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Holly Richardson: You know it's been a crazy news week when a war criminal committing suicide on live TV is not the weirdest thing

(If you missed that piece of news, Slobodan Praljak committed suicide by drinking poison in the courtroom after a judge from the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia read that his 20-year sentence would be upheld.)

In May, Donald Trump called the Russia investigation “The single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.” Today, Michael Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations with the former Russian ambassador and is now cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wrote about the gutting of the state department from the inside out, under current Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, calling it a “national security emergency.