Eugene Scott, Jen Psaki and Danielle Pletka join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss the ousting of two Tennessee state representatives, gerrymandering and growing political polarization heading into 2024.
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#MTP #Tennessee #Politics
Trump broke the law and he has to be held accountable, period. Not holding him accountable just because he is a former President or rich when you know he broke the law is more political than not bringing charges.
Yea ain’t no bias coming from a White house staffer. NONE AT ALL!!
Pletka gets paid real money for her “expertise”. Good grief…😂
It is awesome that Tn expelled the 3 idiots!!!
Thank you, Jen, for correcting that silly woman beside you.
The two Justins aren’t talking about guns, they are still talking about race, afros and dashikis. Don’t protest on the house floor. Instead, introduce a bill with good ideas and arguments.
Republikkkan Party Kakatocracy is acting like Rupublican Kakatocracy has acted since the electiin of Franklin Deleno Roosevelt…just worse in every aspect & even More criminality than the Racist, Richard Nixon
Current Republican party is extreme MAGA Trump party
does not represent American people.
They are truly destroying our great nation.
Tennessee natives, it’s only one way to fix this, when it’s time to vote…. VOTE EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN OUT OF OFFICE…. show them no mercy… show them that y’all don’t play around down there. 🌊🌊🌊
Yes, bc we’ve seen how Democrats have done such a great job 🤣
I probably lean more towards Republican, I don’t agree with everything but Democrats almost seem like NPC’S at this point. You try to make a point and it doesn’t register and they just blame Trump. I’m kind of convinced a lot of these comments are A.I generated.
The both siding of this is RIDICULOUS. Knock it the f**k off, lady. JFC.
Leopard lady is wrong, this is a Republican problem.
I love these comments below-
Raggedy Ann saying that it’s Bragg’s obligation to carry out justice when he doesn’t prosecute violent criminals if beyond hilarious and ironic. Sure, Jenni, sure🤡
I would tell that blonde woman with the glasses that for the school kids, the gun issue IS a fight to the death. Their death.
The NRA obviously owns the state legislators in Tennessee.
Both sides…. Just stupid.
She learned that from Trump.
Until the GOP can eradicate their GQP problem, they’re not viable to win votes. Thanks, Trump!
Just a couple employees showboating trying to get a name for themselves they should be fired for good
Just because you can forget about six people murdered (three of them under ten years of age) and then make two thugs into ‘victims’ doesn’t mean you should.
Thank you Ms Psaki, Ms Pletka is a very ignorant woman and playing to the narrative of the Trump camp. She singled Alvin Bragg when there are indictments on the making all over the USA for Trump.
Perfect example of why the government is like it is and the country is this way. The cowardly racist evil white culture of capitalism and greed. You have aholes in power and this what they do. Genocide. Slavery. Apartheid. Jim crow. Segregation. Voter suppression. Etc etc. This is the white man’s idea of being civilized is.
The KKK was started in Tennessee. Why be surprised? When you write slavery into the constitution you show what you are as a race.
Just because you can does not mean you should? Are you all out of your minds? Of course we should prosecute criminality everywhere and anywhere. tRUMP is not above the law. What is up with MSNBC and their implicit support for illegality? Are you trying to protect some status quo? MSNBC is the new FOX. While you don’t lie flat out, you lie by the way you cover news and current events. You try to spin it such that it makes the powers that be happy. Report the f’in news idiots.
The “Republican Brand”?!?! 🥵
when we are not sure if we should charge people with a crime if they committed any , then we have a country that has no respect for law and order. there are levels of charges that can be brought that would suit the crimes , and that is how this should be done. to second guess da’s and the doj , as to whether or not to do what is right is not the right way to think.
this is a win for voter suppression in the south. the reason they have a supermajority is voter suppression. Otherwise, that state would have a democratic majority
I whole heartedly agree that it was a civil rights violation! Booted the African American but kept the white person … so yes I do see it just like Gloria Johnson stated the difference was the color of their skin….
Kamala is a nasty woman.
Yes ,it’s racist!! They r spell the two blacks but not the white woman
Bringing in Trump was blatant political posturing.
Danielly is from the AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTUTE: straight from the NAZIGOP KABAL BLAH BLAH BLAH
Pletka did not disappoint! LAME both side responses and absolutely zero ability to even appreciate what is happening outside of the AEI/GOP white base. They’ve spent generations dragging “others” and now they can only look on helplessly as if somehow dumbfounded by their party’s blatant racism.
Insurrection
What Tennessee shows us is, the only way the GOP to win is for Democracy to lose.
There hasn’t been a whole lot done by the GOP in the last 10 years that improves their brand. Danielle Pletka is just another conservative trying to spin the ignorance of the GOP.
Dead Christian children and teachers callously murdered in a hate crime don’t count. All they did was suppport the treatment of the degenerate lefts hate crime perp. No cred! Riots bear consequences unless you are a Democrat hater.
Left wing lunatics push the bs jan6 and now cry foul. Hypocrisy at its finest. Oh wait, now it’s about race, never fails. Please stay in dem run shitholes filled with crime and homelessness and all the other woke nonsense you nuts love and push. Stop moving to free states with free thinkers that have common sense because you only infect it with the crap you fled from.
The only people shocked be this are…
If we elect Donald J TRUMP WE’LL GO DOWN IN FLAMES AND WE’LL DESERVE IT. WHO SAID THAT?? SLIMY GRAM
If I break a crime..I don’t think I should be arrested..
They didn’t expel them for being Black, it’s 2023 not 1965. Jeez!
The woke will refuse to assimilate everywhere. Why? Because their ideology is pushing classism based on superficial measures. A stratified hierarchy that places them, based on superficial measures (a new language, based on fictional ways of defining words, + their skin color) at the top.
She full of mess talking out of both of her mouth. A democratic vote..laughable
A gentleman by the name of Jon Stryker is a heir to the Stryker Corporation a medical supply company fortune who is funding the LGBT movement through grants. The foundation has offices in New York City and Cambridge, England. Arcus has been called “the world’s largest private funder of ape conservation” and “the nation’s largest LGBT funder”. They are praying on confused young children. They are the “Pfizer” solution of the LGBT community as the Jab was to the general public. Wow and the mainstream media is completely silent because their pockets are probably getting filled with money.
Nothing isn’t divided 😏😏it’s white nationalism and wealthy against democracy.
Danielle Pletka has made a life-long career of thoroughly wrong-headed thoughts and opinions. It’s amazing and sad that Meet the Press continues to have her on to espouse nonsense. She’s the epitome of right-of-center, D.C. groupthink.
OK, I had to rewind a bit to make sure I heard this correctly. I usually don’t post in the viper’s nest of political comments, but… Leopard Lady just equated all black and brown people with non-educated white people. implying (consciously or not) that black and brown people are uneducated?. Yeah she said that. NBC should show her the door and not let her back in the building.
The law, must be fair, does not discriminate between rich and poor, must be punished, even the former President is no exception, the city of NY, prosecuted former president 45 with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first level, so far there are still 4 other issues that are much more serious, currently under investigation, the strange thing here, when running for election has been carefully investigated ….. does anyone believe that after he lost the election due to fraud, he was beaten badly in all aspects, because openly besides the government, there is also an executive organization from the president to the ministries, so he lost his seat in the white house and was turned around for until today after more than two years….!!!!
Oh, The VP is coming, Thank God. Is she gonna cackle, were so blessed.
The Obi-Wan effect was the best comment. The Senior Fellow lady seems like an intellectual snob. She made quite an indirect racist generalization — lumped Blacks, Hispanics, and “non-college educated whites” in the same category.
Vote back in the Two representatives of Tennessee and help them save your children against guns.👧🏼👦🏿🧑🏻🦱👶🏻👩🏿🦱👶👱🏻♀️🧒🏼👶🏼👦🏿👧🏻🧑🏻🦱🧑🦱🧒🏼
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Who is that awful woman in the black leather jacket? She is wrong about everything.
Who is that crazy nonsensical old lady with glasses? The ONLY thing I understood of all that she said was: SHE’S CRAZY!!!
We need national ranked choice voting
I love this part of the Show
I am so glad they got rid of Justin Jones. He’s just another race baiter who is going to divide America even more than it’s already divided.
https://youtu.be/wDPP-dWPtTQ
Yes Alvin brag should have brought those charges we understand you sit on the fence but everybody is not on the fence
So no mention on why they were expelled. No clips of their violent actions?
The only play Republicans have at this juncture in the game is reducing the number of votes for their opponents through the law… I wish people who backed Republicans could see the writing on the wall for what it is. look how easy it is for them to wholesale mass clearance civil rights and liberties through legislation do they really think they won’t incur splash damage?
If “Justice” was an obligation … most of our presidents would be in jail.
She said , maybe he should not have held Trump accountable for the crimes he committed.😮
After that maybe Trump bs I knew she was a …
The Republicans need to be voted out to save lives 🌊🌊🌊
White Nationalist Republican GOP + NRA = Domestic Terrorist. Blackburn and Gov Bill Lee worry more about money in their pocket and for their friends then Tennessean. That is how the White Nationalist Republican GOP roll. When you are govern by the White Nationalist and the KKK. Nothing will change.
This is not a country of should have, what they did in Tennessee is something that has never been done before, at least not since the 1700s, and indictment Trump should have been done much earlier I’d like to ask the panelist how it is he was able to lie on his taxes lie on his financial forms for years that this is something most likely done by his father for years as the state overlooked it what kind of wealthy entitled relationship does she have she’s a perfect example of the wealthy shouldn’t be held accountable had a poor person or the average person done half of what Trump had done He would have been indicted years ago but she seems to think Trump should be held to a different accountability is it because he’s wealthy or because he’s an ex president or Republican ?
Omg…
No…it’s a republican problem
Gen z is awesome.
In line with Chuck’s suggestion here, taking an objective perspective on this, I must agree with both Jen and Danielle…Yes, it is an American problem, but with an identifiable cause that’s reeking havoc in many of our other Cities…Yes, I see a nexus with Tennessee and Brags, and it is concerning (the action in Tennessee [the two state house expulsion] is consistent with the conservative push (Trump/Gates/WHO) that’s been continuing under the President. And Brag’s actions (a criminal Indictment stemming from actions that have been proven in other proceedings) appears to be an earnest effort to get at the root cause of the problem, by attempting to restrain the former President ( remember, he and the team [political] used divisive tactics to win the 2016 election, but using the same tactics in 2020 resulted in a loss due to the constraints on the economy, and since He not only did not concede defeat, but he threw-up challenges, even causing a riot at the capitol, and have continued with the same divisive tactics, trying to go to 24, while causing the environment conducive to havoc to foster, you really should see the favor Brags is doing for the Nation, because He and the team have been playing illegally, and dangerously so for our Nation and National Security (If January sixth is not convincing, go look at Sri Lanka’s and Brazil’s version, and think if that’s what we want…The gerrymandering is probably just a play to strengthen the Representative hold on the District, and the question there is whether it is being done under the fake emergency power, or through proper legislative process (While there were no Federal Emergency declared for covid-19, several States did convert to emergency operation, as well as did the Caribbean region, ditching the Democratic processes, for the fake emergency one–and down here [Your back yard] it’s Nationalism/Cartelism that have emerge…You see why I brag on Brags…But you go check Chuck.
You know we should also be talking about how the State is trying to force the Metro Nashville council to be cut in half!! This really is a fight about representation!!
This is about being scared of diversity…
these commentators act as if this is unique to TN. This has been going on around the country with very red states and numerous state congresses go out of their way to silence the minority
Why are these LGBTQ transgender woman.. killing Christians children? they have to be monsters… are they the new Nazi’s. 😢
yess ms psaki!
Rule of law is a choice, as least she said it out loud…oh dear Danielle🤦♂️both sides of the aisle are lined with systematically corrupt elitists.
What a moron; just because you can charge somebody for committing a crime should you ? So why have any laws
There’s more about these two getting expelled then about what needs to be done to STOP the active shooters from ENTERING the schools!! Rediculious! There needs to be a nation wide standard , bullet proof glass, actual training of the students, increased regular drills. My child’s elementary school and my older child’s middle school has yet to have more than one “lock down drill” which entails nothing more then hide and be quiet. Unreal!!
It always been a toxic work environment but your just now saying something about it because the media pushes this nutty racism narrative you got kicked out because you try to obstruct the political process. If we hold trump supporters accountable why should you be any different. You weren’t peacefully protesting you were preventing the state from conducting its business.
When is politicians going to do something about chemtrail being spray all over America it being spray in our water, Air, farmland, and the air people breath and alot more. Anywhere you go into America chemtrail is being spray if you don’t believe me look up in the sky anytime in the day time you will see the chemtrail being spray every where. Like people is being spray like bugs. Contact your mayor, Congress, attorney General, republican, Democrats, President.
Racists have no shame!!!
Who is this woman with the glasses? It’s more on the GOPs/REBs who are acting terribly. And, yes, Trump should be indicted.
‘ ! ⚖️ ! Equality with Integrity for Self & Others ‘ ! ‘ ! ❤️ ! ” Responsibility Matters for ALL Lives ” ! 🇺🇸 ! ‘
Daniele is wrong I lived in Memphis for over 15 years. And I was Born in Chicago and lived across the country. She just has a poor view of what to do or think.
It had nothing to do with race. The two who were expelled led a raucous protest on the house floor, violating house rules. They wanted to expel the woman also, but the evidence was not there to do so. By her and her attorneys own words, she did nothing but stand there, and video proved that so she was exonerated and wasn’t expelled, but hey don’t let facts get in the way of your divisive racialized narrative. What do you think would happen if Republican legislators in California led a raucous protest on their house floor? These talking heads would be sitting here demanding their heads on a pike and that California legislature make an example of the Republicans… for muh democracy.
I think the reps are racist towards whites.
I think you should hold your breath for 10 minutes and see what happens 😢
Fake news
Pletka had a fantastic approach
Jen Psaki take it off
They do it because they have the votes and the young people who support Dems are contained in the urban districts. GOP knows they are invincible. As frustrating as it is, GOP still has the upper hand.
Danielle Pletka is a donald john trump republican apologists!!!
Wrong!!!!!!! Must follow the law.. chuck Todd is a republican
I don’t think it’s about democrats and Republicans because they didn’t expel the lady democrat.
Hey someone stood up for injustice.stupid lkkk people
I am a Mexican American and all my life i was treated. Less than.
Guns are not violent. People are violent. Why? Bloodywood programs Americans nightly killing dozens, & glorifying violence, while the media cheerleads them on “if it bleeds, it leads”
Stop talking over your guest
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE RULES AND LAWS OF THE TENNESSEE CONGRESS. THE LEFT WING DINGBATS SAY IT ALL THE TIME, NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. BUT NEVER MEAN IT.