congress who were sitting on that impeachment committee were doing, was dangerous. they were pushing wild conspiracy theories, about american elections. and about trump s political enemies, that were in many cases, manufactured by foreign intelligence agencies, with the goal of destabilizing the united states. she warns, that pumping that poison into america s political bloodstream, was a danger to democracy. fiona hill knows something about dangers to democracy. she is after all, an expert on russia. now fiona hill has written a book. it s called there s nothing for you here, finding opportunity in the 21st century. i want to read you what she writes about the january 6th insurrection. quote. the failure of trump slow motion, in plain sight attempt at a self coup was not preordained. ultimately it was thwarted only by individuals that the key institutions that typically would not be involved in executing such a plot. first and foremost,
high-ranking members of the military resisted trump s efforts to personalize their power. if they had gone along with that the outcome of trump s self coup could ve been completely different. other government institutions also held, firm for instance throughout his tenure, with the help of republican lawmakers, trump filled more than 200 federal court vacancies, with what he kept calling, his judges. trump judges, all the way to the supreme court however, respected their oath of office, is they rejected the presidents appeals to overturn illegitimate election results. state and local government election administrators, also refused to be swayed. throughout history, coup plotters of seize control of the main communication channels. trump did not physically take radio in tv by storm, but he continuously discredited the mainstream media, who are critical of his behavior, he directly messaged eight 88 million people, who followed his twitter account, to propagate false self serving
preordained. ultimately it was thwarted only by key individuals at the institutions that could typically be involved in executing such a plot. high ranking members of the military resisted trump s efforts to personalize their power. if they had gone along with it, the outcome of trump s self-coup could have been completely different. other government institutions also held firm. for instance, throughout his tenure, with the help of republican lawmakers, trump filled more than 200 federal court vacancies with what he kept calling his judges. trump judges all the way to the supreme court, however, respected their oath of office. they rejected the president s appeals to overturn the legitimate election results. state and local government election administrators also refused to be swayed. throughout history, coup plotters have seized control of the main communication channels. trump did not physically take radio and tv by storm but he continuously discredited the mainstream media who were
fiona hill knows something about dangers to democracy. she is, after all, an expert on russia. well, now fiona hill has written a book. it is called there is nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the 21st century. i want to read you what she writes about the january 6th insurrection. quote, the failure of trump s slow motion, in plain sight attempt at a self-coup was not preordained. ultimately it was thwarted only by individuals at the key institutions that typically would be involved in executing such a plot. first and foremost, high-ranking members of the military resisted trump s efforts to personalize their power. if they had gone along with it, the outcome of trump s self-coup could have been completely different. other government institutions also held firm. for instance, throughout his tenure, with the help of republican lawmakers, trump filled more than 200 federal court vacancies with what he kept calling his judges. trump judges all the way to the supreme court, how
0 mask. so a little bit longer. hanging in there means those who don t really want to get vaccinated, are more likely not to get vaccinated. an overwhelming majority. people looking out for each other. and i think because they see it is working. well we will see, your thanks, chris. that is all in for tonight. the rachel maddow show starts now with ali velshi. good evening, ali. chris, we have not crossed paths in the last year and a half, so we caught up a little bit. nothing like a little makeup room chitchat. that s been missing from all of our lives for a long time. great to see you, chris. rachel s got the night off. thanks to you for joining us. we re coming up on nine months since the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. i think for all of us, amid the deluge of video and photographic documentation of the attack that emerged in the days and weeks afterwards, there are certain moments, certain images from that day that are burned into our minds. moment