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Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News

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4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

As a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor. The U.S. Army’s Nazi war crimes trials in Germany have been infiltrated by a spy -- a mole for the other side. A gruesome foreign influence operation unfolds in Washington. A blackmail plot turns deadly in the U.S. Senate. A Hail Mary scheme to stop the counting of the Electoral College votes rattles democracy’s cage. With the line between the violent ultra-right and mainstream American politics fraying beyond recognition, with the FBI always one step behind their quarry, Americans of all stripes step up to confront a seemingly unstoppable, ascendant, anti-democratic force. Join Rachel Maddow for Episode One, launching June 10, 2024, and follow now: https://link.chtbl.com/rmpust_fdtw. You can also subscribe to MSNBC Premium on Apple Podcasts for early access to every episode the Friday before it drops, and ad-free listening to all episodes in Ultra seasons one and two.

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0:00.0	A foreign influence operation running wild in Congress.
0:04.3	He was convinced that he was sitting on top of a sensational story.
0:08.1	He was not bound by the truth or by facts.
0:11.0	An international manhunt for a fascist American traitor.
0:15.6	He becomes this sort of mythical, mysterious figure for the American right.
0:21.0	There's so many instances where he seemed to fall through the cracks.
0:26.0	A US senator destroyed by blackmail.
0:28.8	But all of that starts really a year from hell.
0:31.8	The country's most outrageous political demagogue
0:34.8	building a fanatical following, ascending toward the peak of American power.
0:39.8	He is a saint and a martyr figure.
0:42.7	Millions upon millions of devoted followings.
0:45.8	They thought he was the only one speaking the truth.
0:48.8	This is a story about getting away with treachery
0:51.6	and coming back stronger.
0:53.2	Twenty two thousand men and women are here for this America first meeting.
0:57.6	These people don't disappear, they just go underground.
1:01.0	It's a story of heroes willing to face down tyranny.
1:04.0	What he doesn't like is anyone who opposes him or exposes him.
1:08.0	And the risk to the country.
1:12.0	If they fail. When they didn't stand up to him. if they
1:13.0	when they didn't stand up to him
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