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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Fmr. AG Holder: American democracy could end with the election of Donald Trump

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with Donald Trump bragging again about acing a dementia test, meanwhile claiming that presidents should have full immunity for any crimes they might want to commit. Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder joins Joy on that, and on a big victory in Louisiana where a new legislative map, with two majority-Black districts, is advancing in the state legislature. Next, with a border deal on the table, which Senate Republicans say is a great deal, Trump's MAGA caucus in the House is saying no, because they want to continue to stoke fear ahead of the fall election. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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Tonight on the readout.

0:04.0

And I think cognitively I'm better than I was 20 years ago. I don't know why.

0:10.0

I said doctor, you know, Doc Ronnie, right? I did say, what about a cognitive test? He said, well, you know, it's not that easy.

0:18.2

I took it and I aced it. I think it was 35, 30 questions.

0:25.0

And let me tell you, you know, they always show you the first one, like a giraffe, a tiger, or this, a whale.

0:32.0

Which one is a whale? A whale. Donald Trump is again bragging about acing the dementia test while claiming that

0:39.2

presidents should have full immunity for any crimes they might want to commit.

0:44.4

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder joins me on that.

0:48.3

And on a big victory in Louisiana,

0:51.4

were a new legislative map with two majority black

0:54.7

districts is advancing in the state legislature. Plus with a border deal on the

1:00.6

table which Senate Republicans say is a great deal.

1:04.0

Trump's MAGA caucus in the House is saying no, because they want to continue to

1:08.7

stoke fear ahead of the fall election.

1:16.3

But we begin tonight with Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination,

1:19.9

telling Americans very clearly that he should be able to murder and jail anyone he wants to

1:26.7

and no one should be able to stop him, not a single person, place or thing.

1:31.6

To that vein, in the dead of night, Trump fired off one of his

1:35.2

unhinged social media rants demanding total presidential immunity from

1:39.8

prosecution over anything, including, and I'm quoting here, events that cross the line.

1:46.3

Because in his words, it will be years of trauma trying to determine good from bad. To be clear, Trump seems to think that it is hard to

1:55.6

determine whether having SEAL Team 6 assassinate your political opponent or

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