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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Feb 24, 2021

There is simply no position that you could say with confidence is a Republican Party position, control of the deficit, no, they gave that up with Donald Trump.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Feb 24, 2021

The likelihood of Donald Trump not just being charged with election crimes in Georgia, but actually being convicted in Fulton County is very high.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 23, 2021

Unfortunately, the unofficial Post Office service motto did not take into account Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who is expected to make big changes to your Postal Service.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 23, 2021

It didn’t take long for DeJoy to spring into action, slashing spending before potentially opening up the bidding.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Feb 22, 2021

She`d be the first Native American cabinet secretary in U.S. history if confirmed.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Feb 22, 2021

I will tell you -- tomorrow is going to be a big news day particularly in Washington.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Feb 22, 2021

I think holding a Supreme Court seat open for more than a year when you later prove once a Republican president was in there that you could fill it in about five minutes if you wanted to, I don’t think that’s normal.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Feb 22, 2021

Senator Manchin has apparently invented a whole new standard for Neera Tanden that he never applied to other nominees that he voted for.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 18, 2021

Beto O`Rourke can’t do anything about the winter storm. None of these people can actually stop a winter storm, a catastrophic storm.

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Sean Hannity
@seanhannity· Feb 18, 2021

You went, and you took your daughters to Cancun, and you came back. I think you can be a father and be the senator of Texas all at the same time, and make a round-trip, quick drop-off trip and come home.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Feb 18, 2021

America learned the hard way through Donald Trump that you cannot teach empathy.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 18, 2021

You know Ted Cruz has the power of the United States senator.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Feb 17, 2021

Thanks for your leadership. Thanks for helping us understand.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 16, 2021

Mitch McConnell is today’s absolute worst, a man unwilling to stick his neck out for anyone but his own unquenchable thirst for power.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 16, 2021

Republicans and right-wing media, they want to take every policy issue and turn it into some painful cultural work idiocy.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 16, 2021

It is just a lie that wind turbines, green energy, are the root causes of the problems in Texas right now.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Feb 15, 2021

If Barack Obama had incited Black Lives Matter protesters to attack the Capitol to stop the electoral count for Donald Trump in 2017, do you think the Republicans would have held a five-day witness-free trial?

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 12, 2021

The Democrats have to really sober up and realize that this is not the Republican Party even of the `70s or the `60s. This is a whole different thing, and they have to just face it. The filibuster is -- I think it`s got to go.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 10, 2021

To prevent Romney from walking directly into the path of the mob.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 10, 2021

This footage shows how Senator Chuck Schumer almost walked directly into the mob that day.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 10, 2021

House managers spent a better part of two hours to lay out the visual evidence of the mob that the president incited at the capitol.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 10, 2021

Today, we saw in detail what they meant by that, and that they were right.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 10, 2021

I think the most powerful part of the day though came from the House manager Stacey Plaskett who you just saw and Congressman Swalwell of California.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 9, 2021

Donald Trump's words fueled a horrific attack - if anybody has not watched the video, please watch the whole video. It needs to be shown every year on the anniversary just to remind people what happened.

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