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rachel maddow is known to all of us as the host of the rachel maddow show. the critically-acclaimed msnbc program where rachel takes on issues at the forefront of public discussion and private debate every day. she is an author, a collar and -- scholar and one of the finest examples i know of using liberal learning for purposeful engagement in the world. [cheers and applause] mown holyoke has educating women for 175 years, and i am so, so proud to have such an extraordinary role model on our campus this evening. before we get to rachel's presentation, i want to introduce my dear friend joan from the odyssey book shop. [cheers and applause] without her, this event would not be possible, so, joan -- [applause] >> hello, everyone! what a great night. first of all, i want to say happy birthday, cesar chavez! [cheers and applause] he would be 85 years old. he would be 85 years old today, and he was very important in my political development. the odyssey book shop is honored to be co-sponsoring this event with mount holyoke college, the research center and the gend

don't miss the "rachel maddow show" on msnbc 9:00 p.m. >>> your "first look" at wall street, the dows at 12,419 after tumbling 160 points yesterday. the s&p dropped 19, the nasdaq defense 33. taking a look at overseas trading. in tokyo, the nikkei was down 90 points. in hong kong, the hang seng lost 6. stocks tumbled wednesday as tensions mounted over europe's ability to solve the debt crisis. fears spain can't save its troubled banks sparked a selloff. also new polls showing the political party against a greek bailout is gaining ground ahead of june elections. fuelled fears of a greek exit from the eurozone. the yield on benchmark 10-year treasuries fell to the lowest level in at least 60 years. oil tumbled 3% on worries that a euro crisis would drain command for commodities. >>> facebook's failed ipo has knocked mark zuckerberg off bloomberg's top 40 billionaires index. facebook closed lower for the sixth out of eighth day. meanwhile, fallout for facebook's ipo is causing some companies to reconsider going public. london-based jeweler, graff diamond postponed its billion-dollar ipo

. >>> last night on the rachel maddow show, david axelrod talked about republican mitt romney's campaign ads touting his economic plans. he told rachel he believes they are largely the same policies americans lived through during the bush years. >> mitt romney, as you referred to, has offered a plan that is very much like the plan karl rove and others put into place in the last decade. he wants to cut taxes. $250,000 for millionaires. while raising taxes on 18 million working americans. it is a budget-busting plan that the independent analysts say would add as much as $5 trillion to our deficits. and so for them to run ads suggesting that the problem is debt and they are the answer is absurd. mitt romney has the foreign policy of the 1980s, the social policy of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s which we revisited a decade ago. we don't want to go backward. we want to go forward and build an economy that is durable in which the middle class is growing and not shrinking. and people who work hard can have a chance. and that's clearly not the policy that mitt romney is offerin

>> is no rachel maddow dr. [laughter] there is a really smart guy daschle security. he writes for wired.com i did interview for the book and it is very confrontational but i am surprised there is no rachel maddow doctor in. and i am not qualified to do that. obama is a multilateral us. and also he does not have to be accountable for anything else. but he is the multilateral list which is to provide by libya. that is the form of exerting american power to have a military as the rest of those combined. we have not gone to libya and the arab league did not say that. that is why they took a different approach to syria. you can intervene less or maybe more with the international coalition it looks more legitimate. that is obama's way. identify unqualified but it is a different approach than from that romney. >> >> if there were more rachel maddow the country would be better off. [applause] >> good thing there is not. [laughter] >> i have a comment and a question. >> please a brief question. >> i was drafted 1968. it was buried valuable but my family and friends became ext

and there are so i would love to see rachel maddow give out guns as a president even like one of the our t.v. shows and just see the rightwing freak out i mean it well do you think they would freak out i mean i think that most of the right wing loves the guy who over and over because they were trying something so. the liberals are training to attack us you know i mean that can you imagine if a liberal outlet like rachel maddow is like the first that comes to mind start giving out guns they would freak out i think that's a good point was that they were going to be out there they would love a second amendment i'm sure fox news would find some way to spin it you know rachel maddow trying to come to our side of what's going on. i want to know what the other colors are the gun because the picture research just sort of block one doing and you know i unfortunately have all the colors you know i'm very curious myself i hope there's like some pink or purple or orange or purple something fun going on for like a massage if i was a reader and i could like when something i'm going to go i don't k

. >> last night on "the rachel maddow show," elizabeth warren told rachel, in her view, the jpmorgan chase fiasco shows there's still no real government control over risky practices at big banks. >> the problem now is that jpmorgan has had to admit that, wow, it really did take on a whole lot of risk and that it really got bitten by that risk. but it still wants to hold off any form of regulation. so that's what it leaves us with. it leaves us in a situation where, what we know for sure, is there is no regulator really looking over the shoulder of these big financial institutions. there's no cop on the beat to say, wait a minute, you can't take those kinds of risks, especially if you plan to leave the american taxpayer holding the bag. that's just the world we live in right now. the banks are still in charge of their own risk practices, and that's dangerous for all of us. >> weeknights at 9:00 eastern, "the rachel maddow show" on msnbc. >>> well, people are talking about the issue of same-sex marriage particularly since president obama's announcement that he now supports it. a "new y

. >>> last night on the "rachel maddow show" barney frank talked about it and told rachel that he doesn't think it will make much of a difference in the election. >> if you were against it, you were already against barack obama because of what he did on doma, if you were for it, you were for barack obama but it has an impact first of all, there will be some people who will be more emboldened to speak out now. you know, this is a society where people influence each other. and when the president says it, there will be people, probably won't make any difference in manhattan, los angeles, cambridge, massachusetts. but in parts of the country where people are still feeling a little intimidated, morally and cultural culturally, having the president on their side will be very helpful. these things don't operate in a one-to-one fashion and it isn't necessarily just about marriage, i think it is, it is helpful. again, we're on, we're on the move. he's actually right about the generational issue. some generational issues, people think one way at 25nd they may think differently at 50. in this situat

. >>> well last night on the rachel maddow show, former state department spokesman pj crowley talked e syrian massacre. he told rachel that he thinks president bashar al assad hopes to use nonuniformed military personnel to carry out the killings. >> ostensibly syria has agreed to six-point plan proposed by u.n. secretary-general kofi annan, now envoy. so by shifting the burden of the military now to these nonuniformed personnel, he's able to listen to kofi annan say, that syria's reached a tipping point and not admit that he's the one that's brought syria to this tipping point where you could see very significant sectarian violence develop. what is true of syria is also true of iran. iran has for the moment in its own suppression of its own people. held on to the loyalty of the you know, the iranian security forces and so far, notwithstanding some defections to the free syrian army, assad has held on for now. "lean forward" with the rachel maddow show, right here at 9:00 p.m. eastern os msnbc. >>> now a "first look" at wall street. the dow opens at 12,580, after jumping 125 points ye

well, last night on "the rachel maddow show," eleanor holmes norton, the district of columbia's only elected delegate to congress, told rachel she's being denied an opportunity to testify on behalf of the city's residents. >> there's one and only one reason why he targets the district of columbia, it's the principal matter, rachel. why wouldn't he want this principle to apply to every district in the united states? this is a straight-out cowardly case of bullying. because the congress has somewhat more jurisdiction over the district than others, because he doesn't have the nerve to try to case this on the united states of america, he's trying to make his ideological point by going, like a big bully, at the only residents who don't have a voting member -- yes, i vote in committee -- but no voting member on the final vote and has no senators to protect the district. that's why he's doing it, a straight-out gang up on the most disempowered district in the united states of america. but let me tell you something about us, we know how to fight back. >> don't miss "the rachel maddow show" we

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. congratulations.terday on "meet the press." >> i prepared for it by making you drinks. >> you're a gamer.

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. i might just have to do a little bit of fishing the weekend before the vote in wisconsin. i don't know, i might have to do that. >> i will warn the fish. i will warn the walleye that you are coming, ed. thank you, ed. >> thanks, rachel. >>> and thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. it was 1977, he had had to resign the presidency of the united states three years early in disgrace, narrowly avoiding being impeached and convicted and thrown out of office. frankly, he needed to make a little money, so he agreed for a large fee to sit down for a series of tv interviews, in which he basically wanted to talk about anything other than watergate. but he also wanted to defend himself on watergate. he wanted to try to shape his legacy, to be seen as something other than a disgraced cook who had had to resign his had had to resign his presidency. that effort to try to rehabilitate his image, to defend himself on watergate, led richard nixon to this iconic moment in the ame

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. congratulations."meet the press." >> i prepared for it by making you drinks. the night before. that was all me getting warmed up for "meet the press," making cocktails. >> you're a gamer.

ezra klein next filling in for rachel maddow. >> thank you very much. thank you for sticking around the next hour. rachel has a well-deserved night off. it is common for republicans to laud reagan. what is not common is with hillary clinton and obama in 2008, they talked up the gipper. >> i think reagan changed the trajectory of america in way that richard nixon did not. in a way bill clinton did not. he put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. >> reagan, the patron saint of american conservative was a transformational president according to barack obama, more successful than in the recently successful democratic president, bill clinton. when obama said that, the strategy was pretty clear. mr. obama was diminishing the impact of bill clinton and taking a shot at nominating another clinton and trying to appeal to moderates and liberals who wanted their own transformational leader. o praising reagan is part of what is a common trend now. happens a lot presidents controversial become unifying icons in retrospect. the ra

the "the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening.ooking forward to the corey booker interview. that's the interview in politics in the world right now. >>> thank you. that's an incredible segway. i'm looking forward to it. >> glad you're back. >> thank you. i appreciate it. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. if you go to the homepage of republican party right now, if you type gop.com into your web browser, the front page of the

. >>> rachel maddow takes on republicans claiming there's no pay gap between men and women. we'll give commentary. >>> the president takes on the gop talking points at the white house correspondence dinner. we'll play the highlights. share your thoughts on twitter. we're right back. >>> president obama made his pitch to the american worker today. he spoke to the members of the building trades union about the republican anti-labor agenda. >> over the last year i sent congress a whole series of jobs bills to put people to work, to put your members back to work, and time after time, the republicans have gotten together and they've said no. the easiest bill to pass in washington used to be getting roads and bridges built because it's not like only democrats are allowed to use these things. everybody is permitted. >> republicans spent the last three years obstructing the president's economic agenda. now the gop says president obama has no record to run on. the obama team is proving them wrong with a seven-minute campaign ad highlighting the president's accomplishments. >> the pre

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. congratulations. great job yesterday on "meet the press." >> i prepared for it by making you drinks. >> you're a gamer. i could not have made any show on sunday mornings. you got it done. it was fantastic. lots of comments on that. congratulations. i think you should do it every sunday. i'll take care of the fishing. i'll have that covered for you. >> all right. you fish, me and alex will go out on the road and charge ticket price. >> you got something there. >> thanks, man. >> you bet. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us. the list of the most common jobs for men in this country and the list of the most common jobs for women in this country are two lists that have very little in common, it turns out. the jobs we do in this country in this day and age are still sort of surprisingly really segregated by gender. whether you have an occupation that's male dominated or you have an occupation that's female dominated, there's one thing that just about every single job in america has in common. dude

rachel maddow is the host of "the rachel maddow show" on msnbc and joins us now. good morning to you. >> hi, ann. >> you called the president's announcement historic in civil rights. given what we've heard from chuck todd, he's leaving it to the states, there's no movement to do something federally in terms of making a change, i mean, what actually changes? >> you know, i think that symbolic value is hard to see in the moment. i think this is something we will know more in retrospect in terms of what this milestone, just for knowing that the president believes this and he's waiting to see what that means. this is not a given that this would happen. think about what's going on in the rest of politics. george w. bush was for civil unions. the current republican de facto mitt romney is against civil unions. the states that recognized the rights would have those rights overturned federally by the constitutional amendment that the republican party supports. this is not something that is -- where everything is all marching in the same direction. i mean, mitt romney is r

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in some ways, my book could be said to be inspired by my favorite rachel maddow promo, which is rachelut the fact that, yes, we do write things together individually, but we also build great things together collectively, not only through government, but often through government. and we are best when we do both those things. yes, when we strive as individuals, but, yes, when we know how to take care of one another and do things together. >> is the government the key, though? is current conservatism devoted to the idea that we can do some things collectively, but we should never do things collectively through government. that there should only be other forms of collective association, whether it be religion or family or smaller forms of politics? >> i think that is what it's about now. and i think that breaks -- you know, a lot of our friends in the tea party act as if the founders did not create a strong government through the constitution, but they did create a strong government. they seem to argue that government really didn't get involved in things until the progressive era or the ne

somewhere sometime obama surrogate is trying to explain himself in an exclusive interview with rachel maddow. >> frustratingly i think i conflated the attacks the republicans were making with wright with the attacks on the left. and those can't be equated. >> stepping down, the u.s. loses its point man in afghanistan at the worst possible time. plus, the day of remembrance in joplin, missouri. and move over, harvard. jay leno's got competition for you. ♪ don't ask me i'll never tell don't look to me you came my way ♪ ♪ hey it's crazy ♪ ♪ here's my number >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. got to have some fun. newark mayor corey booker trying to cleeb han his copy book. senior strategist david axelrod slapped booker down, prompting booker to appear with rachel maddow last night. >> i love corey booker, he's a great mayor. if my house was on fire, i'd hope he was my next door neighbor. in this instance he was just wrong. there are specific instances here that speak to an economic theory that isn't right theory for the country. >> it wasn't until the gop went across that line

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, ed. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the pulitzer prize-winning author of "ghost wars," steve kall is going to be here tonight for the interview. i'm really looking forward to that. he has just put out something totally ground breaking and totally amazing.

. >> one of your recent guests was rachel maddow. >> yes. was great. >> you didn't exactly have an in depths discussion of the issues. >> i didn't, but we had a lot of fun, and i think that what people saw was a different side of rachel maddow. i mean, and i think that there's value in that. dan rather was just on, and with john mayer, the singer, and it was a wednesday night, wednesday night, as i'm sure you know from watching my show very well is gemmy fallon scottsky night. he made this shotski, which is a ski with three shot glasses. whoever the guests are on wednesday night, there was me, dan rather, and john mayer doing a shotski at the end of the show. that's fun tv. ure not going to get that anywhere else. >> not going to argue with that one. coming back to your role as a bravo executive and falling short of somebody actually just disrobing to get your attention, what makes a good bravo pitch and what are some of the worst pitches you've heard? >> i think what makes a great pitch is something that's on brand that's something that has

. >> don't miss out on "the rachel maddow show" right here on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> here's your "first look" at some of the other news making headlines in america. for the second time was a charm for spacex rocket lifting off from cape canaveral this morning. it was a gorgeous launch. saturday's launch was halted at the last second due to a faulty valve. it could become the first commercially owned rocket to bring supplies to the international space station. pretty cool there. >>> in washington state an incredible rescue. a 13-year-old boy, you can see him right there on the right, he was saved after nearly plunging down a waterfall about 250 feet high. the boy had been hiking with his father and friends when he slipped and fell into a rushing river. he was able to swim out of the current but then got stuck on the rocks very close to the edge of that waterfall. >>> in southern california, a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood last night. amazingly the pooilt managed to avoid hitting homes and jumped only minor injuries. he tried to make it to the airport aft

my favorite text from hillary is the one where rachel maddow asks her who runs the world? 140 character response forget it, one word. girls. love it. let's be very serious for a second. hillary rodham clinton is not only very sblegt, witty, charming and beautiful woman, she's also a great public servant, a great global leader, a great inspiration to women all beijing 1995, i do. of you migh and a great inspiration to people everywhere in the world. so of course she's the ideal recipient for the woodrow wilson award for public service. we all know that president wilson said and i'm quoting him carefully, there's no higher religion than human service to work for the common good is the greatest creed. and hillary has devoted her life to this common good. she's been incredibly impressive from an early age. when she was at wellesley she was the first student to deliver a commencement address and

the former harvard professor told rachel maddow last night the debacle at jpmorgan suggests that the big banks haven't learned their lesson from twoi 8. >> jamie dimon's own words were that this was stupid, this was sloppy, so stupid and so sloppy that it wasn't even picked up by a regulator. there was no one to say, hey, wait a minute. i want to review your risk practices. i want to see the kind of risk that this huge financial institution is taking on because we're just about 3 1/2 years past the time you took on so much risk that you brought this economy almost to its knees. >> meanwhile, a report this morning in the "new york times" says for years senior investment bankers were concerned about the size and complexity of investments at jpmorgan chase. but the newspaper says those red flags were ignored for the most part by management. >>> overseas, just a few minutes ago, francois hollande inaugurated as the president of france, ending the run of nicolas sarkozy. socialist leader hollande was elected to a five-year term earlier this month after running on a platform that challenge