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prejudice and paranoia. he is taking hate groups main stream. and helping a radical fringe take over the republican party. >> and now that radical fringe has taken over. what used to be known as the republican party. we know it today as the cult of trump. politician, diplomat, and prognosticator, hillary clinton, joins me next. >> plus, isnt it funny when an 82-year-old man is violently attacked with a hammer? arizonas kari lake apparently thinks its just hilarious. and later, the dail...

conduct his work. as i have said before, i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. republicans get the special counsel theyve been calling for to investigate president bidens handling of classified documents. and it comes as were learning more about the files and where they were found. meanwhi...

chairwoman betty thompson said, quote, unless something else develops, at this point, this hearing is the final hearing. just last, night committee vice chair liz cheney told a crowd at the texas tribune festival that she doesnt think this weeks hearing will in fact be the last. she shared new information about what the committee obtained from the secret service around the time of the insurrection. >> we have received very significant production of information, material from the secret...

of power to subvert the will of the american people. our democracy is being tested and strained time and time again, so im sure doesnt shock you to hear that according to a new nbc news poll, voters actually ranked threats to democracy as the most important issue facing the country today. and while that fear is warranted, democracy and justice have racked up some notable winds lately. in defiance of his long held nickname, teflon don, donald trump has found himself backed into a legal ...

>> im amara walker. in the dark, intensified attacks by russia leave more than a half a million people without power in ukraine and this morning there are no signs that the attacks are letting pup well have the latest. plus, full speed ahead on student debt relief. the white house doubling down against the legal challenges facing a signature program for the biden administration. what it means for millions across the country. a shooting at a hospital in dallas leaves two people dead...

happy holidays. we begin the special edition of the readout with a look back at what has been a monumental year for the democrats historic performance in the midterm elections, to the january six hearings, to the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. the fbi rating the home of a former president, and everything in between. 2022 has been incredibly consequential for and politics. i hear thats left us -- rights as human beings, and whether you have more of those rights if, say, youre a ...

i spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. its antisemitic in some cases and the platform. as the conservative supreme court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. we get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the midterm election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have ...

it was a monday night, just after 8:30 eastern time when news broke that shook the entire country. political had the once in a lifetime scoop about a draft opinion. supreme court has voted to overturn abortion rights. we hold that roe and casey must be overruled, justice alito writes in a draft circulated inside the courtroom. that scoop, that headline changed everything. it certainly changed the course of the midterm elections. in that moment, the stakes of the upcoming november elect...

>>, -- welcome to a holiday edition of the last word. -- 1934 congressional elections, because 2022 was the first time since 1934 that first term president saw every senator in his party reelected. every senator who is running. in 1934, first term democratic president franklin roosevelt sought every democratic senator running for ev election get reelected. president biden saw the same thing this year. and the democrats added a seat to their control of the senate when john fetterman won...

bipartisan panel is set to return for a blockbuster presentation this wednesday at 1 pm eastern. >> weve been telling the big story, which is this was a unorganized, premeditated, deliberated against the vice president and the congress to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and i think the public understands the basic elements of the story what were going to do on wednesday spill in those details that have come to the attention of the committee over the last five or six weeks. >> ...