Because you can see right now from the rhetoric that was leading up to the 2020 election all the way through december, late in the year of 2022, and we are not just talking about violence. we re seeing it actually happen. i think a lot of people think because there wasn t a january 6th style insurrection following the midterm elections that somehow we ve gotten to a better place. but i wonder what the view on that is from the state level. can you talk a bit about how you see the threat to democracy as it plays out in the state of new mexico? sure. i will tell you, my colleagues and i in the election world, and really this is not just democrats. it is people of both parties, independents, who work in elections for a living. we were all saying, you know, wow, this election, it has been a lot calmer, a lot less chaotic, a lot less stressful and threatening than the 2020
For both americans and democracy. joining us now is senior political reporter. and good to see you. thanks for being here. a lot of choices were made on capitol hill today. what is the reaction of republicans who were not in the most extreme wing of the republican party to the the selection of lauren boebert, marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, scott perry for the plumb assignments? there were a lot of very important choices made. of the 20 holdouts who dealt kevin mccarthy 14 humiliating defeats on the floor of the house of representatives before ultimately electing him speaker, all have gotten committee assignments that range from good to great. there are several who were freshmen, first term members who have gotten committee assignments on the homeland security committee, and i texted
Muscle, to use the equivalent of brute force that we re seeing from the ultra conservatives. that will be a big problem when it comes to governing, when it comes to funding the government, when it comes to lifting the debt ceiling. because a lot of what these members will do on these committees is write legislation that can never pass the senate, that can never get signed in to law by president biden setting aside of course the oversight function which is are also very important, but there are important matters of governing which have very serious consequences. okay, moderate wing, use your power wisely i guess. thanks for your time. joining us now, mark leibovich, author of thank you for your servitude. great to see you. perhaps you as a wise man in washington can tell me you know, the moderate wing of the gop is not content or perhaps
0 i would hope that republicans and democrats could come together to take on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry who, in some cases, are charging us ten times more for the same exact drugs as sold in canada and other countries. i would also hope that while i know we are not going to pass on the medicare for all system, which i would like to see, at least maybe we could expand primary health care all over this country, so that every american could get to a doctor when he or she needs to do that. all right, senator bernie sanders, thank you so much. thank you, chris. that is all in on this tuesday night. like i said, i will see all of you in exactly one hour, when tremaine lee and i host the national day of racial healing town hall from right here in your lungs. 10 pm eastern on msnbc, as i m so excited that you are doing this. and i know that it is in good hands given the you, joy and tremaine have all done on the topic of race and the division in this country. so we re a
I can t believe planes actually flew right before the storm, i know people that were actually on board planes, we saw pictures of plane touching down at new york city airports. yes, some of the video and system of the accounts on board those planes plane horrorring. today is a lot less chaotic, today that number is 560. here at laguardia airport in new york, 46 cancellations this morning. yesterday it was 600. so things definitely have improved. the noreaster brought strong winds in places, pennsylvania, virginia, maryland, new york, amtrak was force today forced to suspend corridor and that reopened today just with residual delays between