Hey folks, before we get started I want to actually tell you about a special event we have coming up on November 1st.

Molly and I will be doing the first new abnormal live show with an in-person audience at caveat in New York City.

We'll be doing a special election-eave party where we'll be talking about both local and national politics with guests like Torrey, the Daily Beast Harry Seagull, and New York City Council speaker, Corey Johnson.

And we'll get a bunch of other fun people. We're going to do quizzes and have prizes and it's just going to be a blast.

It's a benefit for the planned-paradid action fund and you can stream it from your home or come see it in person.

For more info, head to caveat.nyc and I'll put a link in the podcast description.

Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and welcome to the Daily Beast, the new abnormal.

I'm a left-wing pundit and an editor at large at the Daily Beast. We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media, politics, and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world clearer.

Our world has been turned up to down. On the new abnormal we'll talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out how to get ourselves out of it.

And I'm producer Jesse Kennan. I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails. What a fun and an affordable show do we have today.

Historian Dr. Timothy Snyder, author of Ontario and he will talk to us about recognizing the threats to democracy today.

Then we'll talk to author Max Chaffkin, Buzz Brilliant new book, The Contrarian, Peter Thiel and the Silicon Valley, pursuit of power.

But first, we have the congressman from New York 17th District, Mondair Jones.

Welcome to the new abnormal representative, Jones.

Thanks for having me. It's great to be back. We're big fans. As I see it, Democrats are trying to legislate and Republicans are doing fascism. Discuss.

This is so much easier than I'll law school exam. It's obvious, Molly. I mean, my goodness, the Republican Party of today cannot compete on the merits of its policy ideas which are deeply and popular with the American people.

So they pivot to disenfranchising large segments of the American population.

Right. Exactly. And it strikes me. I would love to talk for a minute before we talk about quote unquote, Dems in disarray.

I would rather talk to you about what is in the bill because what's in the bill is really popular and that's why no one wants to talk about it. So tell me what's in the bill.

Well, there are two bills. There is the significantly smaller bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Roads, bridges, highways, physical infrastructure. Then there is the larger reconciliation bill called the Build Back Better Act, which contains the vast majority of the president's economic agenda.

And that is what we are also fighting to pass. And when I say we, I mean, not just progressives, but a lot of moderates, the president of the United States himself, the speaker of the House certainly and the majority leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer.

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