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Special MSNBC coverage of Donald Trump's second federal indictment

The Rachel Maddow Show

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The Violence of January 6

The normal course of events, the way we've done this for the entire history of ourselves as a republic, needed to be disrupted somehow. And so you needed to have a way that that process had a hitch in it. January 6 is the linchpin event. It's not a, it's not a bad side effect of what happened. It was necessary. The most violent smokescreen one can imagine. This is why we can't do this right now.

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