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"Long story short, Trump is a crook. It was pay for play. The only seemingly successful scheme that he's ever run, is the scheme that he ran as he sat in the Oval Office." @RepJasmine discusses the new report accusing Trump of overcharging the Secret Service at his hotels
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"I am prepared to face the consequences simply for telling the truth." @OliviaTroye on Trump threats of retribution. "I will continue to be a person out there standing up for our country and for the Democratic values I believe in. "
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.@RexChapman draws on his own battle with addiction to respond to Sean Hannity playing a voicemail President Joe Biden left for his son Hunter. “When I heard that clip played on Fox, I wanted to throw my phone, but I also couldn’t not say something.”
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“If you’re really concerned about national security, don’t worry about a weather balloon… how about top secret information that is in the hands of Donald Trump. That’s the clear & present danger to national security.” -@MichaelCohen212
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"He had a terrible childhood." @MaryLTrump shares insight on Donald Trump's childhood Trauma. "We should always beware of anybody, especially people in power, who do not evolve as human beings. And he never has. "
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.@gtconway3d: “In fairness, I didn’t back Trump originally. I backed Ted Cruz first, and Cruz would’ve been a much better president.”. @KatiePhang: “I would not use that as a defense at this point.”
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“It’s the ultimate self-dealing, the ultimate self-concern, the ultimate narcissism on the part of Donald Trump which has reached a huge crescendo. Now he’s going to pay a price. Sooner or later, if you’re behaving illegally… it catches up to you.” - @gtconway3d
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"Judge Chutkan is simply not giving him special treatment." @JoyceWhiteVance on the lack of delay in Trump's Jan. 6 case. "This is about the prosecution, it's not about the election."
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“All of these politicians think I’m young, dumb, naive or ignorant,” says @0liviajulianna. “By underestimating me and thinking that I won't be able to fire back as hard as I proved that I can, they are truly gifting me a national platform on a silver platter.”
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"There's no reason that sentencing can't move forward. " @JoyceWhiteVance talks about what to expect this week from Trump's NY election interference/hush money trial.
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“To see Kevin McCarthy coming off the two year commemoration of January 6 standing in the hall saying ‘thank you’ to Donald Trump for all he’s done for the party. Kind of a disgusting moment.” @DavidJollyFL reacts to McCarthy’s press conference after being sworn in as Speaker.
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“You can vote Democratic, and you might still have inflation…but you’d have a democracy. Or, you can vote Republican, and you’ll still have inflation, but you’re going to lose your democracy.” - @AllanLichtman on the midterms 100 days out:
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"I'm sure your father and, I being a father, we would be very proud of our children stepping forward, carrying our name forward." @IAmJamesHong tells @KatiePhang in an emotional moment during their conversation #KatiePhangShow
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“If what I just described is not levying war against the United States, against the democratic process, what is?” . @glennkirschner2 gives five reasons why he thinks Donald Trump is guilty of treason and corrupt intent.
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"My father was the best of us." @KatiePhang shares a tribute to her dad. "If you feel the tears this weekend for your father or grandfather or for that person who held that special place in your life. It's OK. Grief is just love with no place to go."
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"A standard condition of being out on bail. is that you not commit a crime. Well, threatening the president of the United States is a crime.". @AWeissmann_ on Trump posting a video depicting Biden tied up in a truck.
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“I have a lot of words for Donald Trump that unfortunately I can’t use on television,” says former DC Metro Police officer Michael Fanone. “One takeaway I had that’s clear is Donald Trump was not the commander in chief on January 6th. The commander in chief was Nancy Pelosi.”
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“During his administration, Congress passed and he signed into law a new provision that raised the penalties for simple mishandling of classified information. For a president who wasn’t engaged on very many issues, he was engaged and educated on THIS one.” - @JoyceWhiteVance
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“Judges sometimes get it wrong, but they usually don’t get it lawless.” @glennkirschner2 says Judge Cannon interfered in an ongoing criminal probe w/ her ruling on Trump’s request for a special master in Mar-a-Lago case & he’s calling for an investigation into her conduct.
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"He understands what's at stake." @JoyceWhiteVance on Fmr. U.S. Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales supporting VP Kamala Harris. "This is one of the people who is as close as you can get to George W. Bush. This is very significant."
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"I would slap a government exhibit sticker on this post and introduce it at his criminal trial." @glennkirschner2 reacts to the breaking news of President Trump's Truth Social post indicating that he expects to be arrested Tuesday #KatiePhangShow
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“The moment I had probable cause I had a responsibility to the citizens to apply for an arrest warrant,” says @GlennKirschner2. “DOJ has had probable cause at least since the Mueller Report was handed down and they have declined to act on it.”
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“When you’ve lost Bill Barr, you’ve really written a bad opinion.”. @JoyceWhiteVance doesn’t mince words when giving her two cents on Judge Cannon’s ruling to grant Trump’s Special Master request with @KatiePhang.
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“How long are people in power willing to put up with this skirting of any kind of accountability or even oversight?”. Watch @KatiePhang’s commentary on the lack of consequences for Ginni Thomas regarding her involvement and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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"He's never respected our service, he's never understood why we do it and this is only yet another example." @FPWellman on Trump's recent campaign debacle at Arlington National Cemetery.
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In rapid-fire fashion, @ElieNYC lists off various ways President Biden could expand abortion access right now. Watch:
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"We know that the Supreme Court has set it up so that he can do whatever he wants to by giving him immunity." @RepJasmine on Trump's comments about ending future elections. "Donald is too old, he's been to crazy. He's too much of a criminal as well."
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.@0liviajulianna has officially reached her fundraising goal for abortion services with $1.5m raised, following her back-and-forth with Rep. Matt Gaetz.
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“When Bill Barr tells Trump, ‘You’re lying, Mr. President, the election was not stolen.’ That provides circumstantial evidence that allows a jury to infer Donald Trump’s intent was corrupt.” . Could the Jan. 6 Committee indict AND convict Donald Trump? @glennkirschner2 weighs in.
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.@RepSwalwell: “Jim Jordan, if he thinks he’s gonna go into that committee as chairman and just roll over the Biden administration without any accountability or any pushback, he has something else coming for him the next two years.”
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"Here in Texas we have this incredible opportunity to flip a Senate seat and to maintain control of the U.S. Senate. Ted Cruz knows that too." @0liviajulianna on the down-ballot races in Texas.
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“In the case of Ginni Thomas…we should never move on.”. In her latest opinion piece, @KatiePhang explains why recent revelations surrounding the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should make all of us nervous.
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"We are a swing state." @DebbieforFL reminds voters of their options and that Florida is up for grabs this November at the ballot box. "Rick Scott is a danger not just for Florida, but the country."
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“These folks are an explicitly neo-Nazi organization. And when I use the word Nazi, I am not being hyperbolic.” . @KrisGoldsmith85 says groups like the Patriot Front believe in a theocratic government and represent the end of democracy.
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"When I logged onto my social media a year or so ago. I was looking at really depressing stuff. Treating dogs is by no means a happy subject but I try. and tell their stories and it really resonates with people" @NiallHarbison on his mission to rescue stray dogs #KatiePhangShow
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“This type of attempt to impose fundamentalist Christianity is exactly why the founders of this country enshrined into the constitution - the concept of separation of church and state.” . Rabbi Barry Silver’s Synagogue is suing the state of Florida over its 15-week abortion ban.
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“This is no usual case of course. It’s not every day where a governor tries to overthrow democracy by overturning an election.”. @AndrewWarrenFL speaks with @KatiePhang about his case against Ron DeSantis heading to trial.
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"Over 45% of Latinos voted for this person, for the person that was actively promising mass deportations, actively promising to separate families. @PaoRamos explains Latinos' racial and ethnic grievances. "We too can carry anti-immigrant sentiment, we too carry anti-blackness."
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"We're talking about the nation's most prolific Supreme Court conservative advocate organizing secret payments directly to the wife of a Supreme Court justice. These are payments via a group. seeking to influence the Supreme Court on key issues" @HeidiReports #KatiePhangShow
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A comment Brett Kavanaugh made during oral arguments in the Mississippi abortion case has @KatiePhang asking: . "Does my uterus magically change when I cross state lines? Does it magically become less of my own because I go from California to Florida?"
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"This is a case that was filed well over a year ago. We find ourselves at this stage only because of efforts to delay by Donald Trump and rulings by the court." @BarbMcQuade on Jan. 6 election interference case and questions about indictments before the 2024 election.
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“Clarence Thomas doesn’t have to look over his shoulder. He can just look at Ginni and see how compromised the institution has become.” . WATCH: @KatiePhang ’s commentary on Justice Thomas’ recent statements regarding the SCOTUS draft leak.
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"The prohibitively high cost to the nation at this point though is that. the former president has normalized his behavior and his delegitimizing and dehumanizing rhetoric into our political culture" @judgeluttig on Trump being a danger to American democracy #KatiePhangShow
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“Last week, in my judgement, was the worst legal week that Trump has ever seen.” @JoyceWhiteVance says the fact that two fmr White House lawyers both testified for several hours in front of a federal grand jury Friday is a sign of how serious Trump’s legal troubles are becoming.
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Donald Trump “is capable of understanding things that are told to him. He just completely lacks a moral conscience.” .@gtconway3d on Trump’s first on-camera reaction to the 1/6 cmte’s argument that he knew what he was doing was wrong.
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An elected official being escorted out of their office by a sheriff’s deputy?. Suspended State Attorney @AndrewWarrenFL says “It’s something you would see happen in Russia or China or North Korea.”. But it happened to him - in Ron DeSantis’ Florida.
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"The war on women coming from Donald Trump and the Republican party is real, and we need to make sure women fully understand the stakes." @TaraSetmayer on the lack of women's rights topics discussed on the RNC.
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My message for Ted Cruz, who has recently been preoccupied by Pete Davidson's love life:
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"They are tired of the chaos," @NikkiFried on Floridians rejecting Project 2025's blueprint in the state. "That's why you are seeing this momentum for Kamala Harris not just here in the state of Florida but across the entire country."
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Rand Paul: “You should have a choice.” . Ted Cruz: “Make your own medical decisions w/ your doctor.” . Greg Abbott: This is about “the right to control and secure your own body.” . Republicans were all for the right to choose when it came to vaccines. My, how times have changed…
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"Instead of us spending so much time focusing on Joe Biden's age and focusing on a debate, we are not focusing on the big picture here - which is that in four months time, American democracy as we know it could be finished." @DeeTwoCents
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.@KatiePhang's SIDEBAR: Trump, Vance and the 25th Amendment. "If something were to happen to Trump, the big job would go to JD Vance. Vance is a threat to everything Americans hold dear: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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"It's infuriating. the lies and the disinformation that she spreads to distract from the fact that she voted against it" @whitfox on Rep. Ana Paulina Luna disinformation about FEMA funding. "We have a chance to unseat one of the most extreme members of Congress."
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“You know I never go anywhere without my big ugly blue book of laws.” . @glennkirschner2 reads the definition of kidnapping for us, which he says could be applied to the stunt by Govs Abbott & DeSantis who allegedly deceived migrants in order to move them across state lines.
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.@KatiePhang: “@ejeancarroll and I are friends. We've been friends for years. But even if we weren't, I would care about this case, because it has big implications for the justice system in this country.”
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn: “If the FBI can do this to President Donald Trump, they can do it to you.”. @TheRickWilson to @MichaelSteele: “Yes, these things can happen to anyone if they steal classified documents, try to overthrow the government.”
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"People think that this is like baseball where 9 is some kind of sacred number. It ain't." @ElieNYC breaks down the pushback against Supreme Court reform.
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“Reverend Schenck's testimony under oath was remarkable. He basically laid out corruption in the highest court of the land,” says @TedLieu. “You end up having justices making decisions based on their view of religion instead of their view of the constitution.”
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“I wish the Department of Justice would stop playing Donald Trump’s reindeer games.” . @glennkirschner2 says the DOJ could put an end to Trump’s legal delay tactics if they just indict him.
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WATCH: @KatiePhang asks @JoyceWhiteVance if we’ll be seeing Steve Bannon go to court on Monday. Her answer made us laugh. #MSNBC #katiephangshow
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The chickens are coming! @JoyceWhiteVance
Have the chickens come home to roost for Donald #Trump? @KatiePhang thinks they just might during our panel's discussion this weekend w/ @JoyceWhiteVance on #MSNBC.
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"Love God, and love thy neighbor." @JamesTalarico on Jesus' commandments. "My faith in Jesus leads me to reject Christian nationalism. and commit myself to the project of a multi-racial, multicultural democracy where we can all freely love God and our neighbors."
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Judge Cannon “reached a result that not only isn’t compelled by the law in the 11th circuit, but is contrary to it.”. @JoyceWhiteVance tells @KatiePhang about the footnote that stood out to her in Judge Cannon’s ruling to grant Trump’s Special Master request.
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"This is what we did in 2016." @DeeTwoCents on the media coverage of Biden. "Meanwhile, I would like to focus on the fact that every time Donald Trump opens up his mouth, he is using white supremacy talking points."
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"We are losing farmers." @JWBoydNBFA shares the concerns of Black farmers in America. "Land is food. Land is freedom. Land is water. Land is everything."
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NEW: Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone appeared before the Jan. 6 Committee for an interview and has been willing to answer the panel's questions, a source familiar with the first part of his testimony says.
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.@HugoLowell: “The fact that the secret service texts are missing…and we don’t have any of the presidential call logs on January 6th, the committee sees this and really smells a rat.”
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"She's the only answer," actor and activist Robert De Niro on why people should vote for VP Harris. "There's a difference: He's a criminal. Kamala Harris is not a criminal."
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“We see him acknowledging that what they're doing is wrong.” . @JoyceWhiteVance says the American people have now seen Senator Mike Lee not only confirm participation but understand the gravity of the efforts to overturn the election in new texts presented to the Jan 6 committee.
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"I don't know why Mr. Calabresi can't understand that 60 federal and state courts reviewed every one of Donald Trump's claims of electoral fraud or corruption, and repudiated and rejected all of them." @RepRaskin's on the co-chair of the Federalist Society's recent article
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"The Republican plan for 2024 is to make it hard for you to vote." @marceelias explains how they are doing it and how the Harriz-Walz ticket is fighting back👇
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"Women have been fighting to get out of the kitchen for decades. It was cringe, it was embarrassing, I don't know what drama club would accept her." @TaraSetmayer on Sen. Britt's SOTU rebuttal #KatiePhangShow
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“Over the years, we have become friends and acquaintances and although I may not have met all of you in-person, I feel like we have shared a journey together.” . @KatiePhang shares some thoughts on her new show and what it took to get here.
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“Because of the egregiousness of Donald’s behavior, even people like Bill Barr can’t stand with him anymore.” . @MaryLTrump says the window of opportunity for Trump to squirm out of legal consequences is closing as he continues to lose more allies.
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"The 45th President of the United States will sit down with Probation & Parole and he will be interviewed by a probation officer. That probation officer will make a recommendation of sentencing." @KatiePhang breaks down how the sentencing process will look like for Donald Trump.
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“They’re burning money in a bonfire right now at a rate that is just absolutely catastrophic.” . @TheRickWilson reacts to new @washingtonpost reporting that found the National Republican Senatorial Cmte is pulling ads in key states after burning through nearly $173 million.
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“The Republican party has now become the ‘not see’ party.” . Rabbi Barry Silver responds to the GOP’s enabling of Kanye West’s antisemitism, saying when they “pretend to not see evil, they are complicit.”
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"It's pretty shocking that the party of anti-immigrant hatred, anti-Semitism, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and misogyny has the audacity to complain about Democrats' rhetoric." @MaryLTrump on Democrats calling out the dangers of another Trump presidency.
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“The closer that Trump is linked to all of the action here, the better the DOJ’s case against him is.”. @JoyceWhiteVance reacts to new reporting from the @washingtonpost that Trump himself packed 15 boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago that were returned to NARA in January.
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Donald Trump says he’s a “protector” of women, but two of his alleged sexual assault victims say otherwise in chilling new ads.@gtconway3d joins @KatiePhang this Saturday top of the #KatiePhangShow. @MSNBC
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“She has now appointed the special master only to micromanage every phase of the process,” @AshaRangappa_ says following Judge Aileen Cannon’s latest ruling. “It seems to me that her endgame here is to help Trump.”
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Allow us to present: Lindsey Graham vs. Lindsey Graham.
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.@KatiePhang on Trump's NY election interference trial: "Why don't you have Donald Trump take the stand and explain what he really meant? If you fail to bring anybody up to refute the evidence, it stays as evidence."
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"That is the Sam Alito who uses personal policy grievances to take away a woman's right to choose. Republicans understand that it's easier for them to control the courts. " @ElieNYC on Justice Alito's claims on not imposing his personal beliefs to shape the law.#KatiePhangShow
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A Texas man who attacked an Asian family he believed to be "Chinese and therefore responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic," sentenced to 25 years in prison on hate crime charges, DOJ says.
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The #KatiePhangShow topped CNN for the second straight quarter. Thank you to our loyal viewers !!.
RATINGS: @MSNBC tops CNN in A25-54 total day viewership for the 2nd straight quarter . More:
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"John Roberts is the Melania Trump of the Supreme Court Justices, he *really* doesn't care." @ElieNYC on the Court's ethical red flags. "He wants people to know that he doesn't and that's why he's allowing Alito to write these opinions."
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“It’s not a mistake that the worse things get for him, the worse his lashing out gets.” . @MaryLTrump says as Trump continues to lose allies over the Mar-A-Lago probe, he will no doubt double down on riling up the remainder of his base.
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"If the President were to pardon him or herself, who would stop that?" @KimWehle "That's a possibility now that the Supreme Court has put the presidency above the law even when it comes to committing crimes in office."
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.@0liviajulianna: “I think it’s quite telling that Gaetz’s office would keep the word ‘teenager’ out of the headlines, seeing as how the last time Matt Gaetz and ‘teenager’ trended together, it didn’t end so well for him.”. Check out the rest of the conversation tonight.
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"The only difference between [Nikki Haley] and Kristi Noem is a dead puppy." David Jolly dissects the race for The White House.
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Misogyny is “only normalized for…men who are reprehensible.” says @DeeTwoCents. “Why do you want to take away bodily autonomy from women? So that you can make way for white men to continue to claim the day, to claim their power and their throne.”
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“Documents don’t lie, and documents don’t forget.” @BarbMcQuade says Trump may be trying to win the court of public opinion with all his bizarre defenses, including declassification by telepathy – but it won’t help in a court of law.
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“If Herschel Walker can make decisions about his future & his family, why should he rob Americans of the opportunity to do the same? Why is it ok for Republicans to have access to abortion for their own means but then have the power to block it from millions of ppl?"-@DeeTwoCents
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"Ted Cruz is Josh Hawley. Marco Rubio is Josh Hawley. Mitch McConnel is Josh Hawley. They’re all Josh Hawley. They’re all cowards. They know Trump incited a coup. They know Trump is bad for the party and bad for the country but they don’t say a damn thing.” - @WalshFreedom
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"Trump's separation policy. met the United Nations definition of torture" @JacobSoboroff author of 'Separated' talks about the new film and how Trump's cruel immigration policies deeply impacted immigrant children."
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"This is really the first time in American history where a person has had to win the office of the presidency in order to stay out of jail. Now that puts Trump on par with other coup leaders." @ElieNYC on Trump avoiding legal repercussion by running for President #KatiePhangShow
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“I think one of our problems… [is] we can be too soft about the language here. Let’s just call it what it is. There was a violent insurrection.” . @DonWinslow talks about his new digital campaign and the importance of bluntly stating the facts.
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