Republicans in Tennessee move full speed ahead to promote a right-wing agenda

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Joy Reid takes us to Mississippi for tonight's State of Disunion, as the state's leaders apparently and unapologetically embrace a right-wing agenda. Plus, Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill on Thursday that would restrict drag performances, as Republicans in Tennessee move full speed ahead in an apparent quest to promote a right-wing agenda. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	And now to another legal case that we are watching,
0:02.0	we are waiting the response from Fox News
0:04.6	to the bombshell lawsuit by Dominion voting systems
0:07.6	that has shown the real fraud in the 2020 election
0:10.8	was actually the false claims being stoked
0:13.2	on their network by their hosts and their guests.
0:16.8	As Fox on air personalities and senior executives
0:20.1	privately admitted, it was all a lie.
0:22.9	What the latest filing also showed,
0:24.5	which is perhaps not surprising at all,
0:26.3	is the extent to which Fox News was acting
0:28.8	as the campaign arm of the Republican Party.
0:31.8	Meanwhile, we're seeing a split in the Republican Party
0:34.4	put on full display with two competing events.
0:37.6	You have the annual conservative political action conference
0:40.5	CPAC that has become the island of misfit toys
0:44.2	for lack of a better term,
0:45.5	made up of the mag up fanatics,
0:47.3	which Donald Trump and Carrie Lake will be headlining.
0:50.2	And then you have the Jeb Bush Allied Republicans down
0:52.8	in Florida at the Club for Grotes Annual Retreat,
0:55.8	which will include Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
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