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Palm Beach, Fla. voter Tina Brown posted a video on social media on how mail-in ballots show the political affiliation of a voter when they open the envolope. Brown, a registered Republican, compared her ballot to her brother, a registered Democrat, and noted that the ballot has a way to signify the party registration with an "R" or a "D."
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called on President Trump's cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. Waters called the president the "most deplorable human being" she has ever met and said he must be stopped in an interview with MSNBC this weekend. "It is time for Section 4 of Amendment 25 to be put in place," Waters said. "His cabinet should send to Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker, as identified in the Constitution, that this man should be removed from office."
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Former FBI Director James Comey said the reason the probe into then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was started is "plain and transparent" in an interview Tuesday with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace. Comey said the FBI did not investigate Trump under his command then he should have been fired. "It's too bad that having published a 450 page report that didn't get the job done, but it didn't. Folks don't know what he found. And you can ask him in a simple straightforward way and get those details in front of the American people," he said.
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Alicia Blonde, a teacher at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, remembered school shooter Nikolas Cruz as someone who had a "pride issue" with his Hispanic background and "didn't feel comfortable in his own skin, in his culture." Blonde lamented that Cruz "didn't really like to speak Spanish too much."
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Brandon Minoff, a student at a Florida high school shooting on Wednesday, was interviewed by MSNBC's Brian Williams from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Williams asked the kid what he would do about school shooting if he were a lawmaker. Minoff instantly replied, (could tell what Williams was implying): "gun-wise, I don't think there's any way to prevent it. You outlaw guns, just creates higher demand for it."
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Spike Lee is confronted by the parents of a fallen soldier on why he supports NFL players kneeing for the national anthem. From a CNN townhall on Wednesday night: BONACASA: Last Sunday our community had celebration for Gold Star parents. It was a very humbling ceremony but it brought us back to the day we lost our son. It was a very empty feeling. We came home, turned on the TV and there was the NFL players on their knees. That was a slap in the face to us. So, my question is how do you support these multimillionaires on...
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Retired Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer said Thursday on Tucker Carlson Tonight that there is now evidence that then-Democratic National Chairwoman and current Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz used Imran Awan for "malevolent activities" and "manipulative things" against Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary race.
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MSNBC's Joy Reid explained why she believes the Republican party has become 'Putinite' in a panel discussion Wednesday afternoon on Russia. Reid tied U.S. support of apartheid South Africa -- part of an attempt to stop the expansion of Soviet influence -- to the current Republican party that she said is "pro-Putin." Reid said alt-right Republicans look at Putin as a figure who is advancing "white Christianity."
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One panelist said she withdrew her support after President Trump imposed the first travel ban. Colleen England Byrd said the way the media portrayed the immigrants and refugees who were initially rejected from entering the country made her believe the decision was "cruel."
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Acosta also questioned the president's claim that it was "three or four" intelligence agencies that determined Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 election, not "17 intelligence agencies" as the New York Times erroneously reported. "Where does that number come from?" Acosta wondered about the "three or four" figure.
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Monday on MSNBC, former DNC chairman Howard Dean told host Katy Tur he believes there are some Trump voters that are "nutcases with guns" who "want to shoot up the place." However, Dean generously said, "that is not the majority of Trump voters."
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On Friday night's edition of HBO's Real Time, host Bill Maher expressed his concern of a permanent Republican majority. Maher noted that Trump has the power of incumbency, has Republican state legislatures behind him, has the ability to nominate at least two Supreme Court Justices, and the backing of FOX News, Breitbart, and Drudge. He also warned that Trump "hasn't even played his war card yet," and "could start a war and get a lot of support" from that.
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Brooks called the controversial Trump tweets about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski is an issue of "the corruption of our public sphere." The Times columnist said Trump tweets "makes it harder for us, our country, to ever get back to normal."
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Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson talked to FOX News' Shannon Bream about "transactional journalism" and how "well-funded actors" with "fake accounts" on social media try to manipulate news and the way we think. Attkisson's new book The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote focuses on reporters and news outlets "suspending the normal rules of journalism" that circulate news to make you think this is what everyone else is thinking.
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Former talk show host Phil Donahue appeared on MSNBC Wednesday morning to analyze the relationship between the media and President Trump. Donahue told the press to be "big boys and big girls" and not get in "the punching game" with Trump. Donahue said this all began in 2011 when the media made a joke out of Trump and now he is the one who is laughing "and giving them a middle finger."
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At a news conference on the shooting at a Republican baseball practice in Alexandria, Governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe (D) called for gun control. McAuliffe called for more background checks and ending "gunshow loopholes." McAuliffe said 93 million people are a victim of gun violence a day. "This is not what today is about but there are too many guns on the street," the governor said Wednesday morning. "We lose 93 million Americans a day to gun violence."
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At Tuesday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Cali.) was reprimanded by her colleagues for a combative line of questioning that often left the witness unable to answer without being interrupted by the freshman California Democrat.
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NBC's Peter Alexander grills Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Cali.) for her displeasure at President Trump firing FBI Director James Comey after she had announced in January that he has lost all credibility after attending a classified briefing conducted by the now-former director. However, asked if she would be okay with a hypothetical President Hillary Clinton dismissing Comey from his position, Waters said yes.
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In his acceptance speech for the John F. Kennedy Profile In Courage award, former President Obama compared the courage of troops, cops, and first responders to "dreamers who suppress their fears to keep working." Video and transcript at link...
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In the cold open of the May 6th broadcast, NBC's Saturday Night Live took on its own network property, MSNBC morning political talk show Morning Joe. Alex Moffat's Joe Scarborough used couple nicknames like "Mika mouse" and "Mika boo" throughout the segment to refer to his fiance and Morning Joe while panel regulars expressed how uncomfortable they were by the closeness of the hosts. (Panelists included Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin and Willie Geist.) VIDEO at link...
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