Joy Reid

We don't have an anti lynching law in this country so in terms of federal law, we don't have an anti lynching law.

I guess they don’t care that 150 scholars from Duke to Stanford issued a recent letter warning that, if state Democrats -- Senate Democrats don’t get their priorities straight, American democracy will be at critical risk.

I guess they figured that our crumbling democracy can wait just a little bit longer.

Gun laws helped to enhance the design to allow this verdict to happen today. This country was built on the idea of white men had a particular kind of freedom and a particular kind of citizenship that only they have.

Governor Stitt, if you are watching this or you get a clip of this, you can easily show mercy to this young man. Let him fight for his freedom. My God, we are -- we have to be better than this at some point in our history.

Voting for infrastructure is bad and unacceptable, because that goes against the party line.

It’s all damning evidence of just how backwards and weird and extreme this Republican Party has become.

They`re mainstreaming white nationalism, violence instead of politics.

Democrats have a remedy. And, in fact, they have two, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

We saw the normalization of an armed, violent, insurrection and attempted coup against the United States by the party that was the instigator, the planners and the plotters, if you will, and the voters of Virginia and the voters of New…

No one ever followed a leader who led from fear. Fear is not a leadership quality.

One could argue that he`s simply trying to represent his constituents, who overwhelmingly voted for Trump, but he also appears to be acting in his own self-interests.