by the way, the name of the show could be "rachel maddow's homework with rachel maddow." that's one -- [ laughter ] >> that's one show title that i don't know, should be on the list. should think about. anyway, so it was great because i vaguely remembered it when you said it but then you said for me, the magic sentence of it was eight days between the time the house voted for the prosecution and the justice department actually brought charges in eight days, and those of us who were around back then and in the 1970s during the watergate investigation, we keep saying all of these processes used to be much faster. things that happened in weeks and months now used to literally happen in days. and that's an example. >> yes, that's -- and, you know, it will be an independent judgment by the u.s. attorney in d.c. to decide whether or not to bring these charges and nobody should think they can inflect that decision, but theoretically, if the u.s. attorney decides to go ahead with this, convening a grand jury or going to a grand jury impanelled and asking for an indictment shouldn

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> good evening, chris. you, my friend. >>> very rarely does a politician have to put his money where his mouth is. i can't remember the last time we had a story where a politician made a public bet and they had to pay off when they lost the bet. but that has finally happened.

michael daly, you can read the piece in the daily beast, it's always a pleasure. >>> that's "the rachel maddowut his money where his mouth is. i can't remember the last time we had a story where a politician made a public bet and they had to pay off when they lost the bet. but that has finally happened. and look, we have the check, we have the actual check that shows the guy having to pay up. the far right former right wing radio host who is now the lieutenant governor of texas, his name is dan patrick, this is a check drawn on his campaign funds, you see in the upper left hand corner, texans for dan patrick. the check is drawn on his campaign funds. it is for $25,000. payable to a young man named eric frank. eric frank is a young man who you are about to meet. i almost could not believe this story was real until

. >> my colleague rachel maddow last night pointed out that the -- was epa administrator who had been embroiled in a scandal about allegations of misuse of superfund the epa. she was given this criminal complaint by a house that voted unanimously, every single vote of both parties because they viewed it as an institutional prerogative to not be trampled by the executive? what is the state house republican leadership is recommending a no vote on this vote now, 30 years later? >> yeah, it's i know i'd say it's shocking it doesn't feel that way. -- when many of them spoke out against the former president. now they seem to have brought back those remarks. it's just deeply unfortunate, these are individuals many of them were on the house floor with us, they were witnesses and saw what happened, and they still continue to avoid the accountability that is due. that is the problem that we have here, and it is truly unfortunate. >> there are three other witnesses who were subpoenaed along with steve bannon, kash patel who worked in the intelligence committee and the department of defense, mark

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> happy to have you here. it is an under statement to say there is a lot going on tonight in washington. a lot of moving parts just this hour on capitol hill. a lot of stuff we are going to see develop. we think over the course of this hour while we are on the air. at the very end of last night's show you might remember we showed you footage we got in just at the last second before we got off the air from last night's congressional baseball game. this happens every year. it's been going on over a century and is supposed to encourage camaraderie among lawmakers. how is that going? if these games are supposed to be some kind of respite from the pressures of capitol hill, last night there was an interruption in that respite at least for some. during the game a group of fairly cheerful but determined protesters dropped these banners that very much reminded the baseball players of their tay jobs. the signs read reconciliation first. hold the line. meaning pass the reconciliation bill. pass the president's budget fi

towards right now. >> congresswoman, chair of the progressive caucus, optimist in chief of the rachel maddow show, thank you, i really, really appreciate it. >> i hope i talked you off the cliff, rachel. we are going to get there. >> you have given me a little rope ladder so i don't have to plunge. i can control my descent. thank you so much. all right. we have much more to get to here tonight. stay with us. night. stay with us do you struggle with occasional nerve aches in your hands or feet? try nervivenerve relief from the world's #1 selling nerve care company. nervive contains alpha lipoic acid to relieve occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort. try nervivenerve relief. ♪♪ your new pharmacy is here. to help you compare prices, and save on your medication. amazon prime members get select meds as low as $1 a month. who knew it could be this easy? your new pharmacy is amazon pharmacy. for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel, you have bernie sanders tonight. >> do i have bernie sanders tonight. boy, did he have a lot to say. i've interviewed him many times, i haven't had this much anticipation to talk to him. >> a lot going on. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. as chris mentioned, senator bernie sanders will join us live tonight in just a few minutes. i do want to address just a quick personal matter here before we go on to the news, if you will indulge me for just a second. a couple of months ago susan and i went to a minor league baseball game. i sat on the aisle. she sat to my left. our team won. it was a fantastic game. i bought like all the swag, i ate all the hot dogs, it was a great time. minor league baseball i am convinced is god's gift to american spectator sports. at our local minor league baseball park, box seats are six bucks. the parking is free. the players are really good, but nobody really cares who wins. at this particular minor league game i went to with susa

band-aid, rachel maddow show viewers, rachel maddow show viewers, my band-aid. i had a few days off because i had surgery, on friday. they're fantastic. they got, it they got all of it. i'm good. i have clear margins in the whole thing. i now need to have everything checked, like every five minutes from if you're on. out because i do not want to get this again. i do not want to get it anywhere else, i do not one another one of these. but susan was right. like she always is. i am going to be absolutely fine. i'm going to be totally fine, but that is why i have a band-aid. i actually have felt fine since i got the surgery on friday. terms of how i fell in pain levels and stuff, i could've come back right away. it could've been on the air friday night. i didn't do that because i didn't want to wear due out because of the visual of me having the band-aid. finally though, after these three days, off i asked to come back. even though i still have it covered. and that's because a i really am fine. in b, i realized, by writes, i need to pay this back. and i want to use

once you start doing that this goes beyond the current debate but folks at m s nbc, rachel maddow is infuse youtube's move or take it together with russia. >> the company is facing blowback and threats about this policy from another places the kremlin because the russian government has been using its propaganda network worldwide to gleefully spread anti-vaccine disinformation all over the democratic west because they are that concern for our health. >> never heard her talk about china in this manner which is where the virus started but on one level the fanaticism has to be respected. >> there's an irony which is people like her have been fixated, obsessed with the kremlin for the last five years and one of the things the kremlin does is than to send, they use the platform, technology platforms to ensure that only their views circulate, china does that as much as anyone and these are their allies, like-minded comrades in that effort, they think they are superior morally, intellectually because they are doing it in your best interest but the tactic is the same and this is the thing tha

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening. >> thank you my friend.was amazing >> i appreciate it. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. let me just start with an admission here. i will admit i fully recognize and i will admit that over the years there has been some tough reporting and tough commentary on this show

. >> that is all in on this today's, night rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel. evening rachel and thanks for joining us this hour. boy, has this been a weird news day. we woke up to surprise news this morning that the fbi was raiding a mansion in washington, d.c. a mansion apparently owned by russian oligarch oleg deripaska, or at least by concerns close to him. are oleg deripaska had, of course, a starring role in the mueller report and in the whole russian scandal when the trump campaign, for example, was inexplicably sending secret internal polling data to a russian intelligence officer while russia was intervening in that election trying to help trump win. mueller and the intelligence committee said that the intended recipient was this guy oleg te deripaska. now, that's why his name is familiar when you saw the news ' that the fbi was raiding his home today. we don't know why the fbi raided his home in d.c. and another place that he owns in new york city. h but, boy, do i have questions about that. we will try to get some answers on that tonight., again, tha

rachel maddow is next. hello, rachel.cribe button, give me your likes, i want the four-star ratings, the whole thing. >> and if you don't, wait to see what happens to you. thank you, big chris. big government. thanks to you at home for joining us. happy to have you here. all right, it used to be called value jet. it was founded in

rachel maddow is next. hello, rachel. i'm hoping in the build back better bill there is some tax penalty. also, push the subscribe button, give me your likes, i want the four-star ratings, the whole thing. >> and if you don't, wait to see what happens to you. thank you, big chris. big government. thanks to you at home for joining us. happy to have you here. all right, it used to be called value jet. it was founded in 1992. it immediately developed a scary safety record. they were only founded in 1992, but by 1995, they had already had an aircraft evacuated on the runway just before it burned down. by the following year, 1996, it was a terrible fatal crash, may 11, 1996, value jet flight 592 had an on board midair fire. it was caused by hazardous, flammable materials that were improperly stored on board, and that plane came down. all 110 people on board that plane died and the plane crashed into the florida everglades. just a terrible disaster. that was 1996. value jet had only been around for four years when that happened

much evidence showing us who was, one of the video clips was when chuck schumer went on to the rachel maddoww, he had posted in the cia forgetting iraq wrong and chuck schumer said ethics aside, how can he be so stupid as to do that to the cia -- if you challenge the cia, they have six different ways to sunday to get back at you. the entire trump presidency was driven by all sorts of narratives from the media about how these heroic, independent generals like mattis and john kelly and h.r. mcmaster were going to save us from the elected president and there were all kinds of reports about how security state officials would conceal classified information they didn't want president trump to have in order to mindy delayed his decision-making or subvert and ignore his decision-making liked when he would tell them to withdraw troops from syria. this was celebrated at the same time, they would say if you say there is a deep state in the united states which is nothing more than what dwight eisenhower warned about a permanent power faction in washington that rules the country regardless of the outcome

rachel maddow is next. >>> president biden tonight has ordered flags across the country flown at half staff to honor the legacy of general colin powell who has died today at the age of 84. because of general powell's remarkable record of service to the united states, his status is just a singular figure in modern public service. american flags will fly at half staff in colin powell's honor not for a day but for every day this week until sunset on friday night. general powell's legacy is an important, powerful, complex thing that operates on a lot of different levels. we're going to have much more on his passing coming up over the course of this hour. he's just about the only american i can think of who was not a u.s. president but for whom you nevertheless need to consult a presidential historian to talk about his role in our country and his role in modern history, how he changed this country as a singular figure. we're going to do that later on this hour. we've got much more ahead on that coming up. >>> we are also following a number of developing stories tonight. the committee inves

chris >> that's all in for this wednesday evening, the rachel maddow show starts right. now good evening. rachel >> good evening chris thank you my. friends fantastic show tonight by the way. you've been doing great shows recently, but tonight was amazing. >> i appreciate. >> and thanks don for recently, but tonight was amazing. >> i appreciate it. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. let me just start with an admission here. i will admit i fully recognize and i will admit that over the years there has been some tough reporting and tough commentary on this show about former president donald trump. i'm also fully aware we have invited numerous guests on to this show over the years -- newsmakers, experts, former government officials, who have also at times expressed tough minded sentiments about donald trump. i am not hiding the ball here. i know that this show broadly speaking has had a lot of tough words for the former president and his behavior. but tonight i feel i need to give credit where credit is due. if you had asked me in the past whether that particular former pr

the rachel maddow show starts right. now good evening rachel.onight. -- i do have bernie sanders. tonight and boy did he make news, today i've interviewed him 1 million, times i'm not sure that i have this much anticipation, in terms of what is going to say tonight than any other live interview i've had with. i'm really excited to talk to him,. thanks at-home for joining us this, our happy to be. back senator bernie sanders will be live tonight. he will be here in just a few minutes. i do want to address just a quick quick personal matter here before we go on to the news, if you will indulge me for just a second. a couple of months ago susan and i went to a minor league baseball game. i sat on the aisle. she sat to my left. our team won. it was a fantastic game. i bought like all the swag, i ate all the hot dogs, it was a great time. minor league baseball, i am convinced, is god's gift to american spectator sports. at our local minor league baseball park, box seats are six bucks. the parking is free. the players are really good, but nobody reall

josh, chain, that was "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. very happy to have you here. it's friday eve, after all. >>> this billboard has just gone up in times square in new york city. as you can see there, it says "trump lost," no more, quote, audits. this was put up by a republican group, a group called the republican accountability project. we've talked about them a few times on the show. they're basically a group of anti-trump republicans, including people who served in the trump administration who are now anti-trump republicans basically trying to save their party from the direction it has taken under trump. and the republican accountability project apparently has a sort of subgroup called republicans for voting rights. they put this up in times square. and i have to tell you, when i first saw that, i thought that this might be one of those things where an advocacy group does kind of a stunt ad. they just -- you see this sometimes in the d.c. tv market, that a political group will run a polit

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. sanders tonight. boy, did he have a lot to say. i've interviewed him many times, i haven't had this much anticipation to talk to him. >> a lot going on. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. as chris mentioned, senator bernie sanders will join us live tonight in just a few minutes. i do want to address just a quick personal matter here before we go on to the news, if you will indulge me for just a second. a couple of months ago sannd

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening. >> good evening, chris. thanks, my friend.riday. here is the thing i do not get to say very often. today was a day full of good news when it comes to whether or not we're going to stay a democracy in our lifetimes. we have been covering this beat pretty relentlessly for the past several years now as you know. the republican party over the past several years, they have more and more overtly embraced donald trump's denunciation of elections, the promotion of false claims about elections

. >> my colleague rachel maddow that it was for epa administrator embroiled in a san e scandal aboutmisuse of super fund sites at the epa. she was given this criminal complaint by a house that voted unanimously because they viewed it add a institutional to not be trampled by the executive. what does it say that house republican leadership is recommending a no vote on this vote now, 30 years later? >> i say it's shocking but it sure doesn't feel that way given the political temperature and how folks on the other side of the aisle have treated this issue since january 6th when many of them spoke out against the former president. now they seem to walk back those remarks. it's deeply unfortunate. these were individuals, many of them, were on the house floor with us and they were witnesses and they saw what happened. they still continue to avoid the accountability that is due. that's the problem that we have here. it's truly unfortunate. >> there are three other witness who is are subpoenaed along with steve bannon. cash patel and mark meadows, dan scavino. >> they have been engaging. we

. >> congresswoman jayapal, chair of the progressive caucus, optimist in chief of rachel maddow show. thank you. i really, really appreciate it. >> i hope i talked you off the cliff, rachel. we are going to get there. >> you have given me a little rope ladder so i don't have to plunge. i can control my descent. thank you so much. all right. we have much more to get to here tonight. stay with us. stay with us >>> this weekend ro york, 1,800 people who work at hospitals in rochester have issued a strike notice. they are threatening to walk off the job. if those rochester hospital workers do decide to strike, they will be joining hospital workers down the road in buffalo, new york, 2,200 of them, who have just entered their fourth week on strike. meanwhile, we are still waiting to see if kaiser health care workers in three states, california, oregon, and hawaii, are going to walk off the job after they overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike to walk off two weeks ago. that would be tens of thousands of people who work at kaiser. then today interestingly it was working graduate student

think you're right, this goes way beyond this current debate, but folks over at msnbc, glenn, rachel maddowehow able to infuse youtube's move, or say take it together with russia. watch. >> the company is facing blowback and threats about this new policy from, among other places, the kremlin. because the russian government has been using its propaganda networks worldwide to gleefully spread anti-vaccine disinformation all over the democratic west. because they are just that concern for our health. >> laura: never heard her talk about china in this manner, which is where the virus actually started, but on one level i guess the fanaticism has to be respected. >> there is such an irony here, laura, which is that people like her have been fixated, obsessed with the kremlin for the last five years, and one of the things that the kremlin does is they ban dissent. they use these platforms, these technology platforms, to ensure that only their views can circulate. china does that as much as anyone, and these are their allies, their like-minded comrades in that effort. they of course think that they

the rachel maddow show starts now with ali velshi.he toim away but i was really enjoying that conversation. had it been mine, i would have said keep going. that was very, very interesting. good to see you, my friend. have yourself a great weekend. >> you too. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel oos got the night off and happy friday to all of you and happy oct

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. >> good evening chris, thank you my.iend much appreciated. and thanks to a home for joining us, this are happy to have you here this final monday evening. i have a little allergy so my voices little weeks. i don't worry everything is fine. i keep telling you don't worry about me. as the shares way to make people worry about you. it's allergies don't worry. okay, espionage. espionage is spying, i send my spies, into your country. spies, into your country

. >> that is all in on this today's, night rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel.achel and thanks for joining us this hour. boy, has this been a weird news day. we woke up to surprise news this morning that the fbi was raiding a mansion in washington, d.c. a mansion apparently owned by russian oligarch oleg deripaska, or at least by concerns close to him. are oleg deripaska had, of course, a starring role in the mueller report and in the whole russian scandal when the trump campaign, for example, was inexplicably sending secret internal polling data to a russian intelligence officer while russia was intervening in that election trying to help trump win. mueller and the intelligence committee said that the intended recipient was this guy oleg te deripaska.

the rachel maddow show starts right now. ing rachel. >> good evening chris, thank you my friend. much much much appreciated. and thanks to your home for joining us this. our happy to have you here. maybe it was too good to be true. it would be like, john will exceed booth taking his shot at lincoln, at ford's theater. and then jumping up on this stage, and all that. doing all of that, but then a few weeks later, realizes it isn't going over well and he's like, okay, yes, i was there. but are you sure it was me who killed him? it was an accident.s it was the self-defense or something. yeah, it was actually a terrible thing about president lincoln's untimely demise. i have no idea how that happened. it would be like john wilkes booth doing that. it would be like king kong climbing down from the empire state building and being like -- who, me? what are you talking about? i'm afraid of heights. i've never even been to midtown. i definitely don't have a crush on her. i have no idea who that could have been up there.o why do you ev

that is all in on this wednesday night, the rachel maddow show starts right. good evening rachel. >> good evening chris, thank you my. friend much appreciated. and thanks don for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. used to be called the g8. it was us, canada, france, the uk, italy, germany, japan, and russia. that's eight, it was the g8, from the late 90s on. and you know the g8 and the g 8 had drama. there were often big anti-globalization protests targeting the annual g 8 meetings. there was once a big spending scandal involving the u.k. when the u.k. hosted the g 8 once. it was also really super awkward one year when italy hosted the g8 after their prime minister got busted in one of -- just one of his sex with underaged girls scandals. that happened on the eve of the other g8 leaders arriving to be hosted by berlusconi. the g8 has had aches and pains over the years, but nothing,

josh, chain, that was "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. , rachel. >> good evening, chris. very happy to have you here. it's friday eve, after all. >>> this billboard has just gone up in times square in new york city. as you can see there, it says "trump lost," no more, quote, audits. this was put up by a republican group, a group called the republican accountability project. we've talked about them a few times on the show. they're basically a group of anti-trump republicans, including people who served in the trump administration who are now anti-trump republicans basically trying to save their party from the direction it has taken under trump.

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with ali velshi in for rachel. >> that is a fascinating conversation. we are strongly in favor of unions and collective bargaining and increasing the wages and working conditions of people. police unions in this country are unhinged. you said it well. it is -- it goes against everything that i believe a union needs to do. they're nuts. >> the tone that emanates -- we just had the chicago police union comparing vaccine mandates to the nazis. there's just literally no one in public life -- maybe with the exception of donald trump -- across the ideological spectrum -- no one talks like that. >> yeah, yeah. >> you don't -- you don't -- like, you and i -- no one goes on air and says -- >> first class whore. >> -- that b-word has blood on her hands. it's another planet. >> it would be better if they were unions that represented people and got them raises. thanks, chris. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour. rachel's off tonight. she will be back tomorrow. it's been a day of hour-by-hour dramatic developments in washington not just in the

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. >>> very rarely does a politician have to put his money where his mouth is. i can't remember the last time we had a story where a politician made a public bet and they had to pay off when they lost the bet. but that has finally happened. and look. we have the check. we have the actual check that shows the guy having to pay up. the far right former right wing radio host who is now the republican lieutenant governor of texas, his name is dan patrick, this is a check drawn on his campaign funds. you see in the upper left-hand corner, texans for dan patrick. the check is drawn on his campaign funds. it is for $25,000. payable to a young man named eric frank. eric frank is a young man who you are about to meet. i almost could not believe this story was real until i saw the actual check. but there is the actual check. it really happened. this is impossible. this is impossible. but apparently it happened. we'll introduce you to eric frank in just a moment and get the st

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. nd, thank you. >> you too. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. happy friday. very happy to have you here. this is one of those friday nights when the news gods are saying, neenor, neenor, we don't believe in weekends. the fifth circuit u.s. court of appeals sits in louisiana,

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with ali velshi. good evening, ali. >> chris, we have not crossed paths in the last year and a half, so we caught up a little bit. >> nothing like a little makeup room chitchat. that's been missing from all of our lives for a long time. >> great to see you, chris. >>> rachel's got the night off. th

that is all for tonight, the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening chris thank you for being here, happy to have you here. last summer the summer ofevenin. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. thanks for joining thus hour. happy to you have here. last summer summer of 2020 hood county, texas, hired a new elections administrator. hood county, texas, is southwest of ft. worth. population of 60,000 people. and the new elections administrator they hired was a pro. the real deal. she had impeccable credentials. she was a 14-year veteran of elections administration at the county level. she had spent the last five years running elections in a different texas county in that different texas county she had been universally praised by that county's leaders. i mean by all accounts, hood county made a really good choice when they picked somebody to come in and be the sort of technocrat, the nonpartisan official who would administer their elections. and in fact, when it came time for the presidential election in november of last year, november 2020

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. >>> thanks for joining us on this friday evening. we're going to be talking about president biden and his remarkable meeting with pope francis today at the vatican. we'll talk about the pressure that is coming now from all sides, including some very unexpected places in terms of getting something done on climate. it's a sort of tailwind for the president as he heads from the g-20 toward the big climate summit. it's actually i think a good news story in terms of what's looking like it's going to happen in washington. we'll talk about that. we'll talk about the huge, huge supreme court case that's going to be argued on monday. we should be able to get oral arguments of that court case, we should be able to hear the oral arguments of it before the court when that happens on monday. we'll talk about how you can listen in on it and what the stakes are there. we've got a lot to get to tonight. it's been a really big week in the news, it's been a

and conservative oan suing msnbc and rachel maddow on a weak defamation claim.sclosure, as journalists, we do have a professional interests in these kinds of issues and cases, but tonight, this special report right now will bring you many sources. put my word aside, and just see what independent judges concluded. they ruled that msnbc won and was entitled to extra legal fees because the defamation claims were so baseless, politicians are pushing this. in trump's ease addition kneel gorsuch is citing without fact checking or editing and use ignorance is bliss approach. certainly it's a valid concern compared to the print era when these libel laws mostly developed. there is more speech and more propaganda on the web that masquerades as journalism. from to spread a catchy, clique-y conspiracy, and i hoot court has not yet agreed to take a case challenging this, but it's in the news, because it's already going all the way up to the court. it's what trump and gorsuch want. those claims from the justice that i just read about the internet are actually a really long wa

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. in new york city. as you can see there, it says "trump lost," no more, quote, audits. this was put up by a republican group, a group called the republican accountability project. we've talked about them a few times on the show. they're basically a group of anti-trump republicans, including people who served in the trump administration who are now anti-trump republicans basically trying to save their party from t

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. ay evening. we're going to be talking about president biden and his remarkable meeting with pope francis today at the vatican. we'll talk about the pressure that is coming now from all sides, including some very unexpected places in terms of getting something done on climate. it's a sort of tailwind for the president as he heads from the g-20 toward the big climate summit. it's actually i think a good news story in terms of what's looking like it's going to happen in washington. we'll talk about that. we'll talk about the huge, huge supreme court case that's going to be argued on monday. we should be able to get oral arguments of that court case, we should be able to hear the o

chris >> that's all in for this wednesday evening, the rachel maddow show starts right. ening. rachel >> good evening chris thank you my. friends fantastic show tonight by the way. you've been doing great shows recently, but tonight was amazing. >> i appreciate. >> and thanks don for recently, but tonight was amazing. >> i appreciate it. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. let me just start with an admission here. i will admit i fully recognize and i will admit that over the years there has been some tough reporting and tough commentary on this show about former president donald trump. i'm also fully aware we have invited numerous guests on to this show over the years -- newsmakers, experts, former government officials, who have also at times expressed tough minded sentiments about donald trump. i am not hiding the ball here. i know that this show broadly speaking has had a lot of tough words for the former president and his behavior.

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you. and thanks for joining us.my voice is weak tonight. don't worry. everything is fine. the surest way to make people worry about you. it's allergies, don't worry. all right. espionage. espionage is spying, right? i send my spies into your country to go steal your secrets or you are spend your spies into my country to steal my secrets. every country in that game knows if they're doing it, somebody else doing it to them, too. and so in the intelligence world, in spying, in espionage, you don't just play offense, you

the rachel maddow show starts now with ali velshi in for rachel. >>> rachel has the night off, she will be back on monday. let's start with an update on the health of the former president bill clinton who was hospitalized on tuesday. a spokesperson announced clinton will remain hospitalized overnight in california far urinary tract infection that has spread to his bloodstream. his doctor said today that he's on the mend, in good spirits and that all of his health indicators are quote trending in the right direction. today the former secretary of state hillary clinton once again visited her husband this the hospital. president clinton also received a call from president biden who says he looks forward to seeing president clinton soon, and he wishes him a speedy recovery. we're going to keep you updated on this story as it develops. right now, i want to turn to a meeting that was supposed to stay behind closed doors but ended up on the pages of the "washington post" today. quote, in a private speech at the donor retreat for the national republican senatorial committee yesterday, donald tr

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> happy to have you here.t going on tonight in washington. a lot of moving parts just this hour on capitol hill. a lot of stuff we are going to see develop. we think over the course of this hour while we are on the air. at the very end of last night's show you might remember we showed you footage we got in just at the last second before we got off the air from last night's congressional baseball game. this happens every year. it's been going on over a century and is supposed to encourage camaraderie among lawmakers. how is that going? if these games are supposed to be some kind of respite from the pressures of capitol hill, last night there was an interruption in that respite at least for some. during the game a group of fairly cheerful but determined

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris, have a fantastic weekend, my friend, thank you. >> you too. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. happy friday. very happy to have you here. this is one of those friday nights when the news gods are saying, neenor, neenor, we don't believe in weekends. the fifth circuit u.s. court of appeals sits in louisiana, ideologically, republican presidents have so stacked that particular court with their appointees that it's now the judicial equivalent of like a combination antivaccine rally and gun show. the fifth circuit includes the state of texas. and tonight the state of texas has told the fifth circuit that they want their abortion ban back. texas, as you know, earlier this year passed a law that effectively banned abortion in texas. the conservative republican appointed majority on the united states supreme court amazingly let the texas abortion ban go into effect, even though there's a ruling called roe v. wade that's supposedly still standing

the rachel maddow show starts now with ali velshi in for rachel. >>> rachel has the night off, she willtuesday. a spokesperson announced clinton will remain hospitalized overnight in california far urinary tract infection that has spread to his bloodstream. his doctor said today that he's on the mend, in good spirits and that all of his health indicators are quote trending in the right direction. today the former secretary of state hillary clinton once again visited her husband this the hospital. president clinton also received

"the rachel maddow show" starts now with ali velshi in for rachel. >> that is a fascinating conversationor of unions and collective bargaining and increasing the wages and working conditions of people. police unions in this country are unhinged. you said it well. it is -- it goes against everything that i believe a union needs to do. they're nuts. >> the tone that emanates -- we just had the chicago police union comparing vaccine mandates to the nazis. there's just literally no one in public life -- maybe with the ex

rachel maddow is next. >>> president biden tonight has ordered flags across the country flown at half of general colin powell who has died today at the age of