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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 20, 2020

Trump, McConnell, and their political party just can't help you, America, when it comes to passing a second coronavirus relief bill.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 19, 2020

This isn't about the next month or two months, this is about the next 30 or 40 years, having a majority of Supreme Court of conservatives of people who believe in originalism and the text of the constitution for Republicans.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 19, 2020

If you're worried about dark money in politics, Democrats have a lot more of it in this election than Republicans.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 18, 2020

The courts are stacked right now by Donald Trump and by Republicans.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 18, 2020

And that will -- if she is replaced, which I have every reason to believe she will be by Donald Trump and a Republican Senate, that will alter the course of the Supreme Court for generations.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 18, 2020

The President is actively seeking to undermine the legitimacy of elections.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Sep 18, 2020

If McConnell succeeds here and he is able to get another justice on the court who is along the lines ideologically of a Justice Kavanaugh or Justice Gorsuch, what do you think would -- what do you think that we should know?

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Sep 17, 2020

People around the president may try to deny it, but there is a named person saying this is what he said.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 17, 2020

It sets up what will be a tremendous political fight, so many of our controversial issues these days, so many of the excesses of the Trump administration, trying to get rid of the ACA and trying to get kick dreamers out of this country, a…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 16, 2020

We are watching right in front of our eyes as conservatives and Republicans mainstream the delusions of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 16, 2020

Bill Barr's sense in conspiracy -- into conspiracy theories is just ahead.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 16, 2020

William Barr's influence on our democracy has been entirely negative and corrosive. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is just as dangerous.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 15, 2020

I can't believe I have to say this, but there is zero reason to say that about Joe Biden.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Sep 15, 2020

I don't know if it will make a difference in terms of the country making its choice between Trump and Biden.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Sep 14, 2020

Seven weeks to Election Day. Get ready for shenanigans like this to multiply exponentially.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 14, 2020

We could have had and still can have a national strategy, but not unless and until Donald Trump is removed from power in an election of the American people to pick a new president because he has demonstrated a total incapacity to deal with…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 13, 2020

We are 50 days away from the most consequential election in our lifetimes.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 13, 2020

Look, obviously, everyone bears responsibility for this. But I do put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the president. He is the one with the information, the intelligence reports, the experts. He is supposed to lead and he's not led…

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 10, 2020

And with all the knowledge that the president of the United States we now know had, he kept it from the American people and worse yet he undermined people that were trying to do the right thing. And as a result, people died.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 10, 2020

If this new report is true, this is yet another deeply disturbing example in a long line of examples of how far Barr is willing to go to bend the wheel of the justice system away from justice and toward Donald Trump.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 9, 2020

If a certain percent of the country listens to everything he says, if a message from him that was clear from the beginning would have absolutely saved lives.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Sep 8, 2020

You can cover up a crime. You can cover up a scandal. You cannot cover up a pandemic.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 8, 2020

Now that Donald Trump thinks he's the king, he's trying to act as king, and he has the power because of Bill Barr and the Republican Party to at least try to do it.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 8, 2020

Donald Trump looks to be junior Putin now. He is an oligarch in training, a dictator in training because now that he's felt the power, now that he's begun to enjoy the unchecked power that unfortunately a weak supine Republican Party…

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