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happy to have you here, super tuesday is tomorrow. state of the union is on thursday. on friday, the leading republican presidential candidate has invited to his home the authoritarian dictator of hungary for a visit. it will be a big week. did you see the movie black panther? when i heard about that movie. in fact, when i saw the trailer for that movie, i thought this is not my kind of movie. i'm not into superhero stuff at all. i'm not into alternate worlds and magic elements and things

that give you superhuman powers and stuff. just not my thing. but, i watched it anyway and i absolutely loved it. i watched it one weekend and then i went back the next weekend and i watched it again. black panther is fantastic. even if you don't like movies like that. it's the first ever superhero movie to receive an oscar nomination for best picture. totally deserved it. i say that as a not superhero person. just a fantastic and landmark film. the serving lieutenant governor of north carolina, what he said about it. it is quote created by an agnostic jew and put to film by a satanic marxist. he calls it, quote, this trash that was only created to pull the shackles out of your pockets. ladies and gentlemen, the republican lieutenant governor

of north carolina. tomorrow on super tuesday, he is actually going to be running in the north carolina primary to become his party's nominee for governor of the great state of north carolina. here he is calling survivors of school gun massacres, quote, media prosti-tots. he calls them spoiled little s who need to shut up. this is for kids who lived through a school shooting that killed 17 of their classmates. they need to shut up. he calls public schoolteachers quote wicked people. and not for nothing, he says this about the holocaust. he says quote hitler disarming millions of jews and marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash. he is the republican party's leading candidate to be their party's nominee for governor of the state of north carolina. he will be on the ballot

tomorrow in that state. he is already lieutenant governor of north carolina. on friday, in florida, republicans in that state legislature passed yet another new law to restrict any teaching about racism in the united states. this happened just this past friday. just a couple of days ago in florida. and in the debate over the new florida bill, one republican florida state representative said while this bill overall will restrict teaching about racism and things like slavery in florida, he said there is one specific thing that he wanted to make sure is included in public education in florida from here on out. he said while he supports this bill, he wants to make sure everyone is aware that slaves were paid. that slaves were quote paid for their work. he wants to make sure that is taught in schools. and then he voted for the bill. this, of course, comes in florida after the state's republican governor tried to

claim during his presidential campaign that there were actually a lot of underappreciated benefits of slavery for the people who were enslaved. now in the state legislature, republicans were saying slaves, you know, among other things seems like they made a pretty good living because they were paid. the chair of the florida democratic party put out a statement in response clearly mystified says quote florida republicans are hellbent on teaching our children that slavery wasn't bad. and it is hard to argue. it's insane but it keeps happening. pop over to oklahoma. oklahoma republicans control the state government there, too. oklahoma republicans have now banned abortion in almost every circumstance. but that is apparently not enough for them. oklahoma republicans have a new

bill creating a state registry to find people getting an abortion. i wonder what oklahoma republicans will want to do with a state data base of women who have undergone abortions. i'm sure they want it for only the most respectful reasons. law looks like it is also in addition to creating a registry of women who have had abortions, it also seems intended to ban contraception. including forms of contraception like the iud. that is what oklahoma republicans are up to. in alabama, they issued a unanimous ruling that effectively outlawed fertility treatment in that state after alabama's supreme court republicans did that, democrats in congress and washington introduced federal legislation

to protect fertility treatment. that legislation was blocked by republican u.s. senator cindy hyde smith. you know, after the alabama supreme court ruling all the republicans came out and said how much they valued fertility treatment and ivf. they wanted to make sure they protect it. but then, they blocked protection for it when it came up in congress. while republican judges in alabama are out lawing it in that state. seriously, do not bother paying attention to what they say. watch only what they do. they can say all they want about how much they want to protect fertility treatments and iff. when they have a chance to ban it, their actions speak a lot louder than their words. there are 219 republicans in congress right now. in the house, 219. of that 219, 125 of them are cosponsors of legislation that

would ban ivf. and arguably many popular forms of contraception as well. 125 house republicans. more than half the republicans in the house cosponsored that. including the republican speaker of the house. 125 of them. 195 of them voted contraception full stop. after the republican appointees overturned roe v. wade. the right to contraception only eight republicans in congress voted for that. 195 voted against. and let's just stick with health care for a second. florida again. florida they are contending with a super worrying outbreak of measles like it's the 1800s or something. one of the most transmissable pathogens on earth and one we don't typically need to worry about in this country because for 60 freaking years we have had an effective vaccine against measles except in

florida, republicans picked a special state surgeon general telling florida parents who am i to suggest perhaps kids should be vaccinated against measles. yesterday, the florida department of health released a letter from surgeon general dr. joseph latapo emphasizing how contagious measles is. but did not urge parents to vaccinate their children. >> he does not. which is an interesting letter from a surgeon general. >> reporter: beyond who am i to say your kids should be vaccinated, the hand republican picked surgeon general wouldn't even say kids with measles should stay home from school. while they are infectious and symptomatic with one of the most fatal pathogens known to mankind. measles in florida. not to be out done, now the republican party's leading presidential candidate is saying on the stump he will withhold all funding from any school anywhere in america if kids have to be vaccinated to

come to school. kids have to be vaccinated all over the country everywhere against measles and mumps and polio. it has been true for decades. it has been true for generations but just in case you have been missing iron lungs, the republican party is raring to go this election year with a new measles and polio for all the kids plan. and what swing state busy mom and dad isn't going to want to get the whole family to lick that doorknob and vote gop? how about some tetanus nor the little ones? whooping cough. i want to give the missouri republican party a little bit of a shout-out. a little salute. this gentleman not the one in the clan robe with the sheet over his head but the one next

to him. he is the guy next to him. you can see he has the same little thing on in both images, the glasses around his neck on the croaky style things. yes, so, that guy. the other photo with the no nazi flag. he is running for the nomination for governor. they are trying to remove him from the ballot so the neonazi clan guy can't be their republican nominee for governor. once they announce that they are trying to get him off the ballot, he responded this weekend saying quote the gop knew exactly who i am. republicans in missouri including the missouri

secretary of state are trying to get him off the ballot now, fast. while trying to explain away what appeared to be themselves like taking pictures with that guy. while he says you knew exactly who i was. you want one from georgia? in georgia, republican theres are on the cusp of approving a new official license plate for the state of georgia. this comes with a little history. in 944, right, this is the apex of the allies' final push to defeat the nazis, when fdr was running for his fourth term in office. the republicans ran thomas dewey against him. and a third party ran a preacher for president in 1944 who called himself a christian nationalist. he ran on a platform saying all american jews should be forcibly sterilized and deported from the united states. that party was called the america first party.

around the same time, there was also an organization called america first incorporated. america first inc. the leader of that group received a patent for a club that he said was specifically designed to murder jews in america. he patented it in men's and ladies sizes and called it the killer. he ran an organization called america first inc. they were trying to capitalize on the notoriety and the name recognition of the america first committee which had at one point been very popular in the united states but start today wobble after its chief spokesman charles lin burg said the only we were going to end up fighting in world war ii is because the jews were going to make us do it. the america first committee. the america first party. georgia republicans are about to approve a new taxpayer supported official state

georgia license plate that says america first on it. the republican party is kind of amazing right now. em, no matter where you look, no matter what state you look, here is another. my friend david corn at mother jones pointed it out to me. that was last week at cpac. it was a man named steven moore speaking who is a trump adviser. >> one of the most evil left wing organizations in america is the aarp. >> right. >> and i want to make sure that we are going to make a pact here. i want to make sure that no one joins the aarp. >> what's the most evil organization in america? the retired people? the aarp? the american association of retired persons right? that's the true evil that must be destroyed. one of the most evil

organizations in america? left wing. i want to make sure no one joins the aarp. we must make a pact. the american association of retired persons is the true evil that must be destroyed. contraception, you are trying not to have a baby, that's over. ivf, if you try to have a baby, that's over, too. the holocaust deniers should be the republican nominee for governor. the sterilize the jews and deport them movement should be memorialized on official georgia state license plates. we want really small government that is big enough to make an oklahoma state registry of every woman who has ever had an abortion and we'll tell you later what we are going to do with it. slaves had it great. slavery wasn't so bad. let florida republicans tell you about it. it is retirees, the aarp, the real evil in america. tetanus and measles are kind of cute when it's for babies and did i mention on friday the

leader of the republican party, the next republican presidential nominee, is going to host at his home the authoritarian dictator of hungary because dictators are kind of a thing for those guys. like polio is. we're back. the republican party is going through some things right now. right up to the top and in every state in the country. and today, we received another reminder that there is nothing magic that will fix that. there is no magic wand or full stop legal remedy that will stop the republican party from being this way. and to stop them from ascending to take the white house again with donald trump at their helm. the united states supreme court ruled today as expected that the part of the 14th amendment that says you can't hold federal office ever again if you took part in trying to overthrow the government of the united states, the court ruled today that donald trump's role in the january 6th insurrection

isn't enough on its own to trigger that constitutional protection. perhaps nothing is. and so even the states can keep candidates off the ballot for lots of other constitutional reasons like being too young or not being a citizen or whatever, with this one, trying to overthrow the government and banned for life, like the constitution says, on this one, he is fine. that's what the supreme court said today because of course they did. and if you are a trump fan, if you are a republican, if you are hoping for a run to power for donald trump, today's supreme court ruling was great news. the bad news, on the other side of it, is that everybody can see what the republican party is like right now. under donald trump. and he doesn't just get the presidency thanks to the court trying to help him get it. he still does have to run for

it. >> we are a nation that heard that saudi arabia and russia will be -- oh. >> will be dur dur. that was this weekend. >> did you just see medero. it is unbelievable. >> he also slipped into admitting or thinking that he is running against president obama rather than president biden. and you can hear from him making that mistake, making that same error again, you can hear from the crowd as they are listening to him they have no idea what to make of this. they are just silent while he keeps going with it. >> putin, you know, has so little respect for obama that he is starting to throw around

the nuclear war term. he is talking nuclear weapons. >> the crowd is like do we cheer for him pronouncing nuclear? should we just agree he is running against obama since he keeps saying obama all the time? should we clap? when the republican front runner remembers that it is a man named joe biden who he is running against and not barack obama, the whole basis for that campaign against biden, as you know, is that biden is out of it. that biden is old and stuff. trump is 77. biden is 81. a new ap poll says six in ten voters have concerns about each of them. 63% have that worry about biden. 53%, trump. the margin of error is just over 40%. so yeah, it is kind of a tie. i think the headline in the ap story about this is about right. about six and ten voters.

that's who the two parties are running. so pick one. pick one. that's your choice, pick one. you have lots of grounds on which to choose. they have both been president. but that lets us compare them. right? in the past three plus years that joe biden has been president, we have unemployment below 4%. violent crime at nearly a 50- year low. the united states has the best economic recovery. the stock market has hit record after record. more americans have health insurance than ever before. he is standing up against putin, one of the least popular figures in the world with american voters. he is fighting for reproductive rights which is something red state voters want while

republicans are stripping those rights. he has brokered and signed the biggest bipartisan infrastructure deal ever in the history of the country. union haves never been more popular in my entire lifetime and i'm old and he is the first president ever to join the picket line with striking auto workers who won their strike and endorsed him. his democratic party has out- performed the polls and history in the midterms and in all of the off year elections since she has been president. while on the other side, his opponent has been indicted 91 times. and, don't forget his opponent was just president right before this. which we remember. and in the three plus years we have been gone from the white house, we have learned real doozies about what has been going on there. >> the new photos released showing boxes of documents stashed in a ballroom. even a bathroom at his mar-a- lago home. the indictment says among the

classified documents found in the boxes, information. >> he said i don't care if they had weapons. they are not here to hurt me. take the f-ing bags today. my people can march the capital from here. >> a $2 billion investment that president trump, former president trump's son-in-law jared kushner secured last summer from a fund led by the crown prince of saudi arabia has raised questions about the ethics of post white house business dealings. >> what was mark meadows burning every day? >> i wish i knew, nicole. there are several times i would walk into mark's office and i would see him putting papers into the fireplace. >> eventually it culminate had the break when he want today deploy active duty troops on the street of washington dc and

suggested that we shoot americans in the streets. >> he suggested that we deploy active duty troops in washington and shoot americans in the street. says his defense secretary. and, the white house chief of staff was regularly burning documents in the white house fireplaces. and, the son-in-law mysteriously get as $2 billion house warming president from a foreign government the second he walks out of the white house and he is stashing classified documents about america's nuclear programs at home in a bathroom and refusing to give them back. and, he is explicitly asking for armed people to be let into the crowd he was going to direct to go to congress to overthrow the government to try to keep him in power. those are, that's just a sprinkling of the things we have learned about his time in office. today there is actually another one. new reporting from rolling stone, look at this headline. trump's white house was awash

in speed and i don't mean speed as in efficiency. speed as in everyone was on drugs. who wants those guys back in the white house? because, the two major parties are going to nominate someone and you have to pick one. which would you prefer? you have to pick one. actually i'm going to speak with the lead reporter from that rolling stone story in just a moment. but i will just leave you with this. there is no magic spell. there is no solution that is beginning to come say from the supreme court. the supreme court did the favor of reminding us all of that today when they ruled that trump will stay on the ballot all over the country. they gave us that reminder today after last week, they made sure we knew it in the first place when someone took action to delay all of the trump criminal trials except the one they couldn't stop until after the election. there is no magic wand coming

to stop this thing. there are no magic beans you can grow here. the democratic party has picked its nominee. it is an old guy who is doing practical normal and popular things as president and who has a lot to show for it, particularly in terms of how well things are going economically since he has been at the helm. the republican party is pretty obviously picking their guy as well. also an old guy who cannot say the word venezuela and has no idea who is the current president of the united states. currently riding high on his party's abortion bans and measles curious viral logical denialist free associating, he is trying to warm the american people up to the idea of just a little bit of dictatorship from him and he the getting us ready to start building camps to hold millions. because his advisers say the deportations start at noon on

day one. the courts are not going to help. the law will be a side bar to the main decision. you will make this decision. the only way this decision will be made is by you picking one. by you deciding it matters enough to you to not only vote, but to help your candidate try to win. the republican party really, really is amazing right now. the only thing that will stop them is democrats winning instead. period, full stop. thank you united states supreme court for the clarification. the campaign starts now. we are a nation that just recently heard that saudi arabia and russia will.

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so here's the headline. kind of can't mistake it. trump's white house was awash in speed. and xanax. the pentagon found in an inspector general's report that during the trump administration, the doctor's office routinely provided opioids and other controlled substances to white house staff who were not eligible to get them as part of that report, the pentagon included a document that showed basically an order form for medications that were ordered by the white house medical unit. that it was doling out. stuff like fentanyl and ketamine. also, morphine and ambien and a lot. an upper called provigil. this is something they give to fighter pilots so they don't fall asleep making war.

rolling stone adds this. according to interviews with four senior administration officials and others with knowledge of the matter, the stimulant was routinely given to staffers who needed an energy boost after a late night or just a pick me up to handle another day at a uniquely stressful job. as one of the former officials tells rolling stone, the white house was quote awash in speed and it was not just speed. quote, the anti-anxiety medication xanax was easy to get. one unnamed source telling rolling stone it was kind of like the wild west. things were pretty loose. what someone needs, we're going to fill this. this one other detail in this report tonight from rolling stone that i feel like we should point out. besides the prescription medication stuff outlined here, the white house medical unit provides counseling services. mental health stappers.

a team of therapists. what happens in a counseling session is typically protected by patient confidentiality. but not in the trump white house. therapists working in the trump white house were quote pressed for information about what they were told by white house staffers immediately after therapy sessions. the implications being that whatever they told their therapist, it could be used against them at work. by their bosses in the trump white house. joining us now is noah shackman, the out going editor in chief of rolling stone. is nice to see you, thanks for being here. did i get any of that wrong? >> no. i think that is pretty much it. for the therapist, when i found

i couldn't believer what this person told me. now look, their boss told me on the record that it was just for military screening. we were just trying to make sure that they were okay with their top secret clearances but here's the thing. this therapist saw civilians too so this would not be a military issue. and this therapist said that yeah, the question started out general and started out pretty basic. but this person felt like it went down a slippery slope into detraying confidential information. when you pair the looseness with which they handled the drugs with the looseness with which they handled patient information, you get a pretty bad picture. >> you describe the fact that in over white houses, people have described when it comes to

long foreign trips, being doped by the white house medical office. getting uppers or downers or whatever they needed. that is something not unique here. this is described as being sort of not just quantitatively but qualitatively different. people getting high grade pharmaceutical versions of speed all the time. not only directly from the white house medical office, but also circulating among themselves as staffers. >> if you do a stimulant enough, it is hard to get to sleep. then you need the xanax and sedative and anti-anxiety medication to school down. and several staffers were mixing xanax and alcohol which packs white the wallop. >> and you describe having been

sort of inspired to do. seeing the handwritten ledgers. it is striking to see ketamine and fentanyl and morphine and some of these other. talk about pack a wallop type of drugs. what are they doing with ketamine and fentanyl? >> we could find no evidence they were prescribed in a way that xanax were handed out. it was crazy. handwritten like, in fact, the ledger you showed there, it was from 2014. they didn't have any current ones. lots of illegible stuff. what they seemed to do was stockpile the stuff in case of a very odd emergency.

like trump was in botswana and suddenly got shot and they wanted to do an emergency procedure on him. you are giving me a skeptical look because it seems like a remote, remote possibility. >> uh-huh. in terms of the white house medical office, there has been continuity. ronnie jackson behaved strangely when it came to releasing information from the public about trump's health. is there a sense where this seems part of his time period at the helm. or the problem with the white house medical office that proceeds him and has been problem after he left? do we know anything about this being worse or better over time? >> yes, we do. so, pretty much every source we talk to trace the problems back to ronnie jackson. but after he left, his people

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investigators. the activists pressed local officials in michigan, nebraska, and georgia to drop voters from the rolls on mass. they have at times targeted democratic areas. and on one level, this sounds like a story we have heard a lot of times before. right? every election under the guise of fighting nonexistent voter fraud pushes for purges of the voter roles in democratic areas. here is what is new. what we should consider ourselves forewarned about. the purpose of them getting the people thrown off the voter rolls is not just for republicans to disenfranchise voters on the front end to make it harder for people to vote. that is its own reward. they like that, they want that. but they are also trying to lay the ground work for republican challenges on the back end. to give them fodder for challenging election results they do not like. right wing media outlets have

promoted the voter roll challenges. casting officials as corrupt and creating fodder that could be used in another round of legal challenges should mr. trump lose again. it tells the times today, it really is aimed at being able to cast doubt on the results after the fact. so, step one, you file all these bogus challenges to voter registrations. they make it harder for people to vote. but if he doesn't win, then proceed to step three. oh my goodness. look at all the voters whose eligibility has been questioned. it must be voter fraud. must be a stolen election. democrats getting ready for the election season means more than

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the november general election. despite no evidence to support their claims. pro trump stop the steal activists are ramping up efforts to kick people off the voter rolls in a whole bunch of swing states not just to make it harder for people to vote, but also according to reporting for the new york times, to create fodder for conservatives challenges the election results if trump loses the election again. that's new reporting from the new york times including reporter nick and alexander brezan. nick joins us now here in studio. thank you very much for being here. i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> well i feel like it has been a lot of years i have been covering what i would call voter suppression efforts. effort to clean the voter rolls. purge people off the roll. it is often done by conservative leaning groups. this feels sort of tactically

different. there is some kind of a new element to it. is that fair to say? >> one of the things very new is how coordinated this is. and we have seen the loose networks of people who stop the steal. election deniers. people uniting under leaders. mike lindel, the ceo of my pillow who believes machines are corrupted. and what they have done, they have kind of established this loose connection where they meet on zoom, in michigan and georgia and arizona. they are actually building new software now. two new pieces of software about to roll out for this election specifically.

>> one will be looking at the national change of address form. and trying to identify voter that's changed. a couple of million voter files. they try to match that to other data bases. and those will be developed by conservative leaning organization just to facilitate voter challenges. in michigan, they discovered a law on state books from 1954 that said that if a elector challenges another elector, singular, then there is a process that begins and they attest to it with a signed affidavit that the voter must be removed from the roll ifs they don't respond within 30 days. that is very different than the federal statute and the nbra.

they found a loophole. you have to follow this law and we found, you know, these voters, sometimes it was dozens. sometimes it was just four saying we checked. we are attesting to this. and due to this law on state t books, you have to follow the law. and generally 100 were removed. in waterford, a thousand removed. the secretary of state stepped in. once we noticed this. my colleague found this in the first place. and so, just the fact they were able to find the state law. >> the clerk didn't know about it until you called and asked for comment. >> the secretary of state. >> yeah. >> but let me stop you there for a second. do the clerks and the local officials who are being targeted by these efforts, it is voter rolls being targeted. are they being targeted through local officials. do they have the wherewithall to deal with this? do they know what they are up against? they are being told they are breaking the law and must do what the activists want them to do.

>> some are afraid of breaking the law. they are under a microscope like they have never been before. there are poll watchers everywhere. i think so many election officials are overtaxed. they are underpaid you know. election offices across the country don't have enough money to simply carry out elections and there have been numerous laws preventing them from getting other sources of money. so they have a lot on their plate. if they see an email that is like you have to follow the law, some think i have to follow the law, it's if front of me. if you look at georgia, in the senate runoff elections there were 360,000 voter challenges. a massive amount of challenges. they hadn't seen that forever. so they are a little more familiar with the statutes and

ready to assess how powerful they are. they expanded what you can do to challenge a voter but they are a it almost bit more prepared. >> yeah. if they are getting blow torched, it will affect how they are reacted. they will need support to be able to stand up against pressure. nick from the new york times who along with alexander bersen did this crucial reporting. thanks for all that. we'll be right back. stay with us. be right back. stay with us. t strikes and prevent migraine attacks, all in one. don't take if allergic to nurtec. allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. ask about nurtec odt. awkward question... is there going to be anything left... —left over? —yeah. oh, absolutely. (inner monologue) my kids don't know what they want. you know who knows what she wants? me! i want a massage, in amalfi, from someone named giancarlo. and i didn't live in that shoebox for years. not just— with empower, we get all of our financial questions answered.

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