we're here with rachel maddow, everybody.t the idea of electability, but also the idea of impeachment is this a fool's errand? i think you have many in the party who think this is a man who's done plenty of things that are why we have impeachment as an option. and others who are saying, no, we need to focus on the ballot box as a way of removal. what do you think? >> i think this is another one of those things where democrats are sort of outthinking themselves like in the same way with the electability thing like you may really want to beat donald trump you can't personally work out who's the most electable candidate to win the primary in the same way, impeachment, you sort of can't really game out what the political impact of impeachment is going to be that's not the kind of process impeachment is if a president commits crimes, commits high crimes and misdemeanors, the way that congress is supposed to hold him accountable is by opening an impeachment inquiry, doing an investigation and then voting on whether or not they thin

tonight -- rachel maddow, stars and creators of "los espookys", julio torres, f ana fabrega, ad armisenfeaturing the 8g band with fred armisen ♪ [ cheers and applause la dies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night. how's everybody doing tonight? cheers and applause that is good to hear in that case, let's get to the news, everybody. former vice president joe bidena aigned in iowa today and i don't know, seeing joe

there is nothing like watching a rachel maddow interview where rachel maddow is so excited, as she wasexcited, nervous, i've sweated through my suit, the whole thing. like, i'm actually more nervous now that she's gone than i was when she was here.

the reason i read that to you because rachel maddow and others were like, aha, chris on msnbc, he didrect but not hard to see first answer as revealing, except in second part. >> the case studying grasping at straws, you want desperately finding from testimony, all you had to work with. that's important point not only did mueller stumble a little bit but would not give democrats what they wanted, read the script, refusal about how much he wanted to be there. >> let me play a little more from the hearings for you capri, something done by msnbc rachel maddow. >> knowingly accepting foreign assistance during presidential campaign is unethical thing to do. >> and a crime. >> and a crime. >> yes. and given circumstances. >> aha, it's a crime in certain circumstances but the report itself doesn't say that trump or campaign or advisers did illegally cooperate with russian efforts to hack the election. >> well, what you see here a classic case again of robert mueller, got-you moment, i would argue that mueller didn't give republicans -- i can't talk about that. exactly. back to my earlier poi

listen to rachel maddow.ething we don't often do in this broadcast but if you want to see how desperate the left-wing media is right now, trying to explain how they have lied and lied and lied to their audiences and the republican party has only barely started to catch up in correcting the record. here is rachel maddow last night sharing her pain. >> i mean i know that the trump white house and conservative media are trying to like chin up tonight makes him if you had a great day today. every thing was fine, nobody died. they did not have a great day today. lou: says rachel maddow. [laughter] she is the one who needs a chin up for crying out loud pete what you think? >> they were the ones crying all day yesterday and today they're basically saying you have to have protests in the capital, we have to do like puerto rico did, we had to get the president out of office. lou: moore words, they cannot raise a million people to demonstrate -- >> of the with their advocating all day today. bottom line is, my premise

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. i almost said "the megan rapinoe show" starts right now. >> let's be honest, any show that megan rapinoe is on is the megan rapinoe show. that's true. >> i'm very excited for that interview. >> thank you. me too. to the point of being totally pesh paralyzed with an inability to do anything. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. let me start by saying i know why you're all here right now. as chris mentioned, our guest tonight is megan rapinoe, the greatest living soccer player in the whole world, the captain of the u.s. national team which just won the world cup. she literally is going to be right here in just a few minutes, and, no, i can't believe it either. people sometimes give me a hard time of whether i'm perfectly objective on the matters which we report on this show. here is a matter in which i profess absolutely zero objectivity at all. to be honest, i'm still excited about the fact that she was here four years ago. after the last time she and the u.s. national t

that's how other lesbians act when they meet rachel maddow [ light laughter ] it was truly the gayestamerica has ever seen. now, i just want to say i know the u.s. women's national team is not just made up of lesbians and every team member's contributions to the world cup were incredible. but it was a big deal this week to watch the gay members of the team be so out and proud and unapologetic about who they are and for the whole country to be so onboard with it for once, americans were into lesbians but not in a creepy way. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause i'm a lesbian, i'm a woman, and i'm also hispanic. so there hasn't been a lot of great news for me lately but watching america go in just a few years from this, to this, that makes me proud to be an american [ cheers and applause >> seth: jenny hagel, everybody! [ cheers and applause we got a great show for you tonight. she's the star of the hit series "big little lies" currently in its second season on hbo laura dern is back, everybody. [ cheers and applause as jenny mentioned, world cup champion megan rapinoe will be joining us

>> well, rachel maddow went last, she wanted to talk about mueller investigation that has dominated herw for two years. >> she's an opinion host, she's not used to doing down the middle coverage. >> why is that okay whereas other networks, not mentioning any names might have been criticized for having opinion host who wasn't very liberal? >> i'm not saying that it is okay, they were definitely doing to join the hyperliberal audience. nbc had a stronger night the second night than the first. >> i thought it was critical. they asked bland questions, they didn't follow up, i thought on the second night with biden, pete buttigieg, kamala, they were much more aggressive. >> you saw chuck todd with amy klobuchar, what will you do when taking away guns. when you had elizabeth warren going off against the big oil and big banks and big tech, no follow up about what are you going to do about the policies, i think the second night was much stronger, if they had had the second night to first, nbc was pander to go progressive it is whole light. >> my next question, which is i think the larger story

a big week on "the rachel maddow show." ie. >> rachel had to rest up and take tonight off for what's coming. >> also me in the hallway with a soccer ball. >> thank you, joy. >> very a great show. >> thank you. >> later we will be joined by one of the texas reporter who is contributed to the extraordinary "new york times" front page expose of what is happening in the border patrol station in clint, texas. a team of six reporters in the el paso times contributed to this indepth account of what it's like inside clint's razor wire. the sources include current and former border patrol agents said they repeatedly tried to warn

i turn on msnbc, i saw rachel maddow and some of her colleagues grasps at frog -- at straws it seemed they were trying to make lemonades out of lemons. kennedy: i don't know. the lemons are moldy. a sad time for lemons, there is nothing to make of them, throw them in the trash, move on. come up with ideas. i don't know why they didn't listen to bob mueller, he had a press conference hoping that would pacify the people, he tried to clarify some of the am big gut -- ambiguity. he said, i am not going to change anything. at what point do you think they realize they not have the goods? >> probably about 15 or 20 minutes in. in addition to fact that mueller, he would not even read from the report or give them a sound bite, he made congressmen read it. but you know. he also just could not hear the questions. you can repeat the question. he seemed befuddled. we hear today tha mueller was ay hands off manager. barely involved. now that he is safely out of office as special counsel, the reporters who cover the him say, we knew this. kennedy: if they knew it, why didn't they report that? why di

. >> and, megan rapinoe was on with rachel maddow last night.wanted to play a little bit of that too so just stand by and listen. >> i think everyone realizes now, it's time for the next step, it's time to work together, get this to a better place. the conversation is not about equal pay anymore. it's everybody. if you're not down with equal pay at this point or equality or whatever it is, you're so far out of reality and the conversation that we can't even go there. i think it's time to move to the next phase and i think everybody wants that. nobody wants this con tenuous fight all of the time. >> as they head into arbitration, just the spirit of those little girls saying these women are so great, the men are okay, but they didn't do as well. that's the bottom line. this is a sport where money follows -- should follow victory. >> absolutely. that's what the kids were saying to me. the girls as well as the boys who i spoke to today were saying all the same thing. and i have to tell you, the girls were also saying that they didn't think that this

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us. the happy to have you here. senator bernie sanders is here in studio for an interview. i saw him at the debate in miami and we haven't had him here for an interview in a long time and i'm excited he is here. he will be here in a moment. also exciting today, the u.s. national soccer team that won the world cup this weekend was celebrated in truly perfect raucous and over the top fashion with a ticker tape parade through downtown manhattan. pure joy. the excitement and the enthusiasm and the glee in the city, particularly from lots of kids in the city, it was palpable today. it was so great. whether or not you were in new york city and able to make it or whether you just might have seen these images today, the footage and the coverage, it was such a nice national bright spot in the news. worth letting it wash over you. pausing to let it make you happy for a moment. it was so great. especially it feels great because the news has been so dark lately. right? it's nice to have something tha

rachel maddow believes they got the wrong lawyer when they brought in robert mueller. here's what she said. >> because of that performance i think that lights the fire under the need to speak to the people on his team. who actually did the work. if congress wants more substantive and detailed answers from the people who did that work, it seems they would have to purchase two conversations and testimony now from the other members of mueller's team. >> you know, rachel maddow has been wrong 90% of the time. cnn has been wrong 80% of the time. i have been right 100% of the time not because i'm any smarter because i don't engage in wishful thinking. i do analysis. i try to understand the constitution and the law and i applied equally the better who is the subject. the original title of my book, the case against impeaching trump, the case against impeaching hillary clinton. when we all thought hillary clinton would be elected and people were saying lock her up, lock her up, i was writing a book why hillary clinton shouldn't be impeached. i try to make it up the middle. i'm

. >>> joining us by phone now, my friend and colleague rachel maddow. rachel, i have been staring, as i said to john heilemann, at the trees all day. tell me what the forest looks like. >> i don't know, some of the trees are pretty interesting. this was -- this was a remarkable day. even though mueller had negotiated for shorter testimony than we might have expected, i kept thinking today about hillary clinton and her whatever was 11 hours or 13 hours, whatever it was on benghazi. this was technically a trunk kated hearing but it was thorough and long and exhaustin exhausting. but i have to tell you, i was struck at the end when everybody's energy was at its lowest edge and mueller seemed like he missed a step and seemed older and not on top of everything during the whole hearling. at the very top of chairman schiff's question at the close of the hearing, schiff said i want to close out my questioning and turn to the exchange we had earlier, from your testimony today i gather you believe knowingly accepting foreign assistance during a campaign is an unet

. >> congresswoman omar spoke with ra rachel maddow last night. >> he has called us on to go back and fight corruption and fight these countries that have worse leaders and inept leader. we are living in one. he is that president. he is corrupt. he is the worst president we have had. he is inept and we are going to call him out for it and we are going to hold him accountable. >> eugene, she is the only one of the four who is a u.s. -- she is a u.s. citizen and came here as a child from somalia and escaped the violence in that country. >> exactly. as she points out, look. these are members of congress. the president in his tweet said essentially how dare these black and brown women tell us how to run our government. they are elected members of congress. they are constitutional officers. that is their job. and but in his thinking, in his framework, he doesn't envision a country in which black women fill that role. make america great again, as i've said before, to donald trump means make america white again. as clear an announcement of that deeper meaning as we have seen. >> eugene, than

there is nothing like watching a rachel maddow interview where rachel maddow is so excited, as she was tonight. >> yes, excited, nervous, i've sweated through my suit, the whole thing. like, i'm actually more nervous now that she's gone than i was when she was here. i'm like flop sweat through the whole rest of the show. it's very exciting. did you watch -- >> of course. wouldn't miss a minute of it. >> i watched the entire thing standing up and jumping up and down. >> so it was a workout for you, that game. >> the only one i've had all week. >> thank you, rachel. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> well, here is something we've never seen before, and that is something we say a lot in trump world, the attorney general of the united states says on monday he's recusing himself from the case and the next day, today, he says he's not recusing himself from the case. attorney general william barr has changed his mind and decided he will supervise the new sex trafficking case against donald trump's old friend jeffrey epstein. we will consider why the attorney general should recuse himself, including

miami. >> we're want to bring in more members of our team. >> let's turn it over to chuck todd and rachel maddow>> rachel, i had a dream that we have done this before. >> no. this is definitely the first time. >> thank you, lester and savannah and josÉ. let's recap the rules one more time. 20 candidates qualified for the debate and we heard from 10 last night. we hear from 10 more tonight. the break down was selected at random and the candidates will have 60 seconds to answer and 30 seconds for follow-up, if necessary. >> because of the large field, not every candidate will comment on everything, but the less audience reaction there is, the less time they will all get. we will hear from all of these candidates, but we will begin with mayor buttigieg. in the last five year, civil rights activists led a national debate over race and the criminal justice system. your community of south bend, indiana has been in uproar over an officer-involved shooting. the police forces 6% black in a city that is 26% black. why has that not improved over your two terms as mayor. >> because i couldn't get it done. m

co-captain megan rapinoe emphasized last night while talking to rachel maddow that it's time to move forward. >> i think everyone realizes now it's like okay, it's time for the next step. it's time to work together to get this to a better place, be collaborative. the conversation is not about equal pay anymore. >> the women's national team has proven themselves time and again. they'vfour s, including in 2015 when the last ticker tape parade was held in their honor. >>> hollywood is payinsday at h home in cocut. thn black" and "dodgeball. he also won an emmy for his work on "the larry sanders show." >> son, i think you screwed up the yogurt but that's all right everyone screws up the yogurt. i used to screw it up back when it was ice cream and my car smelled like rotten milk >> look, he's doing fine >> nepotism is always bad. just look at kiefer sutherland >> containment may be a moot point, old friend. it continues looks like the party's over and the last one to leave gets stuck with the check well, you sorry little ingrate >> if you can dodge ball >> what? ow >> seth macfarlane reac

took into account the past or that of the candidates and all of that of the moderators i mean rachel maddow to hear us all of these tweets hanta for. you know that collusion between trump and russians now she's asking questions and no wonder one of the candidates named that. is telling her that basically. drawn plays been unable to stand up to vladimir putin who attacked in the way he did oh democracy in 2016 and was invited to do so again by trump well you know trump said don't meddle in our elections with rory and you know he he smiled and all of the american media concentrated on that smile with you does focus money go to the beach is work out in spanish i mean. because it has no knowledge of international apparently stand there and of all rule statement you know tromp braze dictators at the expense of gray do more christmas with a great democracy is probably. right on exactly all of these people and people in russia are asking ok can you just forget can you just forget that maddow has been saying it all of these 2 years m.s.n. b.c. is a ratings went down because of because of these you

rachel maddow on her show saying you know questioning is this the new normal in the run up to 2820 so it's divided like the country right now but i wouldn't say i would just say that you know this is a minority perhaps which are on board with these racist statements from the president that does not represent everybody in this country even if that is a very loud and disturbing minority right now yeah that's a good point you make and we've heard from many viewers today asking is is this really the way americans feel about the people in the country who look like those 4 congress women. what do we know how we know about the level of support that trump has in general maybe that trump has when he's you know singling out these women. yeah well to add to my earlier point where i've also heard from a lot of americans today who say the president might be racist but that certainly does not represent our views and they're very upset by that but in terms of the president's approval rating i should say that they're currently at an almost all time high according to the latest gallup poll data that w

omar hitting back on msnbc's "rachel maddow." >> we're not going to allow him to continue his throwing of the garbage that constantly comes out of his mouth. >> reporter: and so did rashida tlaib, alexandria ocasio-cortez and ayanna pressley calling his tweets a distraction and vowing to keep the focus on the policies. >> i encourage the american people and all of us in this room and beyond to not take the bait. >> that's why we fight for education for all children through college. and so we'll stay focused on our agenda. >> reporter: the republican party remaining largely silent only a handful coming forward to denounce the president's tweets. >> the president of the united states has a noble and unique role to unite the country and to draw on all people regardless of their race, their color, their national origin. >> reporter: and now house democrats plan to vote on a resolution that strongly condemns president trump for his tweets. janai and kenneth, pelosi urging her republican colleagues to join them. >> and, mona, we will continue watching the fallout from that. thank you for joi

rachel maddow starts with joy reed for rachel. >> good evening. have a great rest of the night. thanks to you all. rachel has the night off, but will be back tomorrow. i want to start with the story of courtney wild. she was 14 years old at the time she was living in florida. she was in middle school and captain of the cheerleading squad and played the trumpet. he had good grades and braces and when she was 14 years old, she was introduced to a man named jeffrey epstein. he is an incredibly wealthy multimillionaire who surrounded himself with powerful high profile people. his private airline has hosted high profile guests like bill clinton, prince andrew and various celebrities and donald trump described him as a friend. in 2005, florida police started investigating and what they turned up was horrifying. he was running an operation to molest and rape large numbers of girls. he was in his 50s and many victims were children. the fbi got involve and was able to identify dozens of girls who had been his victims. most were between 13 and 16 years old. some people think there could b

after a quick break, the rachel maddow show next. show next that i won the "best of" i casweepstakes it. and i get to be in this geico commercial? let's do the eyebrows first, just tease it a little. slather it all over, don't hold back. well, the squirrels followed me all the way out to california! and there's a very strange badger staring at me... no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. uh-huh, where's the camel? "mr. big shot's" got his own trailer. ♪ wheeeeeee! believe it! geico could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >>> it's fourth eve. july 3rd. you would usually expect it to be a sleepy news day. what have we learned about the eve of things in this trump administration? like your typical friday night. holiday eve works the same way. this is another one of the day where is we had to take the show we were planning and ball it up and put it in the file that we just save for other days. these things do keep coming

you can watch rachel maddow, just a joke, honey don't cry again on tv, you are way too emotional, weirdtside of country tonight to new jersey, a couple married for one day, it felt like 45. why? look at that. 45th president crashing a wedding at trump international. never would have happened under president hillary, only thing she would have crashed was her own server. even if people's pantsuit gave a toast, happy couple would blow for thrif give money on speakin. the president said t send her back, just kidding. >> it was a huge hit, but witnesses say he didn't say long because high was rushing up stairs to watch the kennedy show. yeah, for some reason, they pronounced it hannity. i am sure it was the just a jersey accent. topic 3. buffalo wild wings bringing back famous buy one get one wing deal, people who eat there have something to look forward to beside cramps. it is also a killer wing deal save you money for marijuana you need to enjoy them. i just upset the buffalo wild wing crowd, all of my producer paul's friends. if you excuse me, i have to go read some poorly spelled hate tw

a big week on "the rachel maddow show." make no plans i'm fan girlie. >> rachel had to rest up and take tonight off for what's coming. >> also me in the hallway with a soccer ball. >> thank you, joy. >> very a great show. >> thank you. >> later we will be joined by one of the texas reporter who is contributed to the extraordinary "new york times" front page expose of what is happening in the border patrol station in clint, texas. a team of six reporters in the el paso times contributed to this indepth account of what it's like inside clint's razor wire. the sources include current and former border patrol agents said they repeatedly tried to warn supervisors. one agent who worked at clint told the "new york times" i can't tell you the number of times i would talk to agents and they would get teary eyed. he said he believes he will find a legal way to get around a supreme court decision that forbids questions about citizenship on the next census. on the most important new case announced today by the justice department, the at

in irish.mo tonight's deatic debate featured questions sent in by viewers, which explains why rachel maddow asked cory booker why isn't "chicagoed" on senator elizabeth warren said re the next pdent needs to have the courage to take on the giants which was awkward because bill de blasio was right next to heir former representative john delaney appeared confused when to give a closing statt.ndidate even i forgot i was here [ applause ] i mean it might have been why am i here according to reports, former vice president joe biden requires that his enid speaking gements accommodate him with raspberry sorbet and he asked for the angel hair just to smell it president trump today attacked meagan latino for saying she wouldn't attends the white house if they win the women's world cup. i'm a big fan but she should win first before she finishes the job. the only time you' ever said mia hamm is when you're ordering dinner mia ham and her a chicken. you wanted a chicken, right? her a fish and finally according to new research an octopus's arms makes decisions independently from eir brain. same, says jo

that's all in and the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel. >> thank, chris. we have a big show tonight. lots going on. i am pleased to say california senator kamala harris is here tonight. she had a huge night at the first democratic debate. i have not had a chance to speak to her since, but she will be live with me in a few minutes and i'm excited about that. as a preface to that, you know how i feel about spending too much time on the polls and fund-raising and the horse race stuff this early on in the campaign. that's not my favorite thing to spend lots of time talking about this early on. because kamala harris is here tonight, i want to point out a couple of interesting lines in the new nbc poll that just came out tonight in the last few hours. you might have seen the top results in the poll already among democratic voters and the news poll that is again just out tonight that shows joe biden on top with 26%. in second place is elizabeth warren with 19%. then there is a tie for third place between kamala harris and bernie sanders at 13 points each. that's

. >> it's the beginning of the rachel maddow primary week. >> in which nobody votes. >> they just listen to candidates and listen to your interviews with these candidates and they will all be better informed voters by the end of the week. >> i sort of enjoyed long candidate interviews and they always keep me up both the night before and the night after. it's not something i can do with 25 candidates in the race indefinitely. i will keep trying. >> they keep you up because you are going back and saying i should have and then i should have. >> woulda coulda shoulda. if i should have followed up that way and that way. you know how it is. >> the sleepless life of the perfectionist. >> i know. i'm 14 and look like this. >> thank you, rachel. katie porter will join us. many of you remember how a single mother could possibly survive financially on the entry level wage that jpmorgan chase pays single mothers and others in katie porter's california district. jamie diamond had no answer at all, but congresswoman porter just got a very interesting letter from jpmorgan chase that she will share with