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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of the ReidOut with the latest in the ongoing investigation of the plane and helicopter crash that killed 67 people in D.C., and President Trump’s continued insistence that “D.E.I.” is to blame. Plus, breaking news during this episode of a small plane crash in northeast Philadelphia, with multiple fires burning. Joy and her guests join to discuss this plus the Trump administration’s purge of government institutions, now with the firing of FBI agents and prosecutors who worked on crimes committed by Trump and his supporters on January 6th. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	And we've got a lot to get to in the next hour of the readout, including the latest on
0:05.3	The Purge, the twisted, almost Soviet-style effort by unelected president to Elon Musk to erase
0:13.2	all vestiges of experience, intelligence, and institutional memory from the federal government,
0:18.8	including, as we learned late today, firing every prosecutor
0:23.6	who worked on the crimes committed by Trump and his supporters on January 6th. We're going to get to
0:29.7	all of that in just a bit. But we begin tonight with families, friends, and fellow Americans
0:35.9	mourning. The 67 people killed in a mid-air chopper plane collision Wednesday night over the Potomac
0:43.0	River in Washington, D.C.
0:45.2	It is the nation's first major commercial air crash since 2009.
0:51.0	Many were flying home from the U.S. figure skating national development camp, which was held after last week's national championships in Wichita, Kansas.
1:00.6	Some had eyes set on the Olympics. Two were part of a renowned former Russian Olympic figure skating duo who went on to coach young skaters in Boston.
1:11.6	These were promising young competitive skaters, some of whom were traveling with their parents,
1:16.5	like Jinnahon, just 13 years old, shown here during one of her competitions.
1:21.8	Her mother, Jin, has also died.
1:24.9	Among the lost or flight attendant, Dinesia Elder, a mother of two, whose job as a
1:29.6	flight attendant, was one of her dreams. This fatal flight was supposed to be her last before
1:34.8	changing careers within the airline. Kaya Duggins, who was set to start her dream job as a law
1:41.3	professor at Howard University next fall, also died in the crash. In a post-Howard University described Dugg job as a law professor at Howard University next fall also died in the crash. In a post,
1:46.4	Howard University described Duggins as a civil rights lawyer who dedicated her career to fighting
1:51.9	against unconstitutional policing and unjust money bail practices. Three soldiers aboard the Black Hawk
1:59.5	helicopter that collided with the American Airlines jet
2:02.2	are presumed dead. Today, the army released the names of two of them. At the family's request,
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