fall in your view into the parameters of something that he couldn't say? because just asking what you spoke to somebody doesn't sound like you're implicating them in a crime necessarily. >> well, i'm not sure precisely what basis mr. clark will be asserting the fifth that is what crimes does he think that he may have been involved in that if he testified truthfully, that it could tend to incriminate him. so we will need or he will need rather a factual basis or any assertion of the fifth. and, you know, we will look at his testimony. we will look at questions were there is no conceivable fifth amendment privilege. if he still refuses to testify on the basis of some other bogus claim such as his first appearance before the committee, then he will remain potentially subject to contempt. >> we know now that mark meadows, donald trump's former chief of staff is now cooperating, at least reportedly with the committee. let's just say that each of these men come in, and their version of cooperation is to come in and all plead the fifth. what then? what recourse will this committee have to get to the truth if people walk in and like some of them have done just walk back out or plead the fifth and do not give you the information that the committee needs to get to the truth? >> well, there are a range of potential remedies if that's the case. if it is clearly a bad faith implication, and there is frankly difficulty in demonstrating that, but there may be questions, for example, where there is no conceivable factual basis, again, they could expose themselves to criminal contempt. we might use civil litigation to resolve some issue along those lines. we could also seek criminal contempt on other questions that he refuses to answer where he is not asserting the fifth. and finally, there is the only remedy of a testimonial immunity which would give him immunity if he committed crimes and he was subject to prosecution by some entity, but would merely say that his testimony in that proceeding couldn't be used against him. that's one reason, frankly, joy, to do that in private so it would protect any possible prosecution. we don't want to interfere with anything the justice department might be doing or the fulton county d.a. or anyone else. so there are a range of options that we'd have to consider. >> you mentioned prosecution. i ask you this every time you're on, and i'm just going to ask you again. you have some people that you all have, that the committee has subpoenaed, the entertainers like the alex joneses, the steve bannons, for them the theatricality of defending trump is part of what they want. they're willing to fight you in court. they're willing to stall and delay. they're not willing to give information that could actually help the american people get to the bottom of this. at some point, doesn't the department of justice need to be the primary actor in getting to the bottom of what happened? it's great that you all are doing what you're doing, but what is the delay for the department of justice for merrick garland to get involved? >> yep. well, first of all, we'll see if steve bannon is willing to go to jail in order to put on, as you say, some kind of a performance art show for donald trump or his enablers. in terms of the justice department, though, joy, i completely agree with you. i think the justice department needs to consider not just those who attacked the capitol, but those who organized attack, those who funded the attack, if they were involved in any kind of criminal activity, provable criminal activity. i also think that beyond the events of that day, they need to be considering whether donald trump, for example, with respect to georgia committed a crime by seeking to coerce secretary of state of that state brad raffensperger to essentially stuff the ballot box with 11,780 votes that didn't exist. i can tell you, if it were you or me or any of your viewers that were on that phone tape recording, they'd be under investigation right now. it should be no different for the former president. one last point i'd make on that, joy. if we take the position as the justice department did for four years, and you can't prosecute a sitting president, and we now somehow take the position that we can't prosecute a former president either because that would be looking backward, the president does become above the law. >> yep. >> which would be a very dangerous development. and i think nothing that the founders would have count nancied. >> indeed. completely above the law and could commit any crime essentially that he wanted. or maybe one day she, but mainly he. congressman adam schiff, thank you very much for being here. still ahead, the 2022 elections just got a lot more interesting with america's leading voting rights activist stacey abrams announcing a run for governor of georgia. we'll get into that and more next on "the reidout." if you're washing with the bargain brand, even when your clothes look clean, there's extra dirt you can't see. watch this. that was in these clothes... ugh. but the clothes washed in tide- so much cleaner. if it's got to be clean it's got to be tide hygienic clean. no surprises in these clothes! couple more surprises. ♪ ♪ well would you look at that? 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>> well, i think it's part of the republican strategy. what they are doing is they are identifying minority candidates, black, api, latinx candidates, and they're finding these very far right candidates, or candidates who are willing to be far right just to run and win, just like trump. and so that's part of their strategy. and i have to say, people need to take it seriously. it's been working. part of why they made some of the inroads that they made this past election cycle at the congressional level, at some of the local levels is because they're finding these right wing candidates who are of color and putting them up to run. and these people are saying things that are dangerous. they're saying things that are harmful, that are divisive, but it's working. we see it with the lieutenant governor in the state of virginia. >> right. even as black authors are being attacked. michelle, the other big issue, of course is that stacey abrams has, you know, done a remarkable job. >> uh-huh. >> she and latosha brown and other activists in georgia have done a phenomenal job registering voters. we're talking georgia getting to 95% voter registration, which is amazing. brian kemp won't be able to do what he did before necessarily in terms of wiping away 45,000 voters off the rolls so he can get in. it's a little different now and her momentum is different. what do you make of this race with stacey abrams in it? >> the off-year election is going to be a tough one for democrats. we've already seen kind of republican turn youth outpacing democrats. so i think democrats in georgia and really everywhere should be relieved that stacey abrams is getting into this race because there is no one you can imagine turning out voters the way she is able to. so it's great news both for her chances. i think she has a tough road to get to the governorship, but there is a road. and it's also great news for raphael warnock and for democrat hopefuls in the senate because she is going to be pulling out votes for him as well. >> and tara, one more note on this one. if you could just, you know, script the perfect recipe for maximum turnout in georgia, it would be raphael warnock and stacey abrams all on the same bill all at the same time rung, right? i would think that's a boost democrats should be able to take advantage of. >> exactly. and i think one thing that's not getting talked about as it relates to stacey abrams is the work that fair fight is doing on the ground not just in terms of registering voters and that grassroots work, but they are sending people money to help resolve their medical debts. they -- 100,000 people, plus people have received assistance. so she's actually doing work that's making a measurable difference in people's lives through fair fight. so that's not lost on people. she is doing exactly what democrats need to be doing. we need to be helping people no matter whether it's election year or not an election year, an offyear. so she has laid the groundwork in many ways not just electorally. now look, i agree with michelle. it is going to be a tough battle. she is going to energize people because they can point to the difference that she's made in a real tangible way. and that's the complaints. she essentially is addressing the complaints that we hear about politics. >> michelle, it falls to you to talk about dr. oz. this is sort of a formula now for republicans. since ronald reagan, find the celeb, run the celeb. it actually works. in the past he has made noises oh, it will be fine. the death rates among children for covid. but he did clean that up later. but his candidacy, your thoughts in pennsylvania. >> well, it's not just celebrity, right. he is sort of the center at the diagram because republicans have a thing author celebrities. they also have a thing for quacks. many people on the far right are out there hawking supplements. they're out there hawking vitamins. i believe -- maybe i'm wrong -- that donald trump was hawking vitamins at one point. so i really think that oz is in some ways a sort of perfect candidate for the modern republican party. whether he is perfect for pennsylvania, a state in which he does not live is another question. i think it would probably be a boon for democrats if he ended up getting the nomination. >> yep. okay, michelle and tara are sticking around, because up next it's difficult, but not impossible to predict what america will look like ten years from now if the supreme court guts abortion rights as supreme court justices seem willing to do. our panel will give it a go, discussing it after this break. stay with us. reak stay with us from the world's #1 selling nerve care company. nervive contains alpha lipoic acid to relieve occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort. try nervivenerve relief. no one can deliver your mom's homemade short ribs. that's why instacart helps deliver the ingredients. and you add the love. 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>> i sort of do think they understand the blowback which is why they haven't tried that hard to ban it at the national level in the past. yes, i think you're right, although what we've seen in the last couple of years is that people can get used to things that we never thought that they could get used to, right? there could be a huge amount of regression this country that people would come to grudgingly accept as the new normal. at the same time, i think you're right. the day after the supreme court overturns roe v. wade, if it does overturn roe v. wade, many, many states in this country abortion is going to become illegal because they have what are called trigger laws. laws that are passed that the moment roe v. wade is overturned, abortion is illegal in this state. a lot of people are going to wake up in states not realizing overnight they have lost rights they've taken for granted. and also, once roe v. wade gets overturned, you're going to start seeing every republican presidential candidate, senate candidates, congressional candidates pressured to commit themselves to a federal ban on abortion rights. so, yes, this is -- this is only going to be an even more issue going forward. >> i think not just that despite the fact i pulled up gallup earlier today. from the time that roe passed, it's been popular there has never been a majority of americans going back to when roe happened that said they would like to see abortion made it legal. it's just not been the case ever. so this is an anti-majoritarian position, tara. but there is a small right wing religious minority that is desperate to have it, and they're not going to stop with it. i'm not sure people understand that when they're done with this, they're coming for birth control. they also want that to be illegal. they're coming for in vitro fertilization. so even if you're in a state where nothing really changes much for you, you're in new york or in a blue state, if they end up going for the federal ban, which these people are not going to be satisfied. they're going to want the federal ban too, and they mean all of it, including birth control, then what? >> this is a slippery slope. and i would say it's going to go beyond just reproductive rights, beyond just abortion, birth control. once if they're able to make this happen and there is not a level of blowback sufficient enough to knock them out of office, if that does not happen, then they're going to start ticking away at other rights. and i would even put certain civil rights on the table. i think this is alarming. i think the alarm bells should sound. i think we should have -- democrats should have taken to the streets when merrick garland was denied his seat, when he was blocked because once they got away with that, that was what opened the floodgates for everything else they're doing. and i think that it's time the democrats have to take to the streets and we have to make noise. because that's what they're doing. they -- the party to get us here. and we have to make noise to pull us back. >> and they've gotten away with lot. they got away with gutting the voting rights act. nothing happened. no repercussions. they completely gutted it. and then they also got away with this anti-muslim activity during the trump presidency. let's play ilhan omar, who is now at the business end of the threats andcruelty and hatred that's been spewed against muslims in this country. here she is. >> what i am afraid for is that this kind of rhetoric is going to get people killed, as it has before. and if we do not stem it out, and if we do not strongly condemn it, and if we do not come together as a country and say what is happening and this example that is being set by members of congress is wrong and is dangerous, then, you know, i really am scared for what is to come. >> i want to give each of you a chance very quickly. tara dowdell first. where are we right now if it's okay for members of congress to essentially incite potentially deadly violence against fellow members? >> exactly. this is where we are. they are boundary testing. and the more they get away with, the more they're going to do. they are not -- the republican party is not going to be satisfied until they fully turn the clock back. and that is dangerous for people of color, women. it's dangerous for religious minorities. i would go on and on. it's dangerous for people with -- identity. it could go on and on and on. >> boundary testing. michelle goldberg, the last word goes to you. do democrats fully understand this, do you think? >> i think they're starting to, but you can see i think that there was a lot of complacency about roe v. wade. >> yeah. >> and now we're starting to see where that has led us. i read a book in 2006 about the rise of christian nationalism about this kind of political movement that wanted to turn this country into a christian nation. often the subtext was a white christian nation. and i think that we're seeing the fruition of that movement right now. >> yep, indeed. i call it talibanism, or dominionism is the official term for it as well. y'all should get that book. michelle gold better, tara dowdell, thank you very much. still ahead, the deafening silence from the right as america marks its 28th school shooting this year. parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist david hogue joins me next. stay with us. h us ♪day to night to morning,♪ ♪keep with me in the moment♪ ♪i'd let you had i known it, why don't you say so?♪ ♪didn't even notice,♪ ♪no punches left to roll with♪ ♪you got to keep me focused♪ oh yeah, we gotta take off. you downloaded the td ameritrade mobile app? 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[upbeat music] still fresh ♪ in wash-scent booster ♪ downy unstopables sheriff's office. it's safe to come out. >> we're not willing to take that risk right now. >> i can't hear you. >> we're not taking that risk right now. >> okay. well, come to the door and look at my badge, bro. >> yeah, bro. >> he said bro. >> he said bro. red flag. >> this is america. p this is what it's like for millions of of kids. look at the fear. look at the anxiety. thankfully it was in fact a sheriff knocking on that door. but it is disturbing to think that these children, your babies, have to pay this emotionally damaging price just to be at school. tragically, four students at that high school in oxford township, michigan did not make it out alive. police say a 15-year-old boy, a student at the school, murdered them. the victims names are hana st. juliana, tate myre, madisyn baldwin and justin shilling. according to posts shared online, tate myre in his final act lost his life charging toward the shooter trying to help save his friends. it was the deadliest school shooting since the 2018 parkland shooting in florida and the 28th school shooting this year. in a little over a week we will mark the ninth year since the massacre at sandy hook elementary in newtown, connecticut. 20 first-graders, babies, and six of their educators were gunned down in their classrooms. and even that could not inspire this country to change. in fact, gun advocates defeated several measures in the u.s. senate to expand gun reform as the vote failed the survivors of recent shootings stood in the gallery and shouted down to the senators, "shame on you." well, tonight i will use those same words in describing our nation's continuing apathy and political paralysis over gun violence in schools, which is truly the absolute worst. shame on you. i'm now joined by david hogg, parkland survivor and co-founder of march for our lives. and david, i haven't seen you in quite a long time. it is always good to see you. i wonder how you look at this as an activist, as a young man who survived this horror, to see it happen again and again and again and no amount of fear and terror of children changes anything. >> yeah. i mean, the way that i react to it is i think of how deeply saddening it is that we're at this place in our country right now and that unfortunately throughout u.s. history time and time again when our country is in moments of crisis like this it is often on the young people, it requires the young people to stand up and be the leaders that we unfortunately -- that we have but unfortunately are far it too few of. today we saw again one of the most deadly shootings that has happened since parkland, and my call on congressional democrats and president biden and other people that have the power to do something about this is why are we waiting frankly for another parkland to happen? because it's going to happen at this point. it is. how much worse is this going to -- are we going to let this get where the nra continues to buy of off our politicians and even when we do get a gun violence prevention majority in the house and the senate we have two senators that stand in the way that are literally allowing our children, our parents, our friends, our families to die every single day? what really enrages me, joy, is i'm on right now, you know, talking about what happened in a community that i've never been to and i can't speak for in any way, of course. but unfortunately, we all know the cycle as americans. and why do we continue -- why do we have the opportunity to do something here? there is not a single person in this country, liberal, democrat, you know, conservative, whatever it may be, that should not be calling, writing, tweeting or any -- you know, or anything else to the white house right now demanding that president biden uses his power as the executive to create a national directory of gun violence prevention and use the power of the bully pulpit to push congress to pass life-saving comprehensive legislation as he promised to do when he was running for president. and unfortunately, at this moment president biden has done some good action but the survivors of gun violence need a lot more. young people across the country need a lot more. older people. parents. you know, if we can't be safe in our communities or our schools, where can we be safe? what does that say about the future of our country? we need leadership right now. and the young people have done the work. we've turned out at the highest rates than ever before in american history in 2020 and we were a major part of why president biden got elected and democrats were able to take the senate and the house. we did our job. the adults, and the older adults that have the power that are old enough to run for congress, frankly need to do theirs because kids are dying every single day because of democrats' inaction that we're seeing right now. and i don't care about the filibuster. they can work through reconciliation. there's a lot more that president biden can be doing and frankly he's failing us right now. >> and the challenge is that that is the only framing left because one party isn't even mentioned because we just assume that they're not going to help. which is tragic because one would think every gun owner, every republican, every democrat, everyone should not want children who should be in math class to have to be knowing how to react to a potential shooter at the door. that is not something kids your age and younger should know, but they do. going down to like third grade they do these drills. >> they do. >> if it has to be done only by one party, isn't that a statement of failure, that only one party can do this? >> it absolutely is. it is absolutely a statement of failure. and it's even more an absolute statement of failure the fact that, you know, i was recently watching a documentary that was made about march for our lives and the work that we did in the wake of everything that happened in parkland. and the first time i watched it was when it came out in 2019. and i haven't watched it in the past few years. so just last tuesday. and when i rewatched it you know what i realized, joy, is that what we did in 2018, what we did in 2019, what young people did in 2020, we did everything right. the movement is not broken. it is our government that is broken. and that's why we need every single liberal, every single person in this country regardless of political affiliation to be calling on biden to do what is right right now. >> that is all true. david hogg, thank you so much as always great to see you and to talk to you. thank you. that is tonight's "reid out." "all in" with chris hayes starts now. tonight on "all in" -- >> the state has an important and legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life. >> why one political movement in america chooses life over women's rights and death when it comes to a historic pandemic. >> when i said when i was with you that night, there are more important things than living. >> then even more stunning revelations about donald trump's covid deception and why the man