Maddow: If Trump is going to keep lying like he has been every day on stuff this important, we should, all of us, stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it's going to cost lives.
Maddow: Don't get this thing. Do whatever you can to keep from getting it.
Rachel Maddow reveals that her partner, Susan, tested positive for Covid-19 and is still recovering, and implores viewers to consider their loved ones when they calculate their own Covid-19 risk.
Maddow: "I want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at MSNBC and at NBC News who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone who hasn't just attacked us as journalists but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get…
"I don't say this lightly, and I worked for two years in the Trump administration.
He doesn't know what he's doing or talking about.
He made this decision on Sunday night without any contingency plan for our troops on the ground." -Brett McGurk, former special presidential envoy
BREAKING: Native Americans push back on North Dakota voter ID rule, announcing in a new statement they will issue street address documents at polling locations to members who need them.
NYCs massive
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What Trump neglected to mention about his support for dropping sanctions on Russia was that he had a massive business deal in the works that required financing from a sanctioned bank.
BREAKING: Jaime Harrison to make formal announcement of candidacy for Senate Wednesday morning. Harrison will challenge Lindsey Graham to represent South Carolina.
"...In some quarters I will be vehemently denounced. I'm sure to hear abuse from the president and his supporters. Does anyone seriously believe that I would consent to these consequences other than from an inescapable conviction that my oath before God demanded it of me?"
Maddow: "Jamal Khashoggi was a U.S. resident. He worked for the freaking Washington Post. He was a U.S. journalist. *We* ought to be the ones who somebody is trying to placate here."
If you are feeling overwhelmed by the news and by the state of things and how everything feels so bad in so many ways all at once, do not judge yourself for having those feelings. What it means is that you're awake and cognizant of the real world right now. Take care of yourself.
"It’s a painful, anguishing thing to acknowledge, that the president of the United States is a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.” -David Laufman, former chief of the DOJ's counterintelligence and export control section
"Ask yourself why no facts favorable to the president have leaked from the Republican side. It's not because they don't leak. It's because there aren't any." -Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Here is that powerful testimony from Montana ICU nurse Joey Traywick (with a little bit of perspective from Dr. Kris Spanjian at the beginning).
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Good news for Kavanaugh: His confirmation hearing is over
Bad news for Kavanaugh: Whether he's confirmed or not, he could ultimately find himself impeached
Andrew Weissmann: Do you know how many times I have experienced or even heard of the attorney general of the United States reaching into a single criminal case to weigh in on the sentencing submission?
Maddow: How many times?
Weissmann: That would be zero.
Riding the Senate subway to get set up for tonight's interview with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, his first national interview as majority leader!
Watch tonight at 9pm ET on MSNBC
They say that Dodge City voters can't vote in their usual polling location because it is inaccessible due to construction. So we went there to see for ourselves. Wanna guess what we found?
It was an unkindness to the first lady for the White House to claim she created a pamphlet about children's online habits when, in fact, it was made years ago during the Obama administration. -particularly given her RNC speech fiasco.
If the Democrats win control of the House in 2018, they will also win control of the House committees. And if you think that's just boring bureaucratic stuff, you should think again. Watch:
The House Intelligence Committee can't send testimony transcripts to Robert Mueller until they have a full set of members. So far, Republicans are not naming any members to the Intelligence Committee. They managed it for 23 other committees, but...
Her family pays for her medical treatment with private medical insurance.
Her family came to this country legally.
She has never done an illegal thing in her life.
But the Trump administration plan is apparently to kill her.
"If there's one basic value that ought to unite us as Democrats and Republicans - as Americans - it is how we treat children. Their children, our children, it doesn't matter." -Rep. Gerry Connolly
New NYT reporting tells us that US senators have received at least one classified briefing on the fact that this is a Russian disinformation campaign, and nevertheless here are Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Chuck Grassley doing their part to help that campaign succeed.
"I know Lt. Col. Vindman. ... The idea that somebody with his resume would not serve the United States of America is just disgusting. It's outrageous. And I want those people to apologize and to remember what they're doing when they take cheap shots..." -fmr Amb. Michael McFaul
This 28-page document is full of teenagers and not-yet-teenagers, who report being raped, and pregnant as a result, and here's Trump appointee Scott Lloyd, tracking information about these girls and using it to block them from being able to get the abortion they have asked for.
We've never been in this dire a place in terms of ethics and criminality. But unless we want to be the generation that said that was OK, we have to cry foul.
There's Donald Trump's campaign chairman in handcuffs,
while his deputy campaign chairman also awaits sentencing
and his national security adviser also awaits sentencing
and his person lawyer is in federal prison
for crimes prosecutors say the president directed him to commit.
"If right doesn't matter, we're lost. If the truth doesn't matter, we're lost."
Here is the closing of House manager Rep. Adam Schiff's summary statement tonight:
So if this NYTimes report is correct, U.S. intelligence has concluded that Russia offered bounties for dead U.S. troops in Afghanistan, AND has paid out on some of those bounties. And Donald Trump was told in March and so far has opted to have no response.
NEWS: Gov. Gavin Newsom: California has inked deal for 200 million masks (150 million N95, 50 million surgical) per month, enough to meet state's needs and potentially export to other states
Nothing against or for Schumer, or against or for Pelosi, but how does the math work that Pelosi is the one whose leadership position is being threatened?
"I will say, on behalf of myself, I never dated Matt Gaetz. I have much higher standards in men. And Matt, frankly is a very unserious politician." -Cassidy Hutchinson leaves nothing to question about her regard for Rep. Matt Gaetz
What are the odds that Robert Mueller looked at William Barr's unsolicited 19 page memo to Donald Trump and said Yeah, let's let that guy decide about my two years of work product?
-Rep. Adam Schiff
"The startling reality for all of us is that we are faced with a situation where our president, the person whom we have entrusted to lead this country, isn't all in for our nation. - Sally Yates, former acting attorney general
So black Georgians are affected by this registration hold-up at a rate more than double their prevalence in the population... as Brian Kemp oversees his own election.This is outrageous enough that it seems almost impossible that the courts will allow this to stand.
"What I worry about is when the government of Russia puts their fingers on the scale and causes the will of the American people to be something other than America electing our president." -Peter Strozk
Actually, Republicans, you are already on the record fighting like crazy to get rid of protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions.
But nice try.
Within five weeks of Mitch McConnell getting that call from David Vitter saying, Hey I've got an aluminum plant we're going to put in your home state! Thanks from Oleg! —Wendy Vitter's nomination got pulled off the trash heap by McConnell and now she is a federal judge. For life.
Senator Chuck Schumer got 11 Republicans to break ranks from Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell to vote against easing some Russia sanctions.
Do not lose faith. Anything is possible.
Random tip: If you have a hand-sewn mask with no wire and breathing fogs up your glasses, a tissue folded over a few times over the bridge of your nose, under the mask, totally solves the problem.
Lanny Davis: "Mr. Cohen has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel and is more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows."
State Department official Jennifer Williams testified that she flagged to Mike Pence Trump's call with Zelensky as well as what Rudy Giuliani was up to, so what explains Pence's claims of ignorance about the situation with Ukraine?
What happened right after the DNC's analytics were stolen by Russian military intelligence? The Trump campaign happened to overhaul their campaign strategy.
"I think many of us could see that Donald Trump was going to be a very poor president. What we couldn't see is how many people would be complicit in that." -Rep. Schiff
Here is Hillary Clinton's hypothetical about a candidate calling on China to hack Trump's taxes, and why Republicans putting partisanship over national security is a dangerous thing.
"State Department Inquiry Into Clinton Email Finds No Deliberate Mishandling of Classified Information"
OH! Good to know! Now, where do we go to get the last four and a half years back?
This Manafort sentence "suggests that the wealthy and the powerful do better in court that many other defendants do, and I think it is an attack on the legitimacy of the criminal justice system." -Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney
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It tells you something about this time period we are living through, and this presidency we are living through, that the sitting president's campaign chairman appearing in court today trying to avoid an extra decade in prison doesn't make the front page today.
The seizure of Paul Manafort's properties by the U.S. government means We The People now own an apartment in Trump Tower.
The sign-up sheet is on a clipboard on the wall next to the hat store downstairs. Weekends are going fast.
Rep. Nadler: This is inhuman. Frankly, I think it's criminal. There ought to be criminal prosecutions of some of the agency heads for child abuse. This is clearly child abuse. It violates probably half a dozen laws.
No sooner has the portion of Rachel Maddow's interview with Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer aired than Mitch McConnell has put out a statement that he is folding, ending the stand-off.
"The American people don't need to hear from Donald Trump or Mike Pence about the coronavirus. They need to hear from the experts who know the fact, who know what's happening." -Ron Klain, head of the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis
Just so we're clear, it is illegal to use public office for personal, private gain.
Public office like EPA administrator.
Personal gain like trying to get your wife a Chick-fil-A franchise.
We can send a rover to a planet 300 million miles away and land it like a feather. We can create oxygen there. We can fly mini helicopters in the Martian sky that work for us and send us things. And we can’t provide water and power to people in Texas when it’s cold.
The president disappearing evidence that's laying there in plain sight, pretending that up is down and black is white, this is garbage time again.
It is a form of information warfare and it is being waged against us.
Rep. Schiff: There are two categories of Republicans in Congress: those who will burn down the House to protect trump, and those who will stand mute while they do it.
One of the reasons they did that is because the children would cry, and the older kids figured out that when they cried the guards got angry. So the best thing they could do was to protect these children. It was protecting all of them.
On the same day as a criminal complaint was unsealed against a Russian citizen accused of using the NRA as a conduit to influence U.S. political leaders on behalf of Russia, the Trump admin announced new rules that would allow the NRA to stop disclosing its donors.
Given Jim Jordan's key role in Donald Trump's election subversion scheme, Rachel Maddow points out, "it becomes basically an open question as to whether a House under Jordan's leadership would ever certify the election results of an election in which Donald Trump ran but lost."
Rep. Sherrill describes how her military training taught her to "look for things that were out of place, look for things that were odd, and look at them with an eye toward security," and how that led her to raise questions about visitors to the Capitol the day before the attack.
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There is no statute of limitations in Maryland for a felony like what Brett Kavanaugh is accused of. If Dr. Ford ever wanted to pursue it that way, she could make a criminal complaint - even if it's after Republicans confirm Kavanaugh.