"He is not some sort of novice player on the chessboard."
@JoyceWhiteVance
on former Trump's handling of classified documents. Trump campaigned on 'Lock her up!'
"I think every statement he made about Hillary Clinton would come into evidence if there were a criminal trial."
"It's very important to understand with the people who believe in Christian nationalism like Ron DeSantis or others. They believe God has given them dominion... and that God created this nation for them and specifically for *white men*."
@AntheaButler
“As a former prosecutor, I'd say legally, it was criminal. Morally, it was repugnant. And institutionally, as a member of a democratic body, it's corrosive."
@RepSwalwell
"I'm going to try my hardest to keep a straight face as we discuss these most recent strands of spaghetti Trump is trying to get to stick to the wall."
@JoyceWhiteVance
"Black voters are the heart and soul of the Democratic electorate here in Georgia; they cannot be taken for granted." GA Senate candidate
@ossoff
stresses the importance of a new Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act to
@AliciaMenendez
on
#AmericanVoices
.
"Anybody who is listening to me right now who is in the United States government and security for this inauguration, hear what I have to say. There needs to be a national security exclusion zone... nothing human moves inside that sector except the President."
@MalcolmNance
"If you're with [the Ukrainians], it's a very real possibility [that you become a target]... You make sure that you're geared up, make sure that you have your helmet on at all times, but if you decide to do this type of work that's the risk that comes with it."
@terrelljstarr
"This guy was like interviewing the Joker." Why
@RepSwalwell
believes the 1/6 committee should proceed with caution in its efforts to interview Steve Bannon.
"I think that these undocumented immigrants who have been essential workers during this pandemic should be on a fast-track to citizenship because I think that they have earned it."
@JoaquinCastrotx
"It sure would have been nice if the sitting attorney general would have said this officially, at a point where it could have made a difference to the country."
@JoyceWhiteVance
on former attorney Barr saying he knew there was no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
.
@JoyceWhiteVance
on the hateful rhetoric DOJ is facing.
"The notion that the former President of the United States would be the one triggering those attacks on them. It’s heinous, it’s unacceptable... When the attack is coming from the inside, something is seriously wrong.”
"I want to know why... Capitol Police had enough.. to discipline half a dozen officers related to their conduct [on] January 6th, but not to fire them... There was an insurrection... so what is it about their conduct that isn't a fireable offense?"
@FrankFigliuzzi1
"Some personal news *as the kids say*, you're going to be seeing a lot more of me on MSNBC starting this spring. I'll be hosting a new hour here at 7am ET on Saturdays and Sundays."
Welcome, officially, to the
@MSNBC
family,
@KatiePhang
! We're so lucky to have you.
"The story here is that, allegedly, they put Trump on the radar when he first visited Russia 40 years ago. So the question is, how do we prevent this from happening again? I say we need a new way of vetting our candidates for office."
@FrankFigliuzzi1
Putin's attacks on civilians are "to try to break the population... [and] the will of the people to resist... But that's a failed premise... and is not [how] this is going to work in Ukraine... That is not a population that is willing to bend the knee to an aggressor."
@AVindman
"Your guns will not protect you from the US government if the US government wants your stuff. Ask... Panama. So the idea that there's some kind of connection between your personal armament and stopping tyranny from the government is just factually ludicrous."
@ElieNYC
"This is one of the most unique trials in the history of the world in that the jurors, the senators, are witnesses; the jurors, the senators are victims...
If we're going to 'Back the Blue', it means holding accountable the person who sent the mob to the 'Blue'."
@RepSwalwell
"Let's talk about pledging allegiance to a flag that actually represents an attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power in this country. If you're pledging allegiance to that flag for that reason, you're not a loyalist to this country or to our democracy."
@FrankFigliuzzi1
Is it now or never to stop Putin's push to expand throughout Europe?
"Absolutely.. A lot of Putin's actions were predictable in that he's always pushing for more [and] doubling down in the face of perceived weakness and we were always headed towards this confrontation."
@AVindman
"I urge people to wake up and choose love. I know that sounds really corny, but the opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy... There is a new Asian-American movement emerging and we are not going to be silent anymore. We are not your model minority. We are human."
@nguyen_amanda
"The 'pro-life' party, the GOP, has become the pro-death party to own the 'libs'. Meanwhile, these cowards, like Marsha Blackburn, Tucker Carlson, are all vaccinated. They don't even have the courage of their convictions."
@WajahatAli
"What the President has done here with his vaccine mandates is actually well within the ambit of current legal protections... Of course there will be pushback. There will be lawsuits, perhaps... but the President is on firm legal ground here."
@JoyceWhiteVance
Elise Stefanik has filed a complaint against Trump's New York judge.
"Just because a judge rules against you doesn't mean the judge is biased, and Donald Trump doesn't appear to get that."
@lawofruby
"When you see more Trump flags flying inside that Capitol than you do American flags... their allegiance is to person - personality, not to the Constitution or to America, and that's a form of cult-like radicalization."
@FrankFigliuzzi1
"The signal it sends to... people of color, Black folks, Muslims, is that the Democratic Party is tokenizing us. It's putting our concerns [and safety] second to cater to this mythical, centrist voter in the Rust Belt.. that hasn't voted for them since the 1950s."
@WajahatAli
“No one wants to do anything that comes close to restraining the First Amendment rights of a political candidate, but when you balance the merits at stake here, it seems clear that Trump has to be controlled, and these gag orders are the only way to do it."
@JoyceWhiteVance
"Big problems have very simple solutions. The richest country in the history of man kind should not have any children going to bed hungry."
@chefjoseandres
"Your local School Board... is now reaching out to the FBI saying 'we are being threatened'... Here's the problem, when people who just want to volunteer and do their civic duty end up getting threatened by violent extremists... it is a high threat environment."
@FrankFigliuzzi1
Can you compare Richard Nixon's legal troubles to Donald Trump's?
@BeschlossDC
says, "Nixon is a lightning bug. Donald Trump is a lightning storm that threatens to knock out our power grid."
"There is not a deficit of resource, there is a deficit of empathy... Stand up and fight for those bold investments in housing... if you can't do it out of sheer benevolence, then do it because this is a threat to the public health."
@AyannaPressley
"You see resiliency. Many of these [Ukrainians] are not trained. They're lawyers, they are shoemakers, one is a museum director. And all of these people say that they are scared, but they say they refuse to be slaves to Russia and they're taking up arms."
@terrelljstarr
"Right now... 1 American dies every 48 seconds from Covid-19. We have to stop with this... misinformation, and stop coddling those who choose to throw a tantrum at a school board meeting."
@EbonyJHilton_MD
says that mask mandates in schools are "as important as life and death".
"It is traitorous for the president of the United States to try to force and cajole other elected officials in the state of Georgia to change the outcome of an election result to keep him in the office of the presidency."
@JoaquinCastrotx
"These were not 'rioters'; these were domestic terrorists on January 6th. You have an entire Party that is now enabling and defending domestic terrorists. The language has to be much sharper, much more definitive and we actually have to be doing something."
@JRubinBlogger
Some people argue sharing gruesome images of victims will provoke legislative change.
@Nelba_MG
disagrees.
"We have bigger problems than images right now...Hold your elected leaders accountable, and stop voting for people who do nothing. Don't weaponize this against families."
"Putin is panicked.. particularly about the spread of democracy.. A sane person does not target civilian innocents.. that's not the actions of a sane man. It's a man who feels cornered, threatened and is losing touch with reality. I don't think he's that stable."
@FrankFigliuzzi1
"I’m a Black woman in America who knows what it is to experience the threat of white supremacy every day. When you are Black in America there is a conflated fear that is a part of your identity, but it does not deter me from living my life or doing my job."
@AyannaPressley
"Privileges aren't like blankets. You don't just climb under it and protect yourself; you actually have to assert the privilege to each question as it's asked..
[We may finally] see just how far they were willing to go to interrupt the smooth transfer of power."
@JoyceWhiteVance
One final question for the women of
@intheheights
:
What is the one thing you want audiences to take away from the film?
"There's so many different ways to be a strong woman, but it's even better when we're strong together."
"I'm finally just grateful that I now understand what an NFT is,"
@JoyceWhiteVance
responds to
@roywoodjr
's Justice Thomas joke and how it affects the ongoing ethical concerns of the U.S. highest court.
"There's no question social media is fueling and inciting. Even foreign adversaries are on social media right now, through bots and trolls, trying to pit us against each other. My message to everyone is don't fall for it. Take a break from your social media."
@FrankFigliuzzi1
"[Student loan debt] is a nearly $2 trillion crisis... This is about a robust recovery. This is an economic justice issue. It is a racial justice issue. And we should extend the pause on the payments, but moreover... cancel student debt and alleviate this burden."
@RepPressley
"It looks like there was price gouging going on and people are starting to get these energy bills for over $1,000 and I don't believe that the people of Texas should have to pay these outrageous bills. The state government is going to have to step in."
@JoaquinCastrotx
"We need to hear the voices of frontline providers, and we cannot silence their voices during a deadly pandemic."ER Doctor
@Cleavon_MD
responds to Yuma Regional Medical Center's statement about his firing.
"I hope we get 100% participation [in elections] because I am confident in our policy positions; I am confident in our candidates. And I know when I'm in the arena, we will win. But what you see with the Republicans -- the only way they can win is if they cheat."
@harrisonjaime
.
@ElieNYC
There are parents who are "willing to burn some books but won't raise a finger to help paid family leave and to help with childcare responsibilities. It is maddening...The way a certain segment of our party weaponizes caring for our children."
"What's the responsible thing that I have to do as a parent? I have to make a compromise between my son's education or my family's health; I'm gonna choose my family's health. Tomorrow is the first day of school; I'm not sending my son to school."
@WajahatAli
"It's mind boggling... It is engrained in you from The [FBI] Academy forward that integrity and ethics are all you've got. Your success.. is based on the public's perception of you as credible... What [the Secret Service] should not be doing is downplaying this."
@FrankFigliuzzi1
"The [GOP] has abandoned American democracy as we know it... They have made the calculus that they cannot win elections anymore by allowing people to vote in the country, and in greater numbers... That's why you see Biden saying... let's get voting rights done now."
@AmandiOnAir
"One of my deepest regrets is that we were not able to indict Richard Nixon. I believe if he had been indicted, if he hadn't been pardoned... after he resigned, there would have been a precedent for doing it."
@JillWineBanks
"We are forcing birth in a nation that doesn't offer paid leave, that doesn't offer subsidized child care, has high-levels of maternal deaths and infant mortality rates. So, we are never going to be free unless we fix the structure."
@reshmasaujani
"It appears that a Threat Assessment was not opened for ratifying the [2020 election] on 1/6... It should have been declared a National Security Special Event. They declare an NSSE for the Super Bowl... every year. But [not for] the peaceful transfer of power."
@FrankFigliuzzi1
"We give way too much oxygen to white supremacists... what I want to center and focus on right now are the brutal and horrific instances of white supremacy, gun violence and police violence... How do we replace systems of oppression.. with systems of liberation?"
@RepPressley
Secretary Cardona says schools are equipped to handle the surge in Covid cases.
@EbonyJHilton_MD
responds. "I ask you, is your child in that private school?" Or, is it one of those classrooms where there are 40 children in a class with no room to spread out?
"I don't know how many [Republicans] we can get through to; I hope to some. You have to begin somewhere... I've seen this ad 20 times, I suppose, as it evolved and when we developed it, and I'm still shocked when I see it."
@BillKristol
on
@AccountableGOP
's latest ad.
"It's unfathomable to me and speaks to the amount of white privilege that is going on here, that these people thought that they could break into federal property, destroy federal property and get away with it."
@AngryBlackLady
"We've just spent years trusting male politicians with our rights, and they've failed us."
@baileybea
, founder of
@MomsAGAbbott
says Americans can't continue to wait for "the male politicians to come and save" their rights.
"I'm deeply worried about this current domestic extremism... It's race based and it's religious based, and it's about white nationalism and trying to push that forward for political change. That is absolutely domestic terrorism."
@selectedwisdom
"I believe the U.S. needs to continue providing Ukraine with military equipment, as well as humanitarian aid and... more air access. I previously served in active duty in the U.S. Air Force; it's very clear that air power can have a significant advantage in a war."
@RepTedLieu
"You can't get around the fact that after 2.5 years of trauma, a lot of healthcare workers need to do less.... We cannot have a strategy where we let the virus run amuck on the assumption that the healthcare system can pick up the slack... because it won't."
@edyong209
"No Democrat should support a Jim Crow filibuster... I will not give a pass to Democrats like Manchin and Sinema... We should be eliminating and abolishing the filibuster outright."
@RepPressley
says she believes it will take "pressure from the WH" to get them to move on this.
"There is no way I could ever have a client that would be half as ridiculous as Donald Trump and not tell that client your butt is about to go to jail because the judge is not going to play with you."
@JasmineForUS
"You want to follow the money, and if the money can be tied to Weisselberg, and it can then be tied to Trump in some way, then maybe the Trump organization in some way and Donald Trump himself will be looking down the barrel of a federal indictment."
@KatiePhang
"Don't tell me that there wasn't an insurrection, and don't tell me that there wasn't a violent attempt to overthrow.. It's been about 16 years since I last saw combat and [January 6th] was the scariest thing [I've seen] since combat."
@RepRubenGallego
“You may or may not have noticed that all of our guests this past hour are [Latinx]... In this conversation about more Latino representation, here's the thing - this isn't that hard. You've just gotta decide that it’s a priority - even after Hispanic Heritage Month is over.”
Rudy Giuliani is running out of money, and Michael Cohen says that is a win for federal prosecutors.
"It's not investigators who are putting pressure on Giuliani, it's Giuliani's conduct that puts pressure on [him]. He was involved in some nefarious activity."
@JoyceWhiteVance
"Systemic racism influences how we care about victims, and ageism too. How have we already moved on from the elders killed in Buffalo? We're having so many shootings that we're just forgetting people and in survivor care, no one should be left behind."
@Nelba_MG
"What we're witnessing now is the death rattle of white supremacy that has become a death march led by Gov. Ron DeSantis in FL... It's all about intimidating - school boards, teachers, corporations - anyone who's not lockstep with this radicalized vision of America."
@WajahatAli
“I believe that [Trump] should be removed from office in any way that they can legally do that… I don’t believe that it matters that he only has less than two weeks left in office because there needs to be accountability for him inciting insurrection."
@JulianCastro
"When the President tweets something like 'Liberate Michigan'... it incites people. It legitimizes actions to hurt us."
@GovWhitmer
Don't miss the full exclusive interview tonight at 7 PM ET on
@MSNBC
.
#AmericanVoices
"I think that everyone who entered the building has violated the law... Yes, they were incited by the president, but you can't follow an illegal order."
@JillWineBanks
weighs in on whether all of the nearly 800 rioters who entered the Capitol should be charged.
The kids? They're more than alright.
They've been on the forefront of fighting for racial justice and climate change, and now they're smashing voter turnout records to boot.
#AmericanVoices
.
@peterbakernyt
on Trump's latest attack on Mitch McConnell. "This notion of a death wish. He may say that's not a call for violence, but he oughta know by now -- he certainly knows by now that a lot of the people who follow him take his word quite literally at times."
"How many cities would have been completely dysfunctional in the past year were it not for, frankly, undocumented people who went out every day and did things that exposed themselves to the Covid virus in the name of keeping everyone else safe?"
@jelani9
"Every week we just get another indication of complete exploitation of our intelligence community... [Reaching] into the highest levels of classification [and] the most sensitive [information]... [to use it] for your own political purpose is really disgraceful."
@FrankFigliuzzi1
"How can you come together if you're not willing to hold accountable those that perpetrated this violence and this attack on our Capitol? And that's why I think this impeachment trial is so important... The path to unity is through accountability."
@SenTinaSmith
"There's a real gap around what Donald Trump knew as far as potential violence in the days leading up to [1/6].. What did he know and what did he not do that could have saved officers from the injuries they suffered and our democracy from nearly losing everything."
@RepSwalwell
"[Ted Cruz's] father, as he loves to repeat on television, came from Cuba to search for a better life... That is exactly what's happening at the border right now... It is nothing but human beings... So there is no hysteria; it is simply people that want to live."
@paoramos
"Typically when you see parents and children involved in criminality... parents will often bend over backwards to protect their children. [The Trumps are] obviously a family where that dynamic is very different... Ultimately the truth has a way of surfacing."
@JoyceWhiteVance
Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia for at least a month.
@jrezaian
was a former hostage in Iran for nearly 2 years. He tells us his why he believes the U.S. government needs a more robust response when an American is detained in a foreign country.
"I am terrified to find out where Republicans are actually going to draw the line because I don't want to see it after somebody has a bullet in them."
@davidhogg111
,
@AMarch4OurLives
"What is clear is that this has been a very tough 21 years for America. We united after 9/11. Sadly, that would not happen in the American climate of today."
@BeschlossDC
"Sure looks like genocide... We're seeing Vladimir Putin inflict a level of wickedness that almost no one has seen in our lifetime or [in] generations before us... I want to do everything I can to make sure we help get Ukraine to safe harbor."
@RepSwalwell
Some members of the GOP are now saying they lost certain races because of a lack of candidate quality.
@matthewjdowd
says, "when you unload the clown car of people," all they had to offer was culture wars, and voters chose democracy.
Writers and activists are urging NYT to improve their trans coverage.
@chasestrangio
shares advice on how we all can improve.
"Listen to trans people and then as non-trans people, as institutions, we have to reflect on the ways in which we've all internalized anti-trans bias."
"We are going to every single thing in our power to fight back against these laws... Republicans [are] trying to usher in Jim Crow 2.0."
@harrisonjaime
joins us to discuss how the DNC plans to contend with the voter suppression efforts that we are seeing across the country.
WNBA star Brittney Griner "is in a bad way, in terms of a prognosis for getting out any time soon. This is how the Russians operate.. quietly [jamming] up [high profile Americans] by the intelligence services... This is gonna be a long haul for Brittney Griner."
@FrankFigliuzzi1
#Sistersinlaw
hosts are usually on the same page, but not when it comes to college football.
Who do you think will win the 2024 Rose Bowl?
@JoyceWhiteVance
's Alabama or
@BarbMcQuade
’s Michigan?
"There's not only your own safety [as a player in the NWSL], but your teammates' careers, the entire league's careers resting on your shoulders that if you raise your voice, this entire thing could come crumbling down. So that breeds this silence across the sport."
@itsmeglinehan
.
@FrankFigliuzzi1
says it's going to take "great difficulty" to protect the 2024 presidential election as Trump continues to attack prosecutors and political rivals.
"Were people being paid by foreign powers?... Was Barrack being paid by a foreign power?... Did Trump know that, with a wink and a nod, my buddies are getting paid and I'm willing to do this for the highest bidder? We don't know; we'll find out."
@FrankFigliuzzi1