At exactly 12 noon on January 20th, Donald Trump will raise his right hand and swear for the second time to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States that he assaulted and attacked on January 6th.

This is the warning.

The American people have made a judgment, and they have given Donald Trump power

again. The reason that Donald Trump was elected overwhelmingly was because of the ego of Joe Biden,

who promised that he would not run for a second term, but did, and in doing so, made certain that the country

would experience Donald Trump's retribution and revenge. I could talk about this all day

and all night, but the fact of the matter is the victory of Donald Trump was preordained the moment Joe Biden broke his promise.

It's as simple as that. It's important for everybody to understand who has followed politics,

deeply, transactionally, off and on, that the Democratic Party has held itself out as the better party.

Not the party with better ideas, though that has been argued, but the more moral party.

The party that remained committed and faithful to the concepts that Donald Trump was assaulting,

with his threats, with his promises of retribution, with his actions that did not accept

the result of a presidential election, which frankly is the cornerstone around which our society is built.

There was no fraud. Joe Biden ran and he won fair and square. He was talked about as the better man.

But more than anything else and more than any place else, MSNBC became home base to a very important

argument about the primacy and the necessity for the rule of law to reign supreme in a democracy.

And there is something special about the American justice system.

We've talked about it for nine years. Just listen to some of the comments about it on MSNBC.

I've been a defense lawyer and prosecutor. It's just so hard to see because it's so

antithetical to the rule of law. This level of sustained public

attack is not usually the price of entry for doing your job as a district attorney, nor should

it be in a country where the rule of law is supposedly the rule. The test for all of us is,

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