Trump, Republican attacks on legal system are actively damaging U.S. rule of law

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Rachel Maddow looks at the cloud of threats and intimidation by Donald Trump supporters around every part of the legal system that touches a Donald Trump case, and points out that damage to the rule of law is not a far off, abstract idea, it is already actively happening.