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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 8, 2021

This week was a lot. And we still don't have all the facts or the footage or the answers.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 7, 2021

The plain truth is that the President has been openly engaged in sedition and seditious conspiracy since he lost the election.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 7, 2021

The President is a clear and present danger to American democracy.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 6, 2021

They know that they are not in jeopardy, because the cops are taking selfies with them, walking them down the steps to make sure they're not hurt. White Americans are never afraid of the cops, even when they're committing insurrection…

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 5, 2021

It's absurd, and it's a stain on this president, on our party, on our country and I cannot believe what I saw in my television today.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 5, 2021

And it should be labeled as such, I can't believe more people haven't been arrested for storming the Capitol of the United States.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 5, 2021

This is what you get when you steal an election? He didn't learned anything when this happened today.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 5, 2021

He is certainly not doing any of that to the best of his ability. So, if you want to strictly look at his oath. He's violated it.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 4, 2021

The President once again just blaming the states, kicking them with responsibilities that the federal government has no role to play in actually solving the problem and getting shots into arms.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 31, 2020

Do you accept and believe that Joe Biden is the president-elect of the United States?

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 31, 2020

Trump's abysmal performance in the face of the pandemic has only added insult to injury.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 30, 2020

As we count down the days -- OK, let's just be honest, the seconds -- until Donald Trump is finally removed from the White House -- it's 20 days, and you do the math on the seconds for those of you who weren't counting -- we're seeing…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 30, 2020

Politics is not worth dying over. Political ideology, whatever your politics are, it's not worth dying for. For God's sakes, just wear a mask. It's not a lot to ask.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Dec 29, 2020

Georgia voters tonight have it within their power to object to what Mitch McConnell did today and remove Mitch McConnell from the majority leader's job by sending two Democrats to the United States Senate and giving Democrats control of…

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Dec 28, 2020

The President issued a signing statement. He said he wanted three things, $2,000 checks, repeal of 230 and a voter fraud commission.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Dec 28, 2020

It's very unlikely that this longshot suit will go anywhere. But apparently, it's what the boss wants.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 24, 2020

Presidents including Donald Trump do have a get-out-of-jail-free card from the Justice Department, because there's this Office of Legal Counsel policy that a president can't be indicted.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 24, 2020

Trump's abysmal performance in the face of the pandemic has only added insult to injury.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 24, 2020

Maybe the fact of polarization means instead of being careful and small and compromising the middle, maybe the fact of polarization means you just do what you think is best and let the chips fall where they may.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 24, 2020

If the country's divided, you got to be close to the middle. If you try to do too much, if you go too far, if you're too extreme or too energetic or too oppositional or too ambitious, you're going to be punished because the middle of the…

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 23, 2020

The president has also tonight actually vetoed the defense bill, the bill that funds the military.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 23, 2020

He completely outsourced negotiation with Treasury Secretary Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 23, 2020

It was obvious back in May to anyone paying attention, the month the U.S. surpassed 100,000 COVID deaths that we would need more relief in the future because the pandemic wasn't going away.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 23, 2020

If he lobbied hard, if he ran heard on Republicans who were terrified to cross him, we see that every day, well, then, he could have delivered a big relief package before the election.

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