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• Senator [Tom] Cotton has campaigned on wanting to kill Obamacare. He voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act back in January, but he now says, despite these marathon all-night sessions going on in the House, Republicans need to do better, they need to start over, they need to come up with something that the Senate says will actually reduce prices for insurance and keep it affordable.

  Rachel Maddow

  Night, Obamacare, Starting Over

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Since his arrival, the new secretary of state has not held a single press conference. On his first big trip to Europe last month for the G20 summit, Rex Tillerson said less than 50 words in total in response to press questions.

  Rachel Maddow

  Europe, Months, Firsts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer needed.

  Rachel Maddow

  Careers, Four, Diplomats

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• These are career non-partisan apolitical staffers with a combined 150 years of experience at the State Department gone, just like that right off the top [right after Secretary Rex Tillerson was sworn in].

  Rachel Maddow

  Years, Careers, Gone

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Rex] Tillerson himself has no deputy, for example. Latest plans from the [Donald Trump's] administration call for a 37 percent cut to the agency`s budget, 37 percent.

  Rachel Maddow

  Cutting, Agency, Example

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The primary agency responsible for rallying U.S.-led interests around the world appears to be having the air sucked out of it. If you are Russia and you are looking at that right now, do you love what you are seeing?

  Rachel Maddow

  Russia, Agency, Air

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.

  Rachel Maddow

  Years, Careers, Dating

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Dan fried] is the department`s foremost Russia expert and he, too, is now leaving at a time when arguably the State Department needs it most, the State Department will not have the benefit of his insight going forward.

  Rachel Maddow

  Russia, Leaving, Experts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Given how we know Russia feels about the State Department, seeing what`s happening to the State Department under this current [Donald Trump] administration is worrying and raises all sorts of questions about the connections between this current administration and Russia.

  Rachel Maddow

  Russia, Worry, Administration

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Russia and [Vladimir] Putin`s antipathy toward Hillary Clinton from her time as secretary of state, Russia`s antipathy and loathing and fear of the U.S. State Department in general, those two - those things that we know about Russia they put a worrying cast over how successfully the new administration here has hollowed out and emptied out the U.S. State Department in just the few weeks since then been in charge.

  Rachel Maddow

  Two, Russia, Worry

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The new [Donald Trump] administration may not want the benefit of [Dan Fried] expertise in terms of figuring out what Russia is up to with us right now but I do. I mean, we can all benefit from it as a country as we figure out what`s going on right now with this presidency and with Russia in particular.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Mean, Russia

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I have this belief that Donald Trump keeps floating the idea that he will quit the party and run as an independent if the Republican Party does not treat him fairly.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Party, Independent

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• You may never have heard of Joseph Overton and his proverbial window but you most certainly have heard the Republican presidential campaign in 2015 year not just flinging the window open but shattering all its glass.

  Rachel Maddow

  Glasses, Years, Presidential

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• The more you push back on Donald [Trump], whether you`re in the media or whether you are in the GOP establishment, the stronger his base of support comes.

  Rachel Maddow

  Media, Support, Stronger

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• [Tom Cotton] has been an absolute champion of the idea of getting rid of Obamacare, scrapping the Affordable Care Act.

  Rachel Maddow

  Ideas, Obamacare, Champion

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It is hard to stay patient about policy matters where everybody agrees about what needs to be done and then it just doesn't happen, like reforming the immigration system and getting rid of family immigration jails and closing Guantanamo and criminal-justice reform. All these issues, there is basically consensus. There's no rational objections whatsoever, but it can't happen because of other stupid steps we have to take in politics.

  Rachel Maddow

  Stupid, Jail, Issues

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• When you think about me talking to Rick Santorum or Pat Buchanan or one of these old guys, part of what makes that a joyful experience for me is that in my head I'm thinking, He has to talk to me. Like, poor Pat Buchanan, all the things you've done and you end up having to talk to me.

  Rachel Maddow

  Thinking, Talking, Guy

  Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• [Dan Fried] served under President [Barack] Obama and under President George W. Bush before that and under President [Bill] Clinton before that and under President George H.W. Bush before that and under [Ronald] Reagan before that and under [Jim] Carter before that. He has been there a long time.

  Rachel Maddow

  Long, President, Bills

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The [Donald] Trump folks chose not to keep [Dan Fried] on. He was actually - I said he was actually the third-most senior diplomat in the foreign service.

  Rachel Maddow

  Senior, Diplomats, Said

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• That`s how you end up with a guy like Dan Fried, overseeing the U.S. sanctions against Russia for Russia did in Ukraine and Crimea.Russia hates those sanctions more than they love life. They hate those sanctions. So, of course, you need your toughest and most experienced guy running those sanctions.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Hate, Love Life

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Marco Rubio calling [Donald] Trump`s ban all Muslims proposal, quote, "offensive and outlandish," it`s the same Rubio who was one upping Trump`s promise to shut down mosques. Mr. Rubio was saying he would shut down not just mosques but any place where Muslims might be radicalized - cafes, diners, any place.

  Rachel Maddow

  Promise, Mosques, Calling

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• It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.

  Rachel Maddow

  Block, Government, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• "Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan on watching it, you want to close your eye and cover your ears but not really. You can figure it out.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Eye, Thinking

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• After [Dan Fried] was initially hired into the Foreign Service in 1977, five subsequent presidents of both parties thought it would be a good idea to keep him on. That his deep understanding, his knowledge of all the players and so many of the secrets it would make him an indispensable asset, particularly when it comes to dealing with Russia.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Player, Deep Understanding

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The [Donald] Trump administration got rid of the number one and number two most senior people ahead of [Dan fried] in the foreign service, so that did make him the most senior person still standing - but now he`s out, too.

  Rachel Maddow

  Senior, Two, Numbers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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