to yourself -- >> you are a piece of garbage. we should kick you out of the party. >> trump's republican enablers go after anyone who dares to challenge their maga leader. they are getting a helping hand from a media company that's serving up biden disinformation along with traffic and weather together. tonight, at the supreme court, they get ready to deliver major rulings. senate republicans block an effort to establish a binding code of conduct for justices following a series of scandals involving samuel alito and clarence thomas. we begin tonight with the power of choice. as all you have faithful readers tuning in have made a choice to watch this program. you know what you want. we are thankful you decided to tune in. on the other hand there are people who choose to watch fox, which they are entitled to do. those viewers are doing so knowing that they're going to get a heaping dose of right wing talking points and trump cheerleading. they are choosing that, because that's what they want. when your grandma tunes in to her local news station for traffic, weather and sports, maybe it's an nbc affiliate or abc or cbs, she's probably not looking for a very specific right wing narrative from the media who just so happens to own that station. in fact, she probably doesn't know what's happening. but it is at scores of local stations owned by the sinclaire broadcast group, which owns 185 local television stations across the country. new reports of public notice how they injected biden's age into local broadcasts. they teed up a segment on a dubious "wall street journal" report about the president's acuity with a virtually identical script. >> a report questioning the mental fitness of president joe biden. this issue could be an election decider."the wall street journa calling into fitness -- into question the fitness of joe biden. >> "the wall street journal" published a story that calls into question the mental fitness of president joe biden. >> it could be an election decider. >> it's not the first time sinclair has engaged in propaganda. this latest local news narrative is based on an article that was highly problematic. "the wall street journal," owned by rupert murdoch, who owns fox, and its article on president biden, regurgitated by dozens of stations relied on a single source, kevin mccarthy, who told the journal, quote, i used to meet with him when he was vice president. i would go to his house. he is not the same person. that's the same kevin mccarthy who politico reported mocked biden's age and mental acuity in public while telling allies that he found the president sharp and substantive in their conversations. the evidence of how much this narrative is skewed to help trump and hurt biden couldn't be more clear when you watch one of the two presidential candidates behaving like thchlt. >> i don't care about you. i just want your vote. i think it would be suicide before biden. right? my relationship to m.i.t., very smart. a lot of shark attacks lately. did you notice that? there was a shark -- you get electrocuted. i will take electrocution every single time. >> that doesn't include the part where the unhinged grandpa convicted of 36 felonydicted on calls those who attacks the capitol warriors. it is irresponsible tore abscess over president biden's tendencies to mangle a couple of words in a speech, while donald trump is sounding detached from reality. if you tune in to a sinclair station or fox, you are not going to hear reality about the presumptive republican nominee. what you are getting from a supposed by straight news outlet with your traffic and weather is propaganda to make you think one is mentally infirm. it's not the sharks or electrocution guy. >> matthew dowd, msnb senior political analyst, brian stelter. brian, you are our media guy. this is how broad -- i want to put up this map. this is how much coverage sinclair has. you can see that all over the country. the thing that's important to note is that 51 are fox affiliates. they are not necessarily exactly like fox. 51 are fox. abc is 39. cbs 30. nbc 25. they are pretending as a normal news station. >> yes. a thumb on this scale. the actual reach of sinclair means they put a hand on the scale. they are having a profound influence and a disprportionate influence. my wife is a local tv anchor. hers do outstanding work. unlike the other owners, sinclair does try to put a spin on the news. a lot of the journalists don't want anything to do with it. they don't like reading the talking points. that "wall street journal" story had flaws. sinclair didn't do original reporting. they didn't do any of the their work at all. they ate it up and regurgitated what "the wall street journal" said. that's the worst form of so-called journalism out there. it's not news. >> they have done this before. this isn't the first time. let me play where they got caught. this was reading the same script on all the stations. they got busted. [ many speaking at once [ . >> this was a must run editorial. it echoed donald trump's attacks on the media. >> what we see is this conservative echo chamber, how they find a story and you see it. there are dubious news sources. "new york post" often goes to "the wall street journal." it goes to fox. then it trickles down. sinclair, it's not surprising they do this. the fact that they are using local news to get this propaganda into the minds of people who are just trying to figure out the weather and the traffic seems particularly nefarious. >> absolutely. from a campaign perspective, it's a powerful ally to have. this isn't people who are self- -- they are choosing to go to fox. they are sitting back listening to news and sports. they are getting a propaganda narrative. they are being fed the idea that trump is brilliant. fox isn't even playing him live anymore. he has become more and more did i -- demented. >> yeah, i'm glad we're having this conversation. i have come to the conclusion that what sinclair is doing is more dangerous than fox. we all know it's the same lens. they will be right wing. we filter it through that or many people filter it through that. they accept it whether you are part of that cult or not. the problem with sinclair is, people don't have that filter when they watch the traffic, they watch the weather, they watch local sports and all of that. when you welcome at the level of trust for news organizations, local news is trusted more than other news. in 2004, what i would say is show me what's getting reported on the local news and show me what's in the local paper in phoenix or detroit or grand rapids or whatever. that to me is what's most important. that was before the sinclair. now we have this. that's far more pernicious than fox news. >> what made donald trump unre-electable was not so much what necessarily we were saying here. his voters wouldn't have watched it. it was all the stories of people dying that people were seeing on local news. i remember saying that on this show. donald trump, what he cannot overcome is that people dying in your community ends up on your local station. those deaths are in the top of the broadcast. it's a local tragedy. he can't get around that. thanks to sinclair, he can. >> that is true to some degree. it's not true as overall. even some fox affiliates are not the same as fox news. there's a lot of great work out there. i'm going to pay attention as this election goes on to how much sinclair puts the fist on the scale, how much local anchors are forced to read national scripts. as that anchor kept saying -- they said the same thing. they said, this could be an election decider, joe biden's age. that's true if the media obsessed over it and ignored trump's faults. that will be true if the media puts its fists on the scale. >> the media did one scorery, the emails for hillary, and there was no other story. the media does have the power to make people do -- shape people's opinions. >> they tried to impeach joe biden. they couldn't find anything. their main witness ended up in jail. this is all they have is that joe biden is three years older than donald trump. it's not like he is 20 years or 10 years. he is three yeas older. >> we are being honest. he gives -- we have this -- we do have this debate on our show -- all of the shows on this network, have the debate of whether to play him. part of me says, you should. i don't think people understand how much he has declined. joe biden is old. let's be clear. he looks old. he sounds old. he walks old. you see he is a senior citizen. he still sounds like he is in touch with reality. donald trump does not. the question becomes, do we show more of him being himself? that's the only way people can necessarily -- people say, show it to focus groups. americans have forgotten how he sounds. >> i'm for one for being as transparent as possible about who is running and showing who they are. show them. lay it out and say, this is the -- these are the people. this is joe biden. this is donald trump. here is him in his own words. the funny -- interesting thing about donald trump is that he is a unique combination of both mentally unstable and incredibly corrupt. he is both. he is a combination of both of those things. he is nefarious in how he operates in all those things. but he is also -- in my view, mentally unstable. people have a hard time putting those things together. some can be corrupt and do all sorts of nasty things while simultaneously being mentally unstable. but that's donald trump. >> what we need to -- why are so many voters accepting that? why are so many trump voters holding trump to a low standard? most biden standards hold biden to a higher standard? why do they accept what comes out of his mouth? that's the harder question to answer. i don't claim to have the answer. that's why focus groups help us get to the answer. >> molly, this is the challenge. democratic voters are harder on democratic presidents, democratic candidates, members of congress. they want things. the thing that's disconnected in our politics is that republicans don't want anything. they don't want bridges or jobs in their community. they just want theater. because they are having a low standard, they say, entertain me. we don't care if you don't deliver. that's the problem. >> republicans don't really want democracy. >> they want tax cuts. >> right. very rich republicans want tax cuts. a lot of these people authoritarianism. if you ask -- what i think is as it naturing about republicans right now is they are not really for anything besides tax cuts. you try to list the policies that they are for, i mean, it was infrastructure a lot of times, but there was never any infrastructure. that kind of thing is -- they want to give trump more power. but to do what? >> that's the other piece. this is a media challenge. i don't think we are communicating to the audience always exactly what donald trump is going to do. project 2025 isn't what he is going to do while he is out there playing in traffic and talking about electrocution and sharks. the superrich are getting all of this. a good friend of this program and of this network and journalism passed away. howard fineman. let me play a bite of him from back in 2016 when we were in philadelphia. you will see i have a different hairstyle, like i always do. with hillary clinton, they are trying to relaunch a brand people feel they know. they did have what the republican convention didn't. they had people who could be validaters of hillary clinton. who are not -- >> let me make a point. when hillary clinton ran for senate and became a senator the first time, she couldn't make enough visits to fort drum and to the military -- that's a military installation in new york. she was going to show -- this may relate to being a woman in politics, joy. she was going to be tough, commander in chief material. now she's the nominee. that's not her problem. >> that was midnight hardball. i was a sidekick for. i cared about howard and his wife. >> he was an original blessing that msnbc was able to share his talent for so many years. howard, he was not afraid to speak truth to power and tell people who was happening. so often, especially in this year with this election, people are pulling back. they are trying to be careful. they don't want to offend anybody. howard was willing to speak truth to power. >> my favorite fun fact is he was literally from mr. rodgers neighborhood. >> that's right. >> god bless amy. we are sorry for your loss. we are mourning with you, my dear. he was 75 years owed, howard fineman. thank you. up next, as we await multiple court decisions, senate republicans show their true colors by blocking democrats from passing a supreme court ethics bill. stay with us. and doug. 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impartiality of the court. a litany of ethical scandals involves unreported luxury gifts and trips provided to justices by wealthy republican donors who have or had cases before the court. the majority of those scandals were uncovered by the independent reporting of propublica. yesterday, a new surreptitious recording of justice alito was released. this time, alito was attacking the work of propublica. a colleague of progressive journalist lauren windsor, who also attended the supreme court historical society annual dinner on june 3rd, asked the justice about the recent coverage of their ethical lapses. >> i just wanted to ask you why do you think the supreme court is so -- is being so attacked and being so targeted by the media these days? >> i think it's a simple reason. they don't like our decisions and they don't like how they anticipate we may decide some cases. that's the beginning of the end of it. and there are -- there are groups that are very well funded by ideological groups that have spearheaded these attacks. and that's what it is. >> like who? >> pro publica gets a lot of money. they have spent a fortune investigating -- everything he's ever done in his entire life. and they've done some of that to me too. but they look for any little thing they can find, and try to make something out of it. that's -- that's what it is. >> okay. let me pause for a second and just say that justice alito is a supposed constitutional scholar should understand that the first amendment protects the free exercise of speech in the prez. additionally, i will note, that those little things he's complaining about, amounted to roughly $2.5 million in expenses over the past 20 years that he and thomas sometimes, begrudgingly only reported after propublica exposed them. joining me now is melissa murray. your thoughts on alito's outrage about propublica. >> justy alito is famously defensive and goes to outlets like "the wall street journal" to talk about how he's being persecuted and criticized. this is life as a public figure. you're going to be criticized. he should know that. propublica to my knowledge is not overly well funded. a bunch of journalists. they went looking for any kind of discrepancy among any of the justices. they weren't targeting justice thomas, justice alito. they were generally looking. they received a bunch of redacted documents from the marshall service with different trips that the justices took and then they started piecing it together and turned out lo and behold that most of these trips on private jets were for only a handful of the justices. and that's what they reported. and it's hard to say that that's not fair game. and if you don't report this stuff, if you don't disclose it, you're kind of asking for it. >> and the thing is that i feel like everything about this court is unprecedented. we never had a leak of the supreme court ruling. it appears that maybe, you know, there's some theory that he might have leaked it or someone around him to make sure no one got off side. we've never had a story about people saying that they were able to be -- get an advance warning of a ruling as some activists said they knew they were going to get the ruling on hobby hobby. that seems to evolved around him as well. then there's this and what happened with clarence thomas. he is the middle of a lot of these scandals or tangentially related to them. so i don't know why he's surprised that he's getting more scrutiny. >> well, that's the puzzling thing. this is a court that has gone from being a bear 5-4 majority to 6-3 super majority and suddenly the decisions look really different, much more extreme, much more predictable. and people have questions. people have concerns. they see these justices paling around with billionaire donors, emotional support donors. they have questions. rightly so. that's the point of a free press to serve as a check on the excesses of government when the internal mechanisms of government fail to check themselves. >> the other pieces that were supposed to have a set of government where each body sort of guards itself own power against the others. and they aren't like -- they don't work in symbiosis. right? i want you to listen to the way republican lawmakers sound and compare in your mind to the way alito sounded in speaking with this activist. take a listen. >> let's be clear, this is not about improving the court. this is about undermining the court. >> i do not believe that most of my colleagues think this bill is about ethics. this bill is about abortion. >> what we have is that people on the left have a couple of cases currently pending before the supreme court of the united states. cases that they're worried about the outcome. >> justice alito, they don't like our decisions and they don't like how they anticipate how we may decide some cases that are coming up. here is what's different, justice kennedy, sotomayor, you go through it and name any justice, even scalia, they didn't give interviews. you never knew how they sounded but didn't sound exactly like republican politicians. alito talks to friendly news outlets like the wall street and sounds just like these people. >> he sounds like a fox news grandpa half of the time. >> yes, he does. >> there's that. i want to be clear, i'm not surprised by the republicans falling in line on this and acting like this is somehow connected to the substance of the court's ruling. that's their court. that court is a able to do all of the things that that republican minority in the senate cannot do with majoritarian politics. the court is with them. through the court, all things are possible. so they're going to protect that court at all costs. >> of course. >> what encourages me about this move from the democrats is that it's the first really clear sign from the democrats that they are trying to connect the fact of this court to the electoral process and to show. they know this law has no chance of being passed. but they're making clear to their constituents, we get that you are outraged about this court. >> yeah. >> but we can't do anything about this court with a narrow majority in the senate. we can't impeach justices for they misconduct and can't get this bill passed. you want something done about this court, whether it's this kind of sort of mid-level korts reform or something more expansive, then you need to get out, you need to vote and show up. not just about the ordinary issues but about this court and the existential threat it poses. >> the court to me is the main thing on the ballot. that's where everything else, abortion rights, everything else hinges on the court and the senate. the magic number is 60. you get to 60 votes you get to obama care. you got medicaid, medicare, all of it. >> that's how you impeach a justice gone off the rails. >> you have to get to 60. vote on the court. melissa murray, always a pleasure. up next, a former u.s. diplomat who resigned over president biden's 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over more changes to the gaza cease-fire proposal he says go beyond positions that it had previously taken and accepted. discrepancies between hamas' position and the biden administration's proposal are unclear. but a source familiar with the situation tells nbc news that hamas' reply included setting a firm timeline for the cease-fire and withdrawal of israeli troops. there are also doubts over israel's commitment to the deal, which were only fueled by the israeli-raid on a refugee camp, which led to the rescue of four hostages. but killed more than 270 palestinians, according to the gaza health ministry. blinken rejected the suggestion insisting israel accepted the proposal as it was and as it is. we have repeatedly asked for someone from the biden administration and state department to come on this show and provide clarity to our viewers, but they continue to decline. one thing is clear, though, until the parties make an agreement, the violence on the ground will continue and more people will certainly die. united nations commission investigating the october 7 attacks on israel and the subsequent conflict in gaza has accused both pal still yan armed groups and israel of committing war crimes. the panel also said that israel's conduct of the war has included crimes against humanity. joining me now is a former u.s. diplomat who resigned from the state department last month in protest over the biden administration's policy on gaza. thank you for being here. tell me specifically what caused you to resign. >> thank you for having me, joy. honestly, it was many, many things and it was an agonizing decision. i was a u.s. foreign service officer for 18 years. but when i became a diplomat, i swore an oath to defend the constitution and this policy made it impossible to do so. as a political officer, i served mostly as a political officer most of my career. i was familiar with the arms transfers policies and with laws and i knew very clearly, undoubtedly that we were violating u.s. laws. not just vetting but the arms export control act, the foreign assistance act by continuing to surge military assistance to israel unconditionally. i could not stand by and see that happen without making a stance. >> and what was the reaction of the people you worked for? was there a reaction? >> there was absolutely a reaction. so, i was actually -- my last assignment was arabic language spokesperson. and i was based in dubai. and my role was regional. and i was meant to be the spokesperson for the state department for the entire arab world. and so, part of that role was monitoring arab media. in addition to the actual legality of the policy and the fact that it was illegal, i was also monitoring intensely increased anti-americanism throughout the region and reported this on a daily basis back to the department. and my insistence was also that this was policy was hurting america. it was undermining u.s. interests. and that we needed to reverse course. we needed to regain our credibility. and to do so, we needed to apply u.s. law. that would also give us diplomatic clout with both sides of this conflict. the reaction obviously was not so great. it ended up in my resignation, unfortunately. that's part of the reason i chose to came out after 18 years as a diplomat to speak out about this because there was no shift, there was no change from the inside no matter what i said or any other diplomat was saying within the state department. >> i wonder if you sort of have an idea of sort of the why of it. because there's a new piece of data that is shocking to me, when we talked about on our call earlier today. it shocked me. you and agencies, say that more than 1 million people in gaza could experience the highest level of starvation by mid july. the current population of gaza is 2.3 million people. this estimate says that half of them could starve to death next month, by next month or begin starving to death by next month. that shocks me. and i wonder if you have any insight into what the thinking is of the people that were above you in that agency as to why they would be willing to permit this. >> first off, joy, thank you for amplifying that report and shedding light upon this for the american people to hear. it is absolutely shocking. i can tell you that across the state department, there are multiple cables, multiple reports, showing washington how catastrophic this policy was. on so many levels. for the palestinians and the safety of security of israelis it was not helping them and undermining our own u.s. credibility. from my perspective, this policy is run by four men. that's it. and us as the state department, were not being listened to. not our senior officials, not our more -- not our embassies, and that's concerning that our foreign policy is also driven by our domestic politics, not our expertise as diplomats. it's an exceptionally unprecedented time. and i'm hoping that the american people themselves begin to pressure their own representatives and their politicians to change course because it's an untenable policy. >> which four men do you believe are running this policy, who is driving it? >> well, obviously president biden. obviously the president biden. secretary blinken. you're going to get me in trouble, joy. but from my perspective, it was also obviously jake sullivan and brett mcgurk. and for me as a diplomat, that was out in the field dealing with our kipmatic core and our senior officials, it was clear that we were not the ones being listened to. and our concerns and for the sake of u.s. national security were being ignored. and the violation of u.s. law, which is absolutely unacceptable. and the policy remain as it is. and that is also why we haven't been able to achieve a cease-fire because we have not been able to use our leverage and we have remained unconditional in our support. >> thank you very much. it is brave for you to speak out after leaving foreign service i appreciate you coming here and speaking with us today. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, joy. >> cheers. coming up, the stakes in november could not be higher with our reproductive freedom dependent on who controls the united states senate. i'll talk to one of the famed tennessee three, gloria johnson, who is running for senate against republican marciablack burn. we'll be right back. ck burn we'll be right back. 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is it her just her quotes like that one about griswold? >> yeah. she is really helping us out here. marsha blackburn is the most radically anti-choice, anti-reproductive right member of the senate right now. and she's going to be on the republican platform committee. and we know that abortion, even access in the case of rape and case of medical emergencies, ivf, birth control, these are all on the chopping block. there's no question about it. and that should frighten and mobilize every woman in tennessee and across the country. >> you know -- >> she -- >> i was just going to say that she mentioned three cases. griswold v connecticut giving the woman the right to have access to birth control. kilo versus the city of new london, a case about the takings clause people can do eminent demain. the third one she mentioned with the national federation of independent civilians that authorizes obama care. they're coming for obama care, ivf, the national baptist convention said they're against, all of it. in tennessee, guns for teachers. so yourthey are against. all of it. your thoughts. >> no, absolutely. this is why she is so dangerous for tennessee women and girls. i mean, coming after healthcare, we are already at the top when it comes to maternal mortality. infant mortality. these things. it is because we have not expanded medicaid and women don't get the care that they need up to the point that they decide to start a family. it is important that a woman gets care her whole life so that she knows she is healthy when she decides it is time to start a family. they are already setting us behind the curve by being against healthcare for women. i mean everything that prevents unwanted pregnancy, they are against. and everything that they do is putting tennessee women and young girls at risk. forcing a 10-year-old to carry a pregnancy is absolutely barbaric. and she goes along with all of this. >> i guess the question is, we have seen a lot of fired up young tennesseans across the racial divide. the come down when the three of you and the justin's lead these protests. it feels like a different energy in tennessee, but is a large enough and cohesive enough to flip an election to a democrat? i will ask a question. i have to swifties on my team, rachel and tori. tori produced to the segment and had a really good question. which is, taylor swift, who obviously can get people to watch football. she has said a lot of unpleasant things about marsha blackburn. she is not a fan of her at all. she called her trumpet in a wig. have you talked to her team and have you got an endorsement from her and is there a world in which he endorses you and helps you win? >> we are definitely reaching out. we hope to have that and i think it would probably be after the primary. the reality is, you are right. something is afoot in tennessee. there is something happening on the ground. i don't know if you are aware or not, but we recently got a vanderbilt pole. they are particularly accurate. currently, today, i am beating marsha blackburn with women 49% to 43%. that is very telling. i am beating her by six points with women. 52% of tennesseans are women and we know that also in this poll she has dropped two points since the last poll and i have raised up my score for points. so we have the momentum right now. something is happening in tennessee and we are going to pull off a surprise here, folks. >> we will be watching. tennessee state representative gloria johnson, best of luck and thank you so much. >> inc. you so much for having me. >> of course, we will be right back. if you have generalized myasthenia gravis, picture what life could look like with vyvgart hytrulo, a subcutaneous injection that takes about 30 to 90 seconds. for one thing, could it mean more time for you? 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