again and again, in the case of rachel maddow. >>>> ed: she's not the only one in the media, a whole bunch of people made sure they were pushing the dossier again and again and it somehow corroborated at least pieces of it. you're learning lessons from 2016, has anybody in the media learned any? >> i don't think so, i think they feel and we see that with the survey that 90% of the mainstream media coverage has been biased and they feel that donald trump poses a existential threat to the entire progressive agenda and therefore any means necessary and justified with that noble and of removing him. of i think they thought they were going to bleed him with a thousand cuts but after the clause, the logan act, the 25th amendments, robert mueller's embarrassing testimony, ukraine frame, and especially the people turned off and there turned off. it's not dramatic, it's not -- you know, climactic, but were seeing, he could to mentally and trumps bulls are going up and support for impeachment is going down. that's grinning a lot of frustration and democrats now it's a sort of damocles hanging

i get to say a few things about rachel maddow. for those who don't know, the last time she joined us was in 2012 to talk about her bestseller, drift. rachel is the host of an award-winning rachel maddow show on msnbc. [applause] >> there are fancier. for those who don't know, three emmy awards including outstanding analysis and lives outstanding interview. she herself has received six emmy nominations. she's been nominated twice for the television critics for outstanding achievement and news. 2019, the rachel maddow show one and award in the third à media category. [applause] >> rachel first gained national prominence as a host on america radio where she worked from its inception in 2004. prior to joining, she was on two networks in western massachusetts. so it's a special honor to welcome her back to western massachusetts. [applause] >> i know that we are all excited to hear from her in this new york times best-selling book, "blowout". but before we get to that, i want to read for you one quick snippet of the review which i think

why is paige puffing up now, and why on rachel maddow?sa page is actually trying to control the narrative now. these aren't stupid people. they have conducted a very stupid action, but that was only because they believe that hillary clinton was going to win the election. they never believed for one minute while investigating president trump in conducting illegal surveillance of carter page that they would ever be caught. at this point in time, and this is according to my sources that are former fbi, sources with the fbi right now, that the players that are being called out in the ig report or trying to control the narrative. those that haven't come out publicly that is talked about in that report that basically alter documents more misthe fisa court are scrambling now. they are getting attorneys, trying to figure out how they will handle this and believe me, people are throwing people under the bus right now. this is what is happening. so there's a lot of movement. >> this is amazing and math, she talked about the leak text messages. trum

disgraced fbi attorney lisathe page, she went on area 51, rachel mao dowse conspiracy -- rachel maddow conspiracy channel show to try to defend her tweets. i am not buying it. you won't believe what, she said. we will set the facts straight just ahead.e ld medicines, zicam is clinically proven to shorten colds. i am a zifan for zicam! oral or nasal. ♪ >> now disgraced as fbi lawyer lisa page goes on area 51 roswell rachel maddow conspiracy channel and tries to justify her now infamous text messages about needing in insurance policy to stop trump. >> what was meant by example by the insurance policy text message. this is you and peter strzok in the unlikely prospect. >> bit it an analogy. we're talking about whether or not we should take certain investigative steps or not. based on the likelihood he will be president or not. >> what about the text message that you were talking about your fear that trump would be elected and he said no, it won't happen. >> by we, he's talking about the collective we. like-minded thoughtful sensible people who were not going to vote this person into offic

rachel maddow is back with me. that is delicious set of paragraphs, rachel. you have nailed it. the key here i get to a couple of things. one is sanctions. they needed western technology to explore the arctic circle. if they couldn't get more oil and gas they were going to go broke. they needed those sanctions broke. that explains all those goddamn meetings. it explains their desperation. russia's only got one game to play, he didn't in part because he likes what he can do with oil and gas. he likes the way he can use it as a weapon around the world. but he also wanted to have complete control of it, so he consolidated all the power and the oil and gas industry in his own country under his own creel. he's got his henchman running the russian gas industry and they're terrible at it. geologically russia is running out of the easy to get oil and gas. they now need to be doing this more hi-tech stuff but they've got these terribly, terribly run companies and they can't get it because of the sanctions on them because of putin's gangster behavior. and that just -- i mean putin is stra

rachel maddow was slammed for inflating the dossier as true.said she engaged in a pattern of dishonest asymmetry. she was rooting for the document to be true and it wasn't. why would anybody in their right mind ever listen to rachel maddow now? >> i don't know. she hasn't done anything to admit she was completely wrong. i think she has been pushing some parts of this discredited story. it was nice to see "the washington post" going after maddow. but it was in some ways the pot calling the kettle black. "the washington post" did all kind of false reports based on the steele dossier. and they haven't really apologized for the misleading stories they printed about all this. gregg: there were others. let's take a look at this. >> so far nothing in the dossier has been disproved. >> the dossier is far from bogus. >> increasingly it's the accurate, damning dossier. >> nothing in the dossier has been disproved. >> increasingly allegations are check out. >> how many allegations within steele's dossier are looking more and more likely that they are accu

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rachel maddow was slammed for inflating the dossier as true.said she engaged in a pattern of dishonest asymmetry. she was rooting for the document to be true and it wasn't. why would anybody in their right mind ever listen to rachel maddow now? >> i don't know. she hasn't done anything to admit she was completely wrong. i think she has been pushing some parts of this discredited story. it was nice to see "the washington post" going after maddow. but it was in some ways the pot calling the kettle black. "the washington post" did all kind of false reports based on the steele dossier. and they haven't really apologized for the misleading stories they printed about all this. gregg: there were others. let's take a look at this. >> so far nothing in the dossier has been disproved. >> the dossier is far from bogus. >> increasingly it's the accurate, damning dossier. >> nothing in the dossier has been disproved. >> increasingly allegations are check out. >> how many allegations within steele's dossier are looking more and more likely that they are accu

. >> now disgraced as mpi lawyer lisa page goes on area 51 roswell rachel maddow conspirac channel andries to justify he now infamous text messages abou needing in insurance policy to stop trump. >> what was meant by example by the insurance policy text message. i'm interpreting what i think h meant three years ago. we are using an analogy. we're talking about whether or not we should take certain investigative steps or not. >> what about the text message that you were talking about you fear that trump would be electe and he said no, it won't happen. >> by week, he's talking about the collective we. like-minded thoughtful sensible people who were not going to vote this person into office. dore she hadn't scented? yes. can get none of that makes sens to me. legal analyst and sarah carter, okay, i'm a smart guy, my own interpretation, let's just put it that way. she is now trying to claim. >> two of the most inseparable people manageable last night gushing over one another was truly nauseating. lisa page is now trying to contort the facts, obscure the truth to portray herself as poo litt

rachel maddow emphatic saying it is correct. nicole wallace, said it was correct.correct even before mueller got off the ground. we knew it was a lie. my question when mueller found out all the information why did he go ahead with the trump investigation for over two years? if he knew it was salacious, if he knew the beginning was based on bias, then why go forward wit and waste millions of dollars and two years of time of the president of the united states? it doesn't make any sense. liz: to your point 11 house democrats sending a letter to william barr and u.s. attorney general william barr and john durham demanding they both resign. some could signatures, schakowsky, frank pallone and steve cohen. lisa page tweeting out this head scratcher, there was no insurance policy. lisa page had gone on with lisa maddow saying there was one. we have the sound bite there let's role it. >> whether or not we take certain investigative steps based on likelihood whether he would be president or not. keep in mind if president trump doesn't become president, the national security

post" says much of the blame for pushing the dossier as fact should be delivered at liberal host rachel maddowhe writes her theories quote fell apart. one of the most egregious examples of false claims. maddow claimed it was gaining cooperation, not losing it. >> every day a new piece of it falls in place. in the last couple weeks and nights, another piece of it gets corroborated. all the supporting details are check out. even the really outrageous ones. a lot of them with starting to bear out under scrutiny. ashley: john durham is look into the origins of the russia post. rogers called out fisa abuse in the recent past. joining me, former federal prosecutor. katie, we know what happened here. but the fbi relied on information that was -- and used that knowing the shaky ground it was based on to obtain fisa warrants to listen in on carter page. the inspector general's report point this out. >> i think the american people deserve some answers about who knew what information when we they were obtaining these warrants. we know a lot of the information relied upon was completely debunked and the q

the rachel maddow show starts now with ali velshi in for rachel. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel's got the night off. 2015, it marked the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii. and since it's rare to celebrate the 70th anniversary of everything much less the history altering event with the magnitude of world war ii, the anniversary was a very big deal here in the united states. frankly, it was a very big deal all over the world. it was a chance for veterans of the greatest generation to be recognized by their fellow countrymen. while most countries use the 70th anniversary of world war ii to honor those who fought in those wars, certain countries had an ulterior motive. they used the anniversary to hold gigantic disblays of military power. china, for example, held one of the biggest military parades in modern history, they showed off their tanks and their missile launchers watch of this in this weird digital blue cameo. they rolled out dozens of weapons known as carrier killers, missiles designed specifically to target u.s. aircraft carriers. another mi

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the rachel maddow show starts right now.buy the book 94,000 times and called myself a nonprofit. >> anyone understands that it's hard to sell a book, and the promotional push behind people spending a hundred thousand dollars to buy your book helps a lot. >> i would say you and i have had books come out that have done well, quite recently i had one, and with this donald trump jr. story out there, people are giving me the side eye. >> i can't walk in my office, we have so many rachel maddow boxes covering every surface, like we have to meet in another room. >> i feel like, well, so the republican party is buying for don jr., who do you think is buying for me, really, you think the dti

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.i know you're looking forward to splitting wood with your family as am i. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour as well. very happy to have you with us. i do hope you have a great holiday season looking ahead, it is the friday before christmas. that should mean that we no longer feel like we're right in the middle of a news cycle, right, but the news gods scoff at such niceties these days. they care not for our

." >> still ahead this hour, our colleague rachel maddow here up next to talk about her new book. and later, making the transition from a young michael jordan fan to a brutal dictator. how kim jong-un became ruler of a murderous regime while also befriending people like donald trump along the way. we'll speak to a reporter and journalist who has been inside north korea. rth korea. >>> plus, a never before aired portion of our conversation with edward snowden where he shares his views on our founders and how they might feel about the state of surveillance in our present-day lives. "the 11th hour" just getting started on this thanksgiving weekend. ♪ limu emu & doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ cologuard: colon cancer and older at average risk. i've heard a lot

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.tacular weekend as we head into the holidays. i know you're looking forward to splitting wood with your family as am i. >> may you split many logs. >> you too, my friend. thanks. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour as well. very happy to have you with us. i do hope you have a great holiday season looking ahead, it is the friday before christmas. that should mean that we no longer feel like we're right in the middle of a news cycle, right, but the news gods scoff at such niceties these days. they care not for our holidays. i mean everything's got to happen some time, right? why not now? it was only two days ago nancy pelosi impeached donald trump. she used the gavel to note that the articles of impeachment against president trump had passed. it was two days ago. today she invited him to deliver the state of the union address, which is awkward timing, but you know what, it's also time for it. and while it is not unimaginable there might be some sort of drama or some

we, the democratic people of this country, are not going to let it happen. >> lisa page on the rachel maddowhow. when we come back, the trump presidency has seen many firsts. now get ready to add to the list. the first president who will run for re-election after being impeached. that story next. for re-election after being impeached. that story next. why are we doing this? why are we doing what? using my old spice moisturize with shea butter body wash... all i wanted was to use your body wash and all i wanted was to have a body wash. set yourself free with fleet. gentle constipation relief in minutes. little fleet. big relief. try it. feel it. feel that fleet feeling. little fleet. big relief. try it. feel it. looking to simplify your skin care routine without sacrificing results? try olay total effects. one dose provides more vitamin b3 than 50 cups of kale and improves 7 key areas of visibly healthy skin. try olay total effects. >>> donald trump became the third president in our country's history to be impeached in an historic vote that may have been unavoidable. from the day he took offi

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening. >> i just had myself buy the book 94,000 times and called myself a nonprofit. >> anyone understands that it's hard to sell a book, and the promotional push behind people spending a hundred thousand dollars to buy your book helps a lot. >> i would say you and i have had books come out that have done well, quite recently i had one, and with this donald trump jr. story out there, people are giving me the side eye. >> i can't walk in my office, we have so many rachel maddow boxes covering every surface, like we have to meet in another room. >> i feel like, well, so the republican party is buying for don jr., who do you think is buying for me, really, you think the democratic party is buying for chris and rachel. >> the people are the people. >> appreciate it. >> get it in book stores, wherever books are sold. it's excellent. >> i'll give you your kick back under the desk. thanks, man. and thank yous to you at home for joining us this hour. i hope you had a good holiday weeke

so please join me to welcome rachel maddow. [cheers and applause] >> wow. so i do this tv show but there's only one person in the room with me but after that it's all cameras so it is unsettling. so thank you so much for being here and it's really flattering and warms my heart's there is some the people here. and then talk a little bit but this unexpected thing happened at the time the book came out. [laughter] last month and all of a sudden to have a tv show and the opportunity to speak whatever i want to but now i have an argument in me that's longer than a tv show and it's bugging me so i have to spit it out so it has to be a book frequently so have to worry if it is good because it's a topic nobody cares about. and then the week it comes out the president starts to get impeached. so now what the book is about. [applause] it's not the books fall. but to that end i will do a quex poll. and i'm totally happy to read from that portion of the book so i will tell you all three options than which one you want me to read. option number one walruses. option numb

and its host rachel maddow demanding more than $10000000.00 in compensation after she had called it paid russian propaganda chadrick moore a columnist that news magazine spectator usa is insinuating a russian affiliation is a go to democrat strategy these days. it's just not the smear it's then that's all it is and they make these outrageous claims with absolutely no backing your no support about being a foreign agent and of course the intent is not to actually get these organizations to register as foreign agents that's absurd the intent is to just plant this seed to plant this ridiculous notion and which they've been doing all along they've been doing this with the russian gates a lot that blew up in their face earlier this year now with the beachfront hearings which has also blown up in their face democratic party and the left used to be the party of free speech the priest speech movement was started in the 1960 s. by left wing activists and and they're also the anti-war movement and they used to be the party of anti-war we've seen this dramatic shift the entire paradigm has been flip

the rachel maddow show starts right now.tacular, that interview with katie hill was amazing. >> thank you very much. >> incredible. thanks and i'm sorry you're working this weekend, but i also sort of want to go. >> it's going to be fun. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here this friday night, the white house and president trump's republican supporters in congress first said that the impeachment proceedings against president trump were unfair because there had been no floor vote in the house authorizing the impeachment inquiry. that was their first objection. this isn't a real impeachment. it's unfair. there has been no floor vote. then, uh-oh, the house held a floor vote authorizing the impeachment inquir