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Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow
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She had an on-air mental breakdown and it was kind of fantastic to watch
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Now listen, there's no love lost here or in either party I think for Ronna McDaniel
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She's like a woman without a country right now. She was recently hired by NBC
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MSNBC, their hosts went so crazy about it that Rashida Jones who's in charge of MSNBC
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she had to say no no no we won't have her on this network because of course MSNBC is an echo chamber
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They can't hear any opinion that differs from their own opinion. Now, Ronna spent this week and with her first appearance on MSNBC or I'm sorry NBC
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basically disavowing things that Trump has said and you know all that to try and put herself in
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the good graces of the mainstream media but Maddow and her crew, they weren't having it
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and they went out of their minds. I want you to watch this video and let me know what you think
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Please remember to like, comment, share and subscribe. I'm Carmine Sabia for Explain America
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We love you guys. God bless you. Take care everybody. You know in the press we do not take it personally when we get attacked
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When they you know say they want to put us on trial and execute us for treason
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we don't we don't take it personally. But we do defend ourselves as an institution
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not because we're personally offended by the way that we're treated, but because a free and uncowed press is necessary for our democracy
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A free and uncowed press is part of our system of government
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We stand up for ourselves as a way of standing up for our country and for our constitution, the first amendment to which makes it possible for us to exist at all
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And so I want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at MSNBC and at NBC News
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who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone
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who hasn't just attacked us as journalists, but someone who is part of an ongoing project
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to get rid of our system of government. Someone who still is trying to convince Americans that this election stuff it doesn't really work
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that this last election it wasn't a real result. That American elections are fraudulent
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Because that argument, that is a necessary part, that is the most necessary part of the
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overall project of getting us as Americans to give up on this election stuff
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Because wouldn't we rather have a real man in charge anyway? Somebody who could really get some stuff done
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If only we could clear away all the things in his way. We have a long history in this country of forgettable men
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telling us that we need a new system of government where everything's under their control
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where everything's under their control and politics is over and this new strongman way
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of government is gonna make America great again. We have had a lot of these guys
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But our generation's version of this guy has gotten a lot farther than all the rest of them
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And why is that? He would have been as forgotten as all the rest of them
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had he not been able to attach himself to an institution like the Republican Party
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and had the leader of that party in his time not decided that she wouldn't just abide him
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she would help. She would help with the worst of it. It's my understanding that MSNBC's leadership
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did not object to Ronna McDaniel being hired by NBC News when the matter first arose
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But when the hiring was announced and MSNBC staff essentially unanimously and instantly
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expressed outrage, our leadership at MSNBC heard us, understood, and adjusted course
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We were told this weekend in clear terms, Ronna McDaniel will not be on our air
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Ronna McDaniel will not be on MSNBC. And I say that and give you that level of detail because there has been an effort since
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by other parts of the company to muddy that up in the press and make it seem like that's
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not what happened at MSNBC. I can assure you that is what happened at MSNBC
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Ronna McDaniel will not appear on MSNBC, so says our boss since Saturday
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and it has never been anything other than clear. And I will also say, you know, if you care what I think about this, I will tell you the
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fact that Ms. McDaniel is on the payroll at NBC News. To me, that is inexplicable
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I mean, you wouldn't hire like a wise guy. You wouldn't hire a made man like a mobster to work at a DA's office, right
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You wouldn't hire a pickpocket to work as a TSA screener. And so I find the decision to put her on the payroll inexplicable
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And I hope they will reverse their decision. And it's not about, you know, Democratic Party, Republican Party
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It's not about partisanship. It's not about right versus left. It's not about being a political professional versus some other kinds of person
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It's not about being mean or nice to journalists. It's not about just being associated with Donald Trump and his time in the Republican Party
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It's not even about lying or not lying. It's about our system of government and undermining elections and going after democracy as an
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ongoing project. Right? And this is a difficult time for us as a country
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And I think that means we need to be clear eyed about the implications of it
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Difficult times make for difficult decisions. We are contending with something we've never heard before
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We've never had to contend with before. In the news business, yes, we are covering an election, which we do all the time, but
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we're also covering bad actors trying to use the rights and privileges of a democracy to
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end democracy. The chief threat among them now is not the rioters and the coups, but the slick political
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professionals who are turning their considerable talents to laundering violently revolutionary claims that America's elections aren't real, that election results aren't real, and that
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they shouldn't be respected. We are contending with this now not from William Dudley Pelley's brown shirt militias
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right, but from the multibillion dollar massive political operation of one of the two governing
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parties of the United States of America. And that's new. And with our country up against something that daunting and that scary and that dangerous
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for the country, I think bad decisions will inevitably happen. Mistakes will be made
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But part of our resilience as a democracy is going to be recognizing, us recognizing
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when decisions are bad ones and reversing those bad decisions, hearing legitimate criticism
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responding to it, and correcting course, not digging in, not blaming others
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Take a minute. Take a minute. Acknowledge that maybe it wasn't the right call
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It is a sign of strength, not weakness, to acknowledge when you are wrong
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It is a sign of strength. And our country needs us to be strong right now
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I'll be right back
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