Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:16:02 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at some of the stories The National Enquirer published about Donald Trump's political opponents in the 2016 presidential campaign, and talks with Susanne Craig, investigative reporter for The New York Times, about how New York prosecutors view the scheme between Trump and then-publisher of The National Enquirer, David Pecker.
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:11:29 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at how corruption within the Department of Justice under Donald Trump served Trump's interests and allies and can still be seen in the structure of the New York criminal case against Trump.
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 05:48:41 GMT
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While normal banks have shied away from dealing with Donald Trump, one bank has repeatedly bailed him out of tough financial situations, including paying the bond while he appeals his civil fraud trial loss. Rachel Maddow takes a closer look at the bank and the billionaire associated with it to understand why it may not be the lifeline Trump needs.
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 05:14:59 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at the litany of Republican policies that are unpopular, in some cases wildly unpopular, with American voters and notes the stark contrast between those policies and the extremely popular initiatives President Joe Biden is pursuing, including eliminating student loan debt for as many Americans as possible.
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 04:58:53 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at the strangely compliant, Trump-friendly headlines in the media coverage of Donald Trump's remarks on abortion, and talks with Melissa Murray, law professor at NYU, about Trump's scattershot history on abortion rights and how the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision is taking on a life of its own as a tool of oppression around the world.
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:35:40 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at how China has learned to take advantage of Donald Trump's divisiveness within American society by mimicking his supporters online using techniques that were successful for Russia in the 2016 election. Tiffany Hsu, technology reporter for The New York Times, joins to discuss how China is stepping up its disinformation game.
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:07:25 GMT
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With Donald Trump lacking the honor to restrain his attacks and complaints to the people actually involved in his criminal prosecution on New York, Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case, did it for him, extending the gag order to include family members of people assigned to the case.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 04:36:18 GMT
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Despite an especially aggressive class of Trump-supporting election deniers, election workers in Arizona are determined to make sure things run smoothly for the state's voters. Adrian Fontes, Arizona secretary of state, talks with Rachel Maddow about the extra preparation and precautions taking place ahead of this year's election.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 02:14:47 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at the role that Ronna McDaniel played as chair of the Republican National Committee in taking someone who would otherwise be a fringe character in American politics, Donald Trump, and helping legitimize him with the authority of the Republican Party and then joining in his project to eject democracy as the American system of government, in favor of a strongman system led by Trump.
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:40:10 GMT
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Court filings show an acutely desperate Donald Trump unable to secure a bond for the nearly half billion dollar civil fraud penalty that is part of the judgment against him in New York. Susanne Craig, investigative reporter for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about what could come next as Trump runs out of options.
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:19:19 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at countries around Ukraine where Russia is indicating it may try to expand its borders - a possibility made more likely by Russia's increased chance of success in Ukraine thanks to inaction by House Republicans on sustaining Ukraine's military aid.
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:19:10 GMT
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Some pro-Trump, election denying, local elections officials have delayed or refused to certify election results since Donald Trump's 2020 election loss. That defiance is expected to be even more widespread in 2024 if Donald Trump doesn't win. Rachel Maddow talks with reporter Justin Glawe about the anticipated chaos this could cause.
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:12:57 GMT
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Rachel Maddow explains how Russia is using real-looking, fake news sites to introduce propaganda in American discourse by giving fake stories the appearance of legitimate sourcing, fooling some Republicans into resharing false information that they want to believe is true.
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:54:13 GMT
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With hundreds of millions of dollars in legal penalties due in a matter of weeks, Donald Trump's financial problems are no longer hypothetical, and his demonstrated willingness to abandon principle for the sake of a deal, as well as his apparent disregard for any duty to protect classified U.S. material, makes him "profoundly dangerous" to U.S. national security. Rachel Maddow argues that no one in Trump's position would be given a security clearance in any other circumstance.
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:42:51 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at examples of Donald Trump completely reversing a strongly stated opinion at a time that appears to coincide with a donation or other financial incentive, a situation that is not likely to change given Trump's transactional nature and his growing desperation for money.
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 05:06:36 GMT
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Rachel Maddow reacts to Sen. Katie Britt’s comments about the border during her Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union. “She was one of the Senators who was involved in the negotiations to create a border bill. She helped create the bill. And then voted against it when Trump called on Republicans to pull the plug on the bill that they themselves negotiated,” Maddow explains.
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 04:05:19 GMT
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Nicolle Wallace, Chris Hayes, Joy Reid, and Jen Psaki share their reactions to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, noting its historical references and thematic refrains, as well as its "punch in the nose" directness toward his Republican opponents.
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:51:42 GMT
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John Archibald, reporter and columnist for AL.com talks with Rachel Maddow about what people in Alabama know about their junior senator, Katie Britt, "on a scale of zero to Trumpy." An MSNBC panel follows with discussion of Senator Britt's role within the Republican Party as it wrestles with the unpopularity of its position on abortion.
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:50:46 GMT
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Chris Hayes is joined by Alex Wager and Rachel Maddow to discuss the kickoff of the rematch between Biden and Trump. "There's one thing that is a very clear choice in this election, and it is between having a democracy and not," says Maddow. "If you can get people to accept that basic idea, which is a popular front idea—I do think that you can get there over the next eight months."
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:13:31 GMT
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Anderson Clayton, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party, talks with Rachel Maddow about the bizarre extremism of Mark Robinson, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, and how the Biden campaign can connect with North Carolina voters on the issues that matter to them.
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:26:39 GMT
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Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC joins Nicolle Wallace to discuss the 2024 presidential matchup all but coming into place after the Super Tuesday results and what the next 8 months will look like as Americans are set to choose between democracy and autocracy.
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 05:00:25 GMT
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Former Senator Claire McCaskill and Jen Palmieri, Obama White House communications director, share their impressions of the Super Tuesday results and the role Nikki Haley continues to play both in the Republican primary and as a "heat sink" for anti-Trump voters.
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 03:56:13 GMT
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NBC News projects that Jason Palmer, a venture capitalist who had been campaigning heavily in American Samoa, will win the Democratic presidential caucus there, defeating President Joe Biden.
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 03:45:42 GMT
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An MSNBC panel reacts to the familiar set of lies and distortions in the opening portion of Donald Trump's Super Tuesday speech and discusses the perennial problem of how to cover Trump's remarks without facilitating his lies.
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 01:47:20 GMT
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Chris Hayes and an MSNBC panel discuss Nikki Haley's reasons for staying in the Republican primary race despite losing consistently to Donald Trump, not the least of which is the not-unreasonable anticipation of a complete and total Trump implosion at some point before the election.
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:04:56 GMT
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Chris Hayes and an MSNBC panel discuss the education gap in U.S. politics as well as the rural/urban gap, and how President Joe Biden steered policy initiatives to address the needs of demographics that might be more inclined to vote for Donald Trump.
Tue, 05 Mar 2024 06:11:00 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at the stark contrast between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump as candidates for the presidency in 2024, noting that the Supreme Court has helped Donald Trump to make sure that most of the legal accountability Trump faces will not happen before the election.
Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:59:48 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at examples of Republicans supporting radical, extreme policy ideas across states and at the federal level, from expressions of antisemitism to restrictions on education to bans on contraception.
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 01:26:43 GMT
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"This is B.S.—you were doing this as a dilatory tactic to help your political friend," says Rachel Maddow on the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the Trump immunity argument, delaying his coup trial. "And for you to say that this is something that the Court needs to decide because it's something that's unclear in the law is just flagrant, flagrant bullpucky."
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 05:35:07 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at the connections between truth, the rule of law, and democracy, and the authoritarian strategy to sever those connections in order to undermine democracy itself and usher in radical changes in governing.
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 05:07:23 GMT
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Rachel Maddow notes that with each new presidential election cycle, Russians have found ways to try to influence the outcome by some underhanded means. But while Russian interference has remained consistent, what has changed is the openness of Republicans to being the beneficiaries of that interference.
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:56:00 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at just a small sampling of the many examples of right-wing leaders who were forced to resign from their anti-gay organizations after their own homosexuality came to light. However, multiple allegations of sexual misconduct made by men against Matt Schlapp, chair of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) have not driven him from leading the group, known for its anti-gay sermonizing.
Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:49:53 GMT
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An MSNBC panel remark on the general incoherence of Donald Trump's South Carolina Republican primary victory speech. Lawrence O'Donnell points out that Trump needed to refer to notes to remember the names of his own family members.
Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:40:38 GMT
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An MSNBC panel discusses the nature and purpose of Nikki Haley's ongoing candidacy for the presidency when she continues to be soundly defeated by Donald Trump in primary contests but still seems to draw enough donor funds to stay in the race.
Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:11:35 GMT
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As soon as polls closed in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, NBC News projected Donald Trump to be the winner. Rachel Maddow calls it "an emphatic win" but cautions that there are too many variables in Donald Trump's orbit for Nikki Haley to not stay in the race just in case.
Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:42:31 GMT
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As lawyer fees and legal judgments stack up against Donald Trump there is concern that his already weak ethical standards will be overcome by financial desperation and a willingness to entertain the assistance of unsavory people and world powers whose interests are contradictory to those of the United States. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of history at New York University, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Trump's self-serving personality would deal with his money problems.
Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:14:30 GMT
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For years, the Republican-dominated Wisconsin legislature made sure that it would retain power even when it consistently received fewer votes. Democrats have finally overcome that hurdle and passed new, fair maps for state legislature elections, with an eye toward also adopting new maps for congressional elections. Rachel Maddow reports.
Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:03:43 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at the increasingly aggressive danger Vladimir Putin poses to the world, from reckless treatment of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant to plans for launching nuclear weapons into space, and argues that the world needs Russia to change, so the world needs Russian dissidents even as Putin does his best to kill them off.
Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:20:28 GMT
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"Ultimately, these things do start to seem like a pattern," Rachel Maddow observes, after running through the growing list of legal catastrophes Donald Trump has suffered. Maddow joins Lawrence O'Donnell and Alex Wagner in discussing the political fallout for Trump in the wake of a nearly half billion dollar civil fraud trial loss in New York today.
Sat, 17 Feb 2024 05:00:55 GMT
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Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell join Alex Wagner with reaction and analysis of the $453.5 million in fines and interest Donald Trump has been ordered to pay in the New York civil fraud case he lost, on top of other recent losses including almost $100 million owed to E. Jean Carroll.
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:41:36 GMT
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As special counsel Jack Smith pushes to bring Donald Trump to trial, Trump's legal team continues to look for ways to delay his prosecution. Chuck Rosenberg, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Trump's team has found a way to add a step in the process of appealing the district court's rejection of his presidential immunity claim to the Supreme Court.
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:24:34 GMT
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Rachel Maddow rounds up the incredibly busy week Donald Trump will have in multiple courts as several of his legal crises converge in a narrow time frame. By the end of the week, Trump is expected to be in Georgia to attend a hearing on the personal relationships of the prosecutors in his election interference case as Trump's co-defendants seek to disqualify her from involvement in the case.
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:05:40 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at why close observers of Vladimir Putin's answers in his interview with Tucker Carlson see a disturbing threat to Poland in Putin's re-writing of World War II history. Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia joins to discuss how Donald Trump's open disdain for NATO is raising fears abroad about America's commitment to its allies.
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:44:52 GMT
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Rachel Maddow and an MSNBC panel interview Jason Murray, Colorado plaintiff's attorney who argued for Donald Trump's disqualification from the Colorado ballot before the Supreme Court.
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 01:30:38 GMT
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An MSNBC panel reacts to President Joe Biden's impromptu press conference in which he addressed the special counsel report on his retention of classified documents and progress on Gaza ceasefire talks.
Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:25:56 GMT
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Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris Hayes break down the federal appeals court decision rejecting Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution. “It was helpful, I think, for us as a country…that they did outright mock the claims that you have to be impeached and convicted in the Senate before he could be put on trial for committing murder or committing any of these other crimes,” says Maddow.
Tue, 06 Feb 2024 06:12:15 GMT
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Perhaps in the hope of competing with some of the acclaim President Joe Biden received for showing solidarity with striking UAW members, Donald Trump staged a rally with fake auto worker union members, only to be exposed when local reporters talked to attendees who were not union members or not even auto workers. Rachel Maddow reports on new campaign finance filings that show Trump paid $20,000 to the nonunion auto parts plant he used to stage the event.
Tue, 06 Feb 2024 05:45:37 GMT
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A new provision in the Oregon state constitution that blocks the re-election of legislators with too many unexcused absences was upheld by the state supreme court, keeping Republican state senators who had made a practice of walking out of legislative sessions to prevent a quorum off the ballot. Julia Shumway, deputy editor of the Oregon Capital Chronicle, talks with Rachel Maddow.
Tue, 06 Feb 2024 05:15:20 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at the range of disarray in the Republican Party, from state parties with no leadership to poor election outcomes since 2016 and notes new signs from Donald Trump that he is considering replacing RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel. But if one part in a two-party democracy dissolves itself, what is left?
Tue, 30 Jan 2024 04:53:11 GMT
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E. Jean Carroll, and her attorneys, Roberta Kaplan and Shawn Crowley, talk with Rachel Maddow about lessons learned from defeating Donald Trump in court, Trump's legal representation, and what Carroll is going to do with the $83 million Trump now owes her.
Tue, 30 Jan 2024 04:02:34 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuits against Donald Trump in the context of Trump's efforts to cast himself as an unchallengeable strong man and the test his trials pose to the U.S. justice system to treat everyone equally under the law.
Tue, 30 Jan 2024 03:49:38 GMT
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E. Jean Carroll, flanked by her lawyers, Roberta Kaplan and Shawn Crowley, talks with Rachel Maddow about her biggest personal realization in confronting and defeating Donald Trump in court. "He's nothing. He is like a walrus snorting."
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:31:25 GMT
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Rachel Maddow and the MSNBC discuss the looming 2024 general election clash with President Biden possibly taking on Donald Trump again. Maddow points out that there has been little democracy so far in the race for the White House.
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:15:16 GMT
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MSNBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki talks with Rachel Maddow about the many variables present in the 2024 election so far that do not line up with previous elections, describing a "different atmosphere" and characterizing the election as "dominated by questions."
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:17:55 GMT
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Donald Trump’s New Hampshire victory speech event included Sen. Tim Scott “demeaning” Nikki Haley, and fellow former 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy “groveling” before the former president, our panel of MSNBC hosts say. “I think that he saw this night as a night to ritually humiliate people like Tim Scott,” Joy Reid says of Trump’s victory night.
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:01:32 GMT
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MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow fact-checks Donald Trump's New Hampshire primary victory speech.
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 02:09:43 GMT
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MSNBC's Joy Reid, Stephanie Ruhle, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Michael Steele discuss the case for Nikki Haley to stay in the 2024 presidential race as Donald Trump's legal troubles loom.
Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:36:57 GMT
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NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff talks with Lisa Hultgren, town moderator for Derry, New Hampshire, about how the polling location there helps voters who don't have ID still be able to cast a vote, as well as helping voters adjust their party affiliation in order to participate in the primary voting they choose.
Tue, 23 Jan 2024 03:33:47 GMT
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Rachel Maddow talks with Jen Psaki about why Donald Trump is emphasizing his affinity for strongman dictators as part of his closing argument to New Hampshire voters, why the simplicity of life with an authoritarian leader who makes all of the decisions is appealing to some voters, and the historical lessons for how democracies have survived similar threats in the past.
Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:25:02 GMT
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An MSNBC prime time panel share their reactions to the final Republican presidential primary debate before the Iowa caucuses with Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis making more pointed attacks on each other and Donald Trump absent both from the stage and largely from their attacks.
Tue, 09 Jan 2024 06:38:41 GMT
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Rep. Adam Schiff talks with Rachel Maddow about the Republican devotion to Donald Trump over rational politics, and his realization that the North Carolina Republican Party was a "canary in the coal mine" when it reacted to losing the governorship to a Democrat by stripping the governor of power rather than accepting democratic defeat.
Tue, 09 Jan 2024 06:23:17 GMT
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NBC News repots that Special Counsel Jack Smith was the target of "swatting" on Christmas Day, a hoax call to police about an active shooter, meant to elicit an aggressive police response to the target's home. Smith was one among many to be so targeted over the holiday. Rachel Maddow looks at the growing problem.
Tue, 09 Jan 2024 05:55:34 GMT
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Rachel Maddow points out that while Donald Trump's threat to democracy is the most urgent issue on which President Joe Biden wants to show American voters a distinction between himself and Trump, it is by no means the only point on which the two candidates contrast sharply.
Tue, 09 Jan 2024 05:33:38 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at how former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was punished by the political right in his country after he encouraged a violent rejection of his electoral defeat, and contrasts that with the deepened Republican embrace of Donald Trump despite his failed January 6 insurrection.
Wed, 20 Dec 2023 01:35:16 GMT
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Donald Trump is disqualified from being president under the 14th Amendment, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled for its state, removing Trump from the Colorado 2024 GOP primary ballot. On this ruling going to the Supreme Court, Rachel Maddow tells Joy Reid, "I don't think this is the way that Donald Trump's political career ends because of what we know about this iteration of the United States Supreme Court.”
Tue, 19 Dec 2023 05:14:08 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at how civil lawsuits are being used to push back against public menaces, including a neo-Nazi organization that has been terrorizing parts of New England. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell joins to discuss how she intends to use the power of the courts against the neo-Nazi group.
Tue, 19 Dec 2023 04:35:30 GMT
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The Florida Republican Party has demonstrated an important function of democratic institutions in stripping the party chair, Christian Ziegler, of power when Ziegler refused to resign after a rape accusation and the revelation of a three-person sexual tryst put him at odds with the values the party thought he represented. Rachel Maddow explains why institutional self-policing matters in a democracy.
Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:51:03 GMT
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Rachel Maddow makes the case that the reason Donald Trump does not change his talking points when people point out that his words are echoing Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini is that Trump knows (and new polling of Republican voters shows) how powerfully appealing some people find the ideas that language frames. But just as past democracies found ways to resist autocrats, so too can Americans adopt practices that sap the power of Trump's appeal.
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:58:30 GMT
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Rachel Maddow reports on the plight of Kate Cox, a Texas mother of two whose wanted pregnancy is not viable and threatens her health. Cox was forced to flee the state to have an abortion while the state supreme court enforced an unyielding abortion restriction and state Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened legal action against anyone who would offer her care. Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, joins to discuss the case.
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 04:43:44 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at the historically poor performance by the current U.S. congress and notes that while some of its figures may seem clownish and the overall disorder may seem laughable, Congress as an institution is vitally necessary to American democracy, and its degradation by the Republican majority feeds the autocratic slide that would leave decision-making to a single strongman.
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 04:27:33 GMT
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Special Counsel Jack Smith has added Michael Dreeben, a DOJ veteran of over 30 years who has argued more than 100 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, to his team to encourage the Supreme Court to fast track consideration of issues raised in Donald Trump's appeals in his federal criminal case involving subversion of the 2020 election results. Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney joins to discuss what Dreeben brings to this part of Smith's case.
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:58:46 GMT
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Rachel Maddow lays out her personal political profile as it relates to Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz, which is the exact polar opposite on pretty much every issue. And yet, Maddow notes, the vast distance between them politically is insignificant against the size of the threat Donald Trump poses to the future of the United States. And so on that one matter they have found common ground.
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:49:29 GMT
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney talks with Rachel Maddow about why Donald Trump's staffing changes during his post-election loss lame duck period were not only unusual but represent a dangerous shift in his mindset that portends ominously if he were to win a second term.
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:39:06 GMT
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In her new book, "Oath and Honor," former Rep. Liz Cheney describes when she first learned about Donald Trump's fake elector scheme, just two days before January 6. Cheney talks with Rachel Maddow about her reaction when she realized what was about to happen.
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:09:55 GMT
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney talks with Rachel Maddow about these extreme danger Donald Trump poses to the future peaceful transfer of power in the United States and why the 2024 election is not a matter of casual preferences as may sometimes be the case in some elections.
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:01:48 GMT
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"It's terrifying." Former Rep. Liz Cheney talks with Rachel Maddow about her concerns about the lengths to which House Speaker Mike Johnson will go to placate Donald Trump and the risks that poses to an orderly election outcome if he still holds the office in 2025.
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 03:51:03 GMT
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Rachel Maddow reads excerpts from "Oath and Honor," the new book by former Rep. Liz Cheney in which she describes discussions among Republicans about the unconstitutionality of Donald Trump's scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 03:35:52 GMT
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In her new book, "Oath and Honor," former Rep. Liz Cheney describes the reactions of some of her Republican colleagues to her support for impeaching Donald Trump over his effort to undermine the outcome of the 2020 election, and highlights the particularly raw feelings of some of the men she had to deal with. Rachel Maddow reads select passages.
Tue, 05 Dec 2023 03:24:29 GMT
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney talks with Rachel Maddow about why she and her colleagues on the political right have a particular responsibility to confront Donald Trump as he draws support from their end of the political spectrum.
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 05:45:58 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at the elements of a violent knife attack in Ireland and how the story highlights some of the best and worst human inclinations in our modern, hyper-charged global political environment.
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 05:35:44 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at how Republicans following Donald Trump in rejecting democracy are refusing to certify local election results in Georgia and causing chaos with some towns insisting on hand-counting ballots without understanding the disadvantages of doing so.
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 05:23:40 GMT
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The Georgia Supreme Court sent state Republicans back to the drawing board with its rejection of a commission Republican legislators had hoped to use to interrogate prosecutors about perceived political bias. Clark D. Cunningham, professor of law at Georgia State University, joins to discuss the ruling with Rachel Maddow.
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:16:24 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at how auto workers at non-union plants are seeing some pay increases and other benefits after the UAW secured historic new contracts for its workers as non-union companies race to retain their workers.
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:58:42 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at the rise in hate groups and threatening behavior happening as world affairs are increasingly bleak and right-wing politics takes a turn toward fascism, and remarks, "Obviously, this is serious."
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:34:08 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at how authoritarians around the world make a priority of attacking the media that criticize them and notes that tendency in Donald Trump and the Trumpy class of Republicans and billionaires who emulate autocrats.
Tue, 21 Nov 2023 05:17:04 GMT
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A new federal appeals court ruling would take away the right of individuals and private organizations to sue over violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Janai Nelson, director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about the importance of the Voting Rights Act to ensuring that all voices in our democracy are equally heard.
Tue, 14 Nov 2023 05:41:49 GMT
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Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump's older sister, who died today at age 86, last made national headlines in 2019 when she resigned from the federal judiciary, short-circuiting a court investigation that followed New York Times reporting on the Trump family’s tax practices. Rachel Maddow cites Trump Barry's resignation as an example of how institutions enforce a societal accountability separate from criminal justice.
Tue, 14 Nov 2023 05:17:46 GMT
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While the new Supreme Court code of ethics lacks an enforcement mechanism and was delivered with an insulting bit of gaslighting, there is a redeeming silver lining to be found. Dahlia Lithwick, Slate senior editor and author of "Lady Justice," talks with Rachel Maddow about how to find a bright side to the Supreme Court's "ethics aspiration."
Tue, 14 Nov 2023 05:01:32 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's recent more open embrace of fascistic language and points out that the one institution that could discourage his autocratic ambitions is the Republican Party he intends to continue to lead.
Tue, 07 Nov 2023 05:34:21 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's larger project beyond his defense strategy in individual cases against him, to delegitimize the independent judiciary and the court system, effectively giving permission to himself and his followers to ignore the rule in law in favor of whatever Trump declares.
Tue, 07 Nov 2023 05:17:51 GMT
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Rachel Maddow talks with Devlin Barrett, national security reporter for The Washington Post, about his reporting on plans by Trump insiders to potentially invoke the Insurrection Act to turn the military on U.S. citizens who might protest a second Trump term in the presidency.
Tue, 07 Nov 2023 05:00:58 GMT
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Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers union, talks with Rachel Maddow about public support for unions and the innovative "stand-up strike" strategy that helped him secure tentative agreements for vastly improved contracts with three of the biggest auto makers in the United States.
Tue, 07 Nov 2023 04:20:42 GMT
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow joins Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss the historical fight against fascism in America revealed in her new book, "Prequel."
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 04:15:11 GMT
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Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, talks with Alex Wagner about the normalizing of election deniers as elected Republicans and how work by law enforcement to secure the next election against Trump supporters who would abandon democracy is undercut by Republicans pushing that same agenda from within Congress.
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 03:53:35 GMT
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Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney talks with Alex Wagner about Donald Trump's ongoing legal entanglements, from Judge Chutkan reinstating the gag order in his federal criminal case to his progeny testifying soon in his civil fraud trial, to the effort to boot him off the ballot for being an insurrectionist.
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 03:35:02 GMT
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Mark Mazzetti, investigative correspondent for The New York Times, talks with Alex Wagner about new reporting on failures by Israeli intelligence and within Israeli leadership to take action against the threat of Hamas terrorists before the October 7 attack.
Tue, 24 Oct 2023 05:10:46 GMT
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Rachel Maddow looks at past instances of House speaker vacancies and notes that while it is not unheard of for a speaker to essentially call in sick sometimes, in this case the sickness is in the Republican Party itself.
Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:52:21 GMT
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A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU over the Trump administration's migrant family separation policy. The settlement includes a prohibition on the policy for the next eight years. Rachel Maddow reports.
Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:29:07 GMT
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Rachel Maddow wonders about Senate Democrats who are not calling for the resignation of Senator Bob Menendez who has been indicted on corruption charges as well as acting as a foreign agent. Democrats have not even removed Menendez from the Foreign Relations Committee when doing so would not be difficult.
Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:15:43 GMT
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Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about the release of a second pair of hostages by Hamas and aid being allowed in to help besieged Gazans, and whether either of those things are a sign of anything changing in the war between Israel and Hamas.
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