the padres playing great as well. such a great division. can you believe the angels collapse? yankees initiated that and sent them into a tailspin. really? they lost 12 or 13 in a row before they finally won. loaded with talent but struggling a bit. stock futures are on the rise as investors anxiously await the federal reserve s action to tame surging inflation. this as president biden lashes out at republicans for blocking his economic agenda. msnbc s stephanie ruhle will join us to break it all down and the challenges ahead. and we walter isaacson with us. we were talking about presidents and inflation before. jimmy carter, i mean, you know, he had volcker, volcker tamed inflation. right. but there were so many global forces, external forces, you know, we like to think in america that presidents control the economy. there s so many external forces right now. especially now. especially now with two years of covid, the pent up demand. i understand bi
i have often suspected he might be cooperating. we just don t know. i know he s got a very good lawyer, a very savvy lawyer who if anybody of that group might crack a deal, i think meadows is the one who might. jennifer, i guess the same question to you. yeah, i agree with john. i mean, there are different ways in which these men might be in trouble in terms of criminal exposure. i think, for example, that on the slates of fake elector, rudy giuliani has a lot of exposure there. jeff clark for the shenanigans at the justice department. so it s just almost like this is a who s who of the different strains of the conspiracy. they re almost picking one or two from each of the separate plots. so i think they re all in jeopardy. it just depends on what they ve been able to uncover. that s one of the things i m really anxious to see when the report comes out is how they assimilate all of this information, including the evidence that we haven t seen. i mean, jennifer, it is incredible t
we re going to do the count. by the way, willie, that s something that the wall street journal editorial page supports, the new york times editorial page supports, most people support it and the question is why can t it get passed? that s the they still talk about it, but they haven t taken it up in a serious way. the washington post story, everyone should go and read it. the details of it are extraordinary and there were people who stood in the door. this guy jeffrey clark just underlined it was an environmental lawyer in the department of justice, saw an opening, if i confirm for president trump that all his crazy conspiracy theories might be true, i might become attorney general of the united states, and he got a couple of meetings with donald trump without telling his bosses and in that letter that mika mentioned, one of the two points in the letter that he wanted to be acting attorney general to sign off on, was that the chinese government was controlling voting machin
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. the reidout returns after this. he reidout returns after this most bladder leak pads were similar.
what happened every minute of the day on january 6 here at the capitol and at the white house and what led to that violent attack. that was liz cheney today with a preview of what we can expect in the new year from the january 6 select committee. according to chairman bennie thompson, they have already interviewed 250 witnesses. meanwhile, contempt proceedings against trump s former assistant attorney general jeffrey clark are officially under way following the unanimous vote by that committee last night. but in the 11 hour, they also gave clark one final chance to comply with the subpoena and possibly avert a contempt citation. they propose clark is expected to assert his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. can we back up for a second? 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