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heavier and more predictable. there is a new science about the greatest disaster in california and it was a flood in 1861. people talk about the big one in california. now scientists are saying the trillion dollar event could be an event like this, for just a month of relentless rain where a quarter of our food is grown, and it would have devastating effects. watering maniesagers need to st thinking in new ways, and manage water sheds so people are working in the same ecosystem. it's really a moment of reckoning out west after there have been so many recently. >> let's hope a lot of big br brains are on this right now. >> in the near term, more rain on the way. >> exactly for all next week. >> thank you. >> thanks, bill. >> thanks, guys. the senate intelligence committee is requesting access to the classified documents that were found in president biden's private office from his time as vp.

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

and in this account in the new york times, she called you up to talk about it. what did she have to say? >> yeah, i was astonished. i was on a train. most of my book is on lincoln on a train. i was on a train when the phone rang. d.c. phone number, and it was congresswoman cheney, i called her that, she said call me liz. and she said thank you for the book. because the book explains a near breakdown of the system, in the transition of 1862 1861. and there was a day like january 6th, it was february 13th, 1861, when congress assembled to count the electoral vote. and a big crowd try to get into the capital and disrupt the count. and they failed. but it's a pretty alarming precedent. and i go into great detail in the book about it. and i talk about how they kept order that day. and she thanked me for giving her a few ideas about what she

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

a train. the phone rang. d.c. phone number and it was congresswoman cheney who had i'd called her. she said call me liz and she thanked me for the book. because the book explains a near breakdown of the system. and the transition of 18 60 to 61. and there was a day like january 6th. it was february 13 1861 when congress assembled to count the electoral vote. and a big crowd tried to get into the capital and disrupt the count. and they failed. but it is a pretty alarming president and i would go in great detail of the book with it and talk about how they kept orator that day and she thanked me for giving her a few ideas. what she was up against. >> it does not surprise me that she has read your book and she found a resolved in it for herself. but boy, you look at these republicans on the house floor, and i think you can guess what books they have not read,

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Velshi

wanted to do with the januar six report and the 202 election not only at the presidential level would hav been null and void now means our democrac would've been out the window because of the election results, in november, that is not happening thank god. >> and, the other thing, jus as you are saying, for someone who loves democracy, let's say there had been no january 6th, report no committee, donal trump would have been th architect of an insurrection against this country, as evi or worse than jefferson -- where they can fare do c o 1861 and, he would have bee unpunished no official body would hav said he did it, and this is, wrong and he must never be allowed to run for office ever again, now that is all bee said you know, democracy only survives if we punish th

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January 6th Hearing

partisanship to ensure the success of this committee in providing answers to the american people. i especially want to thank and acknowledge our vice chair, who has become a true partner in this bipartisan effort. miss cheney of wyoming. and i also recognize her for any opening statement that she would care to offer. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman and thank you for your tremendous leadership of this committee. i know we all have benefitted greatly from your wisdom and your wise counsel. thank very much. in april of 1861 when abraham lincoln issued the first call for volunteers for the union army, my great, great grandfather, samuel fletcher cheney, joined the 21st ohio volunteer infantry. he fought through all four years of the civil war.

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The January 6th Hearings The House Investigates

and let the facts speak for themselves. let me say in closing, the women and men seated around me are the most genuine in public sense. they put aside politics and partisanship to ensure the success of this committee in providing answers to the american people. i especially want to thank and acknowledge our vice chair who has become a true partner in this bipartisan effort. miss cheney of wyoming. and i also recognize her for any opening statement that she care to offer. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and thank you for your tremendous leadership of this committee. i know we all have benefited greatly from your wisdom and your wise counsel. so thank you very much. in april of 1861, when abraham lincoln issued the first call for volunteers for the union

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Attack on Democracy The January 6th Hearings

greatly from yours wi s wisdom wise counsel thank you very much. in april of 1861 when abraham lincoln issued the first calls for volunteers for the union army, my great, great grandfather, samuel fletcher cheney joined the 21st infantry, he fought through all four years, from chickamauga to stone river. and he marched up pennsylvania avenue in may 1865, past the reviewing stand where general johnson and grant were seated. silas canfield, a legendary historian of the infantry described the men in the unit this way. he said they had a just appreciation of the value and advantage of free government. and the necessity of defending and maintaining it.

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Morning Joe

i think shaped us ever since, which is that there was a compromise on the table, in 1860, 1861, to extend slavery to the southern parts of the western territories and therefore avoid war. it was the kind of thing we always did. that was the kind of compromise we used to strike, and lincoln said no. and everybody around him was saying yes, and his reason was we have said that slavery is wrong and cannot be extended. they believe the white south that slavery is right and should be, and on that question hangs the entire union. and he was like winston churchill in 1940, he knew that appeasement had not worked and that's a vital lesson for us now, and it's really tricky. people don't like being told that they were wrong. but people have -- but we owe a duty to the truth, a duty to the facts of the matter to remember

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American Voices With Alicia Menendez

record that says this is what happened. here is the. truth of what happened. because, in realtime not only do you have denialism, of people who are joking about it marjorie taylor greene, i am glad, i hope the founders do not see this for from wherever they are because she makes a joke that if she had been in charge 1 of january 1 six it would've succeeded she and her can factor it's can. you imagine anyone in american history aside from confederates in 1861, making a joke like? that you are absolutely right. what is unique about this moment, we have never been at this point where we really cannot be sure who is going to be speaker and more than that whichever speaker is going to be owned by marjorie taylor greene and others who are going to demand all sorts of other concessions, will that speaker end up in power, we have never seen that in american history. and actually it creates an opening for joe biden. >> michael beschloss, as always

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Deadline White House

nature of freedom itself, what i want, personal freedom, versus what we need collective freedom, there's also another more insidious thing, which is trying to undermine freedom all together. it's always been with us. so the fact and the truth of the photographs and our ability to accept and to understand the complexity and richness, the beauty, joy, sorrow, the tragedy that is implicit in all that we have been through, prepares us in a way for this moment which you struggle daily to parse for us. and that's super important. you can't know where you are going or where you are if you don't know where you've been. this is a way to try to celebrate. there's susan b. anthony. she votes and goes to jail. you know, 144 years after the declaration of independence, women get the right to vote. the majority of our citizens. that's the story of america. there are also people, 4 million of them in 1861, who had

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