At the same time, the president is repurposing all federal law enforcement agencies and the U.S.

military into an armed force.

He is deprofessionalizing the U.S. military and federal law enforcement and federal emergency

response while he is turning

those kinds of forces against the American people on American soil. If this were happening in any

other country, what we would know instinctively was that the reason a leader would do something

like that is because that leader wants to use those forces differently than what they've been

trained for, differently than what they've been trained for,

differently than what they've been used for before.

Hi again, everybody. It's 5 o'clock in New York, as always. My friend and colleague,

Rachel Maddo, was prescient. That aired last Monday, not of this week, the holiday, but a week

ago. Think of all that's happened since then.

The point of her opening there was to point out what is happening to the United States military,

and that if it were happening in any other country, we would also be covering it on shows like this,

because we would be deeply alarmed about that other country, alarmed at what we

were seeing, alarmed of what was going on, wanting to understand why it was happening and

wanting to understand what would happen next for that country's military and its citizens,

with military deployments in U.S. cities, threats that more cities will soon see a

troop presence, a promise, frankly, from Donald Trump. Trump has contorted the United States military

as he has nearly every other institution inside the federal government, far from its original,

traditional, and intended

role. He has dramatically, and at times even illegally, according to some federal judges,

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