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Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The largest mass sedition trial in American history churns on. And continues descending into chaos. But the dozens of sedition defendants attempting to wreak havoc on the proceedings would soon get a high-profile assist. From serving members of Congress injecting themselves into the trial and coming to the defense of the accused seditionists standing trial. Before a verdict can be reached, one final twist calls into question whether the Justice Department will see the case to the end, or cut bait entirely.

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0:00.0	The governor of North Dakota was in trouble.
0:09.1	William Langer, Bill Langer.
0:11.3	He was known around his state as Wild Bill.
0:14.5	I think the first thing to say about William Langer is to draw focus to his nickname Wild
0:19.8	Bill Langer, and maybe that tells you all you need to know.
0:24.1	That's a story in Nancy Beck Young.
0:27.0	Bill Langer was born in Castleton when it was still Dakota territory.
0:31.8	His dad was a member of the very first state legislature convened when North Dakota became
0:36.9	a state.
0:38.4	Young Bill did great in school.
0:40.9	He went off and got a degree at Columbia in New York City.
0:44.1	He was first in his class there.
0:45.5	He was class president.
0:47.4	But then he came back to North Dakota to make good, to make a difference in his state.
0:52.1	And he very quickly established himself as a political force to be reckoned with.
0:58.0	He was not someone who practiced the fine art of reasoning, compromise.
1:05.3	His style was aggressive and in your face.
1:08.8	Bill Langer became an elected prosecutor in the state, and then he became attorney general,
1:14.4	and then he moved up to the top job of governor.
1:18.0	And in the summer of 1934, governor Bill Langer was in trouble.
1:23.2	He was involved in a scheme in North Dakota politics in which he was raising money for
1:28.0	himself and his political party by effectively extorting the state's employees.
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