Rachel Maddow: “It’s just Putin. It’s just the dictator who runs that country.”

Perverting U.S. law enforcement for political means is arguably illegal, definitely wrong and can’t go unpunished.

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

But again, nobody knows Russia's real intentions, I mean, other than the fact that we definitely know they’re loving the attention, loving the uncertainty and upset that they are causing.

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