Trump moves toward ending independent law enforcement as a core American value with mass purge

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In an effort to not only rewrite the history of his January 6 insurrection but to exact revenge on the agents and lawyers who worked to hold his rioting supporters accountable, Donald Trump appears to be in the midst of a massive purge of the FBI and the DOJ, turning them into agencies that cater to his interests and concerns instead of the law. Rachel Maddow explains.

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0:00.0	Thanks to you at home as well for joining us this hour. There is a lot going on, and just about everything that's going on that we have set to talk about tonight are stories that are continuing to develop. And so I can usually at this point in the show tell you about what's going to be coming up. I can't tell you about what's going to be coming up because all the stories that we're covering are live and happening as we speak.
0:22.1	We do have major developments out of Washington and particularly out of the Justice Department,
0:26.7	major developments, even for all of the news that has come out of Washington over these past two weeks.
0:32.3	What's happening tonight at the FBI and the Justice Department is almost a bigger deal than anything
0:36.6	else that have happened.
0:42.7	We are going to get right to that. We have a number of guests, a senator, somebody directly affected by those events, all standing by. We are at first, though, going to start with the
0:47.1	breaking news that we've been following out of Philadelphia. The country is tonight, unbelievably,
0:51.5	witnessing its second horrific plane crash in just the past three days.
0:57.1	Tonight it is a small plane, a jet, a Learjet, that has crashed in northeast Philadelphia.
1:04.4	It sent up a fireball in a densely populated neighborhood that includes both homes and also
1:10.1	a shopping center. I'm going to show you
1:12.5	some footage here of the crash. What you're about to see here is footage from a ring camera
1:16.6	security system that did capture the moment of the crash.
1:35.0	This plane, this Learjet, had just departed from northeast Philadelphia Airport.
1:38.0	It's not the main airport in Philly, but a small airport.
1:48.0	It was en route to Springfield-Brandson Airport in Missouri. This is around 6.30 p.m. local time, 6.30 p.m. Eastern time. The crash site is near the Roosevelt Mall in northeast Philly.
1:53.0	But again, homes there, cars there, this is a densely populated part of a big U.S.
1:59.1	city.
1:59.9	First responders very quickly reached the scene. They found
2:02.0	fires burning several homes and cars on fire because of the impact and the debris. Local
2:08.3	officials, including the mayor of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania's governor, Josh Shapiro, are in
2:12.7	contact. They are helping coordinate the response. We may be hearing from Governor Shapiro in just a moment as local officials continue to brief on the scene. We had very quickly initial reports
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