. >> rachel maddow starts right now. >>> that was remarkable television. that was really, really incredible stuff, chris, well done. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. governors almost never quit. it's a good gig. why would you quit if you were governor? that main question, how hard it is to imagine why someone would give up that particular job. that was one of the challenges for the news media when alaska governor and former republican party vice presidential nominee sarah palin decided to quit in the middle of her first term in alaska. there didn't seem to be in good reason to quit. nobody expected her to quit. when she announced she was quitting, for a long time into her speech, no one could figure out what she was saying, if she was quitting, and why she was. >> if i learned one thing is that life is about choices. you can choose to engage in things that tear down or build up, and i choose to work on a path for fruitfulness and opportunity. i choose not to tear down and waste precious time but to build up our state and this country. what m

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> i liked that, a lot. being a gardener has never before had such social cache. maybe like world war two with the victory gardens where nowhere had access to good food. you could produce the turnip and no one else could. the king of the world because you could grow people stuff they otherwise could not get. maybe in the victory era garden a gardener had this much social capital, but maybe not. what is happening now might be more extreme. people who can garden, that have the know how and the experience and the stuff and the physical ability to grow things out of dirt, those people are about to be more socially indemand than basically anybody else in this giant state, and this tiny

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that airs on the rachel maddow show tonight.ld give me, i would be a great diva. >> she went to law school, she's the oldest boldest member of the supreme court. >> justice is not to be taken by storm, she's to be wooed by slow advances. >> several blogs dedicated to her, including the notorious rbg. it is fair to say justice ruth bader ginsburg is having a moment. she's a feminist icon bold opinion maker, going viral with pointed dissents in high profile cases. when a majority of the court said provision of voting rights act wasn't needed any more she said it was like throwing away your umbrella in a rain storm because you are not getting wet. when the court said for profit companies could refuse birth control based on the owners' religious beliefs, she said the court i fear has ventured into a mine field. millions of young men and women agreed blowing up the inter web with blogs and tweets to their idol. >> i give you the words of the notorious rbg. >> i had to ask what is this notorious rbg. >> court watchers knew that route

this hazard sign started as a gag on "the rachel maddow show," but they're going to use them.as identified the birds as barn owls and that park goers should be especially careful from dusk to dawn. >> turns out they didn't wait until friday. the salem parks department took us up on our offer, and today -- look, be hold it happened! look our suggested beware of angry owls sign is now the official sign in salem, oregon. you know what? write my obituary right now. if we have accomplished nothing else on television let this be the legacy of the rachel maddow show. thank you salem, oregon. >>> okay. just because you get there first doesn't mean you get in first. at least that's not how it works in the united states senate. just because loretta lynch was nominated to be attorney general a month before ash carter was nominated doesn't mean she'll get a confirmation vote before he does. she sailed through her confirmation hearings in the senate. nobody laid a glove on her. because they couldn't lay a glove on her, the hearings ended up basically being about the current attorney genera

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> i liked that, a llot. gardener has never before had such social cache. maybe like world war ii with the victory gardens where nowhere had access to good food. you could produce the turnip and no one else could. the king of the world because you could grow people stuff they otherwise could not get. maybe in the victory garden era a gardener had this much social capital, but maybe not. what is happening now might be more extreme. people who can garden, that have the know how and

. >>> everybody here at the "rachel maddow show" like local newspapers.es to celebrate the writers and the editors who do the basic work of covering local issues so the readers can be better informed citizens. the basic work gives citizens a voice and making sure their voice is represented accurately. case in point, this correction to a letter to the editor published this week in the "lexington dispatch." it is a local paper. in north carolina. it is a correction ironically we discovered on the internet. here it is, boyd thomas' letter saturday contained an error in the headline. he does not believe president obama is the antichrist who will come after seven kings according to revelations, he thinks obama could be the seventh king. duly noted. we can't say it enough. subscribe to your local paper. ♪ there's confidence. then there's trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confidence. our expertise, technology, and high quality parts mean your peace of mind. now you can get the works, a multi-point inspection with a synthetic blend oil change tire

bader ginsburg sat down for a fascinating, wide ranging interview that will air tonight on "the rachel maddowg the topics the 81-year-old justice discussed race in america. >> i am wondering how you see the current state of race relations in our country. >> people who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind. >> should we be worried that all of those great achievements of the civil rights movement are being rolled back? >> someday we will go back to having the kind of legislature we should where members, whatever party they belong to want to make the thing work. >> again, the interview with justice ginsburg airs tonight on "the rachel maddow show" at 9:00 on msnbc. >>> up next, today's born in the usa, a young designer is making custom clothing for top musicians like katy perry out of her studio apartment. all the big names getting attention for fashion week, she's climbing the ladder from an apartment. we are going to talk about her recipe for success, and what she has next. >>> and this. >> the adventures of tom sawyer are about this person's -- >>

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> do you watch the oscars? >> absolutely. 100% from the beginning to the end. >> really. do you have opinions whether it is better year to year -- or is it always great? >> no i don't think it is always great. years when i can find the time to watch most of the nominees and cram that in are the years i enjoy it the most because then i feel worked up. otherwise i feel like i'm watching two college football teams play that i didn't go to either school. i just think, i don't know. >> i think that's my problem with the oscars. the grammys, i'm right there. with the oscars i've never seen anything. >> if you don't have a dog in the fight it is harder to get amped up. >> thank you, chris. have a good weekend. >>> thanks to you at home. we got a lot coming up tonight. it is friday night so we have also got a lot of news and a really good guest here tonight for the interview, somebody who's doing his first live television interview since getting a really important job in the government. >>> but here we go. it is an unu

chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell spoke with nbc's rachel maddow on the motivation behind the white house statement. >> they have been on other networks. we have not published these reports that kayla during her captivity was under the protection of an isis commander, implications. normally they would not deny these things because it would involve intelligence. what they are saying this is too important. the family has suffered enough. the reports simply aren't true. >> meanwhile white house officials are trying to determine how the 26-year-old aid worker died. >>> a triple murder possibly over a parking spot. a candlelight vigil held at the university of carolina chapel hill for three muslims all shot by a neighbor on tuesday. 46-year-old craig stephen hicks charged with three counts of first degree murder. the question what was the motive. police say the shooting was likely the tragic end over a feud over a parking space. the suspect's wife backs that up. the family says it's because of religion the father. >> spoke about they were uncomfortable with. >>> still tr

she appeared on the rachel maddow show last night criticizing andy harris. heiress has questioned validity of the marijuana law. bowser says it is clear what the voters want. >> home use home growth by adults. but i know the people in the first district of maryland would much rather have his attention on their issues. >>> congressional republicans had threatened to arrest d.c. leaders if they allowed the law to take effect. >>> you may not be able to smoke marijuana everywhere you thought you could. landlords will not be required to allow marijuana use on their properties. so if you rent your apartment, it is up to whomever owns the building whether or not to allow smoking. land lords can also include anti-smoking clause in lease agreements. if you own your own home you city still may not be in the clear if there is a condo board or homeowner's soergs. they could also create rules against allowing marijuana. >>> toys of course are getting high tech but these newls could be vulnerable to hackers. the toys that use siri-like technology they listen and respond

nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell spoke with rachel maddow behind the white house's statement. >> they have been on other networks that kayla was somehow under the pro decks of an isis commander, all sorts of implications. normally they would not deny these things because it would involve intelligence. they're saying this is too important, the family has suffered enough and these reports are simply not true. >> mean while white house officials are trying tofigure out how the 26-year-old died. >>> a candlelight vigil was held at the university of ka ka chapel pell. 46-year-old craig stephen hicks is charged with three counts of first degree murder. the question what was the motive? police say the shooting was likely the tragic end of a feud over a parking space. the sus spengt's wife backs up that claim. but others were say the three were targeted because of their religion including one of the victim's fathers. >> this was a hate crime from a neighbor. our children spoke about, they were uncomfortable with. >> still trending on twitter this morning. #muslimliv

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now it is rachel maddow. >> enjoy. >> dinner theater, there you are.s a lot going on in the news today. we have a very big show coming up. we're talking about the latest news on isis. a couple important policy things happening around that. another day of rand paul craziness on vaccines. we're all working on an important update and surprising update that we covered a few days ago about afghanistan. there is a lot coming up but we have to start tonight in oregon. honestly usually, that is the state motto of otherwise. usually when we talk about oregon, it is about crazy republican politics. the state party chairman, you might remember, he collects

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> thank you chris.ou know the font size on newspapers used to be a lot smaller than it is now. look. this, for example, this is want front page of the "new york times" on april 30th, 1903. seven column the wide, thousands of words on just the front page. even the big stories have tiny headlines. the lead story, front page, 1903, about a disaster in

. >>> that is all for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts now. >> may i participate in your panel have never gone into a radio shack and left without the thing i needed. the people at radio shack were expected to help you. what other store do you go into and they have like tools. >> and that is the model of retail, when i was a kid, we would buy shoes. the shoe sales people knew thing about shoes. the model of a retail store, where the knowledge is embedded in a sales person, but apple does that. >> they're setting it up like a school. radio shack, you walk in with your busting garage door opener, and the guy is like sit down, i'll take down to it. thank you for being with us for the next hour.

the rachel maddow starts now. >>> thank you for joining us. tonight is the night of our supreme court justice ruth baeder-ginsburg interview tonight. of our supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg interview. very excited about that. that is coming up. very excited. it's been making for a very happy monday around here all day. although here today i should tell you as in most of the country, today has been very very, very cold cold to the point of uncomfortable, record breaking cold. the city of boston is now buried in more than eight feet of snow with yet more on the way. places like kentucky and virginia and even little rock arkansas, got walloped today. ice and snow. i went ice fishing in new hampshire this weekend. it was really really really, really, really cold ice fishing. that's sort of the point of ice fishing. but even in the middle of a frozen lake in new england, ice fishing on satu

committed to that whether they're a democratic veteran, republican veteran, libertarian veteran, or a rachel maddowatever it may be. >> do you think that bipartisan, a part of policy where being partisan doesn't smell right or feel right to anyone, could that extend to any other areas that the senate is working on as well, or is it a veteran's only climate? >> no, no, i don't think is veteran's only. certainly in terms of foreign policy and our battle with isis and terror, there is a number of areas we need to lock arms and do what is best for our country and our people. >> pretty much everyone agrees that the clay hunt bill is a start. i have been moved that his parents have been so articulate and so tireless in advocating specifically from the position of what their son went through and what he was trying to get and could not get in terms of his va care. i have also been moved by who was involved in creating the bill. what is the next step after this? >> the next step is going to be the accountability that this bill calls for. we get the reports that look at what the v.a. is going in terms of men

"the rachel maddow show" is now. >> we'll have updates on the election in chicago tonight. and we'll have those as it comes in. thanks. >>> so, it is fight night apparently right now. in terms of big fight nights, this is sort of like the biggest one of recent 50 years memory, right? muhammad ali and joe frazier. they billed that thing as the fight of the century. there is was a lot of other big boxes matches, so maybe it is hyperbole, but the hype for ali-frazier, it was like nothing. the fighters themselves benefits from the hype and the hoopla. their payday was the two of them personally split $5 million in prison money in 1971 dollars. and whatever else you think about boxing, the sport of boxes is very good about turning big marquee fights, once in a decade match ups into really big money including for the boxers themselves. probably the biggest after that was mike tyson and evander holy field. that is the one when mike tyson tried to bite the dude's ear off. they still split prize money of $65 million between the two of them for that one fight. ten years later, the ne

the rachel maddow starts now. >>> thank you for joining us.s the night of our supreme court justice ruth baeder-ginsburg interview tonight. i'm so excited. here, today, i should tell you as in most of the country today has been very very cold. to the point of uncomfort. record breaking cold. boston is now buried in more than eight feet of snow. places like kentucky, virginia, and

"the rachel maddow show" is now. >> we'll have updates on the election in chicago tonight. and we'll have those as it comes in. thanks. >>> so, it is fight night apparently right now. in terms of big fight nights, this is sort of like the biggest one of recent 50 years memory, right? muhammad ali and joe frazier. they billed that thing as the fight of the century. there is was a lot of other big boxes matches, so maybe it is hyperbole, but the hype for ali-frazier, it was like

rachel maddow now taking over the coverage. >> we have unexpected and good news out of alabama tonightusy show we will get to all of it. as chris mentioned there we have legitimately breaking news tonight, upsetting news from the town of valhalla new york. one of the new york city area rail systems is called metro north, just aft

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thanks, my friend. henry, a very, very wealthy man. right now there are only 99 people in the united states wealthier than him. he's worth like $5 billion, not that there's anything wrong with that. henry tonight is hosting a dinner at his home. i'm sure his home is lovely. in order to get into the dinner into his home, in order to buy a ticket, you need one simple thing. you need $1 times $100,000. and you have to want to give your $100,000 to jeb bush.

"all in" for this evening, "the rachel maddow show" starts now. happy birthday sort of this is one month since the republicans took complete control of congress. and what a month it has been. first things first, because this is the modern republican party which the beltway keeps telling us is toe tollly over de-- totally over. they decided the up with they would run with would be a federal nationwide 20-week ban on abortion. they reason it through a committee, put it on a schedule. it was going to the floor of the house for a vote and then they yanked it. they pulled their own bill. the next one was a border bill. the republican's own border security bill. remember securing the border was all they wanted to talk about in the campaign for the last election. they ran it through committee. scheduled a vote on the house floor, ready to go on their own border security bill and then just like the abortion bill they yanked that one too. now this was not the republicans getting outmaneuvered. this was not the democrats figuring out how to block the republ

appeared on "the rachel maddow show." harris questioned the validity of the marijuana law. bowser says it's clear what voters want. >> home use, home growth by adults. but i know the people in the first district of maryland would much rather have his attention on their issues. >> congressional republicans had threatened to arrest d.c. leaders if they allowed the law to take effect but no one arrested so far. >>> you may not be able to smoke marijuana everywhere you thought you could. landlords will not be required to allow marijuana use on their property if that's what they want. so if you rent your apartment, it's up to the, whoever owns the building whether or not to allow smoking. landlords will also be able to include anti-smoking clauses in lease agreements. if you own your own home you still may not be in the clear, either. there is a kondcondo board on home owners association that could create rules against allowing marijuana. >>> storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal joins us with a look at weather and whether there will be nice weather for the wok? >> it's going

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> thank you chris. you know the font size on newspapers used to be a lot smaller than it is now. look. this, for example, this is want front page of the "new york times" on april 30th, 1903. seven column the wide, thousands of words on just the front page. even the big stories have tiny headlines. the lead story, front page, 1903, about a disaster in canada. it happened in a town called frank. the deadliest landslide ever in the history of that country. there is a little town at the foot of a mountain basically, and for some unexplained reason, in the middle of the night, the top of that mountain decided to slide down that mountain and bury the town at the base. there was no warning signs. this is a reconstruction that was done to explain what it might have been like. this is not footage. people did not have any warning signs that it would happen. the whole town was buried while they slept in their beds. and today, that mountain top is still sitting at the foot of that mountain where the town used to be

. >>> that is all for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts now. >> may i participate in your panel? >> i have never gone into a radio shack and left without the thing i needed. the people at radio shack were expected to help you. what other store do you go into and they have like tools. >> and that is the model of retail, when i was a kid, we would buy shoes. the shoe sales people knew thing about shoes. the model of a retail store, where the knowledge is embedded in a sales person but apple does that. >> they're setting it up like a school. radio shack, you walk in with your busting garage door opener and the guy is like sit down i'll take down to it. thank you for being with us for the next hour. it has now been just over three days a little more than 81 hours and there is still no clarity tonight on this story. we have some specific new information i want to convey to you right now. it started on friday afternoon. we started to hear that a young learn woman had been killed while she was held as a hostage by a terrorist group. kayla mueller was known to be being held she was beli

. >>> that is "all in" for this evening, "the rachel maddow show" starts now.h since the republicans took complete control of congress. and what a month it has been. first things first, because this is the modern republican party which the beltway keeps telling us is toe tollly over de-- totally over. they decided the up with they would run with would be a federal nationwide 20-week ban on abortion. they reason it through a committee, put it on a schedule. it was going to the floor of the house for a vote and then they yanked it. they pulled their own bill. the next one was a border bill.

she appeared on the rachel maddow show criticizing andy harris.has questioned the extravalidity of the marijuana law. >> home use, home growth by adults. but i know the people in the first district of maryland would much rather have his attention on on their issues. >>> toys are getting high tech with new responsive dolls and sbir active gadgets could be vulnerable. make you vulnerable to hackers. mattel revealed the toys that use siri-like secretary knowledge. they will listen and respond having full conversations with your kids. the dolls use a wi-fi kegs connection. >> parents will be told clearly which data will be collected and you need a password to be able to access that information. >> other interactive toys use bluetooth technology to collect information from the web to answer questions. mattel says the new toys like hello barbie will be available this fall. >>> right now police in l.a. searching for the person who stole a one of a kind dress actress lupita nyong'o wore to the academy awards. the gown was taken from her hotel room on wedn

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"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> i liked that, a llot. being a gardener has never before had such social cache. maybe like world war ii with the victory gardens where nowhere had access to good food. you could produce the turnip and no one else could. the king of the world because you could grow people stuff they otherwise could not get. maybe in the victory garden era a gardener had this much social capital, but maybe not. what is happening now might be more extreme. people who can garden, that have the know how and the experience and the stuff and the physical ability to grow things out of dirt, those people are about to be more socially in demand than basically anybody else in this giant state, and this tiny district of columbia. they have legal pot now, stores and dispensaries where you can walk off the street and buy a joint. they have legalized it already in washington and in colorado. this week, alaska and washington d.c. joined them. both of those places, pot is also now legal. however, unlike in colorado and washington, in alaska

"the rachel maddow show" is now. od evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. >> we'll have updates on the election in chicago tonight. >> very close. interesting stuff. >> very close. and whether's i avoids run-off. and we'll have those as it comes in. thanks. >>> so, it is fight night apparently right now. in terms of big fight nights, this is sort of like the biggest one of recent 50 years memory, right? muhammad ali and joe frazier. they fought at madison square garden, new york city, march 1971. they billed that thing as the fight of the century. th

she appeared on the rachel maddow show on msnbc last night. she criticized maryland republican congressman andy harris. harris has questioned validity of the law. bowser says it's clear what the voters want. >> home use, home growth by adults. but i know the people in the first district of maryland would much rather have his attention on their issues. >> congressional republicans had threatened to arrest d.c. leaders if they allowed the law to take effect but now one has been arrested. and while d.c. has you now legalized marijuana, it has been decriminalized since july of last year. in that time police handed out about 283 tickets. nearly half of those were in the 7th police district which covers neighborhoods east of the anacostia river. the fourth district which is primarily northwest d.c. issued just eight ticket. >>> happening today, a state senate committee will are consider a bill that would allow 18 19 and 20-year-old members of the military to drink beer and wine at bars and restaurants. the senate bill has received push back drunk dr

. >>> the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> i will tell you, i was in the makeup room telling that story, and as soon as you finished, everybody in the room went, wow. that's an amazing story. thanks. appreciate it. >>> what do the st. louis cardinals have in common with the kingdom of belgium? this is not a trick question. it is not a beer related question. what do the cardinals have in comm

he's an atheist follows rachel maddow, he loves bbw girls, he's a hater, he has problems with his neighborsa muslim who just met with the president and his big council goes out and tweets to the gop right wing and tea party. the police come in, the prosecutor, they're looking at this saying this doesn't have the appearance. it's about driving a narrative when this guy murders three people, he has problems with his neighbors over loud noises over everything. he has two parking spaces. all of this we knew at 2:18 a.m. but yet the president comes out, so does keith ellison -- >> hold on isn't it the most divisive thing you could do in the middle of people's fears and paranoia that ethnicity played a role? why would the president do that? >> he don't that. he said there would be an investigation. >> he said no one should be targeted for who they are, what they -- >> let me finish. he is doing an investigation just like there should be in ferguson, just like there should be in any kind of hate crime -- potential hate crime. remember, if this were a muslim killer who killed three innocent white c

you can find rachel maddow right now. >> thanks at home for joining us this weekend. there is a lot going on right now. a lot going on in the world. i know it is late on a friday night, but lots of things are happening right now that i swear will be different in the world by the time we get off the air with this show. there is a ton going on. the first live and unresolved story is what is happening in washington tonight where washington appears to have gone off the rails. we knew tonight is when funding would run out for the homeland security department unless they figured out a way to keep homeland security funded. for most of the day, the republicans appeared to believe they knew how to do they. they were

now it is rachel maddow. >> enjoy. >> dinner theater, there you are. there is a lot going on in the news today. we have a very big show coming up. we're talking about the latest news on isis. a couple important policy things happening around that. another day of rand paul craziness on vaccines. we're all working on an important update and surprising update that we covered a few days ago about afghanistan. there is a lot coming up but we have to start tonight in oregon. honestly usually, that is the state motto of otherwise. usually when we talk about oregon, it is about crazy republican politics. the state party chairman, you might remember, he collects people's pee by mail. he sends out mailers, asking you to send in your pee. art robinson once came on this show and we had a terrible fight about his writings that hiv doesn't cause aids, and that it would be great to sprinkle backyards all across america with a little radio activity, that would be good for everybody. and i tried to figure out what he needed all of the pee for. he is now the state chair

i think rachel maddow is the only one left.diminished from her status of a couple of years ago. >> okay. so why then. television on the right. but there is no one on the left. no one at all. i know 40% of americans say they are conservative and 20% describe themselves as liberal. so you do have a 2 to 1 ideological advantage but 20% is a lot of people and why isn't there anybody. >> he i think the problem with the left and with liberals smartest one in the room. they should never anoint anyone. you notice that conservatives buy books written by conservatives but liberals don't buy books i know that already. i'm as smart as that person. i should be the center of attention and there is this kind of ego, i think that i'm right, you're wrong. therefore. >> and take it personally. he could be so humorous and clever and people responded to him and occasionally he would do something like embrace a person like bill o'reilly. >> colbert is going to come on next fall, i guess, if he tries the left wing stuff at late night he will get ham

the rachel maddow starts now. >>> thank you for joining us. tonight is the night of our supreme court justice ruth baeder-ginsburg interview tonight. i'm so excited. here, today, i should tell you as in most of the country today has been very very cold. to the point of uncomfort. record breaking cold. boston is now buried in more than eight feet of snow. places like kentucky, virginia, and little rock arkansas got walloped today. i went ice fishing in new hampshire this weekend. it was really, really cold ice fishing. that is sort of the point. even in the middle of a frozen lake in new england, it was still not as cold where i caught that finish as it was in downtown madison, wisconsin where a large number of people were out in the cold not fishing, but protesting against governor scott walker. it was minus 13 or something with the windchill when the protest happened. it was habit what he is proposing to do to public universities. there would be a $300 million cut from the university of wisconsin system. it sounds like a big round number that

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. >> you bet. >> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. >>> we think of texas as a deep red state, where republicans are totally dominant. but like the rest of the south, texas was 100% blue not all that long ago. in the 1960s, when the democratic party embraced the cause of the civil rights movement, texas and other states in the deep south went through this whiplash, right, where they had been lockstep democratic states, but their party loyalty was no match for their hatred for civil rights. and so texas and all these other states started flipping from the solid blue they used to be, to the red that we know them to be today. and the guy who led all of that at the statewide level in texas was a senator tamed john tower. and he led that in the sense that -- in the sense of his election in 1961. john tower was the first republican elected to be a u.s. senator from texas since the reconstruction era after the civil war. john tower served as a republican