Babies. The Game Stop Frenzy continues with backlash against robin hood for redistricting amateur trading. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Restricting. It is friday, january 29th. With us we have White House Reporter for the asci press, jonathan lemire, Michael Steele, and former aide to the george w. Bush white house elise jordan, msnbc analyst as well. So we will get to the latest in game stop. That story ahead. Plus, a full year into the fight against covid. And were learning troubling details about the pandemic. A federal investigation found that u. S. Officials who greeted american evacuees from wuhan did not have training in Infectious Disease control and were told not to wear masks. Thats according to the washington post. The states Attorney General is investigating why the Cuomo Administration failed to report 3,800 Hospital Deaths as being linked to nursing homes, an undercount of 40 . Weve got details on both of those stories coming up on morning joe. But we begin wi
it s the best way of beating the democrats if i get the nomination. in the fox poll that i m sure you saw, i m way ahead of hillary, head-to-head i m ahead of hillary. the one person hillary doesn t want to run against and i get along with democrats, republicans, liberals, everybody. the one person they don t want to run against is me. believe me. okay. i want this plain spoken for the viewer. go ahead. what do you mean when you say if they break this pledge you ll break the pledge? do you mean? if they don t treat me with a certain amount of respect and don t treat me as the front runner, by far the front runner and if the playing field isn t level all options are open but that s nothing i want to do. how will you know that? determines that? i think i ll know that over a period of months and i ll make a determination but i would imagine they would treat me properly because i m leading by
rolled back. i would imagine the reason we see it is you can begin to use this ruling to chip away at things on the basis of religious liberty a little bit at a time. i honestly believe we ll see corporations and otherses begin to use this act as pretext to dismantle other things they can say they believe are unconstitutional. let s look at the politics now we have been hearing that the playing field isn t in their favor. democrats have been talking about specifically firing up female voters this fall. we know there is a gender gap. a huge gender gap with single women versus married women. it seems to me we can look at the right celebrating and the left not getting its way. at the same time this is the
they think this is just the start and there is going to be more rulings like this? this is the story, i guess of the supreme court has been it starts with with a narrow ruling and then comes back and something big is repeelded, rolled back. i would imagine the reason we see it is you can begin to use this ruling to chip away at things on the basis of religious liberty a little bit at a time. i honestly believe we ll see corporations and otherses begin to use this act as pretext to dismantle other things they can say they believe are unconstitutional. let s look at the politics now we have been hearing that the playing field isn t in their favor. democrats have been talking about specifically firing up female voters this fall. we know there is a gender gap.
waiting for pretrial detention. what it means you go through a big new york town, i went through a month ago shows blacks and whites use marijuana the same level. blacks three to four times likely to be arrested. then it s more difficult to borrow and get a job and housing and scholarships. we know all those credit and background checks 40% employers do background checks. i kcan definitely see how that s something that holds somebody back. we do best on the football field. why do we do so well in those areas? because in those areas of life most americans really see, the playing field is even, rules are public. that s an interesting point. the referee is fair and playing field is transparent. when the playing field isn t even you can t score. that s an interesting point. what is the one thing we can do to take this moment right now, people on the streets, people talking about race, uncomfortable conversation, talking about it again and