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'Democracy over demagogues': Here is the alphabetical portion of @RepJeffries speech tonight.
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"Woke? You mean practicing basic empathy? Valuing people who are part of your community?" - Kayla Kisseadoo was among the bright, motivated New College students Alex Wagner was able to speak with in Florida recently.
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"This is a huge scandal. I do not understand why the Senate is not doing a hearing on all of the Turmp grift." @clairecmc outlines the 'blinking red light around Jared Kushner.'
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"If people think these guys are trying to clean the swamp, then why is his progress toward the speakership all about a backroom deal over money?" - @clairecmc wonders if this was even done legally
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See you tonight! 9pm ET on MSNBC!
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"Clearly a dereliction of duty of the speaker" - @BennieGThompson calls for Kevin McCarthy to be held accountable for compromising Capitol security by granting Tucker Carlson access to January 6 security video
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"As soon as people start thinking they do not have, somebody can point at somebody else and say, 'That's why you do not have.'" - @Trevornoah on the basic construction of grievance politics.
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"Clearly the IRS failed to conduct the audit of the president of the United States." - @RepDanKildee
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"If your only reason for running for higher office is to force people to fall in line with the tenets of your cult, that is not freedom." - @malcolmkenyatta calls out candidates whose idea of freedom seems more focused on oppressing others.
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BREAKING: Judd Blevins, who attended the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been recalled from the Enid, Oklahoma City Council.
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NEWS: Our colleagues at @NBCNewYork have confirmed tonight former Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg's attorneys, who were being paid for by the Trump Org, are no longer representing him. @KFAlegal shares some analysis of what that might mean.
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. @susannecraig points out to @alexwagner that Donald Trump also has an IRS audit going on behind closed doors that could put him on the hook for as much as $100 million.
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"This is a moment in American history: The president of the United States is effectively being called, in an official court document, the head of a criminal enterprise." - @alexwagner
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Citing statistics on issues like crime, taxes, and gun deaths, @GavinNewsom expresses his frustration that Democrats aren't better at turning blue state/red state contrast into messaging to voters.
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As amazing as it would be for one elementary school to be given $5 billion, that's just one of many things Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to get wrong in a surprisingly short amount of talking.
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"Donald Trump would sell this country for a dollar if he thinks that it would benefit himself." @AOC raises concerns with @alexwagner about Donald Trump's growing desperation.
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"Six Republicans in robes" - @ElieNYC finds his view of a politicized Supreme Court validated by their decision to take up the Trump immunity case.
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"I had a top secret clearance. I was an Army officer. If I had done what [Trump] did I would have been in jail. 100 percent." @PatRyanUC calls out "traitorous" Donald Trump and talks about the "guardrails of democracy" with @alexwagner
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The reason U.S. presidents release their tax returns to the public:
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"The window for cooperating is really now." @AWeissmann_ 's advice to Trump co-defendants: if you're going to flip, don't put it off.
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Tonight!
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TONIGHT: @Trevornoah joins @alexwagner to discuss his role as the executive producer of the new @msnbc_films documentary series “The Turning Point,” as well as his plans for the future after announcing he’ll be leaving “The Daily Show.” Watch @WagnerTonight at 9pmET.
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Don't let people yank your chain. Control the narrative yourself. If somebody is trying to take over the news cycle by being outrageous, do not take the bait. Instead, describe what they are doing rather than allowing them to do it through you."
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2 years
Among the more mind-blowing details of the Washington Post's reporting on the materials found at Mar-a-Lago is that some of it was so highly classified that the investigators realized they weren't allowed to look at what they'd found, as @CarolLeonnig describes to @alexwagner
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Maddow: "My biggest takeaway from this is that we need to protect the rule of law."
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"Obviously the Republicans have become a cult. So I'm going to try to pull the people from that cult if I can." - @AdamKinzinger pulls no punches in talking about the current state of the Republican Party
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"Sometimes to get from the periphery in the back of the house you've got to go to the well of democracy and demand that democracy be true for everybody." -expelled Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson
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2 years
On Liz Cheney's loss tonight, @AdamKinzinger points out that while many current Republican members of Congress don't really believe the Big Lie and Trump conspiracy theories, the scary thing is that the next generation being elected to office sure do.
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"It's an agenda for the long haul." Don Falls, a Florida teacher who has joined a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis' "Stop Woke Act," describes the long term strategy of conservatives trying to manipulate school curricula to align with their idology.
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Rep. @danielsgoldman explains to @alexwagner how Republicans could be criminally exposed if they continue to use what they now know is Russian disinformation meant to interfere in the election.
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Very clarifying: In just a minute and a half, @AWeissmann_ explains why Judge Cannon's answer today in the Trump documents case is not good enough for Jack Smith.
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Happy Birthday to us!! 🥳
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. @clairecmc : Don't be distracted by reporting on polls. Just go vote.
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"If you're convicted of retention of a top secret document it can subject you to a recommendation that's 3-6 years higher than a not top secret document. And there are 21 of them in this document." @BVanGrack on why the sensitivity of the Trump documents matters
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"There is no Republican establishment. There are no normies." @SykesCharlie cautions that "whoever becomes the speaker is going to preside over the chaos that has been building for years. He or she is going to be the mayor of Crazytown."
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In this one answer, Andrew Weissmann makes clear why close observers of Judge Aileen Cannon say she is not acting in good faith.
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"This is somebody who has hopped on and off the Trump train so often I'm surprised she doesn't have a high ankle sprain like the winning Chiefs quarterback." @clairecmc tries to identify Nikki Haley's position on the Republican political spectrum
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11 months
As @Lawrence points out, the indictment is not a complicated legal document and it's not even as long as the total pages suggests. Check it out yourself here:
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2 years
NOW! @jrpsaki joins @alexwagner on MSNBC
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"The level of death threats that I receive, it's not just harmful to me and my ability to feel safe and to continue to serve my district, but it's harmful to my family. It's harmful to the psyche of my children." @IlhanMN on the danger she is put in by violent right-wing rhetoric
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10 months
The newly unredacted parts of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit refer to Walt Nauta as "Witness 5" ...so there are at least four others.
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"MAGA can also mean 'Making Attorneys Get Attorneys'" - @AWeissmann_ with the lawyer jokes
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. @neal_katyal 's explanation of why the ruling yesterday against former Trump lawyer John Eastman is a big deal is 🔥 More (different) Trump legal trouble coming up on the show at the top of the hour.
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"In a quarter century of practicing, Alex, I've never heard a statement like that from any judge. It just doesn't exist." @neal_katyal remarks on the extremity of Donald Trump's conduct in court and in public that made a judge advise jurors in a Trump trial to remain anonymous.
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Stop what you’re doing and watch this complete takedown of @HerschelWalker by pastor @jamalhbryant . #WeDontNeedAWalker
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. @brhodes takes a wider view of how Judge Cannon is favoring Trump: "The first thing that would-be autocrats do when they're trying to shift a democratic system to an autocratic system is they try to pack the courts with judges who will find in favor of their power grabs."
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"The chief financial officer of the former president’s business is expected to admit to 15 felonies on Thursday and to take the stand at the company’s trial."
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Donald Trump's "advisors, legal and otherwise, are growing increasingly concerned, and have been since June, that this is a criminal investigation in which the former president is in legal jeopardy ultimately of his own making," @CarolLeonnig tells @alexwagner
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"Mr. Trump was charged with a total of seven counts, including willfully retaining national defense secrets in violation of the Espionage Act, making false statements and an obstruction of justice conspiracy, according to people familiar with the matter."
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"It looks like our company listened, to us, to you, and did what was right." - Alex Wagner on NBC News correcting course on Ronna McDaniel
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Whoo! Some mighty fine cake for the longest shortest year ever!
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"These things do start to seem like a pattern..." Rachel Maddow points out that the more Donald Trump's legal failings stack up, the harder it is for him to explain away the bigger picture they paint.
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Coming Tuesday, August 16 at 9pmET! BEHOLD!!
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Big night here at @msnbc ! (Not to mention another major milestone in our nearly 25-year friendship!)
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"I've been kicked out of my tribe, and that's OK." - @AdamKinzinger describes how Donald Trump has become a Jesus figure for some Republicans.
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Trump says you can declassify documents by just thinking about it
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"It's insane!" @SecretaryPete blasts House GOP: "This is not a game. This is not a show. And this is not practice. This is the actual legislative body that actually governs the real military and government of the most powerful nation on Earth."
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"No lawyer could let Donald Trump take the witness stand in his own defense without committing malpractice." @JoyceWhiteVance is skeptical of the legal practicality of Donald Trump's new "it was just bravado" defense.
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"The dictators always fall." - @TimothyDSnyder
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Watch this amazing explanation from @AliVelshi of how the damage from bombs in cities is made worse by the chunks of rock and other shrapnel thrown by the explosion.
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"It's kind of fitting that after rising to political power by falsely accusing Barack Obama of not being eligible to be president it turns out that it's Trump who a court has now determined is not eligible anymore for the presidency." - @ianbassin of @protctdemocracy
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@BrandyZadrozny Can't believe they don't offer any special accommodations to lizards.
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"Don't even get me started with the weakness of the current speaker." @GavinNewsom has harsh words for Republicans following Donald Trump's orders to abandon work on immigration legislation. "They don't want to solve this problem. They want to use it as a political issue."
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. @lawofruby explains why you should know who Madeleine Westerhout is ahead of Donald Trump's New York criminal trial next week.
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"He will be destroyed on the stand in about 30 seconds by any decent cross-examiner on almost any subject because you cannot pull the stuff that you can pull at a town hall or even in a one-on-one interview with a good interviewer." @gtconway3d on Trump's rhetorical tricks
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If they did it to Cassidy Hutchinson...
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"Even in defeat, Cheney could emerge from Wyoming tough and unencumbered enough to serve as a one-woman wrecking ball against Trump and as a reckoning for a party that’s been terrified to speak honestly about him for years now. "
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'Bring back the trades': Rep-elect Marie Gluesenkamp Perez talks "right to repair" and restoring the vitality of trade schools and technical education. ( @MGPforCongress
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"But another thing, if you're Trump, that you're scared about is, is this now the start of a domino effect?" @neal_katyal 's description of how flip often follows flip in conspiracy cases was barely 12 hours old before the next flip (Chesebro) was announced.
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In his interview with us tonight, @RepRaskin explains why the January 6th Committee wants to talk to New Gingrich:
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In this second audio clip from tonight's exclusive report, a Trump campaign official tells former Fox producer Abby Grossberg that "the audit came in pretty darn close to what the machine count was" and "there weren't any physical issues with machines" in Georgia.
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"I'm told by sources that Christina Bobb will automatically be a witness. She will be asked for testimony. We'll see about Evan Corcoran, he is still a lawyer." - @CarolLeonnig shares reporting on the trouble Donald Trump's lawyers are facing.
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If you’re going to spend hours on TV talking about history-making news, doing it in good company is key.
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BREAKING: NBC News projects Issue 1 in Ohio will passed, securing abortion rights in an amendment to the state constitution.
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As of yesterday, anyone can file a complaint against any Florida public school teacher for anything they deem as indoctrinating their children about race or gender, and thereby cost that teacher not just their job but their ability to teach at public schools in Florida.
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Hello #Maddow podcast listeners! We've been putting MSNBC Prime and the new #WagnerTonight episodes into the Maddow feed, but soon we'll have the Alex Wagner episodes exclusively in their own feed. Search for Alex Wagner Tonight where you get your podcasts.
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Remember past witnesses that Donald Trump targeted? They sure do. And so, apparently, does Judge Chutkan.
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In response to @AliVelshi asking about how to become a foot soldier for democracy when it's under threat, @TimothyDSnyder offers a healthy list of suggestions:
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On overcoming car culture nostalgia @SecretaryPete points out that the automotive tradition was born of looking toward the future. "The best things about our past had to do with getting out of the past. And the worst things about our past are things that we don't have to repeat."
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"There's nothing about "the talk" that could save my son if he runs into a cop who's having a bad day." @esglaude on the futility of trying to assuage a system that is geared for violence
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So excited!
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Happy launch day @WagnerTonight ! Join @alexwagner for the premiere of her new @MSNBC show at 9PM ET!
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Hillary Clinton on Tucker Carlson's Putin interview: 'He is a useful idiot' Watch more of Alex Wagner's interview with Clinton tonight! 9pmET on MSNBC
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In this election we will see if Republicans can again take advantage of a vote counting delay they created to assert election fraud.
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"Now we know that while [DOJ investigators] were seeking some of this material, lo and behold they found some." - @CarolLeonnig explains the timeline of the news she and her colleague @DevlinBarrett broke in the Washington Post tonight
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. @JoaquinCastrotx to the "Abbotts, Duceys and DeSantises" of the world: Stop being pricks!
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"It allows you to go after the boss, the person who doesn't get his hands dirty and allows his underlings to do all the dirty work." - @BarbMcQuade offers a clear, helpful explanation of what a RICO case is and why Fani Willis might use it in the Georgia election case.
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BREAKING: A Texas judge has ruled that the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow for exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges.
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. @gtconway3d lays out his favorite scenario for how the Trump presidential immunity Supreme Court appeal plays out next week. (It results in a trial as soon as May.)
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"...the discovery in this case is somewhat like 78 copies of War and Peace, but not in the way the defense meant: After you read the first one, you don’t need to read the other 77."
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The 9pm hour staff may be weird, but we are loving Alex Wagner.
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“Every time you cross a threshold, other jurisdictions watch.” - @neal_katyal anticipates other judges may follow Judge Engoron in imposing limits on Donald Trump
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Last night @lawofruby pointed out that while we're all focused on the civil fraud ruling (and E. Jean Carroll), Donald Trump was already carrying a lot of debt going into these cases.
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"...and he can be on the indictment." The transcript of an exchange between a Fani Willis prosecutor and a defense attorney for Georgia fake electors seems to make clear that there is, indeed, an indictment coming related to that case.
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Rep. Susan Wild, ranking member of the House Ethics Committee, says she expects a privileged resolution to expel George Santos to be passed by the "Wednesday following Thanksgiving," and adds that "all of the members of the Ethics Committee will be voting yes on expulsion."
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If Donald Trump loses in 2024, it won't be because of a deep state super bowl pop star.
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"Without vaccines, the country would have experienced four times as many deaths, 1.5 times more infections, and 3.8 times more hospitalizations in the time since December of 2020. The vaccines also saved the U.S. $1 trillion in additional medical costs."
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"Institutions are going to have to show some courage in these moments because what you do when you fold in the face of this is then you only encourage more of it to happen." @nhannahjones on remaining strong in the face of right-wing attacks
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Former Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance says he made a mistake in putting off his investigation of the Trump Organization in deference to the DOJ which ultimately walked away (though he does not think it would be bad for other state cases to do so now). Watch:
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