and stacey abrams is off and running, and she started the campaign in the right place, the rachel maddow show. >> you know, she is -- i was not -- in all of the parlor games about what will stacey

in what has become my favorite recurring segment, on the rachel maddow show formula jayapal, bringing her confident optimism in response to rachael's strong doubts, to put it mildly about congress put passing the build back better bill. congressman jayapal will join us in a moment. last night's democrats, most of whom, have left washington in recess -- channeling and jayapal optimism. made a commitment to bring the voting rights bill to a vote on the floor in early january. and change the rules in to do that. senator schumer also to bring a version of the build back better bill, passed by house representatives in the senate floor. will then be open to any amendments that can pass by a simple majority vote. as such legislation always is. it is unclear, what version of the bill senator schumer will bring to the floor. after senator joe manchin said on sunday he will vote no, on a current version of the government. after some suspense yesterday of or whether joe manchin will pop a spate, senator manchin did indeed show up and insisted that he is consistent and explaining to his colleague

the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> good evening, my friend. happy to have you here. two weeks ago the cdc said the omicron variant of covid accounted for 0.4% of all the covid known to be circulating in the country. 0.4%. then last week the cdc said it went from 0.4% of all covid to 3%. now from last week to this week omicron has gone from 3% of all the covid in the united states, from 3% to 73%. 0.4% two weeks ago, 3% last week, 73% this week. so bye-bye delta. omicron is now leaping ahead, becoming the dominant strain in the united states of america in just a lightning flash. in terms of what the new omicron pandemic will be like compared to the delta pandemic compared to the original strain, what we know about omicron is that it is massively contagious. it's massively transmissible. we know that, yes, vaccinations help when it comes to omicron. it helps prevent you from becoming infected and it certainly helps you avoid serious illness, hospitalization and death. vaccinations do help, even if you are already vaccinated, though, we know in the case of omicron you n

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she goes over to tinfoil hat rachel maddow show trying to claim that she never ever cast out on the election back in 2018. rachel of course let her get away with this lie. >> on the 16th of november when i acknowledge i would not become the governor, that he had won the election, i did not challenge the outcome of the election unlike some recent folks did. what i said was that the system was not fair. and leaders challenge systems, leaders say, we can do better. and that is what i declared. >> sean: that is not true. in fact, over and over again abram suggested that she won the race. we have tape to prove it. take a look a look. >> to watch an elected official who claims to represent the people in the state in the hopes for election on the suppression of the people's democratic right to vote has been truly appalling. so let's be clear. this is not the speech of concession. >> we had the selection back in 2018. and despite the final tally and the inauguration and the situation we find ourselves in, i do have one very affirmative statement to make. we won. i'm not saying they stole it from me,

without all of those folks, this would not be the rachel maddow show that you know.cheap blazer but not making much sense show. it's more efficient for it to be the rachel maddow show, but it couldn't be this show without everybody who works so hard to make it possible. without further ado, a major thank you to everybody who works on this show for making me, oh, so much better at this job. please behold. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>> good evening and welcome to a special holiday edition of "the last word." 2022 will be the year of the all-important midterm congressional campaigns. mitch mcconnell has already said republicans won't be running on any issue. here's the headline. mcconnell: no legislative agenda for 2022 midterms. joe biden and kamala harris won more

official optimist of "the rachel maddow show." thank you for joining us on what is thought of as hard to be a professional optimist. >> it is really true. but i'm not giving up the role. but you know i always tell you the truth. and i think the truth needed to be told here, rachel, which was that senator manchin did make a commitment to the president on the framework that the president, you know, unveiled to us the day before he went to copp, and that framework would never have happened had the progressive caucus in the house not stood up and refuse to pass the infrastructure bill until we got that framework and got the legislative text. i do believe senator manchin has said many things. he's a nice man, i've had good conversations with him, but i had to be clear. your word is everything around here. you can't enter into negotiations if you are not going to be an honest negotiator. and if you are not going to keep your word to the president of the united states. the president told me that senator manchin committed to that framewor

full of optimism in the face of your pessimism, which is my favorite segment on "the rachel maddow show" and you just reported where the optimism stands tonight but the point that i didn't get to last night that i really want to get to is i think she is the -- she should lecture the rest of the house about how to speak publicly about pending legislation. sure, you might be angry at another democrat or another person who might or might not vote for the bill, but expressing that anger publicly at those people is the most unproductive thing you can do as long as the legislation is still pending. the diplomatic way that she talks about joe manchin publicly is what allows her to talk to him privately. which none of the democrats who kind of popped out angrily about joe manchin sunday and monday are able to do. they never have private conversations with him. and -- >> the problem is that if he's lying in his private conversations then all of the niceness that you put out to the world to get you the private conversation with him just sort of drags you along the path, along the garden path a li

rachel maddow will be on maybe once a week starting next spring/winter. 11:00 p.m. hour with brian williams. sean hannity, gone for years at fox. what does this mean for the era of cable news? >> it's not over. rachel maddow negotiated a contract better than ever before. >> but she won't be on every day? >> no, but she will be doing specials, et cetera. cnn, it's an idea now of having a strong digital presence, podcast. cnn is launching a streaming network next year. having a big primetime show is not the only outlet to be a star and succeed and they're reliesing that. cable tv, auk it's awkward to say while i'm on cable tv, it's in decline. and while i might be smarter in my career, what maddow is thinking, maybe do documentaries that could be on streaming services and do more podcasts. that will be the stronger way eventually to reach all of your audiences than just relying on a primetime stop. >> the counterterm of political deline when something bad happens in the world, 3e78 still know where to go. however, they might want to stream it rather than watch on line

join rachel maddow for the showdown with senator mansion.sanders and pramila jayapal and still ahead, a new legal volley from trump's attorneys as he tries to shut down new york's long running investigations into his shady business practices. the latest one targets new york state attorney general leticia james specifically. we'll be right back. eticia james specifically we'll be right back. hey hun hey, get your own vapors relax with vicks vapobath or with vicks vaposhower. take a soothing vicks vapo moment wherever you chose. i have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. so i'm taking zeposia, a once-daily pill. because i won't let uc stop me from being me. zeposia can help people with uc achieve and maintain remission. and it's the first and only s1p receptor modulator approved for uc. don't take zeposia if you've had a heart attack, chest pain, stroke or mini-stroke, heart failure in the last 6 months, irregular or abnormal heartbeat not corrected by a pacemaker, if you have untreated severe breathing problems during your sleep, or if you

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now with aymon in for rachel maddow. >> rachel has the night off and we start tonight with that very important breaking news. one of the things that was almost most surprising about the former senate majority leader harry reid was just how quiet he was. in fact, during interviews, it was not uncommon to be almost unable to hear him. that's how soft-spoken he actually was. but there was another side to harry reid in all of this. in fact, in the late 1970s, harry reid was the chair of the nevada gaming commission, overseeing the state's very important casinos. this is the story of a man who tried to bribe him from a new yorker profile back in 2005. , in part, it reads, in july of 1978, a man named jack gordon, who was later married to latoya jackson, offered reid $12,000 to approve new gaming devices for casino use. reid reported the attempted bribe to the fbi and arranged a meeting with gordon in his office. by agreement fbi agents burst in to arrest gordon at the point where reid asked, is this the money? although he was taking part in a sting, rei

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rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here on this fine friday eve by which i mean it is the eve of friday. tonight we'll be joined by the person most likely to be the first female governor of the state of georgia, the first black female governor of any state in the country. stacey abrams. she is already a national political figure, somebody who for example the democratic party has already tasked with giving a response to a state of the union during the trump years. she is already credited as the organizer and political talent who more than anybody else was responsible for having turned georgia blue. stacey abrams has just announced that she is officially in the running to become the next governor of georgia. that again would make her the first female governor of georgia, the first black woman ever elected governor of a u.s. state, stacey abrams will be joining us here live for an exclusive interview tonight. i am really looking forward to that conversation

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now with aymon in for rachel maddow. >> rachelas

these are leaving lines. >> rachel maddow on oscar voting. we're gonna have to devote more time to that because i know that's your expertise [laughs] >> i don't even know what the body. ,. . ? this >>,. . >>? >>. already. >>. >>. a >> complaint and total, that. just try to use to describe what's happening, on the republican side of the house of representatives. today, dozens of house democrats called on the republican house leader chemical mccarthy to strip republican congressman lauren boebert, of her committee assignments after making repeated anti-muslim attacks against democratic congressman -- omar. of course, kevin mccarthy remains completely silent. the silence of the coward. in a statement, those democrats say, we refused to stand by as islamophobia anti-black, miss and time sentiment, and xenophobia are trafficked into the halls of congress by members of the republican party. in an exclusive interview yesterday, congresswoman omar told -- many hassan why this rhetoric is so dangerous. >> what i am afraid for, is that this kind of rhe

the white house press corp is not sympathetic and rachel maddow is on the opposite side of this. >> tucker no one at cnn as died of omicron but there is an outbreak of pedophilia there. breaking news on that coming up. >> tucker: something strange is going on at cnn, two separate cnn producers were accused of child molestation. one was john griffin. we won't get into the details. he was fired. griffin used to work for chris cuomo. then just days after that story, project veritas exposed another creep at cnn. they published graphic text messages that fantasized about molesting the child and saw photographers of that child. we called cnn, we asked is this one of your employees. does he still work there? they didn't get back to us. this seems like a real story. as of today there are more accused pedophiles at cnn than americans who died of the omicron variant which is supposed to be so deadly. that's not what they are recovering. -- covering. fox news suffered a week of embarrassing headlines! [laughing]. paging dr. freud. transference is when you take the sins you committed and accuse others

the white house press corp is not sympathetic and rachel maddow is on the opposite side of this. a shining day for journalism, tucker. >> tucker: thank you. no one at cnn has died of omicron, but there is an outbreak of pedophilia there. breaking news on that coming up. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: something strange is going on at cnn,et two separate cnn producers were accused of child molestation. one was john griffin. he was just indicted by a federal grand jury with minors with unlawful sexual activity. we won't get into the details. he was fired. they are horrifying. griffin used to work for chris cuomo. he bragged about working shoulder to shoulder with him. we will leave it there. then just days after that story, project veritas exposed another creep at cnn. they published graphic text messages that fantasized about molesting the child and saw photographers of that child. we called cnn, we asked is this one of your employees. does hee still work there? they didn't get back to us. this seems like a real story. so to put into context, as of today there are more accused pedophiles at cnn th

. >> sean: that's an unhinged idiot even for the network that features the tinfoil hat wearing rachel maddow. i would not wish covid on my westerhout enemy. -- worst enemy. even if you hate me or want me off the air. be careful. i want you to live. every conservative wants life to return to normal. no more lockdowns and no mandates and no masks. we are sick of it. a news flash for msnbc americanses don't like anthony fauci because he is horrible at his job and wrong constantly -- and the bar changes every hour. if biden cared about reaching all americans he would replace fauci with someone less toxic. that's not happening. joe biden is not a uniter. he is a cognitive mess in way over his head. now he does whatever his far left advisors tell him to do. joining us now is sarah sanders and ryans. 355,000 people have decide under his watch. that's more people than died in all of 2020. should he go? >> well, he based his entire campaign on the idea that he was going to resolve this entire covid crisis. trump did not know what he was doing. his poll numbers are in the tank because he promised to s

right now you have sean hannity on fox, rachel maddow on msnbc, so he's their big guy at 9pm.s after the suspension out of nowhere really the network announces that they have conducted an investigation using an outside law firm which we also did not know they are using an outside firm and that additional information came to light that required them to terminate him so very surprising development. it was interesting the way they phrased it initially, saying that they realised that it was, they understood the need to put his brother first before his job, didn't they? that was a really strong backing. i think they liked having an anchor who was that connected to a big democratic politician that was very famous in the us, it made the show feel more relevant i think but it was also a huge ethical issue. cnn has been dealing with this controversy for a while, journalists at the network was not happy about it but essentially the network felt that they had been misled about the extent of cuomo�*s participation. these documents on monday basically made cnn, from my conversations with t

i have a problem with rachel maddow, i think that's awesome. i love the idea there's dissenting voices. i love to flip the channel. there. much of it is the same with my family but i think that's healthy. i it makes me a stronger conservative when i can listen to what they sayso i think the easiest thing is to go back to logic andfacts . why should we hear both sides ? i think you should hear crazy people as you go okay, that is crazy. now i know why were doing what we're doing but you should realize that there's dissenting opinion that there are a spectrum of opinions. that's what makes this debate healthy. we should encourageit . especially at college campuses. the funny part about college that's one of the reasons you're there is to get exposed to ideas and different views and yet it's like no, here is what we will listen tocomrades ? i think what i would say is that you push people to say no, but that was in let's talk about it and then secondly i think it's a get involved. understand that the tools there whether it's inherited inherited ac

. >> sean: that's an unhinged idiot even for the network that features the tinfoil hat wearing rachel maddow. who is going to get $30 million, of course for one show a week. but let me be clear, i would not wish covid on my worst enemy. i want everybody, whether you agree with me political or not, whether you're part of the progressive caucus, even if you hate me or want me off the air. be careful. i want you to live. make no mistake, every conservative wants life to return to normal. no more lockdowns and no more draconian lockdowns, mandates and no masks. we are sick of it. a news flash for msnbc americans don't like anthony fauci because he is horrible at his job and wrong constantly -- and the bar changes every hour. of every day. if biden cared about reaching all americans he would replace fauci with someone less toxic. that's not happening. joe biden is not a uniter. he is a cognitive mess in way over his head. and everybody knows it. so, now he does whatever his far left advisors tell him to do. joining us now is sarah sanders along with former white house chief of staff reince priebu

i don't have a problem with msnbc, rachel maddow i think it's awesome. i love the idea of dissenting voices, flip the channel here and there much to the dismay of my family, when watching something i flick around but i think that's healthy. i think it makes me a stronger conservative when i can listen to what they say so i think the easiest thing again go back to logic and fact, why don't we hear both sides? i think you should hear crazy people. because you go okay, wait, that is crazy. now i know why we're doing what we're doing but you should realize there's dissenting opinion. that's what makes debate healthy, especially college campuses, the funny part of college that's one of the reasons you're there supposedly is exposed to different ideas and views but it's like no, no, no, this is what we'll listen to, comrades and what i would say is push people, let that voice in, have a debate. then secondly, i think it's to get involved and understand the tools are there. you and i had this discussion like a week ago. i grew up early in the 90s doing campaign

"the rachel maddow show" begins right now. good evening, rachel. >> much appreciated.hanks for joining us this hour. nice to have you here on christmas eve eve. when you settle in to watch the show, by now, you probably know to expect a little bit of the unexpected, right? we might have me reading unusually long portions of court transcripts. sometimes i do, you know, just end up reporting breaking news because the news drives us along, but other times we'll try to do some historical background for understanding what's important in the news today. i recognize that we do weird stuff on this show, and if you've been watching the show for a while, you probabl

the rachel maddow show starts right now. el. >> good evening, chris thanks my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us, happy to have you. here two weeks ago the cdc said that the omicron variant of covid accounted for 0.4%. went from 0.4% of all covid to 3%. now from last week to this week omicron has gone from 3% of all the covid in the united states, from 3% to 73%. 0.4% two weeks ago, 3% last week, 73% this week. so bye-bye, delta? omicron is now leaping ahead, becoming the dominant strain in the united states of america in just a lightning flash. in terms of what the new omicron pandemic is going to be like compared to the delta pandemic

out, and professor ackerman, thank you very much, and that is all in on thursday night, and the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris, and much appreciated. it will be nice to have you here on christmas eve eve. when you settle in to watch this show by now you have probably noticed expect a bit of the unexpected. right? we might have me reading unusually long portions of court transcripts. sometimes, i do, you know, end up reporting breaking news because the news drags us along. but other times, we will try and do historical back ground for understanding what is important in the news today. i recognize that we do weird stuff on the show and if you have been watching the show for a while you probably know that, too. we mostly do weird stuff on the show because my brain works weird, and i'm aware of that. i know the way we heard things can occasionally be a surprise. but even with all the weird things that we have done over the years to cover the news, i have never before done this nor have i ever anticipated that one of the things i i would need do

the rachel maddow show starts right now, with amy remedy -- rachel, good evening. evening ever tested. it remains, believe it or not, till this day, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. i know this is going to sound almost impossible to comprehend. it was 3,333 times stronger, stronger, than the bomb that was actually dropped on hiroshima. because this was the height of the cold war, because it was at the height of the arms race between the soviet union and the united states, the men who designed this bomb, the men who brought the soviet union to this glory of having the strongest nuclear device in the world, as you can imagine, they were heroes. stn is how one of those ee scientists, andre sakarov, was

victor, i mean, rachel maddow said it, it must be true. if you've got vaccinated, no chance.there. >> yeah, you know, i don't want to be too cynical, jason, but i don't think the media exists as we once knew it. it's fused with the left-wing movement in the democratic party. that's why trump had not been in office more than 90 days and the liberal center at harvard said that 93% of the coverage was biased against him, and we had prominent marquee journalist christiane amanpour, rittenhouse, ramos, they said they couldn't be disinterested because of the trump phenomenon, and so if you'd believed the media, we heard andrew cuomo was a professional and gifted governor. chris cuomo is a professional journalist. there was no relation between the wuhan level for lab and the origins of covid. the chinese were very sober and judicious the way they handled the outbreak. we were told that somehow in waukesha there was some autopilot suv that killed six people and injured 62 but we didn't really know much about the driver. we were told the rittenhouse trial where there was white on whit

the "rachel maddow show" starts now. >> it was may 2019 when michael cohen was ordered to report to prison. mr. cohen of course worked for years for donald trump at his real estate business. when mr. trump turn to politics, mr. cohen became this popular person to mr. trump. helping trump cover up illegal contributions that were hush money payments after mr. cohen pled guilty to helping trump with that, among other things, in may 201 he was sent to prison. after serving about a year in prison, though, mr. cohen got out and he was transitioned effectively to home confinement. the reason he got out was because of covid. it wasn't special treatment to him. it doesn't appear to have been. this happened to a lot of prisoners at the time. but a seriously crazy things happened to him right after that, something that appears to be very specifically designed for him. just a few weeks after he was sent home because of covid, the bureau of prisons revoked his home confinement and decided even though he'd only been home for a couple weeks, they were going to send him right back to prison. sure he'd bee

rachel maddow reacted with cdc guidance that didn't fit her narrative anymore. >> if you are vaccinateday to take your masks off indoors and out. how sure are you? lisa: how sure are you? >> there is something for everybody to hate with the cdc's mask guidance since they had every position. we heard don't wear a mask, then where one mass, then two masks, then no masks, now you have to wear a mask again, now it says in 95 masks, who knows what will be tomorrow? i don't know. the fact is the cdc has no credibility, similar to the media. lisa: we've got you back. what do you make about this flip-flopping from the cdc and things you heard from media figures, everyone all over the map about everything. >> the cdc and the media failed to provide a consistent message for public health reasons that would enable us to protect ourselves against covid and the inconsistencies in the messaging and the flip-flopping of undermines american confidence and that is dangerous because this isn't going to be the only health crisis the we have so i hope the media takes a long hard look at how they have disto

rachel maddow said it, it must be true. if you've gotten vaccinated, no chance.ght there. >> don't want to be too cynical but i don't think the media exists as we once knew it, with the left-wing movement of the democratic party, that is why trump is not been office more than 80 days and harvard said 93% of the coverage was biased against him. we had prominent journalists, christian on board, joe rittenhouse who said they couldn't be disinterested because of the trump phenomenon. if you believe the media then we heard andrew cuomo was a professional and gifted governor, quote as a professional journalist. there was no relation between the one on level 4 b origins of covid, the chinese were sober and judicious in the way they handled the outbreak. we were told in waukesha there was an autopilot suv that killed six people and injured 62 but didn't know much about the driver, we were told the rittenhouse trial was white violence, simply about race and i could go on. they don't file have to be and should not be disinterested. the other thing they do is they are a meg

out, and professor ackerman, thank you very much, and that is all in on thursday night, and the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris, and much appreciated. it will be nice to have you here on christmas eve eve. when you settle in to watch this show by now you have probably noticed expect a bit of the unexpected. right? we might have me reading

. >> "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening chris.ou, my friend. >>> appreciate you being here. thanks at home for joining us. appreciate you being here. it is a very excite lead-up to the christmas holidays at the end of this week. so much so that i feel like the news is kind of all rushing into the off-ramp, trying to get all done before the christmas holidays are upon us. one of the stories we've been watching tonight starts in the great state of georgia amid the tidal wave of election laws and voting rights restrictions enacted over the course of this year in republican-controlled states, all these laws coast to coast, aimed at making it harder to

the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> it was fantastic, chris. and the zinc. well then >> thanks at-home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. in april 1960, in memphis, tennessee, the reverent dr. martin luther king the man who killed him was james earl ray, seen here in handcuffs. james earl ray was a rabid segregationist. he was a real racist. he was kicked out of the army in the late '40s. he'd been in and out of prison for years. he'd actually escaped from prison in missouri, in 1967, the year before he killed king. he spent time in mexico. spent time in california. by 1968, he was reportedly intoxicated with the reactionary campaign of george wallace, the segregationist alabama governor, who ran for president in 1968 on an anti-civil rights, pro-segregation, white supremacist platform. james earl ray volunteered on the wallace for president campaign. even beyond that, he was just increasingly committed to the racist cause more broadly. and in the spring of 1968, james earl ray moved to atlanta. he had been living on the west coa

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. this hour. just strangest, just most unsettling stories i've ever covered in all my years doing this job, and there's been many of them. it's certainly one of the strangest stories i ever have come across, let alone covered in detail, about the behavior of the u.s. government. just the oddest, strangest, weirdest sticks-with-you kind of thing that i've ever had to cover in the news. was the trump administration story about this man who you

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"the rachel maddow show" begins right now. good evening, rachel. >> much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour. nice to have you here on christmas eve eve. when you settle in to watch the show, by now, you probably know to expect a little bit of the unexpected, right? we might have me reading unusually long portions of court transcripts. sometimes i do, you know, just end up reporting breaking news because the news drives us along, but other times we'll try to do some historical background for understanding what's important in the news today. i recognize that we do weird stuff on this show, and if you've been watching the show for a while, you probably know that too. we mostly do weird stuff on the show because my brain works weird. and i'm aware of that. i know the way we approach things can occasionally be a surprise, but even with all the weird things that we have done over the years to cover the news, i have never before done this. nor did i ever anticipate that one of the things i would need to do on the air some day in order to explain the news would be to

"the rachel maddow show" starts now, with ayman mohyeldin in for rachel. >> i know the struggle is real, my friend. enjoy the rest of the night off. rachel has the night off, but we do have a lot to get to tonight. today the white house announcing president biden will speak to russian president vladimir putin tomorrow. that call was reportedly requested by vladimir putin, as russia continues to amass troops along ukraine's border. now, the white house has repeatedly warned russia over the last few weeks that a russian invasion of ukraine would have severe, severe diplomatic and economic consequences. one administration official told politico today that this call will come in the midst of a, quote, moment of crisis between the two nations. we'll have a lot more on that coming up later in the show. but we start tonight with a moment of crisis of our own right here at home. take a look at this map. this is a map tracking community transmission of covid across all 50 states. blue and yellow there on the screen means low to moderate. orange means substantial. red means high. and as you can s

you know, there's also -- here is msnbc rachel maddow reacted when the cdc guidance didn't quite fitrative anymore. watch. >> if you are vaccinated, it's okay to take off your masks now indoors and out. really? [laughs] are you sure? how sure are you? >> lisa: kurt, how sure are you? >> well, look, there's something for everybody to hate with the cdc's mask guidance since they literally had every position. first we had don't wear a mask, then you have to wear one mask, then you have to wear to masks and then no masks, now you have to wear a mask again, now it's an n95 mass, who knows what is going to be tomorrow, maybe it will be an entire plastic suit. i don't know. the fact is the cdc has no credibility. in that way it's very similar to the media. >> lisa: harmeet which got you back now. what you make about all the flip-flopping from the cdc, all the different things we've heard from media figures as well? everyone has been all over the map about pretty much everything. >> well, the cdc and the media have completely failed here to provide a consistent message to the american public

the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> good evening, my friend. happy to have you here.cdc said the omicron variant of covid accounted for 0.4% of all the covid known to b

that is all for this week, the rachel maddow show starts now, good evening rachel. >> thank you, chris, my friend. i feel at this point you are mastering the ability to tell very dark stories and also find the silver linings. it's well done, my friend. >> that's the job these days, i guess. >> seriously, that's the job. absolutely. all right. thanks very much, chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour, happy to have you here on a friday night. we'll start tonight with a story we first brought you last week and today took a new sort of baffling turn. if you saw our coverage of the story last week, you'll remember it, because it starts with a really unsettling 911 call. this was just over a year ago, december 6th last year, just before 10:00 p.m. on december 6th and a woman named ruby freeman in cop county georgia, not the first time she called 911 around that time, she had in fact been begging the police for protection repeatedly because she was getting a deluge of threats and harassment, really specific threats over the phone, text, email, over social media, but on the

of fact, matt, that there is this covid surge because it was just back in march last year that rachel maddowwas done and over. watch. >> now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. a vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them, the virus cannot then -- what this means is we can get there with vaccines. we can end this thing. >> you think she will apologize for that, matt? >> i don't know. fundamentally what she was saying may have been right in the moment but as we stipulated, no one could predict exactly how this virus would change and morph over time. what she was saying at its most fundamental level vaccines are vital to our response. i'm sorry, vaccine hesitancy comes from vaccine mandates is ridiculous. it comes from the fact there are many people, many elected officials and very active on media and social media, saying that the vaccines are somehow dangerous which is a lie, a dangerous lie that has led to the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of people. what maddow was saying is we need the vacc

and then, after greg, rachel maddow. you are thinking two things.. and also how is greg only one spot higher than joy reid? i guess you probably got support from the russian judges. in fact, that is why greg is not here tonight. he was so blown away by the fact that he wasn't higher in the list, that he could not due to show. thoughts to the almighty great you jonathan cole from abc. probably got some boats that were meant for carl jonathan. than matt drudge. a man best known for running website and wearing silly hats. and at number eight is sean hannity. can't argue with that. i can't or he will put to me and hadlock. joy stephanopoulos, also from abc. end at six, winfrey. never have her. and here is the top five. cnn chief international correspondent -- she was on the ground in afghanistan for her coverage during the withdrawal of u.s. troops. incredibly, biden did leave her behind. cnn boss jeff zucker whose hand was hard from all the pink slips he spent signing. and then comes the real heavy hitters. fox news media ceo suzanne scott. no joke the

that is all for the week, the rachel maddow show starts now, good evening rachel. >> good evening, chris, have a fantastic weekend, my friend, much appreciated. happy to have you here. it was may, 2019 when michael cohen was ordered to report to prison. mr. cohen of course had worked for years for donald trump at his real estate business. when mr. trump turned to politics, mr. cohen became this very visible surrogate and enforcer for trump, after mr. cohen pled guilty to, among other things, helping cover up illegal campaign contributions for his presidential campaign actually hush payments to women to prevent them talking before the campaign, after he pled guilty to helping trump with that, among other things, in may, 2019, he was sent to prison. after serving about a year in prison, though, mr. cohen got out and was transitioned effectively to home confinement and the reason he got out then is because of covid. it wasn't special treatment for him, this happened to a lot of prisoners at the time but a seriously crazy thing happened to him right after that. something that appears to have

. >> that is all in, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel. >> good evening chrisand then here at home for joining us this hour, really happy to have you here. quick personal note before we start. tonight is my parents wedding anniversary, they have been married for 53 years. come on. we should all aspire to such greatness and such happiness. happy anniversary you crazy kids. 53 years. absolutely fantastic. personal tonight, in the news, it is one of those nights where it feels like we're doing batting practice against five different pitching machines all at once. and a lot of the stories are big and complex and interesting. the first one we are covering tonight is, of course, tragic, and familiar. we had another mass shooting at a school today. this time in michigan. this time, police say it was a 15-year-old student who is now in custody. police say he shot and killed three other students and shot and wounded eight other people, including a teacher. the boy was reportedly armed with a semiautomatic handgun. again, he himself survived the shooting and is in custod