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Madeleine Dean: Think of the week that we are in, it`s strange rhetorical setting. It was four years ago this week that the president of…

On the recordJanuary 18, 2021
Think of the week that we are in, it`s strange rhetorical setting. It was four years ago this week that the president of the United States swore his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. What we have seen is a president fail to do that in historically dangerous ways.
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Madeleine Dean
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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msnbc.com

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Madeleine Dean reflects on the oath of office and criticizes the president for failing to uphold it.

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