MSNBC host Rachel Maddow broke her un-written rule not to talk about whatever President Donald Trump rattles on about at his press briefing to sound the alarm that the American democracy is at risk.

"It is here," she said. "We are here. It is happening. We don't have to wonder anymore. As individuals, we don't have to wonder what it would be like to live through a time like this. We don't have to wonder anymore how we would react or act or what we would do for our country if our country was ever in this kind of situation. You now know what you would do for your country if your country is ever in this much danger. It is whatever it is you are doing right now. What you are doing now and what you are planning to do for the next six weeks, that's what you are made of, and that's what you will be able to say you did when your country needed you. What you did when your country needed you."