Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Silencing the U.S. State Department, putting a friend of Vladimir Putin's in charge at the U.S. State Department, who stands by quietly… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
These are career non-partisan apolitical staffers with a combined 150 years of experience at the State Department gone, just like that right… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Russian government was in contact with multiple [Donald] Trump campaign sources while they were doing [attacks]. Russian nemesis in the American government,… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
[Dan fried] is the department's foremost Russia expert and he, too, is now leaving at a time when arguably the State Department… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Given how we know Russia feels about the State Department, seeing what's happening to the State Department under this current [Donald Trump]… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
[Dan Fried ]is a pillar of the U.S. State Department. He's part of its institutional memory. He has been in the room… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn't, when… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Russia and [Vladimir] Putin's antipathy toward Hillary Clinton from her time as secretary of state, Russia's antipathy and loathing and fear of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Ben Carson also denounced [Donald] Trump's ban all Muslims proposal saying we do not and would not advocate being selective on one's religion. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Senator [Tom] Cotton has campaigned on wanting to kill Obamacare. He voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act back in January, but he now… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
[Tom Cotton] has been an absolute champion of the idea of getting rid of Obamacare, scrapping the Affordable Care Act. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely. — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Oswald Mosley's movement, it was a big movement. It was obviously anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, it was populist. Mosley wanted to replace the parliamentary system of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird! — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
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