like something is going on in the news today, doesn t this remind me of something else? yes, it does, something that might seem unprecedented, like we ve never faced something like this before in the news. it turns out more often than it, it does have an antecedent in history. the very first episode dropped today. it is about something that s very much like january 6th that happened before. i would have more to say about this later on this hour. but chris is right, it s just drop. today we are super excited about it. that s all still to come, it s called rachel maddow presents deja news . all right, so, here s what it said when they finally showed what they had to the public. this was from the u.s. justice department at the time. quote, the following statement is respectfully submitted to the court by the government at the arraignment of the defendant. it constitutes a detailed resuscitation of the facts and evidence developed by the investigation to date. that presentation
you on mondays anymore. how come you re here? you know, there is stuff going on. thought it would be good to be in the chair today. can i say i listened to your debut deja news today which i loved. thank you very much. fantastic stuff. i had actually read something a little while ago. very brief about that episode. and loved it. anyway people should check it out. thank you very much first of all. very kind of you to say. i should credit you actually because it was an interview with a journalist and historian on your podcast which in part got isaac and i really interested in that topic. it is what put it on the table for us to consider as one of our episodes i love that. so you were part of the inspiration for doing that whole story. great. thank you, rachel. thanks, chris. much appreciate it. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. very happy to have you here. as chris mentioned, we do have a new podcast that just launched the first episode today calle
i had actually read something a little while ago. very brief about that episode. and loved it. anyway people should check it out. thank you very much first of all. very kind of you to say. i should credit you actually because it was an interview with a journalist and historian on your podcast which in part got isaac and i really interested in that topic. it is what put it on the table for us to consider as one of our episodes. i love that. so you were part of the inspiration for doing that whole story. great. thank you, rachel. thanks, chris. much appreciate it. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. very happy to have you here. as chris mentioned, we do have a new podcast that just launched the first episode today called rachel maddow presents deja news. the whole idea of the podcast is deja vu like something is going on in the news today. doesn t this remind me of something else? yes, it does. something that might seem unprecedented like we ve never fac
official. they had it all documented. they had records. they had receipts. they had notes. they had witnesses who had been involved in the corruption scheme, who were set to testify at trial. they had this guy. they had him. and he knew that they had him. and he just went on ballistic against the justice department investigation that had targeted him. he said the only reason they were coming after him was that he was a political target, that the people behind this investigation only wanted him out as a political official. they were corrupt, unprofessional, malicious, and outrageous. he said he was gonna go after these terrible people in the justice department who were witch hunting him. he was gonna destroy them. he was gonna tear the whole system down. he singled out individual officials in the u.s. justice department and went after them one by one. i say this to you the conduct of high individuals
for official acts as a public official. they had it all documented. they had records. they had receipts. they had notes. they had witnesses who had been involved in the corruption scheme who were set to testify at trial. they had this guy. they had him. and he knew they had him. and he had just gone ballistic against this justice department investigation that had targeted him. he said the only reason they were coming after him was that he was a political target. that the people behind this investigation only wanted him out as a political official. they were corrupt and unprofessional and malicious and outrageous. he said he was going to go after these terrible people in the justice department who were witch hunting him. he was going to destroy them. he was going to tear the whole system down. he singled out individual officials in the u.s. justice department and went after them one by one. i say this to you.