and there would be a mass trauma they would need to what i always like rachel maddow you rachel maddow start being paid a half a million dollars for a program ok go ahead you go and. i go with that but i think on suicide more and spring the drought is the advice i would give to the president because he's going off of a well if we're successful meeting with kim jong un in singapore and with his present there are no risks really internationally because you know anything he does going to be. attacked and put down by the opposition in the united states and but not but not by the international media so maybe there's an opportunity for this president to maybe in the way that ronald reagan jumped over the media to the domestic population in the eighty's that trunk could connect with a portion of the international community globally by doing positive things internationally certainly there's no risk there's a lot of rewards however in terms of legacy in terms of the twenty twenty alexion so is the russia gate burns out and fizzles out people going to be looking at results they're going to be lo

and there would be a mass trauma they would need to what i always like rachel maddow you rachel maddow start being paid a half a million dollars for a program ok go ahead you go and. be so with it but i think on suicide more and spring the trap is is the advice i would give to the president because he's going off of a well if we're successful meeting with kim jong un in singapore and with his present there are no risks really internationally because you know anything he does going to be. attacked and put down by the opposition in the united states and but not but not by the international media so maybe there's an opportunity for this president to maybe in the way that ronald reagan jumped over the media to the domestic population in the eighty's that trunk could connect with a portion of the international community globally by doing positive things internationally certainly there's no risk there's a lot of rewards however in terms of legacy in terms of the twenty twenty alexion so is the russia gate burns out and fizzles out people going to be looking at results they're going to be loo

. >> starting us off this hour our colleague, my friend rachel maddow. rachel, you are for me, like millions of americans, my air traffic controller. i want to ask you a question that you may or may not have an answer to. how do we land this plane? >> well, if i'm the air traffic controller, i think we should close the air space. because i am not the one you can count on to safely land in this environment. i don't know. i mean, i think a lot of the developments, the marginal developments, the things that happen on a day-to-day basis in the trump administration, when we're looking for context, we're trying to keep our eyes on the horizon. we're trying to keep things in perspective. we have to ask ourselves, is this something that is a normal conservative republican moment, or is this something that is a trumpian moment, which is a complete departure from politics as we know it. and, you know, i'm glad you played that clip of president trump saying, you know, listen, i put out a list when i was running because i wasn't a politician and people wanted to know

we will join the rachel maddow show in a moment, but first we are watchinghese results come in fro the b primary day of the year so far, what will b th busiest single day of primaries until the mid-term elections in november. polls in california just closed an hour ago, where all eyes are on a number of big house races there. we're also tracking results from seven other states where ver decided on candidates who will face off in this year's mid terms. for more and for the very latest, to the big board we go. steve kornacki has all of the big returns. >> cafornia, can we get 48th district of california on the screen? dana rohrabacher, can we get it on the screen? the question is for democrats, can they get into the top two in some of these districts? this is one hillary clinton won this district, dana rohrabacher a very controversial incumbent. democrats think they're going to take back the house. they need to win this in the fall. you can see we're wting for some more votes to come in here. this is all orange county. used to be very republican. there is sort of a dissident faction of t

we will join the rachel maddow show in a moment, t first we are watching these results come in from the busiest primary day of the year so far, what will be the t leay of primaries until the mid-term elections in november. polls in california just closed an hour ago, where all eyes are on a number of big house races there. we're also tracking results from seven other states where voters decided on candidates who will faceff in this year's mid terms. for more and for the very latest, to the big board we go. big returns. >> california, can we get 48th distia on th screen? dana rohrabacher, can we get it on the screen? the question is for democrats, can they get io e o in some of thescts? this is one hillary clinton won this district, dana rohrabacher a very controversial incumbent. democrats think they're going to take back the house. they need to win this in the fall. you can see we're waiting for some more votes to come in here. this is all orange county. used to be very republican. there is sort of a dissident faction of the republican party lined up behind scott baugh. if baugh is abl

>>msnbc's rachel maddow broke down in tears. she was trying to read a new associated press report last night. it was about the trump administration operating so-called tender age shelters for migrant babies and toddlers. >> those three centers are in combs, raymondville and browns. the mayor says it will be established at a warehouse previously used for people displaced by hurricane harvey. it could house up to 240. childr >>> another move by the white house drawing criticism as well. the united stes is withdrawing from the united nations human rights council. u.s. ambassador nikki hailie and mike pompeo made the announcement. they're allowing the worst abusers to join. >> iant toake it crystal clear that this step is not a retreat from hum rights commitment. on the contrary, we take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of ati hypocl and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights. >> the announcement came one day after u.n. human rights official criticized the trump administrati

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks, my friend. >> you bet. >> and thanks for joining us at home at this mourp one of the perks of being president of the united states is you get the use of being a very nice supposedly rustic retreat called camp david. it's in the woods. it's up in the mountains in maryland. it is technically a u.s. military facility, but what it really is is the official country residence of the president of the united states. and camp david isn't just one house. it isn't like one single living facility. it's a whole bunch of different buildings. a bunch of different cabins or lodges. and they're all named for different trees and shrubs. there's red oak and hawthorne and witch hazel and the hickory lodge. there's a presidential office and a whole bunch of conference and meeting rooms at a place called laurel lodge which was built during the nixon administration in the early '70s. but the main presidential cabin up at camp david is called aspen. and if you do a google image search for it you'll f

, mar in that lit clip you had on rachel maddow's show, she sang that i admitted it.our meeting right before that story came out, she says i'm about to report this. i have confirmation from various sources in washington, obviously without explain who the sources are and this is coming out. and really coming back to the whole masking element, it's pretty clear that anyone that knows much about me, there's not many people that could have referred to in that indictment. i didn't really confirm per se per se, -- >> martha: she says it was easy. he just admitted that right off the bat. you think that she was getting a confirmation from her other urce? how do you think that james wolfe was involved in all of this, because you were working with him. coming in on tuesday, i'm going to be testifying, thinking that the head of security for this committee is going to be someone that you could trust i would imagine. >> the sad part about it is, martha, i was objecting to both chairman berger, but also senator warner and the whole committee staff that these various leaks are comin

the rachel maddow today acquired the domain names, wwwcityofyes. u to the maddow blog but we are holding them for the city of new orleans. that was 2010. how is it possible that the website for new orleans is city of no? eventually the city of new orleans reached out to us and we handed over to them that city of yes url as a gift to that great city. now look at what has just happened. eight years after we did that thing to turn that no into yes, look at this. new orleans has just gotten a brand new mayor, she was sworn in last month, turns out the mayor and her staff think the city of yes idea, they have adopted # city of yes to reach out to new orleans, and tonight she unveiled the new city of yes logo, designed by a local artist, incorporating art work to celebrate the 300th year of new orleans, which is why susan and i went on vacation there a few weeks ago. so this goofy thing from eight years ago is finding new life. so it's the best thing in the world today. happy 300th birthday, city of new orleans. congratulations on your mayor. also let us

this cell phone video first seen on the rachel maddow show was shown of a facility of mieg rabbit children separated from their rents. in it the little girl tells the worker she came to the u.s. with her 10-year-old sister tnd wants k to her mother, whom she says is inin vi. it's not clear how old the girl is in the video. nbc new reports that the children only spend days at the s.nter and spent nights in foster ho thousands of children are still being held in similar facilits across the country. more on the efforts to redowniet them coming up at 4:45. >>> we do have an update on a story the news 4 i-team brought you about eaunlicenseders in d.c. public schools. the investigation revealed one of every t four of district teachers are unlicensed. now, the d.c. council says it will have hearings about the issue when it returns in the fall in december, including into whether the district has the proper requirement f staffers. the education department kwirmtd to news 4, it too has oversight of the d.c. licensing. a spokeswoman says theha agency s not spoken to school districts about the issue y

and then there is the headline exclusively reported by msnbc's rachel maddow. the department of justice is now enlistg active duty military lawyers sending them to at least six border cities torocute migrants. that as the administration looks to prosecute more and more iindividuals. s just the latest headline caption off what's been a relentless several days of nras co as the public and lawmakers stand steadfastly against the administration's controversial separation licy. and a handful of airlines including american and united now tell the federal government not to use their carriers for the transport of those migrant children. and more and more governors are standing up agast the administration. nbc's jay gray has more. >> reporter: president trump. >> i will never sacrifice the safety and security of the american people. >> we love you. >> reporter: doubling down on the zero tolerance administration policy in minnesota. >> and by the way, today, i signed an executive order. we're going to keep families together, but the border is going to be it's been.ough a

these are images from iide the cayuga center in new york city as first seen on the rachel maddow show on msnbc. the footage was secretly recorded by a woman who worked at cayuga until she quit last night. the cayuga center is a day facility and at night the children go to foster homes to sleep. >> in one clip a girl is seen crying for her mother and sister. the former employee spoke on the she's critical of the family id separations. she also says she doesn't know which children were in fact separated from parents and which arrived adds unaccompanied minors. we are also learning about the conditions inside a tent city housing children in texas and just how grueling that process is for reunification. here's nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: a first look inside a tent citeaas along the u.s./mexico border housing hundreds of migrant children. journalists were given a tour but no cameras were allowed inside. the department of health and human services provided this video. it shows children being examined at the on-site medical clinic and lined up in the cafeteria. the one running the ten

now rachel maddow have you know how many town or murder me man. according to immigration lawyer and you free like so much else in immigration this is ministration as taking weapons that obama's folks loaded and left on the table on the way out and then they picked these weapons up and started firing and that's what's happened here is true that's why immigration activists actually gave obama the dubious title of deporter in chief that israel you know well and i'm pretty sure trump you know has taken over that title with flying colors he's also managed to acquire the title of smells like a hot dog water even after bathing not in the hot dog water. in chief just. what do you do with all the. children from their parents when you put it in a shell company in delaware of course but that may be changing for more on this let's go to our truth mcgill. i think you shouldn't delaware three things tax free shopping. malls and to sit in the traffic behind a car we're calvin's pissing on at these colors don't run sticker but shady politicians and business owner

fact and get got egg on their face and it was quickly forgotten what exactly because the likes of rachel maddow couldn't wait for the real story to happen since i just grew up so they b.b.q. . i lost it when i don't know i got it by car yeah is a fake story it's a fake assassination. well there we're breaking into that edition of the carter report you can watch it online we're going to take you back to our big story of the day after they missed put in blood they were put into visit to vienna the austrian capital he's currently been signing some documents with the chancellor of austria who's now speaking that's two of them life in there and it's a great responsibility and we're very hopeful that the pressure will contribute to . peace all settlements there are so that the peoples in these countries can. finally enjoy peace. as you know australia is and active member of the ira paean union on the first of july i will cheer. you on and e.u. council. and we will discuss all important issues and including the sanctions and where hopefully things too like there will be progress in relation between th

fact and it got egg on their face and it was quickly forgotten what exactly because the likes of rachel maddow couldn't wait for the real story to happen since i just grew up so they could be. oh i lost it i don't know i got it by car yeah is a fake story it's a fake assassination but just like the story about tax returns and she was so excited like it's tax returns i have tax returns and they should be paid thirty three million dollars in taxes that year and she's like oh i guess that's not so good i crawled around. al capone's tomb that was the beginning of this fake news cycle he was ahead of the curve or old oh yes that was like twenty years ago people might not remember that but i'm going to talk to a story about well in twenty years time again people might not remember this guy mike i'm a rube by michael route here is profiled i think it's the new york times is one of these big papers has one million dollars of student loans how did that happen escalating tuition and easy credit have yielded a class of student loan borrowers with spectacular debt they may never pay back due to escalating

rachel maddow apologized at the end of her show when she had difficultyw about infants and toddlers being moved to new shelters. >> at least three -- put up the graphic of this. thank you. do we have it? no. three tender age shelters in texas. lawyers and medical providers -- i'm going have to hand this off. sorry. howie: whether or not you like rachel ma dough, i don't think she has anything to apologize for. we all struggle as broadcasters and sometimes we choke up. a banner flashed on the screen. man for the rrp pleads guilty to five charges of manslaughter. he hasn't pled guilty to anything. abc apologized saying there is no excuse for the mistake and i agree. anthony scaramucci on the immigration uproar and the president calling media outlets the country's biggest enemy. camping with my daughters was more than just a weekend. it was our time to unplug and be together. with my bladder leakage, i'm not doing that anymore. when i went hiking with the other product, it just didn't fit right and i was always readjusting it. so, now our camping trips are their camping trips. but with the n

fact and it got egg on their face and it was quickly forgotten what exactly because the likes of rachel maddow couldn't wait for the real story to happen because i just grew up so they b.b.q. . oh i lost it i don't know i got it by car yeah it is a fake story it's a fake assassination but just like the story about tax returns that she was so excited like it's tax returns i have this tax returns and they should be paid thirty three million dollars in taxes that year and she's like oh i guess that's not so we're going to crawl go rivero alco bones tomb that was the beginning of this fake news cycle he was ahead of the curve or old oh yes that was like twenty years ago people might not remember that but i'm going to talk to a story about well in twenty years time again people might not remember this guy mike i'm a rube by michael route here is profiled i think it's the new york times is one of these big papers has one million dollars of student loans how did that happen escalating tuition and easy credit have yielded a class of student loan borrowers with spectacular debt they may never pay back

million dollars because of the theater right because of the spectacle of you know it's trump how did rachel maddow go from being a reasonable voice of the left to becoming an alex jones like foaming rabid psychopath kind of notice that she used to be relatively calm right now probably because. if the other side's in power even a good bit over to marks for now it's become a partisan hack yeah i think because that would you mind it when i just you know pick pick fights with my competition at the expense of the other i want more i don't know please kids like all right so amisom bases because conspiracy theories and ok so the point is though that the consumer is left a bit adrift because they are tuning in to cable news and their news is it's all basically polemicists that's right there's no debate we were talking about william buckley earlier and his debate with the gore of the doll touring the nine hundred sixty eight presidential as attention election that opened the way toward an interesting debate format in american william buckley went on to host fire i and other shows and there was intelligent

is really resonating jackie has said and this is speaking of rachel maddow you saw him. crying on air about the news she said she was having the same reaction the rest of the world is having this policy is an abomination and also amy watching from kansas hi i'm a who said i'm horrified this is child abuse the head of i stated that hundreds of these children will never see their families again and this is what's striking to so many people and it's about children. people who children are being brought along trying to cross the border taken away from their parents and there's nothing they can do about it and it seems nothing anyone can do about it at the moment keep the comments coming in that's the what's that number plus months of four five one triple one four one on the hashtag is. a genius. we are going to talk about marijuana now or cannabis a way to a dope a grasso gangel mary jane whatever you want to call it it is on the way to being legal in canada the bill passed both houses of parliament on tuesday and paves the way for a fully legal cannabis market within eight

influential and what they say has significant impact in shaping public opinion now this video of rachel maddow a popular anchor at the left leaning title m s n b c has gone viral this is incredible trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children. to at least three. cryptographical this. thank you we have it in the three tender age shelters in south texas wars and medical providers does. become the soft. did apologize on twitter for getting emotional on and she explained that she was reading an a.p. reports that said the top administration officials was sending babies and young children to at least three tender age shelters in south texas and on the other side there is a serious pushback from pro trump commentators who say people across in the border illegally now some videos from fox news have also gone viral a tunnel the u.s. president often watches his a commentator and kuta she is using the network to speak directly to the president and use child actors weeping and crying on all the other networks twenty four seven right now do not fall for mr president i ge

. >> thank you for joining me, that's all for this evening and the rachel maddow show next. >> thank reporting on this week and thank you home for joining us this hour, rachel has the night off and she will be back monday. there's a major deadline approaching in the legal case. intriguing new clueses about whether cohen may be preparing to flip on his former client. the reporter who knows more about anyone. she joins us in a few minutes, a lot of legal issues to untangle. we have new insights into russia and new warnings that the united states may not be prepared for wh

rachel maddow, chris hayes, jolie mika? too long on the plane for you. plus it doesn't fit faults narrative, your caricature and theufacture every single day. meanwhile, the president and his push for peace in north korea a few years ago, they were stepping all over themselves to praise president obama and his horribly flawed and defunct iranian deal, which is the dumbest deal in world history. $150 billion to radical mullahs in iran, and chanting death to america, death to israel? it doesn't get any dumber than this. but they all in the media love it. take a look. >> of the u.s. and world power is reaching a major agreement with iran. watching one of our biggest rivals from developing a nuclear weapon. >> the president is about to deliver a statement on this historic nuclear deal reached with iran overnight. disagreement isupposed to freeze that country's pursuit of a nuclear weapon. >> has the u.s. and its allies successfully blocked the nuclear bomb for now? >> ink it begins to change the dynamics of a tense relationship of 36 years between washington

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, well done my friend and thank you for being there covering this. >>> thanks at home for joining us this hour. we have a lot to get to tonight. at this time on last night's show, this time last night we reported the new news that the republican governor of massachusetts charlie baker had canceled his national guard deployment to the border from his state in protest of president trump's new policy of separating kids from their parents at the border. massachusetts canceling a national guard deployment and reported last night at this time on another new action taken by the democrat governor of colorado, john hickenlooper. who signed an executive order yesterday insisting that no colorado state resources could be used in any way to support that new trump administration family separation policy. so we broke the news of both of those aksz actions by the two different governors at this time last night and that is an interesting pair of actions. a d

when he saw another tape that had not been released, another nixon tape plus personal tapes that rachel maddow revealed last night of resurrected, he kept audio tapes and audio diary at night. richard nixon twice eluding to and trying to specifically talk about pardoning him and he said you don't want to talk about that. let's not talk about that. sam dash said that would be an article of impeachment. we teased it earlier of michael cohen's with a reporter with the daily beast and now with npr. this was 2015 rooegarding a negative story about trump that michael cohen did not want out. >> i know what you're planning on doing p and if there's any inference whether it's in the headlinen or any aspect of your article that indicates a rape and i don't care about some small [ bleep ] line that you'll throw in somewhere. mark my words for it, i will make sure that you and i meet one day over in the courthouse and i will take you for ever penny you still don't have. i'm warning you tread very [ bleep ] lightly because what i'm going to do to you is going to be [ bleep ] disgusting. do you understand m

earlier tonight to rachel maddow show, the department of defense confirming it was sending more, military, military attorneys in order to prosecute some of these outstanding cases. a few days ago we were in one of those immigration criminal proceedings, rather, in brownsville, texas, in mcallen, texas, there were dozen of these immigrants that are prosecuted daily in these. soot of questions. the immigratadvocates we've spoken of are very skeptical that this will be able to be irnld out any time soon. >> and one of the few things we can count on that you and i know as sure as the sun coming up tomorrow. if they ever put out the call to volunteers for parents to come care for these kids, to change them, rock with them, care for them, they would be inundated. we've got people dropping their lives willing to help. we don't know where they are. if the need is there. if there's allowed to be tactile contact from civilians. even good hearted people who just want to help. >> reporter: that's right. we've been asking to get inside these shelters and it has been very difficult getting any informat

texas, so, we saw those pictures here in new york inside that center that were first seen on the rachel maddow show. you have been in another place that houses hundreds of migrant children. there's been limited access and a limited number of people that can see what's going on inside. give us a sense of what you saw. >> yeah, 362 children inside that tent city behind me and this was our first look at it yesterday. in the 11 days that it's been open we went into the emergency operations center which was really just a trailer that you would see deployed on hurricanes. the private company that normally deploys on natural disasters has been contracted out by the government to deal with this and similar to the situation at the facility, the emergency manager who runs the facility voiced his concerns about the policy telling us that the policies have actually hurt the children. the policy of separation. that was very interesting to see him defending the policy. now we did get to look at the kids in the camp and got to walk around a little bit. we weren't allowed to interact with them but we saw them

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.ning with congresswoman jayapal. i saw her reporting, i saw her talking about it, and i saw the video that she posted on facebook about it, but her going into that kind of detail with you right now is -- >> unreal. >> -- just chilling. unbelievable. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. glad to have you with us. lots of news going on. here's your pop quiz. north korea. north korea has borders with three other countries. what are the three other countries? i will spot you

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, my friend. appreciated. thanks to you at home for join ugh us at it hour. chris just mentioned that news that broke last hour, we're following an unusual breaking news story this evening in which prosecutors in robert muelr's office the special counsel's office, have filed a motion, unexpected motion tonight, just filed this evening in federal court in washington, d.c. asking the judge in the paul manafort case to revoke paul manafort's pretrial release. paul manafort, trump's campaign chair, has been charged with multiple felonies in two federal jurisdictions. he's looking at going on trial in july and again in september. and in both of those trials he is out essentially on bail. he's put up millions of dollars basically as security, telling the government he won't flee the country, he won't flee prosecution. he's wearing ankle bracelets -- heng one or two ankle bracelets and he's promised to put up millions of dollars in property and cash to say that he can be left at home rather than in jail

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.you like syncopated your last three syllables to be -- is right now. well done. >> thank you. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us too this hour. happy friday. so james franco plays the part of a tv personality who's very handsome and charismatic. seth rogen plays the part of james franco's teefv producer. and the conceit of the movie is these guys learn that kim jong un, the dictator of north korea, is somehow a fan of james franco's tv show. and so they pull off the impossible. and these guys arrange that they are going to do a

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. >> you bet. >> much appreciated. there's a lot going on in the news today. a lot we're following today and into tonight. trump campaign chairman paul manafort today filed an appeal against the judge's ruling that sent him to jail ten days ago. manafort's first federal trial is due to start next month. he's now in jail in virginia awaiting the start of that trial. because the special counsel's office alleged to the court that paul manafort has been attempting to tamper with potential witnesses in his case while he was out on bail. well, now as of today manafort has filed an appeal asking the same judge who jailed him to instead reconsider that decision and put him back on house arrest. that will be taken up with the appeals court, appealing to the appeals court tooverturn the ruling of the judge overseeing his case. also today abc news reports that erik prince, the brother of education secretary betsy devos, founder of the private security firm blackwater, erik pr

the "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening.th alexandria ocasio-cortez was so impressive, i could hardly believe it. we've been reading a lot about her, and obviously everybody knows what she pulled off last night. but seeing you and her in that ping-pong interview back and forth at that level of intellectual engagement was so impressive, i could hardly stand it. >> she has very obvious, very obvious political talent which was very obvious very early on. >> she did something super impressive. but wow, just the chops in that conversation. >> agreed. >> really fascinating to see. thanks. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. all right. he was the tallest ever member of the united states senate. 6'9".

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> powerful interview, man.you. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. lots of news to get to today. you knew this news week was going to be crazy. we sort of knew that friday was going to be crazy. we didn't know it was going to be this crazy. and this is historic. today is the day in american history that the sitting president's campaign chairman was remanded into federal custody. put in jail. and we know exactly how that went because we just got the transcript. so let me tell you what happened here. there were three prosecutors from the special counsel's office, also an fbi agent working with mueller's team.

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks, my friend. much appreciated. >> you bet. >>> this time last night we broke a little bit of news, that the defense department was detailing active duty jags, active duty military lawyers, at the request of the justice department to go to the border to start prosecuting the justice department's immigration cases. we broke that news last night. the defense department has confirmed it. tonight we are going to break some more news that you have not heard anywhere else. this is an exclusive story that we have learned and confirmed today about the handling of the family separation policy by the senior ranks of the trump administration by one senior trump administration official in particular. i'm going to have that breaking news for you in just one moment. all right. hurricane katrina became a hurricane on a friday. friday august 25th in 2005. by the next day, by saturday a bunch of coastal parishes in louisiana were under mandatory evacuation orders. on that first saturday, day afte

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. my friend. much appreciated. >> you bet. >>> this time last night we broke a little bit of news, that the defense department was detailing active duty jags, active duty military lawyers, at the request of the justice department to go to the border to start prosecuting the justice department's immigration cases. we broke that news last night. the defense department has confirmed it. tonight we are going to break some more news that you have not heard anywhere else. this is an exclusive story that we have learned and confirmed today about the handling of the family separation policy by the senior ranks of the trump administration by one senior trump administration official in particular. i'm going to have that breaking news for you in

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. you nailed it. 9:00.00. you like syncopated your last three syllables to be -- is right now. well done. >> thank you. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us too this hour. happy friday. so james franco plays the part of a tv personality who's very handsome and charismatic. seth rogen plays the part of james franco's teefv producer. and the conceit of the movie is these guys learn that kim jong un, the dictator of north korea, is somehow a fan of james franco's tv show. and so they pull off the impossible. and these guys arrange that they are going to do a tv interview with kim jong un. now, upon learning that kim jong un has agreed to do an interview with these two goofy americans from the tv show, the u.s. government decides to take that opportunity to train those two americans to kill him, to kill kim jong un while they are sitting next to him to be able to do that interview. >> you are ten teentering into most dangerous country on earth. kim jong un's people will believe anything

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. you have some news to break, so i have to rush to go watch the show. >> thank you, my friend. much appreciated. doing great work there. thanks to you at home joining us this hour. we have a little bit of news to break this hour, this segment, in fact. we're very happy to have you here tonight. tonight, i promise i'll hold it together better than i did last night. because there is nothing else going on in the world, because the federal government and the trump administration are just cruising along fine with no problems, they have nothing better to worry about right now, they've decided to start something new. tonight, the trump administration announced plans to merge the department of education and the department of labor. the department of education and the department of labor have nothing to with each other. so this new reportedsal from the trump administration to combine them could be seen as a nicer way of saying they're abolishing the labor department or it could be seen as a nic

, it's not going to be on the front page of the "washington post," it's not going to get me on rachel maddow, no disrespect. >> no, but it will get you here. >> no, but it will get me here. [ laughter ] [ applause i don't know what other senators, constituents, are saying to them. i just know i'm accountable for what my constituentsre saying to me. and they say to me, literally, every week, they buttonhole me on the sidelines of a soccer game or lacrosse game, coming out of church or walking to the train station, and say work across the aisle, get things done, figure out how to move stuff forward. it's a very pragmatic state, it's a state where folks, be even though we've got our differences that do divide our parties, they want to see us working together. and this actual partnership is the kind of thing that gives people hope that our system can work. and folks, in closing, we are in a contest of ideas globally. it is blindingly clear to me when i'm in africa but also here. the rest of the world is wahing. and to the extent they see our politics fail to deliver meaningful answers to the que

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. goodevening. >> good evening and thank you, chris. >>> the axis powers in world war ii were germany, italy and japan. there was the allies on one side, the axis on the other. at the time of world war ii, and in the rears leadiyears leading of course, there were millions of american citizens in this country that were of german origin, lots of german american citizens here. also tons of italian american citizens here. italian americans all over this country. but it's interesting. german americans and italian americans didn't all get put into internment camps during world war ii, right? they weren't rounded up, the germans and italians in this country. of the axis powers, it was only the japanese americans that got put in internment camps en masse in world war ii. why is that? why was it just them? in 1982, a legal historian lawyer named peter irons was going through boxes of government documents. he was researching the origins of that world war ii policy in which the u.s. government loc