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The Highland Park shooting suspect legally bought five weapons despite prior threats. “We essentially live at the mercy of whoever can go into a store and buy an AR-15,” Joy Reid tells her panel on The ReidOut on MSNBC

The Highland Park shooting suspect legally bought five weapons despite prior threats. “We essentially live at the mercy of whoever can go into a store and buy an AR-15,” Joy Reid tells her panel on The ReidOut on MSNBC The Highland Park shooting suspect legally bought five weapons despite prior threats. “We essentially live at the mercy of whoever can go into a store and buy an AR-15,” Joy Reid tells her panel on The ReidOut on MSNBC Posted: 06 Jul 2022 11:34 PM PDT  Georgetown University law professor Rosa Brooks...

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre JULY 05, 2022

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre JULY 05, 2022 Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre JULY 05, 2022 July 4th bashing justified after Supreme Court 'declared a war against women,' NJ Gov. Murphy tells CNN MSNBC host Ali Velshi slammed the Supreme Court for its ruling on abortion and gave credit to authoritarian foreign regimes for their abortion policies.. Chris Hayes: “At this point, the committee is the only governing organ in the country that appears to be undertaking the project of fighting for American demo...

Michael Beschloss: "We're living through a time where I can't predict to you whether we'll be living in a democracy five years from now or not. I hope we are."

Michael Beschloss: "We're living through a time where I can't predict to you whether we'll be living in a democracy five years from now or not. I hope we are." Michael Beschloss: "We're living through a time where I can't predict to you whether we'll be living in a democracy five years from now or not. I hope we are." Posted: 30 Jun 2022 10:26 PM PDT MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace compared Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney's views on "the existential threat of Trumpism" to the threat of radica...

Former aide Cassidy Hutchinson testifies on Jan. 6 warnings, pardon requests, and Trump trying to grab the wheel

Former aide Cassidy Hutchinson testifies on Jan. 6 warnings, pardon requests, and Trump trying to grab the wheel Former aide Cassidy Hutchinson testifies on Jan. 6 warnings, pardon requests, and Trump trying to grab the wheel Posted: 29 Jun 2022 08:38 PM PDT  "He wanted Mr. Clark — Mr. Jeff Clark to take over the Department of Justice," Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Meadows aide, said about Perry in a clip of her deposition that was played at Thursday's... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xy...

Takeaway #2

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A number of you have written in to say about the hearings, "No,  that  wasn't the big deal. This other thing was the big deal!" In almost every case I find myself agreeing with you. What it comes down to is there was just a huge amount of critical new detail in Hutchinson's testimony. And it was a challenge to evaluate the significance of it all in real time or organize it on a rank of significance. So TPM Reader  KB  notes that all the stuff about a war room at the Willard with Rudy and the top crazies starts appearing in a very, very different light if the plan was that Trump was going to go to the Capitol to in some sense lead the confrontation. It definitely seems like that wasn't just a possibility or something that was discussed but rather definitely Trump's plan and, one would imagine, what Rudy and his crew thought was going to happen. See Also:   Former aide Cassidy Hutchinson testifies on Jan. 6 warnings, pardon requests, and Trump trying to grab ...

Talk (On Background) Is Cheap

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Earlier this month, Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, made a big show of her willingness and desire to march right up to Capitol Hill and clear her good name before the Jan. 6th investigation committee. Yesterday, her lawyer  said  the committee just turns out to be too biased. So she won't be testifying after all. See Also:   Former aide Cassidy Hutchinson testifies on Jan. 6 warnings, pardon requests, and Trump trying to grab the wheel Two White House security officials who allegedly scuffled with the President in the presidential limousine are now denying through intermediaries what Cassidy Hutchinson said under oath in yesterday's hearing. But Ginni Thomas's switcheroo is a good reminder that talk — or rather claims through intermediaries — is cheap. People who claim they are just champing at the bit to testify usually end up refusing to testify. See Also:   CNN's Don Lemon defends questioning Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden's mental fitness: ...

How Hutchinson Converted Skeptics To Thinking Trump Might Be Prosecuted After All

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Former President Trump's speech at the Ellipse was many things — low-class, loaded with conspiracy theories, reckless. See Also:   Former aide Cassidy Hutchinson testifies on Jan. 6 warnings, pardon requests, and Trump trying to grab the wheel But to many legal elites, it fell short of incitement. See Also:   CNN's Don Lemon defends questioning Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden's mental fitness: 'It's our job' But after the Jan. 6 Committee hearings — and, specifically, after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony on Tuesday — that view may be starting to change. See Also:   MSNBC panel wonders if Ginni Thomas should be 'perp-walked' by Jan. 6 Committee Multiple legal commentators and former DOJ officials who had publicly stated, before Tuesday, that Trump's activities did not meet the exacting legal standard for incitement have now changed their views. See Also:   Joy Behar says 'The View' changed when Trump got elected: 'We used to have...

CBS MORNINGS "Women are going to die": Hillary Clinton on Supreme Court's overturning Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights

CBS MORNINGS "Women are going to die": Hillary Clinton on Supreme Court's overturning Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights CBS MORNINGS "Women are going to die": Hillary Clinton on Supreme Court's overturning Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights Posted: 29 Jun 2022 07:51 AM PDT  "We are only at the beginning of this terrible travesty that this Court has inflicted on us": Hillary Clinton says she's concerned that overturning Roe v. Wade is only the first step in the Supreme... Thank you ...

Whoopi Goldberg on the overturning of Roe v. Wade: "I appreciate everybody's religion, but I do not subscribe to your religion. I don't ask you to subscribe to mine."

Whoopi Goldberg on the overturning of Roe v. Wade: "I appreciate everybody's religion, but I do not subscribe to your religion. I don't ask you to subscribe to mine." Whoopi Goldberg on the overturning of Roe v. Wade: "I appreciate everybody's religion, but I do not subscribe to your religion. I don't ask you to subscribe to mine." ‘The View’ slams Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade as liberal hosts declare they’re ‘pro-life’ Former CBS reporter Kate Smith told CNN's Brian Stelter the split media coverage of pro-life and pro-abortion demonstrations is "abso...