'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's efforts to intimidate the legal system in the United States and bend it to his will, and emphasizes the importance of the American legal community standing together and pushing back in defense of the rule of law. "The time is now to stand up and do all that we can to fight this administration."

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0:00.0	We do have Obama administration attorney general Eric Holder here tonight. I have been trying to get him
0:06.2	to do an interview here on the show for a gazillion years, but he is here tonight. And boy,
0:11.7	what a night for it. I'm really, really, really looking forward to that conversation. I hope you
0:15.6	are as well. That is coming up in just a moment. This was Springfield, Massachusetts today.
0:23.4	Protesters were outside of the federal building on Main Street in Springfield, chanting.
0:28.6	We say fight back.
0:30.5	Holding signs that read hands off our social security.
0:33.3	The group made up of concerned citizens and advocacy organizations believe Social Security that supports 73 million Americans is in danger.
0:42.0	The changes that this government is trying to impose have a great deal of pain for a lot of people.
0:48.3	Their concerns are centered around the Doge cuts to Social Security and the modernization of online systems,
0:55.9	as well as the threat of a cutoff of telephone services that was scheduled to take effect April 14, but has since been pushed back.
1:02.0	The good news is that pushback has happened a little bit and worked a little bit. We all have to do more.
1:10.1	No time to stop.
1:11.1	The Social Security Administration plans to cut over 7,000 employees
1:15.0	and close regional offices, which people worry could create an even bigger problem.
1:19.8	Seniors and disabled residents tell 22 News this could break the system and interrupt benefit payments.
1:25.5	This is really dire.
1:27.1	This is just going to throw a lot of old
1:28.8	people and people with disabilities on the street. This is unconscionable. I can't imagine.
1:34.9	What are they thinking? That was Springfield, Massachusetts just today. This was Washington, D.C.
1:41.0	today. As the Republicans did today, managed to pass their budget plan through
1:46.4	the House. They tried last night, couldn't do it, pulled it at the last minute, but then they got it
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