"the rachel maddow show" starts with ari melber. good evening, ari. >> thank you, chris. >>> i'm ari melber in for rachel during her much deserved vacation. i have some good news on that and her return which we'll share with you later tonight. it involves actually some of you or at least one of you, an msnbc viewer who happens to be a wonderful grandma. this is real and we'll get into it later after some of the news. now, as for the kind of good news that usually leads the actual news, today the white house announcing 50% of americans are fully vaccinated against covid. a key milestone thanks to the quickening rate of vaccinations, up 11% in the last week, and up 44% over two weeks. these improving signs come but not soon enough for everyone. consider that last year, around this time, there were about 57,000 new covid cases per day. so that's one way to count it. that is a clear number. and that was obviously a lot. you know, we lived through this together. 2020 was a year that became synonymous with tough times. so how are we doing

as for replacing rachel maddow, she is irreplaceable. going to do at 9:00. perhaps there is a way for rachel to tape the kind of features she does and she slot it in as a tape versus live. her fans are absolutely rabid in the same way sean hannity's fans love him at fox news. rachel maddow's fans are crazy for her, so it's not an easy decision for msnbc. obviously she's a hugely, high-rated talent in that slot. finding somebody else to replace her is going to be a very difficult job for the network. >> yes, it is. yes, it is. joe, you also wrote about another succession story this week, "jeopardy." we know mike richards is out as host but he's still producer for now. who will be taking over "jeopardy" for now, do we know? >> it's still up in the air, but i wouldn't rule out ken jennings. he did some hosting. mayim bialik is also in the running. mike richards is there now, but it does not believe he's "there." part of the objective is to get the shows out of the way they needed to get out of the way, and now the show is going on a hiatus a

if you catch me hosting for rachel maddow on friday, you might know pat. ion will ending and when will she be back? >> you can't ask that. it's just when will she be back? that's the question. when will she be back? >> okay, okay. here's a picture of her. rachel maddow's page is a picture of her with a fish. >> probably she's fishing somewhere, yes. i could have told you that. she's fishing. i want to know when she's gonna be back. >> that's the question. now rachel was out last week and nicolle and ali and myself all filled in a bit. when i was guest hosting on friday, rachel's team had the idea of playing pat's video on rachel's show. if you want to know what pat was thinking at the moment we can show you because her granddaughter, as she does, was filming her grandmother's surprise at seeing herself on her favorite show. so this is a little meta, but here you go. >> i don't want to know where she is. i mean that's her business where she is on her vacation. it's not my business. so -- so there. >> now, pat could have told you she's fishing. you can see sh

. >> i recently finished rachel maddow's book "blowout." have you read it? >> i should probably just sit down and read it. >> i was going to ask you to comment because i'm sure she read your book as part of your research. rrs but she further connects the dots of big oil with the far right. also into countries that aren't democratic because where people have a voice, they make them clean up after themselves, etc. >> thanks. good question. i hope she's read my book. i've been at few of these talk wheres they're like you have to send your book. i've sent her my book. obviously, she's on the mark. and what you heard today and will read through the book is, you know, i think -- how to put it? giving the subjects at all levels somewhat the benefit of the doubt. trying to show through the textured detail of how oil is certainly been a destructive force globally. and the same companies have done great damage, something that rachel maddow highlights. but i'm trying to explain how people were willing to take on those costs, even at a personal level or what were their

>> i recently finished rachel maddow's book "blowout". have you read it? >> this question comes up quite often and i should probably sit down and read it. [ laughter ] >> well, i was just going to ask you to comment because i'm sure she's read your book as part of her research. but she further connects the dots of big oil with the far right, but also into countries that aren't democratic, because where people have a voice they make them reduce their margins to clean up after themselves, et cetera. >> thanks, yeah. good question. well, i hope she's read my book. i've been at a few of these talks, they're like, you've got to send her your book. i was, like, i've sent her my book. [ laughter ] >> so if you have direct access, maybe send her an email. i don't know. but i would love to have a conversation with her. obviously she's on the mark and what you heard today and will read through the book is, you know, i think -- how to put it, giving the subjects at all levels somewhat the benefit of the doubt, trying to show through the detail, description, narrative

rachel maddow show starts now, good evening rachel. show starts now, good evening rachel. of mississippi, independent senator angus king of maine, and democratic senator john hickenlooper of colorado all announced today they have tested positive. all three of these men were fully vaccinated, which just puts aat spotlight on how very, very contagious the delta variant of this virus is. the delta variant basically makes up the exclusive variant in our country now. it also underscores the administration's decision that fully vaccinated americans should get the booster shot. all three are likely to be okay because they were vaccinated. the good news on covid today is that withinov the last 24

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. evening, rachel. >> good evening and thank you my friend. much appreciated. thanks at home for joining us this hour. we're going to start tonight if we can, we are battling technical difficulties, but we're going to try to start tonight live in kabul. it is 5:30 in the morning tuesday morning right now. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel as

third thing here, rachel maddow, in the wall street journal, that she's staying. now -- >> i think you're very interested in this story >> she's making -- we have the same agent he seems to really work hard for her. do you now get paid in bitcoin with your huge rachel maddow style bonus? have you requested that? >> i did a -- i get upset every time people talk about paying bitcoin in anything. do you pay for anything in bitcoin? >> would i >> of course not. >> you buy a pizza and a ferrari a couple years later >> you pay capital gains tax on it you do it when you're down i'll take the tax write-off or pay for my mortgage or pizza, but you wouldn't pay for anything in bitcoin. maybe you could get paid in it, that's different. >> maybe have the money for the irs just so they can watch people with crypto how do they monitor? that's another -- >> interesting to talk to some people i ask people about this question on the capital gains issue all the time and they say it is not a big deal, kelly, but that -- watch the stable coins all the stuff happening on exchanges, bu

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. thank you my friend. much appreciated. thanks at home for joining us this hour. we're going to start tonight if we can, we are battling technical difficulties, but we're going to try to start tonight live in

the rachel maddow shows right now. the rachel maddow shows righ now.and ready. >> i will say, following along with your kids through, this is how we in the hayes family make our fresh pasta, go get the drying rack, very impressive. >> yes. the shaw/hayes family. you have to start them young on the pasta making, and the pasta made last night was -- it was very good. >> very good. well, welcome back. zer lena and mehdi, our lovely colleagues, they're great, but there's only one you. we missed you. welcome back. >> thanks to you at home for being with us today. happy to have you here. cnn is reporting tonight on what sounds like it may be a dramatic turn in the investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. nbc news has not verified this reporting. i am

joining me is steve benin, producer on the rachel maddow show, prolisk blogger for the maddo blog.ublicans quit governing and seized politics. good to see you. we honed in on you quickly when we said we need to have this conversation with people. democrats in particular, who want to understand what motivates joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, and not the same thing motivates both of them. let's start with joe manchin. what's unusual about him that is keeping him being the stick in the mud in the democratic party in the senate right now? >> i think senator manchin, of course, is one of the most conservative democrats in congress and has for many years. comes from a state donald trump won twice. he comes to the table with a certain motivation. i think he wants to see democrats and republicans work together. he wants to see bipartisan cooperation on practically every issue. and that becomes a bit of a hurdle for democratic governance. for most democrats in congress, the first question they ask when they consider a bill or a piece of legislation is, is this bill a good idea? is it worthwh

against former president donald trump about his phone call with the president of ukraine joins "the rachel maddow show" live at 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight on msnbc. but first, "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> tonight, on "all in." the nationwide rise in covid cases continues and so does the red-state race to the bottom. >> we've got republican governors, across this country, pretending they didn't shut down their states. >> tonight, the republican governor actually doing the best job holding the delta variant at bay. then, surgeon general vivek murthy on a genuine vaccine surge across america. plus, new yorker's jane mayor on the dark money funding the big lie. and why is this congresswoman about to spend her fifth-straight night sleeping on the steps of the capitol? >> we can't go on recess. we can't go on vacation when millions of people's lives are at risk. >>> congresswoman cori bush joins me live when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. as the delta variant moves through the country with truly stunning speed, senator lindsay graham is the

. >> tucker: so the rachel maddow impersonator didn't believe it but it wasn't just dumb people on cables. that was anthony fauci who is in charge of the u.s. governments covert response. that was scott gottlieb who ran the fda. these were in positions of authority come respected as scientists whose word carries great moral weight and they all lied. "the new york times" led the way on this. a recent piece on the unheard.com. beginning in the winter of last year, the very beginning of the outbreak of covid, they introduced it as fringe theory. "the new york times" reporter called it the kind of conspiracy once reserved for the tinfoil hatters. then a few weeks later the paper published an op-ed by peter dowd like, that virologist paid by tony fauci to experiment on that coronavirus is. needless to say he denied the virus came from any lab he was funding. but he knew better. instead he blamed the pandemic, and we are quoting now, on road building, deforestation, land clearing and agricultural development. in other words he blamed it on poor people. as 2020 continue to come out lives like t

. >> that is "all in" and "the rachel maddow show" starts now with ali. >> a man in virginia named travis campbell has been in the hospital more than a week because of complications from covid-19. he was unvaccinated, so were his wife and their children, all caught the virus in july. wife explained to nbc quote, we thought we were invincible, weren't going to get it. now he's in icu struggling to breathe and has urgent warning for anyone who like him has not gotten the covid vaccine. >> the delta strain is something else. i would ask you if you thought that you had to sit down and plan your goodbyes and funeral, or go get the covid vaccine, what -- what would you do? i'd hope to god that all my friends and family would not say somebody hand me a piece of paper and a pen. that's a sobering thought of which i have done. i have planned. last night my wife and i had to make a decision if i was going to allow them to put me on a ventilator. worst-case scenario. and i don't want to be on one. but i want to live. >> i want to live. as far as how his family is doing, gave this update on facebook.

"rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening. thank you for joining us at this hour. happy to have you here. i cannot sing at all. you know how some people can like sort of sing and match a note or not carry a tune? i cannot sing at all. people cry when i try happy birthday. when i sing the national anthem, it sounds like i cry. the only saving grace is susan is equally terrible. we can sing together. nobody else can hear us sing. because i'm terrible at that and astonishing, i never make fun of anyone else's singing. no matter what. ♪ god bless america ♪ ♪ my home sweet home ♪♪ >> that was the rendition of god bless america that greeted conference goers at the cyber symposium that is under way all week in south dakota. hosted by the ceo of the pillow company named mike lindell. you might have seen his name in the week because of the conservative trump appointed judge in d.c. allowed a massive multibill on dollar lawsuit to go forward against him and rudy giuliani and trump lawyer sydney powell. that was filed by dominion voting systems. that company has been vilified

i will be right back with my friend rachel maddow, "the beat" with my friend ari melber. >> i want to welcome you to "the beat." we have a lot of news tonight. senator durbin is here as the trump's doj is prepping for witnesses. we'll explain with the evidence. governor cuomo with an investigation with a new report. the president urging the unvaccinated to go ahead and do it, get the shots. everyone sees how this delta variant of covid is surging in different parts of the country. president biden is calling out governors who are standsing in the way of what he calls an urgent fright to save lives. >> some state officials are passing laws or signing orders that forbid people from doing the right thing. as of now, seven states banned mask mandates. i say to these states, please help, if you are not going to help but there's get out of the way. he's literally telling people, desantis, get out of the way, let me handle it. don't make it worse for the least of the request of the federal government may make. desantis, a trump's favorite in florida continuing to vow to fight the safety measu

. >> jeez, i was just wondering why you were dressed like rachel maddow's mechanic. >> stephen: pleaseo meet you. i said this to jon earlier, but i wanted to repeat this, that i had seen the mayor of beast town and saw "hacks" and i'm loving it but thought who is hannah einbinder? how come i don't know who this person is? and my staff says, she's been on your show. so you pre-taped this actual set. so here you are, this is your first television experience, just weeks before the entire country shut down. >> i was just a boy then. >> stephen: yes. ( laughter ) and now you've had your hollywood bar mitzvah. you have your own tv show. so what was the night like? what was the actual doing the show? >> oh, my god it was in a word fabulous. i walked in through the back door. i think there was a bit of a mist or maybe a fog. i heard, like, a wolf's cry. sinatra was on. >> stephen: sure. and i went into the dressing room, classy decor, sort of a west elm, sort of your restoration hardware. >> stephen: sure. gorgeous. there was a gorgeous gift bag. >> stephen: oh, good. great stuff? >> great pai

. >> that is all in on this tuesday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now. ng, rachel. vening, rachel odd but not explicit e-mails from mark foley. even though i have not seen the e-mails i reported what i'd been told. i've since been told newspapersa had these e-mails for months and foley lied about them. later more e-mails were revealed. so i forced him to resign. i'm disappointed i didn't catch his lies before. for that i'm sorry.ig >> and that's the end of the ad. it ends like that. for that i'm sorry, go to black. he's sorry for that. he's very sorry about that, but what exactly is he sorry about?

that does it for us, one more programming note, i will be in fori rachel maddow on tonight 9:00 p.m.88 the reid out" with joy reid starts right now. you know why you were talking transportation? >> because it's infrastructure a week.s it's been infrastructure week forever and ever. get ready. get ready for the 9:00.e it's a lot of research. all right. see ya later.

the rachel maddow shows right now. l. >> it. >>> the british invaded afghanistan in 1839. they were in charge in india right next door. their reach as the british empire extended around the world. they were worried that the regime in charge in afghanistan in the 1830s. they are worried that they were siding with russia instead of them, giving russia too much influence in a place where britain thought they should be in charge. so in 1839, the brits invaded afghanistan. they tried to install their own guy who they had hand-picked to run afghanistan who they thought

the rachel maddow shows right now. good evening rachel. >> it. >>> the british invaded afghanistan in 1839. they were in charge in india right next door. their reach as the british empire extended around the world. they were worried that the regime in charge in afghanistan in the 1830s. they are worried that they were siding with russia instead of them, giving russia too much influence in a place where britain thought they should be in charge. so in 1839, the brits invaded afghanistan. they tried to install their own guy who they had hand-picked to run afghanistan who they thought would make afghanistan closely aligned with them. the british stayed to fight that war, but ultimately it did not work out. the brits left in 1842. but then 35, 40 years later, the british army tried again. the brits were freaked out all over again that a place they thought ought to be aligned with them was actually more inclined with russia, the same thing that had driven them 35, 40 years before. so in 1848, the british invaded afghanistan a

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening and thank you my friend. much appreciated. thanks at home for joining us this hour. we're going to start tonight if we can, we are battling technical difficulties, but we're going to try to start tonight live in kabul. it is 5:30 in the morning tuesday morning right now. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel as you probably know has spent big portions of the last two decades of his life in afghanistan during the war there. richard also weeks ago reported on some of the last fierce fighting by elite afghan commando units fighting against taliban forces. we now know that was some of the last fighting like that that there was in afghanistan and richard was right there in the middle of it. but now that the taliban have been able to take control of, first, all the provincial capitals, and then the whole country including kabul, without fighting at all, not in a military operation but just in what appears to have been a negotiated surrender by

attorney general eric holder on the rachel maddow show. keep the tv on. watch them all.be listening to what everyone has to say. thanks for joining me on the beat. "the reidout" starts right now. >> thanks for the promo. appreciate t i see you didn't make my favorite anthem. i like the one that won in the interview you just go. we love a good protest anthem. cool segment. >> amen. >> i was still right though. yeah. >> you were. >> i just thank you, my friend. have a good evening. >> see you. >> take care. >>> good evening, everyone. we begin "the reidout" with the covid coronavirus that feels like it's spiraling out of control. cases are surging throughout the country and hospitals are understaffed and overflowing. this is a crisis that could have been prevented. but instead it's being driven by a minority of americans who are refusing to to to get vaccinated or to take any precautions, to stop the spread. at the white house coronavirus briefing today officials continue to plead with americans to please just get the shot. they also had set

the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, thank you my friend, much appreciated, and thanks for joining this hour. happy to have you here. what a day this has been. today not one, not two, but three united states senators all announced that they have just contracted covid-19. republican senator roger wicker of mississippi, independent senate angus king of maine, and democratic senator john hickenlooper of colorado announced today they have all tested positive. all three of these men were fully vaccinated which puts a spotlight on how very contagious the delta variant of this virus is, the delta variant basically makes up the exclusive variant in our country now. it also underscores the administration's decision to recommend that fully vaccinated americans should get booster shots starting next month. all three senators got infected even though they were vaccinated. statistically speaking all three are likely to be okay because they were vaccinated. the good news on covid today is within t

. >> that is "all in" and "the rachel maddow show" starts now with ali. >> a man in virginia named travis was unvaccinated, so were his wife and their children, all caught the virus in july. wife explained to nbc quote, we thought we were invincible, weren't going to get it. now he's in icu struggling to breathe and has urgent warning for anyone who like him has not gotten the covid vaccine. >> the delta strain is something

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening. thanks for joining us this hour. the word failure is never good news. coming from a doctor, all the more so. but when you hear that word used as it was today by the clinical director of one state's flagship university hospital and level one trauma center, when you hear that word, failure, used this specific way by this specific kind of doctor, that is not just bad news. that is national news. >> so since the pandemic, i think the thing that hospitals have feared the most is just total failure of the hospital system. and, you know, if we track back a week or so, when we look at the case positivity rate, the number of new positives that we're seeing, the rate of the testing positives, and the rate of hospitalizations based on what we're seeing, if we continue that trajectory, within the next five, seven, to ten days, i think we're going to see failure of the hospital system in mississippi. hospitals are full from memphis to gulfport, everything is full. if there were, schools coming back, if there were a bus wreck of k

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. you, my friend. much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour. this is one of those news days where i spent the whole day prepping for a completely different show than the one we're going to end up doing tonight. a lot of just tearing stuff up and starting over today, which is fine. but there's just a lot of important developing news, including news stories that are developing over the course of this evening. and we are going to cover a lot of different bases tonight. we are, of course, keeping eyes on afghanistan and what is turning out to be just a massive, massive unprecedent in size u.s.

that is all in on this wednesday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening, racheling mary, thank you my french, much appreciated and thank you for joining us this hour. we are going to start tonight with a story where when i start to tell the story you are going to think that you know where it is going. you're gonna think that you know where this is going to end up. tonight with a story where when i start to tell this story, you are going to think that you know where it's going. you're going to think that you know where this is going to end up. but i'm telling you, you are wrong about that. this is an amazing story that happened today. it does not end where you think it does. i don't mean like this is a weird cable news tease thing or anything. i will just say i believe it is my experience of having done this show for 13-plus years and knowing what matters to people when we put it on tv and knowing what news chances the way you think about the world, this is one of those stories, so just watch this. stick with me until the end, okay? here we go. september 2010, the

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening. thank you, my friend, much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour. >>> this was the front page of the "florida times union" in jacksonville, florida. covid kills 19 people in three days at university of florida hospitals. then over on the right side, the a-1, hospitals bursting, fear staff shortage. that is jacksonville, florida, today. here's biloxi, mississippi, the "sun herald." front page today, nearly 8,000 new virus cases part of unbridled spread on the gulf coast. here's the "opa-locka auburn news" in auburn, alabama. only two icu rooms in state of alabama are unoccupied. here's the front page in rome, georgia. "the rome news tribune." rooms scarce for covid-19 patients as serious covid cases rise. the influx of patients is stressing local hospitals. here on the left side of your screen is beaumont, texas. covid stretching the hospitals. more nurses needed. on the right side of your screen, that's waco, texas. virus depths and hospitalizations grow. look at this from melb

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour. this is one of those news days where i spent the whole day prepping for a completely different show than the one we're going to end up doing tonight. a lot of just tearing stuff up and starting over today, which is fine. but there's just a lot of important developing news, including news stories that are developing over the course of this evening. and we are going to cover a lot of different bases tonight. we are, of course, keeping eyes on afghanistan and what is turning out to be just a massive, massive unprecedent in size u.s. military airlift out of that country. in recent days we have watched as the number of people being airlifted out of kabul climb from a few hundred per day to 2,000 per day to 5,000 per day to 11,000 per day. today the pentagon says they airlifted 19,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is just an astonishing number. that's one big u.s. military cargo plane full of people every 39 m

"the rachel maddow show" starts with ari melber. r rachel during her much deserved vacation. i have some good news on that and her return which we'll share with you later tonight. it involves actually some of you or at least one of you, an msnbc viewer who happens to be a wonderful grandma. this is real and we'll get into it later after some of the news. now, as for the kind of good news that usually leads the actual news, today the white house announcing 50% of americans are fully vaccinated against covid. a key milestone thanks to the quickening rate of vaccinations, up 11% in the last we,

the rachel maddow starts now with nicolle in for rachel. >> hi there. i love to see you like this. i usually watch you in my sweat pants on the couch so it's nice to see you. >>> and thanks to all of you at home for joining us this hour. rachel's on vacation but we'll get through it together. we have so much to get to tonight, a lot of news developing today on a number of different fronts. we start with a solemn ceremony in the white house rose garden this evening where president biden signed legislation awarding congressional gold medals to the police officers who defended the u.s. capitol on january 6th. one medal goes to the u.s. capitol police, another to the washington, d.c. metropolitan police department. medals honoring the heroism of all the law enforcement officers who protected the capitol that day will be displayed at the capitol itself as well as at the smithsonian museum. the ceremony was attended by many law enforcement officers who were at the capitol on january 6th, and in an emotional speech the president offered his gratitude. >> thank you, thank you, thank you fo

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening.friend, much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour. >>> this was the front page of the "florida times union" in jacksonville, florida. covid kills 19 people in three days at university of florida hospitals. then over on the right side, the a-1, hospitals bursting, fear staff shortage. that is jacksonville, florida, today. here's biloxi, mississippi, the "sun herald." front page today, nearly 8,000 new virus cases part of unbridled spread on the gulf coast. here's the "opa-locka auburn

time now though for "the rachel maddow show." good evening, rachel. >> good evening, mehdi. you have done a fantastic job filling in. i know you get no rest whatsoever before going back to your regular schedule. i hope you at least know what a great job you are done and how much we appreciate it. >> rachel, i appreciate that. i appreciate our brief chats here at night live on tv. thank you for your support always >> all right. see you sunday, mehdi. thank you. >>> and thanks for joining us this hour. happy to have you here this friday night. there's a lot going on tonight, particularly for friday, a lot of news we are tracking. jim laportea is a u.s. marine, an infantryman who was a veteran of the war in afghanistan. mr. laportea is now an excellent journalist. we have had him here on the show several times featuring his reporting from among other places "the military times wrchl he now works as an investigative correspondent for the associated press. tonight he was first to break the news that a new phase is under way or at least a new resource is being brought to bear on t

time now though for "the rachel maddow show." good evening, rachel. >> good evening, mehdi. hope you at least know what a great job you are done and how much we appreciate it. >> rachel, i appreciate that. i appreciate our brief chats here at night live on tv. thank you for your support always >> all right. see you sunday, mehdi. thank you. >>> and thanks for joining us this hour. happy to have you here this friday night. there's a lot going on tonight, particularly for friday, a lot of news we are tracking. jim laportea is a u.s. marine, an infantryman who was a veteran

"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. it was just over ten years ago -- it was actually ten years ago, almost exactly. and -- and an elite u.s. army ranger unit had gone on a mission in a dangerous part of wardak province. wardak province is just southwest of kabul. and those elite rangers were on a mission to go after a senior figure in the taliban. and they were inserted to go start that mission, to go find their target inserted by air, by helicopter. once they were on the ground, they ended up in some sort of significant fight on the ground. and a decision was made that a second bolstering force would be sent in. basically, to help them to bolster what they were doing and also to get them. that force was a considerable force. bringing with them a considerable amount of weaponry, skill, combat experience. almost unparalleled among the u.s. military. and that second force was sent in on one of these. a huge u.s. army chinook h

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.t home for joining us this hour. it was just over ten years ago -- it was actually ten years ago, almost exactly. and -- and an elite u.s. army ranger unit had gone on a mission in a dangerous part of wardak province. wardak province is just southwest of kabul. and those elite rangers were on a mission to go after a

the rachel maddow show starts now. ening, thank you my friend, much appreciated, and thanks for joining this hour. happy to have you here. what a day this has been. today not one, not two, but three united states senators all announced that they have just contracted covid-19. republican senator roger wicker of mississippi, independent senate angus king of maine, and democratic senator john hickenlooper of colorado announced today they have all tested positive. all three of these men were fully vaccinated which puts a

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening.h appreciated. >>> this was the front page of the "florida times union" in jacksonville, florida. covid kills 19 people in three days at university of florida hospitals. then over on the right side, the a-1, hospitals bursting, fear staff shortage. that is jacksonville, florida, today. here's biloxi, mississippi, the "sun herald."

major shoeman spoke with rachel maddow about saving the man who helped him. >> knowing all the different all the different ways you worked on this, i feel like i can't imagine if this was -- if zach would have been my interpreter if i had been trying to do this, i don't know what else i would have done that you didn't do. and still it just seems like he barely, barely made it. it feels like this was maximal resources for something that only just barely worked. that's my perception from the outside. is that what it feels like to you? >> we pulled every lever, poked every bear. it was just a series of hail marys and when senator durbin, we're very grateful that he took this cause and brought it to the top and we thought that that's it, we're -- that will be it, negative, and there's so many close calls and so many moments where we thought maybe we contacted the right person, maybe we had the right solution to this and it was a series of tragic events that just continued to unfold and so many close calls and it was a very harrowing experience over the last month or two. >> do you feel like

the rachel maddow show starts right now. rachel. >> good evening betty, great to see you my. friend thank you very, very much. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy monday. i've been on vacation for the last couple of weeks. been on vacation for th last couple of weeks happy monday. i have been on vacation for the last couple of weeks. first, two-week vacation i have ever had, in my whole life. it was amazing. i want to say a big thank you to the team, here, who held down the fort. c wo thank you to ali velshi and nicolle wallace, and ari melber for filling in while i was away and doing such an amazing job. but we've got -- um -- i feel like -- i feel like the news gods gave me, like, a welcome-back, like, care package. that is slightly over -- overflowing. in terms of the amount of news to process and talk about and get up to date with. so, we are going to jump right in. our first guest tonight is a big deal. and you are going to want to see this interview.f ge um, if -- if you are serving ina the united stat

the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening. rachel. >> how was your time off, chris? we missed you terribly. >> oh, that's kind of you. it was blissful, a lot of time with my family, a lot of sun. it was wonderful. huge thanks to mehdi and zerlina for making that happen. i feel tan, rested, and ready. >> i will say following along with your fresh pasta making and like kind of like walking your kids through, this is how we in the hayes family make our fresh pasta, go get the drying rack, very impressive. >> yes. the shaw/hayes family. you have to start them young on the pasta making, and the pasta made last night was -- it was very good. >> very good. well, welcome back. zerlina and mehdi, our loverly colleagues, they're great, but there's only one you. we missed you. welcome back. >> thanks to you at home for being with us today. happy to have you here. cnn is reporting tonight on what sounds like it may be a dramatic turn in the investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. nbc news has not verified this reporting. i'm just citing what cnn has report

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening. thanks for joining us this hour.u hear that word used as it was today by the clinical director of one state's flagship university hospital and level one trauma center, when you hear that word, failure, used this specific way by this specific kind of doctor, that is not just bad news. that is national news. >> so since the pandemic, i think the thing that hospi

"rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening. thank you for joining us at this hour. you here. i cannot sing at all. you know how some people can like sort of sing and match a note or not carry a tune? i cannot sing at all. people cry when i try happy birthday. when i sing the national anthem, it sounds like i cry. the only saving grace is susan is equally terrible.

the rachel maddow starts now with nicolle in for rachel. >> hi there. i love to see you like this. you in my sweat pants on the couch so it's nice to see you. >>> and thanks to all of you at home for joining us this hour.