Rachel Maddow: “There is no reason to expect that the president is going to die from this.”

The Russian government is using language like that to threaten people not to protest.

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

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

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…