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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 21, 2021

I really feel it never should have happened, and I`m uncomfortable with the solution of that being, you know, we just need to elect better people and hope the next president doesn`t do something like that.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 21, 2021

Even after the Capitol was attacked by a violent mob seeking to stop the peaceful transfer of power, a majority of House Republicans, 139 of them, along with eight Senate Republicans voted to do what that mob wanted which was to block the…

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Ezra Klein
@ezraklein· Jan 21, 2021

The way to stop the next Donald Trump is to show that when Democrats are governing, people`s lives are actually better.

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Ezra Klein
@ezraklein· Jan 21, 2021

Democrats have no room for error. They have 50 seats in the Senate. If they lose one in 2022, they have no more governing capacity or at least not through the legislature.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 20, 2021

The Democrats is going to have to choose very soon, do they roll over for phony calls for unity to absolve the Republican Party for its trespasses against American democracy or do they wield the rare power they have won through Democratic…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 20, 2021

Republicans have an obligation to apologize to the country, to patrol their caucus, and to exile the seditious faction.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 20, 2021

The stark reality is that one party cannot just declare unity and have it be so.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 19, 2021

I will be back at 10:00 p.m. Eastern with my hour-long interview with Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 19, 2021

This man is a confederate apologist worse than even Andrew freaking Johnson.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 19, 2021

No president has ever launched an insurrection against this country until Donald Trump did it, while lying so much that he personally ushered in the post-fact era.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 19, 2021

No American president has used the office so openly and directly for personal profit.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jan 18, 2021

Most people just want to end the food fight, get their kids back to school, get their shops opened up, get something happening, get broadband for everybody.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 18, 2021

The good news is that the Trump administration has been so profoundly dysfunctional for four whole years that we`re actually sort of used to that now.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 18, 2021

Joe Biden will have no one in his entire cabinet confirmed on his first day, including in the major national security positions.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jan 17, 2021

Donald Trump is, indeed, responsible for inciting the violence that occurred in the invasion of the Capitol on January 6th.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jan 17, 2021

A Quinnipiac poll today shows that 59 percent say Donald Trump should not be allowed to hold elected office in the future.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jan 17, 2021

Donald Trump leaves the presidency the same way he entered it, with the overwhelming disapproval of a majority of the American people.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 17, 2021

This idea that there`s something like great patriotic education that everyone needs to take in uniform is so offensive to the very democratic underpinnings of the entire enterprise of a free people.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 17, 2021

This is what Donald Trump`s vision of law and order has always looked like. Running the federal execution chamber at full tilt while the well-connected pay money for pardons.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Jan 15, 2021

One of the reasons this impeachment process is so very, very useful right now is, once Donald Trump has been impeached by the House, it puts a collar around his neck in the Senate.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 15, 2021

You can no longer justify supporting him since he's the president.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 15, 2021

You have been given one last chance to do the right thing. Please do it.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jan 15, 2021

There is strong interest in the Congress in a 9/11-type commission, an outside commission to conduct that after-action review.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jan 14, 2021

Their lives are now in danger and that is thanks to Donald Trump and what he has created in our politics.

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