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'We are crying out for help': Surge of attacks against Asian Americans due to COVID-19 conspiracies

Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday, a panel of actors and activists explained that the attacks on Asian Americans are growing as hostility over COVID-19 grows.

Over the course of the last year, President Donald Trump and the far-right have spread conspiracy theories that China is responsible for the coronavirus. Presumably, many racists can't tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese Americans, so they've attacked anyone even resembling an Asian American or Pacific Islanders.

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The Republican Party has been fine with 'loony' for decades: CNN host

In a commentary during his weekend show, CNN host Fareed Zakaria quoted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who referred to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her "loony lies."

"Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country," McConnell said on the Senate floor. "Somebody who's suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.'s airplane is not living in reality."

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Republicans censured Elizabeth Warren for reading a letter from MLK's wife -- but Cruz and Hawley get a pass

"Nevertheless, she persisted," became a rallying cry when Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took to the Senate floor four years ago today to read a letter from Coretta Scott King. Republicans voted to censure her, including so-called moderates like Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Todd Young (R-IN).

Four years later, Lawyer Max Kennerly noted, two senators led an effort to overthrow the 2020 election and discount the votes of over 20 million Americans. When it became clear that their efforts wouldn't be successful, the senators cheered on a crowd of armed and violent insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol.

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GOP's Greene defends threatening Parkland teen during contentious press briefing: 'David Hogg was an adult!'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) defended her harassment of a Parkland massacre survivor but refused to answer questions about her apparent support for the execution of House Speaker Nancy Pelsoi (D-CA).

The newly elected Georgia Republican held a nearly 25-minute news conference Friday morning, after the Democratic majority voted to remove her from committee assignments over her past actions and statements, and she was unapologetic about following Florida teen David Hogg and reminding the school shooting survivor that she was carrying a gun -- which he perceived as a threat.

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MSNBC's Morning Joe surprises himself with spontaneous rant against Trump's evangelical hypocrites

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough rained hell on conservative Christians who "bent the knee" to former president Donald Trump despite his obvious moral shortcomings.

The "Morning Joe" host reacted to a supercut video comparing President Joe Biden's reverent remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast with Trump's self-aggrandizing and spiteful speeches at past faith events.

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Top Mueller prosecutor reveals the key questions he’d ask Trump during impeachment trial

Senior prosecutor for Robert Mueller's team has a few ideas for what he'd do for the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump.

Speaking to, Andrew Weissmann, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace reported that House impeachment managers have invited Trump to testify in front of the Senate. Weissmann dismissed it saying that if they're serious they need to formally issue a subpoena. If Trump refuses to comply with the subpoena then Congress can hold him in contempt. The alternative, he said, is that Trump would stand before the Senate and says that he pleads the Fifth Amendment. Doing so, however, would prove to the Senate that Trump was culpable.

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MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace rips the GOP: 'Greene and the mob are one and the same'

MSNBC host Chris Jansing cited an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report about right-wing groups joining forces to fight back against the government. In passing, the report noted that the militia member they interviewed was part of those extremists who provided security for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) just a few months ago.

Fellow host Nicolle Wallace started her show echoing the same sentiments about Greene's history of QAnon philosophies.

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CNN analysts explain what's wrong with Marjorie Taylor Greene's non-apology on the House floor

In a speech on the House floor Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tried to stave off calls for her to be removed from her committees for spreading QAnon lies for the past several years. She didn't apologize, instead she said she "regrets" believing in the conspiracies and then blamed the "left" and then equated QAnon with the media.

MSNBC reported that this speech was what earned her a standing ovation at the House Republican Caucus on Wednesday night. CNN's John King and Manu Raju asked why Greene was doing it now that she's being stripped of her committees after refusing to denounce her claims for the past several days. Greene even met with Donald Trump and announced that he was on "her side" and that she would not apologize. She's also been raising money off of the attacks for the past week. The photo above shows her wearing a mask saying "molon labe," a rallying cry that purports people will have their guns taken away, another right-wing and QAnon lie.

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Marjorie Greene denounces QAnon but doesn't apologize for spreading lies — then plays the victim of the left and media

Speaking on the House floor Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) denounced QAnon and swore that she hasn't believed the conspiracy theories since 2018. She went on to denounce extremism "on the left and the right" that she said spreads lies.

Greene's apology neglects to explain why, if she didn't believe QAnon theories after 2018, she chased Parkland survivor David Hogg down the street spouting conspiracy theories at him. Just as recently as two weeks ago, Greene was on the House floor citing conspiracy theories that people on the right, like her, were being "censored."

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Meghan McCain and The View hosts go off on 'coward' Kevin McCarthy for cowering to Marjorie Greene

The co-hosts of "The View" were all furious at Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for bungling the situation with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Minority Whip Liz Cheney (R-WY).

Wednesday evening the GOP Caucus voted by secret ballot not to remove Cheney from the leadership post for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump. The vote was overwhelming with 145 members supporting her and 61 against.

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‘Crazy’: MSNBC host stunned by Florida grocery store owner and his absurd anti-mask logic

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle was flabbergasted by a Florida market owner who refuses to enforce mask orders to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Video recorded inside Oakes Farms Seed to Table Market in Naples showed dozens of shoppers and employees interacting as if the pandemic had never happened, after NBC News reporter Sam Brock stopped into the grocery for a sandwich.

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'Donald Trump's ghost' is leading Republicans down dark path: MSNBC's Heilemann

MSNBC's John Heilemann said fear of Donald Trump was leading the Republican Party down a dark and self-destructive path.

The turmoil inside the GOP caucus -- embodied by the failed vote to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from leadership and the scramble to protect Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) -- can all be traced back to the party's continued fear of the former president, who has been exiled from social media back to his Mar-A-Lago resort.

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Republicans revealed themselves as the 'lynching caucus' last night: MSNBC's Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned the Republican "lynching caucus" that backed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) while moving to punish Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).

The newly elected Georgia Republican got a standing ovation Wednesday evening from some colleagues during a closed-door House GOP conference meeting, while 61 Republicans voted to strip Cheney of her conference chair.

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