later, msnbc had keith olbermann and rachel maddow. at this point, i wouldn't consider anyone on msnbc progressive. we are not that far removed from our original purpose which is to be the strongest voice and often the only voice for progressive's. host: how do you find progressives as you see it? guest: there is the general definition commode trying writing about, expanding the circle of liberty, equality, opportunity and justice. aren't most americans in favor of that? no, republicans hate everything if i just said. they don't want to expand the circle of liberty at all. i can prove it. do you want to expand it to immigrants? no. trans people? no. you have never wanted to expand it, you have never been in favor of justice. so that eliminates about 40% of the country. and then there is a giant chunk that the rest of the media never talks about. corporate democrats. democrats who say, we don't hate black people or gay people, but those sweet tax cuts for the rich. they push for that, they push for deregulation, the same thing corporate

rachel maddow the defense in a 2019 defamation lawsuit was that her on air statements shouldn't be believed her lawyer said that her comment therefore is a quintessential statement over torak all hyperbole incapable of being proved true or false i guess rachel is just taking after the most reliable name in news alex jones in 2018 alex jones is attorneys argued that no reasonable person would believe what he says so if you take these all together i'm guessing it's a public service announcement you should know that mainstream media hacks some alternative media hacks politicians and the quack lawyers who represent them all of these people when they're forced in a court to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth all of those people admit that they do nothing but lie to you that is their job and that is how they make a ton of money rachel maddow tucker carlson alex jones in the powell they are all the same thing they are all incredibly rich liars they know it and now you know. damn i've been doing this all tell the truth thing with this show said a really career choice and well

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> i hope you have a provision where you get base pay and over a certain number of hours, you get paid by the hour. >> just sleep. >> you have done the work -- >> i just need to sleep. all i need is sleep. >> i give you my sleep coupons for the weekend, my friend. fantastic job. i cannot wait to see your show this weekend. >> thank you. >>> all right, so seems we are having technical difficulties, we will get back to rachel when we can solve that issue. very good evening to you and thank you, again, rachel maddow will be with us soon. we are happy you are here with us tonight. we have a lot to cover tonight, reporter katie benner who along with her colleagues at the new york times broke the bizarre matt getz story and will shall share it live. we will have a live report from minneapolis as what was described as a day of devastating testimony in the derek chauvin case. the former minneapolis police officer who is on trial for killing george floyd. there's a lot to

that they do nothing but lie to you that is their job and that is how they make a ton of money rachel maddow tucker carlson alex jones sidney powell they are all the same thing they are all incredibly rich liars they know it and now you know it damn it i've been doing this whole tell the truth thing with this show. a really clear choice and well we're going to go to a quick break but you can watch redacted tonight anytime on the portable t.v. app and check out the redacted i pod cast call that moment of clarity wherever you get your podcast i'll be right back with more. only by social class. people poverty by 1st floor if you're born into a poor family you're born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die. if you're born into generational poverty. it's a tough fight every day to meet your needs and the needs of your family. the world is driven by shaped by one person those. things. we dare to ask. him in my ear them misguided believed by many of us by locking down the whole society you can somehow fee

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, my friend. much appreciated. a special day here on "the rachel maddow show," because april 1st is the birthday of paul manafort which, for our country, or at least ought to be, perhaps, an annual sort of solemn civic reminder that the immediate former president of our country had to pardon his campaign chairman and he had to pardon his campaign manager, and he had to pardon his longest standing political advisor, and he had to pardon his national security advisor, and he had to pardon the deputy chair of his inaugural and his deputy campaign chairman went to prison and his personal lawyer went to prison, and his other personal lawyer is under federal criminal investigation, and he himself personally is named by prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in multiple federal felonies, and he himself personally is now today, as a former president, actively under criminal investigation in two different states. we've never been in that kind of a situation before as a country. mazel tov. you might ha

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, my friend.h appreciated. a special day here on "the rachel maddow show," because april 1st is the birthday of paul manafort which, for our country, or at least ought to be, perhaps, an annual sort of solemn civic reminder that the immediate former president of our country had to pardon his campaign chairman and he had to pardon his campaign manager, and he had to pardon his longest standing political advisor, and he had to pardon his national security advisor, and he had to pardon the deputy chair of his inaugural and his deputy campaign chairman went to prison

there was andy goodman of democracy now and later "msnbc" said keith olbermann and rachel maddow etc. and at this point i wouldn't consider any "msnbc" progressive. original purpose is just to be the strongest voice and oftentimes unfortunately the only voice for progressives in the media. >> host: that's the case how do you define progressives is the way you see it? >> progressive the general definition which is expanding the circle of liberty equality and opportunity and justice and if that sounds like most americans are in favor of back? the answer is no or everything about it. if you want to expand it to immigrants? no. you want to extend it to trans people? you never want to expand it and you've never been in favor of justice. and then there's a big giant chunk that the rest of the media never talks about. democrats who say we don't tank black people are people but those sweet tax cuts for the rich and they push for that and deregulation so we are not in that camp. we fight for the people. >> host: is it easier to do what youit do nowadays with a democrat in the white house with

the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel >> good evening, medhi, well-done.ou at home for joining us this hour congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is going to be with us here live with us. still one of the highest profile civil rights attorneys will be here to talk about what could be a big development in voting rights something that unfolded in surprising ways today. we'll start with an update on that bananas story that we had to unexpectedly shift gears to cover this time in the show last night. breaking news about the republican congressman who is probably the most high profile supporter of trump mat gaetz is under crimina

rachel maddow show starts now. good evening rachel. >> good evening. well done.me for joining us at this hour. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is going to be here with us live tonight. i'm looking forward to speaking with her in just a moment. one of the highest pro file civil rights lawyers in the country is going to be here tonight to talk about what could be a big development in the voting rights fight. a development that unfold in the surprising ways over the day today. we're going to start tonight, though, with a little bit of an update on that bananas story that we had to unexpectedly shif

. >>> very good evening to you and thank you, again, rachel maddow will be with us soon. we are happy you are here with us tonight. we have a lot to cover tonight, reporter katie benner who along with her colleagues at "the new york times" broke the bizarre matt gaetz story and will share it live tonight. we will have a live report from minneapolis as what was described as a day of devastating testimony in the derek chauvin case. the former minneapolis police officer who is on trial for killing george floyd. there's a lot to get to tonight and where we are going to start tonight is with the latest from nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. who has been reporting today, that the burst of violence at the north entrance to the u.s. capitol grounds today that left one u.s. capitol police officer killed. and another hospitalized with injuries and a suspect dead involved in all of that. ramming a car into those officers and into a metal barricade and then leapt on out of that with a knife. one capitol police officer was announced that the officer was killed. and this ma

those tuning in to see the rachel maddow program, we will join the early addition of that in progress after a few minutes of our live coverage, we just wanted to give you a situation or around the circumstances in minnesota having been covering it all evening long. we're joined once again by carmen best, former police chief for the great city of so seattle. chief, indeed, i want to start with the point jim made. and that's that the police stance of take down at any cost, of using an anvil, using the upper hand of force. why are they tasing a 20 year old kid in his own car at a traffic stop when, what do we know? we already have his i. d.. it's in the hand of the officer who ultimately kills him. we have a tag number. we have a registration. he is not at risk of flight, as a 20 year old man. let him run from the scene if he must. you can pick him up later on, any of the sound familiar to you? >> it does sound familiar. it sounds absolutely right. as you said, there is no risk. there is not a felony stop, there's no major crime it's a misdemeanor. it should not end up with somebody dead

brian williams here with you from our headquarters in new york along with my colleague and friend rachel maddow, first time in months we've been allowed and able to share a zip code, shea nothing of an entire television studio. >> brian, it is great to be with you in person tonight. fantastic to be together. joint of course by our beloved colleagues nicolle wallace and joy reid who are here at my sides, my sisters in full vaccination status. it is good to be together, you guys. with the band all back together again, we are awaiting president biden's joint address to congress. this is a speech we are not supposed to call a state of the union, although that's effectively what it will be. modern presidents have generally given this speech in february, just about one month after being inaugurated. president biden has waited much later, until now, late april. today is his 99th day in office. >> indeed this president will address the nation tonight over a year into our pandemic, which of course has claimed the lives of over 570,000 of our fellow citizens. given the ongoing public health crisis, tonig

got a certain philosophy about life and liberties such as america it's called advertising and rachel maddow well of course you do as we recently covered yet too many elite and you see that in saudi arabia with you know people like prince are. being hung from his feet and the ritz allegedly and his fortune taken the same thing as essentially going on versus fox versus m.s.m. b.c. they're fighting for the decreasing remnants of of an empire like what they get that exorbitant privilege but you know in 2000 is quite important because of course we want the gold standard in 1971 and that set in motion the possibility for what happened in 2000 which was that president clinton as he left office 3 things he did he got rid of the classical act he also got introduced the commodities futures modernization act those 2 helped the banks plunder. like j.p. morgan banker plundered his grandmother we helped banks plunder the productive capacity of the economy and then of course that couldn't have happened however without somebody being able to produce all our goods that the wealthy need and that is china bei

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it was 100 years ago this spring. a teenager named dick roland was at grave risk of being lynched. tulsa, oklahoma, has had defendants dragged out and lynched. and there was fairly good reason to believe it was going to happen again. a local paper had published an account in 1921 that accused roland of rape. he worked as a shoe shine boy at a building downtown, and it accused him of sexually assaulting a white teenage girl. and teenage dick roland was arrested that day. after that, a mob, a large mob of white tulsa residents started gathering at the courthouse, demanding basically to get their hands on him. and tulsa was a bustling city at the time. a lot of business, a lot of oil business, was running through tulsa. and it was a segregated city. most of the african-american population lived in greenwood. it was flourishing there, it had a hospital, and schools, and churches, and hotels, and bars, and restaurants, and jewelry stores, and

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening.o this spring. a teenager named dick roland was at grave risk of being lynched. tulsa, oklahoma, has had defendants dragged out and lynched. and there was fairly good reason to believe it was going to happen again. a local paper had

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> i know you had at least one great day last week. did you have a project or a trip or something? or just spending time with kate and the kids? >> hanging with the fam, kate and kids, doing some long walks. a day date with my wife, we went for a walk. had a midday cocktail. you know, it's the heart of decadence, when you're 42 and just getting to hang with your spouse, take in the sunshine. it was awesome. >> this is, for all of the ways in which we are different from one another and we're a diverse community, for a very large proportion of the population, the idea of, if i could just day drink. it's a very, very unifying thing for a lot of us in our fantasies. >> not an absent part of my vacation. >> well done, my friend. welcome back. great to have you back. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we're happy to have you here. a big show for you tonight. the chair of president biden's council of economic advisers is here tonight. this will be he

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> i know you had at least one date day because you posted about it on instagram, and i tried not to bug you and ask you everything you were doing. did you have a project or a trip or something? or just spending time with kate and the kids? >> hanging with the fam, kate and kids, doing some long walks. a day date with my wife, we went for a walk. had a midday cocktail. you know, it's the heart of you know, it's the heart of decadence, when you're 42 and just getting to hang with your spouse, take in the sunshine. it was awesome. >> this is, for all of the ways in which we are different from one another and we're a diverse community, for a very large proportion of the population, the idea of, if i could just day drink. it's a very, very unifying thing for a lot of us in our fantasies. >> not an absent part of my vacation. >> well done, my friend. welcome back. great to have you back. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we're happy to have you he

"rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> chris hayes, would you be willing right now on television to reenact in a small way the dance you did on instagram yesterday upon getting your second shot? go on, do it. go on, do it. >> i can't. first of all, i don't dance on command. i only dance -- i only dance when being vaccinated, at least on tv. and third of all, you can actually -- we played the clip on my tv show. you can find it. it's out there on the internet. >> it was very, very happy making. it was fantastic. and you don't dad dance at all. you totally normally dance. >> i can move a little bit. >> i only dance in chairs and not even when i'm vaccinated. but i know exactly the feeling. congratulations my friend. it's great to see you. >> thank you. >>> all right. and while we're on the subject. did i get it straight? i got my shot. i did. i'm so excited. i got the johnson & johnson one-shot vaccine. can i just tell you about it for a second? i went on my own so i didn't have anybody take a picture

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. t for a fourth straight evening. this is all happening after a 20-year-old man named daunte wright was shot and killed by a brooklyn center police officer during a traffic stop on sunday. that officer resigned from the force yesterday, as did the police chief in brooklyn center. today, state prosecutors arrested the

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> you're such a good man and you're a dad, chris, and every once in a while we have to remind ourselves there is an eight-year-old that lives inside you. >> you cannot imagine the number of jokes i've made about this segment in a run-up to today and throughout the day and on the commercial break before this aired, it's been essentially nonstop. >> i know, i know. because i know there is an eight-year-old that lives inside you. not the part that drives and parents and runs your show and everything, but every once in a while, hi, little chris, here he is. well done, my friend. i'm not going to make the obvious joke right now. thank you, my friend, much appreciated. thank you at home for joining us this hour. it was november 12th, last year, november 12th, 2020. election day had been a week and a half earlier, november 3rd, and we all know how that resolved. november 3rd was election day. by november 7th, every major news outlet had called the presidential race for

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. rachel. >> i know you had at least one great day last week. did you have a project or a trip or something? or just spending time with kate and the kids? >> hanging with the fam, kate and kids, doing some long walks. a day date with my wife, we went for a walk. had a midday cocktail. you know, it's the heart of decadence, when you're 42 and just getting to hang with your spouse, take in the sunshine. it was

what i think is so fascinating is lester holt's current colleagues include rachel maddow, the chief promulgatorollusion hoax, joy reid he says that there were time travelers who hacked her blog years ago and that's why there were things on there she didn't want to admit she'd written. al sharpton, whose race hoaxes have a body count. and brian whatever his last name is, what are their main hosts right now. someone who sang, he says he's been in places he hasn't been. the idea that nbc news, any of these people would be in a position where they could say what truth is our reality is. with the better guide is if they have said it is probably not true.re we have decades of experience with people making up stories about republicans, conservatives. i whether it's "new york times" and the fake scanner story about president george w. bush or dan rather falling for that story about george w. bush or the russian hoaxto or kavanaugh conspiracy. they always make up stories that are completely unsupported by the facts and they push them out there. the idea that they would be in a position to say anything a

rachel maddow show starts now. good evening rachel. >> good evening. well done. thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is going to be here with us live tonight. i'm looking forward to speaking with her in just a moment. one of the highest pro file civil rights lawyers in the country is going to be here tonight to talk about what could be a big development in the voting rights fight. a development that unfold in the surprising ways over the day today. we're going to start tonight, though, with a little bit of an update on that bananas story that we had to unexpectedly shift gears to cover at this time in the show last night when "the new york times" published late-breaking news about the republican congressman who is probably the most high profile fanatical trump supporters in congress, republican congressman matt gaetz "the times" published the news that he's under investigation by the u.s. justice department for very serious allegations of child sex trafficking. now, i swear i'm not going to spend more of my lif

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to you thanks to you at home for joining us. we start on the republican side of politics and politics in the news where things are a little bit of a three-ring circus right now. it is starting to seem like the circus tent could come down in the wind. starting in georgia tonight, the national bull's-eye, the focus of so much anger and controversy and new restrictions on voting rights. today in a surprise, georgia's republican lieutenant governor admitted what critics of the law alleged from the beginning which is the impetus for the new draconian voting restrictions in georgia, the impetus for it was the set of lies told by president trump. and on behalf of president trump after he lost georgia in the presidential election in 2020. this is what all the critics of georgia republicans have been claiming about where this voting restriction bill came from in georgia. georgia republicans as of today are admitting that criticism is true. tha

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.ou my friend. much appreciated. thaing at home for joining us this hour. this is a live look at brooklyn center, minnesota, tonight where protests are expected tonight for a fourth straight evening. this is all happening after a 20-year-old man named daunte wright was shot and killed by a brooklyn center police officer during a traffic stop on sunday. that officer resigned from the force yesterday, as did the police chief in brooklyn center. today state prosecutors arrested the officer and charged her with manslaughter in the

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. >>> protesters are expected tonight for a fourth straight evening. this is all happening after a 20-year-old man named daunte wright was shot and killed by a brooklyn center police officer during a traffic stop on sunday. that officer resigned from the force yesterday, as did the police chief in brooklyn center. today, state prosecutors arrested the officer and charged her with manslaughter in the second degree. but we will keep eyes on brooklyn center tonight as we have for the last few nights. there have been several dozen arrests each of the last few nights. there have been very, very heated confrontations between local residents and the police including a lot of tear gas and projectiles thrown. tonight there is a curfew in effect in brooklyn center, minnesota. it starts at 10:00 p.m. local time which is 11:00 p.m. eastern. you see there night is just falling there. we've seen things get tense there, particularly after nightfall over the

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, thanks, my friend, much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. >>> a big news day today, president biden announcing we just hit 200 million doses of vaccine administered. you will recall he initially said he wanted 100 million shots to be administered in his first 100 days as president. then when he hit that really early, he doubled the goal and said, okay, not 100 million shots but 200 million shots in 100 days. today's announcement means that he hit that, even that doubled goal, more than a week before the deadline. and this comes, of course, when things aren't all smooth sailing on the vaccine front. this comes of course as we are expecting some word from the u.s. government, from the cdc and the fda, by the end of the week about whether or not the johnson & johnson one-shot vaccine is going to come back into use. but even with the administration of that one-shot vaccine still on pause fo

join brian williams, rachel maddow and me for president biden's first address to a joint session of congress. that is tonight's "reid out." >> tonight on all in -- >> what message are you sending wearing a mask outside alone? >> watch meg take it off and not put it back on. >> big news on masks and dr. fauci is here to explain the brand new cdc guidelines and why you don't need to call the police on children and masks and a major move by the department of justice, and reform policing in america, and plus, what is going on with the dhs investigation with domestic violence extremists in the ranks, and another state makes voting harder. tonight, the push to curb voting in texas cities and the man who stopped trump in court in the election is back on the case, suing states for suppressing the vote. mark elias joins us now. "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. after a year of wearing masks just about everywhere, today the centers for disease control and prevention put out a new guideline for masks. the right, that is vaccinated people. they are all green there,

now "the rachel maddow show." >> here is the just posted headline over at "the new york times" right now. quote, matt gaetz, loyal for years to trump, is said to have sought a blanket pardon, and that's not the kind of pardon you need for your blanket. what this means is he was asking a pardon for himself for things for which he's not yet charged. this is the latest development in a bizarre and stomach churning story we have been covering for about a week now. gaetz is a republican congressman from florida. as that headline alludes to. he was a staunch supporter of trump. it was first reported "the new york times" that matt gaetz is currently under federal investigation for allegations of alleged sex trafficking of an underage girl. now, this is an investigation that started during the trump administration when bill barr was running the justice department. bill barr, as attorney general, was himself reportedly personally briefed on the matt gaetz investigation on multiple occasions. the federal investigation into congressman gaetz is reportedly examining whether federal campaign fund

and rachel maddow said she was fearful of the needle, worried about it. yesterday it was important to get the shot and she did. there she is talking about it on air. i say that to make the following point. where are tucker and sean hannity and laura ingraham and brian kilmeade, the biggest stars on fox getting vaccinated? i get it's a personal choice. i get it's between the hosts and healthcare provider. but everybody else is doing it, all these anchors are rolling up their sleeves. why haven't wee seen the biggest stars on fox news get vaccinated or show us their vaccine selfies? [laughter] >> greg: holy [bleep]. so virtue signalling includes telling people to virtue signal. okay, brian. why haven't we made a vanity display of our vax status? it's none of your [bleep] business. if brian -- if brian believes personal medical info should be publicized, he can start with his cholesterol. [laughter] his numbers are lower than his ratings. the world obesity federation found risk of death from covid is ten times higher in countries where population is overweig

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. thanks at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. >> the house and senate have been on recess the past week or so. they are coming back now. and tomorrow is going to be a very, very somber day in washington, as they return and get back to work. at 10:30 a.m. eastern, tomorrow morning, the body of u.s. capitol police officer billy evans is going to arrive at the u.s. capitol. officer evans, you will remember, was killed a week ago friday, april 2nd, when a young man with a knife rammed his car into a capitol barricade and into two u.s. capitol police officers who were guarding that entrance to the u.s. capitol grounds. a second officer was injured in that attack and hospitalized briefly. he is out of the hospital and is apparently going to be okay. but officer evans was killed. killed in the line of duty, defending the u.s. capitol, just as officer brian sicknick was killed in the line of duty during the trump mob on the capitol january 6th. like of

rachel maddow's show starts right now. >> it's always thursday somewhere. i don't think that is actually how it goes. thank you. i understand, my friend. it's a long week already. thank you. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. what a news day this has been. the biden administration announcing today that the u.s. war in afghanistan will finally come to an end. and multiple presidents have tried. even in the george w. bush administration, which started that war. they said by the time that george w. bush left office, they were trying to end it. they wanted to bring proofs home from afghanistan back then. they sent targets for withdraw, and conditioning on the ground never improved enough to warrant hitting those targets. so the troops didn't come home. president obama wanted to bring the troops home as well. but he famously surged more troofs in to improve things on the ground. they wanted to end the u.s. war there. based on improving conditions on the ground. but conditions on the ground did not do well. president trump, talked about the c

brian williams, rachel maddow, joil reid, nicole wallace, all the complete coverage right here befored after the speech as well. follow our show online on facebook and twitter @mitchellreports. i'll be with chuck todd tonight. and he picks it up now with "mtp daily" only on msnbc. ♪♪ >>> welcome to wednesday. it is "meet the press daily." i'm chuck todd here in washington. and as you've just been digesting, we've got the breaking news that involves the president -- former president's former lawyer, and former new york city mayor and former u.s. attorney rudy giuliani. sources have confirmed to nbc news that giuliani's apartment was -- there was a search warrant and federal officials officially went inside his apartment and commandeered some things that they needed thanks to an fbi search warrant. jonathan dienst reported just moments ago that it appears two locations were actuall

ballots, a lot of the laws when you lookk at them we hear what they're doing but watch ms and bcs rachel maddowore to pushback against the laws that she calls draconian. >> in texas texas republicans, we will see but there well on the way passing the draconian anti-law bills because they can. >> they are going to put the corporations like coca-cola, american airlines, delta air lines, it's going to put them in position of having to decide what they're going to do next. elizabeth: critics might say your iq drops 50 points listening to that kind of coverage because draconian anti-voting rights were talking about no drive-through voting were talking about texas early voting stops at 7:00 p.m. versus 10:00 p.m. prior, she is calling it anti-voting rights, we are talking about codifying common sense into the law and to do bullying like that in race baiting as other anchors have done without reading the law is really misleading the american people, your final work? >> it is lying to the american people in this republic does not stand for that electorate and if we are relying on these people to inform

the rachel maddow show starts right now. ou're such a good man and you're a dad, chris, and every once in a while we have to remind ourselves there is an eight-year-old that lives inside you. >> you cannot imagine the number of jokes i've made about this segment in a run-up to today and throughout the day and on the commercial break before this aired, it's been essentially nonstop. >> i know, i know. because i know there is an eight-year-old that lives inside you. not the part that drives and parents and runs your show and everything, but every once in a while, hi, little chris, here

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, thanks, my friend, much appreciated. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour. as we speak, ten russian officials who are ostensibly on the diplomatic staff at the russian embassy in washington and in new york, presumably at the russian consulate there, tonight ten different russian officials have been told by the biden administration that they've got 30 days to leave the united states. now, i'm being a little bit woolly about what their jobs are, because in instances like this, the general perception is that the russians are being kicked out of the country tonight even though they may work at the embassy or the consulate, the perception generally is these folks are being asked to leave because they are not legitimate diplomats. again, generally speaking, the idea here is that whoever the guy is is not really like the trade attache at the embassy or something, he's actually a spy, intelligence personnel, spies for the russian g

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now with nicolle wallace in for rachel. good evening. >> hi there. thank you so much. and thank you at home for joining us this hour. i know, i know, rachel has the night off. but do not despair. she'll be back tomorrow. tonight georgia state representative park kennon. she is the lawmaker arrested for knocking on a door where the governor was signing into law a sweeping voter suppression law. this will be her first interview since the charges were dropped. we will also be joined live in just a moment by white house very adviser cedric richmond. he is here to talk about the president's newest executive action on gun control, action that comes unfortunately and tragically on a day when there was another mass shooting in america. >>> but we start tonight outside a federal courthouse in orlando, florida, where embattled congressman matt gaetz received some very, very bad news from an unlikely albeit reluctant source. watch. >> does matt gaetz have anything to worry about? >> does matt gaetz -- that is such a -- >> when it come

. >>> april 1st, which is a special day at the "rachel maddow show," because april 1st is the birthday at least ought to be, perhaps, an annual sort of solemn, civic reminder that the immediate former president of our country had to pardon his campaign chairman and he had to pardon his campaign manager, and he had to pardon his longest-standing political adviser, and he had to pardon his national security advir,

the rachel maddow show starts. >> thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. shomari stone is a reporter for the nbc station in washington, d.c.. nbc news 4. mr. stone shot this footage today as the country learned all at once all together what the verdict would be. >> oh, thank god! >> how are you all feeling right now? >> woo! >> huh? >> numb. like you still feel sadness about it all, like, that we're here. >> what about you, ma'am, i see you have tears in your eyes right now. >> feel so relieved. i feel relieved. i don't see how it could have been otherwise. >> reporter: as an african american woman, what's going through your mind? >> an african american woman, i am glad that i have lived to see this in my lifetime. i never thought i would live to see it. and i am 91 years old. >> i am 91 years old. i don't see how it could have been otherwise, but i know it could have been otherwise. that was in washington, d.c., today. this was in minneapolis at the site where george floyd was killed last year by police