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political answers to all of them, however you feel about them.

It's like they have their spiel.

But then she breaks from script and she preemptively apologizes to him.

She goes, hey, I'm sorry to just throw this on you right now.

This is, it was in, I believe, January.

It was either December of 16 or January 17.

So Donald Trump has beat Hillary Clinton, but he's not president yet.

He's president-elect.

And so she goes, sorry to throw you off, put you on the spot, but Donald Trump just tweeted this.

So she's reading a tweet that he just tweeted live on air to the Senate majority leader or minority leader at the time.

So she reads of the tweet that's him trashing the CIA or something like that.

And then Chuck Schumer just gives his organic response.

There was no script prepared for this.

He wasn't planned on being asked this question.

She just goes, look, here's Donald Trump talking about the CIA.

And Chuck Schumer goes, he goes, I mean, Donald Trump, you want to go with the intelligence agencies?

And his exact phrase was, they have seven ways till Sunday to get back at you.

And by the way, Rachel Maddow in this moment does not say,

Pause the tape, what did you just say?

Like the most powerful Democrat in the Senate just admitted we don't live in a democracy, just admitted that this whole thing's an illusion, that the president of the United States is not the president of the United States.