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. >> that is all in for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> that is all in for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. >>> i will never recline my seat into your show. >> please do. >> i think that's my takeaway here, we all recline. that's life. we all give, we all get. >> my knees to your -- never mind. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. all of the best conversations i have ever had. all the conversations i have learned the most from talking with richard engel have begun with us standing somewhere near a map. richard is here tonight, back in new york, so we have a map ready, it's always a good idea when richard's around, here's the issue to ask him about. the u.s. air strikes right now in iraq, and with this red-hot debate right now about whether or not the u.s. should consider air strikes over the border inside syria, when the white house talks about the militant group, the sunni militia effect that they're bombing in iraq, and they may want to bomb in syria as well. when the white house talks about that group, they call them isil.

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. rachel, good evening it you. >>> craig, that was an amazing show tonight. well done, man. that was great. congratulations. >> thank you. >> thanks to you as well. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. thanks for being with us on a friday night. we're starting tonight with what's turning out to be a global manhunt. in the british press, the man who was seen this week on video murdering american journalist jim foley. the isis militant who speaks to the camera throughout that video in what sounds like a distinct london accent, and then he ultimately kills mr. foley on tape, the same man then threatens to kill another american journalist, steven sotloff who's also being held in captivity by the same group. that man is now the subject of a murder inquiry and international manhunt by the u.s. department of justice and the fbi, and british counterterrorism forces and the british equivalent of the fbi which is an agency called mi5. there's an international manhunt for the man who kil

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you. congratulations on that interview, man. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. on tuesday of this week, in the middle of the day around noontime, a young man, 25-year-old man named kehjimi powell who walked into a convenience store in north st. louis, missouri, according to the police description of this day, and other reports, the young man reportedly shoplifted from the store, although he made no effort to conceal the fact that he was doing so. he picked up two sodas, two energy drinks then walked out of the store without paying. the young man then reportedly, after he left the store, he came back into the store and took another item off the shelf and, again, left the store without paying. the store employee on duty right then reportedly spoke with the young man, told him he needed to pay for these items. the young man did not. and at that point, somebody at that store contacted police. police say they also got a second 911 call from a st. louis alderwoman who was at her ow

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rachel maddow was on the scene last night at 11:00 central time. >> it looked like flash grenades. there's smoke rising up from right outside where the quick trip is. we see protesters hurling things. i can't tell what they are. they're popping in the sky. looks like fireworks. they could be flash grenades. they could be about to get tear gassed here, frankly. there's smoke now rising up into the sky just now -- we have now entered the -- what now seems the inevitable. now everyone -- everyone is -- everyone is booking. >> down can field. >> reporter: everyone is booking down canfield and there's -- people are also lobbing -- i'm not sure what the heck they were lobbing back. that was -- no, i think that was someone throwing a tear gas canister back. we have the loud crowd noises. complete, complete chaos here as the crowd disperses in the midst of this smoke that's billowing up. i can start to feel a little bit on the eyes. >> nbc's jay gray is in ferguson. jay, we were listening there to craig about what happened last night. tell us what your long night was like out there last ni

take a listen to chris hayes describing to rachel maddow the scene at 11:00 p.m. central time. >> it looks like flash grenades. there's smoke rising up. we see protestors hurling things at, i can't tell what they are. they are popping in the sky. they look like fireworks. they could be flash grenades or tear gas here, frankly. there's smoke now rising up into the sky just now we have now entered what now seems the inevitable. now everyone is booking. >> running. down canfield. >> everybody is booking down canfield, and there's -- people are also lobbing -- i'm not sure what the heck they're lobbing back. it think that was someone throwing a tear canister back. we have the loud crowd noise. it's complete, complete chaos here as the crowd disburses in the midst of this smoke that's now bill lowing out and rising up. i can start to feel it a little bit on the eyes. >> nbc news jay gray is in ferguson. jay, good morning. can you tell us about your wild night out there? >> hey there, good morning, dara. it's almost like a vicious cycle. police changing their strategy a

>> so, last night, lowery told msnbc's rachel maddow what allegedly happened when the camera stopped rolling. >> then tried to direct me towards another door. i said, officers, where would you like me to go? as i turned to follow their instruction, my bag flipped off of my shoulder. i said i need to adjust my bag, and they slammed me into the soda machine, grabbed my bag, grabbed my phone and then put me in temporary restraints. >> now, the "huffington post's" ryan reilly tweeted this picture just before being detained, saying in part that a s.w.a.t. team just invaded mcdonald's and here's what he told my colleague, chris hayes. >> i was given a countdown. i was told i had, you know, 45 seconds, 30 seconds to pack up all my stuff and leave, at which point the officer in question, who i repeatedly later asked for his name and was never -- or his badge number -- was never given it, decided that he was going to help me pack and he grabbed my things and shoved them into my bag, and i was then -- when -- basically, he then arrested me. and as he handcuffed me, he put them on very tight. h

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us. rachel as the night off and we are continuing to cover the breaking news at this hour the united states is waiting, taking military action in iraq again. throughout the day today, president obama made with his national security team to consider authorizing strikes to protect the civilians draped by t the militants. they found themselves once again considering a military operation in iraq tonight. it is helpful to go back to february of this year. it was in february of this year that serious fracturing among terrorist groups spilled into public view. when al qaeda reveesed a statement disavows any connection with the islamic state of iraq and syria known now as isis. it's not a brand of al qaeda. isis does not have an organizational relationship with al qaeda. perhaps most importantly the al qaeda statement made it clear. it is not responsible for the actions that isis takes. al qaeda and isis were united together before this. isis was al qaeda in iraq. these two groups fought together

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris. amazing work you've done down there. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy monday. one of the strategies the u.s. army uses in recruiting efforts is they'll sometimes take very young soldiers, soldiers just out of basic training, and they'll assign those young soldiers to recruitment centers back in their hometowns. or at least near to where they, themselves, grew up and where they, themselves, decided to join the u.s. army. it's not the only strategy the army uses for recruiting, but it's one that makes sense. these young soldiers can have sort of the closest thing that you can get to a peer-to-peer conversation with somebody else basically in a similar circumstance that they were in when they decided to sign up. somebody from the same part of the country, roughly the same age. somebody who might be thinking about a career in the armed forces the way this young soldier plainly did. right? that u.s. army recruiting strategy is how in june 2009 these two young army priv

rachel maddow starts right now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. l has the night off. we are continuing to cover the breaking news tonight. at this hour, the united states is weighing taking him tear action in iraq, again. throughout the day today, president obama met with his national security team to consider authorizing american air strikes in iraq to protect iraqi citizens trapped by islamic militants in the northern part of that country. the united states has found itself in this position, has found itself once again considering a military operation in iraq tonight. it's helpful to go back to six months to february, february of this year, because it was in february of this year that serious fracturing among terrorist groups spilled into public view when al qaeda released a statement disavowing any association with isis. isis is not a branch of al qaeda, the statement red. isis does not have an organization organizational relationship with al qaeda. and perhaps more importantly, al qaeda is

the rachel maddow show starts right now. officer who shot michael brown should be charged with a crime for that shooting. there is still a lot to see in ferguson, and a lot to report from ferguson, and we will have all of that coming up, including multiple live reports from the scene in downtown ferguson starting in just a moment tonight. >>> but before we get to that news from ferguson, today was also a day of angry reaction, and denunciation by the president of the united states,

>> that is all in for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. >>> i will never recline my seat into your show. >> please do. >> i think that's my takeaway here, we all recline. that's life. we all give, we all get. >> my knees to your -- never mind. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. all of the best conversations i have ever had. all the conversations i have learned the most from talking with richard engel have begun with us standing somewhere near a map. richard is here tonight, back in new york, so we have a map ready, it's always a good idea when richard's around, here's the issue to ask him about. the u.s. air strikes right now in iraq, and with this red-hot debate right now about whether or not the u.s. should consider air strikes over the border inside syria, when the white house talks about the militant group, the sunni militia effect that they're bombing in iraq, and they may want to bomb in syria as well. when the white house talks about that group, they call them isil. >> let's be clear about isil. isil speaks for no religion, they have no ideolog

that's "all in" and rachel mad d maddow will take our live coverage. >> we will not let you go to bed or get production. sorry you are out there in the middle of it. invaluable information. checking in with chris and reporters and prep deuceoducers throughout the hour. thank you for staying with us for the next hour. it is now just after midnight here on the east coast. means it is 11:00 p.m. in ferguson, missouri. as you have been seeingen o ein course of coverage. things in the last hour took a dramatic turn. took a turn for the tense. what started off as a generally peaceful protest night tonight in ferguson. night nine of the crisis in ferguson, missouri. it seemed to just sort of turn on a dime. about an hour ago. police in full riot gear started to fry to disperse the crowd out on the street in ferguson. it is not clear if it is a change in behavior by the protesters that caused police to suddenly change their tactics an hour ago. possible it was just a unilateral decision by police that they were going to ratchet it up and try to clear people away. but, it did happen very quick

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us. e night off and we are continuing to cover the breaking news at this hour the united states is waiting, taking military action in iraq again. throughout the day today, president obama made with his national security team to consider authorizing strikes to protect the civilians draped by t the militants. they found themselves once again considering a military operation in iraq tonight. it is helpful to go back to february of this year. it was in february of this year that serious fracturing among terrorist groups spilled into public view. when al qaeda reveesed a statement disavows any connection with the islamic state of iraq and syria known now as isis. it's not a brand of

the only person i saw, one of the only people was rachel maddow of msnbc who spent a 20-minute segmentploring congress to come back and debate this issue. >> i'd like to see some journalists saying where do you stand on this, john boehner, nancy pelosi, because congress has a role to play here. in fact, jim, on lots of other issues, conservative commentators often complain about the president acting unilaterally, what is he going to do with the action on immigration. but i don't see a lot of people on the right saying, he needs to go to congress. >> right. military action, so they want to start bombing somebody and they don't want to slow the president down by having hearings. rand paul -- >> is there any consistency? >> that's not why they don't want to have hearings. >> they don't want to have hearings because frankly, they don't want to take a position on it. nobody thinks this is going to work out well. they would rather not voet on it, let the president do whatever he does and let the president take responsibility for it. >> there very few voices, tim kain is one of them. most mem

the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> chris, if you sign off like that one night, you have to sign offith a tear gas check for the rest of the night you do your show. you set a benchmark for yourself, my friend. well tone. >> that's right. >> thanks, man. thanks to you at home as well for joining this hour. it is now midnight here on the east coast. and 11:00 p.m. in ferguson, missouri, where it is the tenth night of protests continuing at this hour. there is a lot of other news going on in the world tonight. we're going to get to some of that over the course of this hour on this show, but this is a live shot of downtown ferguson right now. police are not enforcing a curfew tonight. and protesters apparently are being allowed more freedom of movement to keep circulating than they were last night. more freedom of movement to keep circulating, to keep up a moving protest column. essentially in downtown.

rachel maddow took the challenge. now the kennedy family is in on it in massachusetts. take a look at this. >> maxwell taylor kennedy here in hyannisport with my family. all of my family is here. my mother, senator robert kennedy, my uncle senator ted kennedy and my uncle president john f. kennedy that in the small diverse acts people commit each day we can create awareness and change. so today i'm nominating my entire family to dump buckets of ice over their heads for a.l.s. [ cheers ] >> oh! [ screaming ] >> grandma ethel! >> welcome to cape cod. president obama, i nominate you. [ applause ] >> yes. that was they will kennedy at the end of the line of kennedy kids challenging president obama, the widow of senator robert f. kennedy told the cape cod times about the experience. i felt like, there goes the hairdo. the white house responded by saying the president appreciates mrs. kennedy for thinking of him for the challenge though his contribution to the effort will be monetary. the president will be making a donation to an a.l.s. charity this week. >>> finally from cla

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris.ng work you've done down there. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy monday. one of the strategies the u.s. army uses in recruiting efforts is they'll sometimes take very young soldiers, soldiers just out of basic training, and they'll assign those young soldiers to recruitment centers back in their hometowns. or at least near to where they, themselves, grew up and where they, themselves, decided to join the u.s. army. it's not the only strategy the army uses for recruiting, but it's one that makes sense. these young soldiers can have sort of the closest thing that you can get to a peer-to-peer conversation with somebody else basically in a similar

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris. thank you.lations on that interview, man. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. on tuesday of this week, in the middle of the day around noontime, a young man, 25-year-old man named kajieme powell who walked into a convenience store in north st. louis, missouri, according to the police description of this day, and other reports, the young man reportedly shoplifted from the store, although he made no effort to conceal the fact that he was doing so. he picked up two sodas, two energy drinks then walked out

"the rachel maddow show" begins now. good to see you again. >>> it's good to be back. you at home for staying with us. it's good to be back. thanks to steve kornacki for filling in. there's a lot going on. a lot of it oversea, none of which is good right now. also a lot of news at home, politics and otherwise. there's a ton of stuff to talk about tonight. and we do have a lot planned for the show. but the very unexpected and late breaking news that has come as a real shock tonight, particularly to those of us who have grown up stewed in american political and popular culture, is that one of the most recognizable and iconic comedic talents of this generation or last few generations has died unexpectedly today. robin williams, age 63, died in

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. od evening it you. >>> craig, that was an amazing show tonight. well done, man. that was great.

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"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris. thank you.ions on that interview, man. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. on tuesday of this week, in the middle of the day around noontime, a young man, 25-year-old man named kajieme powell who walked into a convenience store in north st. louis, missouri, according to the police description of this day, and other reports, the

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the "rachel maddow show" begins now from down the hall. >>> welcome back, chris, great to have you back, man. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is may day 1960. may 1st, 1960. it's a may day parade in moscow. the thing that is remarkable about this parade in 1960 in moscow is that the theme of the parade that year was all about peace. that year the soviets decided not to parade around their artillery and rockets and military equipment and stuff like usual, and instead the theme that year was all about children and doves and peace. which is kind of a remarkable thing if you think about it because 1960 was right in the middle of the cold war, right? this is the year before they built the berlin wall. it's two years before the cuban missile crisis. you would think the soviets in 1960 would be wanting to display all of their biggest missiles, right, all of their finest weaponry as a show of force against the dreaded united states. it was an incredibly intense time for u.s./soviet relations. but there was this moment back in 1960 when the president of the united states at

"the rachel maddow show" begins now. >>> my extended family is very, very invested in the market basketit's sort of the biggest thing that's happened to my family in years. >> it's a great story. it's like the arab spring over there right now. >> yes, exactly. >> i can't get over it. >> in new england, market basket is bigger than every other story in the country combined. i know it, man. thanks. thanks to you at home for staying with us the next hour. there's a lot to come on the show tonight regardless of market basket including the president making a dramatic and much anticipated afternoon announcement today in which he said we are not going to freaking war in syria, you guys. will everybody please shut up about we're going to war in syria? i never said we're going to war in syria, we're not going to war, have a nice weekend. it was a surprise announcement from the president in the sense nobody knew he was going to make an announcement. when everybody realized what he wasn't going to announce, it was kind of a big deal. and an unexpected one. we'll have more on that in a moment. >>>

in the rest of the country because we're not seeing congress returning to debate this issue as rachel maddow was pointing out last night. what is the risk of air strikes, of an air campaign? it's not without risk. we've seen in the past pilots shot down. >> you have that risk of pilots shot down. the additional risk means what exactly happens once the air strikes are complete? two dynamics have to exist. you have to be dealing with an enemy that you're not just doing the kinetic operations but the nonkinetic operations that are being done on the side in order to bring both sides to a table and i don't know if we have that in this situation. in the same situation, the other thing that makes air strikes work, what comes next? what form of entity is then going to take on a form of responsibility and both of those two situations, both of those two scenarios, i think we have a very difficult time looking at how we have a long-term sustainable asset that we can then lean on and rely on once the strikes are complete. >> and in fact in this case, if we were to wipe out isis, we would be strengthenin

"the rachel maddow show" begins now. good to see you again. >>> it's good to be back.s to you at home for staying with us. it's good to be back. thanks to steve kornacki for filling in. there's a lot going on. a lot of it oversears, none of which is good right now. also a lot of news at home, politics and otherwise. there's a ton of stuff to talk about tonight. and we do have a lot planned for the show. but the very unexpected and late breaking news that has come as a real shock tonight, particularly to those of us who have grown up stewed in american political and popular culture, is that one of the most recognizable and iconic comedic talents hi

"the rachel maddow show" begins now. good to see you again. >>> it's good to be back. thanks to you at home for staying with us. it's good to be back. thanks to steve kornacki for filling in. there's a lot going on. a lot of it oversea, none of which is good right now. also a lot of news at home, politics and otherwise. there's a ton of stuff to talk about tonight. and we do have a lot planned for the show. but the very unexpected and late breaking news that has come as a real shock tonight, particularly to those of us who have grown up stewed in american political and popular culture, is that one of the most recognizable and iconic comedic talents of this generation or last few generations has died unexpectedly today. robin williams, age 63, died in his home in northern california, what the marin county sheriffs office is describing as a suspected suicide. it's hard to overstate the fame and the popularity that robin williams achieved almost instantly, thanks to his remarkable television debut in the late 1970s. february 1978 when he went from being a relatively unkno

that is all in for now, we will "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> as we have for the last ten days, we're keeping an -- on the streets of downtown ferguson, missouri, where protests have been held every night for 11 straight nights, since the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in that town last saturday. as you know, last night's protests there were peaceful until basically midnight. at which point things took a turn, nearly 50 people ended up being arrested after midnight in ferguson last night, after what had been a fairly calm evening. the night before last night it wasn't 48 arrests, it was 78 arrests and two people injured by gunfire the night before last. today ferguson saw a historic visit from the serving u.s. attorney general eric holder, that made for a dramatic and fast moving day in ferguson. that happened on the same day in -- that a local grand jury started considering evidence as to whether or not the police officer who shot michael brown should be charged with a crime for that shooting. there is still a lot to see in ferguson, and a lot to report

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> thank you.to you at home for joining us this hour. as we have for the last 10 days, we are keeping an eye on the streets of downtown ferguson, missouri, where protests have been held every night for 11 straight nights. as you know, last night's protests there were peaceful until basically midnight. at which point things took a turn, nearly 50 people ended up being arrested after midnight in ferguson last night, after what had been a fairly calm evening. the night before last night it was 78 arrests and two people injured by gunfire the night before last. today ferguson saw a historic visit from the serving u.s. attorney general eric holder, that made for a dramatic and fast moving day in ferguson. that happened on the same day in a a local grand jury started considering evidence as to whether or not

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with steve kornacki sitting in. >>> thanks to you at home for joiningis hour. rachel has the night off. there's a lot of news in the world tonight including a possible move away from violence in gaza in a huge federal court ruling regarding abortion law in alabama. >>> but we begin tonight with this. it was a byline that caught everyone who read it by surprise. it was a byline that shocked the political world as it woke up on the morning of march 29th, 1991 and opened up "the new york times." the headline "why i am for the brady bill" and the byline, author who wrote it, is ronald reagan, former president of the united states. a republican president. a staunch opponent of gun control, but now here he was coming out vehemently in favor of a gun control bill that the nra was bitterly resisting. >> good evening. federal gun control, one of the most emotional issues on the political agenda, has an

the "the rachel maddow show starts now with steve kornacki. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us achel has the night off. this is the united states military academy, better known for the name of the town where it's located, west point, as in west point, new york. it's at west point where they train cadets to serve in the u.s. army. it's incredibly rigorous and incredibly prestigious four-year program to two througo through. if you can make it through the four years at west point, you really are the best of the best. the united states was helping afghanistan to design its own military academy to train afghan soldiers to fight in that country's armed forces. the obvious model for them was west point. afghan army officials actually visited west point when they were trying to create their own military training program, what's called the national military academy of afghanistan opened outside of kabul back in 2005. and today, it was at the national military academy of afghanistan where a man dressed in an afghan military uniform, dressed as an

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with steve kornacki sitting in for rachel. good evening, steve. >> good evening, ezra. thanks for that and thanks to you at home for joining us for this hour. rachel has the night off. 1996. 1996 was the year that presidential campaigns came to the world wide web. it was clinton and gore versus dole and kemp. and it was the first year that american voters could dial up to the internet at 2,400 bps and once the internet finally loaded, they could learn about the candidates. the '96 clinton/gore site encouraged voters to join the electronic barn raising and make 1997 net year, whatever that meant. in an effort to campaign in all platforms, the dole camp had a dole interactive page and had a fun selection of images to, quote, customize your computer's desktop environment, so you could choose your support on your pc for bob dole. you could even change your desktop wallpaper to a picture of leeter. that was bob and elizabeth dole's pet dog, the aspiring first dog. dole was running as a man from the heartland, a kansan, someone who

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with steve kornacki sitting in for rachel.teve. >> good evening, ezra. thanks for that and thanks to you at home for joining us for this hour. rachel has the night off. 1996. 1996 was the year that presidential campaigns came to the world wide web. it was clinton and gore versus dole and kemp. and it was the first year that american voters could dial up to the internet at 2,400 bps and once the internet finally loaded, they could learn about the candidates. the '96 clinton/gore site encouraged voters to join the electronic barn raising and make 1997 net year, whatever that meant. in an effort to campaign in all platforms, the dole camp had a dole interactive page and had a fun selection of images

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with steve kornacki sitting in for rachel. >> i don't think we cangoing to try. have a great weekend. >> you, too. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. i don't know if you can make a ski slope out of three data points but we're going to try. check this out. 44%. how much of the latino vote george buw. bush got in the 200 presidential election. during that campaign, bush came out in favor of a guest worker program. when he hit that number, when e hit the 44% number among latino voters, that became a high water mark for a republican presidential candidate among latino voters. not even ronald reagan back in

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with steve kornacki sitting in for rachel. >>> good evening, ari, thanks for that. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. we start with the top story in the country tonight, today, this week. that is the renewed u.s. military action in iraq. where there have now been multiple rounds of u.s. strikes on isis targets near the city of irbil. two separate predator drone strikes on a mortar position, location from which mortars were being launched as well as a strike from navy fighter jets that dropped eight 500-pound bombs on a convoy of seven isis vehicles. u.s. military's first strikes came early this morning, about nine hours after president obama announced he had authorized them. when two u.s. f-18 fighter jets bombed a piece of isis artillery as well as the vehicle that was pulling it. according to the pentagon, isis has been using that artillery to shell kurdish forces fighting to save irbil, capital of kurdistan, which has found itself under siege by isis forces. u.s. has also dropped a second round of aid packag

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with steve kornacki sitting in for rachel. >>> good evening, ari,that. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. we start with the top story in the country tonight, today, this week. that is the renewed u.s. military action in iraq. where there have now been multiple rounds of u.s. strikes on isis targets near the city of irbil. two separate predator drone strikes on a mortar position, location from which mortars were being launched as well as a strike from navy fighter jets that dropped eight 500-pound bombs on a convoy of seven isis vehicles. u.s. military's first strikes came early this morning, about nine hours after pde

. >>> that is all in for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening, christhink we're going to be speaking with another journalist who was just arrested in the same --

. >> that's rachel maddow responding to a challenge from shepherd smith.hey're both participating in something called chilling for charity. and the concept is simple. if a person accepted the challenge and allows himself or herself to be drenched in ice water, the challenger must donate to a charity of his choosing or her choosing. let's take a look at how that played out. >> ready? >> couldn't be readier. >> i hate cold. >> should we count down? >> ready? >> yeah, three, two, one. >> ahh! ahh! okay. bye. >> that's her executive producer, bill wolff. that's teakwork there. anyway, in turn, rachel has now challenged liz cheney. hopefully she'll take that plunge. the library of congress has released correspondent from warren g. harding and his miszerous. as we have seen from what was already publishled, they were decided lee r-rated. jimmy kimmel celebrated with a dramatic reading from a hip-hop artist who has something in common with the former president, his name. here is warren g. reciting the works of warren g. harding. >> here tonight to read the love l

"why we did it" a rachel maddow documentary, is up next. have a great labor day weekend, and good night. >>> almost exactly one year ago, president obama announced that he wanted to begin air strikes in syria because the syrian government had used chemical weapons. president said he wanted those air strikes but he wanted congress to vote to authorize them. and congressdid nothing. congress never voted on that. in theory, the president is still waiting for that vote from congress. but now a year later, the white house is, again, openly considering air strikes in syria. the target this time would not be the syrian regime, but instead, isis. the al qaeda splinter group that has seized control of territory inside both syria and iraq. isis last week beheaded an american journalist they had captured in syria, jim foley. they also threatened to kill another american journalist who they are holding. over the past month, the united states has responded to the advance of isis with air strikes in iraq. more than 700 u.s. service members have also been