Joy Reid dismisses pregnancy as both ugly and a nuisance to humanity: "Pregnancy can actually be dangerous to a women's health, esp. when you live in a country like the United States, which has the worst rate of maternity deaths in the entire developed world."
Reid: "To say it's okay to ban abortions in the poorest state with...one in five [women]...are not insured, to say it is fine, make them carry the baby to term, they can leave it at the fire house when they're done, is so dismissive of everything that pregnancy is about"
Joy Reid: "[T]his movement shouldn't be called pro-life. It should be called get them born and then it's your problem b/c...they don't want to spend money on education. They will not expand ObamaCare, so people don't have insurance."
Joy Reid: "They are making the argument that a woman is essentially a vessel whose only purpose is to give birth--right--and that a woman has no other real value or....separate rights and her job is to carry...this being. This is it. This is what you're supposed to do."
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DOOCY TIME: "A handful of key aides have announced either that they are leaving the Vice President's office or are reportedly going to be...soon. Is the Vice President not satisfied with the staffing that she has...or do people just not want to work for her anymore?"
Doocy: "So, this is not a case of bad headlines about the Vice President and a decision being made to shake up the staff to fix an image issue?"
Psaki says Symone Sanders "is whip smart and "will do plenty of interesting things in the world" in her future.
Doocy: "Does [Harris] think that staff are to blame for her not making any kind of meaningful progress on the big things in portfolio, like passing voting rights or addressing the root causes of migration?"
Psaki: "I know the Vice President is grateful to all the staff[.]"
DOOCY TIME: "Before Joe Biden was president, he said that covid travel restrictions on foreign countries were 'hysterical,' 'xenophobia,' and 'fearmongering.' So, what changed?
Psaki demands Doocy "pull it in full context," which was Biden condemning a Trump tweet, not the ban
Doocy: "We saw the President shopping indoors on Saturday behind glass that says face coverings acquired, but his face was uncovered. Why?
Psaki: He "follows the recommendations and the advice of the CDC. I don't know what the circumstances were of that particular moment."
Doocy: "He was shopping in a store and on the glass outside, it said 'face covering required' & we could see him inside and his face was uncovered."
Psaki: "Well, again, Peter, our recommendation and advice continues to be for people to wear masks when they are required..."
DOOCY TIME: "So, first, following up on the physical. If this was a routine physical, why wasn't it on the schedule that you gave us last night? Why the secrecy there?"
Doocy: "Is the President going to stop saying that the Build Back Better plan does not increase the deficit one single cent we now know that's not true."
Pskai: "It is true. And I would note that several economists and experts out there" agree
Doocy: "Biden himself in 2010 called" the CBO "the gold standard for Democrats & Republicans."
Psaki: "Well, Peter, since we're all here to communicate w/the public about accurate information...They still scored it but it's undervalued by the assessment of many economists[.]"
Joy Reid: Dems are the only respectable people b/c they're "the responsible parent telling you to be decent to people who are different from you," "take care of the Earth," "don't threaten to kill people," & "pass things like health care & roads & bridges & food for" the needy.
Joy Reid opens the show with more venom, saying GOPers are "the YOLO parent" who don't want people to have health care & "whose answer to anything and everything is to scream about the border and, 'the scary Brown people are taking over America and meh, and history is mean.'"
Joy Reid: Dems must keep power forever or risk the "drunk, mostly absentee, Nazi-curious, authoritarian" GOP could come back even though every single one of them is a "ridiculous, embarrassing, democracy-hating, Trump-cult authoritarianism, open-racism embracing dangerous" person
DOOCY TIME (from earlier): "Grim milestone this week. More than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the last year. Experts say that a lot of that is driven by fentanyl. which is coming across the southern border...Why isn't the administration doing more to stop" them?
Doocy: "American intel agencies have told the President they cannot track Covid's origins without China's help. [He] had a chance to ask for China's help. Why didn't he?"
Psaki: "Well, I would say that [Biden's] push for the Chinese to participate more...We've never held back."
Doocy: "You talked about the importance of transparency, but did he ask President Xi to cooperate specifically with this U.S. Intel-agency led investigation into the origins of covid?"
Psaki: "Peter, clear that's what we we want...I don't have any more to read out for you[.]"
Joy Reid goes FULL Stephanie Ruhle: "So, Republicans want you to believe the economy isn't doing well, that's terrible. But, in reality, unemployment is at its lowest point since the pandemic began. Prices are higher...but Americans are spending a record amount of money"
Joy Reid: A "lack of confidence has translated into a drop in Biden's approval rating...b/c Republicans are seizing on inflation & blaming Joe Biden for it...which is a fun twist after Republicans & Trump maxed out the national credit card on tax cuts for the super rich" & a wall
Citing a Ron Klain tweet that the economy is great and the Build Back Better plan will make it even better, Joy Reid tells Elizabeth Warren that "[t]he economy isn't bad" and then chastises "people" for being "mad because everything is late and things cost more."