Joy Reid: ‘I Don’t Know What To Do’ when ‘Even the Good Politicians’ Aren’t Staying Home
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
REID: “You know, Rep. Swalwell, it’s frustrating, because everybody is tired, everybody is exhausted. People are sick of staying home, they’re sick of being locked down and not seeing their families and friends. And we all get it, right? But when you have, you know, in your own state the governor eating at a fancy restaurant, the mayor of San Francisco the next night eating at a very — these are very expensive restaurants that they both went to, at French Laundry. When you have the Austin mayor, as in Steve Adler, telling people to stay home, then it turns up the video was made in Cabo, even the good politicians are messing up. And I don’t know what to do at this point when even the good guys are messing up.”
SWALWELL: “Joy, it’s never too late to just do what’s right. And I’ll say, Joy, that if you didn’t believe in wearing masks a couple weeks ago and you adopted now, great. If you mixed families a couple weeks ago and you recognize that you should not do that now, great. It’s never too late to do the right thing. And right now we just need to get to the other side of this. And in Congress, what’s so frustrating is we have a bipartisan deal now that gets us to the other side, it gets us to a vaccinated country by April. This deal would run to April and help small businesses and schools and with chilD.C.are cost. So let’s do the right thing. Joy, I get a text every day from a restaurant owner, he’s frustrated by what you described and asks me — he owns an Italian restaurant, he’s run it for 40 years and he just says, ‘Heave you guys passed anything yet?’ He still believes this is a place where we show up and we want to help people. And you know what we did today? We had Republicans today try and pass a motion to adjourn. What does that mean? That means ‘I quit.’ They wanted to quit. The virus hasn’t quit. The hunger hasn’t quit. The bread lines and the food lines haven’t quit. And the unemployment lines haven’t quit. So we can’t quit. We have to get this deal passed. Again, it’s never too late to do what’s right and get us to vaccination day.”
REID: “That would be nice. And if you can somehow place a call and get Mitch McConnell to give a damn, we’d appreciate it. It doesn’t matter in the house. He doesn’t care.”
SWALWELL: “Lindsey Graham and Cornyn and Ernst have come forward.”
REID: “I’ll believe it when I see it. I hope you’re right. My husband’s family is in England. There’s not like a huge difference between Americans and British people they’re sick of a lock down too. They will get a vaccinate next week. They have a plan that is national. They have a national plan to roll the vaccine out. They are going to be way better off. Italy had it as bad of New York. They’re getting it under control. We’re the only ones who can’t do it this. There’s nothing wrong with us as Americans. Why can’t we do what Britain is doing?”
JHA: “We are seeing some leadership from states. There are states trying to do good things and I think that’s helpful. The problem is, our country in order to manage crisis needs both effective federal government and state heerd ship. So state leaders and governors for instance Gretchen Whitmer is amazing. And leading. I’m not listing thm all. People are doing good work. They are limited in how much they can do without federal government involvement. There’s a bipartisan bill. It will have a lot in terms of helpful stuff for Covid. We have to get it out there to the American people. And the key point that people need to understand is this is not forever. The next couple months will be hard. And then life will start getting better. The vaccines are coming. They are really good. They are effective. We have to get through this time period.”
REID: “Absolutely. Amen. Thank you both. Two of the good guys trying to get it done. Up next, speaking of the federal government and who’s got to do something to make things better. Mitch McConnell. Mitch trying to rebrand himself as the king of civil rights. You heard that right. We’ll address that.”
(h/t Breitbart)
