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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 23, 2020

They wanted to stop relief because they wanted to force people back out into the workplace.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 21, 2020

This is a disgraceful moment in American history. And I'm afraid on January 6th the Republican Party is going to disgrace itself even further by further indulging the mad king's delusions in his desire to overturn our constitutional…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 18, 2020

The pardons people should look at it as Donald Trump's final betrayal of the country that he was supposed to lead for four years.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 18, 2020

Trump has considered the pardon for his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and co-conspirator of 2016 DNC hack, Julian Assange.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 18, 2020

The U.S. government has not pointed the finger at Russia strangely enough.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 18, 2020

America is under assault. Right here at home, we have had nearly 200,000 people infected with COVID every single day.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 18, 2020

It's not great that people around the president are very explicitly calling for violent insurrection as that kind of go-to final recourse to steal the election.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 17, 2020

If that's all you know about Dan Crenshaw, it might surprise you to learn that a number of veterans groups are now calling on him to resign from Congress.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 17, 2020

Trump will likely be consumed by criminal and civil litigation for the rest of his life. That is his problem. It should not be Joe Biden's.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 16, 2020

I think it's fair to say the failure on Coronavirus, the explicit failure not through incompetence, not good-faith mistakes, but the cynical pursuit of a strategy that led to tens, if not hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily dead…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Dec 15, 2020

If I'm Joe Biden, I hope that Joe Biden has as a number one priority, reinstating all the whistleblowers who got knocked out.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 15, 2020

Muslim Americans and Latino Americans and immigrants documented and otherwise right now are in fear for what the country just did and for what our country means, not just what Trump will do, but what it means that our country just endorsed…

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 15, 2020

If the pardon power is used to prevent the discovery of another crime or to prevent the implication of the executive himself or herself, that -- I mean, I know the pardon power is black letter law of the Constitution, but it's -- if it is…

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 15, 2020

I mean, this is -- it's worth contending anew with the threat to the republic of having a felon in the White House.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 15, 2020

I think all of us are -- however you feel about the election, I think a lot of us, maybe all of us, are praying for sort of a return to normalcy, a return to politics being boring again, at least to a certain extent.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 11, 2020

Even while he's still there, their guidance is suddenly getting less stupid and more clear.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 11, 2020

We now have James Clyburn in his committee talking to senior CDC officials, who were like, oh, yes, they told me to delete skeevy e-mails from Trump appointees.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 11, 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 11, 2020

We have lost the thread on anything that looks like democracy.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 11, 2020

The court rejected president Trump and the Republicans' effort to monkey wrench the Electoral College process to stop Joe Biden from being elected when the Electoral College votes are cast on Monday.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 11, 2020

It's up and down the Republican Party that we have lost the thread on anything that looks like democracy.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Dec 10, 2020

Obviously, Joe Biden's going to be the next president, and everybody is pretty much dealing with that reality.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Dec 10, 2020

American institutions work, and by the way, we'll have another election in two years and another election in four years.

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