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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Mar 21, 2022

Surrender the city of Mariupol, and Russia would stop trying to murder everyone there.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Mar 21, 2022

All of those needless Russian military deaths are entirely the fault of Vladimir Putin.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Mar 21, 2022

Vladimir Putin is deliberately and knowingly killing babies and children. That is his way of war.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Mar 21, 2022

No president has ever chosen a more qualified nominee for the Supreme Court than Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 21, 2022

You don’t get to say anything about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 21, 2022

They’re claiming that they are the defenders of the integrity of childhood.

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Laura Ingraham
@lauraingraham· Mar 20, 2022

If this Court with six Justices cannot do the right thing, then I think it's time to circumscribe the jurisdiction of this Court.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 20, 2022

History was made today, as the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first ever confirmation hearing for a black woman, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 17, 2022

We're also bracing ourselves for racism and sexism to be right in the spotlight next week at these hearings.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 17, 2022

Standing in her way would be very stupid politics for Republicans or for their conservative Democratic friends.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 17, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson is poised to become the first black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 17, 2022

Putin's invasion of Ukraine has been resoundingly repudiated by the majority of the planet, except for a few places that have their own loose relationship with democracy.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 17, 2022

That is Putin himself holding a MAGA-style stadium rally in Moscow this morning to galvanize Russian support for what he's euphemistically calling a special military operation but which the rest of the world knows as the mass slaughter of…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Mar 15, 2022

It won’t stay in Ukraine. It won’t stay in the Russian border.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Mar 15, 2022

Vladimir Putin used the same strategy we are seeing now of indiscriminate bombing.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Mar 15, 2022

We are seeing a concerted tactical effort by the Russian military to target civilians in Ukraine in what looks to all the world and to those in Ukraine to be war crimes.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 14, 2022

Vladimir Putin has made no secret his insatiable appetite for destruction.

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Tucker Carlson
@tuckercarlson· Mar 13, 2022

Democrats in Washington have told you have a patriotic duty to hate Vladimir Putin. It’s not a suggestion. It’s a mandate.

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Tucker Carlson
@tuckercarlson· Mar 13, 2022

And how would the U.S. behave if such a situation developed in neighboring Mexico or Canada?

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 13, 2022

If Russia plans to occupy Ukraine, then Ukrainians are showing that there will be significant resistance.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 13, 2022

Putin continues his terror campaign against Ukraine civilian population, pulverizing residential infrastructure with missile strikes again today.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 13, 2022

As painful as that is to hear, that is the reality of Putin's brutal war.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Mar 7, 2022

Putin has distorted the truth, calling his war a special military operation with the mission of -- quote -- 'denazifying Ukraine.' None of that, of course, is true.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Mar 4, 2022

Every president of the United States during the cold war has stared into that abyss. Every time a Russian dictator rolled tanks into another country. And every cold war president, including General Dwight Eisenhower, who won World War II…

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