Michigan primary. With President Biden facing the possibility of a significant protest vote over the situation in gaza and nikki haley hoping for something, anything positive with donald trump expected to easily win the republican primary and the nomination. Well get to all of that shortly. But first, we want to set the stage Just A Little Bit for where things stand when we talk about the Republican Party. So we begin the reidout tonight with the freak show. The weekend was the annual conservative Political Action conference, cpac, a showcase of just how extreme the once grand old party has become. How extreme, you ask, well, as nbc news is reporting, nazis mingled openly at cpac, spreading antisemitic Conspiracy Theories and finding allies. Yes, you did hear me say nazis. Nbc news noted in previous years, conference organizers have ejected well known nazis and White Supremacists such as nick fuentes from cpac. This year, racist Conspiracy Theorists didnt meet any perceptive resistance at the conference where donald trump has been the Keynote Speaker since 2017. Cpac has repeatedly denied it, calling nbcs Reporting Fake News and grossly manipulative and going so far as to smear the nbc News Reporter who was there talking to those very nazis that cpac says werent there. Saying our reporter was carrying the water for hamas. In his reporting of the recent middle east conflict. Really, guys . Well, nbc news has the receipts. Including both photo and Video Evidence of prominent White Supremacists attending the event. Now, unless this was someone other than a nazi giving a nazi salute in the lobby of the conference hotel, there you have it. They are letting literal nazis into their den of idolatrous trump worship. Also serving as the coming together of those pushing white Replacement Theory and antiimmigrant bigotry, and not far from that conference in washington, d. C. , you have almost the entirety of the Republican Party in Congress Worshiping Trump too. You have this guy. Theres no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. No question about it. Even Senate Minority leader mitch mcconnell, who clearly knows better, is reportedly in talks to endorse trump. Despite the fact that trump has repeatedly mocked himerse reportedly calling him a dumb son of a bword, mocking his wife and former trump cabinet member elaine chao. Today, mcconnell along with mike johnson who just last week made the pilgrimage to maralago for the mandatory thumbs up photo with the man pulling his strings, joined Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries at the white house with President Biden to discuss the looming government shutdown. If theres any potential to prevent a government shutdown, its not mcconnell or johnson who will decide that. They need to turn to donald trump, and right now, trumps concern has nothing to do with whether the government shuts down. He may prefer it, believing it will help him in the upcoming election. Remember, he wants the economy to crash before november. And that is where his concern lies. Not to become president to provide for the American People. No, no. Its all to save himself from accountability from the 91 criminal charges that keep him awake at night. Its clearly driving him crazy. Just look to his low grade twitter knockoff where he screams in all caps that all these fake political prosecutions must be immediately halted. And part of that is because hes also really worried about all of those legal bills. And its not just the tens of millions of dollars he continues to need to pay for his lawyers. Theres also the matter of the more than half A Billion Dollars he owes from his civil judgments including the fact that the meter is still running on his new york Civil Fraud Trial to the tune of 114,000 a day in interest on top of the 355 million principle. That explains why hes so desperate to get complete control over the rnc, to help cover his legal costs. And to make that happen, hes pushing for trump loyalists to run the rnc, including his own daughterinlaw, lara trump. And what youre seeing is the entire Republican Party rolling over for him. Even though hes a weakened candidate as we have seen, based off his latest primary wins where hes lost about 40 of the vote and faced problems not just with independent voters but also with a large swath of Republican Voters who are not willing to drink the maga coolaid and who say they will not vote for him once hes a convicted felon. Its a problem that trump may very well see again tonight in michigan. Joining me is maria teresa kumar, msnbc contributor, and rick wilson, cofounder of the Lincoln Project and a former republican strategist. Nazis, really . Look, theres a problem with this, my grandmother used to call it the turd in the punch bowl. Once you have one nazi in the door, youre not a conservative organization anymore. Youre a pronazi organization. The fact these people were there on the floor perfectly comfortable, the fact these people are circulating there now because theyre all part of a philosophy that steve bannon infected the gop with called no enemies to my right. Which is why they were fine with charlottesville, with these people. They look at them as their best guys, the people who are going to go out there and metaphorically or literally swing at their enemies. And so, you know, matt schlapp should be ashamed of himself. For a lot of reasons. For a lot of reasons, but he has no possibility of understanding just how corrupt and corrupted this is. Once youre okay with nazis there, and they clearly like to see the pr damage, but the guys were in the facility, you know, giving the hiel hitler. One is too many. Nazis have been marching in tennessee, marching in florida, in some cases carrying banners for desantis. He says nothing, they say nothing. Let me play a compilation of some of what they were saying about immigration, because whats driving this, the nazis vote too, keep them in the tenlt attitude, is there is this hysteria about immigration. Here they are at cpac talking about immigration. The Immigration Issue is extremely simple. Seal the border, deport all the illegals. Who the hell can win when you have 16 Million People pouring into our country from places unknown . Diseases nobody has ever even heard about. Im sorry, i feel badly for the people, but we dont want to have this contagion in our country. Our leaders are determined to repeat every mistake that led to the collapse of empires before us. Here are just a few of the common themes from history. Mass immigration and infiltration by foreigners who dont share our values and culture or even our language. Contagion. They get even a jewish fellow, Stephen Miller and ben carson, an African American, to say the words, the things. I think one of the Biggest Challenges is for us to remember what was life under trump when he was president. And it was a constant anxiety across all of america. And we seem to forget that those words they speak of actually have consequences. It was the el paso massacre, the person who conducted that crime against latinos who was inspired by trumps then president feed saying there was a mass mexican invasion, and 23 people lost their lives. Those words are going to translate into Something Else, and my hope is that as were going into the State Of The Union from the president of the United States, is that he uses that opportunity to remind the American People the contrast between him and trump. And that under his presidency, we are thriving multicultural america. My concern is for that child right now who is of Immigrant Descent saying i dont belong and being othered and being bullied. There have so many instances were seeing right now of racial profiling amongst ourselves. That are not even reported because feel they cannot. So what hes actually creating is an incredibly dangerous tension that is going to Pit Americans against each other. The only people who benefit from that, he will benefit because he will grift, and so do foreign actors. And the ting is, im glad you said we need to remember, because there is this mismemory where people are trying to remember the trump four years as the good old days. A Million People died of covid. Kids were being screamed at On Basketball Courts if they were latino and called illegallies. It was awful time and people were so exhausted they elected joe biden. You know what joe biden is planning to do now, going to the border. Both he and trump are going to do trips to the border. The biden team is saying theyre doing it essentially to shame republicans who refuse to vote for that border deal, which is i guess smart politics. What do you make of the fact the response on the biden side as a strategist is they too are going to the border . Theyre going to take away the one thing trump claims he has, which is strength on the border. Biden has offered and the democrats have offered the best and most balanced Border Security bill thats been out there in 45 years. And the people that are siding with the cartels and the coyotes and the smugglers and all the catalog of demons the republicans talk about every day, the one guy keeping the border open is donald trump. Demanding it. And biden has a chance to invert the alleged strength that trump thinks he has. If i were biden, i would say he built a wall thats a joke that we paid for. He never did anything except talk on this, and the dangerous parts of the border, especially on the drug smuggling side, the fentanyl smuggling side, those are people who now rely on donald trump for their business model. And hes going in the midst of these polls. Is illegal immigration a very serious problem. 91 of republicans say yes. 41 of democrats too. So its become a thing where its increased among every single group from 2015 up to 2024. Its a shared concern. And i think one of the things we also have to realize is that by the time that someone gets to the border, joy, that is not our immigration policy. We have to recognize that the reason we got to this moment was that trump himself dismantled a lot of the programs where people could go ahead and file for some sort of visa or work permit in their home countries. And in an effort to rebuild that, you had covid that really upended Latin America specifically. Close to 16 million middle class Latin Americans that went directly into lower class. They went into poverty. There was no response internationally from any of this. As the president goes in and talks about how tricky the situation is, how its a Western Hemisphere issue, i hope he also recognizes that there are essential workers that are demanding relief, that have been here for ten, 20, 30 years that have been paying their taxes, who have American Children who are ready to vote for him if he actually recognizes their contributions. What trump is saying hes going to do is deport them all. How is he going to know who is i think anybody latino is going to be targeted or anyone with an accent, and anybody black or brown. He wants to formulate this program thats based on what they call operation wetback, sorry for the horrible words, but thats what they called it and thats what he wants to do. A mass cruelty program. What hes keying in on is people are angry and they want to see something cruel. The same people who didnt mind that children were being taken off the breast of their mother as theyre Breast Feeding and essentially stolen from their parents. They didnt mind that. They want that back. They want the cruelty. Thats the purpose of their movement. Theres no ideology or policy or philosophy. They want the show. They want the spectacle of cruelty. They want to see the kids being separated from their parents. And this idea that is fundamental to so much of what theyre doing of close the border, stop abortion, all these things, the core of it is this white Replacement Theory panic that theyre all having. The core of it is a sickness where they believe that performative cruelty and mass deportations and all that somehow make them strong. This is a country that was always it was never about blood and soil. It was always a propositional nation. When my familys people came here in the 1800s, in the 1810s, they were german, the scum of the earth. Then we had successive groups where everybody who came in, they had that transitory moment. Right now, we are, i think, breaking a vital cultural vow that we made in this country, when people come here pplay by the rules, america was for everybody. Its not just for Stephen Miller and steve bannon. By the way, Stephen Millers family was a family that came here by migration. So did Ron Desantiss family. Hegrandmother got here like the year before Donald Trumps too, before the immigration laws. We dont level with each other because one of the reasons why we are enjoying such an economic bump immigration. Its immigration. Literally the folks who have crossed the border and said, you know what, and this is what we forget really unifies us. The folks that come to the United States as immigrants, they come with this idea that they can be the best version of themselves in this country. It is we have our ancestors of entrepreneurs and we forget that is the loofblood that again, who is afraid of that . The russians and the chinese. We have to be very, very clear that what is happening right now on social media when theyre trying to separate us, yes, its the far right, but the algorithms fed to us are also foreign actors recognizing that our Achilles Heel is the racism. That our unity and our multicultural strength is what allows us to compete. Thats the thing that is so maddening. Russia doesnt have to, like, invent Conspiracy Theories to hurt the u. S. They just have to take the peoples already existing anxieties. Thats exactly right. And its working. Its working because people here are letting it work. Thank you very much. Great discussion. Coming up next on the reidout, in less than an hour, polls will start to close in michigan. In what could be a crucial moment for President Biden. 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