we're all in for not only bad night, but a very, very sick morning. >> rachel maddow, of the "the rachel maddow show" show. we'll see you in 46 minutes. >> thanks. >> sharron angle explains how she will use the republican party to get to washington where she's have the insider "juice" she needs. she's trying to persuade a third party candidate to get out of her way in nevada. next. i used to see the puddles, but now i see the splash. ♪ i wanted love, i needed love ♪ ♪ most of all, most of all... ♪ >>> she's backed herself into half a corner. caught on tape, she tries to talk a third party candidate out of nevada's race. >>> she is outside. it's the 50% of contribute eers that we don't know who they are that are the real problem. >>> in texas, donate to his campaign fund, get a grant. >>> this tennessee home owner bought the tea party version of home owning in america. the fired watched with him as his house burn down. he joins us. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 absolutely. i mean, these financial services companies tdd# 1-800-345-2550 are still talking about retirement tdd# 1-800-345-2550 like it's

we're all in for not only a bad night, but a very, very sick morning. >> rachel maddow, of "the rachel maddow show." we'll see you in 46 minutes. >> thanks. >> sharron angle explains how she will use the republican party to get to washington, where she's got the insider "juice" she needs. she's trying to persuade a third party candidate to get out of her way in nevada. next. f@@ ?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?)?) >>> she's backed herself into half a corner. caught on tape, she tries to talk a third party candidate out of nevada's race. >>> it's the 50% of contributors that we don't know who they are that are the real problem. >>> in texas, donate to his campaign fund, get a grant. >>> this tennessee homeowner bought the tea party version of home owning in america. the fire department watched with him as his house burned down. he joins us. >>> it is, in a word, remarkable. a backroom exchange. what happens when the tea party, that has taken control of the republican party, is not quite enough. another third party splinter group. and when the tea party candidate talks out of both sides of her mout

congr ford jr., msnbc's rachel maddow ford jr., msnbc's rachel maddow and cnbc's rick santelli. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. here we are, final countdown to election day 2010. with us exclusively this morning, the chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. welcome back to "meet the press." >> it's great to be back with you, david. >> let's get right to it. it's final argument time. the president is on the campaign trail. he has been out west, was in the midwest and friday he leveled probably his most potent charge against republican leaders in washington, saying that they made a cold, political calculation when he came into office, basically not to work with the obama white house. let's listen to what he said. >> the republican leaders in washington, they made a different calculation. they looked around at the mess that they had made, at the mess that they had left me and they said, boy, this is a really big mess. and they said it's going to take a long time to fix. so, maybe if we just sit on the sidelines, say no to everyt

which leads me to the thing with rachel maddow. remember she accused a man of having advanced knowledge of the oklahoma bombing? remember she blamed it on an editing mistake and mocked those who corrected her. it was scary. >> extremely angry with me. extremely angry with me extremely angry with me. >> someone never got a pony for christmas. if you want to see the face of the angry and entitled, that was it. how else do you explain someone assuming and their approach? what do you say to someone with a heads up to 9/11. just kidding, we will fix that in edit. if you disagree you with a racist edit-phobe. >> before everybody here trashes on npr because i know we are, i want to go to you, bill. you made an interesting point in the meeting that nobody brought up yet. >> the fact of the matter is, if you think npr is a bashing of communism and destroying democracy, you don't listen to npr. it is about 5% political and 90% cooking with cale. that's all. t is. >> where did the cale come from? >> i don't know because i missed the program t

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tiller" reported by rachel maddow.the florida u.s. senate. the country can watch live. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." man: everybody knows you should save for retirement, but what happens when you're about to retire? woman: how do you go from saving to spending? fidelity helped us get to this point, and now we're talking about what comes next. man: we worked together to create a plan to help our money last. woman: so we can have the kind of retirement we want. now, you know how this works. just stay on the line. oh, yeah. fidelity investments. turn here.

let's bring in rachel maddow the host of the rachel maddow show. >> thanks for having me. >> how real is the anti-pathy behind the minimum wage? how can it sell? >> knowing you were going to be leading with this and we talked to it, i ended up going through my own files on the minimum wage and i was surprised to sort of find there all the stuff about acorn. remember all the republican hysteria about acorn when it was a conservative movement and it blew up and the republicans started piling on against them? the thing that acorn was really, really good at was advocating for a living wage. not only making sure there was a minimum wage that was enforced everywhere, but when you made minimum wage, it allowed you to live out of poverty in a way that had dignity. if you worked full time, you ought to not be poor. acorn was great because the minimum wage and a living wage is popular when you put it on the ballot. that freaked out the right. it started off with the corporations trying to unseat them and they got the republicans across the board to pile on to them. that was the threat that acor

tiller" reported by rachel maddow.the florida u.s. senate. the country can watch live. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." man: everybody knows you should save for retirement, but what happens when you're about to retire? woman: how do you go from saving to spending? fidelity helped us get to this point, and now we're talking about what comes next. man: we worked together to create a plan to help our money last. woman: so we can have the kind of retirement we want. now, you know how this works. just stay on the line. oh, yeah. fidelity investments. turn here. i was supposed to retire there. carly fiorina changed all that. [ cheri ] fiorina laid off 30,000 people. and she shipped our jobs to china. and india. i had to pack my bags and i was out the door that night. we even had to train our replacements. she didn't need 5 corporate jets. [ farrell ] one hundred million for herself. fiorina never cared about our jobs. not then and not now. [ boxer ] i'm barbara boxer and i approve this message.

good night and good night and now to discuss christine o'donnell using rachel maddow in a fund raising letter, ladies and gentlemen, here is -- wait. hold on. i have it. rachel mad disease dow. good evening. >> you are in it, too. >> oh, terrific. what happened to our idea? >> that we were going to try to take a cut from these guys? >> charge them for it. if o'donnell keeps campaign funds, why can't we keep some of these campaign funds? >> it seemed vaguely illegal and now nothing's illegal in campaign finance. >> just as long as nobody touches anybody or themselves, we're fine, right? >> i'll see if i get bahrain to pick up the tab for it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you for staying with us for the next hour. this is a cable news show that talks less about sarah palin than most other cable news shows, at least as far as i know. has to do with the fact that miss palin does not have a job or any sort of formal position in any sort of political entity other than the position at the fox news channel. however, in miss palin's capacity as conservative celebrity without port

tiller" reported by rachel maddow. tuesday evening, i'll be moderating a debate between the three candidates for the florida u.s. senate. viewers in florida can tune in at 7:00 p.m. to their local nb

ladies and gentlemen, live in newark, here is rachel maddow. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, keith. a more serious look at what's going on here. when we arrived here in newark tonight, we were greeted by a lot of men in witch hats. so take that as seriously as you want toed. thanks a lot, keith. and thanks to you at home for sticking with us this hour. we are broadcasting live from newark, delaware. a very big thank you for putting us on what would have been a half-prized burger night into a very, very crowded half-priced burger night. the reason we are here -- the reason we are here is because we're trying to do the best job we can as a cable tv news show covering a senate race that was supposed to be one of the boring ones this year but it's one that has ended up riveting the entire country. >> i'm not a witch. i'm nothing you've heard. i'm you. >> me specifically? i'm not sure you mean me specifically. >> i'll go to washington and do what you'd do. i'm christine o'donnell and i approve this message. i'm you. >> you know, if you're me,

rachel maddow show right here on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> a new report is raising questions about the obama administration's candidness. a commission appointed by the white house plokd efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the situation had become. the report also criticized senior energy adviser for going on national television and saying most of the oil was gone. according to the commission, that adviser characterized an analysis which never said the oil had actually disappeared. >>> yesterday the supreme court took on the highly anticipated case involving a protest at a military funeral by demonstrators who say the deaths of u.s. soldiers are god's punishment for the nation's intolerance of gays. picketers were outside that said pray for more dead kids, while inside they decided whether it was free speech or intentionally inflicting emotional distress and that's not protected. justices indicated they would like to rule for the marine's father but aren't she they can. without the right to express ideas that are unpopular, a national discussion wo

tiller" reported by rachel maddow.the florida u.s. senate. the country can watch live man: everybody knows you should save for retirement, but what happens when you're about to retire? woman: how do you go from saving to spending? fidelity helped us get to this point, and now we're talking about what comes next. man: we worked together to create a plan to help our money last. woman: so we can have the kind of retirement we want. now, you know how this works. just stay on the line. oh, yeah. fidelity investments. turn here. heart disease kills one woman every minute. we can chae the statistic by choosing to speak up for our hearts. take control of your heart health and encourage others to do the same. take the go red heart check up. find out your ten year risk for heart disease or stroke learn how to make small simple changes to reduce your risk and change your life. speak up to save lives. log on to goredforwomen.org find out how you can prevent heart disease.

the white house loves msnbc, heaping praise on keith olbermann and rachel maddow. >>> glenn beck is one of the most popular broadcasters on the net. does he really believe what he's saying? dana milbank on the rhetoric. >>> there was a time when jackw classified documents. i'm howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." >>> anyone who makes his living in front of a microphone is going to say dumb things now and then but rick sanchez delivered a reckless rant on n a satellite radio interview that went on and on late friday cnn issued a terse statement saying is he no longer with the company. he brought a lot of passion to his job first at in the nbc and cnn, he was reading messages from his many twitter followers or one strange stunt getting tased. >> to show you how it works, i'm about to receive 50,000 volts of electricity. do it. oh, yay-yah! oh! it hurts. i was just asking chad, how can you get a volcano in iceland? isn't it too -- when you think of a volcano you think of like hawaii and long words like that. you don't think of iceland. you think it's too cold to have a volcano ther

brought him down you see sanchez started off an epic rant by talking smack on keith olbermann rachel maddow and bill o'reilly for failing to quote do any journalism in their programs which i say when's the last time you did any journalism rick rick rachel maddow is ten times the journalist that you'll ever be but anyway he then went on to say that the daily show host jon stewart is a big hit yeah pretty strong words right now and radio host pete dominick asked him why here's how he answered. i think john's show is essentially prejudicial i think that. against against anybody who doesn't agree with his point of view which is very much a white liberal establishment point of view. clearly sanchez felt a little slighted or put down by the white liberal establishment by the northeastern media lead his you describe them well sanchez then rallied on stewart's middle class upbringing claiming that he can't relate to real people's problems right because jon stewart was raised in a middle class neighborhood he has no right to comment on anything ok rick now i can't help but feel like i'm listening to

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rachel maddow makes it look easy straight ahead. and dot-com billionaire offers entrepreneurs $100 million instead of going to college. greg? >> thank you, andy. >> thou great coward. >> foul devil, trouble us not for thou has made the happy earth thy hell. >> she's hideous. i am here tonight with diana falzone. and put a ripping on it on we-tv. she is so hot she is listed as a dependent on her tax forms. he is finally here in the flesh. nbc and espn, and he knows games of chance like i know leather pants. i am wearing three of them as i speak. and bill sculz. and sitting next to me, the king of the corn hole. he co anchors america's newsroom. if top notch reporting were an army, he would be great at shaving pry vets. and he has no sunday comics in flunked economics. it is our "new york times" cory spawn department, good to see you -- correspondent, good to see you, pimp. >> good to sea you, pinch. >> i was just telling paco to tell him never to enter the apartment. [speaking spanish." >> thank you so much. >>> to the greg-alogue, a

rachel maddow makes it look easy straight ahead. and dot-com billionaire offers entrepreneurs $100 million instead of going to college. greg? >> thank you, andy. >> thou great coward. >> foul devil, trouble us not for thou has made the happy earth thy hell. >> she's hideous. i am here tonight with diana falzone. and put a ripping on it on we-tv. she is so hot she is listed as a dependent on her tax forms. he is finally here in the flesh. nbc and espn, and he knows games of chance like i know leather pants. i am wearing three of them as i speak. and bill sculz. and sitting next to me, the king of the corn hole. he co anchors america's newsroom. if top notch reporting were an army, he would be great at shaving pry vets. and he has no sunday comics in flunked economics. it is our "new york times" cory spawn department, good to see you -- correspondent, good to see you, pimp. >> good to sea you, pinch. >> i was just telling paco to tell him never to enter the apartment. [speaking spanish." >> thank you so much. >>> to the greg-alogue, a

early tomorrow, "the rachel maddow show" will decamp to delaware.ying to speak to both candidates. if we can't get christine o'donnell, we would be happy to speak to anyone from her campaign, or anyone that supports her and lives in delaware. so far, only the ones that don't live in delaware will talk to us. we live in hope. and part on of that is moping that they'll find it harder to blow us off if we show up in person. so we're there for delaware bound. very excited about it. it will be hard work. naturally, it requires very good beer. we'll be at the deer park taf vern for a live broadcast and watch party and whatever else we can think of that is cool. if you're in the area, check out our website, which is maddowblog. we would love to see you there. ♪ where'd you learn to do that so well. ♪ the new cadillac srx. the cadillac of crossovers. cadillac. the new standard of the world. hi. we're ready to switch our car insurance to progressive. today just seemed like a great day to save. oh, it's not just today. with our free loyalty program, you earn

last night on the rachel maddow show rachel had exclusive interviews with two gay members of the u.s.g under the current policy. even though this policy has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge and president obama says he wants it repealed, it is in effect. here is an excerpt from one of the interviews talking about an issue his partner had during his deployment. >> i was going integrate with an army unit at the time in fallujah, iraq, and it was a wild west and i had no idea what to expect. so, i knew it was going it be dangerous and i didn't know how he would be taken care of if something happened to me, god forbid. one thing that did happen, with his medical issues and fortunately i didn't find out until after i got back. he was on the table and had to be, basically paddled back to life. >> wow. >> his heart just stopped. i didn't know that. he didn't tell me that. >> you found out about it once you got home. >> once i got home. if that had been someone's spouse, they would have been flown home immediately to be with them. there's nuthing i could do.ç if he died, i'd hav

to discuss the eye merging threat to the nation's water supply thanks to fracing, here is rachel maddow. >> good evening, keith. unbelievable story. incredible story. thank you keith. thanks. and thanks, too, at home, for staying with us. we'll be joined by mark ruffalo. michael isikoff, some common wisdom busting good news. about democratic prospects in this year's elections and by something we will see get set on fire that should never, ever, ever get set on fire. that's all coming up over the course of this hour. we're glad to have you with us. first, there's something you need to know about this year's republican candidates. if i tell you, however, i may have to kill you. turns out there are a lot of secret agents. fake secret agents running for office this year. running for major offices. they're connected. they're on the inside. and they have seen and done things that mere mortals like you and i can only dream of. today, the associated press revealed the identity of one of these fake secret agents among us. in today's political headlines, christine o'donnell is the candidate who u

but thanks to pair of republican congressmen the rachel maddow show is proud to present "bacon police 2." if you missed the original one we will catch you up in 45 seconds and present the sequel which we believe will be fattening, salty, delicious hit like one. between that and vindication of my carl paladino is a performance artist theory and the most interesting thing yet written about the tea party after the barrels of ink that have been spilled on that subject we are loaded up for a friday night show. >>> we begin tonight with the continuing fail of this year's political common wisdom. >> so many democrats that don't even say they're democrats in their ads number one and certainly don't say that they voted for health care or stimulus. >> common wisdom about this year's elections is that democrats can only compete this year. they are only competing this year by running away from the democratic record. common wisdom is that democrats can only get elected this year if voters can be bamboozled into thinking that they might maybe be republicans or at least that they are republican-like

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if rachel maddow said don't talk about it that would be something entirely different.ple in this town do not understand what the economy is like out there. people are out of touch with what the economy is like and how people are feel and how americans want to stand up for america again and this is a very strong issue in main street in middle america. you're going to see a lot of democratics who say, common sense, i don't need polling on this. common sense tells me this isn't a good issue. >> secelinda lake, thank you fo being here. >> it's nice to be here. >> $14 million, one quarter. well, when that candidate is shairn a sharron angle, what do you call that? we've constructed a special graft in an effort to explain this phenomenon. it's not a science, it's a start. tonight in chile they're working to free 33 miners underground since august 5. we'll stay with the stoirt throughout the night. please do stay with us. ♪ make you re-examine your approach. change your line. innovate. and create one of the world's fastest-reacting suspensions, reading the road 1,000 times pe

don't miss "the rachel maddow show." >>> not even a week into october, and already 11 nato service members have been killed in afghanistan. including four yesterday. their nationalities have not been disclosed. meanwhile on monday, a trio of explosions minutes apart killed up to four afghan police officers. it happened in kandahar, a site where afghan and nato forces have been engaged to get out militants. >>> relatives of 9/11 victims wanted a proper burial from debris taken from the world trade center sight because it could contain ashes of victims. >>> elena kagan sat out on her first because to avoid any conflict with her work as u.s. inspector general. >>> a georgia teen is dead after the driver of a school bus lost control and overturned, pinning the teen under the bus. several of the 11 other students on board were injured, but are said to be in good or fair condition. authorities say the 59-year-old driver was a trainee. no word yesterday on possible charges. >>> traffic remains closed in the houston ship handle after a tugboat and its three barges hit a 300 foot tall high voltage

somebody like keith oler aboutman or rachel maddow one of those who keeps our government honest, and pushes and prodz to make sure that the folks are true to progressive values, then the president thinks that those folks provide an invaluable service. then we salute you for providing an invaluable service. i don't know what fox is doing. >> what's wrong with the president say i like people who like me. >> providing an invaluable service to the country. >> it does make me very nervous the rare occasions when politicians praise me, that kind of gives me the willies. >> as well it should. if he doesn't like you, you're doing something right. >> jon: but it just seems like to single out one network and call it destructive, i mean, you can say, i disagree, or i have problems with the reporting. >> it's politically stupid and it's also inaccurate because whatever fox's lineup at night is, the news division is very straight, breaks a lot of stories that other networks have to follow. this is, i don't understand why the president is-- >> and we never got a chance to talk about it, fox saying

this gay f-16 fire pilot spoke to msnbc rachel maddow in silhouette. >> it does make adifference that the government has a policy that says are you not good enough to serve in the u.s. military. >> repter: officials are looking at wther to provide benefits to same-sex partners as well as troop living arrangements. that is to be completed by decemb 1st. and the legal direct for for service members legal defense network in the district. they are hoping the study will pave the way for repeal when congress returns for the lame duck session. >> we hope whether it's through the course or president obama's leaderip with the senate that we'll get finality this year and don't ask, don't tell will go away oncexd and for all. >> that effectively lifts the ban on don't ask, don't tell. pentagon officials said they will not discharge thoseho violatthe policy. but it's still not safe to come out because they could be kicked out if this judge's ruling is overturned. >>> the fbi is investigating two suspicious letters containing white powder sent to d.c. schools. the first arrived at bancroft element

ladies and gentlemen, live in newark, here is rachel maddow. good evening, rachel. >>> what a time in politics. i am not a witch. not since richard nixon said "i am not a crook" have we heard such a grotesque claim of innocence. it came from christine o'donnell in her biographical ad. >> i'm not a witch. i'm nothing you've heard. >> tonight, we've got this and all the latest op the races around the country, including a new poll that has some good news for democrats. plus, remember the words of deep throat, "follow the money"? now, there's a new report that the u.s. chamber of commerce, which is backing republicans, is running attack ads, or a number of them, from cash raised overseas. who are those companies and what do they want for their money? >>> also, it's gaffes like calling yourself a witch or claiming there are headless bodies in the desert that have led some arizona candidates to hide from the press. is it the tea party a halloween party? will republicans pay the price? >>> plus, it turns out that joe miller was for unemployment benefit

the don't ask, don't tell ruling with two men directly affected, ladies and gentlemen, here is rachel maddow. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, keith. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us for exclusive coverage and footage that you will see nowhere else tonight. we have been entrusted with introducing you to two americans whose bravery has been tested and proven in combat, whose capacity for dealing with incredible stress, physical stress and psychological stress has been proven in thousands of flight hours as u.s. military fighter pilots. two men whose career trajectories in the military look like the path of a fighter jet taking off, frankly. they are very successful active duty military. they say they are fed up with what everyone keeps saying are the death throws of a policy that says they must be witch hunted and fired from the only career either of them has ever known. a policy that remains in place today. despite mass confusion caused by a federal court striking it down. please watch. >> you are an f-16 fighter pilot, multiple deployments, including combat missions

has served inoth iraq and afghanistan was forced to hide his identity while talking to msnbc's rachel maddow last night. >> i've seen us come so close with don't ask, don't tell to getting a repeal. it is like the carrot that's there in front of you and we can't quite reach it. >> reporter: the military is currently reviewing how they integrate openly gay troops into the armed services. key questions include, living arrangements andhether the government will be required to provide benefits for same sex partners of service members. that study should be fished by december 1. the political firefight they do last a bit longer. of course, for those on the front lines right now, the parameters of the fight are much different. commanders stay battle over don't ask, don't tell frankly doesn't matter. >> they're engaged ithe fight. they're engaged with working the people every single day. they're not worried about the politics of what's going on in the united states. they're not worried about the politics of don't ask, don't tell. >> reporter: jay gray, nbc news. >> the military hearing of the accuse

here is rachel maddow. good evening, if you can still hear me out there. >> this seems just right, keith. >> num-num. >> this year's elections are 33 days away. the president of the united states taking on the mantle of campaigner in chief tonight. that is just minutes ahead. we will bring you that action live. we'll also bring you the day in john boehner, complete with the rachel maddo show unrehearsed players. this will be a big hour of whatever it is we do here. >>> we begin with an introduction. i would like you to meet laughing woman carrying her son, standing in front of trees. hello. there she is. if laughing woman, carrying her son, standing in front of trees. available for sale right now at the website, istockphoto.com. laughing woman carrying her son, standing in front of trees was purchased recently by an organization called concern taxpayers of america. see, there she is. she was purchased to depict what this group says are the, quote, folks -- the folks who are concerned about the direction thi

who served in iraq and afghanistan was forced to hide his identity while talking with msnbc's rachel maddow. >> i have seen us come so close with don't ask don't to get in a repeal and the carrot is in front of and you we can't reach t. >> the military is reviewing how to integrate openly gay troops into the armed services. ke questions is living arrangements and whether the government can provide benefits for a same-sex partner of service members. that study should be finished by december 1st. the political firefight could last a bit longer. of course for those on the frontlines, the parameters of the fight are much different. commanders say the battle over don't ask don't tell doesn't matter. >> they are engaged in a fight and working with the people every day. i they are not worried about the politics of what's going on in the united states and not worried about the politic was don't ask don't tell. >> damian trujillo, bay area news. >> a neighborhood drugstore for some turned into a myth making superstore for others. those are the federal accusations made against cvs pharmacy, the drugs

served in both iraq and afghanistan was forced to hide his identity while talking with msnbc's rachel maddow last night. >> i've seen it come so close. and with don't ask don't tell to getting a repeal. d it is ke the carrot that is there in frontof you and can't quite reach it. >> the military is currently reviewing how to integrate openly gaytroops into the armed services. key questions include living arrangements and whether the government will be required to provide benefits for same sex paners of service members. that study should be finishe by december 1. the political firefight though could la a bit longer. of course, for those on the front lines right now, the parameters of the fight are much different. commanders stay battle over don't ask, don't tell frankly doesn't matr. >> they're engaged with the fight. they're engaged working with the people every single day. they're not worried about the politics. ey're not worried about the politics of don't ask, don't tell. >> reporter: jay gray, nbc news. >> the obama administration has asked that same judge in california to allow the don't

deion, harold ford jr., rachel maddow and rick santelli all this morning on "meet the press." >> thankd. >>> a new report shows donations for america's biggest charities have dropped mostly bugs because of the struggling economy yet even in these times people still find a way to give. nbc's ron allen has more now from new york. >> reporter: at the ound zero visitor's center who in the crowd put $10,000 cash in the collection box? and left without a trace? a donation to the new $300 million 9/11 memorial set to open next year. >> i'd love to say thank you to the personand it's just a shot in the arm to everybody who is working on this project. >> reporter: it's a g boost because fund-raising has been tough these days because of the economy. charities across the country report receiving less while people need more. fortunately there are people trying to help. stephanie tillman know lot about receiving and giving. they now own a graphics design business in kansas city but it was just a few years ago when they had hit hard times and had to move to a salvation army homeless shelter. >> it w

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rachel maddow comes in at number 50. the new edition of "forbes" magazine is out right now.en and also joining the conversation lisa caputo and joy-ann reid. this is the question that everybody wants to know-how is this arrived at because, is it possible that lady gaga is more powerful than the speaker of the house? >> thanks for having me here today. i think this is a really exciting list for forbes. this is the first time that we've looked at a much more expansive definition of power. traditionally, power means title, rank, government power, money and we really wanted to take a look at the power of cultural impact and social change. we looked at different realms of power and the fact that different rounds of power may have different impact, but we need to take them into consideration and you take a look at someone like lady gaga who comes in at number seven on our list. in just two years, she's propelled to become one of the most dynamic and active figures leading social and pop culture change today. sure, that's different power than michelle obama or hillary clinton, but

. >>> ladies and gentlemen here is rachel maddow. thank you very much. as keith said, big conflicting and confusing but potentially good sort of news in don't ask don't tell from the pentagon and from the president tonight. walter dell injer will be joining us this hour to try to make some sense of this, plus the story of how one missing letter of the alphabet became the strengthest saddest funniest politics story of the day. >>> also i have fallen in love with a bridge. don't worry. you will fall in love with it. too. no one needs to be jealous. it's all going to be fine. >>> first i'd like you to take a look at a very, very, very short video clip. are you ready? check this out? >> there are legitimate values in outsourcing, not only jobs but work. >> that was tom donahue. tom donahue is the president and ceo of the united states chamber of commerce. . >> there are legitimate values in outsourcing. not only jobs, but work. >> there are legitimate values in outsourcing not only jobs but work. the president of the chamber of commerce in his capacity as th

"the rachel maddow show" staff e-mail tree lit up in the middle of our show friday night as we learnedabout news coming down from kansas. news coming down from kansas that a federal grand jury was investigating whether, in fact, scott roeder acted alone or whether this assassination was not the action of just one kook, but rather the manifestation of a broader conspiracy. in a year when radical anti-abortion policy positions are held by more candidates for high office than any other election we know of in u.s. history, the prospect of a conspiracy case in the latest murder of an abortion provider has the potential to put abortion rights and anti-abortion extremism right back into the center of american politics. in just a moment, we'll be joined by the district attorney who prosecuted scott roeder for the murder of dr. george tiller. please stay with us. mom, i want to drive. it'll cost a fortune to insure you. nationwide insurance, we need a freeze-frame here. let's give parents a break, right ? let the discounts they've earned be passed down to their teens. save mom and dad up to 25%

why the democrats are missing an opportunity to run on their issue, ladies and gentlemen, here's rachel maddow. >>> good evening, thank you for that. have a great weekend. >> you too. >> thanks to you at home for staying with us the next hour. i want to thank those of you who are back tonight after sitting with us through this last night. one of the things that happens in satellite interviews there's a 1 1/2 second delay between me asking a question and you hearing it. you can interpret that as sarcasm or interruption, but it's the way the medium works. >> no, no, your interruption is not caused by delay. it's just the speed of light. it's much faster than that. >> it's been distracting today to the whole staff i would have to say. the amount of feedback we're still getting about that interview from last night's show. that was me attempting to interview the republican congressional candidate from oregon's fourth district, gentleman named art robinson. i think most of the reason we're getting the feedback we're getting about this is because that clip we just showed you was probably the sanest m