good evening, everyone. we begin "the reidout" with a thing we really haven't seen in a long, long, long time. a forthright, open, democratic, dare i say progressive defense of government. now, i am old enough to remember bill clinton responding to the reagan and reaganomics by saying us too. the era of big government is over but courtesy of the democrats. that was a political calculation that i guess made sense at the time. reagan was still popular and sainted by republicans and so-called reagan democrats. and when president obama came along and was faced with this massive economic hole that george w. bush left the country in, he too felt constrained to couch the response in terms of, not spending too much money, keeping the economy, rescuing stimulus package under $1 trillion and kind of downplaying anything that looked like big government. and not too much braggadocio, especially from the black president. oh, god, no, no, no. well, enter joe biden. fresh off his prime-time address last night, president biden, vice president harris, and democratic members of congress did a very not usual thing for democrats. they walked out there and high-fived the passage of the american rescue plan, a monumental relief package that is of a size and a scale not seen since the days of lyndon johnson's great society programs in the 1960s. for comparison, the bill that saved our economy back in 2009, that was also almost completely rejected by beltway republicans just like this one was, was much less than half the size of this $1.9 trillion bill. and this time, democrats didn't throw in lots of tax cuts for the upper income to try and entice republicans. this time, most of the benefits, including the direct cash benefits, go to people who aren't rich. the president today accurately described this legislation, the american rescue plan, as a paradigm shift. >> it changes the paradigm. for the first time in a long time, this bill puts working people in this nation first. it's not hyperbole. it's a fact. it's critical to demonstrate that government can function, can function and deliver prosperity, security, and opportunity for the people in this country. >> today's rose garden ceremony follows president biden's heartfelt address to the nation last night. as only he could, biden reprised his role and consoler in chief, acknowledging the suffering and sacrifice this country has endured over the past year. but last night was about more than empathy. it was also about hope. the president delivered the welcome news that if everyone does their part, both the government, federal, state, and local, and all of us, our lives may resemble something closer to normal by january 4th. >> after this long, hard year, that will make this independence day something truly special, where we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence from this virus. >> meanwhile, fox news covered a biden speech that may as well have taken place on earth 2. >> we don't need to go over the 500,000 dead. we had that moment. let's talk about the future moving forward. >> he promises a return to kinda normal, not really, though, but then threatens to take away the cookie if the little children don't behave. i found that pay tronizing and frankly embarrassing. >> this is a free people. this is a free country. how dare you tell us who we can spend the fourth of july with? >> fox news viewers were also treated to a live tucker cam. this is great, so they could watch tucker's constantly quizzical expression during biden's speech. now, with the promise of better days ahead, the president is set to capitalize on the string of victories he's had, hitting the road to tout the benefits of his historic relief package, bypassing the national media to deliver his message directly to the american people. and critically, they're sure to show up on your local news outlets with your traffic and weather together. that is important news coverage for any president. now, at the moment, however, it does appear the american people are actually already sold on biden's relief package. in fact, a recent poll from cnn finds that the american rescue plan is more popular than the president himself. in contrast, that same poll 12 years ago showed that the economic stimulus plan of 2009 was actually less popular than then-president obama. i'm joined by dean obeidallah, columnist for msnbc daily. elise jordan, former aide to president george w. bush. and jonathan allen, nbc new digital reporter and co-author of "lucky: how joe biden barely won the presidency." i'm going to start with you, jonathan, with a promise that we're going to have you back on just to talk about this book because i know what the book is about, and i'm fascinated by it. just for right now, you've covered both of these white houses that both included joe biden. and i am struck by what feels to me like a kind of generational change in the way democrats talk about government because democrats, you know, post-reagan were kind of shy about talking about government. he's saying, no, when government works, government does this, this, this and gives you check. can you talk about what this evolution has been like even just for biden? >> absolutely, joy. just for starters, the contrast of wanting a competent government and believing that that's a need for the people is so gigantic, and we heard it last night in the speech from joe biden. we see it in the particulars of this bill. for the first time in a long time, someone in washington and a democratic president, which i think is a surprise after recent democratic presidencies, is saying, the government needs to do things for the people and get money to the people when they need money. i mean there's so many things in this bill that joe biden's going to be able to go around the country and talk about. it's not just the stimulus checks that have been sort of the headliner, the unemployment insurance of course during the crisis. there is a fix for labor pensions here that's going to affect roughly 3 million people and make sure that they are made whole for all the work that they did in the past. so there's a lot for biden to tout, and it's not about big government. it's about competent government delivering to the public. >> yeah. elise, it strikes me that from what i've been able to see, republicans really don't have an answer to that. they've gone back to cancel culture stuff but it doesn't feel like they have a substantive rebuke of this. but what they're doing is the same thing they did in 2009. all wall together, vote against the bill, say no, no, no, and then run out and say it's too much money. it's too much spending. but the spending is on the american people. it's kind of, to me, kind of hard to sell to the american people your government should not be spending this government on you when you need it. but it feels like i guess that's their argument. i don't see how the politics like that are going to work. do you? >> well, joy, republicans are trying to say, well, this is not a bipartisan bill. we went in to negotiate, and there was no room for negotiation. but they came in with a plan that was literally a third of what the eventual bill ended up being. if you look at what president biden did, he held his ground, and democrats, they closed ranks. they stuck together, and they got this through in a show of democratic unity that you don't see at the same time necessarily with republicans. and so i think that that's really an accomplishment for democrats that they did get this through. and, you know, for all of the progressive chatter about what's not in the bill, you look at it. it's pretty incredible. it's a huge, huge spending bill, the second largest in american history, and joe biden got it through. and it's going to do amazing things to cut child poverty if the projections hold up that economists have been saying. so this really is a very substantial achievement from joe biden out of the gates. >> you know, and, dean, yes, it's a substantial achievement. from their most sort of right-wing member, joe manchin, all the way to bernie sanders, they're all like this is a good idea to spend this much money. the republican argument that it should have been a sixth of the money spent on you, it's still saying the government is only doing the right thing when it's spending on the rich. if it's spending on you, sorry, papi, that's too much money to spend on you. it doesn't sound like there's a co-argument to say the government shouldn't spend this much money on you. let's go from the sublime to the ridiculous. marjorie taylor greene. we call her marjorie q. her response to the speech last night -- this isn't even to the bill because her constituents are also going to get those checks. i don't know what she's going to do at re-elect time. to the speech last night from biden, she called it the most bizarre speech from any u.s. president i've ever seen. does biden even know about all the open states? he's telling us we can't barbecue until july 4th. we've been barbecuing. the response to it is just to say something that's fundamentally stupid. john cornyn jumped in and said, why do we have to wait till july 4th? he said, you know, if everybody's going to have vaccines by may -- no. he never said everybody was going to be vaccinated by the 1st. they're acting like they don't hear what -- they're acting like they didn't hear it, or they're acting like -- i don't know what they're doing. do you have any kind of understanding of it? >> well, joy, it's hard to understand because i don't speak stupid, so i don't understand exactly what they're trying to say. i need the translation to english because it doesn't make sense. you know, i just want to point out you played joe biden at the rose garden. i want to remind people president trump's -- the last okay panltd. his first rose garden was -- and take health insurance away from millions of americans, and they were gleeful. what a contrast. democrats are gleeful because we're helping millions of americans. it could not have a more stark contrast about the dna of the gop and the dna of the democratic party. you mentioned as well. look at ronald reagan's famous line. the nine most terrifying words are, i'm here from the government to help. i'm here to help you. republicans have lived with that forever. even bill clinton said in the 1996 state of the union, the end of big government is over. even al gore in 2000, he reduced the size of jobs when he was running for president. things have changed. this is a new world we're in where we can usher in policies that help people, and polls show this is bipartisan because at least 40% if not 50% of republican base was onboard with this. that's real bipartisanship. the average american, republican and democrat, need the help. >> see, the media cares about more bipartisanship than normal americans. every american doesn't go, well, did enough republicans vote for this for this to be a good thing? no. am i getting a check? am i getting my money? they don't care. bipartisanship is immaterial to it. by the way, since we did call out margie q. this is what the fox crowd said is better. we heard biden. let's hear a little mash-up of donald trump because this is what she thinks is not bizarre in a speech. take a listen. >> believe it or not i watch my words very carefully. there are those who think i'm a very stable genius, okay? in june of 1975, the continental congress created a unified army. it took over the airports. it did everything it had to do. supposing we hit the body with a tremendous -- whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light. supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do. look at what happened in syria. boom, boom, bing. bing-bing. >> if only biden had come out and said, boom, boom, bing, bing, bing. elise, you've worked with candidates. back at home, you know, i worked at local news and i've worked on campaigns. i can tell you getting in that 5:00 and 6:00 news is everything. can you just talk about the importance of this tour in terms of actually getting biden, harris, et cetera in front of local news audiences and whether that's going to be a big deal for them? >> well, joy, i just couldn't believe it almost. it was so foreign to me when i read that they were going to do a traditional tour promoting their policy in states that maybe were swing states and had senate elections coming up in 2022. i thought, wow, this is just a return to traditional politics. >> yes. >> and there is some rhyme and reason to it, trying to sell your policy and trying to add to your ranks instead of just getting by on division, which is what donald trump did. so i think it's a great thing for the biden administration to fan out and to have to explain and defend and promote their policy. >> 100%. i've been running away from the word "sell" because they're not selling it. people already like it. but you've got to promote, promote, promote. it's like being in entertainment. you've got to keep promoting, and that is a core part of politics that democrats have left behind. so glad to see it back. elise jordan, jonathan allen. dean is going to be back later. a major development in the george floyd case as we mark one year since breonna taylor was killed by police in her own home. plus, tucker carlson's manly confidence is clearly threatened by strong women. couldn't dance on dancing with the stars and never served in the military, is now disparaging america's fighting women. you know, tucker was almost the absolute worst last night. does his ugly anti-woman military disparaging tirade put him over the top tonight? 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>> you know, it's funny that when we talk about $27 million, which is one of the largest known settlements when the family would just rather have george. >> yes. >> when children would just rather have their loved ones, when family members would rather have their loved one. so our state legislatures especially will do the work to come up with all of this anti-protester legislation, and they will push it hard. but instead of just fixing the problem so you don't see all the legislation that says, don't kill black people. you see the legislation that says, don't be mad that we kill black people. that's the issue. that's the problem. this is why we speak up. this is why we have to stand. you know, $27 million, is that what his life was worth? you know, we can't put a price tag on this man's life. we can't put a price tag on breonna a life when we think about how one person affects another, about how we can, as individuals, we can each change someone's lives. you can't put a price tag on that. his daughter deserves to have him right now, and $27 million, that's a drop in the bucket for a government that can go build a wall like that, for a government that can come up with money for space force. it's a drop in the bucket. >> yeah. let me play breonna taylor's mom because i'm reminded, particularly as we are hitting this covid anniversary and her anniversary basically at the same time, she was an essential worker. she was an emt. she was in the position to save lives in her job, and instead was killed in her own home where she was supposed to be safe at home sleeping. here's breonna's mom, tamika palmer, on what her focus is now. take a listen. >> still to get justice, you know. nobody's been held accountable for what happened to her. that's the problem, though. and until that happens, i guess i'll just continue to fight. >> you know, when you think about the fact that the state a.g. who basically went into the grand jury with an intention -- it seemed like an intention to make sure that these officers were never charged with a crime, and only wound up charging one for firing a bullet recklessly into the apartment of one white neighbor and not even a black neighbor who also had a bullet in their apartment. it was very selective. he's now in a position of being politically rewarded. you've got mitch mcconnell's folks talking him up as maybe the next united states senator. like the rewards are real for people who get in the way of justice in these cases. i don't know if you know. how do we undo those incentives and switch the incentives to be toward justice for these families? >> you know, first of all, we keep doing what we're doing. we have activist who's are running for office and saying, we're going to keep our feet on the ground, but we're also going to go into places where we have the power of the pen and the power of th