and i will say, i remember questioning, you know, rachel maddow, god love her about this. rachel maddow is a fascinating tv personality, smart, i've been friendly with her over the years. she's had me on the show. she helped promote my book, but, you know, she became a big promoter of some of these allegations and when i had her on my podcast and i questioned her about this and said this was sort of later in the game when it was clear that michael cohen had not gone to prague because she was not charged by that with mueller's people, well, as it has been proven to be proven to be untrue. i guess that's a defense that i've heard over the years about this and you've proven it to be untrue. now i think in this case it has been proven to be untrue in multiple ways but that one struck me of talking about lessons that we should all learn from this journalistically. that's not a standard, i think, you or i would ever accept as grounds for promoting something. >> no. that really -- the troubling thing of what happened here. the idea that something wasn't -- the pact that you could

. >> that is all in on this wednesday night, the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel. chel tonight something really quite amazing that just happened in las vegas, which is a very un-las vegas thing. it is something you will absolutely have to see to believe.th we've got that story coming up in just a couple of minutes along with a dad who made that happen, who is somebody who you are going to want to meet. so, i'm very much looking forward to that coverage tonight. we've got a big show. >>> but where we start tonight . is a story in today's news that just starts one way and then aty the very end it veers off in an unexpected direction. this is like you're going along a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h i, j, k, 47. 47? 47 comes next? not the letter l? see if you can see where the unexpected veer, the unexpected plot twist comes in. here's how the story is headlined in "the detroit free press." michigan republicans -- michigae republican-led investigation ep rejects trump's claim that november 3rd election was stolen. here's the "associated press" headline, sena

the rachel maddow show starts now. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good night.my friend. much appreciated. and thank you for joining us this hour. i have a big show for you tonight. we will start with my favorite movie. the original version, the black and white version, of the manchurian candidate. it came out in 1962. and this is not exactly a spoiler but the real villain in the story is angela land spree, you figure this out pretty soon well. well

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening rachel. >> good evening, chris. much appreciated. thanks for joining us. happy to have you with us. did you know -- i did not know. i think of myself as someone who keeps up with the news and current events but i have been out of the loop because i did not know that aliens did 9/11. i had no idea. i only learned it today. >> how do you navigate a course through material that encompasses ancient civilizations, extraterrestrials, secret societies, and what is the relationship between those and the governments of our moderate world? >> i was able to learn about an ancient race. >> they are the most evolved extraterrestrial group that has ever been involved with humanity. >> they take a genetic approach to help them manage this great experiment. >> the cia declassified a document that describes a cataclysmic series of events. >> the main message are for us to prepare ourselves. >> you know, i had no idea. i thought i knew. i thought i knew about these things. i did not know. the ets, the aliens and what they did, i didn

rachel maddow's show is not news.l: that's right. >> would you consider this a new show? is this news we are doing right now? i don't think it is. you have 38 seconds to debate whoever we would like. and they can't sue us. the entire meteorologist team. >> will: absolutely. >> absolutely. >> will: with no slander customer >> we have now declared this an open opinion zone and not real news. apparently we can say whatever. rachel maddow said whatever she wanted. >> will: you need to button your shirt up, put on a tie like a responsible adult when you come read the news. >> come it's not a new show, i forgot. >> will: this is a news show. netflix is out with a new dating show that tries to prove love really is blind. contestants will wear masks to see if their chemistry is real. watch. >> i want to get married. i want to have babies before my 25th. you have health insurance? >> welcome to the strangest blind date ever. >> so what if i took you and you are not what -- >> i've made my decision. >> will: all right, okay, li

his new book has received rave reviews from barack obama and rachel maddow. what more does it need?is entitled "after the fall, being american in the world we've made." ben, thank you very much for joining us tonight. 12 days is a very long time with a fragile and complex coalition in the israeli parliament that might or might not produce a new prime minister. how do you read the situation tonight? >> well, lawrence, we've never seen anything quite like this. what you essentially have is lapid, the one with the mandate, a centrist with a two state solution supported and naftali bennett a hard right nationalist who has spoken about annexing the west bank together with the first time in israeli government an arab party coming into this mix. what they all have in common is they would like to see netanyahu out. that is the new principle of the coalition. it is fragile but it does appear that this is really the most likely next government and this could be the end of 12 years of benjamin netanyahu. this is not a huge mandate for a new government but the thing that has unified this incred

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you, chris. joining me at this hour. we have thrown out the show, as we sometimes have to do, because we need to start tonight with some news that has just broken on the front page of the "new york times." this is a big deal. i will tell you, we're about to speak with one of the reporters whose by lined on this story. we're also about to speak with one of the subjects of this story. but in all the time i have been in this business, i have never covered anything quite like thi

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.ht with some news that has just broken on the front page of "the new york times." this is a big deal. i will tell you we're about to speak with one of the reporters whose is bylined on the story. we're also about to speak with one of the subjects of this story. but in all the time i have been

wing," i think what i should -- and martin sheen is still working, he should come take over the rachel maddow show for the next 154 shows while i will just marinate myself in the "west wing" and we'll do a cross talk like this when i'm done and we'll cover it all. that's perfect. >> martin, the man of humility is sitting at home right now saying, i could never do that, i could never do that. yes, he can star in apocalypse now, but no, he can not host -- he does not believe that he could do the work you do. he is a great admirer, rachel. he really wants you to have this. the short way of doing this is just watch the episodes that i wrote, but that'll save you more than 100 hours. but it's on the way, rachel, and we will binge watch together as soon as i get out there. we will binge watch together. >> that is absolutely fantastic. you have completely bowled me over. thank you, my friend. thank you, mr. sheen. it's really nice of you. thank you. >> thank you, rachel. thank you. >>> well, beto o'rourke is going to join us tonight, and he is going to discuss pure insanity. that is what beto o'rour

rachel maddow, elizabeth warren, all talking about how i was irresponsible and reckless. i was a denier. i want you to know something -- my people are happy. they are happy because they are free. they are free and their freedoms were protected this last year. so, i want to thank you for inviting me to be here with you and to share with your little bit of my thoughts on the direction of this country. i will share with you a little bit on how i made my decisions this last year. in order for you to understand how i made those decisions, you need to understand a little bit about me and my background. is that ok if i tell you more about my story? ok. great. by the way, i love virginia foxx. you guys send amazing people to washington, d.c.. really bad governors, but you have fantastic people in washington, d.c.. but, virginia foxx is one of the first people i met when i first got elected to congress. i was a little scared of virginia. she was tough, everybody told me she will tell you exactly what she thinks when she talks to you. i remember one day we had not really had a conv

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> thanks for joining us this hour.m." this is a thing i knew existed. i had no idea they launched it with this short film. but it is worth watching now. it is only like 20 seconds or so. watch this.

"the rachel maddow show" starts now, good evening, rachel. >> solar power is emanating from your visage, you're a celestial body right now, radiating goodness. >> that's kind of you to say. it's mostly the solar array. but i'll take it. >> well done, my friend. all right. thanks to you at home for joining us, happy to have you here this monday night. we start with news first broken by rivals across town at cnn. cnn today obtained audio of a 2019 phone conversation between rudy giuliani and an adviser to the president of ukraine. in that conversation which took place in 2019, mr. giuliani can be heard pressuring the ukrainian government their president must publicly announce a sham investigation into some alleged wrongdoing by joe biden. if that sounds familiar, then president trump made the exact same demand of the president of ukraine three days after this call happened. july 25th, 2019, conversation, trump famously told the ukrainian president he must quote do us a favor though. he wanted president of ukraine to announce a bogus investigation into joe biden, the democratic presidentia

that is all in on this tuesday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now. evening rachel. >> good evening chris, thank you my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to a home for being with us this hour. so he had been a slave. he was enslaved to a white man named jon emerson in missouri. but then during the time that emmerson was holding this man as a slave, he moved several times, including moving out of missouri. he moved to the wisconsin territory. he moved to the state of illinois. both of territories. they're slave states. both of which were free. so that created an unusual situation. a white man and an african american man he was enslaved. they start in missouri. they travel to and live in free territory for a time, and then ultimately they move back to slave state missouri. all right. when the white man died, the african american man who had been enslaved to him, he tried to buy his own freedom from the dead man's family, from the dead man's widow. and the family refused to allow him to buy his freedom. the enslaved man then decided they would sue for

. >> that is all in on this wednesday night, the rachel maddow show starts now. evening, rachel. chel tonight something really quite amazing that just happened in las vegas, which is a very un-las vegas thing. it is something you will absolutely have to see to believe.th we've got that story coming up in just a couple of minutes along with a dad who made that happen, who is somebody who you are going to want to meet. so, i'm very much looking forward to that coverage tonight. we've got a big show. >>> but where we start tonight . is a story in today's news that just starts one way and then aty the very end it veers off in an unexpected direction. this is like you're going along a, b, c, d, e, f,

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening chris, much appreciated. thank you all for joining us this hour. >>> he went to morehouse. he got a law degree from emory, he went on to a distinguished legal career for him in the state of the new jersey in the most populace county in new jersey. he became a judge in new jersey, highly respected, distinguished, not a blemish anywhere on his record. at the beginning of february 2015, president obama nominated him to the federal court. his name is xavier julien neals. that nomination from president obama was basically a gimme. distinguished record, not a word against him, sort of an ideal candidate for the job utterly and noncontroversial. they held his confirmation hearing in 2017 after president obama nominated him. the confirmation went great. he sailed through. no objections. the judiciary committee is where they hold confirmation hearings in the senate. they decided by his nomination by a voice vote. they didn't even bother taking a roll call v

2015, yes, people weren't lying when they answered the question about putin's approval, and the rachel maddows won't like to and with the russia hysterics in the trump era that with those russian efforts in 2016, the chances they turn the election and trumps favor are pretty low. that was a conscious choice not to take that devoid - - debate head on. the reason why the russia discourse it's far away, it is opaque, that gives people a lot of room to make claims that are hard to disprove. often they politicized the debate themselves in ways that are not helpful at all. but what evidence could i give somebody that a fair-minded reader would consider persuasive? and forev some part you will never persuade but i try to roll the dice instead of one - - and then, the reader with more evidence and then in the end people will think what they will think. but really interesting points. the second point about russian specificitys and moving into steve's point as well. this was a real tension in the book. maybe i go overboard to paint russia to much as a normal autocracy. that was something of a choice bec

some of these numbers by rachel maddow and nbc have to be suspect. joe manchin realizes as a federal employee come as a senator for the whole united states, this is nothing more than the democrats taking charge to try to extend their power for decades. that is all it is. they want to make the whole united states california or new york or whatever. they want power. that is the way they are trying to get it. if the government takes over and denies the states rights to require voter id and clear the voting rolls of voters no longer eligible to vote, that just allows problems in the voting. that is what this bill does not do. it takes the rights of the states away, which is wrong. host: that is bob in texas. do not want to forget about viewers watching and tweeting or sending us text messages were coming on facebook. a few social media comments. this is eric saying thank you joe, at least there is still one democrat with sound reason and who can see things in the long-term. vicki saying maybe he is just representing his constituents and knows the for the

that is all in on this tuesday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening chris, thank you my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to at-home for joining us this hour have very happy to have you with us. did you know? i did not know. i think of myself as someone who keeps reasonably up to date with the news and current events but apparently i have been out of the loop. because i did not know i had no idea. i only learned it today. >> how do you navigate a course through material that encompasses ancient civilizations, extraterrestrials, secret societies, and what is the relationship between those and the governments of our moderate world? >> i was able to learn about an ancient race. >> they are the most evolved extraterrestrial group that has ever been involved with humanity. >> they take a genetic approach to help them manage this great experiment. >> the cia declassified a document that describes a cataclysmic series of events.

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening rachel. >> chris hayes, how was your father's day. >> it was unbelievable. it was almost destroyed but a travel delay and i came very close to a just full breakdown in the airport. i felt it slipping away from me because i was already rolling the dice, but then that got fixed and i did get to have a lovely father's day dinner. it was awesome. >> fantastic. i'm glad your meltdown moved the world so that everything could be in place. well done. thanks. good to have you back. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. all right. so, it's ten years ago -- it's 2011 in the nation of iceland and a business man from iceland decided to launch a brand-new venture in his home country. and he was a businessman in a very interesting position. his relatively young. he had retired from his previous job at the ripe old age of 43 after he got very, very, very rich from selling his previous company. but still if had his early 40s, he decided he hated being reti

the rachel "maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris.hank you my friend. much appreciated. thank you for joining us this hour. it doesn't always work this way right after a holiday weekend, but it's right after a holiday weekend and the news is on full blast today. sometimes, it's sort of a slower on ramp back into the news but not today. >>> president biden today was in tulsa, oklahoma touring the greenwood district, the prosperous, self-sufficient, african-american neighborhood in tulsa that 100 years ago this

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. iven a hard time in public life, particularly when somebody's being attacked unfairly and they're a public figure, sometimes if you find yourself sort of lamenting that all the good people are going to be driven out of public life and out of public service by the nonsense and unfair attacks and conspiracy nonsense they have to put up with, people get, you know, targeted unfairly for whatever

. >> that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show right now with ali velshi in for eightof a surprise for me this evening as i walk into the building, something we've never done and ran right into you. >> it was very very nice. >> it's always a pressure to see you, but it was an extra special pleasure to see you tonight and we have many more of these. >> i agree completely, have a great great show. >> thanks, chris. >> thanks to you at home for joining us. rachel will be back tomorrow. this weekend, we all had an experience collectively as americans we haven't had in a few years. all this weekend, our president was overseas. and nothing crazy happened. the president of the united states, not storm out of a meeting or threaten to blow up a decades-old alliance or insult a head of state, or fawn over a dictator. and look, your mileage may vary. maybe you liked all that stuff about our previous president, the way he shall we say, stirred things up, but either way, for the last few years, any time the american president got on a plane to go abroad, we all kind of involuntaril

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> thanks for joining us this hour. i did not know it before today, but apparently when they launched it, they made like a movie commercial for it. they called it "the beacon of freedom." this is a thing i knew existed. i had no idea they launched it with this short film. but it is worth watching now. it is only like 20 seconds or so. watch this. >> a million followers. >> first of all, the idea of something being from the desk of someone and that thing also being a fast-moving enough thing that it requires like photography from space in order to show it, that's kind of a weird mixed message because what's like that that comes from a desk? but this is the sort of ad they put out to launch the new public platform for donald trump's desk. yes, he used to be president, but now he's at his house in florida. arising, a beacon of freedom that is a place straight from his desk where you can speak freely and safely. or maybe where he can speak freely and safely, since it's his own desk and nobody else actually gets to speak the

"the rachel maddow show" starts now, good evening, rachel. >> solar power is emanating from your visage

. >> greg: that's why rachel maddow is a pro and i may disagree with everything, but she's not a phony it's like where level of awareness where cnn is at this weird thing where they believe that they know the truth. as you get older, you're supposed to get wisdom where you know that truth isn't -- that's not how it works. it's like you can look at cnn and you can look at fox news and you can look at msnbc and see what they're doing. you can be above it. >> i'm above it naturally, great. i know being above things is new for you. by the way, only you could see if a snake has nuts. it's not be so quick to judge. hold on here, if you can say point of view and opinion, i mean -- i don't murder, i take life. you can just kind of split -- let's not be so -- it's always safe -- what he's basically saying is i'm not wrong and if i am, it's from my point of view because i'm coming from a place of truth, which means that i can't be held accountable for anything i say, so if you give an opinion, you have to own it and it takes courage to give an opinion. to sit up here, especially your stature and

fauci defended himself on the e-mails in a series of msnbc interviews, including this one with rachel maddow>> i've become the object of i believe inappropriate, distorted, misleading and misrepresented attacks. ist is what it is. it's happening. and that's unfortunate. howie: joining us now to analyze the coverage in new york, will cain, co-host of "fox & friends weekend." and harold ford, the former democratic congressman and fox news contributor. politico says the attacks on fauci have grown more intense, personal and basically pins this on media and political conservatives,. >> look, at this point if someone is accusing you, you're probably beginning to hover over the truth. i think that's an accusation i should take pride in. i might be getting close, that's what i learned from the wuhan lab controversy. look, here's what we know about dr. fauci. i don't think this is a part san attack. we know he's been wrong on numerous occasions. he was wrong on masks. he was treating them as theater. he wasn't telling the truth on masks. he has been wrong in my estimation, importantly, on not speaki

earlier this evening, congressman schiff spoke to rachel maddow on this network about the unprecedented and disturbing nature of all of it. >> this looks like an abuse of the department. yet another example of a president politicizing, using the department of justice to go after his enemies. the most important law is that the president of the united states does not get involved, in particular cases at the justice department. the president does not urge the department to investigate his political adversaries, or his political enemies. beyond that you have the specter of a president who is himself under investigation by our committee, calling for an unprecedented subpoena, unprecedented subpoenas from information pertaining to members of congress. that is, i think, a terrible abuse of power. it violates the separation of powers. but it also makes the department of justice, just a fully owned subsidiary of the presidents personal, legal interest. >> indeed, once the news was out tonight schiff called for the justice department's own inspector general to investigate this investigation. cali

. >> the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening. >> good evening. much preached. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. says part of the mission of the minneapolis police department is to give citizens voice and respect. here, mr. chauvin, rather than pursuing the mpd mission treated mr. george floyd without respect and denied him the dignity owed to all human beings which he will certainly would have extended to a friend or neighbor. in the court's view, 2770 months is the appropriate sentence. today former mams police officer zerk derek chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for the nurd r murder last may of george floyd. he's been the prison since april when a jury found him guilty of several charges all for him holding his knee on george floyd's neck until mr. floyd was deemed up conscious and he died on a minneapolis street corner. he was going to receive a theoretical maximum sentence but the theoretical maximum associated with any particularly crime is put up against state-based snepsing guidelines. considering the

rachel maddow starts right now. good evening chris. much appreciated.home for joining us this hour. thank you at-home for joinin us this hour movie commercial for it. they called it "the beacon of freedom." this is a thing i knew existed. i had no idea they launched it with this short film. but it is worth watching now. it is only like 20 seconds or so. o watch this. >> first of all, the idea of something being from the desk of someone and that thing also being a fast-moving enough thing

the rachel maddow starts right now. >> thank you, my frent.aster general, louis dejoy, who has been trying to dismantle and sabotage the u.s. post office for more than a year now, since he has been running it, today we learned that louis dejoy is under fbi investigation for an allegedly criminal political donation scheme that he ran out of his business for years before he got the post office gig during the trump administration. we have reported on that alleged scheme extensively here on the show, in part because i

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour. president trump's postmaster general, louis dejoy, who has been trying to dismantle and sabotage the u.s. post office for more than a year now since he's been running it, today we learned he's under investigation for an allegedly criminal political donation scheme he ran out of his business for years. before he got the post office gig during the trump administration. we have reported on that alleged scheme extensively here on the show. in part because it is really quite oddly reminiscent of the thing that nixon's vice president spyreagnew did that got him indicted and thrown out as president of the united states. we're going to speak with a reporter who helped break that story in just a few minutes. before we get to that big news i want to circle back to a story we covered a few months ago out of missouri. it was a story center on this republican elected official. her name is patricia durrgess. he went to medical school in the caribbean. when she came

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. as your father's day. >> it was unbelievable. it was almost destroyed but a travel delay and i came very close to a just full breakdown in the airport. i felt it slipping away from me because i was already rolling the dice, but then that got fixed and i did get to have a lovely father's day dinner. it was awesome. >> fantastic. i'm glad your meltdown moved the world so that everything could be in place. well done. thanks. good to have you back. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. all right. so, it's ten years ago -- it's 2011 in the nation of iceland and a business man from iceland decided to launch a brand-new venture in his home country. and he was a businessman in a

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. right now.ening, rachel >> if you are staff secretary in the white house, what that means is that you are the person in charge of managing the paper flow around the president. all the documents and materials that are handed to the president everything the president is asked to review everything the president does review anything that ends up on the president's desk, everything that goes to the president or from the president white house staff secretary is the person in charge of keeping all of that in order. it's very important. it's very sensitive job. you see everything that imagine, it's an incredibly not only detail-oriented job and 24/7 job but a job for which you need to be an incredibly trustworthy person. in february 2018 -- almost exactly a year into the trump presidency, the staff secretary at the trump white house had to resign for a terrible reason. he had to resign because both of his ex-wives came forward with lurid and terrible domestic violence allegations against him. that young

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have thrown out the show as we sometimes have to do because we need to start tonight with some news that has just broken on the front page of "the new york times." this is a big deal. i will tell you we're about to speak with one of the reporters whose is bylined on the story. we're also about to speak with one of the subjects of this story. but in all the time i have been in this business, i have never covered anything quite like this before. i have never read about anything like this before happening in american politics, in government. as far as we know, nothing like this has ever happened before. but "the new york times" says tonight that it has, and the consequences remain to be seen. all right. let me spell this out. you may have read over the last couple of weeks newly reported revelations about the justice department under donald trump secretly obtaining the communications of a number of reporters, journal

the rachel "maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris. thank you my friend. much appreciated. thank you for joining us this hour. it doesn't always work this way right after a holiday weekend, but it's right after a holiday weekend and the news is on full blast today. sometimes, it's sort of a slower on ramp back into the news but not today. >>> president biden today was in tulsa, oklahoma touring the greenwood district, the prosperous, self-sufficient, african-american neighborhood in tulsa that 100 years ago this week was beset by a white mob. as the president said today it was not a riot. it was a massacre. thousands of homes and businesses not only looted but burned to the ground. whole blocks of homes and businesses and churches and newspapers and restaurants destroyed by a white mob that not only shot black tulsans in the street, killing innumerable people, literally unnumbered people, the total death toll not known to this day from the tulsa race massacre, but they not only shot people in the street but they literally dropped home

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> much appreciated. thank you for joining us. happy to have you. as president biden preparing for a summit tomorrow with rush president vladimir putin it's been a white knuckle day for democracy back here at home. in a congressional hearing today on the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol, there was no explanation. none. for why the national guard stood down for hours. while the capitol was over run that day by a huge violent mob of trump supporters. the committee and the house documented 12 different requests to the pentagon that day. trying to get help from the national guard. 12 different requests. while the attack was under way. five different times the national guard was told that they needed to standby. and be ready to maybe do something. but it was close to five hours before any national guard troops were sent to the capitol. at which point the capitol was well and truly overrun. today one of the pentagon officials who couldn't explain that delay in dispatching the guard on january 6, one of the officials who couldn't exp

rachel maddow show starts right now. at home for joining us this hour. happy friday. happy to have you here. >>> on california's central coast, about halfway between los angeles and san francisco, give or take a few miles. is san luis obispo. it's got an historic, 18th-century mission. it is a lovely place. if you -- if you visit, you should know that locals call the county slow county. slo. but they pronounce it slow. don't say slo county, they will know you are not from around there. some of the people who have recently ins

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. ing chris, much appreciated. thank you all for joining us this hour. he went to morehouse. he got a law degree from emory, he had a distinguished career in the state of the new jersey in the most populist county in new jersey. he became a

the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. you go, that we have to ask you and your staff to move things around to accommodate things for our show, and i am very, very grateful to you guys for being able to do that. i made your work day much harder. i'm sorry. i owe you and i am thankful. >> i'll do anything for you. no worries. >> never say that. thank you. appreciate it. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. i will tell you in advance we are

we just heard congresswoman jayapal in the last hour with rachel maddow speaking very positively about this agreement today. even though it leaves out her priorities because she expects her priorities as senator sanders does to be dealt with in the next bill. senator sanders speaking very positively today about this bipartisan agreement. so, it does seem to be taking shape on the democratic side. as intended. it's just a question of what does that reconciliation bill end up being and how many compromises will have to be made there? >> again, it's going to be the presidents priorities for the american families plan, plus climate which came out of the jobs plan. lawrence, i am so glad you started with that. president biden has been doubted since he declared presidency. he's not progressive enough to win the primary, he could win the general election. he did all of those things. we couldn't pass the rescue plan at 1.9 trillion dollars. people keep underestimating joe biden and they're dead wrong. he said from the beginning i have a rescue plan and then i'm coming back with a jobs plan to

look like i am taking any credit at all for seeing what everybody else saw, including 99% of "the rachel maddow show" audience. >> yes, that's exactly right. what i said was, like, i could have told you that and so could anybody else watching or something like that. but even phrasing it in that way sent a line of hives up my spine which i have to now go home and cope with in terms of me having said i told you so. >> but here we are. and it is where we thought we were going to be, which is okay, nothing from the kind of attempt to compromise with republicans. now there is a discussion going on with a kind of ad hoc group of senators, president biden calling up some of them directly. so now we're at the second stage of an attempt at some form of bipartisan. and the third stage, if we get to it, is some way of doing it with democrats only and joe manchin says, sorry, 60-vote threshold is going to be there, so we're not sure where we are. >> here's the thing. we know for sure that republicans are never going to vote for the infrastructure bill, and even if one or two does, they won't do so in signi

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> before you go, we had to ask you and your staff tom very, very grateful to you guys for being able to do that. i made your workday harder. i'm sorry, i owe you, and i am thankful. >> i will do anything for you.

rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, thank you, my friend. have an excellent weekend and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy friday. happy to have you here. >>> on california's central coast, about halfway between los angeles and san francisco, give or take a few miles. is san luis obispo. it's got an historic, 18th-century mission. it is a lovely place. if you -- if you visit, you should know that locals call the county slow county. slo. but they pronounce it slow. don't say slo county, they will know you are not from around there. some of the people who have recently inserted themselves in local san luis obispo county politics have made that mistake, thus marking themselves as outsiders. but a few weeks ago, couple weeks ago here, on the show, we reported on a sort of troubling situation. in san luis county. the county supervisors were holding their regular meeting they opened the phones to public comment. and what they got was hours and hours of public com

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris.ork this way right after a holiday weekend but it's right after a holiday weekend and the news is on full blast today. sometimes it's sort of a slower on ramp back into the news but not today. president biden today was in tulsa, oklahoma touring the greenwood district, the prosperous, self-sufficient, african-american neighborhood in tulsa that 100 years ago this week was beset by a white mob as the president said today it was not a riot. it was a massacre. thousands of homes and businesses not only looted but burned to the ground. whole blocks of homes and businesses and churches and newspapers and