MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid On The Future of the Progressive Left

Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation now includes two indictments and a guilty plea. Writing yesterday in Vanity Fair Magazine, Gabriel Sherman reports that Steve Bannon is now openly worried about Donald Trump being impeached or removed under the 25th amendment, and that Bannon fears a revolt by some members of the cabinet, and the Republican establishment.All of this is, of course, music to the ears of the Progressive Left. But should impeachment efforts form the fundament of the Trump resistance movement? Progressives, and many conservatives, for that matter, agree that Trump is unfit to serve in the highest office in the land. But what else do they agree on? Is there consensus about health care, tax policy, or counter-terrorism? What do Democrats stand for besides standing against Trump?Tom's first guest today was Joy-Ann Reid, host of AM Joy on MSNBC, where she is also a political analyst. She is the author of the book ----Fracture: Barack Obama, The Clintons and the Racial Divide,---- which was published in 2015, with an update in the summer of 2016. She co-edited ----We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama,---- with EJ Dionne of the Washington Post. That book was published earlier this year.Joy-Ann Reid is speaking at Johns Hopkins University tonight at 8 pm. Her topic: journalism in the age of fake news. Click here for more information.Email us at [email protected], tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.