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.”

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

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.

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

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

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."

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

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. 

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

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.’

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

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.”

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

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."

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

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." 

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

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’

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 distrust in our electoral system.”Secretary Clinton also President Trump commuted Roger Stone “to basically shut up Roger Stone so that Roger Stone would not spill anymore beans about what actually happened and what Donald Trump actually knew."

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

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 American politics as it unfolds. 

Introducing The ReidOut

Chris Matthews is announcing his retirement from Hardball. 

Chris Matthews announces retirement

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.”

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

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