"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.hank you, my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. >>> so, we landed a car on mars today. breathtaking feat of american ingenuity and exploration, just a stunning e

first i want to talk to my friend and colleague, rachel maddow. rachel, we were texting as we were both watching it, and i don't want to cannibalize your takes for 9:00 p.m., but i am curious of your reaction, sort of broad view of what you saw today. >> i found myself, as i let it wash over me all day today, exchanging our in-the-moment reaction, particularly when we were watching video that you and i had never seen before, that nobody had seen before, and having watched every minute of what happened today and letting it sink in here, i think i feel grateful, because for all the other things this is and for all the political implications here or lack thereof, i feel like what they have built is a seminal and definitive public record of what happened. even though it was only a month ago, we have already seen the dismissal of the seriousness of what happened that day and a revisionism about the president's actions that day, and the president's words that day. it was really powerful just to hear -- post the dinner break from representative cicilline

"the rachel maddow show" producers are always amazing.rcumstances while being essentially on the precipice of giving birth, i the bonus that's appropriate for this is, but i at least get to embarrass you about it on tv all right. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence >> good evening, rachel. so jen once again goes above and beyond the call of duty. >> seriously first of all, she is like the crisis manager of the rachel maddow show staff in every circumstance, but at this point she's like 15 months pregnant as far as i can tell. and like it's going to happen. like we're there and you know, she's just like running everything calm as a cucumber tonight while i blew through three comm

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> excellent, excellent hour.hanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. the united states senate has a chaplain, his name is barry black, which is cinematic enough. but his voice is beyond that. his voice is among members of the

i'm sorry to cut you off, i have to pass the baton to rachel maddow. thank you for making time tonight. that is "all in" this thursday night. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. >>> so, we landed a car on mars today. breathtaking feat of american ingenuity and exploration, just a stunning example of what is possible when americans put their heads together to do something truly grand. just an american feat of breo and engineering and ambition. it's major heartsing to see the team celebrate at the jet propulsion lab, to see those first pictures beamed back from the surface of mars, where we have our rover now. it was just amazing. we're going to have more on that later in the show tonight. >>> but meanwhile, here on earth, today, same day, same country, we still have not figured out how to keep the lights on. hundreds of thousands of americans still in the dark tonight in the great state

a special edition of "the rachel maddow show" justice under trump starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening. much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we are producing a bit of a special report tonight on justice after trump. in many senses of that phrase. let me explain. i'm going to start with something we covered here on thursday night, just a few nights ago. thursday night here on the show, we did the first national interview with a prosecutor in georgia who has opened a criminal investigation into one of the charges that was laid against president trump at his impeachment trial, which of course ended this weekend. in addition to the specific allegations about president criminal investigation into one of the charges that was laid against president trump at his impeachment trial, which of course ended this weekend. in addition to the specific allegations about president trump prompting the violent attack against the capitol, which interrupted and tried to stop altogether the certification of the presidential election results,

rachel maddow show starts right now.ening. >> any budget committee staffer that included you would make me sign up for that budget. >> such an amazing compliment to get on national television. you would make a good budget committee staffer. >> budget committee staffer. >> pardon me, felt a little serotonin, thank you. good. >> also, i am sending you some personal financial information later that i would like you to help me with, because you alone could get that compliment. >> all right, thanks, my friend. >> and thanks to you at home for

the "rachel maddow show" start right now. >> thanks, my friend. greatly appreciated. happy to have you here. we landed a car on mars today. just a stunning example of what is possible when americans put their heads to the to do something truly grand, just an american feat of breo and it made your heart sing to see those first pictures beamed back from the surface of mars where we have our rover now. it's just amazing. we'll have more on that later in the show tonight. but meanwhile, here on earth, today, same day, same country, we still have not figured out how to keep lights on. hundreds of thousands of people in the great state of texas still without power. a disaster caused by a storm in texas is a catastrophe, not only because of the weather but because of the mix of the weather and texas' inability to prepare for it and inability to handle it. against the cold temperatures, demand for electricity is way up so people can heat their homes, but the energy supply in texas is simultaneously also way down with texas' very fragile energy infrastructure proving itself to

exact same position if a bunch of white wieners were trying to boot msnbc because they don't like rachel maddows the politics of suppression but where is the media outcry and the coverage? we content to shrug their shoulders because they are just fine with the censoring of conservative voices. more on this later in the program. this is media buzz ahead new sexual harassment allegations against andrew cuomo breaking overnight. even as president biden commemorated the tragic deaths of 500,000 americans a backlash is building on the riots against keeping covert resections in place despite improvements. >> covid cases of hospitalizations are coming down but i need to be honest with you. cases and hospitalizations could go back up with new variants as they emerge. so, i want to make something very clear. this is not a time to relax. >> i'm over doctor anthony fauci but quite prickly, the biden administration should remove him and put someone else in place that does understand. >> he is increasingly becoming a political figure putting draconian policy directives over peoples prosperity. >> why do the

"the rachel maddow show" producers are always amazing, but to senior producer jen, who did an amazing job tonight under incredibly stressful circumstances while being essentially on the precipice of giving birth, i don't know what the bonus that's appropriate for this is, but i at least get to embarrass you about it on tv. all right, that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow. "way too early with kasie hunt" is up next. >>> breaking news overnight -- the u.s. launches air strikes against iranian-backed militias in syria, the first known military action of the biden administration. question is, what message is the president sending to

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> admit it, you would rather do this than tweet for a living. >> it was a joke. i joked about tweeting for a living and you said, chris, i would never leave you. i don't know. can you tweet for a living? what do you do for a living? i tweet mostly. people pay me for my tweets. >> don't even joke about such things, chris. i felt my life pass me before my eyes. >> no, never. >> thank you, my friend. i'll take that as a promise and hold you to it. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. we're happy to have you. for the first time since he was inaugurated president joe biden tonight has ordered a u.s. military strike. the pentagon says the president ordered air strikes in syria at around 6:00 p.m. eastern time this evening. this is the statement we got announcing the air strike from pentagon press secretary john kirby. he said, quote, at president biden's direction u.s. military forces earlier this evening conducted air strikes against infrastructure utilized by iranian-backed militant groups in eastern syria. these strikes were authorized in respon

"the rachel maddow show" producers are always amazing. but to senior producer jen, who did an amazing job stressful circumstances while being essentially on the precipice of giving birth, i the bonus that's appropriate for this is, but i at least get to embarrass you about it on tv all right. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence >> good evening, rachel. so jen once again goes above and beyond the call of duty. >> seriously first of all, she is like the crisis manager of the rachel maddow show staff in every circumstance, but at this point she's like 15 months pregnant as far as i can tell. and like it's going to happen. like we're there and you know, she's just like running everything calm as a cucumber tonight while i blew through three commercial breaks. >> you know exactly how much work i would put in if i ever had to endure it won -- >> me too.on >> guys wouldn't be showing up for work, i can promise you that. >> nor me. nor me, my

labor body that's from the guardian which all of those like rachel maddow sourced love so it's official and progress of well here they're saying $3.00 trillion dollars was mostly lost from women when we were trying to ask when you try to ask us questions like ok well we do have all these rights like we can't do it china so like what are they going to be the cost of shutting down everything like who's going to lose their job who loses in this situation and here's some data $3.00 trillion dollars was lost by mostly women and young people who are the future so we have some cost this is you know we should then be able to have a dialogue dialogue as socrates might say is an important part of having a democracy and a republic and reason and governed by reason is to have a dialogue but we're only about to have detoxed like now the u.n. says it's cost this much a-k. that's just the money that will get into life after this this incredible loss of life and livelihood is the result of having a global economy that was too precarious to begin with and the reason it got to be so precarious is because

congressman raskin's words will air in full on rachel maddow's show in a few minutes. for her reaction, i'm joined by rashida tlaib. what was your impression of today's proceedings? >> i was incredibly proud of the leadership, of representative raskin and many others that are truly putting the love of country first. one of the most passionate speeches i have heard where he talks about democracy is personal. and it is. i mean, chris, from my district alone, they were intentionally trying to throw out black votes. right here in detroit. and so for us, it was extremely personal that they were trying to use white supremacist rhetoric, trying to use that kind of racist tone and these conspiracy theories that led to the violence of january 6th. raskin is right, this is extremely personal and extremely, very much about us being able to keep our right to have a voice at all levels of government, and especially again, pushing back against that violence that we saw on january 6th. >> now, one of the arguments presented by the lawyers, which was a stitched-together video, is actu

let's start with rachel maddow, joy reid, chris cuomo, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. maybe they finally will fight for election integrity. of course, that is unlikely because the democrat party is the party of vote fraud. [cheering and applause] yes, this is quite a charge but evidence confirms this allegation. democrats resist virtually every republican idea to make our elections more secure and they labor tirelessly to make our elections more chaotic, and unreliable. democrats blasted out mass mail-in ballots in multiple states whether requested or not. they littered department building lobbies and some thrown in the trash. how many of them were filled out and submitted? who knows. democrats not republicans installed ballot drop boxes on sidewalks. how many fraudulent ballots got deposited and unchecked and uncounted? who knows? democrats, not republicans diluted signature match standards that made it easier to accept and tabulate mail-in ballots with forged sig tours. democrats, not republicans blocked gop observers from voting places. democrat observes eshs did th

someone you could definitely trust lake matt lauer, you know who was pals with him back then, rachel maddowird to see now, like palpatine going to lunch with baby yoda. >> it didn't last long, but his personal brand only grew stronger. he was not going to rest until the world knew all 36 of his names. >> having flunked out of tv twice tucker mcduck carlson began rebuilding his journalism career by working with someone of radio's most expected broadcasters bubba the love sponge and channel his inner shock shock jock. >> i love women, are you talking to a feminist, she is giving you a well, men need be to more sensitive, no, you just need to be quiet and do what you are told. >> i am not defending underage marriage at all. i just don't think it's the same thing exactly as pulling a child from a bus stop and sexually assaulting that child. the rapist in this case has made a lifelong commitment to live and take care of the person, so it is a little different. >> iraq is a exrapy place filled with a bunch of semilit mat-- literate primitive monkeys. >> she does seem a little beep bleep. >> you s

attacking the supreme court, schumer talked to rachel maddow on wanting to expand all the courtsts coming in violation of separation of powers to have an ideological court system. that violates separation of powers. this is article one, article three. violations of federal election laws, that turns the states in thern california so they could never lose an election to democrats, that violates article two, section one. you cannot do that by statute. you need to amend the constitution. they talk about d.c. statehood. the district of columbia is graded by the constitution. national capital area, not to be put on the state. so they are not free to do that. this outrageous so-called impeachment trial, the senate has no authority, no jurisdiction or whatever, absolutely rogue, a complete clown show. the constitution is clear, article one, section three, the conviction of somebody who is in office, removal from office, and disqualification from future office. it's not like the democrats are literate when it comes to thees constitution but i guess we will hear them yammer on and on about it. arti

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening.nd thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. tonight, this hour, we are watching the united states capitol building, where united states capitol police officer brian sicknick will be honored tonight. he will lie in honor under the capitol rotunda in a ceremony and observation that's going to begin within the next few minutes. presidents and military heroes have been honored in this way before. the great rosa parks was thus honored in 2005. civil rights icon john lewis thus honored this past year. the reverend billy graham was honored similarly in 2018. for the u.s. capitol police, though, this is not the

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. tonight, this hour, we are watching the united states capitol building, where united states capitol police officer brian sicknick will be honored tonight. he will lie in honor under the capitol rotunda in a ceremony and observation that's going to begin within the next few minutes. presidents and military heroes have been honored in this way before. the great rosa parks was thus honored in 2005. civil rights icon john lewis thus honored this past year. the reverend billy graham was honored similarly in 2018. for the u.s. capitol police, though, this is not the first time. in july, 1998, a delusional seriously mentally ill man walked through the metal detectors at the capitol building while he was carrying a loaded smith and wesson resolver. a u.s. capitol police officer stopped the man when he set off the alarm and asked the man to go through again. the man turned without a word and shot officer chestnut in the

congressman bowman's connection back, i want to show you what paul krugman said last night with rachel maddow. this was when rachel discussed the issue to the point of considering how good is this legislation, even if they lose the minimum wage out of the bill. let's listen to what nobel prize-winning economist paul krugman said about that. >> this is a -- i'm kind of almost pinching myself. i can't believe that we're about to get a bill that is as good -- it's not perfect, especially -- i miss that minimum wage. but we're about to get a bill that's as good as it appears we're going to get. >> there is no more distinguished liberal economist than paul krugman, and he is right that in his time in watching this kind of legislation we have never seen anything this big, this good, even without the minimum wage. and of course the loss of the minimum wage is a disappointment to everyone except a couple senators who are opposed to that level of increase in the united states senate. and so going forward now, the democrats face the challenge of how do you pass the minimum wage? and the lesson is you p

"the rachel maddow show" begins right now. evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, thanks, my friend. much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. some very exciting news today. the former vice president has a job. not the former former vice president who's now president, no, i mean the immediate former vice president mike pence. the heritage foundation has announced that former vice president mike pence is going to go work there. he said today, "the heritage

"the rachel maddow show" begins right now. od evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, thanks, my friend. much appreciated. appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. some very exciting news today. the former vice president has a job -- not the former-former vice president who's now president. no, i mean the immediate former vice president, mike pence. heritage foundation has announced that former vice president mike pence is going to go work there. he said today, quote, the heritage foundation announced today that former vice president mike pence will join the organization as a distinguished visiting fellow. what exactly is that job? what exactly is he going to do there? that's kind of beside the point. but heritage is very excited to have him. working together with the former vice president, heritage will continue to support and defend these policy accomplishments while also fighting

the rachel maddow show starts right now. morning, rachel. >>> good evening, chris, thank you, my friend, and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy presidents' day. i hope you got the day off work today or the day off school. if you didn't, i feel your pain. there are just under 330 million people in the united states over the past 24 hours, more than 150 million of us, nearly half of us have been put under some kind of winter weather advisory. ice storm warnings, winter storm warnings, winter weather advisories. those warnings have been issued in 25 of the 50 states. for the first time ever in u.s. history, the entire state of texas has been put under a winter storm warning. thhe

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, much appreciate it. as you can see, i, too, am joining the show from home this evening. that's why the background here looks the way it does. no reason to worry at all. looks the way it does. no reason to worry at all. i'm snowed in tonight, like so many people are in the northeast with this gigantic winter storm. the roads where i am are totally impassable tonight, even with four-wheel drive, even with good ground clearance. and so, i'm home! better safe than sorry. you may remember that i figured out how to set up my laptop as a makeshift camera from home when i had to broadcast from home because i was in covid quarantine back in november. because i had to do that back in november, i knew i could do this again, so i just wheeled the whole setup back out again tonight. the roads are not fit for man, no

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. much appreciated. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i will tell you right now, our first guest that we are going to have tonight is somebody who you are going to want to see. we've got an interview tonight with somebody who is in absolutely unique status as a national newsmaker tonight. i will explain who she is and you will want to see this interview coming up in our next segment. but it's been a remarkable news day today. president biden announced today that the u.s. government has found a way to purchase another 200 million doses of coronavirus vaccine. this is moderna and pfizer, the first two vaccines that have been approved here, both those two-dose vaccines. they've got 200 million more doses. and what that means mathematically is that we've now got sort of a horizon on our pandemic, finally. i mean, at least on paper, what this means, what this announcement from president biden means tonight is that we should have enough supplies on hand to vaccinate ever

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. . >> good evening, great to see you, my friend, thank you so much, have a great weekend. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. april 11, this past year, was a really dark time, if you remember. my birthday was right at the beginning of april and i remember when my birthday happened this year i was like, i don't much feel like celebrating. by april 11, we were just a few weeks into nationwide lockdowns and streets just emptying out all over america. april 11 was actually the day the u.s. passed a half million cases of coronavirus, a half million cases that day. by april 11, more than 20,000 americans had already died from covid and we all knew it was going to get so, so much worse. the future was looking then, and would turn out to be, incredibly grim. on that same day, april 11, a woman in missouri said publicly she had

. >> that was fulton county district attorney fannie willis on "the rachel maddow show."ning brad raffensperger if he didn't compliment take a listen. . >> you know what they did ask you're not reporting it. that's a criminal, that's a criminal offense. and you can't let that happen. that's a big risk to you and ryan, your lawyer. that's a big risk. >> in your mind, what would be the crimes here and what do you think could be proven by those tapes? >> that's really not a president, that's like a mafia who is putting on the pressure, and trying to threaten them with some criminal prosecution. i think probably the state statute which deals with trying to intimidate somebody in the performance of their official duties fits this to a t. i think it also san attempt to commit election fraud. you can look at the tenor by looking at the result of the votes. he doesn't care if there were people waiting in line eight hours, there was a problem on voting day. he says get enough just to help me, and i think that gets to any intent question. trump is just like every other criminal off

the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening. >> thank you, my friend. much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour. happy to have you hear we have a lot to get to. the leader of the congressional caucus is here tonight. help th people are going to get from the covid relief bill. the fight is on, frankly, among democrats right now, as to just how big they are going to go on that, in terms of trying to help people. congresswoman jayapal holds a lot of the cards in that fight as chair of the progressive caucus. we're going to hear from her in a second about her strategy and her thinking and why she and her colleagues are really insisting that the covid relief bill is, among other things, the right place and the right time and the right way to push a raise in the minimum wage. the minimum wage has not gone up in this country in 12 years. president biden says he's committed to raising the minimum wage, but he has also publicly is

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. another frigid night for tens of millions of americans. i will tell you tonight, as i got in my pickup truck and went to leave the driveway and get onto the road, my driveway gave me an assist in pushing me out onto the road as soon as i put my truck in neutral. not even in gear, just spat me right onto the road. in dozens of states tonight, it road. in dozens of states tonight, it is frigid and there are icy and wintry conditions, and that is to be expected in the depths of february. however, the situation is uniquely dire in the great state of texas. texas is the energy capital of america and loves to be thought of as such. it makes it all the more infuriating and maddening for those caught in the middle of it right now that that state that is famous worldwide for its energy resources tonight is heading into night four of the lights being off, the power being out across huge swaths of that st

rachel maddow show starts now. . >> any budget committee with that meme would make me sign up for that budget. >> such a compliment to get on national television. you would make a good budget committee staffer. a part of me felt a little serotonin, thank you, good. >> thank you. good. >> also, i am sending you some personal financial information later that i'd like you to help me with. >> perfect. >> because you alone could get that comment. thanks, my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. >>> here's an interesting thing. sort of a personal thing, but also a news thing. right before president trump was impeached the first time, i published a book called "blowout." and the weird, surprising to me thing about "blowout" is that it ended up being oddly well timed. i had no idea it was going to be well timed when i set out to write it, but that's how it landed. it with a book about the oil and gas industry and the political power and geopolitical power of that industry. and a big c

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. my friend. much appreciated. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i will tell you right now our first guest we're going to have tonight to somebody who you're going to want to see. we've got an interview tonight with somebody who is in an absolutely unique status as a national newsmaker tonight. i will explain who she is, and you will want to see this interview coming up in our next segment. but it is -- it has been a remarkable news day today. president biden announced today that the u.s. government has found a way to purchase another 200 million doses of coronavirus vaccine. this is moderna and pfizer, the first two vaccines that have been approved here. they're both those two-dose vaccines. they've got

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. much appreciated. here is a change i did not see coming. you here is a change i did not see coming. you might remember that one of the classy things about the transition from the last president to this one -- and i mean classy with a "k" in this context -- one of the real nice things about that transition is that the transition didn't really happen. everywhere from the pentagon to the parts of the government dealing with the vaccine rollout, the outgoing trump administration just refused to do normal transition things that would have allowed the incoming administration to understand what they were walking into, you know, how the trump people were leaving things, what remained to be done and needed to be picked up immediately on day one by the new team. the trump folks just had no interest in helping keep the government going by helping the new administration hit the ground running. and so, the transition in many ways was non-existent. and one of the consequences of that is, in the mon

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good morning, rachel. >>> good evening, chris, thank you, my friend, and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy presidents' day. i hope you got the day off work today or the day off school. if you didn't, i feel your pain. there are just under 330 million people in the united states over the past 24 hours, more than 150 million of us, nearly half of us have been put under some kind of winter weather advisory. ice storm warnings, winter storm warnings, winter weather advisories. those warnings have been issued in 25 of the 50 states. for the first time ever in u.s. history, the entire state of texas has been put under a winter storm warning. that's the first time that's ever happened. winter storm warnings extending also to all of arkansas and most of louisiana and most of mississippi and, i mean, it is one thing to have snow and ice in places like minnesota and massachusetts and maine. mississippi is another thing altogether. it looks like all-time new record low tempera

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.ou, my friend. much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. a lot to get to this hour after what has been a really busy day in washington, lots of movement on president biden's cabinet nominees today, on the covid relief effort. just one of those daysar when it just seems you're trying to watch a dozen different storylines at once. but the main event of the day at the u.s. capitol, which is still under lockdown, surrounded by thousands of national guard troops in the wake of the january 6th attack on the capitol, was that today was the first investigation, today was the first congressional hearing into what happened that day, what went pro trump violent mob to storm the capitol building, interrupt the certification of the election, and come within just steps of the lawmakers in the building that day, whose blood the mob was crowing for. today, two senate committees took testimony from the officials in charge of the capitol security that day. i should tell you, we'l

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.h appreciated. here is a change i did not see coming. you here is a change i did not see coming. you might remember that one of the classy things about the transition from the last president to this one -- and i mean classy with a "k" in this context -- one of the real nice things about that transition is that the transition didn't really happen. everywhere from the pentagon to the parts of the government dealing with the vaccine rollout, the outgoing trump administration just refused to do normal transition things that would have allowed the incoming administration to understand what they were walking into, you know, how the trump people were leaving things, what remained to be done and needed to be picked up immediately on day one by the new team. the trump folks just had no interest in helping keep the government going by helping the new administration hit the ground

's packing the supreme court, and schumer talked to rachel maddow wanting to expand all the courts.tion of separation of powers. they are trying to have an ideological court system. that violates separation of powers. this is article one attacking article three. the federalization of state election laws in this hr one that nancy pelosi has been pushing to turn the states into california so they can never lose an election, democrats, that violates article two, section one, clause two of the constitution. you can do that by statute, you need to amend the constitution. they talk about d.c. statehood like they can just pass a statute. the district of columbia is created by the constitution. as national capital area, it is not to be put under a state. that is article one, section 8. so they are not free to do that. this outrageous and the so-called impeachment trial in the senate, the senate has no authority, no jurisdiction whatsoever. it is absolutely robe, it is a complete clown show. the constitution is clear from article one, section three, conviction know somebody who is in office,

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> admit it, chris, you would rather do this than tweet for a living. >> it was a joke. i joked about tweeting for a living and you said, chris, i would never leave you, compadre. i don't know. can you tweet for a living? what do you do for a living? that would be weird. i tweet mostly. people pay me for my tweets. >> no. don't even joke about such things, chris. i felt my life pass me before my eyes. >> no, never. >> thank you, my friend. i'll take that as a promise and hold you to it. all right. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we're happy to have you. for the first time since he was inaugurated president joe biden tonight has ordered a u.s. military strike. the pentagon says the president ordered air strikes in syria at around 6:00 p.m. eastern time this evening. this is the statement that we got announcing the air strike from pentagon press secretary john kirby. he said, quote, at president biden's direction, u.s. military forces earlier this ev

"the rachel maddow show" begins right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, thanks, my friend. much appreciated. appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. some very exciting news today. the former vice president has a job -- not the former-former vice president who's now president. no, i mean the immediate former vice president, mike pence. heritage foundation has announced that former vice president mike pence is going to go work there. he said today, quote, the heritage foundation announced today that former vice president mike pence will join the organization as a distinguished visiting fellow. what exactly is that job? what exactly is he going to do there? that's kind of beside the point. but heritage is very excited to have him. working together with the former vice president, heritage will continue to support and defend these policy accomplishments while also fighting back against a socialist agenda pushed by those on the left. that's what mike pence is going to be doing, he's going to

fanny willis is who you're referring to who's in charge of the investigation, joined my colleague rachel maddow on thursday. here's what she had to say about the scope of the investigation. i want your reaction to that. >> what i know about investigations is they're kind of like peeling back an onion, and as you go through each layer, you learn different things, to be a responsible prosecutor, you must look at all of those things in an investigation, to be fair to everyone involved. this is a very important matter as you've already highlighted, and so, yes, the investigation seems that it will go past just this one phone call that we've discussed. >> now, brett, what kinds of layers do you expect to be uncovered in the course of this investigation? >> well, what i've been looking at more closely are the investigations in the state of new york by the district attorney for the southern district, cy vance looking into possibilities of fraud in terms of the financing of some of trump's signature buildings like 40 wall street or the trump tower on 5th avenue. and of course the attorney general of th