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If you missed it, Rachel will be on every weeknight starting next Monday, the day the felon is inaugurated, and continuing for the first hundred days of his (mis)administration. Put bluntly, she's going to 'war" with Trump and his stable full of thugs.

Rachel is not just doing another one hour cable "news" show. For all practical purposes, she is an investigative reporter. She's a modern day Woodward and Bernstein. My guess is she's at work at 6:00 am to prepare for a show that night. It's a schedule that is brutal. And once every fact is checked, every detail is double checked, and everyone she is going to mention is contacted to see if they want to say anything before she goes on the air, she must pull herself together and get in front of the camera. And she doesn't fill much time with guests. It's her, out there all alone most of the time, reading the teleprompter, most of which contains words that she herself wrote.

And, contrary to some opinions, this isn't something she's "doing for the money." That schedule, (given the depth of her reporting), is a statement that she's on a mission. And it's a formula for exhaustion, or a breakdown.

(For those who don't know, Rachel is a Rhodes Scholar, but that doesn't make what she does any easier.)

Yesterday's post on Rachel Maddow:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219906286