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The Rachel Maddow Show

Durham report, long-awaited by Trump supporters, fails to deliver on hype

The Rachel Maddow Show

MSNBC

Madow, Washington, Rachel Maddow, Congress, Campaign, Policy, Election, President, Nbc, Public, News, Government, Maddow, Politics, Issues

4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

...Plus, E. Jean Carroll 'thrilled' to finally hold Donald Trump to account for his lies

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0:00.0

Thanks you, and home for being with us tonight.

0:01.3

It's good to have you here.

0:02.3

A bit of a sigh of relief within just the past hour as we got positive news about the

0:07.7

two congressional staffers who were attacked in Virginia today.

0:12.3

Members of Congress, of course, have their main offices in the Capitol in Washington,

0:16.7

DC, but, of course, they also have offices in their districts back home.

0:22.6

This attack today happened at the district office for Democratic Congressman Virginia,

0:28.4

Democratic Congressman Jerry Connelly, who you see here.

0:32.2

This is his district office in Fairfax, Virginia, so that's Northern Virginia just outside

0:36.2

DC.

0:37.2

The congressman himself was not in the office.

0:40.3

He was out, apparently, at a ribbon cutting for a local food bank, but a man showed up

0:45.2

at the office.

0:46.2

He was wielding a metal bat.

0:48.8

He asked to see the congressman who wasn't there, and then he reportedly just started

0:53.6

swinging.

0:55.1

Congressman Connelly's chief of staff tells NBC News tonight that the man smashed computers

1:00.0

in the office and smashed glass with the bat.

1:03.3

He then attacked two staffers.

1:06.4

One senior staffer to the congressman, the man reportedly hit in the head with this metal

1:11.0

baseball bat.

1:12.6

And then one young staffer, an intern who was apparently on her first day on the job.

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