Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said President Donald Trump’s decision to tear down a portion of the existing East Wing to make room for the ballroom was “absolutely illegal.”
Host Chris Hayes said, “In the grand scheme of of everything that is being done, and particularly in the context of these, what appear to all the world to me, like extrajudicial killings, the the knocking down the East Wing is not like anywhere near as morally significant. But I wonder if you had the same, I just have encountered for myself and other people, there was really something visceral about those images that landed. I wonder if you or other colleagues or other people you’re talking to have had that same reaction.”
Murphy said, “Well, listen, there’s a lot of history that has taken pla