. >> rachel maddow slammed for taking the bait on a false story about ivermectin doses.ients overdosing on ivermectin backing up rural oklahoma hospitals and ambulances. this article was been debunked and nevertheless we have these articles from the liberal media co. chamber started with rolling stone making the most headline, don't forget the new york daily news, newsweek, business insider all echoing the same thing but here's rachel maddow tweeting out the article in question. i am guessing that won't be consequences, will there be? >> why hasn't rachel maddow taken down her tweet, many are asking this because she reaches millions of followers but it is up there. probably the reason she's not taking it down as she knows she can mislead and put unhinged claims inside her own network, no one pushed russia collusion harder than rachel maddow, she's the adam schiff of cable news hosts. what happened after was debunked? she didn't apologize and nbc awarded rachel a boatload of cash and a new contract because it is about clicks and ratings, not facts and honesty and the fact

rachel maddow can push things.t happened she didn't apologize and nbc rewarded her with a boat load of cash because it is not about clicks and ratings but clicks and ratings not facts and honesty. >> bill: rolling stone did correct the story. i know that over the weekend. i think -- >> they updated it. >> i don't know if the station where the story originated, i don't know if they've done a correction. a statement from the hospital northeastern health system. the doctor who was quoted in the piece had not worked at our location in over two months, we have not treated any paishents with complications for taking ivermectin and not treating any paishents for ivermectin overdose. who has gone on record to clear it up and who hasn't? >> that's the thing, right? all it took was one phone call, bill, from -- who originally reported on this story. asked the hospital, does that doctor work there and they would have been told no, he hasn't worked in two months and commenting on a story. you don't go with a single source for

why hasn't rachel maddow then banned from spreading this propaganda or this conspiracy theory that'sit down or censoring her? >> kayleigh: i think i know the answer, drew holden summed this up perfectly. it should go without saying. inventing that out of thin air, it would have taken a single phone call to shoot down the story. why did this happen? he goes on to say, you won't hear any outrage because this is the acceptable right of a political lie and they will keep doing this because they care more about scoring cheap junk on their opponent than getting the truth. is not it, tommy? this is the kind of political lie that's acceptable. >> julie: may equate that with republicans and those that have vaccine hesitancy, they want to make it political. they have done it and in every turn they have used covid to try to squash ideas. but as julie mentioned i think that's very interesting. i tweeted before that vaccination is a political choice, and i have had that flagged. and that is perfectly acceptable. i think the american people are starting to catch on to this, and come 22 and 24 peop

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we got the book. we got it early. the book is called "peril" by "the washington post" journalists bob woodward and robert robert costa. it's not being published until next week. we've obtained a copy tonight, evidence of speed-reading here, a rachel maddow specialty. this book has important news in it. what this book is about broadly speaking the peril it's describing in its title is just how fraught and dangerous the period was for the country surrounding the 2020 election and immediately thereafter. and we know it was fraught and dangerous. we had our national capitol come under violent attack. but the thing that is so bracing and nerve-wracking and important about this new book is what it reveals about how much worse it was than we knew, how much closer we came to real disaster than we have known before now. so, again, this comes out next week. we have obtained a copy of it. this is how the book starts. quote, two days after the janua

you know when you're watching the rachel maddow show. and she's going on this. then you have no idea where she's going. she is just going down this trail. for example when she's talking about grand isle's dan, and i'm going what the, what is she talking about? and rachel, i don't want to date myself. but all of my experience, was before they had a liquor license. so, so, when we discover, we meaning me. and i guess america. that this little barr in harvard square, made supreme court history through of course, the trial. that is the most important thing i have learned about the texas law. is that law, dated by the supreme court states that a private entity cannot enforce the laws, in the way that this texas abortion law wants private citizens to enforce the law. >> it does seem that there are several paths to the end of that texas law. in the one about that bar in cambridge, made me, one if not the most direct, i will also say that i know you're not a booze guy lawrence. so the liquor license did not mean the world to you when it came to the bar. but them getting

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.y. the book is called "peril" by "the washington post" journalists bob woodward and robert robert costa. it's not being published until next week. we've obtained a copy tonight, evidence of speed-reading here, a rachel maddow specialty. this book has important news in it. what this book is about broadly speaking the peril it's describing in its title is just how fraught and dangerous the period was for the country surrounding the

thank you for your time tonight. >> nice to talk to you. >> that is all in, "the rachel maddow show"lot going on this hour. tonight, we'll be speaking with congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. she'll be here live with us in just a few minutes. it is of course just over 24 hours now until we're facing an absolutely pointless federal government shutdown tomorrow at midnight. i say that it is absolutely pointless

you know when you're watching "the rachel maddow show" and you have no idea where she's going. >> she's very random. >> when she's talking about grindal's den and i'm talking about what the -- she's talking about grindal's den. and rachel, i don't want to date myself, but all of my experience in grindal's den was before they had a liquor license, okay? so -- so, then we discover, we, meaning me, and i guess america, that grindal's den, this little bar made supreme court history. and that is the most important thing i've learned about the texas law is that grindal's den law says a private entity cannot enforce the laws in the way that this texas abortion law wants private citizens to enforce that law. >> it does seem that there are several paths to the end of that texas law. and the one about that bar in cambridge may be one of if not the most direct. i will also say that i know you're not a booze guy, lawrence, so the liquor license didn't mean the world to you, but them getting the liquor license is probably why they're still there 50 years later. were it not for lawrence tribe taking

and frankly, they started to notice because a lot of people on the left like rachel maddow and elizabeth warren started to attack me every night on the national news calling me reckless and irresponsible. and doing great damage to my people. but it started to resonate with folks how different it was and the benefits of that. our economy continued on, people got up every day and went to work. by never offered those elevated unemployment benefits in our state, again. the only state to not accept those, in fact i told the president at the time, thank you for the flexibility, but our people want to work. and we kept food on the table. and we kept roofs over our heads and did very well. we now have the fastest growing economy in the country. and we are -- our gdp rate is around 9.9%. we have the lowest unemployment rates. i have right around 1,000 people in the entire state of south dakota that are on unemployment today. i have 27,000 open jobs. so i've got a lot of of growth and a lot of businesses that are relocated here for the certainty that we provide. and everybody is working, obviously

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. eciated. >>> when a criminal complaint is filed in a case like this, it's not unusual for an affidavit to ma up the bulk of the complaint. the officer writes up a first person narrative that's an explanation of why the charges were being brought. they explain their background and expertise in law enforcement. the person describes the investigation that led the charges to be filed against this defendant. if the defendant got interviewed before or after the arrest, the fbi agent or the officer will explain what the defendant said in that interview. it's narrative. it explains basically the nature of the evidence, what the in

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, much appreciated. >>> when a criminal complaint is filed in a case like this, it's not unusual for an affidavit to ma up the bulk of the complaint. the officer writes up a first person narrative that's an explanation of why the charges were being brought. they explain their background and expertise in law enforcement. the person describes the investigation that led the charges to be filed against this defendant. if the defendant got interviewed before or after the arrest, the fbi agent or the officer will explain what the defendant said in that interview. it's narrative. it explains basically the nature of the evidence, what the investigation turned up, and why the charges are warranted from the point of view of the prosecution. that's often how these things are structured. along those lines, here's what we got from an fbi agent's affidavit filing criminal charges against a woman named bancroft. on or about january 12, 2021, the fbi receive

that is all in for this tuesday evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. >> good evening chris, thank you my friend. much appreciated. happy to join you this hour. president biden was in new york and of hurricane ida hitting just those two states. that extreme flash flooding that tore through the most populated part of the country last wednesday night, president biden today meeting with local officials and local residents about the ongoing cleanup efforts there. president biden was in louisiana on friday where 400,000 americans are now in their second week without power amid extreme heat in louisiana and extremely challenging conditions, conditions that get more and more challenging with each day passing with the power still not returned. reviewing the damage today, president biden said, quote, the evidence is clear. climb change poses an existential threat to our lives, to our economy. the threat is here. it's not going to get any better. the storms are going to get worse and worse and worse. we have to listen to the scientists and the

that is all in for this evening the rachel maddow show starts right now good evening rachel, good eveninganks my friend much appreciated, and thanks for you at home for joining us this hour when world war i started in york our president here in the united states was president with joe wilson and woodward wilson was bound and determined that the united states would not get itself involved in the war and that really worked for him politically for a while woodrow wilson was elected in 1912, world war i started and then two years later 1914, president wilting really wanted to stay out of it at all cost. and indeed when he ran for all costs and indeed, when he ran for re-election in 2014, he ran with the slogan "he kept us out of the war." that was true. he had kept us out of a war at that point. that was a popular enough sentiment in the united states at that time that wilson got reelected as president, in part thanks to those bragging rights along those lines, by keeping us out of the great war. he was reelected in 1916, but world war i was nevertheless dragging on, right, and expanding. it

that is all in for this tuesday evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. rachel. >> good evening chris, thank you my friend. much appreciated. happy to join you this hour. president biden was in new york and of hurricane ida hitting just those two states. that extreme flash flooding that tore through the most populated part of the country last wednesday night, president biden today meeting with local officials and local residents about the ongoing cleanup efforts there. president biden was in louisiana on friday where 400,000 americans are now in their second week without power amid extreme heat in louisiana and extremely challenging conditions, conditions that get more and more challenging with each day passing with the power still not returned. reviewing the damage today, president biden said, quote, the evidence is clear. climb change poses an existential threat to our lives,

and i noticed because a lot of people on the left, like rachel maddow and elizabeth warren, started to attack me every night on the national news, calling the reckless and irresponsible. and doing great damage to my people. but it started to resonate with folks, how different it was. and our economy continued on, people got up every day and went to work. we never hurt those elevated unemployment benefits. i told the president, thank you but our people want to work. and we kept food on the table. and we kept roofs above our heads. we did very well. we now have the fastest growing economy in a country. and our gdp is around 9.9%, one of the lowest unemployment rates. i have around 1000 people in south dakota that are on unemployment today. i have 27,000 open jobs. so i have a lot of growth and businesses that have relocated here for the services we provide. everyone is working, obviously, but we also are getting people to fill those jobs that we have needs for. and it really points to the fact that if you give people freedom and personal choice, that they really want to be there and they

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> thanks for joining us. really happy to have you here.in the last few minutes. law enforcement authorities in washington, d.c., have started putting up a ring of protective fencing around the u.s. capitol again. this is, you will recall, quite similar to the fencing around the capitol around the january 6th attack on the capitol by trump supporters seeking to overturn the results of the presidential election.

the mat to protect president biden started with chris hayes from msnbc downplaying the call and rachel maddow completely ignoring the entire afghanistan debacle despite the fact that as we know 13 americans died defending our freedom in afghanistan and not a mention of them yesterday. jillian: don lemon said the administration's been up on this too much because there's a lot of blame to go around. there is a lot of blame from previous administrations to go around but doesn't mean, stop asking questions the american people deserve the answers to. at the end of the day it is about our safety and freedom and how feel protected at home in light of the 20 year anniversary of 9/11 coming up in a short time and what our relationships are on the world stage. those are big things we don't have the questions to. >> there are americans stranded. we need to keep pressing the white house on that. we should know the number and it is more than 100. everything we've heard from says more than 100, what the white house is putting out the why -- of they are trying to protect president biden these numbers don't

all the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. >> good evening chris my friend. much appreciated. >>> good evening rachel. >> good evening chris. thanks for joining us at home this hour. happy to have you join us tonight. are you ready to time travel with me? shall we do this together? we're not time traveling very far, so you're not going to need like a victorian costume. we will not require a spacesuit. we're going to time travel, but we're only going to time travel into the future 26 hours. it turns out we can leapfrog magically into the future 26 hours tonight at this website. it is the campaign website for the main republican challenger trying to unseat california's democratic governor gavin newsom. that election in which california voters will decide whether or not they want to recall governor newsom, that is tomorrow. polls close at 8:00 p.m. pacific time tomorrow, which is 11:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow, but if you would like to see what that future is like, go to that campaign website t top republican trying to unseat governor newsom, and click at the

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. much appreciate it. >>> when world war i started here in the united states, the president was woodrow wilson. woodrow wilson was bound and determined that the united states would not get itself involved in that war. that really worked for him politically for a while. woodrow wilson was elected in 1912, world war i started in europe two years later, 1914. woodrow wilson really wanted us to stay out of it at all costs. when he ran for reelection in 2014, he ran with the slogan "he kept us out of war." that was true. he had kept us out of a war at that point. that was a popular enough sentiment in the united states at that time that wilson got reelected as president, in part thanks to those bragging rights along those lines, by keeping us out of the great war. he was reelected in 1916, but world war i was nevertheless dragging on, right, and expanding. it started in 1914, it dragged on into 1915, into 1916, into 1917. it involved dozens of countries, a huge swath all over the world that

it's time for "the rachel maddow show." good evening, rachel. >> thank you, chris. appreciate that. when it rains, it pours. we have news to break on a few different fronts tonight. there is a lot going on. today started out as a normal thursday and we had sort of a normal thursday day planned, and as we got closer and closer to show time, it turned into like leak christmas, leak, l-e-a-k, not like leeks, then it turned into subpoena christmas. so we threw out in its entirety everything we planned on doing tonight and started a whole new series of stories. i will tell you in advance there may be a little more hurly burly than usual because so many of these stories are breaking at the last minute and developing as we're reporting them, but let's just get into it. forgive me any straying into the margins and veering out of the lanes a little bit. let me tell you what we've been working on. first we're going to start with arizona. back in april, republicans in the state legislature in arizona announced they would start an audit with the election results in that state. they hired a cont

. >> that is all in, "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening. happy to have you here. there's a lot going on this hour. tonight, we'll be speaking with congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. she'll be here live with us in just a few minutes. it is of course just over 24 hours now until we're facing an absolutely pointless federal government shutdown tomorrow at midnight. i say that it is absolutely pointless and i mean it in a technical sense. previous government shutdowns were all dumb. but they were at least nominally for a reason. there was some dispute, a policy matter which the two parties couldn't agree upon. and a shutdown ensued until they could figure it out. in this case, i say this is a pointless shutdown that we're facing tomorrow night because although republicans in the senate are blocking the legislation that would keep the federal government from shutting down, they're not doing so for any particular reason. they're not even really bothering to say why they're doing it. they're only doing it because they can. so we will talk with congresswoman alexandr

rachel maddow tweeted about it. reid who apparently still has a job promoting the story on her show. >> and emergency room in one rural local hometown is overwhelmed by people overdosing on ivermectin, the horse deworming medication. it's gotten so bad gunshot victims are having to wait to be treated. >> greg: great job, joy. maybe it's time msnbc got treated for worms. after all, how many times have their hosts look like a horses ass? there was a list of suckers who bought this story from business insider to the guardian. someone f the fake story took off without anyone within that media bubble applying the brakes. they place their feet on the gas pedal. first of all, the media is not our best and brightest people, present company excluded of course. you find better and smarter folks in the front row of a midnight cockfight in guam. especially those whose only content is click bay designed to make their leftist consumers feel superior, and that's what the story did. it gave their patients a dose of dumb redneck the

notice -- the rest of the country noticed because people on the left like elizabeth warren and rachel maddow attacked me every night on the national news calling me reckless and irresponsible and doing great damage to my people. it started to resonate how different it was and the benefits of that. our economy continued and people got up every day and went to work. we never authored -- offered elevated unemployment benefits. the only state to not extend those. i told the president at the time thank you for the flexibility but our people want to work and we kept food on the table and kept our group over our heads and did very well. we have the fastest growing economy in the country and we are a gdp rate around 9.9%. we have one of the lowest unemployment rates. i have 1000 people in the state of south dakota that are on unemployment. 27,000 open jobs so i have a lot of growth in businesses that every code does shriek located there for the certainty of her provide and everybody is working. we are recruiting people to hold those jobs we have a need for and it points to the fact that if we give p

. >> that was the one and only rachel maddow with some kind words about the tenth anniversary "politicsnation rachel show make 13/years on air this coming week, so let me be the first to say congratulations, and here is to many more years to come to my friend, sister rachel. >>> now for this week's "rise up." i wanted to do a quick look back over the last seven months when the former president was voted out of the white house. we knew it was time to retire the memo to trump's segment and replace it with the segment of purpose. >>> today i'm introducing a new segment called "rise up." it will be a recurring call to action. the history of black america is a history of rising up against bondage, seg fwregation, violence, and disenfranchisement. the battlefield for racial justice is as widespread as we are in the streets n the courts, and at the ballot box. there are people alive today because we marched in peaceful protest. and here's the hard truth about fighting for justice. you don't get to opt out when the times get tough. only by rising up together and declaring our solidarity with one voic

that is all in on this wednesday, night this rachel maddow shows right. now good evening. good evening chris my friends. much appreciate. thanks to a home for joining us this. our really happy to have you. here we start tonight with some breaking news, just in the last few minutes. line forsman authorities in washington d.c., have started putting up a ring of protective fencing, around the u.s. capitol. again. this is, as you recall, quite similar to the fencing that went up around the capitol complex after the january 6th attack on the capital. the capitol complex around the january 6th attack on the capitol by trump supporters seeking to overturn the results of the presidential election. the fencing initially went up very quickly after the attack. it's ended up staying up until july. that fence was unsettling for a lot of people. it was just a profound change in what the seat of government looks like for one, and what it feels like to be in washington, d.c. it's fair to say there was relief when the fencing finally came down in july, but as of right now, as of just this

all the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. >> good evening chris my friend. good evening rachel. >> good evening chris. thanks for joining us at home this hour. happy to have you join us tonight. are you ready to time travel with me? shall we do this together? we're not time traveling very far, so you're not going to need like a victorian costume. we will not require a spacesuit. we're going to time travel, but we're only going to time travel into the future 26 hours. it turns out we can leapfrog magically into the future 26 hours tonight at this website. it is the campaign website for th

. >> that is all in for this monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now good evening rachel good evening chris much appreciated. thank you at-home for joining us this hour, the speaker of the house of representatives is of course nancy pelosi. she has been speaker this time around since january of 2019. but this is not her first rodeo. this is her but this is not her first rodeo. this is her second turn in the speaker's job. the first time nancy pelosi became speaker of the house was in 2007. you might remember, george w. bush was still president. democrats did great in the midterms in 2006. pelosi got elevated to speaker. i mean, first it was just this huge historic moment, right, the first female speaker of the house in american history. next in line to the presidency after the vice president. just a huge history-making deal. so she's always been a big deal simply because of her breaking that glass ceiling but the other thing that very quickly became clear about nancy pelosi as speaker, nancy pelosi as the leader of the that branch of government was that she's just

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris.n world war i started here in the united states, the president was woodrow wilson. woodrow wilson was bound and determined that the united states would not get itself involved in that war. that really worked for him politically for a while. woodrow wilson was elected in 1912, world war i started in europe two years later, 1914. woodrow wilson really wanted

it's time for "the rachel maddow show." good evening, rachel. >> thank you, chris. appreciate that.e news to break on a few different fronts tonight. there is a lot going on. today started out as a normal thursday and we had sort of a normal thursday day planned, and as we got closer and closer to show time, it turned into like leak christmas, leak, l-e-a-k, not like leeks, then it turned into subpoena christmas. so we threw out in its entirety everything we planned on doing tonight and started a whole new series of stories. i will tell you in advance there may be a little more hurly burly than usual because so many of

the rachel maddow show starts right now. hat. >> thanks. >> i could hear senator sanders talk about that legislation for any length of time, but you and him talking about that, that was freaking fantastic. >> thank you. thank you. >> appreciate it. thanks, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. in idaho, the great state of idaho today, the state department of health and welfare

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> geeng, chris. much appreciated.

to find out like "the rachel maddow show "starts right now. >> good evening, chris. i'm not going to figure out all the ways to rework religion-based words to make them filibusterism, but that idea is going to stick with me. >> it is amazing how central it is when you see something pop up and you're like, oh, right, because of that. it is this thing that everyone orbits around, the super majority de facto requirement we have in our politics. >> right. oh, this is the vortex. this is the center around which everything swirls and which never can be spoken of. yes, exactly. >> well done, my friend and well put. thank you very much. >> thanks to you at home for joining us. thanks for being here. the washington field office of the fbi today released new footage. this new footage showing the person who they believe placed pipe bombs, real bombs, operational explosive devices at the headquarters of the democratic party and the headquarters of the republican party in washts washington, d.c., the night before the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. again, this is new foot

>> rachel maddow last night here had a fascinating segment showing how the federal government over time president biden said that osha will enforce that requirement that 100 plus employers have their employees vaccinated. so the federal government is bringing in muscle. so jonathan, as we say good-bye, i know it's a difficult weekend for many americans and i just wanted to thank you and your colleagues for your coverage. >> mike allen, thank you for the kind words and being here this morning. it's an important day tomorrow, i was a young reporter in new york city on september 11th. thank you for getting up early with us. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪♪ >>> today we commemorate september 11th, nearing the 20th anniversary of the day, the hour, the moment that moved us out of an old world and into a new age in which we now live. nothing, of course, can be said, no image shown, no memory recounted here or elsewhere that will adequately honor the dead from that day or from the last 20 years. for those americans who gave their last full measure of devotion in the fight against the darkest

as rachel maddow said, this is like the dog who caught the car.his is animating and good for republican politics until they actually achieve the goal. at which point they realize that they have now come out for something that is unpopular. and when we start talking about republicans niches, does anybody doubt if men could get pregnant, does anyone doubt they would be getting free abortions? >> watch cornell, let's talk about susan collins, senator collins. she is called this law extreme and hurtful but she is getting some kick back on this. because she supported the appointment of justice kavanaugh, with the understanding that he would not work against roe v. wade. >> she has to own this. she was very vocal and out front about how wet is happening would happen, because of the vote for kavanaugh, and a vote for some of these other issues. she gave us assurances that what is happening would not happen. but in fact kavanaugh turns out to be exactly who we thought he was. but i have to double down on the point that my friend on the right was making he

on the rachel maddow show specialty. this book has important news in it.peril it's describing its title, is just how fraught and dangerous the period was for the country

here's what they told rachel maddow tonight. >> we just made it to the island today with a rescue crew in a search and rescue mission, and they reported that the island is devastated. it is totally uninhabitable. there was six feet of sand washed up on the gulf on the entire island and they have no power, no cell phone communication. so we are staging supplies now so that we can set up for our recovery process, but that's certainly going to take a while. >> meanwhile a texas bill restricting access to the ballot is now headed to greg abbott's desk. the legislature has been trying to stop the measure, even leaving the state in protest to prevent votes. we'll have more on this just ahead. and all of this as america continues to deal with the spread of the delta variant. they are helping with surges of infections by sending personnel, supplies and treatments to hospitals. there is now new concern tonight about an emerging covid variant. bloomberg news reports that south african researchers have identified a new strain that they say may spread easily and they have an increased transmissibi

when rachel maddow spends 36 minutes and 50 seconds sounding the alarm of the abortion law and not atwith the afghan president, that means that choice was taken away from those viewers. as we proceed, all of this is important, and should be up to the american people to decide what they want to dive deeper into. when the choice is taken away, when the coverage is not ratio it in favor of this president, and when journalists are asking those ridiculous questions, when chris hayes is making comments that "no, that call was not a scandal anymore than the war itself," that takes away our ability to analyze and infantile eyes as us. i need my journalists to raise those important questions and do the investigating so i can dig deeper, and be educated as an american person. i don't want to have the wool pulled over my eyes. thankfully, at this network, we won't be. >> kayleigh: you can guarantee it fox news, we will cover when an american president tells a foreign leader to change the production, whether it's true or not, while leveraging military aid to. it is a story of epic proportions. it

. >> that is all in on this wednesday night the rachel maddow show starts right now good evening rachelod evening chris thank my friend much appreciated at. and thank you to have you here we are following breaking news tonight out of the great state of alaska were alaska republican gunner mike dunn lovely has announced that alaska has not become the second state in the country to declare that all its hospitals statewide will not be shifting to crisis standard of care. that hospital care is now being rationed at hospitals in alaska. in practical terms, that means that people who are less likely to survive get moved down the priority list in terms of whether or not they get an icu bed, whether or not they get certain intensive forms of treatment and care. people less likely to survive will not get those resources. they will be moved down the line. instead, in an effort to save as many human lives as possible, these hospitals now have permission and guidance to prioritize giving treatment to people who are more likely to live. and that is as bad as it sounds. it means that some people will

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. us this hour on what has been a historic day. also just an intense day in the news. right now tens of thousands of americans in mississippi, more than 1 million americans in louisiana are without power for a second day in the midst of stifling heat and fairly widespread destruction from the category 4 hurricane that

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> thanks, my friend. fires on the west coast. there is the storm in the northeast. and the hurricane aftermath in louisiana. we are in a multiple split screen moment of multiple, gigantic, climate driven disasters across huge swaths of the united states tonight. the west is spotted with multiple fires, particularly in the state of california, where more than a dozen large fires are burning tonight as we speak. the two biggest fires are the dixie fire and the caldor fire. they are so large they became the first fires in recorded history to burn from one side of the sierra nevada mountain range to the other. the dixie fire is only about an hour northeast of the camp fire. you remember when the camp fire burned multiple towns to the ground in 2018? that felt

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> thanks, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. there are fires on the west coast. there is the storm in the northeast. and the hurricane aftermath in louisiana. we are in a multiple split screen moment of multiple, gigantic, climate driven disasters across huge swaths of the united states tonight. the west is spotted with multiple fires, particularly in the state of california, where more than a dozen large fires are burning tonight as we speak. the two biggest fires are the dixie fire and the caldor fire. they are so large they became the first fires in recorded history to burn from one side of the sierra nevada mountain range to the other. the dixie fire is only about an hour northeast of the camp fire. you remember when the camp fire burned multiple towns to the ground in 2018? that felt like the worst that it could get? dixie is -- has already burned 1400 square miles of land. dixie has destroyed nearly 600 homes. it's only about half contained at the moment. it is the second lar

here is the director of emergency management and his discussion with rachel maddow out earlier tonight. >> we just made it to the island today. with a rescue crew. and they reported that the island is devastated. that it is totally uninhabitable. there is 3 to 6 feet of sand that has washed over the entire island and they have no power, they have no cell phone communication. so we are staging supplies now so that we can set up for a recovery process. but that will certainly take a while. >> meanwhile, a texas bill restricting access to the ballot is now heading to the governors desk. democrats in the state legislature had been trying to stop the measure, even leaving the state to protest votes. we will have more on this ahead. and all of this as the u.s. continues with its grappling with the delta variant, the white house saying it is stepping up efforts, stepping up treatment and support for hospitals. and there is now new concern tonight about an emerging variant. bloomberg reports that south african scientists have identified a new strain that will possibly spread easily and have an