The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Omarosa: We all know that Donald Trump 'is a racist'

On new revelations about the president from Michael Cohen’s upcoming book, Omarosa Manigault Newman says this is ‘par for the course’ for Trump: “We all know that he is a racist."

Joy: Trump runs on law and order, but he breaks the law because ‘he does not care for it’

Donald Trump is running on ‘law and order,’ but Joy says he acts as if the law doesn’t apply to him or his family: “Donald Trump proves once again that he is not the law and order president, he is instead the president of lawlessness.” A Black man, restrained with handcuffs and his head covered with a “spit hood,” was forced into the asphalt by Rochester police before going limp and dying days later, his family said Wednesday. Relatives of Daniel Prude, 41, released police video an...

‘Definitely not’: Dr. Vin Gupta doesn’t think there will be a vaccine ready by October

On reports that the CDC is notifying states to be prepared for a vaccine by end of October, early November, Dr. Vin Gupta says “Definitely not are we going to have a vaccine by the end of October, early November. And making the American public think that's a reasonable expectation is just going to loosen, lower our guard."

Jacob Blake’s sister on police brutality: It’s going to take our country as a whole to put a stop to this

Donald Trump took his message of division and alternate reality to Kenosha, Wisconsin today. On the issue of police brutality, Letetra Widman, Jacob Blake's sister, says “This is something that has been a problem in our country for a long time, and Trump nor Biden is the solution … It's going to take our country as a whole to put a stop to this."

‘Trump is openly encouraging more violence’

Joy Reid has a warning when it comes to hearing what President Trump has to say on recent violence: Beware of politicians preying on tribal loyalties, especially the current president. Joy says, “If Trump wanted to end the violence in American cities, he could simply go on his Twitter feed and tell his supporters to go home … But Trump is openly doing the opposite: encouraging more violence and cowing his party into refusing to condemn the violence, while his media friends laude the...

Jacob Blake Sr: I want the officers fired, there was attempted murder on my son

Asked by Joy Reid what he wants to see after the police shooting his son, Jacob Blake Sr. says, “I want the officers fired. Because he committed attempted murder on my son." And in recordings shared by Mary Trump exclusively with The ReidOut, Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump’s sister, is heard criticizing many members of the Trump family. Maryanne Trump Barry and Mary Trump discussed Ivanka Trump’s actions during the period that the Trump Administration initiated their child sepa...

‘So many of us are not safe in Donald Trump’s America’

On Vice President Mike Pence saying Americans won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America, Joy Reid responds “So many of us are not safe in Donald Trump's America ... But that is the reality of Donald Trump's America, as unrest over yet another shooting of a Black man spreads across this country. Trump has led for the last 3 and a half years."

‘If you want the protests to end, then stop killing us’

Brittany Packnett Cunningham says the way to end protests is to deal with the reason why protesters are protesting: "The way to end protests is not to demean protesters. The way to end protests is to actually deal with the roots of the injustice that protesters are out there protesting. If you want the protests to end then stop killing us."

‘Most definitely’: Jacob Blake’s mother wants officers involved in her son’s shooting arrested

Julia Jackson, mother of Jacob Blake, and Attorney Benjamin Crump join Joy Reid on The ReidOut. Asked by Joy whether she wants to see the officers involved in her son’s shooting arrested, Jackson says, “Most definitely ... When you make bad decisions, there's consequences no matter who you are."

Rep. Carolyn Maloney: Postmaster General ‘did not take responsibility for anything’

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s testified on Capitol Hill, promising to deliver all election mail while taking zero responsibility for the measures implemented on his watch that have slowed down the mail. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney agreed saying, “He clearly did not take responsibility for anything ... These delays are real and they are hurting people, our seniors, our veterans."

Al Franken: Trump 'spectacularly failed’ at dealing with pandemic

Former Senator Al Franken says Trump’s handling of the coronavirus is the biggest issue in the 2020 campaign: "This is the biggest issue of the campaign: How this guy 'spectacularly failed at dealing with this pandemic. And that has to do with not just the 172,000 plus deaths, but it has to do with the destruction, collapse of our economy."  On the White House shrugging off the poisoning of a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Joy says, “We have a problem, America. Donald ...

Joy Reid: Trump has attacked the institutions that he swore to protect

In the past few years, we’ve seen President Trump cozy up to autocrats, dictators, and despots. And like them, Trump has shown he would do almost anything to remain in power even if it means attacking the institutions he swore to protect. And on Wednesday, he endorsed the fringe ideologies of a group that the FBI has designated a domestic terrorism threat. 

Gov. Whitmer on USPS sorting machines being removed: ‘We’re getting reports that it’s still happening’

New reporting shows that USPS sorting machines are still being removed in Michigan. Governor Gretchen Whitmer says, "I believe my eyes ... We're getting reports from across the state of Michigan that this is, in fact, still happening."

Kristin Urquiza on her father’s death from coronavirus: ‘I didn’t only feel grief, I felt intense anger’

Joy talks to Kristin Urquiza, who recently spoke during the first night of the DNC’s broadcast to talk about her late father who passed away from the coronavirus. Urquiza says, "I didn't only feel grief. I felt intense anger, that my father was not given a chance to be able to make sound decisions how to mitigate risk. Because the airwaves have been littered with either downplaying of the virus or misinformation."

'Their purpose is to frighten people from voting': Pelosi blasts Trump's attacks on mail-in voting

Asked by Joy what to make of Trump and his allies’ attacks on mail-in voting, House Speaker Pelosi said, "Their purpose is to frighten people from voting."

Joy: GOP does nothing about problems wrought by Trump's attacks on USPS, 'it doesn't seem like they care'

With Trump’s attacks on the Postal Service, Joy says "Republicans do not care the destruction that it has caused to ordinary people, to senior citizens, to their own constituents, as long as Trump clings to power." NBC News confirmed that the Postal Service Inspector General is investigating recent policy changes by Trump’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

Joy: Trump’s efforts to weaken Postal Service ‘a twisted and broad effort’ to ‘suppress the vote’

President Donald Trump admitted to blocking Postal Service funding in order to compromise voting by mail. Joy says efforts like these are ‘a twisted and broad effort by Trump and his team to suppress the vote by any means necessary." Republicans immediately lodged criticisms of Kamala Harris shortly after Joe Biden picked her as his running mate, with some going ‘full birther.’ Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch says, "Once again, a highly qualified, outstanding, Black candidate...

Joy: Biden-Harris brings together ‘a fusion between the traditional and emerging America’

Joy says, "The Biden-Harris ticket brings together two powerful candidates who represent a fusion between the traditional and the emerging America."

Joy: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris ticket belongs to 'the emerging America,' what Trumpism cannot stop

On Joe Biden picking Kamala Harris as his vice presidential pick, Joy says, "This ticket belongs to the emerging America. The America what Trumpism and anger and meanness cannot stop."

Nancy Pelosi on Trump’s executive actions: ‘What we’re seeing is illusion’

On Trump’s efforts to circumvent Congress and the coronavirus relief negotiations, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says, “What we’re seeing is illusion.” Pelosi explains that the president’s executive actions will not help Americans. 

‘A fan club’: Trump calls for press conference with his country club members acting as audience

The Associated Press’s Jon Lemire reports on The ReidOut that Trump is calling for a press conference with his country club members acting as an audience. Joy says, “The President apparently has assembled a fan club of members of his golf club ... without masks on, to be the audience so he could have applause during a press conference."

Brittany Gilliam, handcuffed with kids by Aurora police, says their apology is ‘not good enough’

A police dept in Aurora, Colorado says it's sorry after putting innocent Black girls in handcuffs. Officers mistakenly believed they were riding a stolen car. This is the same dept responsible for the death of Elijah McClain. Brittany Gilliam, the woman handcuffed, says the apology from the Aurora Police Department is ‘not good enough.’

BONUS: Joy Reid on Into America

In this bonus episode for The Reid Out listeners, Joy Reid joins Trymaine Lee on Into America. Growing up, Joy Reid loved to watch the news with her mother – and even remembers staying up late to watch coverage of the Iran Hostage Crisis as a middle schooler. Along the course of her career, Joy’s worked in local news, as a press secretary for the 2008 Obama campaign, and written books on American politics. And she recently became the host of a new primetime show on MSNBC: The ReidOut, whic...

Cori Bush: ‘I’m ready to bring that relief, be that champion’

Cori Bush recently beat Rep. Lacy Clay in the Missouri 1st Congressional District Democratic primary, ousting an incumbent after 20 years in Congress. Tonight, she joins The ReidOut

‘Not a lot that’s good’: Joy calls out Trump for saying he’s done more for African Americans

In an interview with Axios, President Trump claimed that he’s done more for the African American community than President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act. Joy Reid responded, “Sorry, what? Um ok, person who clearly didn’t listen in history class at that military academy your parents shipped you off to.”

Fmr. DOJ Director of Civil Rights: Trump ‘sowing seeds of confusion’ by discrediting mail-in voting

President Trump continues to attempt to meddle in the 2020 election process by hurling false claims at voting by mail and causing delays in US Postal Service deliveries. Fmr. DOJ Director of Civil Rights Vanita Gupta says the president is ‘sowing seeds of confusion’ in an effort to muddy the waters in the upcoming election.

Laurence Tribe says if a 2020 result isn't decided by January 20, Pelosi will be president

John Lewis pens posthumous op-ed: ‘Now it is your turn to let freedom ring’

In an op-ed to the New York Times, the late John Lewis wrote, “Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble … Now it is your turn to let freedom ring."

Mary Trump on whether Trump is a sociopath: ‘He certainly acts like one’

Mary Trump, the author of ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man,’ tells Joy Reid that President Donald Trump ‘certainly acts like’ a sociopath. And she mentions there are two factors in whether President Donald Trump will accept the 2020 election results. 

Kamala Harris: AG Barr has ‘been an aider, abettor to the most corrupt president we’ve ever had’

AG Bill Barr spent his testimony on defense, raising questions whether he would accept the results of the 2020 election and mischaracterizing the protesters in Portland. Sen. Kamala Harris says the Attorney General has ‘been an aider, abettor to the most corrupt president we’ve ever had.’

Stacey Abrams: Republicans do not intend to fight fair, will use voter suppression

Stacey Abrams on the importance of the upcoming election: “We need everyone to understand that voter suppression is real, it is thriving, and it is the political theory of the case that Republicans intend to use in this election. They do not intend to fight fair.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar: We have to condemn Congressman Yoho’s remarks ‘aggressively’

Rep. Ilhan Omar says Congressman Yoho’s remarks calling Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez a ‘‘a f---ing b----’ need to be condemned aggressively: "We know that as the daughters of dignified, decent men you don't have to have a mother or a sister or a wife in order for you to respect women as an equal human being ... We have to condemn it aggressively b/c it's a member of Congress."

‘Irresponsible’: Nancy Pelosi says the GOP is in ‘total disarray’ with their pandemic response

Democratic leaders on Thursday panned the emerging Republican package for coronavirus relief, calling it a proposal that won't pass Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, "I don't think they know what they want, they're in total disarray ... We have gone beyond the pale, they're irresponsible." 

Joy: Trump basing his campaign on ‘false portrait of cities under siege’

Joy Reid: Trump has always been a ‘really racist man, whose insecurities caused him to crave power’

‘Violation of our sovereignty': Biden says Russian interference in US elections will not go unnoticed

On Russian interference in the U.S. Presidential election, Former Vice President Joe Biden says, “(Russian President) Putin knows what I mean what I say, this is a violation of our sovereignty … It will not go unstated, unnoticed, or unreported.” And asked about election security in 2020, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Trump campaign’s strategy is “to try make it as difficult as possible for people to vote, to have those votes counted, to sow even further distru...

Introducing The ReidOut

Joy Reid conducts one-on-one conversations with politicians and newsmakers while addressing provocative political issues both inside and outside of the beltway. Reid, who is also a best-selling author and public speaker, joined MSNBC in 2011 as a contributor. Drawing from her decades-long experience in politics, passion for addressing the intersection of race, justice and culture, as well as her signature tenacious interviewing style, Reid kicks off MSNBC’s primetime lineup by delving into A...

Chris Matthews announces retirement

Chris Matthews is announcing his retirement from Hardball. 

Chris Matthews: Trump sees coronavirus as an opportunity to divide the country

President Trump blamed the stock market drops of Monday and Tuesday on Tuesday night's Democratic debate, not market concerns about the coronavirus. Chris says “There are times and events, like the threat of the coronavirus, when we need to trust what government health officials are saying. That includes the person at the top. This isn't about the crowd size at his inauguration.”

World Health Org Official: Trump’s press conference on coronavirus ‘incoherent’

On President Trump's press conference regarding the coronavirus, World Health Organization Special Adviser to the Director Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel says "I found most of what he said incoherent."

Maya Wiley on Sotomayor raising concerns about Trump: She’s got the receipts

President Donald Trump said two Supreme Court justices appointed by Democratic presidents should recuse themselves from cases involving him, apparently because of a recent dissenting opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Maya Wiley says, "She's got receipts on this because on the Obama/Bush Administrations combined, this happened about 8 times. And then the Trump Administration in 3 years ... it's already been over a dozen."

Bill de Blasio: Bernie Sanders ‘speaks to the profound change people want’

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has big momentum after a commanding win in Saturday's Nevada caucus.

Pete Buttigieg says he’s the only candidate to have beaten Bernie Sanders so far

On Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg says "I am the only candidate who has beaten him at anything so far in the voting that has gone on this year."

Steve Schmidt says Trump not wanting Congress briefed on Russia interference 'an abuse of power’

The New York Times reports that Trump didn’t want Congress briefed on Russia supporting his re-election. Steve Schmidt says, "What this is is an attack on the USA by a hostile foreign power, an attack on our elections ... is tantamount to an act of war and to see the president complicit with it, is as grave as abuse of power coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave."

BONUS: Ep. 5 - So You Wanna Be President? With Chris Matthews

In Episode 5, “Ride the Galloping Horse of History”, Chris talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham and former Maryland Congresswoman Donna Edwards about winning campaigns that made tough calls that put candidates on the right side of history. Subscribe to So You Wanna Be President? With Chris Matthews now: https://link.chtbl.com/F4fbRgRR

House passes measure seeking to limit Trump's military actions against Iran

The House adopted a war powers resolution Thursday with the aim of limiting President Donald Trump’s military actions against Iran.

Chris Matthews: Trump is responsible for tense relations with Iran

On the recent escalation with Iran, Chris has one message: “Mr. President, Mr. Vice President and Mr. Pompeo. The people who got Iran to the boiling level are you three.”

Rocket attack on Iraqi base housing US troops

Iraq's al-Asad airbase, which houses US troops, has been hit with a rocket attack. Iran claimed credit for launching strikes on Iraqi base that houses US troops. Richard Engel says, “They want the world to know Iran did this.”

Chris Matthews warns the assassination of Soleimani can drive the US into war

On the decision to assassinate General Soleimani, Chris says, “Assassination is not a means to avoid war. It is a trigger to war, a step toward regime change on which the neo-cons like John Bolton have set their hearts. For them, the lesson of Vietnam is how to do it all over again. That's what they're after in Iran.”

Richard Engel on US airstrike that killed Soleimani: This is not over

Qasem Soleimani’s death is the latest in a series of escalating incidents that followed President Trump's decision to unilaterally withdraw America from the Iran nuclear deal.