let's bring in rachel maddow who wants it ask a question. rachel? >> thanks. mr.ave you sinus with us tonight. you asked georgia corrections to reconsider, specifically highlighting the toll this would take on corrections officers and other people in the corrections system involved in this execution saying, that you understand interest your own personal experiences the awful life-long repercussions that come from participating in the execution of prisoners. i wondered if just in terms of those of white house know and care about government workers, and people who are public servants working for corrections departments, if you could describe what you meant by that, the repercussions for people who work in the system. >> well in my experience, i could have stayed in atlanta but i chose to go to jackson. i didn't ask staff to do something i wouldn't do. but i know that we tried to get psychological and psychiatric help for all of the people that participated. and one day i understood fully that i was trying to get it for everybody but me. and then i realized what a he

joining me now is my colleague, rachel maddow of the rachel maddow show. great to have you with us tonight and spending time on this big story and obviously people been saying on this network all night this is somewhat of a turning point, this is a case that will get a tremendous amount of publicity after the execution because of the way it's been handled and all the evidence that many people think has not been presented. a movement. what does that mean in your opinion? where does the conclusion take us from here? >> i think it's the right question. the question for many people gathered outside georgia, about troy davis the man, whether or not troy davis is the man that killed mark macphail and whether or not the justice system did in fact produce a justice in convicting him and broader sense and larger sense, a question about the dealt penalty. one detail of this i draw your attention, the means by which troy davis is being killed right now in the state of georgia. state of georgia like other lethal injection states in this country used to rely on a cockt

national interview after tomorrow's announcement will be tomorrow night exclusively here on "the rachel maddow show" which is very cool. >>> election upset. democrats lose a key house seat and a troubling sign for president obama. >>> the great escape. a michigan suspect manages to slip out of handcuffs and through a police cruiser's window. >>> a collision course. a bus driver tries to beat a train, causing a deadly wreck in argentina. hello and good morning. i'm vinita nair. those stories and more are straight ahead. this is fir"first look" on msnb. today we begin with a major gop victory. at a time when president obama can least afford it, republicans have scored an upset in a house race being called a referendum on the president's handling of the economy. last night retired media executive and political newcomer, bob turner, narrowly defeated david weprin, according to the associated press. democrats outnumber republicans three to one in new york's ninth congressional district, which hasn't sent a republican to congress in nearly 90 years. turner replaces congressman anthony weiner, a seve

last night on "the rachel maddow show" the harvard professor and consumer advocate told rachel why she decided to throw her hat into the ring. >> there was a time, we came out of the great depression. we wrote a set of economic rules and spent 50 years growing america's middle class, making it stronger, more vibrant. every generation said my kids will do better than i did. starting about 30 years ago, we really lost our way on that. so that now we are in a place where middle class families have just been hammered for a generation. it's not just what's happened in the last few years. it's been going on now for a long time. and it's the case that nobody seems to get this. nobody in washington. washington has been wired now for the big institutions, for those who can hire an army of lobbyists. it's not working for middle class families. and that's what i care about. that's why i'm going to step up on this one. that's why i'm ready to fight back. >> lean forward with the rachel maddow show, weeknights at 9:00 eastern only on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> a newly released government re

. >> each night rachel maddow takes on the biggest stories of the day with in-depth analysis and gets from all sides of the issue. don't miss "the rachel maddow show," weeknights at 9:00 eastern on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> after spending more than two years locked up in iran, hikers shane bauer and joshua fattal are finally free. yesterday they were released from prison and into the arms of loved ones. nbc news tehran's bureau chief has more from iran. >> reporter: after over 780 days in tehran's notorious prison, shane bauer and joshua fattal finally get to taste freedom. during fast-moving events, their iranian lawyer was summoned to the judiciary to come and finalize their $1 million bail arrangements. once that had been done, swiss delegates rushed to the prison to see how long it would take to get them out. the swiss ambassador who deals with american interests in iran because there is no u.s. embassy here came out and delivered the good news that shane bauer and joshua fattal, after two years of hope and heartbreak for themselves and their families, were on their way o

allan ault and rachel maddow, thank you for staying with us. coming up next, barry scheck of the innocence project and ari melber of the nation. our coverage of the execution of troy anthony davis continues here on nsnbc. stay with us. [ mendes ] you know when something's bad -- but you do it anyway? pantene said, "breakage and split ends?" [ female announcer ] try pantene breakage to strength. the pro-v system helps prevent then repair split ends. zero fear of breakage, 100% more strength. pantene. while i took refuge from the pollen that made me sneeze. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my worst allergy symptoms. so lily and i are back on the road again. with zyrtec®, i can love the air®. >>> he asked his family and friends to keep praying, for keep working and keep the faith, and then he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who are going to take my life, he said to them, "may god have mercy on your souls". and his last words were to them," may god bless your souls". then he put his head back down. the pr

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jesus christ and rachel maddow. no?mitt romney might not be the perfect candidate but he's the perfect candidate in comparison to the other candidates. next to rick perry, i'm a centrist. next to michele bachmann, i'm a private sector businessman. next to newt gingrich, i have a normal human sized head. next to ron paul, i'm the fonz. and next to herman cain -- >> mr. cain, your only experience is serving as ceo of godfather pizza. how does running a pizza chain equate to running a country? >> if you order it, pizza will come. pizza will come, pizza will most definitely come, and if you vote for me, america, i promise you that i will deliver. >> joining me now, a distinguished graduate of "saturday night live," the writer and director of "the big uneasy," a documentary about the flooding and aftermath of hurricane ka katrina and host of the radio show "the show." harry shearer. it doesn't get weirder than this weekend in politics. herman cain? there have been two sets of votes cast in straw polls. michele bachmann wins

. >>> and the premiere of richard engel's and rachel maddow's special report on how america has changedce 9/11 premieres tonight after this show. richard engel joins me. [ woman ] jogging stroller. you've been stuck in the garage while i took refuge from the pollen that made me sneeze. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my worst allergy symptoms. so lily and i are back on the road again. with zyrtec® i can love the air®. >>> in tonight's "spotlight," the perry effect on the republican presidential candidates. the new poll here shows rick perry now beating michele bachmann by more than two to one. bachmann comes in third now behind mitt romney. the last quinnipiac poll had her in second before rick perry jumped into the race. and more importantly for bachmann, rick perry trounces her among tea party members with a 17-point lead. perry's tea party polling is better than both bachmann and romney combined. now bachmann supporters are going on the offensive against perry. a pro bachmann super pac will begin airing this ad on tv in south carolina next week. >> r

. >>> and the premiere of richard engel's and rachel maddow's special report on how america has changedtonight after this show. richard engel joins me. [ female announcer ] we always try to save you even more money when you switch your car insurance to esurance. i could save 'em 522 smackers. you talkin' dough? bread. benjamins? scratch. greenbacks. moolah. cheddar... simoleons! don't try to out-save me. [ female announcer ] any way you say it, $522 is the average amount saved by people who switched to esurance. 522 bucks! [ female announcer ] to find out how much you'll save, call 1-800-esurance or visit esurance.com right now. that's 1-800-esurance or go to esurance.com. >>> in tonight's "spotlight," the perry effect on the republican presidential candidates. the new poll here shows rick perry now beating michele bachmann by more than two to one.ç bachmann comes in third now behind mitt romney. the last quinnipiac poll had her in second before rick perry jumped into the race. and more importantly for bachmann, rick perry trounces her among tea party members with a 17-point lead. perr

it is very popular among the rachel maddow state of florida staf -- maddow staff. and asked if they had clips. there was a giant fight. >> nobody's seen doug. >> y rng i've ever been this hung over. >> what's on your arm? >> you were in this hospital last night. ? the only important thing is we find doug. >> where's your car, officers? >> my god. >> one of the executive producers of that popular movie, "the hangover," is a man named scott budnik, in addition to being a hollywood producer does something self-sacrificing and very cool, volunteers to teach going where to people in jail in. he has done it for years. five years ago he won los angeles volunteer of the year award in a district in l.a. in which he lives because he does this work. today in los angeles, mr. volunteer of the year, the man who is the producer of "the hangover" had a sworn legal declaration released by the aclu in which he describes the multiple times he was in los angeles jails and saw sheriff's deputies beating people up, people imprisoned there, not fighting, not resisting, not provoking any

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we invaded rachel maddow's time. david weprin trying to win anthony weiner's seat. >> thank you, lawrence. >> the rachel maddow show is up right now. >> i take that as a friendly invasion. never to happen again. >> i enjoy it. i do it to ed every single night unfortunately without trying to. i can never complain about this ever. anyway, thank you, lawrence. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. the tiny little town of mendon, vermont, has a big problem right now, a problem most other towns across the country don't have and a problem mendon, itself, did not have until recently. this is the main highway that runs through mendon, vermont, called route 4. as you can see, it's a scenic little road lined by forests on both sides. that's what route 4 look like up until a couple weeks ago. here's what it looks like now. oh, instead of a nice, scenic road, it's now a thing that used to be a road but is now mostly just a river. when hurricane irene barrelled up the east coast a couple of weeks ago, it to

>> rachel maddow, host "the rachel maddow show" on msnbc. >> now i will take that as an invitation. that's excellent. thank you. >> that would be great. >> i have to tell you, chris, that i have done 2/3 of this segment with no teleprompter tonight. >> no. >> which is i have been looking, not making eye contact with anybody. >> that is amazing. >> so i am warming up the technical failures for you. >> that was a long read without a prompter. >> exactly. i'm getting all of the technical failures out of the system so that by the time you roll in on saturday stuff is going to be clean. >> that is kind of you. on the other hand, you have now seeded a new nightmare for me to have in the next 48 hours. >> ta-da. all right. john boehner's speech today. a lot of people are reacting to john boehner's speech today by saying he's being so snarky and negative and obstructionist about the republicans' proposal. i feel like he left some wiggle room maybe on infrastructure but sort of maybe definitely on what he's calling tax loopholes. did you see any sort of little ray of sunshine here in terms o

. >>> ahead on msnbc rachel maddow will have the latest on the troy davis execution.undreds o thousands of people he did not kill an off duty police officer but not a justice system. his execution had been set to begin at 7:00 p.m. eastern. and still to come on "the last word," the author who moved into a house next door to sarah palin to write his book, "rogue" will join us. you can spot an amateur from a mile away... while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. now this...will work. [ male announcer ] just like you, business pro. just like you. go national. go like a pro. she won't eat eggs without hot sauce. she has kind of funny looking toes. she's always touching my hair. and she does this dancing finger thing. [ male announcer ] with advanced technology from ge, now doctors can diagnose diseases like breast cancer on a cellular level. so that women, like kristy's mom, can get personalized

. >> you can see much more of the late night comedians on our website, up next is rachel maddow and richard engel with >>> the battle for richmond. let's play "hardball." >>> good morning, i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, give them hell, barry. last night democrats heard the man they elected in 2008, a barack obama forceful, hopeful, challenging inspiring. the president promised to take his case to quote, every corner of this country and he began making good on that promise by traveling today to eric cantor's district to sell his plan. the president may have finally grabbed the initiative. >>> plus, ten years later we're still learning more about what went on and didn't happen behind the scenes on 9/11. tonight two guests are with president bush and with vice president cheney. i said president not by accident with america under attack. >>> also, walk around the streets of new york today and it will be clear that officials are taking no chances in light of word that not much smaller scale al qaeda attack may be many the planning stages. we're going to get the latest ton

rachel maddow came in early. thank you, my friend.see you. >> great to see you, too 37. >> the president is out in north carolina, yesterday ohio, trying to sell the jobs plan. it doesn't seem to be persuading either congressional republicans and even some congressional democrats. >> depends how wide a lens if you look at it. if you look at the poll you described, we are seeing the president having low numbers in terms of people's faith in him to fix the economy and people's feelings about how he has managed the economy so far. but the feedings about congressional republicans on that same score are much worse. so the bottom line is that the economy is absolutely horrible. and so nobody when asked about anything in relation to the economy will look good unless they are a hypothetical person. so real people working in the real political climate are having trouble. but when you ask people about the specific policies that the president has included in his jobs plan, those policies themselves are very popular. there's a reason he's saying

that's "the rachel maddow show" only on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> there was some high in the sky drama overnight when mission control was unable to get in touch with a russian soyuz capsule as it returned to earth. fortunately ground crews eventually got through and the spacecraft carrying an astronaut and two cosmonauts safely landed in kazakhstan. their replacements were due to arrive at the international space station at the end of the month, but that flight has been delayed until november after an unmanned russian cargo ship crashed. >>> with the schulhuttle progra retired, nasa is relying on the orbiting outpost. >>> less than two hours before a texas inmate was to be executed for the killings of two people, the supreme court halted his lethal injection. duane buck's attorneys do not dispute his guilt in the 1995 shootings but argue he was unfairly sentenced because at his trial, a psychologist testified black men are more likely to commit violence. the justices say they will review the case. >>> all right. here's your first look at some of the other news going on around

for an awards show you know the only place i've ever even seen this mentioned so far was on the rachel maddow show last night when she had michael moore on as a guest but was because more broadly that himself not because rachel asked because he was also pinpointing the ridiculous nature of the media and what they choose to ignore from the tar sands protests and from the white house to the occupy wall street protest that's going on right now meanwhile c.n.n. just teamed up with the tea party to do a presidential debate and you remember how the mainstream media covered every single tea party protests the glitz the glamour was involved there you almost could have been fooled by mistaking it for some celebrity event and that's a huge part of the problem that's a huge reason why wall street is getting away with crimes is because the mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to them they don't call out our congress or this administration on a daily basis or one of the biggest crimes of the century so far when that's going on punished and since they're too lazy to do it well why would they bother c

those in favor gateway now dan choi an iraq war veteran he was discharged after he came out on the rachel maddow show his father l g b t equality consistently even getting arrested after chaining himself to the white house fence now we're happy to report that choi is relisting in the army what a difference a few years makes so president obama released a statement today saying that as of today patriotic americans in uniform will no longer have to lie about who they are and in order to serve the country they have every american to be proud that we have taken another great step toward keeping the finest our millett toward keeping our military the finest in the world and toward fulfilling our nation's founding ideals obama was joined by several members of congress who plot this move as well as the activists across the country so this country comes together and celebrate the death of this law discriminating against service members who would like to take a pause and realize that the end of don't ask don't tell really is a glimmer of hope. well here's another example of the insane defense spending abro

country and potentially entrap individuals and terror attack plots and spencer ackerman explained on rachel maddow last night the latest revelations could further the damage. strain ties between the muslim and american communities. here very concerned about their two routers shoes which are counterterrorism and civil rights and those two go ahead here because as you remember the greater geneva kilty said on the wire copies of anything without his source of information and unless there's community value in american muslim communities and other communities around this country one forcing shared it can't going about what's happening going to care for your work the threats. now the f.b.i. was questioned about this handbook they just called it rudimentary and they claim that their practices have since changed that's despite the fact that these concepts were still being taught in march of this year so this little glimpse inside some of the downright offensive if not incredibly stupid training practices of the f.b.i. as a time for the government to take action call for some change now if you politicians

the rachel maddow show is up next. good evening rachel. >>> good evening, lawrence. thank you.

"the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, rachel. >> good evening.i know anthony. and tank could bench press any normal sized person who you know but tank could actually do a

the rachel maddow show is up next. awlenty to get back into the race, i'll buy you and him and anybody else in the room dinner. >> it can't be a don't ask, don't tell thing. you can go back

"the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, melissa. >> gracias, lawrence. >> de nada. staying with us for the next hour, rachel has the night off. remember when this happened, remember when mitt romney formerly announced he was running for president and nobody noticed because the sarah palin bus tour stopped in new hampshire or how about when rick perry used the same weekend as the ames, iowa, straw poll to kick off his campaign. you mean there are other people doing this running for president thing too? we around the newsroom today recalled when the white house announced that president obama planned to give his big jobs speech before a joint session of which is when the republican presidential candidates are all planning to debate right here on msnbc. not just on the same night but at the exact same time. now, the debate has been scheduled for quite a long time, and lots of people have been saying that president obama needs to get tougher with the opposition, especially in his negotiations with republicans who over and over again seem to walk away, getting everything t

. >> "the rachel maddow show is up next. good evening, rachel. >>> thanks for staying with us the next hour. debunction junction, what's your function? first up. >> i tell you, i had a mother last night come up to me in tampa, florida, after the debate. she told me her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me last night. i didn't know who she was before the debate. this is the very real concern. people have to draw their own conclusions. >> that was republican congresswoman michele bachmann on nbc's "today show" this morning following up on her criticism of texas governor rick perry in last night's republican tea party debate for having supported vaccination of texas schoolgirls against the virus that causes cervical cancer. miss bachmann arguing in essence to millions of viewers on the "today show" that that vaccine causes mental retardation. is that claim true or is that false?

msnbc's rachel maddow chopped up marco's words and distorted them, even weaving in mentions of marco'sarents to attack him. ed schultz attacked marco's speech as psycho talk. those who are standing up for our conservative principals, these extreme liberals have pho interest in finding common sense solutions to the challenges facing our country. as americans, we have social security, we have medicare and medicaid. this e-mail went on, of course, to beg for money. your contribution for $100, $50 or even $25 will help us to send conservatives like marco all over the country. when we saw theç story, ed sho producers, we reached out to rubio to show up on this program tonight. his office gave a five-word response. he's not available. thanks. our producers told rubio's office the door will always be open any time, anyplace on the ed hshow, senator. you see, rubio is a political coward. he doesn't have the guts or the debates on this show, he has to hide elsewhere. he wants to basically play the victim. but i want to go back to his comments, because i want the audience of this show tonight t

up next, "the rachel maddow show." >> 20 seconds since then and still no announcement. thanks to you at home for staying with us. in the decade since 9/11, if you were looking for the single point in which america deviated the most from the way we have always been before, if you were looking for the one point at which washington took the most radical departure from american history and american tradition and american political values, if you were looking for the one point when u.s. policy completely divorced itself from our national interest after 9/11, i would argue that point happened in may 2003, may 2003. when george w. bush had been inaugurated, we had a surplus of more than $100 billion. however torn up bush was, the clinton presidency had left the country in an enviable position, no debt at all within ten years. in that context, the brand new president george w. bush administration passed an enormous new tax cut, $1.3 trillion worth of tax cuts that essentially undid that budget surplus thing rather fast, but whatever you think about the wisdom in '01, morally an

." >> i thought it was rachel maddow. >> she uses too much product. this is au natural. go to woman salons and asked for the jonie. now i go in there and i say now it is called the billy. >> they just give you the hair style and then sodomize you. >> that is not a salon and we will have to take that out. >> wait a second. we are not doing the pan due pooh story? we we don't have time? we teased it. >> something to look forward to tomorrow. >> stay tuned tomorrow. >> quickly, i'm for it. >> lauren is smeared in it. >>> we will take a break. up next, a special tribute you won't want to miss. >>> she is one of the most beautiful and bewitching guests on "red eye." former secretary of state madeline all bright had to cancel at the last minute. since lauren sivan was semilucid and in the neighborhood we asked her to stumble in and fill a seat. sadly the voice of long island is leaving us for newer and hopefully more newer opportunities in los angeles. as a result, we put together this montage of her finer moments on this program. enjoy, enjoyers. >> it was a disgusting cough

the rachel maddow show is up next with her exclusive interview with senate candidate elizabeth warren. good evening, rachel. >>> thank you, lawrence. i've been so prepared for this interview that i overprepared. it could be a catastrophe. it should be fun. thank you at home for staying with us for the next hour. >> as always, i rely on gale's love and support and that of our two lovely daughters. i want to thank ayla and arianna for their help as well. just in case anybody is watching throughout the country, yes, they're both available. no, no, no. no. only kidding. only kidding. only kidding. only kidding. arianna definitely is not available. ayla is. this is arianna. this is ayla. oh, i can see i'm going to get in trouble when i get home. >> you know, massachusetts is an old state. massachusetts has been a state since 1788. massachusetts is so old it's not even a state. it's a commonwealth. when the pilgrims landed in america they landed at plymouth rock in massachusetts. massachusetts has the world's oldest functioning written constitution. that's massachusetts. it's old. by the ti

"the rachel maddow show" is up next. >>> thank you for staying with us for the next hour.

"the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence.hanks to you at home for sticking with us this hour. i'm coming to you live from atlanta, georgia tonight because i had the honor today of speaking with our nation's 39th president, jimmy carter. we'll have that interview coming up for you a little bit later on in the show, including his prediction for president obama's re-election chances.