Rachel Maddow: “This is in the Texas state senate, where they’re trying to stop the Republican voting restriction bill.”

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

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…

I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two—count them, two—nonwhite hosts in prime time, both of our nonwhite hosts in prime time are losing their shows.