New reporting suggests that Trump fixer Rudy Giuliani may be cash strapped as he faces a criminal investigation and two defamation lawsuits. Michael Cohen says, "Let me be very clear, he's (Rudy Giuliani) going to get stiffed. Donald Trump does not pay legal bills … He thought Donald Trump was going to pay him $140k a day, he has a better chance at sling-shooting himself to the moon. It's impossible."

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Michael Cohen on Giuliani’s legal, financial woes: ‘He’s going to get stiffed’

A ‘sham’ audit is underway in Arizona, where Republicans have handed millions of ballots over to “Cyber Ninjas,” a sketchy sounding firm led by a Trump supporting conspiracy theorist. 

‘A sham’: Arizona State Rep says GOP audit ‘destroying democracy’

More than 100 days into his administration, President Biden has unveiled an aggressive agenda that polls show is popular with the middle and the left. Biden has unveiled an infrastructure plan and an American Families Plan which would offer free universal pre-school, child care support and paid leave. Senator Elizabeth Warren makes the case for child care, citing her personal experience and saying "You want people to go to work? Then, invest in childcare."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: ‘You want people to go to work? Then, invest in childcare’

Here’s what Joy thinks of GOP efforts to push out Congresswoman Liz Cheney from leadership: “What we have learned in the nearly 6 months since Donald Trump stopped being president is that to be a Republican today means parroting ‘the big lie,’ even if you know it isn’t true.”

Joy Reid: Being a Republican today means parroting the ‘Big Lie’

Joy takes a look at every which way Tucker Carlson is ‘making America worse’: “People like you, and your friends at the BS factory are keeping us steeped in covid sickness, and rage, and paranoia.”

‘Making America worse’: Joy Reid's mini-biography on Tucker Carlson's many failures

Asked about the congressional filibuster and how Republicans have threatened to use it to block voting rights, Hillary Clinton says ‘it should go.’ 

‘It should go’: Hillary Clinton says the filibuster’s ‘usefulness has passed us by’

On the North Carolina District Attorney claim that Andrew Brown Jr's car 'made contact' with deputies, Brown family attorney says, "If that's your position, show the tape."

Brown family attorney responds to claim that Andrew Brown's car 'made contact' with police: Show the tape

Asked by Joy Reid how he plans to convince Senators like Joe Manchin to support voting rights, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says, "The biggest leverage we have is the merits. This is not what a democracy does. And I think they admit that."

‘Failure is not an option, voting is too sacred’: How Chuck Schumer plans to pass voting rights

Nearly a week after Andrew Brown Jr. was shot and killed by police in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, with law enforcement officials providing virtually now details and no body cam footage yet, federal investigators are now joining the investigation. 

Joy Reid on police killing of Andrew Brown Jr.: ‘Show us the tape’

Andrew Brown Jr. was shot and killed by multiple police officers. On information about his history getting released Joy says “This is not about this dead Black man's history, this is about him getting killed ... That is the story." 

Joy on Andrew Brown Jr.: This is not about his history, this is about him getting killed

Joy talks about her experience speaking with grieving mothers who have lost their children to police killings: “I've spent a lot of my time as a journalist talking to grieving mothers, who become known in a sort of journalistic shorthand as 'the mother of.’ The mother of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice … People ask me sometimes if we Black journalists take these stories personally. And the answer is, yeah. We do. Because each of us knows that at any time our husbands, our sons, our daughters could be the next ‘Black Lives Matter’ hashtag.”

Joy: I spend lots of time speaking to mothers grieving kids lost to police. It’s personal.

On GOP efforts to disenfranchise voters, Stacey Abrams is calling for a new voting rights act at the federal level and says Republicans are ‘hysterical’ about suppressing voters because of ‘existential panic.’

Stacey Abrams: Why Republicans are 'hysterical' about suppressing the vote

Philonise Floyd talks about his reaction when the verdict was announced: "When the judge started reading and I heard 'guilty,' and then I heard 'guilty,' and then I heard 'guilty' one more time, I wanted to jump up and down ... I was ecstatic about everything."

Philonise Floyd on the Chauvin verdict: ‘I wanted to jump up and down’

Here’s what Joy Reid has to say about the Chauvin guilty verdict: "You're seeing a very rare sight, the family of George Floyd ... on a day in which that does not normally happen happen: The conviction of Derek Chauvin, former police officer in Minneapolis for killing George Floyd. An exceptionally rare event."

Joy Reid calls the Chauvin guilty verdict ‘an exceptionally rare event’

Despite leading the world in the number of vaccinations, new covid cases in the United States are up 8% over the past two weeks. Dr. Anthony Fauci stresses getting the vaccine: "If we get a substantial proportion of people who don't get vaccinated, then we will not get to the point that people want to get to."

Dr. Fauci: If a substantial proportion of people don’t get vaccinated, we won’t get to a normal

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