who's rachel maddow? a model. oh. yeah. okay, i'll do it. (laughing) whoops. moments of your time. hang on. let me just get this little guy assembled. ♪ doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doodie, doo. ♪ so where you from? newburyport. what's it to you? oh, i'm just always interested in where people are from. everybody's got a story, that's what i believe. all right, i think we're all set here. (laughing) wow. never seen that happen before. what the devil happened here? i've assembled that rifle a million times. well, i don't know if it's just the rifle. what are you talking about? i think you're going soft. i mean, when was the last time you tried to blow something up, or take over the world, or even used the phrase, "damn you"? hey, i got a lot on my plate, man. i'm learning to use the toilet, i'm learning what shapes are. i-i spent half an hour laughing at my own feet yesterday. yeah, you're losing it, man. you're losing your edge. well, i don't care for your tone and i'd say you deserve a good kick in the... (laughing) oh, look! oh, brian, look at them! joe

rach rachel maddow. >> thanks for joining us this hour.appy friday, but happy crazy your government is shutting down and turning out the lights friday. the new just broke during chris' show that the u.n. security counsel has approved a resolution to relieve syria of its chemical weapons under a plan that will inspect the secure them and destroy them. russia and china were among the countries voting unanimously for this resolution tonight on syria's chemical weapons. this is a previously unimagi unimaginable diplomatic resolution

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found his fatal injuries in the south are consistent with foibles explosives from mainstream host rachel maddow he recently smeared his not only if conspiracy theory in questions but also attempt to connect him to violence and al qaida all of these nefarious conspiracies. government plot to kill all one conspire and lie about it and cover up the real truth in this stuff is as ridiculous as it has ever been but it is as ridiculous as it is dangerous always for the joins us thank you very much for speaking with us how do you feel first losing you'll song being portrayed as the. price son died he died from an explosion i can prove that beyond a reasonable doubt if i was in a courtroom i jury can i not accept that as proof so that's where we have a problem when i say well this is an inside job when my son died from an inside job from someone putting bombs detonations i would maker sit in this ruling go through what i just went with you and then i would say. now you tell me i'm a conspiracy theory this shows you how awful our media is i don't want to. make seven million dollars and they tell her wha

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. advertisement for the shows, they're a totally separate group of people from us who actually make the shows. but the nice people over at promos kind of gave us a present, they essentially congratulated us for turning five. it was totally unexpected. we didn't know they were doing this. and it has a particularly good ending, that i ended up being fixated on today because of this story. watch what they did at the end. this is very great. >> i have a snuggy -- >> you're taking it out of context, rachel. >> no, i'm reading it from your book. >> do you agree that homosexuality is a choice? >> it is not a hypothetical. >> the governor turning the folksy factor up to stun -- >> thank you, we couldn't do without you. >> here is to five years of the rachel maddow show, on msnbc. >> is this weird? yes, of course, this is weird. that is the whole point. the reason i was wearing a space suit in that bit at the end there, i was trying to explain newt gingrich's proposal for an american colony on t

it will be fun and we'll be right back with rachel maddow. any last requests mr. baldwin?you mind grabbing my phone and opening the capital one purchase eraser? i need to redeem some venture miles before my demise. okay. it's easy to erase any recent travel expense i want. just pick that flight right there. mmm hmmm. give it a few taps, and...it's taken care of. this is pretty easy, and i see it works on hotels too. you bet. now if you like that, press the red button on top. ♪ how did he not see that coming? what's in your wallet? >>> we have some breaking news at the moment. the united nations security counsel has asked the resolution on the inspection of the regime for syria's chemical weapons. regime of bashar al assad submitted this plan after diplomacy from russia and the u.s. and now, an enforceable u.n. security counsel resolution has been passed. this is pretty stunning news and not the biggest piece of diplomatic news today. the other big news today is that for the first time in 34 years, the president of the united states, the president of iran have spoken to eac

president obama's speech to the country tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern time when i'll be joining rachel maddowchuck todd is nbc news political director and correspondent. and david axelrod is former senior adviser to president obama and of course an msnbc political analyst. it all started with an offhanded comment from john kerry and has snow balled into a russian proposal that could give the president a way out of the political mess over syria. russia says it is proposing syria turn over the chemical weapons to an international monitor to avoid a strike. in other words, right now the president's best hope might be vladimir putin, not the u.s. congress. today that effort hit a few road blocks. american friends want the threat to remain on the table. the russians want that military threat off the table. john kerry will meet with the russian foreign minister lavrov later this week in geneva to try to resolve the question. this may offer a way out for everyone. but of course the hard core hawks who want to change the momentum in syria. one explanation for why russians and syrians would go for thi

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> good evening, chris, thank you for joining us this hour. hump day. william jefferson clinton, bill clinton, was elected in 1992, look at how young they were. he did not win a huge proportion of the vote in 1992, because there was a third candidate, ross perot was running, and bill clinton won enough to unseat the incumbent president at the time, he ran to unseat papi bush. he ushered in not just his own presidency, but unified democratic control of washington, democrats controlled the house, the senate and the white house.

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> good evening, chris, thank you for joining us this hour. happy hump day. william jefferson clinton, bill clinton, was elected in 1992, look at how young they were. he did not win a huge proportion of the vote in 1992, because there was a third candidate, ross perot was running, and bill clinton won enough to unseat the incumbent president at the time, he ran to unseat papi bush. he ushered in not just his own presidency, but unified democratic control of washington, democrats controlled the house, the senate and the white house. and of course, that kind of thing cannot last. and it did not last. because in the first mid-term election that took place after bill clinton got elected president, the democrats just got shallacked, bill clinton won the presidency in 1992, it was 1994 when republicans took more than 50 seats from the democrats in the house. and in so doing, the republican party got control of the house for the first time since 1954. it was a huge loss for the democrats and a huge wins for the republicans. and because it had been so

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now.tally separate group of people from us who actually make the shows. but the nice people over at promos kind of gave us a present, they essentially congratulated us for turning five. it was totally unexpected. we didn't know they were doing this. and it has a particularly good ending, that i ended up being fixated on today because of this story. watch what they did at the end. this is very great. >> i have a snuggy --

that's all for this evening, "the rachel maddow" show starts right now. some breaking news from the "new york times" about a key detail about how the shooting at the naval yard in d.c. happened. the times reporting tonight, the apparent shooter aaron alexis, tried to buy an ar-15 military style semi-automatic rifle from a virginia gun store last week because he was stopped from buying that particular kind of weapon because of a state law that prohibits -- while he was at that gun store, he did test fire the ar-15, he expressed interest nit. but because of that state law, apparently, he instead purchased a pump action, what they call a law enforcement style remington shotgun and ammunition. and it is that loaded shotgun, officials believe that alexis brought with him into the navy facility.

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris. thank you very much. and thank you for staying with us this hour. today's mass shooting at the navy yard facility in southwest washington, d.c., makes today the deadliest day in our nation's capitol in more than 30 years. january 1982 was when a 737 that had taken off from national airport, what we now call reagan airport, crashed into the 14th street bridge in washington and then into the icy potomac river. 78 people were killed in that crash that day, including 4 people who had been on the bring or on the ground and were hit by the crashing plane. incredibly, that same day in washington, d.c., back in 1982, the same day as the plane crash, also saw a fatal derailment of a subway in the city. three people were killed when the metro derailed in a downtown tunnel. those accidents both happened on one day in washington. but that terrible day in washington was 31 years ago. four years ago in washington, there was another metro train crash which killed nine people. but today was the worst

. >> we watch you, rachel maddow, thank you very much. 9:00 tonight. be there. >> appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> secretary kerry is going to be meeting later today with iran's foreign minister joining other security councilmembers and this will be the highest level meeting between the u.s. and iran in years. joining me now is the state department spokeswoman. thank you very much. great to see you. >> great to be here. >> i know you've had a million meetings but this afternoon it's big. >> a marathon. >> the secretary is going to be meeting with the so-called permanent five members of the security council plus germany and then the iranian foreign minister zarif is going to join this meeting. do you think at this stage they can get anything done on iran's suspected nuclear program given all the things president rouhani has been saying all over town? >> there's no question there's a new opportunity with the rouhani administration. the secretary feels that way and president feels that way. the question is whether they can follow their rhetoric and follow

rach rachel maddow. >> thanks for joining us this hour. i should say not just happy friday, but happy crazy your government is shutting down and turning out the lights friday. the new just broke during chris' show that the u.n. security counsel has approved a resolution to relieve syria of its chemical weapons under a plan that will inspect the secure them and destroy them. russia and china were among the countries voting unanimously for this resolution tonight on syria's chemical weapons. this is a previously unimagi unimaginable diplomatic resolution that had been seen as an intractable problem. syria didn't even admit they had chemical weapons until about 30 seconds ago, now, they're signed on to get rid of them and their closest allies in the world are going to make sure that happens. coming on the same afternoon as another diplomatic breakthrough. the u.s. president speaking by telephone to the iranian president tonight for the first time since 1979. we're going to have more on both of those stories coming up this hour. this is a very

the rachel maddow show starts right now. remember when we used to have those conversations about who's not in the room, and we'd be like the random liberal on a panel of five people, who were totally opposed. >>> thanks to you for joining us at lomb. the verdict is in, and the verdict is, bipartisan support. and also bipartisan opposition. a 10-7 vote today, close vote today in the senate foreign relations committee with democrats and republicans on both sides of that unexpectedly close vote. congress does its job and starts voting and keeps debating whether the united states military should become the newest player in the ongoing civil war in syria. that two and a half year long war which has already killed over 100,000 people or for which some of the most recent 1,429 deaths according to u.s. estimates have a special international significance. those deaths allege that the results of a chemical weapons attack two weeks ago in the suburbs of damascus, those deaths have led not so much to an international debate about how th

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks very much. that was fun. >> thank you. >> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. do you ever watch the prison shows here on msnbc? they come on friday nights, after our show, usually, and they're always playing on the weekends? the prison shows on msnbc are really good, and they get really good ratings. so i know that you say, oh, no, i'm not watching them. statistically speaking, at least some of you are. actually, a lot of you are. actually, more of you that are watching me are watching the prison shows. but if you have ever watched one of msnbc's really excellent prison shows, you have probably seen it start with a warning that the subject matter may be for mature audiences only. you've seen that, right? well, this here, tonight, is not an msnbc prison show, this is, in fact, our lead story tonight about what is happening in washington right now, and whether or not we're going to have a government shutdown. but in order to do that story, i actually have

the "rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. law of american political science when have a midterm election the president's party loses seats. if you have a democratic president who was elected or re-elected, then two years later when there is the next election, republicans will do really well and vice versa. if you have a republican president who's just been elected or re-elected, then two years later the president's party will lose seats and in that case the democrats will do well. it's just the way it goes. every once in a while we defy that but it's basically a rule. in american politics we like the pendulum to swing back and forth between the parties. although we have been trained now for years to think about republican president ronald reagan as a saint, and to think of the reagan years as some sort of ground exception from all things predictable and partisan and even depressing in american

that's all for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. we have some breaking news from the "new york times" about a key detail about how the shooting at the naval yard in d.c. happened. the times reporting tonight, the apparent shooter aaron alexis, tried to buy an ar-15 military style semi-automatic rifle from a virginia gun store last week because he was stopped from buying that particular kind of weapon because of a state law that prohibits -- while he was at that gun store, he did test fire the ar-15, he expressed interest nit. but because of that state law, apparently, he instead purchased a pump action, what they call a law enforcement style remington shotgun and ammunition. and it is that loaded shotgun, officials believe that alexis brought with him into the navy facility. he useded that shotgun to shoot one or more police officers immediately inside the facility. and then he took handguns from police in order to continue his assault. so he had the shotgun and two handguns, is the best understanding now of what he was armed with.

the rachel maddow show starts right now. we used to have those conversations about who's not in the room, and we'd be like the random liberal on a panel of five people, who were totally opposed. >>> thanks to you for joining us at lomb. the verdict is in, and the verdict is, bipartisan support. and also bipartisan opposition. a 10-7 vote today, close vote today in the senate foreign relations committee with democrats and republicans on both sides of that unexpectedly close vote. congress does its job and starts voting and keeps debating whether the united states military should become the newest player in the ongoing

eastern rancored by rachel maddow.his speech from the white house 9:00 p.m. eastern. we will have more when we return right after the break. >>>. >> the governor turning the folksy factor up to stun. >>> thank you to our panelists. that is all for now. i'll see you back tomorrow at noon eastern. until then follow us on twitter at "now" with alex. andrea michelle reports is coming up next. and i avoid frus. you'll find reviews on home repair to healthcare, written by people just like you. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues... with three strains of good bacteria. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. [ male announcer ] that's why there's ocuvite to help replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. ocuvite. help protect your eye health. more

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris. you very much. and thank you for staying with us this hour. today's mass shooting at the navy yard facility in southwest washington, d.c., makes today the deadliest day in our nation's capitol in more than 30 years. january 1982 was when a 737 that had taken off from national airport, what we now call reagan airport, crashed into the 14th street bridge in washington and then into the icy potomac river. 78 people were killed in that crash that day, including 4 people who had been on the bring or on the ground and were hit by the crashing plane. incredibly, that same day in wa

i did it on rachel maddow, a whole bunch of msnbc, no one commented. call them the killer gunman, suspect. it's easy to do. we disappear him. >> can you really disappear a crime like this? is that even possible on a national level when you're talking about a tragedy that killed 12 people. >> you don't have to go from 100% compliance. that's not the goal. i don't think that's a good thing. i'm working out an op-ed suggesting because i've been talking about this for a while. say we have a 48 hour window where there's some good to be gained by high school teachers, ex-girlfriend, has to know who this person is in life come forward. we saw that with tsarnaev brothers. >> tsarnaev brothers. >> a lot of useful information out there. we need the name out there. it can be googled. i don't think we bury or hide the information, but take it off the marquis. his name gets used sparingly for a day or two, then hold it completely. future killers see this person was named, but for the most part he's deprived of it. he's off the stage, made anonymous. >> the other fa

the one and only rachel maddow. >> have a great weekend. one of the best things about fridays, if you work in the news business, one of the best things about working on fridays is the proud tradition of the friday news dump. the saturday newspapers are the least read of the week because programs tip over into weekend programming schedules after friday night. has always been a great time to hide news that you technically have to put out, but you don't want it to get a lot of attention, so during the 2012 campaign, mitt romney finally releases a single year of his tax returns, but he does it late on a friday afternoon, hoping the smallest possible number of people will be looking. this year, when the white house had to release a report about that keystone pipeline project so hated by progressives around the country, white house turned that vaguely report loose because they had to, but late on a friday afternoon. last month when chris christie got ready to veto a ban on .50 caliber weapons, a ban he had suggest suggested in the first place, wh

anchor rachel maddow. richard engel draws from a decade on the front lines on the war on terror.oday they examine what america has done for national security since 9/11. to itself. and the world. >> the u.s. military's largest building project since the pentagon in fairfax county, virginia. the national geospatial intelligence agency. taxpayer owned. our department of homeland security headquarters. a $3.4 billion refit of a former washington, d.c., mental hospital. also our national counterterrorism center. our giant use intelligence analysis facility. our national reconnaissance office. "the washington post" this year calculated that since 9/11 we have built enough new american national security office space to fill 22 u.s. capitols. that's just what's set aside for top secret intelligence work. there's also the military bases. closing them in saudi arabia. opening them in afghanistan and iraq. expanding them all over central asia. of course, there's the prisons, too. when the pentagon was hit on september 11th, 2001, nearly a third of the usable office space in that, the large

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.ry much. that was fun. >> thank you. >> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. do you ever watch the prison shows here on msnbc? they come on friday nights, after our show, usually, and they're always playing on the weekends? the prison shows on msnbc are really good, and they get really good ratings. so i know that you say, oh, no, i'm not watching them. statistically speaking, at least some of you are. actually, a lot of you are. actually, more of you that are watching me are watching the prison shows. but if you have ever watched one of msnbc's really excellent prison shows, you have probably seen it start with a warning that the subject matter may be for mature audiences only. you've seen that, right? well, this here, tonight, is not an msnbc prison show, this is, in fact, our lead story tonight about what is happening in washington right now, and whether or not we're going to have a government shutdown. but in order to do that story, i actually have to air th

"the rachel maddow show starts now." >> thank you, my friend. and thanks for joining us this hour. happy monday. >>> because the republican party controls the house, one of the practical consequences of that is that on every committee in the house, there are more republicans than there are democrats. so, say on that house oversight committee, there are 17 democrats, but there are 23 republicans. there's more republicans than democrats. well, late last week, the chairman of that particular committee, the oversight committee, darrell issa, he tweeted some pictures from a hearing he had called for his committee on the issue of benghazi. darrell issa's one of the republicans who believes that the attack that killed four americans in benghazi two years ago was not a tragedy, not just a terrorist attack, but rather, it was some sort of democratic-controlled conspiracy that you get the sense they hope involves hillary clinton in a way that will make it hard for her to run for president. so, darrell issa, sitting in his chairman position at that hearing, he turned toward the democratic sid

my colleague rachel maddow went through an expansive timeline highlighting red flags military officials seemeded to have missed. >> this report about him having paranoid delusions, so motivating to him that he was calling police and staying up all night and moving three times in a night to three different hotel rooms. this happened apparently while he really was traveling for work to various us navy insulations as a contractor for the united states navy who had a security clearance and a background check. since july, aaron alexis worked at naval insulations in arlington, virginia, in cherry point, north carolina, in stafford, virginia. and of course, at the navy yard in washington, d.c. the company that employed him said today had they known about his mutt principle arrests and the mental health issues, quote, that would be a a flag. we would not have hired him. ah, but they did an even after the newport, rhode island police encountered a man -- and that police department notified the navy that they had a contractor on their hands with serious, active mental problems. and they faxed the