Dr. Brittney Cooper is a professor of Africana and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and author of "Eloquent Rage." She joins Ali Velshi for the first installment of our weekly check-in on extremists in Congress. “The modern GOP has abdicated its responsibility to govern. It doesn't give us any pretense of governing anymore...It sees its role as for the protection and maintenance of white power.”» Subscribe to MSNBC:
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