Joy Reid

J.D., thank you so much for being here. I have read so many think pieces about your book and seen so many interviews with you. I have the book right here. Can't wait to dive into it. But your story, first of all, is fascinating. So the way you went from sort of Rust Belt country to Yale. One of the things that's really fascinating about your story, J.D.,

J.D., thank you so much for being here. I have read so many think pieces about your book and seen so many interviews with you. I have the book right here. Can't wait to dive into it. But your story, first of all, is fascinating. So the way you went from sort of Rust Belt country to Yale. One of the things that's really fascinating about your story, J.D.,

is how similar some of the pathologies you talk about are to the pathologies that normally people assign to African-Americans, right? That, you know, these ideas about the way you're raised, you're raised mostly by your grandparents, the way that you were able to use opportunity like the military to get a college degree, that's very familiar across racial lines.

is how similar some of the pathologies you talk about are to the pathologies that normally people assign to African-Americans, right? That, you know, these ideas about the way you're raised, you're raised mostly by your grandparents, the way that you were able to use opportunity like the military to get a college degree, that's very familiar across racial lines.

is how similar some of the pathologies you talk about are to the pathologies that normally people assign to African-Americans, right? That, you know, these ideas about the way you're raised, you're raised mostly by your grandparents, the way that you were able to use opportunity like the military to get a college degree, that's very familiar across racial lines.

So why do you suppose there's such a huge gulf in distance ideologically between African-Americans and people from where you, like the ones you came from?

So why do you suppose there's such a huge gulf in distance ideologically between African-Americans and people from where you, like the ones you came from?

So why do you suppose there's such a huge gulf in distance ideologically between African-Americans and people from where you, like the ones you came from?

They also have a tendency to blame the Biden administration. It's like, move on, that ship has sailed. I never remember in my lifetime a sitting president trashing a previous president. I've never heard that before. You never heard, you know, Ronald Reagan didn't do it. They're saying Ronald.

They also have a tendency to blame the Biden administration. It's like, move on, that ship has sailed. I never remember in my lifetime a sitting president trashing a previous president. I've never heard that before. You never heard, you know, Ronald Reagan didn't do it. They're saying Ronald.

They also have a tendency to blame the Biden administration. It's like, move on, that ship has sailed. I never remember in my lifetime a sitting president trashing a previous president. I've never heard that before. You never heard, you know, Ronald Reagan didn't do it. They're saying Ronald.

My show had value. And... that i'm sorry that um that what i was doing had value and value and in the end i'm sorry i'm not i try not to cry on tv and i think this is kind of like being on tv so i apologize and that it kind of, and then it mattered. I see Karen is there and she's been texting me as well.

My show had value. And... that i'm sorry that um that what i was doing had value and value and in the end i'm sorry i'm not i try not to cry on tv and i think this is kind of like being on tv so i apologize and that it kind of, and then it mattered. I see Karen is there and she's been texting me as well.

And so what I will just say is that in the end, thank you, where I land is that the moment of guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many issues, whether it was

And so what I will just say is that in the end, thank you, where I land is that the moment of guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many issues, whether it was

the black lives matter issues of a young baby uh or a mom or a dad that was killed or um when we opened up people's eyes to the fact that asian americans were being targeted and not just black folks that or immigrants who've done nothing another racial country like my parents did and tried to make a life and defended them um or whether we've talked about

the black lives matter issues of a young baby uh or a mom or a dad that was killed or um when we opened up people's eyes to the fact that asian americans were being targeted and not just black folks that or immigrants who've done nothing another racial country like my parents did and tried to make a life and defended them um or whether we've talked about

what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution, that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that people find inconvenient, you know, that Nicole Hannah-Jones put into our spirit, that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country, whether it's talking about any of these issues and yes, whether it's talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object

what the president is doing that is subversive to the Constitution, that is injurious to our liberty, you know, defending books that people find inconvenient, you know, that Nicole Hannah-Jones put into our spirit, that we need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country, whether it's talking about any of these issues and yes, whether it's talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object

to have a right to object to little babies being bombed. And where I come down on that is I'm not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those things because those things are of God. And, you know, I'm a church girl too.