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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Trump fuels unfounded drone conspiracy theories

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The ReidOut, Joy Reid leads with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg having a little fun with the increasingly wild drone conspiracy theories--but conspiracies remain deeply ingrained in the American bloodstream, and the incoming president is surrounded by conspiracy theorists. Also tonight, the right's glorification of Daniel Penny, whose claim to fame is putting a homeless man into a fatal chokehold. Plus, the future of the Democratic Party—school shooting survivor and anti-gun activist David Hogg launches his bid for DNC vice chair on the same day that yet another school shooting occurred in America. David Hogg joins us tonight. Listen now to this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Tonight on the readout.

0:06.3

What do you know about these manned SUV-sized drones flying over New Jersey?

0:10.1

Isn't an alien invasion?

0:11.8

I mean no disrespect to New Jersey when I say that I think it's very unlikely that an alien invasion would begin.

0:18.8

Watch a mouth. We lived it.

0:20.1

I know.

0:21.9

Dang. Secretary know. Dang.

0:23.9

Secretary Buttigieg having a little fun with the increasingly wild drone conspiracy theories.

0:30.0

But conspiracies are deeply ingrained in the American bloodstream.

0:33.5

And the incoming president is surrounded by conspiracy theorists.

0:38.3

Also tonight, the rights glorification of Daniel Penny, and people like him.

0:42.3

Penny's claim to fame, putting a homeless man into a chokehold until he was dead.

0:47.3

Plus, the future of the Democratic Party, school shooting survivor, and anti-gun activist, David Hoggg launches his bid for DNC vice chair on the same day that there was yet another school mass shooting in America. David Hogg joins me tonight. And we begin tonight with the drone mystery on the eastern seaboard.

1:13.6

Now for those of you who do not live on the East Coast, I'm talking about the nearly daily

1:17.6

drone sightings over the past month.

1:20.6

First spotted in New Jersey on November 18th, they appear to show up in the late hours of the

1:25.6

night, although there's still a lot that we do not know about them,

1:28.7

like if they're present every single night. And it is precisely the what we don't know that is

1:35.4

driving interest in them and demands that the federal government provide answers. New York

1:40.7

Governor Kathy Hockel announced that the federal government is sending high-tech drone detection resources.

1:46.9

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has also asked the White House for more federal resources to investigate the sightings.

1:53.7

Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan posted about what he saw over his house, although students of astronomy were quick to point out that most of what

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