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Published: July 17, 2025 04:53
Booker: This is what he said about Bove: This is a person that will do anything necessary to support the MAGA agenda.
He’s putting people on who are not coming out of a certain area of judicial thought—they are just loyalists.
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Published: July 16, 2025 22:04
“Saturday, a special edition of The Best People: Nicolle Wallace is joined by the hosts of the MeidasTouch Podcast …Saturday at 4 PM ET on MSNBC”
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Published: July 16, 2025 21:09
Crockett: For Trump to say Epstein is a non-factor—when we can go and find picture after picture of the two of them together—that’s a very interesting concept, right?
This idea that he’s a “non-factor”—well, why were you hanging around with non-factors,…
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Published: July 16, 2025 18:23
AOC on Mamdani: Get to know him. If anybody is skeptical, get to know him, when you get in a room with him, kick the tires and make your own assessment instead of making assessments from what you see on television.
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Published: July 16, 2025 18:22
AOC: We saw Republicans vote to completely gut Medicaid, which covers nearly half of all births in the U.S.
They did this despite the fact that the U.S.—the richest country in the world—also has the highest rate of maternal deaths among all wealthy…
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Published: July 16, 2025 03:10
Ashley: I work for the U.S. Postal Service. It’s better in a union because, unlike regular jobs where you don’t get fair pay, get sent home for any reason, or terminated for any reason—a union job, union workers, union leaders—they will have your back.
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Published: July 16, 2025 03:07
Redmond: At the AFL-CIO, an injury to one is an injury to all—and we believe in that.
So I want the workers at CWA and Wells Fargo to understand: you’ve got 15 million people standing behind you.
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Published: July 16, 2025 01:34
Bass: We had a big victory in Los Angeles, and this is an example of what happens when Angelenos stick together. The Trump administration got the message—they’re withdrawing 50% of the National Guard troops who should never have been sent here in the first…
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Published: July 16, 2025 01:24
Phang: It’s like a little boy running to hide behind mommy’s skirt. That’s exactly what this administration does—running to hide behind the Supreme Court’s ultra-conservative majority of six.
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Published: July 16, 2025 01:23
Ossoff: And like I said, I mean, would you really expect Donald Trump, given his past associations with Mr. Epstein and given his past record of misconduct, to be trying to put this out there?
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Published: July 16, 2025 00:37
Jeffries: In terms of the governor of California, who's been very vocal on this, and the governor of New York and other states. It seems to me that all options should be on the table to make sure that we aren't unilaterally disarming.
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Published: July 16, 2025 00:35
Jeffries: Josh Hawley is a total phony at this point. He spent the last few months talking about how devastating these medicaid cuts would be and then turned around and actually voted for it. If he wanted to do something about these medicaid cuts, he could…
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Published: July 16, 2025 00:32
Jeffries: Why would we ever enter into a bipartisan negotiation to try to arrive at a spending agreement if Trump and his administration decide they're just going to come back through this rescission mechanism and undo the parts of that agreement that they…
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Published: July 16, 2025 00:31
Jeffries: What we see is the possibility that there's a massive cover up taking place within the Trump administration, because there may be people on the Epstein list that Donald Trump is trying to protect, who happened to be part of his billionaire cabal.
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Published: July 16, 2025 00:27
Jeffries: There’s only two options at this point, either Donald Trump, Pam Bondi and that whole crew have been lying to the American people about what is actually in the Jeffrey Epstein files, or alternatively, they are hiding something from the American…
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Published: July 15, 2025 22:51
Trump: I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going.
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Published: July 15, 2025 22:15
Phang: Teachers are some of the least paid, most underappreciated people, and they work in such an intimate way in our lives. Your kids spend more time at school than they do at home, at least in waking hours. So why not encourage our teachers? Why create…
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Published: July 15, 2025 20:50
Crockett: It seems like blue states are constantly putting red states on life support yet we got these little red states that ain’t contributing nothing.
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Published: July 15, 2025 20:47
Crockett: Earlier someone was talking about cities being hellholes. Los Angeles contributes almost 20 billion in taxes. That’s more than all states in this country except for four.
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Published: July 15, 2025 19:46
Raskin: At the very least, the judiciary committee should be demanding the release of the Epstein files
Van Drew: I fundamentally disagree with you on everything
Raskin: Please elaborate, I would love to hear it
Van Drew: I don’t want to hold up the…
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Published: July 15, 2025 18:58
Swalwell: Donald Trump and Pam Bondi promised there are files. Either they are world-class bullshitters—or they’re burying files. And we need to know why, and hold accountable whoever’s helping them bury it.
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Published: July 15, 2025 15:09
Lieu: I also note the Epstein files that have already been released show that Trump is all over the files. He’s in multiple pictures with Epstein. There’s multiple videos of Trump with Epstein. There are plane logs of Trump on Epstein’s plane.
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Published: July 15, 2025 01:16
Redmond: Workers are the true experts. Workers know what it takes to run this country. We build and maintain critical infrastructure. Workers care for the elderly, for children, and for our neighbors. It is we, the workers, who power this economy.
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Published: July 14, 2025 23:02
Phang: Bloomberg is reporting that AG Bondi fired her personal ethics adviser on Friday. A career DOJ attorney, spent nearly 20 years at the DOJ.
What harm is there in having an ethics guru? If you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t have a problem…
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Published: July 14, 2025 03:41
USW VP: The agency that so many veterans around this country rely on—for physical and mental healthcare, for screenings for toxic exposure, for financial support in times of crisis—has been weakened because of these cuts and can’t serve you, who served us…
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Published: July 14, 2025 03:20
Mancilla: We were the first union to officially endorse and rank Zohran Mamdani… And for us, it was simple. We didn’t want a politics of the present, which was corruption and selling off the city to the Trump administration, nor did we want the return of a…
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Published: July 14, 2025 02:50
Angus: The prime minister presents a vision of saying, “I’m reasonable. We’re going to work with this guy.”
Then Trump pulls this stunt.
What’s now very clear is that you can’t sit down and negotiate in good faith with a gangster regime.
You just can’t…
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Published: July 13, 2025 17:04
Spivey: Many Local 8888 members have served in the armed forces themselves. Now, as shipbuilders, they serve in another way. We do vital work—and dangerous work. The USW helps ensure we return home safely…
Every worker, in every sector of the economy,…
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Published: July 13, 2025 02:39
Wolff: I remember once, when I was at Mar-a-Lago to do a sit-down interview, his aides asked for a rough outline of what I wanted to talk about. I had a lot of subjects, but I also said Epstein.
And they told me, “If you ask about that, he’ll just stop…
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Published: July 12, 2025 21:20
Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
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Published: July 12, 2025 20:54
Jayapal: From the trading you mentioned to the outright use of the office of the presidency to make money…
At the end of the day, this whole concept that he was going to “drain the swamp”—he is the swamp. And he’s doing everything he can to enrich…
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Published: July 12, 2025 18:51
Bass: We finally have some good news.
We got a great decision from the court—a temporary restraining order.
I think this showed that if we fight back peacefully, if we use the means our democracy provides, and in this instance, the courts—we get a proper…
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Published: July 11, 2025 17:19
Bass: I just signed an executive directive that puts all city departments and leadership on notice to protect Angelenos—essentially from the federal government.
We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why…
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Published: July 11, 2025 00:42
Kim: I'm very concerned that if a hurricane hits, are we going to have to be begging Kristi Noem to be able to get off Instagram, to be able to actually go and do her job
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Published: July 10, 2025 22:45
Phang: They never learn, do they? There’s a slew of federal district court and appellate court judges telling this administration that what they’re doing is illegal and unconstitutional—but they don’t care. In response, they just call them “rogue judges.”
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Published: July 10, 2025 18:48
Phang: So, Scavino escaped having the value of his Trump Media stock drop by at least 11%—the answer is yes. In addition, Sergio Gor, director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, also sold Trump Media securities… on March 27th, just days…
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Published: July 10, 2025 02:40
Torres: If the bill is so popular, why are the cuts largely delayed until after the midterm election? And if the bill surgically targets fraud, waste and abuse, why is it necessary to set up a $50 billion stabilization fund for rural hospitals?
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Published: July 10, 2025 00:38
Crockett: If there is anyone I am concerned about their mental acuity—it’s the current president
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Published: July 9, 2025 22:02
AFL–CIO President: We’re taking this bus across the country to highlight what’s happening with these cuts we just saw in the worst job-killing bill in history. This bus is going to show up everywhere. We’ll be outside VA hospitals and grocery stores,…
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Published: July 9, 2025 20:38
Phang: Holy crap. Think about that. Oh—did I just say “holy”? Well, it fits…
So, the church keeps its tax-exempt status while actively engaging in politics. Of course, this becomes a way to funnel money and circumvent campaign finance laws. Think about…
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Published: July 9, 2025 18:34
Padilla: MacArthur Park—After they staged this show of force, there were zero people detained. I’m sure they got tons of footage for their next TikTok videos.
On the flip side, what’s happening to the community?
Before these agents went through the park,…
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Published: July 9, 2025 17:43
Reporter: Yesterday you said you weren't sure who ordered the munitions halted to Ukraine—have you since been able to figure that out?
Trump: I have not thought about it.
Reporter: What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your…
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Published: July 9, 2025 04:05
Ossoff: There is no constituency for this. There is no voting bloc in Georgia that's crying out for more expensive health care…
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Published: July 9, 2025 01:44
Bass: We have to stop this mess. The idea of having troops go through the park and disrupt a children’s summer camp, or drive through the streets and just pick people off…
So our city attorney is leading the way. We are filing a lawsuit and calling for an…
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Published: July 9, 2025 00:47
Swalwell: Democratic attorneys general in these states have their own law enforcement abilities. And I would recommend, and I have recommended to them use those capabilities.
If these agents are committing assault or battery, you can charge them with…
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Published: July 8, 2025 22:36
Jeffries: Republicans are complete phonies when it comes to be claiming to be the party of fiscal responsibility. All they have done is explode the debt and the deficit. Why? In order to provide massive tax cuts for the wealthy…
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Published: July 8, 2025 20:11
Wallace: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” says the guy who’s still talking about his 2020 election loss.
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Published: July 8, 2025 16:39
Trump: Are you still talking about Epstein?!? This guy has been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this creep? I can’t believe you’re asking a question about Epstein…
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Published: July 8, 2025 01:19
Maddow: There really is a Epstein Trump subplot in our lives now in which this footage exists and in which the Trump justice department put out a statement today saying, never mind all the things we ever said and hyped and screamed about Epstein.
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Published: July 8, 2025 00:00
Reporter: What happened to 90 deals in 90 days?
Trump: Oh, we’ve spoken to everyone. We have more than 90. We’re going to have much more than 90 but most of those are going to be sent a letter
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Published: July 7, 2025 23:50
Netanyahu: I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee, nominating you for the peace prize, which is well-deserved
Trump: Wow
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Published: July 7, 2025 22:58
Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”
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Published: July 7, 2025 22:35
Mayor Bass: This morning, it was frightening in Los Angeles to see tanks essentially rolling into MacArthur Park.
It was an egregious show of force. I have no idea what their purpose was. I don’t even think they detained anyone.
Los Angeles was peaceful…
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Published: July 7, 2025 19:24
Conway: That’s the problem we have: the courts can’t save us, and Republicans refuse to do their duty—as we saw through two impeachments.
At the end of the day, it comes down to whether people like us care enough to say something about it, to stand up, to…
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Published: July 7, 2025 17:51
DOOCY: So what happened to the Epstein client list that the attorney general said she had on her desk?Â
LEAVITT: I think if you go back and look at what the attorney general saidÂ
DOOCY: I've got the quote. She said, it's sitting on my desk right now to…
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Published: July 7, 2025 02:20
Isenstadt: At Axios, we have an exclusive report. The DOJ says it has no evidence to suggest that disgraced financier convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kept a client list, blackmailed any of his clients, or that he was murdered.
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Published: July 6, 2025 21:59
Reporter: Do the tariff rates change at all on July 9th or do they change on August 1st?
Trump: What are you talking about?
Reporter: Tariff rates. Do they change on July 9th or August 1st?
Trump: They're going to be tariffs. The tariffs are going to be…
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Published: July 6, 2025 21:57
Reporter: Why not help Ukraine the same way you help Israel?
Trump: I am helping Ukraine. I’m helping it a lot
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Published: July 6, 2025 21:57
Reporter: Do you think the federal government needs to hire back any of the meteorologists who were fired?
Trump: I would think not. This was a thing that happened in seconds. No one expected it. Nobody saw it. Very talented people are there, they didn’t…
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Published: July 6, 2025 21:56
Reporter: Are you investigating whether some of the cuts to the federal government left key vacancies at the national weather service?
Trump: They didn’t.. That water situation that all is and that was really the Biden setup. That was not our setup. But I…
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Published: July 6, 2025 21:55
Reporter: Are you still planning to phase out FEMA?
Trump: FEMA is something we can talk about later
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Published: July 6, 2025 19:52
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of…