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I was on Morning Joe Thursday morning as part of a lively panel about Donald Trump’s latest shenanigans. We were talking about his bizarre behavior outside that Manhattan courtroom, New York Attorney General Letitia James’s righteous smackdown of Trump the previous day, and other matters. And then Mehdi Hasan pointed out a remark Trump made to a right-wing outlet this week about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the United States. That’s right—the blood. Here’s the full quote:Nobody has any id ....
Apparent already let me start with you, mehdi. so chris, i m glad you started in the way you did. it is the biggest issue facing us. it was the biggest issue this past year. it will definitely be the biggest issue in 2022 with the midterms coming up. i know we journalists always say, the midterms, they re a big deal, they re so important. but this 2022 midterm election, they really are. because i m of the view if the republicans take the house, as the polls suggest they will, they will not certify a democratic victory in 2024 on current trends. that is what we are heading towards, a massive constitutional and democratic crisis. the ap reporting you cited is so important, precisely for the reasons you elaborated, the associated press. two things quickly about that report. i urge all your viewers to read it. because it s so stark and is kind of scary. ap says at one point that experts argue that what we are seeing in terms of the takeover of election infrastructure is unprecedented. i ....
Mona s point, the latest polling on this from the ap and oarc, this is from july, there may be more recent polling. as of july, 66% of republicans do not think joe biden was legitimately elected president. i can t imagine the number has gotten better in the meantime. mehdi? i mean, that poll is stunning, but also the polling mona mentioned, which republicans think democracy is more threatened than democrats do. that is voters. that is a massive indictment of the democratic party leadership. we talked about senate democrats. david mentioned senate democrats. we ve talked about the media. let s talk about joe biden. the most powerful man in this country. sits in the white house. the presidency. why is he not leading the charge on this? it is a great frustration for me that 2021 saw him do many good things. i ve praised his work on the economy, i ve praised his work on vaccinations. but when it comes to this issue, the most important issue of all, he hasn t been there out front ....
New year as a prime objective. that includes the electoral count act, which is a little more obscure than some of the other democracy reforms, but is a ridiculous ticking time bomb. it s like it s like someone coming to your house and going down to the basement and being like, oh, your boiler s about to explode. that s basically what happened in the last election with the electoral count act. we went down there, oh, no one s looked at this in 150 years. yeah, this is going to blow and up take the whole thing with it. that priority i think for the senate, i think we all agree, mehdi the president has to lead. i agree. mehdi, mona, david, thank you all, have a wonderful new year, i really appreciate it. still ahead, tough decisions for school districts across the country as cases surge among kids just as they are meant to be heading back into classrooms. what schools are doing what teachers want to be doing, next. ....
One we haven t seen in this form since, i don t know, arguably the civil war. to help me answer that, still with me, mehdi hasson, mona cheren, david plouffe. i really don t like there s a lot of invocations of the civil war, on the right particularly for a long time, the next civil war, when do we get to use the guns, fantasizing about it that i find really gruesome and nuts. you ve got marjorie teller green. a ridiculous figure, but a u.s. congressperson who i think is in some ways the vanguard of what more republican congresspeople will be like saying basically saying someone s complaining about the fact that you can t, as of now, discriminate against transplants from california and new york who move to texas and florida. this is a problem, and so her solution is that it would be possible in a national divorce scenario after democratic voters move to a state like california, ....