Rachel Maddow: “I say that it is absolutely pointless and I mean it in a technical sense. Previous government shutdowns were all dumb.…”

The chairman of the January 6th committee says that the upcoming hearings, witnesses will describe conversations between these paramilitary groups that led the breach of the capitol and people in the orbit of that President Trump.

The paramilitary groups are providing physical attacks, physical intimidation, to reinforce political attacks.

I will tell you it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we’ve got two—count them, two—non-white hosts in prime time, both of our non-white hosts in prime time are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. And that…

That feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.