Rachel Maddow looks at President Joe Biden's muscular new initiative to push more Americans to get vaccinated against Covid so the U.S. can move past the pandemic, and puts it in the context of past assertions of executive power by U.S. president, which many of Biden's critics are apparently oblivious to.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren talks with Rachel Maddow about progress by the House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack on the Capitol in processing requested material for their investigation, and wonders at what Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is thinking as he interferes in the investigation, which is against the law.
Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about how one of the insidious aspects of the Texas abortion law is that it is technically difficult to sue over, unless you're the Department of Justice, as Attorney General Merrick Garland demonstrated today.
There's a "sustained campaign of intimidation" from the far-right against election officials. And public health officials. And educators. And lawmakers.