Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN-HLN guy and current cable news conscientious objector.

I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.

Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist.

But today, I'm an unapologetic, woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.

And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.

We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining people

in politics, media, and beyond.

Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully

even make you laugh through the tears.

What an excellent show we have today.

MSNBC political analyst Juanita Tolliver joins us to talk about her new book,

A More Perfect Party, The Night Shirley Chisholm, and Diane Carroll reshaped politics.

Then we'll talk to Kara Kelly, editor-at-large for the barbed wire,

to discuss her piece of the true cost of Texas' abortion ban, deaths abandoned babies fewer doctors which delves into the devastating effects of the

state's restrictive laws on women's health and medical access but first let's have some fun so

Danielle we are what we are a week away from the inauguration of Donald Trump.

I know you are very optimistic about the state of democracy as we go forward.

There's actually something going on now with, you know, we hear a lot of talk about civil wars over the past bunch of years between red states and blue

states, sometimes within families, and all of it is pretty bleak stuff. But there's actually

kind of a civil war going on now that I can get behind, I think. And that is sort of an internal

MAGA civil war led on the one hand by Steve Bannon, and on the other by Elon Musk.

And Bannon, in an interview with an Italian newspaper, I believe over the weekend, said, quote, I will get Elon Musk kicked out by the time

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