ok rachel i'd like to go back to you in paris and what's going to happen with the g.o.p. moving forward because it seems to me that you know i i think most people who watch this program know my politics ok and i disagree with a lot with romney had to say but there's some other issues on the economy that you know make perfect sense here but it's really what hurt him is his own party because he wasn't conservative enough because mitt romney is a moderate ok a moderate and you're right george bush was elected by these same people ok so i mean is it really the republican party's problem because it has it's tea party members and we have the fiscal cliff coming up and you know it's just you know obama isn't an easy situation to say i don't have anybody to talk to and he'll be right. why i think they have to go back to the drawing board and they have to revamp their entire platform they have to decide what's important to address because i think what the public is saying to a certain extent in this election and i don't think it's the first time they've expressed this is that real

i've had my issue with rachel i'm going to. be all getting underway for women who are going to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what's happening in american politics state with our team. if you want to go. to. an assault rifle. i shoot despite. the. rain all snow. on done no fadia feel free to make use of the one who can use the trigger on the most reliable income of the twentieth century. legend. on kalashnikov's. world. science technology innovation called the list of melons from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture . the are all. going to. get along. quite bold colors are my. private. parts are. coming up. welcome back to crossfire computable remind you we're talking about u.s. politics after obama's victory. ok rach

please welcome rachel maddow. (cheers and applause) rachel, good to see you again. thanks for coming on. all right. young lady. >> yes, hello. >> stephen: feeling good? feeling good over there. >> i love election season every year no matter what happens. >> stephen: have you gotten any sleep? >> you know how the night-- no, i haven't. but you know, you stay up all night and the next day are you sort of fine but then the day after that your brain turns to pudding. i have pudding brain today. i can't think. i'm very tired. >> stephen: i don't even understand where you just said. >> see. that's the problem. >> stephen: now are the host, you were the host of the rachel maddout broadcast every-- night of the week. you're also author of the book drift, all right, its unmooring of the american military. enough of that. all right. still me what it was like election night over at msnbc. okay when you guys knew that obama was going to win. was it just crazy over there? was chris matthews like running around with a lamp shade on his head or do they make lamp shades big enough

>> rachel. >> cheating. cheating. what was the other one? >> rachel -- >> and?'s it. no cheating. >> the correct answer, monica. monica, rachel, ross and chandler. tell us about that scene, a funny throwback scene. >> that was a scene from the episode was called "the one with the prom video" and that's actually my favorite episode, out of all of them. high school. >> the dress back in the day. all right, back across to kath. >> orange county, california. all right. finish these lyrics to "i'll be there for you" please. ♪ i'll be there for you when the rain starts to fall ♪ ♪ i'll be there for you ♪ like i've been there before >> i have no idea. >> you have a lot of songs to learn on my cd. [ buzzer ] >> lyrics are i'll be there for you 'cause you're there for me too ♪ became a worm in the brain? when you worked there? >> they also left out the clap. and then that makes sense. that's burned in. >> burned in. back across to cath. >> nice lady from maine. all right. which couple got married in vegas with permanent marker on their faces? was it monica and chandler,

rachel zoll in new york, thank you very much. kim lawton here, kevin eckstrom here in washington, thanks to all of you. >> thank you. >>> on our calendar, this weekend, members of the sikh faith celebrate the birthday of their founder, guru nanak. the following day, monday, baha'is celebrate the birth of their founder, baha'u'llah. for hindus, the five-day festival of diwali, known as the festival of lights begins tuesday. also, this week, orthodox christians begin observing advent, with the nativity fast, part of their spiritual preparation for christmas. and on thursday some muslims will mark al-hijira, the islamic new year, which commemorates the migration of the prophet muhammad and his followers from mecca to medina in the year 622. >>> finally, this veteran's day weekend, we have a special report from lucky severson on new opportunities for veterans returning from service overseas, especially those who have been injured. the vets learn that their skills and discipline are still needed. their communities are helped. everybod

rachel, what is your next question?ether, we have to be honest with each other. so what's one of your darkest, dirtiest secrets? >> well, i do have some secrets in my past. but my darkest and dirtiest has to be when i was 12 and my mother prepared dinner one night. and i'll never forget the menu, moist pan bread with a side of butter squash. dinner was going as usual, with both of us enjoying the pan bread in complete silence. but the butter squash didn't agree with my colon. so instead of eating it, i secretly put the squash in my pockets. after the meal, my mother asked if i had enjoyed the squash, and i said, "yes." and my dark secret is that it wasn't the taste i enjoyed, it was the feeling of the warm squash in my trousers. [ laughter ] >> oh. thank you. thank you, contestant number two. all right, rachel, what is your next question? >> contestant number one, i'm a bit of a romantic, and i believe in love at first sight. what about you? >> oh, yes. i believe in love at first sight. i believe in you and i sharing yo

>> i'll give you three guesses, rachel. he wanted an update on the storm and he wanted to talk to local officials in the affected area to find out what they were thinking and he wanted to communicate with them directly. i have to tell you, he's called multiple times a day just into this state, just to find out what's going on in new york. fema, his response agency, has been fantastic. the whole cabinet has really been deployed. so i think he's done this very well. i worked in the clinton administration. i was the hud secretary. hud is one of response agencies. i know what the federal government traditionally does. they're doing an outstanding job in my opinion. >> what's the top of the priority state for this state in terms of recovery and repair? >> we have two different types of situation if you will. the situation you're talking about is basically in manhattan. then you have it out of manhattan within the downstate metropolitan area situation. in manhattan, manhattan, as you know, has that elaborate infrastructure below

rachel potter just performed "without you," and that was for frances and of course ashley.iked -- you guys reacted. there was a line in there that says your eyes are on heaven, but you've been through hell, and you both looked at each other like that's the line. those are the people that smiled through the persecution and pain in life. we're so happy to be able to tell your story. >> you have another battle you're going through all this point too. >> i should know either friday or monday. >> she's getting a biopsy and checking it out. >> you're a beautiful lady. >> we want to give you a little something. frances, there's a place called "t the golden pheasant in bucks county. they donated a consecutive two-night stay for you and your husband at the inn. they sent along this gift basket for you guys. >> that will be fun for you. >> yes. >> it will. >> i want to also say that rachel has her own cd out. >> rachel potter. >> it's -- >> the thought exchange. >> i want to listen. >> we have a show called "scandalous" david and i, and god bless, and tomorrow we're going to have a p

producer rachel curteous joined us earlier. there are few major ways a public private partnership can work in the sirkar the first way is that essentially private businesses take over for the government so for instance bill essentially buy rode off of the government and after that bill benefits say they will have to deal with all the repairs and things of that nature but at the same time they get all of the revenue from tolls and from any other sort of profit generating revenue like even you know rent along the side of the road things like that the other way to do it is to actually have the businesses from the outset be the ones who build the roads to begin with and i think that's what we're going to see a little bit more in the wake of superstorm sandy seeing as these roads are entirely destroyed to begin with so instead of having a bond measure where in the government borrows money off of taxpayers to pay for these new roads what they'll do is they'll essentially beat out those roads to businesses who will then do it and agai

we're all talki >> thank you, rachel. for having me. >> thank you, sir. >>> in the spring of '88, way back the skies over new jersey, southern new england, opened up and snowed days and days and days. more than 4 feet of snow piled up. howling winds. there were drifts of know 50 feet high. a report from "the new york times" back then describes new york city as helpless in a tornado of wind and snow. it was the great blizzard of 1888. by the time it ended, quote, every horse, car, and elevated railway train had stopped running. quote, the electric wires, telegraph and telephone were nearly all broken. jordan, we isman of "the atlantic" dug up this all picture. you'll see why the blizzard put out the lights. this was new york. look, the electric wires strung overhead where the elements could knock them down. hundreds of people died in that storm. an enormous number of buildings burned because fire departments couldn't reach them. when the snow finally melted the runoff was so great it created floods. great blizzard of 1888

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let's give rachel a big hand first. >> thank you.applause] >> you are welcome to move to the mike. >> hello. i don't know if this is gone. there we are. i am from a presidential family of slaveholders. i have been doing a lot of research into the families of people my family held in bondage and i become in a group called coming to the table. are you aware of this group? is an online group that seeks to connect the families of enslaved people and families of an slavers. i find it to be a powerful experience. i am wondering if you think thi. >> i hope it promotes conversation. a lot of what i found on both sides of the first lady's family, black-and-white, was a lot of silence. we should talk more about it. i am not naive to think one book even about a historic first lady is going to solve everything. if it sparks some conversation, that would be a good thing. in talking to some of the first lady's distant cousins, some people, even our conversations were i think meaningful and fascinating. some of them looked at me. i am a journalist

"the rachel maddow" show begins right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, ed. my local bar here in new york city is a steelers bar. >> way to go, rachel. >> at the risk of getting either way too many free drinks or none ever the rest of my life, it was an exciting end of the game. >> thank you. >> well done, man. thanks a lot. >> you bet. >> thanks to you at home for staying with us for this special sunday, sunday, sunday! two days to go, monster truck election derby special edition of "the rachel maddow show." we've been waiting to do that all year long. all right. you ready? today we saw the largest crowds we have seen at political rallies this entire election season. mitt romney spoke to an estimated 4,500 people in des moines, iowa, this morning. then governor romney flew to cleveland, ohio, where another 6,000-plus people showed up to hear him speak. then he went to pennsylvania. after that he bolted for virginia. this is a big, big day for the romney campaign. just as this is a big, big day for the obama campaign. president obama's schedule today includes

>> absolutely, rachel. couple hours, i made a couple phone calls and discovered that everything you said is accurate with one more county. miami-dade is also having issues with people who requested absentee ballots. some of these people requested that ballot a month ago. they requested it the beginning of october. and still haven't gotten them. if it's not returned by 7:00 p.m. on tuesday, in the a office on that day, it won't count. then the next wrinkle is that people who ordered their absentee ballots but decided to show up at a poll and try to vote will be made to vote on provisional ballots because there's no way to verify that person didn't mail if an absentee ballot. and florida doesn't have a strong record of counting provisional ballots. >> why does the government not do more to make voting easier? we saw rick scott take action here more aggressively than other republican legislatures did. he ordered that early voting be cut. has there been any argument from what he's done? >> no. you talked about

>> well, you got it absolutely right, rachel. what we've seen here is just an explosion of enthusiasm from florida voters, particularly democrats, all across the state. really having a record early vote. we had on saturday the largest early vote in florida history and it's just been great to see. but what you've also seen is the problems that come with it when you have a republican governor who decided he really just

smell that you don't notice it here, i do notice it frequently, and so when you mention this gal rachel. >> so, just before this, we had a meeting because we're working on hopefully building a study to look at exposures among women in the fire course to understand what they're exposed to, this raises a really interesting kind of unique sub population within that, she is an environmental health scientist and has done a lot of work on measuring levels of chemicals in people and environments, so one study she did was with also in richmond california to looking at the different levels of chemicals, diesel exhaust in richmond which you would expect to be very different, and she's going to help us see if we can build a study, so this was a great thing that you brought to our attention. >> i start to think about it over the years but especially working in an airport and now in an actively working diesel pump station. >> and it's not something you have any control over, and that's the same kind of fragmentation we're seeing at all levels, it's hard to make changes when jurisdictions move. >> bu

smell that you don't notice it here, i do notice it frequently, and so when you mention this gal rachel. >> so, just before this, we had a meeting because we're working on hopefully building a study to look at exposures among women in the fire course to understand what they're exposed to, this raises a really interesting kind of unique sub population

>> absolutely, rachel.e last couple hours, i made a couple of phone calls into south florida and discovered everything you said is absolutely accurate with one exception. there's actually one more county. apparently miami dade county is also having issues with people who requested absentee ballots. keep in mind some of these people requested that ballot a month ago. they requested it the beginning of october. and still haven't gotten them. if it's not returned by 7:00 p.m. on election day, tuesday, that doesn't mean postmarked, that means in the office on that day, it won't count. then the next wrinkle is that people who ordered their absentee ballots but decided to show up at a poll and try to vote will be made to vote on provisional ballots, because there's no way for the election workers to verify that that person didn't mail in an ap sentee ballot. and florida does not exactly have a strong record of counting provisional ballots. >> why does the government of florida not do more to make voting easier? w

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >>> we will know that is the case if we find some kind of mexican wrestling mask in the next pete souza photo from the white house. then we'll know they're sending a message. >> thanks, rachel. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. okay. last year in the former soviet republic of georgia, which to refresh your memory is here sort of wedged into a port of the world called eurasia, in his struggling young nation of georgia, a 75-year-old grandmother was out looking for scrap metal and she happened by some dark miracle she happened upon the cable that connects much of that region to the outside world. the cable that she found when she was looking for scrap metal happened to carry the internet. the whole internet service for that whole part of the world. and because this woman was poor and she thought the cable maybe contained some valuable copper that maybe she could sell, she cut that cable with a shovel. and with that one mighty thwack, that 75-year-o

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producer rachel currency has sent our t. correspondent. well speaking of debt the holidays are just around the corner now and that means retailers and shoppers are gearing up for the biggest shopping day of the year that of course is a black friday but the california employees at the nation's largest retailer are also getting ready to go on strike on the big day wal-mart workers plan to walk out on black friday in protest of what they call poor working conditions and low wages many are also upset they're working all day on thanksgiving to prepare for the following day well this could pose a major problem for wal-mart which enjoys it more than a quarter of its annual sales on black friday but this would be the first time wal-mart workers walked out we've reported on strikes that have happened in recent months and since then some workers say the company has retaliated by reducing hours even firing some people. now some employees are firing back again we'll keep you updated on how this all plays out. in our tease so general petraeus has a mis

. >> great to be here, rachel. >> what do you think of the president's strategy to take this fight to the public? he has done this before. is this the right kind of fight? is this the right time to do it? >> well, it makes sense to me. if you are going to fight a battle, you want to fight it on the friendliest terrain you can. public opinion is very friendly terrain for the president as all that polling data you just showed indicates where as the other way of fighting this battle which is to go immediately into the smoke-filled room with john boehner and mitch mcconnell, the republicans have power there. the republicans control the house. they can filibuster things in the senate. they have power here in the sort of inner councils of washington. they have much less pour out in the rest of the country, especially after the recent election. so the president is going where the terrain is best suited for what he is trying to do. >> how does that translate, though, in washington? ultimately, the president is out there. he is going to be out there in suburban philly later this week and doing

>> well, you have it right, rachel. what we're seeing issen explosion of enthusiasm from florida voters, particularly democrats, all across the state. really having a record early vote. we had on saturday, the largest early vote in florida history. and it's just been great to see. but you've also seen the problems come with it when you have a republican governor who has decided he really doesn't want people to vote. we've had tremendously long lines. we decided we had to do something last night, which was file this lawsuit. but we've also seen our supervisors across the state step up on their own and allow folks to have what you correctly call over the counter voting, which is essentially early voting in the large areas where we've seen a lot of the lines. >> in terms of the overall effect of this chaos today, however things were resolved ultimately in miami-dade today with just the fiasco, but also with the long, long, long waits for early votes and the confusion over wen and where people would be allowed to vote, is t