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Governors pitching special election police officers. election cops. joining me david corn washington burro chief for mother jones and author of the news letter this land and republican strategists and co-founder of the lincoln project and as a former republican strategists, you have to go first wilson. i heard about election cops in florida because everything seems to start there or texas naturally he wants a $5.7 million basically personal police force of a 52 election people that can investiga...

That could cause students guilt or anguish that they might be racist or sexist or oppressive. its seen as something for white students. meanwhile, there have been over 150 recent incidents involving the attempted censorship of books in schools and libraries, many from the same right wing frame. taken seriously all this reflects a twist on conservative cancel culture, but you have to insulate certain people from the opposing views they abhor, but apparently you have to insulate people on the righ...

Republicans are going to build this system no matter what we say or do about it in these states where they have control and it will be the thing -- they say how dare you say were building a bizarre authoritarian police state while their busy building that. >> yeah, i mean, the thing is, look, and just to show you that rick wilson is not bing hyperbolic, there is the klan. they made voters feel like they were under arrest if they tried to vote. we had this before, david. were just going to have a...

Youre not gonna hear anyone, michael flynn, or anybody else, saying they should lock trump up, because he was allegedly shoving documents down a white house toilet. >> yeah, i was gonna say, theres always been a positive or silver lining that the trump presidency, is that somehow it made us all learn about government agencies and various departments that we never knew actually existed, because somehow, he managed to touch them with his corruption. joyce, davids column supposed to be a question t...

They are concerned about this. in ottawa, for example, the 9-1-1 system was overwhelmed this week. the prime minister says that the significant majority of those calls came from the united states. the funding for this protest, on gofundme, was shut down. so theres a concern that this kingsmanship, the yearning to have that connection with the u.s., with these trumpian notes, that we are seeing, with the flags, with the banners, the prime minister called this group the minority fringe. well they ...

Thing he is later accused of. thats true in this case as well. and just to prove our point here, trump in 2016 criticizing hillary clinton, and of course, her emails. watch. >> people have nothing to hide, they dont bleach their emails, or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law. >> and heres the thing, david, republicans who gleefully attacked her for the way she handled government records are amazingly and remarkably quite about trumps behavior th...

Involved at all? why are the interfering with another countrys affairs? lets talk to david cord, and msnbc political analyst. david, its good to have you with. us talk to us about why you think republicans have decided to inflame this situation, theyve decided to run with this to advance their own domestic agenda here in the united states. >> i think the republican party has become just the party of trolling. its not about legislation, its not about ideas, its not even about organizing and so he...

Of the trouble. this is what trump has done to our politics. he has made trolling a troublemaking and shouting the main objectives of it. so you see republicans here looking what -- looking for the next big thing. and they are latching onto the truckers, but do they want to see them shut down the super bowl tomorrow? that would be the most un-american thing i could think of. >> somehow, that doesnt square up with their political ideology. we will see if they actually support it. who knows. david...

Msnbc political analyst. david, its good to have you with us. talk to us about why you think republicans have decided to inflame this situation, theyve decided to run with this to advance their own domestic agenda here in the united states. >> i think the republican party has become just the party of trolling. its not about legislation, its not about ideas, its not even about organizing and so here they see an opportunity, really, on social media to have an impact. theres something crazy going o...

Carefully, and then the answers of roger stone, a decision was made that he could not be prosecuted. but theres the evidence that equine there. the case of donald trump jr. is really instructive. they looked at him for a misdemeanor, access violation. they determined that there was likely sufficient evidence to prove all of the elements of the charge, but made a decision that the charge itself didnt merit federal prosecution, that it wasnt in the national interest. i think this is worth highligh...