from msnbc "the rachel maddow show," rachel maddow is with us tonight. [ cheers and applause ] very psyched here. from the new movie "paper towns," cara delevingne is with us tonight. [ cheers and applause ] can't wait to talk to her about that. and a wonderful band. they are back on the show tonight. neon trees will be joining us. [ cheers and applause ] you're here on a good night. now, before we move on, here at "late night," we just love slogans. they are so much fun. for example, we all know kfc's slogan is "it's finger lickin' good." it is, i licked all my fingers. [ light laughter ] de beers -- de beers slogan, "a diamond is forever." i hope so, it was very expensive. [ light laughter ] energizer battery slogan "keeps going, going, and going." it does. they're all great slogans, but we started to think why should only products have slogans? everything could benefit from one, so we came up with some for you in a segment we call "new slogans." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: let's kick things off with a slogan for kale smoothies. "kale smoothies -- good to the first drop." [ laughte

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the word madagascar to americans is almost a synonym for far away. for far away and remote and hard to get to. madagascar is a big country. a big island. the fourth largest island in the world. but especially from our perspective, but really from anywhere, it is hard to get there. it is really far out into the ocean. you have to go 250 miles off the southeast coast of africa in order to get to madagascar. it is just one of those places on earth that is remote. it is far out there. but once you are at madagascar, you have to go another 600 miles out into the ocean. out into the indian ocean before you get to a place called reunion island. la reunion.

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. one of california's finest products. good evening, rachel. >> chris, california water is kind of a bull's-eye for the maddow family. this is all maddow family collective watching this week. >> i'm microprogramming to the maddow family. >> you have maxed out the demo. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. happy monday. so milo bloom is 10 years old. he's a 10-year-old newspaper reporter. even though he's only 10 years old, he's sort of world weary, very wise. steve dallas is the amoral lawyer wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette. opus is a penguin. he's oliver wendell jones, a computer genius. this honestly got me through a good portion of my cynical teenage years. you see him dressed up like a pirate here? when he was computer hacking, he would dress up as a pirate. here is one where he was trying to hack into nbc news. enter nbc news. beep password incorrect. then he gets prompted for the password again, then he enters dan rather is a turnip. beep approved. he's like yeah the dude is hot. gets into nbc news. as

"rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. >> you can't see this because you are in the field. i'm applauding you. it's been an amaze zing week. i thought i knew about that topic. itis amaze zing. well done. well done. >> thanks preernt it. >> that reporting he did all week, the stuff he explained and went out and saw, bring it on. thanks for joining us this friday. we have a big show for you here. we are beginning with an exclusive that, i'm sorry, happens to be about republican presidential candidate donald trump. you are not going to see this story anywhere else. this is ours alone. it's a little weird. it starts a decade ago when donald trump made a big and public donation. mr. trump bought several hundred acres of land in new york state, in westchester county in the 1990s. the funny thing about that part of new york state is it is super close to new york city even though it doesn't feel like it. from basically anywhere in westchester county, you can easily drive back and forth to work in manhattan, take the train in and out of work. this is what it looks like. you would ne

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. one of california's finest products. good evening, rachel. >> chris, can i got to tell you, california water is kind of a bull's eye for the maddow family. this is all maddow family collective watching this week. we're so psyched that you're doing this. >> i'm microprogramming to the family. i'm happy to hear that. >> you have maxed out the demo. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. happy monday. so my low bloom, you know milo bloom? my low bloom is 10 years old. he's a 10-year-old newspaper reporter. even though he's only 10 years old, he's sort of world weary, very wise. steve dallas is the amoral super squeezy lawyer who always wears sunglasses and is always smoking a cigarette. opus is a penguin. at one point he got a nose job and didn't look like a penguin anymore but he's a penguin. he's oliver wendell jones, a computer genius. kind of a hacker. in the bloom county comic strip that included all of these characters and that honestly got me through a good portion of my cynical adolescence in the 1980s, oliver wen

. >> rachel maddow show producer there with phil riceman. donald j. trump state park is really not much of a park. you can see a few abandoned buildings, there is one gaping cellar hole you could fall ten feet into. if the you didfall into it you would then land on the old truck that was left to rust there inside the hole. it's got lots of very very aggressive weeds. you can see where they meant to put up like maps for this would-be park or signs but there are no maps no picnic tables no bathrooms, nothing like you would expect to see if you planned a day at a state park because you saw a sign for it on the highway telling you that it was the very classy very huge very great state park named after donald j. trump. what is there if you follow the giant signs on the state highway, i mean, it could be a nice place to walk the dog if your dog is adventurous and not too short. honestly. what i feel like looking at this stuff it could be good for hiding in the woodings and drinking beer where your parents cannot find you. i do not recommend that as a course

good evening, lawrence. >>> rachel, i believe you just expanded the staff of the rachel maddow show by if there were just millions and millions. at least dozens and dozens. >> thanks, rachel. this morning, president obama credited president john kennedy with the principle that has guided the obama administration's approach to iran. he quoted jfk's inaugural address saying, let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.

rachel maddow is safe but one thing is clear, he wants less liberal opinion, more breaking news coveragehe daytime. by the way, there's one name on the tips of the tongues of so many staffers one of the biggest stars of msnbc's past. can you guess who? >> good night and good luck. >> keith olbermann put nbc on the map, went to espn but on friday signed off of espn and now a free agent. i want to ask two cable news veterans dan abrams who used to be the general manager of msnbc and 9:00 p.m. and john klein who used to run this channel, cnn. i'm told there's been no talks yet with olbermann but i'm sure they'll answer the phone if olbermann's agent calls. do you think hard news and provocative faces like brian williams are the answer now? >> look as you know one of the things that msnbc staffers have been buzzing about is the possibility of keith olbermann coming back to msnbc. the first decision they have to make what are we? what are we going to be? what are we going to be during the day and going to be at night? if msnbc is going to continue to be liberal talk at night, then sure why no

. >>> that's all for this evening and now rachel maddow. >>> good evening to you. rachel has the night off. we're going to talk about a presidential candidate that's not donald trump. we will talk about one that has nothing to do with the fact but the fact that it has everything to do with him because everything in politics has something to do with donald trump. here is what i mean. today the republican governor of ohio threw his hat in the ring and running for president. he made the announcement in front of a few thousand people in the ohio state university. >> the testing is what makes you stronger and the challenges is what makes you better. i live through the

. >>> that's all for this evening and now rachel maddow. >>> good evening to you. rachel has the night off. we're going to talk about a presidential candidate that's not donald trump. we will talk about one that has nothing to do with the fact but the fact that it has everything to do with him because everything in politics has something to do with donald trump. here is what i mean. today the republican governor of ohio threw his hat in the ring and running for president. he made the announcement in front of a few thousand people in the ohio state university. >> the testing is what makes you stronger and the challenges is what makes you better. i live through them and become stronger for them and america is stronger for them. here is how we have done it, by staying together. not by dividing each other but staying together with the eyes on the horizon about the future. >> i am here to ask you for your prayers, for your support and efforts because i have decided to run for president of the united states. >> it's taking the band of brothers that i work with everyday, a

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. one of california's finest products. good evening, rachel.

. >>> that's all for this evening and now rachel maddow. >>> good evening to you. alk about a presidential candidate that's not donald trump. we will talk about one that has nothing to do with the fact but the fact that it has everything to do with him because everything in politics has something to do with donald trump. here is what i mean. today the republican governor of

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. one of california's finest products. chel. >> chris, california water is kind of a bull's-eye for the maddow family. this is all maddow family collective watching this week. >> i'm microprogramming to the maddow family. >> you have maxed out the demo. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. happy monday.

rachel maddow show starts now. >> thank you at home for joining us tonight. we've got a big, big show for you. we found out late this afternoon that the world cup trophy is coming to the show tonight. literally it is here along with people who just won it. seriously they are here. they brought the actual gold thing with them. i can't wait. i can't believe it and i can't wait. that's ahead. >>> also big news tonight on the presidential race where the fox news channel appears to have change its rules for the republican presidential debate, the rules that fox news set for that debate have become the most important dynamic in the whole republican nominating process. those rules are going to basically knock out from contention at least seven of the major candidates running for president on the republican side. but today fox news changed those rules. a really specific and hard to understand way tonight. a pope related mystery solved. a lot going on. on a day when a lot is going on in the news, that sometimes makes our news meeting at the show, where we lay out the

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. one of california's finest products. good evening, rachel. in the bloom county comic strip that included all of these characters and that honestly got me through a good portion of my cynical adolescence in the 1980s, oliver wendell jones was a mad genius to me. you see him dressed up like a pirate here? when he was computer hacking, he would dress up as a pirate. here is one where he was trying to hack into nbc news. enter nbc news. beep, password incorrect. entry into the nbc news files not approved. password again, then he enters dan rather is a turnip. beep, approved. he's like yeah, the dude is hot. gets into nbc news. there was also the time he tried to end the cold war by hacking into the russian newspaper pravda. he hatched this great scheme where he would hack into prove da and change the headline on the front page so it would say this, gorbachev urges disarmament, total, unilateral. that was going to be the front page. milo bloom says to his friend, the hacker, are you sure about the translation now that you have that on the front pa

up next, rachel maddow sit go down with rick santorum.oing on run and watch it. >> good evening. i am very excited. i will admit tom. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. black is white, up is down and night is day. dogs and cats living together peacefully. the news out of wisconsin today, there may be a freaking lion on the loose in milwaukee. a lion. a lion. i'm telling you, today is just, today is a weird day. not just because milwaukee apparently has a lion. but also because as chris just mentioned, rick santorum is here. there he is in the green room of he is here to talk to me on purpose and he even knows it is me. he'll be joining us live in the studio.

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the word madagascar to americans is almost a synonym for far away. for far away and remote and hard to get to. madagascar is a big country. a big island. the fourth largest island in the world. but especially from our perspective, but really from anywhere, it is hard to get there. it is really far out into the ocean. you have to go 250 miles off the southeast coast of africa in order to get to madagascar. it is just one of those places on earth that is remote. it is far out there. but once you are at madagascar, you have to go another 600 miles out into the ocean. out into the indian ocean before you get to a place called reunion island. la reunion. they is that french there. i won't try to speak with a french island but you can call it reunion island. by all accounts, it is spectacularly beautiful. some of the most spectacular and dramatic scenery on earth, known particularly for its water falls and its mountain jungle scene rifrl it is

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >>> we've been watching a developing situation in the last few hours, taking place in one of the america's biggest cities on the west coast. it's been honestly dramatic. i've been watching it in my office all day long. unpredictable, and it's gone into tonight. i think in the first time i've ever reported on something i could describe this way, this ongoing news event has been happening all day in midair over a very busy river. so we're keeping an eye on the live pictures, in order to fully appreciate what has been happening and what continues to happen tonight, i need to show you a map. this is portland, oregon, it sits look the willamette river, which you can see right there on the map. because it is relatively easy to use the willamette river and columbia river to get from portland, oregon out to the pacific ocean, or from the pacific oats into portland, portland has always been a pretty important hub for shipping. a lot of different oceangoing ships will travel this stretch of the willamette.

rachel maddow starts now. >> i register an objection from kate that you're in california on your anniversary. >> a legitimate objection. >> she didn't tell me directly, but i'm putting that in there for her. there you go. well done, man. thank you. thank you to you at home for joining us at this hour. >>> at the end of the vietnam war, on the night that saigon fell, april 29th, 1975, nbc news did a special report that night looking back at the war. this is the night saigon fell. their special report was 7382 days in vietnam. this was this huge, retrospective report about the war, about all that had been lost there. at the end of this nbc news special report, david brinkley ends it with what is basically a commentary from him on what was lost and what future presidents should learn from that experience.

rachel maddow starts now. >> and you can own it as a physical object. amazing. great stuff. thanks for joining us this you are ho. what i'm about to do here, it has a great visual payoff. i only say this as a public service, right? if now you are doing the dishes and listening to me and not watching, come over to the tv. watch this for a second. it has a visual payoff you need to see. the context here is the state of alaska. most important thing for this purpose, the state of alaska is enormous. the state capital is marked in red way down there in the southeast corner of the state. it's still the opposite northern canada. still really far up there. but as alaska goes, juneau is way down there. the largest city is anchorage which is northwest of juneau, south central alaska. if you want to go way up, the biggest city in interior alaska, way up north is fairbanks. but if fairbanks isn't enough for you, if you really want to go to the tip-top, the end of the road and beyond and america's great northern frontier, keep going and keep going further than that you will eventually ge

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thanks for that. ks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. do you believe the polls? how real is what they're showing? those are big questions right now in politics. for example, take the new poll out today in iowa. that poll shows wisconsin governor scott walker leading the republican race in that critical first in the nation caucus state. walker built a real lead in the polls out there. first place now. you can see there with 22%. in second place, right behind walker, donald trump. he's moved up in iowa. here's the key to that number. that 13% you see there for donald trump in second place in iowa. the poll was taken over three days. this past weekend. it was taken friday, saturday, and sunday. it was on saturday in the middle of that poll being taken that donald trump really stepped in it.

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thanks for that. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. do you believe the polls? how real is what they're showing? those are big questions right now in politics. for example, take the new poll out today in iowa. that poll shows wisconsin governor scott walker leading the republican race in that critical first in the nation caucus state. walker built a real lead in the polls out there. first place now. you can see there with 22%. in second place, right behind walker, donald trump. he's moved up in iowa. here's the key to that number. that 13% you see there for donald trump in second place in iowa. the poll was taken over three days. this past weekend. it was taken friday, saturday, and sunday. it was on saturday in the middle of that poll being taken that donald trump really stepped in it. everyone assumed he did when he was in iowa on saturday and scuffed at the idea that john mccain is a war hero. this is the key now. the pollster that took that poll, they say when

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. one of california's finest products. >> chris, can i got to tell you, california water is kind of a bull's eye for the maddow family. this is all maddow family collective watching this week. we're so psyched that you're doing this. >> i'm microprogramming to the family. i'm happy to hear that. >> you have maxed out the demo. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. happy monday. so my low bloom, you know

"rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. >> you can't see this because you are in the field.aze zing week. i thought i knew about that topic. itis amaze zing. well done. well done. >> thanks preernt it. >> that reporting he did all week, the stuff he explained and went out and saw, bring it on. thanks for joining us this friday. we have a big show for you here. we are beginning with an exclusive that, i'm sorry, happens to be about republican presidential candidate donald trump. you are not going to see this story anywhere else. this is ours alone. it's a little weird. it starts a decade ago when donald trump made a big and public donation. mr.

rachel maddow starts now. >> as we get closer to the start of the primary. the word thunderdome gets used more and more often. >> a good model. >> eventually everybody will have a chain saw not just rand paul and all have them in the same room. amazing. thank you, chris. >> see you. >> thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. 1985, i was 12. 1985 was a big year. it was not because that's the year the falcon and snowman came out. an amazing spy movie. for nonfiction, pop culture reasons, 1985 was called the year of the spy. on may 20th, 1985, a chief warrant officer in the u.s. navy was arrested by the fbi after his wife basically narced him out to the u.s. government for spying for the soviet union. his name was john anthony walker. he had been stealing classified information from the navy for years. selling it to the soviet union. he had been doing this for almost 20 years. by the time the fbi finally caught up to him and arrested him in may 1985. walker had roped his immediate family into helping him with spying efforts. paid a lot by the soviets

up next, rachel maddow sit go down with rick santorum. i'm going on run and watch it. >> good evening. i am very excited. i will admit tom. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. black is white, up is down and night is day. dogs and cats living together peacefully. the news out of wisconsin today, there may be a freaking lion on the loose in milwaukee. a lion. a lion. i'm telling you, today is just, today is a weird day. not just because milwaukee apparently has a lion. but also because as chris just mentioned, rick santorum is here. there he is in the green room of he is here to talk to me on purpose and he even knows it is me. he'll be joining us live in the studio. we've got a lion in milwaukee and rick santorum here. i submit to you this. new jersey govern chris christie no longer loves bruce springsteen. it is tragic but it is true. i mean, if there was one thing that made segs in this crazy world of ours, it was chris christie's enduring love of bruce springsteen. look at him rocking out with full abandon. listen to how chr

. >> mini rachel maddow drink mixer. >> teeny cocktail shaker.edit or consolation prize, we have something for you that until tonight was cluttering up our office. it is extra weird tonight. >> we have bacon rub. >> it is to create the sensation of bacon but there is no bay non the bacon rub. >> bacon rub. i look forward to rubbing it on something. e i'm not sure what. >> our friend anthony was producing in iowa. apparently iowa is lousy with this stuff. any way we have it for you. we will bring in the voice of steve from maddow plo blog. the man who determines whether or not you got the right answer. hello, steve. >> good evening to both of you. >> good evening. >> he is up there for you, too. >> he's in all of our orbit. first question from wednesday's show. on wednesday's show we described some possible movement on one of the first priorities president obama outlined when he came in to office. the "new york times" reported that day that the white house as soon as next week may be giving a final plan to congress to accomplish which of the follo

rachel maddow starts now. >> as we get closer to the start of the primary. the word thunderdome gets used more and more often. >> a good model. >> eventually everybody will have a chain saw not just rand paul and all have them in the same room. amazing. thank you, chris. >> see you. >> thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. 1985, i was 12. 1985 was a big year. it was not because that's the year the falcon and snowman came out. an amazing spy movie. for nonfiction, pop culture reasons, 1985 was called the year of the spy. on may 20th, 1985, a chief warrant officer in the u.s. navy was arrested by the fbi after his wife basically narced him out to the u.s. government for spying for the soviet union.

the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> on that optimistic note that's very nice. thank you chris. and thank you at home for joining us. wee are we are also going to start off tonight's news in a really happy place. i not only want you to have a good friday night but a good weekend. this is sewo good its goodness will carry you right through. if you are a dog person and you use the internet machine, there's a pretty good chance that you some time have had great joy thanks to dog shaming.com. this one on your screen right now. i practiced. i tried it. i will be unable to continue talking on television if i read it out loud. this is the epitome of dog shaming.com. the next one i can read though. this is from last week. i steal toys from babies. this is hungry angry bulldog. my mom put me on a diet so i ate the blinds. what he is confessing is itself very funny. i peed into the bedroom fan. it's the look on his face that is why dog shaming.com is so so perpetually great. dog lovers have had the advantage for years now when it comes to great joy derived from the combin

rachel maddow show starts now. >> thank you at home for joining us tonight. we've got a big, big show for you. we found out late this afternoon that the world cup trophy is coming to the show tonight. literally it is here along with people who just won it. seriously they are here. they brought the actual gold thing with them. i can't wait. i can't believe it and i can't wait. that's ahead. >>> also big news tonight on the presidential race where the fox news channel appears to have change its rules for the republican presidential debate, the rules that fox news set for that debate have become the most importan

rachel maddow starts now. >> i register an objection from kate that you're in california on your anniversary. >> a legitimate objection. >> she didn't tell me directly, but i'm putting that in there for her. there you go. well done, man. thank you. thank you to you at home for joining us at this hour. >>> at the end of the vietnam war, on the night that saigon fell, april 29th, 1975, nbc news did a special report that night looking back at the war. this is the night saigon fell. their special report was 7382 days in vietnam. this was this huge, retrospective report about the war, about all that had been lost there. at the end of this nbc news special report, david brinkley ends it with what is basically a commentary from him on what was lost and what future presidents should learn from that experience. watch how he does it. i'm going to play the end of it here. what he says here, and the way he articulates it, is part of the point. the real point he makes is made visually. just look at this. >> the united states did not lose the war. it never really tried to win it. instead, trying to help s

the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> on that optimistic note that's very nice.u at home for joining us. wee are we are also going to start off tonight's news in a really happy place. i not only want you to have a good friday night but a good weekend. this is sewo good its goodness will carry you right through. if you are a dog person and you use the internet machine,

tonight -- rachel maddow, from "paper towns" actress cara delevingne, music from neon trees, featuringg tonight? [ cheers a

rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks for that. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. he night off. do you believe the polls? how real is what they're showing? those are big questions right now in politics. for example, take the new poll out today in iowa. that poll shows wisconsin governor scott walker leading the republican race in that critical first in the nation caucus state. walker built a real lead in the polls out there. first place now. you can see there with 22%. in second place, right behind

. >>> rachel i believe you just expanded the staff of the rachel maddow show by millions and millions of people. >> oh if there were just millions and millions. at least dozens and dozens. >> thanks rachel. this morning, president obama credited president john kennedy with the principle that has guided the obama administration's approach to iran. he quoted jfk's inaugural address saying let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate. >> a landmark deal setting off a global debate. >> a comprehensive, long-term deal with iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. >> we are the first administration to actually stop their program. >> this is an important step. >> what a stunning historic mistake. >> making comments way over the top. >> the next battle for israel is the battle on capitol hill. >> i welcome a robust debate in congress if in fact it's a fair deal as i think it is at this moment we'll do everything we can to stop it. >> the iranians have prevailed in this negotiation. >> this is the most dangerous, irresponsible deal. >> the most danger

is the rachel maddow show saying that martin o'malley is running for vice president? >> more than that i think jim webb wants to be a lieberman cross over but i'm making it up entirely. >> that is the best who's running for vice president theory of the year. >> thank you very much. >> thanks rachel. >>> the man who ran mitt romney's presidential campaign four years ago is here with us tonight. >> everybody loves me. >> the donald holding steady at number two behind jeb bush. >> he's terrible. he's terrible. >> he's a wrecking ball for the future of the republicanen party. >> $100,000 to mexico for every person they send. >> and donald trump saying he's running for president. >> we are running to serve as your president of the united states of america. >> we are running for president. i love that royal "we." ? we . >> we like to shop at kohls. >> she took a direct shot at jeb bush over his recent comment about americans needing to work longer hours. >> they don't need a lecture. they need a raise. >> hillary clinton's going to be a horrible president. >> all people wan

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> good evening, chris. thanks. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. four years ago, chris christie was definitely going to be the republican nominee for president of the united states. this was a national poll done by zogby in march 2011. new jersey governor chris christie so dominated the republican field of 2012 that he garners twice as many votes as his nearest competitor. that was zogby in march of 2011. later that month, a poll of how all the possible nominees would match up against president obama in 2012, chris christie wasn't even running at the time, but still running ahead of most republicans, including the ones that really were running. two months later, a national rasmussen poll of republican primary voters. chris christie outperformed 17 other potential candidates. chris christie comes in first out of 18 republicans who they polled on. chris christie four years ago was definitely going to be the nominee if he wanted to be. he was the clear front-runner four years ago. and the richest of the