dr. stanton glance and rachel [speaker not understood] from ucsf. and there's a bunch of other ucsf folks here as well and they'll be followed by [speaker not understood] from california, a leader in our tobacco free coalition in san francisco. free if he isers. ~ professors. >> thank you for inviting us. rachel, one of our brilliant [speaker not understood] wrote the hundred-page document that's been making the rounds. i'm very pleased with some of the other researchers here, lauren [speaker not understood] just published a paper today showing e-cigarette use among kids is associated with increased smoking. you'll hear about that. i live in the sunset. my kids went to public school here. i now have a grandson in the public preschool right here. and i have to say i feel like i've gotten on a time machine. i appeared before the board back in 1983 when it was considering the original san francisco workplace smoking ordinance and we're just hearing all the same arguments again, that there was no evidence that secondhand smoke is dangerous, that it was

rachel: see the unusual way a baby echidna eats... dr. drinking milk off a plate. rachel: ...compared to when they grow up. melissa: they stretch out their seven inch long tongue in order to slurp up all those termites and ants that they love to eat. rachel: and later... bob: there is somebody selling a tiger out of the back of a car. rachel: two tiger cubs are being sold on the black market.

dr. jobe died yesterday at the age of 88, but i am now joined by tommy john, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me, rachelommy, you blew out your arm in 1974, and at the time, what was the prognosis that you got about whether or not you would ever pitch again. >> well, dr. jobe told me you really don't need the surgery, but i can tell you 100% if you don't have it you will never pitch major league baseball again. i said okay, if i have it, what are the chances? i said give me numbers, i was a math a major in college. he said 2 or 3%, i was also valedictorian of my class, and said here are the numbers, dr. jobe was a genius, but he said no, we can't do the surgery until all the schedules line up and we can do the operation together. i said why, he said because i don't know what i'm doing and i need as many skilled surgeons as i can to open you up. the minute he said that, i said you're my doctor, let's go for it. >> well, we know he was a career saver, but what kind of a man was he? >> the most humble man, he has the right to thump his chest and say, yeah, i did. he never used the word "i," he always said

dr. gail saltz, rebecca traister and seth mnookin. "the rachel maddow show begins now. >>> when msnbc first hired me to do this tv show, i was working at the time at air america radio, a liberal talk radio network founded in 2004, and you might have heard, it did not survive. amid all of the myriad ways that air america radio lost money, one of the ways that we actually made money was by doing a cruise for air america listeners. now, we did not invent this idea for fund-raising, but it's a fairly straightforward idea. banking on the idea that people who listen to liberal talk radio might like to meet people who also listen to liberal talk radio and spend time with the personalities they listen to on mark radio. you then market to those folks the opportunity to pay to take a cruise where they get to hear talks by their favorite radio personalities and have meals with them and do events with them and in the process they get to meet a lot of other people who have the same interests that they do, at least in radio. so air america did a bunch of those

dr. gail saltz, rebecca traister and seth mnookin. "the rachelw. >>> when msnbc first hired me to do this tv show, i was working at the time at air america radio, a liberal talk radio network founded in 2004, and you might have heard, it did not survive. amid all of the myriad ways that air america radio lost money, one of the ways that we actually made money was by doing a cruise for air america listeners. now, we did not invent this idea for fund-raising, but it's a fairly straightforward idea. banking on the idea that people whote

dr. gail saltz, rebecca traister and seth mnookin. that's "all in.' "the rachel maddow show" begins delicious, ultimately very important long lunch. halibut cheeks were involved apparently. at that follow-up lunch and a follow-up trip by helicopter to a gold mine, those writers for the "weekly standard" and particularly bill kristol from the "week by standard," they basically fell in love, fell in political love, at least, with the governor of alaska at the time who hosted them for that lunch and gone with them to the gold mine. a woman named sarah palin. july 2007, the "weekly standard" wrote up a long series of articles praising this then little known alaska governor as essentially the conservative who was going to save the election. michael gerson called sarah palin, quote, a mix of annie oakley and joan of arc. within a few weeks of that, bill kristol was lobbying in an over-the-top way on tv, sunday morning shows, lobbying that john mccain ought to pick this, quote, fantastic alaska governor to be his vice presidential the ideal candidate to beat either bara

rachel, i recommend to your readers this book by dr. timothy snyder. he's from our state of ohio but a professor at yale. it is absolutely required reading for anyone who wants to understand the why of ukraine and why it's so important to help her move into a new era. i think that the diplomatic measures that are being tried are extraordinarily important. i think the economic sanctions, and i favor those, the sooner the better should tick in and they should become tighter and tighter and tighter. and frankly, i am someone that also is waiting for the government of ukraine to make requests for assistance for military help if needed to maintain a cordon until we can settle this situation down diplomatically and try to get the russian troops to back away and to reach an agreement as reasonable people should. but i would say to the president of russia and to the new president of ukraine, why in god's name would you want any more bloodshed on either of your lands? >> congresswoman, when you say that you expect that there may be a request for military assist

dr. gail saltz, rebecca traister and seth mnookin. that's "all in.' "the rachel maddow show" begins

dr. gail saltz, rebecca traister and seth mnookin. that's "all in.' "the rachelow" begins now. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. when msnbc first hired me to do this tv show, i was working at the time at air america radio, a liberal talk radio network founded in 2004, and you might have heard, it did not survive. amid all of the myriad ways that air america radio lost money, one of the ways that we actually made money was by doing a cruise for air america listeners. now, we did not invent this idea for fund-raising, but it's a fairly straightforward idea. banking on the idea that people who listen to liberal talk radio might like to meet people who also listen to liberal talk radio and spend time with the personalities they listen to on mark radio. you then market to those folks

dr. phil: i have a parent alert. summer after their sophomore year in high school. 16-year-old teenage girls skylar, rachel and sheilassing. >> it is a chilling murder. a teenage girl is stabbed to death. the two people charged are

dr. keith ablow. are you ready to answer that question? what do you sense from this case? >> i'm ready. i'm glad the judge ruled against racheldiffering with their parents about the level of support to which they're entitled and suing them because it would hang a sort of damaclese over every american family, wondering, what if we make this decision to try to enforce these rules? will our children lawyer up, which would be a cottage industry for lawyers and sue us? >> let me ask you this, that's the sort of financial issue here in terms of being emancipated or not. in terms of emotionally and family, is there a chance for this family to work with this specter of litigation. on the psychological side, i don't know this family. so for all i know, this young woman has taken a very high road. i don't know. maybe her parents are too much the disciplinarians. maybe they won't support her goals. if she funded her education, good for her. maybe she shouldn't resolve things. >> when you see an e-mail like this, this is from rachel to her mom, i blank hate you and i'm writing you off. don't talk to me. don't do anything. i'm blocking yo