the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> thank you, chris. thanks for joining us from home tonight. big night tonight. the eve of the vice presidential debate. by this time tomorrow night, you'll be able to tell those two guys apart. nbc historian michael besh loss is here to talk about tomorrow night's debate. also, we've had what appears to be the october surprise for this year's election. at least the first october surprise. "the new york times" has found a piece at least of the white whale of political reporting for this year. they have published a portion of what appear to be donald trump's tax returns. "the new york times" reporters who broke that incredible story are here with us tonight live. in just a moment, that is all coming up. first, i must wish you happy first monday in october, which if you are a politics or law geek, you know it's a significant date. on this date, 16 years ago, everybody thought the huge u.s. supreme court case that year was going to be about drug-sniffing dogs in indiana. >> the supreme court begins a new te

and also coming up at the top of the hour, i'll be joining brian williams and rachel maddow as we all get ready for the debate. and then facing off in the feeble big casino debate. at 10:30, we'll have full coverage of the debate and i'll have everything that happens. i think we have kellyanne conway. this is "hardball" live from the final presidential debate. as a supervisor at pg&e, it's my job to protect public safety, keeping the power lines clear, while also protecting the environment. the natural world is a beautiful thing, the work that we do helps us protect it. public education is definitely a big part of our job, to teach our customers about the best type of trees to plant around the power lines. we want to keep the power on for our customers. we want to keep our community safe. this is our community, this is where we live. we need to make sure that we have a beautiful place for our children to live. together, we're building a better california. started in the senate of the united states, and of course, at the house. mcconnell is one of the people that created donald trump.

i'll be joining rachel maddow for full coverage. msnbc's coverage of the vice presidential debate. >>> tonight, the running mates, after the most watched presidential debate in history, all eyes turn to tim kaine. >> is there anybody that believes any word that donald trump says? >> and mike pence. >> hillary clinton believes that millions are deplorable. they're not a basket of deplorables. they are americans. >> in their only head-to-head matchup. >> donald trump is not ready to be president. >> hillary clinton will never be elected president. >> from msnbc, the place for politics, the vice presidential

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i'll be joining rachel maddow for full coverage. msnbc's coverage of the vice presidential debate. >>> tonight, the running mates, after the most watched presidential debate in history, all eyes turn to tim kaine. >> is there anybody that believes any word that donald trump says? >> and mike pence. >> hillary clinton believes that millions are deplorable. they're not a basket of deplorables. they are americans. >> in their only head-to-head matchup. >> donald trump is not ready to be president. >> hillary clinton will never be elected president. >> from msnbc, the place for politics, the vice presidential debate. >> you are looking live at willett ll, longwood university, farmville, virginia. the second of the debates that will shape this country's presidential election 35 days from now. one of the two men who take the stage tonight will be this nation's next vice president. and in just a few hours, we will know who prevailed here tonight in their only face-to-face matchup of the season. brian williams along with rachel maddow and c

. >> kellyanne, it's rachel maddow in new york. we're confused. chris was asking you if you're with the campaign till the bitter end and you said yes, you said -- you seemed to indicate that you were with the campaign and then you said dramatically unless -- and then you let that

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, my friend. good evening to you at home. it's nice to have you here on this fine thursday evening. >>> the lexington hotel in chicago was one of those awesome, sturdy, chicago architectural showoffs in its day. it was built in the 1890s, was 10 stories tall. it had these cool rounded towers on the corners of the building. it had a big, grand, pillared entrance. the lexington hotel announced itself on matchbooks as absolutely fireproof. see that on the middle of the matchbook, absolutely fireproof. that turns out to be a good thing for the lexington hotel, because apparently, reportedly, there was a secret shooting range buried inside of it. there is a secret shooting range buried in the bowels of that hotel because from 1928 to 1931, the famous gangster al capone lived at the lexington hotel. he ran his whole criminal empire out of the fourth and fifth floors of that building. and he reportedly maintained this secret shooting range for his gangster henchmen as well as a gym for them to stay fit.

as we all pointed out on rachel maddow pointed out that friday night, that indictment was dropped on december 12th, after the election, but george erbiler walker bush told david frost-a cruel blow and it helped to defeat him. >> but hold on, andrea, again, i've said this before, this entire thing has to be put into perspective. the only reason we're here is they rited rules and regulations from the get-go. if hillary clinton and her aides had used a state department e-mail, the rule at the time and hadn't tried to bleach it away and hadn't self-selected the e-mails, we wouldn't be here. this is a scandal of their own choosing. they chose to evade government rules and regulations, they chose to lie and lie and lie. this is where we are. they have no one to blame but themselves. >> sean spicer, great to see you. thank you very much. thanks for being with you. >> good to see you. >>> thanks for being with you, hillary clinton making a campaign stop, an unannounced stop at angie's soul cafe. i wish we were there before heading here to kent state. >>> and coming up, elijah cummings joinin

." >> hi, i'm rachel maddow for msnbc. for the last 20 years, msnbc has covered all the biggest news of our time from what seemed like a never-ending presidential election to a devastating attack on our nation. two decades of events that have transformed not only the way we report as journalists but the way we live. the way we love. the way we learn. right now, 20 events that made headlines and changed us. >> 9/11 continues to change everyday life in this country. >> i was putting on my microphone to do my show on msnbc, and somebody said a plane has hit the world trade center. >> there was a major incident in lower manhattan. a plane has crashed into one of the upper floors of the world trade center. [ sirens ] >> the airplane is clearly a commercial airliner of some sort. >> it was a crystal clear day. nothing added up. there's a moment where your mind, you know, goes to "this could be terror." >> and i don't think that we started to get a lot of clarity, frankly, until the second plane hit. and the second the second pla

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the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> i was expecting a marching band. >> i had ten seconds.f i thought i'd get this in there. >> i understand. i'm with you there in spirit, sort of. thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home joining us. happy monday. do you know who crazy eddie is? a crazy eddie is a guy who has been parodied so many times, it's hard to remember that there was an original crazy eddie and his prices were insane. >> ladies, gentlemen, reindeer, start your engines for a crazy eddie christmas blowout blitz, fm stereo radio, car alarm, even a cellular phone. it's all on sale now. remember, we are not going to be undersold. we cannot be undersold and we mean it. car stereo blowout blitz. communications on sale now! crazy eddie prices are insane! >> like i said, his prices are insane! starting in 1975 and running through the end of the 1980s, there were more than 7,000 of these various, deliberately manic screaming crazy eddie ads.

. >>> that is all in for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour, beginning tonight with some breaking news. new allegations from women who say they were groped by donald trump without their concept. now, the word groped should imply that there wasn't con sent, but just be extra sure we all know what we're talking about here. let's just say i have been looking forward to the time when covering national politics no longer has to include a warning to get the kids out of the room, but we're not there yet, so i'll give you a second to put headphones on junior. okay, since last friday, since the release of the 2005 tape from access hollywood, showing lewd and frankly predatory remarks from donald trump, behind the scenes at a california tv shoot. that tape recording about grabbing women in the genitals and kissing them without their consent and getting away with it because he's a star. ever since friday, the hunt has been on for more tapes in tv show archives more tapes wrchb donald trump had a habit of talking that way. but wha

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, my friend. good evening to you at home. it's nice to have you here on this fine thursday evening. >>> the lexington hotel in chicago was one of those awesome, sturdy, chicago architectural showoffs in its day. it was built in the 1890s, was 10 stories tall. it had these cool rounded towers on the corners of the building. it had a big, grand, pillared entrance. the lexington hotel announced itself on matchbooks as absolutely fireproof. see that on the middle of the matchbook, absolutely fireproof. that turns out to be a good thing for the lexington hotel, because apparently, reportedly, there was a secret shooting range buried inside of it. there is a secret shooting range buried in the bowels of that hotel because from 1928 to 1931, the famous gangster al capone lived at the lexington hotel. he ran his whole criminal empire out of the fourth and fifth floors of that building. and he reportedly maintained this secret shooting range for

we understand that msnbc host rachel maddow lives in the building. she has said she is okay. she and her partner are okay but they're concerned about the neighbors. there was one firefighter who suffered minor injuries. at this time, eun, we're not hearing of any other injuries. that is good news there. 140 firefighters to get that fire under control in west villain >> erika gonzalez, thank you. >>> 5:47 right now. easy to make, cheep to assemble and dangerous. you'll recall a homemade explosive was detonated early this fall in new york city. a review in the week since then by the news4 i-team scott mcfarland shows a rising number of homemade explosions in our area, too. >> we're completing this story nor news4 at 11. we'll show hundreds of local explosives are actually caught building or detonating those explosives. that includes a firebombing of a government facility in leesburg and anarundel county, a series of explosives found before they could be detonated but enough to cause widespread destruction. they sometimes cost less than $20. >> they're actually, they're the chem

the rachel maddow show now. >> i owe you one. >> no. >> thanks, dear. in the fall of 2007. the gods of fate and chance and gambling in las vegas decided that it was time for the frontier casino to come down. because it was las vegas and americans love to see things blow up, they decided to do it right. it slated for demolition, but they built basically a fireworks display, like flares on to the center of the building. rather than just saying four, three, two. they had the lights count down. then they had a big tnt plunger. you didn't just hear them announce they were going to blow it up, you could see it acted out on lights in the front of the building as they were destroying the building. just in case the explosion alone was not entertaining enough for you, they put extra explosions on the thing they were exploding. >> three. >> two, one. and then comes the tnt. yeah, this is like the most american explosion in the history of america. this is like meat with meat sauce. that is how they took down the frontier casino in las vegas, nevada, in november 2007. americans like to

the rachel maddow show now. >> i owe you one. >> no. >> thanks, dear. in the fall of 2007. gods of fate and chance and gambling in las vegas decided that it was time for the frontier casino to come down. because it was las vegas and americans love to see things blow up, they decided to do it

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rachel maddow starts right now. >> thanks, my friend. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. at this hour, there are some things that are awkward right now about being a true blue died in the wall donald trump supporter and they definitely are. they are all over the country and in all 50 states. you probably know some of them. if you weren't one yourself. you are definitely related to one of them at least by marriage. so em fa thiz -- or sympathize even if you can't empathize. say you are a donald trump supporter for real, say you live in virginia. you're a woman who supports donald trump and for whatever reason, your politics or your own, you really like donald trump. you fervently like donald trump and you want him to be president. and you are a little bit worried and, frankly, a little bit annoyed with your own political party because you have heard over the last few days that the

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> thank you, chris. thanks for joining us from home tonight. big night tonight. the eve of the vice presidential debate. by this time tomorrow night, you'll be able to tell those two guys apart. nbc historian michael besh loss is here to talk about tomorrow night's debate. also, we've had what appears to be the october surprise for this year's election. at least the first october surprise. "the new york times" has found a piece at least of the white whale of political reporting for

. >> rachel maddow. >> joe scarborough. >> this is more than the election itself, this is for the soulit's time to turn up the heat, because the black vote is going to decide who is the next president of the united states. >> my concern is about the residents of flint. we have folks who are hurting. >> you don't have to look very far to see the vestiges of slavery that are still in play. >> it's a wake-up call for people in our community to sit by silently and watch these tragedies take place. >> we disagree on the term of the "n" word. you and me, people like me, saying that's an excuse. today we're launching a new "politics nation" series, "bending toward justice." >> yes, we are growing vegetables, i am growing people. and that's the most exciting thing. >> i sign my paper and i shook the hand, i knew for sure it was over with and that my day has come. >> they can see we are human, too. they don't see just a uniform. >> right here. to the camera. >> why do you want to explode the whole planet? if you don't like the people living on the surface of the planet, get rid of them and keep

rachel maddow starts right now. >> we've got news coming up on that exact subject later on in my hourom tim kaine about how he will vote on merrick garland is if he's in the senate and it comes up. >>> thanks for joining us in this hour. we do have that story including that exclusive content from tim kaine talking about how he would vote in the senate on merrick garland. that's coming up at the end of the show tonight. we start with something that we've got that i knew was coming. i did not know it was coming this quickly. i'm not the kind of person who says, i told you so, but in this case, i told you so. i just didn't know it would happen so fast. here's the story. this is a big deal. on monday night we reported here on this show on a huge new problem that the trump campaign seemed to have cooked up for the national republican party to be clear, in context, there's a whole bunch of problems that the trump campaign has for the republican party. there's a new poll that puts donald trump nationwide 14 points behind hillary clinton. 14 points behind? now, that is not the only poll in th

brian williams along with rachel maddow, of course. chris matthews leading our coverage from st. louis and friends and family, the best team in political coverage tonight. rachel we say this before every live event and it's obviously true. we have no idea what's going to happen tonight. it has never been more true than tonight. from the handshake, we have no way of guessing the tone, tenor or content. >> if there's a handshake. we don't know if there will be. i was happy to have a shot of the empty room there, just a reminder this is set up as normal town hall presidential debate. >> patina of normalcy. >> something we should recognize here, everything surrounding it is different. remember when it became clear it would be donald trump and hillary clinton as nominees, we got the schedule on commission on presidential debates, the trump campaign complained nobody would watch. that first one was opposite monday night football, second one sunday night of a three-day weekend. the distance between even those expectations and where we are now, heading into tonight, the last hour, the las

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, my friend.home. it's nice to have you here on this fine thursday evening. >>> the lexington hotel in chicago was one of those awesome, sturdy, chicago architectural showoffs in its day. it was built in the 1890s, was 10 stories tall. it had these cool rounded towers on the corners of the building. it had a big, grand, pillared entrance. the lexington hotel announced itself on matchbooks as absolutely fireproof. see that on the middle of the matchbook, absolutely fireproof. that turns out to be a good thing for the lexington hotel, because apparently, reportedly, there was

rachel maddow has an exclusive interview with tim kaine and mike pence will join brian williams. >> that is true. almost a little weird, but thank you for the preview. it is, in fact, vice president day here on msnbc. vice president or would be vice president day. chris matthews this afternoon had an interview with our current vice president of the united states, joe biden. joe biden is now into a third day of explaining what he meant when he said he wishes he was in high school and he could take donald trump out behind the gym because he wants to get in a fight with him, basically. donald trump today responded that he, too, would kind of like to go get in a fight with joe biden, although he described his hypothetical fight with joe biden as happening somewhere in a barn rather than in a gym. so okay. that's happening. in addition, though, to that exclusive interview with the sitting vice president of the united states, i'm talking with chris matthews here tonight on msnbc, we would have also have the would be next vice president of the united states.

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> live coverage indeed. thank you, my friends. thanks to you at home for sticking with us for the next hour. we'll be live with the al smith dinner in just a second for the remarks by donald trump and hillary clinton or hillary clinton and donald trump. we don't even know which one goes first. first woman nominated by a major party for president, hillary clinton. 2016, democratic party. first african-american nominated by a major party for president, barack obama, 2008, democratic party. first jewish person nominated by a major part for vice president, joe lieberman, 2004, democratic party. first -- excuse me, 2000, democratic party. first woman nominated by a major party for vice president was geraldine ferraro, 1984, the democratic party. if you're noticing a trend here, you're right. because it was also democratic party in 1928 that made the first nomination of a catholic for president in this country. and that was new york governor al smith. among the many glass ceilings that the democratic party has broken in presidential and

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> do you know what the next hour for me will bring?i earned. >> i have a whole bar in my office and you're welcome to stop in. yeah. thanks, chris. and thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. if you're drinking with chris hayes over the course of the next hour, have one for me. my weekend doesn't start yet. the last time there was a national election was two years ago, of course. in the 2014 mid-term. republicans were already in control of the house. heading into that election. but they did great in 2014. even though they were already in control of the house. they picked up 13 additional seats in that election.

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. what the heck happened today? things where you had a show planned, i had a show planned. everybody had a night planned. i feel like there's a pretty good chance that we don't know who the republican candidate is for president by the end of this weekend. >> there's things that make me start to think that may not be so crazy. >> within the realm of the possible. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. as chris mentioned and as you may have heard, there's a lot going on right now. there's a lot going on this hour. there's a lot going on in the news tonight. of course, don't lose perspective. we are continuing to keep eyes on florida on the southeast atlantic coast as hurricane matthew continues its slow churn through that part of the country. the more information we get out of where matthew has been thus far, the more it seems clear that haiti is actually the place that has

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> do you know what the next hour for me will bring? some whiskey which i earned. >> i have a whole bar in my office and you're welcome to stop in. yeah. thanks, chris. and thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. if you're drinking with chris hayes over the course of the next hour, have one for me. my weekend doesn't start yet. the last time there was a national election was two years ago, of course. in the 2014 mid-term. republicans were already in control of the house. heading into that election. but they did great in 2014. even though they were already in control of the house. they picked up 13 additional seats in that election. and the democrats were bugged. everybody knows the general rule if your party holds the white house, you usually lose seats in the mid-term election. when the democrats lost 13 seats, in 2014, they were kind of bummed. and president obama took some of that himself. shortly after the election in 2014. you might remember, president obama had this really interesting interview with george stephanopou

rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening, chris. thanks and thanks to you at home staying with us for the next hour. happy monday. >>> the governor of the great state of california is jerry brown. his dad was also a democratic governor of the state of california. his name was pat brown. pat brown was first elected governor of california in 1958. and he won by such a huge margin that the county by county results map from that governor's race when pat brown first became governor, even though it was 60/40, you look at the map of the state, it makes it look like it was a unanimous decision. that was 1958. then four years later, not by as resounding a margin, but still pretty good margin, he won again. 1962 beat a guy by the name of richard nixon. after that went for a third bite at the apple.

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> thanks, my friend. good to see you.hanks at home for joining us this hour. happy wednesday. we think of them as presidential debates, but they were not presidential debates. there were seven of them in a row, all between the same two candidates. the first one was in late august and the whole string of all seven of them, they went right through mid-october. and these seven debates were held in seven different towns. by the end of it there was such a frenzy around these debates that tens of thousands of people were turning out in person to try to see them. in fact, in galesberg, illinois, at knox college, the crowds there were no thick on the site of the debate that organizers worried they weren't going to be able to get the candidates safely through the giant crowds and up on to the stage, at least in enough time to start on time. so they improvised a solution. they had the candidates at knox college, they had them evade the crowd and just mysteriously pop up on the back of the stage as a kind odrat

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> i was expecting a marching band. >> i had ten seconds.ht i'd get this in there. >> i understand. i'm with you there in spirit, sort of. thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home joining us. happy monday. do you know who crazy eddie is? a craze gly eddie is a guy who been parodied so many times, it's hard to remember that there was an original crazy eddie and his prices were insane. >> ladies, gentlemen, reindeer, start your engines for a crazy eddie christmas blowout blitz, fm stereo radio, car alarm, even a cellular phone. it's all on sale now. remember, we are not going to be undersold. we cannot be undersold and

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. what the heck happened today? >> one of those things where you had a show planned, i had a show planned. everybody had a night planned. i feel like there's a pretty good chance that we don't know who the republican candidate is for president by the end of this weekend. >> there's things that make me start to think that may not be so crazy. >> within the realm of the possible. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. as chris mentioned and as you may have heard, there's a lot going on right now. there's a lot going on this hour. there's a lot going on in the news tonight. of course, don't lose perspective. we are continuing to keep eyes on florida on the southeast atlantic coast as hurricane matthew continues its slow churn through that part of the country. the more information we get out of where matthew has been thus far, the more it seems clear that haiti is actually the place that has taken the most devastating blow and it's one of the places on earth that can least afford something like this. we're goin

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> i was expecting a marching band. >> i had ten seconds. i thought i'd get this in there. >> i understand. i'm with you there in spirit, sort of. thanks, my friend. and thanks to you at home joining us. happy monday. do you know who crazy eddie is? a craze gly eddie is a guy who been parodied so many times, it's hard to remember that there was an original crazy eddie and his prices were insane. >> ladies, gentlemen, reindeer, start your engines for a crazy eddie christmas blowout blitz, fm stereo radio, car alarm, even a cellular phone. it's all on sale now. remember, we are not going to be undersold. we cannot be undersold and we mean it. car stereo blowout blitz. communications on sale now! crazy eddie prices are insane! >> like i said, his prices are insane! starting in 1975 and running through the end of the 1980s, there were more than 7,000 of these various, deliberately manic screaming crazy eddie ads. they all end with that tag line, his prices are insane! the guy who actually appears in those ads was not crazy. he was an actor. ther

rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening, chris. thanks and thanks to you at home staying with us for the next hour. happy monday. >>> the governor of the great state of california is jerry brown. his dad was also a democratic governor of the state of california. his name was pat brown. pat brown was first elected governor of california in 1958. and he won by such a huge margin that the county by county results map from that governor's race when pat brown first became governor, even though it was 60/40, you look at the map of the state, it makes it look like it was a unanimous decision. that was 1958. then four years later, not by as resounding a margin, but still pretty good margin, he won again. 1962 beat a guy by the name of richard nixon. after that went for a third bite at the apple. ran for a third term as governor of california and he did not get it not only did he not get his bite, he was himself basically eaten alive in that election. look at this. look at that results map from 1966. the democratic, right, the guy represent

rachel maddow has an exclusive interview with tim kaine and mike pence will join brian williams. >> that is true. almost a little weird, but thank you for the preview. it is, in fact, vice president day here on msnbc. vice president or would be vice president day. chris matthews this afternoon had an interview with our current vice president of the united states, joe biden. joe biden is now into a third day of explaining what he meant when he said he wishes he was in high school and he could take donald trump out behind the gym because he wants to get in a fight with him, basically. donald trump today responded that he, too, would kind of like to go get in a fight with joe biden, although he described his hypothetical fight with joe biden as happening somewhere in a barn rather than in a gym. so okay. that's happening. in addition, though, to that exclusive interview with the sitting vice president of the united states, i'm talking with chris matthews here tonight on msnbc, we would have also have the would be next vice president of the united states. he'll be doing an interview with bri

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evening at 7:00 p.m., and democratic vice presidential candidate tim kaine will sit down with rachel maddowand then the republican vice presidential candidate mike pence stopped by the 11th hour with brian williams tonight at 11:00 p.m. take a nap, eat your wheaties, you don't want to miss that. >>> coming up, donald trump campaign launching a nightly live facebook show. could this be the start of trump tv? >>> but thirst, last night, president obama stopped by jimmy kimmel and no surprise, he took the opportunity to respond to one prominent twitter critic. >> president obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the united states, exclamation point point, @realdonaldtrump. well, @realdonaldtrump, at least i will go down as a president. your business be ready whenrowth presentstself? ameran express ocards can help you take on a new job, orxpand your office and ta on whatever com next. findut how american express cards and servrves can help prepare you for grow at open.com. >>> hi, how are you? i'm charles. i work for mar-a-lago. it's an honor to work there. i'm a lat

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by the way, 9:00 tonight eastern, join rachel maddow as she interviews tim kaine, who's running for vp and could well be the winner already, head there had, already. and at 11:00 eastern, brian williams sits down with mike pence, his opponent. is so we're bound to get their next vice president and we're covering all the bases tonight vp wise. when we come back, why is donald trump talking about polls he calls phony, and at the same time, he's talking up endorsements. but actually he doesn't have those endorsements he says he has. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> welcome back to "hardball." after meeting with law enforcement and first responders in st. augustine, florida, yesterday, donald trump tweeted that he'd received the endorsement of the st. john's county sheriff's office. but as it turns out, the sheriff's office did not endorse trump, as he had claimed, clarifying on twitter, quote, comments have been made that sjso has endorsed a candidate for president. the sheriff's office has not made any official endorsement, closed quote. trump later spoke about it in a tv

rachel maddow was reporting in depth last night about the republican national committee's consent decree that goes back 35 years not to do any poll watching or voter suppression, especially in minority communities. they have only one year before they get out from under that federal mandate and they have to be very, very careful now. the democrats have filed suit against the republicans -- the republican national committee precisely because of some of the things donald trump has said at rallies about go watch them, go watch them in philadelphia, go watch them in chicago. how much is this a part of the inside strategy? >> it's a very stunning and unfortunate thing to have trump aides tell josh green they're trying to suppress the vote. they made a lot of mistakes in this campaign. i consider this one in terms of both a tactical error and a moral outrage, one of the worst things the staff have done. donald trump has had a couple decent news days. i thought the speech yesterday was good, although a lot of media covered his going to washington, d.c. between his praising newt gingrich and his

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening. >> thanks, my friend. good to see you.home for joining us this hour. happy wednesday. we think of them as presidential debates, but they were not presidential debates. there were seven of them in a row, all between the same two candidates. the first one was in late august and the whole string of all seven of them, they went right through mid-october. and these seven debates were held in seven different towns. by the end of it there was such a frenzy around these debates that tens of thousands of people were turning out in person to try to see them. in fact, in galesberg,