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Transcripts For MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240707



should have refused to count the electoral votes. and he should thereby have thrown out the results of the presidential election on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. that, i mean, bottom line that s why trump called for a rally in washington d.c. on january 6th. a rally he said would be wild. that s why he then told the people who showed up, when he called them to d.c., that today, that they should march down to the capitol. what was happening at the capitol at that moment? trump hoped, trump was trying to engineer, that mike pence would reject the votes of the electoral college and thereby throw the election results out, through the united states government in the chaos, thus allowing for the overthrow of the u.s. government and for trump to stay in power, even though he had been voted out. the vice chair of the january 6th investigation, liz cheney, put out a statement last night, which we covered here on last night show, in which he said, president trump was told th ....

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Transcripts For MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240707



presidential election on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. that, i mean, bottom line that s why trump called for a rally in washington d. c. on january 6th. a rally he said would be wild. that s why he then told the people who showed up, when he called them to d. c., that today, that they should march down to the capitol. what was happening at the capitol at that moment? trump hoped, trump was trying to engineer, that mike pence would reject the votes of the electoral college and thereby throw the election results out, throw the united states government in the chaos, thus allowing for the overthrow of the u.s. government and for trump to stay in power, even though he had been voted out. the vice chair of the january 6th investigation, liz cheney, put out a statement last night, which we covered here on last night show, in which he said, president trump was told that any such effort to get pence to do that would be illegal. he was told it was illegal, but he did it anyw ....

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Transcripts For MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240707



we got an answer about the mob that day looking for individual members of congress, hunting down individual lawmakers they wanted to target. the answers we got today were the worst possible answers. we have been looking at this. we ve been asking questions about this for a long time, since right after the attack, including multiple segments here on this show talking about it. now, as of today, the whole country looks like we finally know. it started, for us, we first got word of this worst-possible scenario, as i say, right after the january 6th attack. it was a week after january 6th, 2021. congresswoman mikie sherrill, who was a navy veteran, former federal prosecutor, she made a just hair-curling public allegation about other members of congress, republican members of congress. it was very, very worrying, again, one week after january 6th. not only do i intend to see that the president is removed and never runs for office again and doesn t have access to classif ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240604 08:06:00

Violent crowd, those members of congress that attempted to help our president undermine our democracy, i m going to see they re held accountable and, if necessary, ensure they don t serve in congress. that was january 12th, 2021. mikie sherrill, congresswoman, saying that members of congress had groups coming through the capitol complex on january 5th doing reconnaissance for the next day, presumably so they d be oriented to the layout of the capitol. presumably, they d know how to find their way around, how to potentially find who they were looking for. mikie sherrill and 33 other members of congress wrote to the capitol police and sergeant-at-arms providing detail about what they d seen, what they were worried about, and asked for an investigation. congresswoman sherrill told us january 13th that she had seen tours in the house office building specifically the day before the attack, and that it was shocking to her at time. ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240604 01:07:00

Undermine our democracy i am going to see that they are held accountable. and, if necessary, ensure that they don t serve in congress. that was january 12th, 2021. mikie sherrill, congresswoman, saying that members of congress head groups coming through the capitol complex, on january 5th, doing reconnaissance for the next day, presumably so that they be oriented to the light of the capitol, so that they would be able to find their way around, so that they d potentially be able to find who they were looking. for and mikie sherrill 34 members of congress soon wrote to the capitol police and the sergeant at arms, detailing what they were worried about, and asked for an investigation. congresswoman sherrill told us here on the show, january 15th, one week after the attack, that she had seen tours in the house office building specifically, the day before the attack. and that was shocking to her at the time. i was really shocked when i got into the house office ....

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