Rachel Maddow

It’s just Putin. It’s just the dictator who runs that country.

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

In political terms, his absence from the Senate erases the Democrats` razor thin majority and, of course, it`s happening just as President Biden prepares to nominate and try to confirm a new justice to the Supreme Court.

They actually created these fake documents purporting to be the real certifications of them as electors.

Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema keep saying that this would be an unprecedented thing to do, even though that’s absolutely not true.

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.

The Senate is going to consider a combination of two bills that have already passed the House, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

Tomorrow, the United States Senate will finally begin debating voting rights protection.

It was last month that we first learned that former President Donald Trump had been subpoenaed to testify in an investigation led by New York state Attorney General Tish James.

The Oath Keepers explicitly focus on recruiting former and current law enforcement military and first responder personnel.

It was a chilling sign that many at the vanguard of the mob that stormed the seat of American democracy either had military training or were trained by those who did.

As President Donald Trump`s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week, a line of men wearing olive drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up the marble stairs in a single file line.