Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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"the president has been a phenomenal patient"?. this is absolutely ridiculous.
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BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC. (Seriously).
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God bless the president and the first lady. If you pray, please pray for their speedy and complete recovery — and for everyone infected, everywhere. This virus is horrific and merciless — no one would wish its wrath on anyone. We must get its spread under control. Enough.
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Ugh, I'm sorry. If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able to speak while I'm on TV. What I was trying to do -- when I suddenly couldn't say/do anything -- was read this lede:. 1/6.
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Thanks to everyone who’s said such kind things after I talked about Susan’s COVID experience tonight. Prayers are very welcome. If there’s one other thing we could ask, it’s to please find new ways to show support for health workers where you live. And slow the spread. Please.
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This press conference from the white house physician is a disaster. This is not the time to to dodge basic question and shine this thing up. My god.
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It would be impossible for me to overstate how fun it is to watch Steve Kornacki work on nights like this -- Steve receiving live election results in his earpiece while pounding away on his desk computer is like watching a slow happy lightning strike.
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I admit to being stuck on the fact that the President just convened reporters to announce the 1st US coronavirus death, a man in his 50s in Washington State. The president said "She was a wonderful woman.". This is ridiculous. Just stop. Stop talking. Let the scientists talk.
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(1) turkey wants to push the kurds out of that part of syria. (2) trump gives ‘em the OK to invade. (3) pence brokers a “deal” in which the kurds. must get out of that part of syria. (4) the US agrees to un-sanction turkey. that’s a “deal” like being mugged is a deal.
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I know it's a stressful time for everyone, but it really does seem like something's going wrong here.
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Do not amplify misinformation. If someone is consistently hyping snake-oil miracle cures, or making up stories about policies that aren't real, stop putting a camera or a mic on that person as a source for information in this crisis. Rebut lies. Tell the truth. Cite sources.
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Schiff's closing argument in the Trump impeachment trial was one for the ages. Would not surprise me if it's taught someday as the seminal opposition speech from this era in presidential (and Republican party) history.
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Trump. Pence. Barr. Perry. Pompeo. Bolton. Nunes. Firtash?.More. Lev Parnas interview, tonight, 9pm ET, MSNBC.
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All from this Associated Press story that broke while I was on the air tonight, but which I was unable to read on the air:. Again, I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go, not by a mile.
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It's ok to use the phrase "gay anthem" in this context.
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I think of myself as fairly inured by now, but this was viscerally revolting.
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Let it be noted that they're not just turning them off, or deciding to use them less, or unplugging them -- they're *removing them* from these processing centers. It makes no sense at all as cost-cutting. This is just sabotage.
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The doctors just *cannot* Baghdad Bob their way through the president's active and ongoing hospitalization. That smiling "He's not on oxygen right now" dance??. It's a *bad thing* for the US if the world knows reports on the president's condition can't be trusted. Shameful.
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Calling Sen. Ron Johnson a "leading member of the Senate's Sedition Caucus," Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says he "deserves to be expelled, just as 10 senators were expelled in 1861 for refusing to accept the will of the voters who elected Abraham Lincoln.".
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I don't know what's going to happen in the South Carolina senate race this year, but dang, Jaime Harrison is a very good candidate running a very good campaign. The democrats (and SC) are lucky to have him.
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Trump underwater in. - Wisconsin (by 10).- North Carolina (by 9).- Virginia (by 17).- Utah (by 3).- Pennsylvania (by 12).- Texas (by 1).- New Hampshire (by 26) (not a typo).- Michigan (by 11).- Iowa (by 4).- Arizona (by 9). Wait. Utah?.
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Sacramento Bee on Devin Nunes:. "Regardless of whether you lean Democratic or Republican, here’s an undeniable fact: Nunes lied to the American people and his own constituents about the Ukraine allegations, dismissing them although he knew they were true".
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A 68 second snapshot of how the Trump presidency will be remembered.
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Hell of a way to mark the anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre.
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One point:. Senator McConnell said he had the votes to pass the resolution distributed last night. Clearly, he didn't — or he wouldn't have had to make last-minute changes to it today. Just worth keeping in mind in terms of his future assertions about what votes he says he has.
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24 million people losing insurance is roughly equivalent to the population of:. VT.AL.ND.SD.DE.MT.RI.ME.NH.ID.WV.NE.NM.KS.WY. **combined**.
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"RNC video showing rioters in 'Biden’s America' is actually footage shot in Spain".
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Why did he yell out the part about "YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS"?. The point of the speech was for the president to announce that he would deploy "heavily armed" soldiers inside the US. Then he urgently shouted out the part reminding people that American civilians can be armed?.
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Who’s in control of Berman’s physical office space and files right now?.
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Forgive me, but Mr. Barr cannot be complaining that he is being bullied by the president. He happily intervened in cases of interest to the president, to the president's benefit, to the point where prosecutors resigned in protest. What he feels bullied by is the backlash to it.
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LOL. A year attacking the Steele dossier. A month hyping that the dossier started the whole FBI investigation. Weeks hyping that they have a memo (a memo!) that will finally prove it!. So. is there some other memo?. Because this one says it was Papadopoulos, not the dossier.
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Oh please. If reporting that something is happening is the same thing as "organizing" it, I'm happy to take credit for organizing the new Trump family patent on Chinese sausage casings, too. And the resignation of Spiro Agnew; that was a tough one, but I'm a diligent organizer!.
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NEWS: . House Repub Leader Kevin McCarthy @GOPLeader says that the new NYT reporting about him is “totally false” & he never said he’d call Trump to tell him to resign. That denial is false. We've got the tape. @jmartnyt & @alexburnsnyt join me on MSNBC tonight, 9PM ET.
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"New York City Bar Calls for US AG William Barr's Recusal in Ukraine Matter. If Barr does not recuse himself, the bar association's statement said, 'he should resign or, failing that, be subject to sanctions, including possible removal, by Congress'.".
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hello. goodbye. happy valentine’s day, see you next year.
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With NBC News now projecting that Dem Jared Golden has ousted incumbent GOP Rep. Bruce Poliquin in Maine-2, this means the partisan tally for New England House seats will be:. Dems: 21.Repubs: 0. Of the 12 US Senate seats in New England, 1 will be GOP-held: .Susan Collins.
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Hi again, Mr. President! That clip was from March 20, after you said the ship would be in New York harbor by last week. The ship was not in New York last week -- which is what I said on my show. You were wrong about it. No hard feelings. Everyone's glad it's there now. But. .
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"The lesson of the last four years is that he cannot solve the nation’s pressing problems because he is the nation’s most pressing problem.".
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Doctors figuring out how to basically hotwire ventilators to use them for more than one patient:.
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Hi. If you're a federal government official nominally in charge of any part of our nation's response to this crisis, you are needed here. This is a catastrophe. It requires intervention.
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I know no one's going to believe this is true, but it's true. I'm "Vesper Fairchild" in the new Batwoman TV show that starts this Sunday night on The CW. (My character is soooo not me; turns out playing her is one of the most fun things I've ever done).
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Why, then, did Vice President Pence say every American could be tested. Why did the Administration say they'd have a million tests available by the end of last week.
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Stunning display of leadership from Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms -- absolutely stunning. Trust me -- this is worth setting aside a couple of minutes to watch:.
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“Campaign donations turned into private revenue for POTUS”.
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Hi, Mr. President -- thanks for tweeting that interview. Gen. Semonite and the Army Corps are indeed doing great work, but at nowhere near the scale that is needed. We're hundreds of thousands of hospital beds behind, months behind schedule, and. .
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Boston Globe editorial board:. "The months the administration wasted with prevarication about the threat and its subsequent missteps will amount to exponentially more COVID19 cases than were necessary. In other words, the president has blood on his hands.".
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More than 14-thousand Americans have already died. One American died every 45 seconds today. But sure, Mr. Attorney General, go on.
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@DonaldJTrumpJr LOL do you think he knows it's a film about a criminal in the White House? And. prosecuting him? For crimes?.
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This ought to be a fairly somber reckoning moment for the American news industry re 2016. I don't think it will, but it ought to be. (Because here comes the exact same play from the exact same bad-faith actors for 2020).
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Re these comments from Senator Chuck Grassley today:. Sen Grassley was the lead Senate sponsor of a bill to make it easier for mentally ill people to buy guns -- it was a standalone bill; that's all it did. It passed Congress a year ago today, and Pres. Trump signed it into law.
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Listen to this. It's less than a minute. Seriously -- just check this out:.
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So now, according to Trump/Barr: 1- the President can’t be charged, 2- the President can end any DOJ investigation into himself (and fire the investigator) if he contends he’s falsely accused, and 3- Congress can’t investigate the President for corruption or other crimes. Sweet!.
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The Chief Justice and the Senators taking the oath for the impeachment trial. We knew it was coming, but to see it is something else -- sobering moment.
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I'll be back on the air tonight -- 9pm ET MSNBC. Huge heartfelt thanks to everyone who sent good wishes while I was out -- happy to be back!.
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This is a very big deal and is going to get bigger:.
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LOL -- the Russia Today and conservative media news this morning that I **wept** -- I cried and cried -- through the show last night. LOLololol.
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"In private, many of my [Republican] colleagues agree the president is reckless and unfit. They admit his lies. They acknowledge what he did was wrong. They know he's done things Nixon never did. They know that more damning evidence is likely to come out.".
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"No one tried to honor the centennial of this because – and this is important – centennials mark the hundredth anniversary of things. In order to recognize the centennial of a thing from 1920, we had to wait til around 2020, because that’s how time works.".
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We got a lot of requests tonight to post this. Here it is.
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Mueller today: “The Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting President of wrongdoing.”. “The criminal justice system”. Isn’t this Mueller saying it wasn’t AG Barr’s call whether or not to charge Trump?.
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We are in a time when, boy, does your country need you. Do what you need to do to take care of yourself and stay healthy and happy. (And yes, I put him back).
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