venom of charlottesville to prime time talking points. this policy is called the great replacement with more obedient people from other countries. how the republican party is now replacing the so-called replacement theory by name when all in starts right now good evening from new york i m chris hayes. you could have gotten very rich over the past year and a half betting against the people who said we re beating covid it s just around the corner, but it can be beat we have the tools to do it covid can be beaten. we have life saving vaccines we know what mitigation efforts work and i think it s really important to keep sight of that so we don t succumb to an unnecessary pessimism. that enormous spike at the top of the chart over there on the left is the early weeks of the pandemic back in april of 2020 it s when the virus first made its way over from europe the u.s. east coast got that european strain. and new york got hammered almost as bad as anywhere in the world befor
thing that very quickly became clear about nancy pelosi as speaker, nancy pelosi as the leader of the that branch of government was that she s just technically quite good at it she is specifically unquestionably good at the math part she can count votes like nobody s business. if a piece of legislation needed to get passed, nancy pelosi knows whether and how she can get the votes for it and she never brings a bill to the floor unless she knows she can pass it. and i mean, i ve said it before. i ll say it again. whether you are aligned with her politically, whether you love nancy pelosi or hate nancy pelosi, it doesn t matter. what you must appreciate is that she knows what she s doing she s very technically skilled at the job she holds and if you need proof of that, if you need evidence, you can do a little controlled experiment in recent history. look at what happened in the house in between her two stints as speaker because it was the first midterm elections of the barack o
Michelle goldberg and linda chavez, thank you both. that is all in this monday night. the rachel maddow show start reeg right now. good evening. thanks at home for joining us this hour. the speaker of the house of representatives is of course nancy pelosi she has been speaker this time around since january of 2019 but this is not her first rodeo. this is her second turn in the speaker s job. the first time nancy pelosi became speaker of the house was in 2007. you might remember, george w. bush was still president democrats did great in the midterms in 2006 pelosi got elevated to speaker i mean, first it was just this huge historic moment, right, the first female speaker of the house in american history. next in line to the presidency after the vice president just a huge history making deal. so she s always been a big deal simply because of her breaking
Chavez, thank you both. that is all in this monday night. the rachel maddow show start reeg right now. good evening. thanks at home for joining us this hour. the speaker of the house of representatives is of course nancy pelosi she has been speaker this time around since january of 2019 but this is not her first rodeo. this is her second turn in the speaker s job. the first time nancy pelosi became speaker of the house was in 2007. you might remember, george w. bush was still president democrats did great in the midterms in 2006 pelosi got elevated to speaker i mean, first it was just this huge historic moment, right, the first female speaker of the house in american history. next in line to the presidency after the vice president just a huge history making deal. so she s always been a big deal simply because of her breaking that glass ceiling but the other