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“Never once has Republican world said hey, maybe we should look into how police officers are carrying out their solemn public responsibility to serve and protect. No - no right wing website in America is investigating or will ever investigate how well police officers do their jobs.”

Lawrence O'Donnell

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All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

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The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?

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Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room.

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Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions` nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a…

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I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that…

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The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country.

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I don`t think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was.…

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If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes…

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National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They`re not there to be partisans, they`re not there to be ideologues.

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When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.

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