you be the judge that he got political tonight with rachel maddow. for good deal of insight in what we ought to do to protect officials like yourself and try to be more rational about this? >> what has spilled over and really in many respects impeded a proper response to a public health challenge is something that we see that goes well beyond public health. you can look at january 6th on tv and what's going on out there now with the distortion of reality. it's very troublesome. >> laura: january 6th invoked. are you surprised? >> i'm not surprised. if i were dr. fauci, i would want to come before congress and answer questions. i would want to defend my reputation. he is retiring with the very tarnished reputation. dr. fauci has not been truthful with the american people. the emails that i referenced a minute ago, they were sent to us originally heavily redacted. we sent a staffer in to the cdc-nih and got them read acting we transcribed those emails. that's how we know what happened. it's not because of anything dr. fauci told them. he's done everyth

there's a choreography happening here and rachel maddow over at msnbc i think may be inadvertently laidout for us. let's watch. >> it's just a remarkable flurry of productivity and action on long-held priorities, and all is hitting alongside this just jaw-dropping unprecedented news tonight that the home of the immediate former president, former republican president donald trump, his home has just been rated by the fbi. everything happens all at once. >> laura: victor, everything happens all at once, a flurry of legislative achievements and then this just happens. all a coincidence. >> yeah, well all you have to do is look at the prior four fbi directors, laura, and they are the narrative. i mean, christopher wray evaded every question to the senate and then he took off on a private fbi luxury jet to his favorite vacation spot in the dash and said he had to go home. he replaced andrew mccabe, who lied for times to a federal investigator and concocted -- or helped concoct that crazy idea of wearing a wire to entrap the president of the united states. ahead of hillary clinton's email inve

first time you heard my name was when the liberals on the national news, elizabeth warren and rachel maddow night after night on the nightly news were attacking me, going after me, calling me reckless. irresponsible, dangerous for the decisions i was making in south dakota. there are a few other names thrown in too, but i will remind them of those at the appropriate time. i want you to know my people are happy. they are happy because they are free. one of the reasons i'm here is because adam asked me, i'm also here -- because you have a fantastic sheriff that is running for governor. do you know that? do you know how amazing he is? you know what a disaster your governor is? yes, what a mess. dear lord. when somebody says you can campaign against that guy has said, i will be there every day of the week if i can. i'm shocked by what he did to you. i'm shocked by what he did to your businesses, your families. in the worst way possible by taking action to crush your economy and the liberties that our founders handed to you. i'm going to tell you a little bit about the decisions i made, what i w

and the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. chris, do you have a connection to the fbi? >> do i personally? >> >> every time you go on vacation the fbi does something that nobody expected that blows everybody away and i have to call you and ask where in the world you are. >> i found out the search warrant in mar-a-lago from a text from you, and i hadn't even gotten to the american news, and i guess things are kinds of crazy, woe, babe, they searched mar-a-lago. >> rachel just rang again. every time i leave the east coast. >> anyway, i'm putting a leash on you, my friend. i can't take the suspense anymore. welcome back. >> good to be back. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. great to have you here. do you remember the name brandon van greg? it is a very memorable name, you might remember the sound of it and if not the circumstance you first heard. it but if you are like me, and all likelihood the first time you heard the name brandon van grack was the first time you heard the word espionage formally associated wi

the rachel maddow show starts that is all for us tonight rachel maddow show start good evening, rachel. >>go good evening, charles. thank you very much. it's good to see threw. >> good to see you, too. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. after the 9/11 attacks, it took about 10 years for the united states government to get osama bin laden, it happened in may, 2011, and now, as of tonight, we know it took another 11 years after that to get bin laden's brain, to get the man who was bin laden's number two and al qaeda at the time of 9/11 and took over as al qaeda's leader after bin laden was killed by u.s. navy seals. the string of attacks and murders

there was no live show, there was no live show, after rachel maddow at 10 pm. and phil griffin thought, wait a minute, rachel is a huge star with a huge audience. why don't we just surf that audience for another hour? so, he dragged me in here, to sit here, and surf the rachel audience, which i've done for an amazingly long time than i thought was possible. >> so, i have a memory that's like a bodega security cam, it writes itself over every 16 hours, like of the police haven't called, and they need something from the last 16 hours, we're just gonna re-write that tape. so, i don't even remember that the 10 pm hour was clips. >> live tv ended with you -- on this network. it ended at 10 pm, until i came in here, and just got to, you know, say hi to you. and you know, enough people would hang around, just because you said hi. >> lawrence, this is too much for me. i have to go now. >> you do -- you know what? rachel, take the rest of the week off. >> okay, i'll do that. >> thank you, rachel. >> bye. >> thank you. let's say you had the job, someone does, right? the j

the rachel maddow show starts that is all for us tonight rachel maddow show start good evening, rachel. >>go good evening, charles. thank you very much. it's good to see threw. >> good to see you, too. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. after the 9/11 attacks, it took about 10 years for the united states government to get osama bin laden, it happened in may, 2011, and now, as of tonight, we know it took another 11 years after that to get bin laden's brain, to get the man who was bin laden's number two and al qaeda at the time of 9/11 and took over as al qaeda's leader after bin laden was killed by u.s. navy seals. the string of attacks and murders attributed to amman al zawhahiri is stomach churning.ch he was the ideological master behind behind the turn of al qaeda andnd groups like that toward indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere, including muslims, all in the name of islamic piety and how he got there, we now, looking back at it, it seems like a straight shot, but if he dropped in at any time of his biography, you wouldn't have known, trained as a doctor, as a surgeon,

steve benen is the editor of the maddow blog, producer for the rachel maddow show. still ahead, the key state that roe attorney generals play in the abortion act. first, i have an opportunity to tour the west alabama and center, foretold abortion services the day roe v. wade was overturned. the staff are determined to keep the clinic open to provide other critical care. but when i arrived at the address for the abortion clinic, i found another facility right next door, which called itself choices. but that is a lie. >> they pretend to usually be medical centers. they often locate themselves right next to, or across the street from places that provide abortion. and they specifically do that as a means of trying to get people who are going to abortion clinics to come to their place instead. eir place instead. ♪ ♪ we believe there's an innovator in all of us. ♪ ♪ that's why we build technology that makes it possible for every business... and every person... to come to the table and do more incredible things. ♪ ♪ (vo) give your business an advantage right now, with nati

anthony fauci appeared on the rachel maddow show to say why he's leaving now. >> things look like they're stabilizing a bit and i believe in the next few months we will do better. again i felt i might as well do it now because i want to make sure when i do leave i still have the energy and passion and the health to do the kind of things that i want to do. >> he will officially be leaving in december. he plans to take what he has learned during his career to inspire and mentor a new generation of scientists. >>> next, we have been facing water restrictions for years now it's time for everyone in southern california to do the same. we have details of a rare ban on water. >>> too many soft packets so what do we do with them? how to recycle soft packets that you get from your favorite fast food restaurant. >>> we have fallen back to tomorrow morning, i will show you th hi, my name is cherrie. i'm 76 and i live on the oregon coast. my husband, sam, we've been married 53 years. we love to walk on the beach. i have two daughters and then two granddaughters. i noticed that memories were not there

howard: leslie, what boosters like rachel maddow say is that paw chi is polarizing because of right-wingalso argues he's been de. monoized by conservatives. -- can demonized. >> i would agree from where i'm at. in the very beginning, dr. fauci, people on the right were making voodoo dolls and singing pins -- sticking pins in it. and then when the president started to say some things that you saw -- not only dr. fauci, but other doctors uncomfortable with, and dr. fauci had guts to say, no, i don't agree with thaa demonoization, and i feel it started from the former president that furthered that divide in the country. you know, i have to say this man is somebody who devoted his career to helping others. you know i'm married to a medical profession, -- professional, and it's mind-blowing to me how it became political. i have friends in my own talk radio business that died because they refused to get vaccinated or they were taking some kind of hocus pocus potion that didn't work because they didn't believe in a lot of this crazy hype. and i just, i think it's terrible. there have been death

well,ti shocking thatdn rachel maddow didn't get any of that tonight. now she also did ask fauci, though, about the demonization of him because he's the victimde here. notol all the kids who were locked out of school. here was his response. >> what we're dealing with now is just a distortion of reality. rachel , i mean, conspiracyion w theories which don'thi make any back onltll, pushing sound public health measures, making it look like trying to l save livesik is encroaching on people's freedom. freedom kind of scoffed at that, really dismissat. well, you know, the standardd answer is if you don't like what i'm saying, you call them a conspiracy theorist. but what i would call ity conspiracy observers. that event to a one, for example, had hundreds of people in a room conspiring about how to take over the world on the basis of an infectious pandemic. that's a conspiracy because of all the people involved in it. so, you know, you can call them theories, but we're observers. >> we observe these conspiracies theorists. thank you for being the voicean of r

lisa reuben, legal analyst for the rachel maddow show. hayes brown, msnbc daily columnist and editor. welcome all. ryan, i'm gonna start with you here. give us the very latest on the mar-a-lago situation. where do things stand? >> as this unfolds, i think i want to highlight something about the ongoing threats that are being faced with the fbi. we saw that attack of the fbi cincinnati field office. we saw a man arrested for a threat last weekend. in fact, in a recent motion that was filed. the victim impact statement from a officer, a capitol police officer who survived the january 6th attack. he actually made reference to some of these new allegations are coming out about the mar-a-lago situation amid threats. he said quote i live with fear of another attack happening due to the rhetoric that it's currently discuss ad nauseam on social media, radio, in the news. he said in the fight of initial cte. he says, it is exhausting to the point where i don't watch follow any form of media anymore since i seem to live the news daily. and he reall

if they had the facts, rachel maddow would rub your nose in it. they say it is all -- guess what ?et to the house and have a real january 6 committee had to get to the bottom of wray and the fbi, the 14,000 hours of tape, we find out who murdered ashli babbitt, we get to all of it. we are going to adjudicate through november because it is part of a cause. we are going to see that insurrection is what markey lies and scumbags did to steal this election from a duly elected president and anybody who says it is too much for me, we have to focus on the future, does not understand the future, how the future develops. it develops from here and now and from the past. i am so sick. i am so sick and tired of these phony, and this is what they are, the same gutless phonies that got us in the are -- that got us in this and say forgot about it. we will never forgot about it. matt: i think we are done on that note. [applause] ♪ >> our look continues. conservative authors and film directors spoke in dallas for about 30 minutes. ♪ >> we could have a late arrival. she is running, she might join us

congressman, i want to play a moment from chuck schumer's appearance on rachel maddow tonight. i think they're going to pay a price for this in the election. and i think democrats should use it as an issue that the rule of law, the protection of democracy is a key issue here. and we better watch out if we give republicans more power. senate majority leader chuck schumer fresh off a remarkable string of wins in congress 5%. look, they're laying the predicate here, but schumer was basically saying if they get back into power, they're going to this stuff that we don't like, the establishment doesn't like. they're going to hold us accountable. yeah, that's how it works when we get power back . yeah, exactly. and this is the same chuck schumer who said back in 2016 when president when it was president elect trump, that if you mess with the intelligence community you have six ways from sunday to get back at you. so that's how he views using the intelligence community, using the justice department to go after their political enemies. and we have seen it first it was the mueller invest

they went to cnn or msnbc, showed how bias they are and you can't tell the difference between rachel maddowser or comey when talking about the trump presidency, that should be disturbing, intelligence chiefs who are supposed to be unbiassed and apolitical showed to be anything but. when they had to make money, really poured it on and if that is people running our intelligence agency we have problems if they are looking at their position as something they can weaponize against a certain candidate. ashley, you love heat and humidity? wow. >> ashley: i'm weird, i'll admit. the los angeles times is urging joe biden to use executive power to declare a national climate emergency, here is the quote from the piece. it is time biden adopted all hands on deck approach, little chance we'll look back and say the president did too much. this comes after they passed billions of dollars in inflation reduction act, what do you think of this? >> i'll be quick, until russia or india or china particularly does their part to fight climate change, then whatever we do on some sort of national level, it will have

msnbc, rachel maddow, look how many viewers they had. most famous "new york times" writer on the left or right or whomever, john mcwhorter, what's the guys name, the economist, friedman. to see how many circulations of "new york times." my point is we are w so focusede can see how concerning but sometimes you have to take a step back 330 million people my guess 200 million don't knoww what's going on. no idea. they are just keeping up with the kardashians. it goes across socioeconomic levels, race. i always talk about my brother. he's in his 50s, a blue-collar worker, for kids and they are s all grown up so no kids in school. i go to work, get something to eat, watch a movie. i say have you ever heard of this, here's the people we have to reach but how did you reach them, they are not in church anymore. so we can't do that. they are not watching the media. but you have to keep doing it but the realal key is you you he cousins and coworkers and you go to starbucks and go get coffey's. i always tell people whenever i get the chance to talk

it was on full display last night on rachel maddow on msnbc as she gushed over tony fauci. >> he is a singular figure in american history and in american public service that has never been anyone else like him and there never will be again. >> dagen: sean? >> first off, i think it's hard to say pandemic, covid was something we never experienced. what is the right approach? that was open for debate. what was fascinating is what tony fauci recommended was wrong but the critics who he silenced were right. focus on the elderly and sick. not shut down schools and economies. this masks that we're making everyone wear don't work. the criticism was right at the beginning of covid as opposed to the recommendations that anthony fauci gave us. the only reason a man like this, who again has these chinese principles can be successful is when he has cover from the media. from every left wing media, all of them covered for anthony fauci and i don't know if it's because they thought he was right. that his recommendations were good for america. i think they liked the authoritarian nature of those reco

people heard a lot about me probably during the pandemic because rachel maddow and elizabeth warren and liberals were called to be dangerous and irresponsible and reckless. i want people to read this book and understand why i made the decisions i made and wired believe in our constitution. why i was so focused on trusting people letting them use personal responsibility. it's really the way our government was intended to function. it created an environment south dakota that i believe is testimony to our country. our state is bringing hope to people because we prove, we as conservatives always believe that it works in all we need to do is point to the consequences of what adhering to those principles, what those consequences are and what they can bring in the success that they yield for pursuing the american dream for so many people across this country. mark: how and why did you get into politics, you explained in the book. >> what i was going to college my dad was killed in an accident. he was 49 years old at the time. it was tragic for our family. he was superman he worked all the time

and the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel.e you go on vacation the fbi does something that nobody expected that blows everybody away and i have to call you and ask where in the world you are. >> i found out the search warrant in mar-a-lago from a text from you, and i hadn't even gotten to the american news, and i guess things are kinds of crazy, woe, babe, they searched mar-a-lago. >> rachel just rang again. every time i leave the east coast. >> anyway, i'm putting a leash on you, my friend. i can't take the suspense anymore. welcome back. >> good to be back. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. great to have you here. do you remember the name brandon

that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel.here. the basic plot is that even though he's a good guy, even though he's our hero, he has to steal the declaration of independence, he has to break into the national archives and steal it but it is for a good reason. it's because he has followed the string of ancient creepy totally nonplausible clues and those clues have revealed to him a big secret, the big secret is that there is a big treasure, and to find the big treasure, you have to follow the treasure map, and the treasure map is conveniently, is prinned in invisible ink on the backside of the declaration of

that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel. rachel. good evening chris, thank you very much. hour. happy to have you here. the basic plot is that even though he's a good guy, even though he's our hero, he has to steal the declaration of independence, he has to break into the national archives and steal it but it is for a good reason. it's because he has followed the string of ancient creepy totally nonplausible clues and those clues have revealed to him a big secret, the big secret is that there is a big treasure, and to find the big treasure, you have to follow the treasure map, and the treasure map is conveniently, is prinned in invisible ink on the backside of the declaration of independence. and so he has to steal the declaration of independence. not because he wants the treasure map that is written in invisible ink on the other side, not just because of that, but because the bad guys have followed the same set of clues that he followed that have figured out the same secret as hill, and the bad guys are going to steal the d

the first show he did is rachel maddow. the first show he did after retiring was rachel maddow.te show. unless you are a democrat. rachel maddow is not your favorite show. i imagine if donald trump was going to do a farewell interview he would choose sean hannity. why? sean is a conservative, so is the president. dr. fauci should not be our democrat who brings up january 6th when people look at his credentials and see how many times he has been wrong and wants to know why. >> you know, brian, i wasn't expecting you to bring it up. it's actually a really great point. he started the pandemic on sean hannity's show by the way. and then he veered more and more off to the other shows. but you know what? i never liked that he dissed the president of the united states in public. i mean, if he had issues with his boss, he could bring that up behind closed doors. president trump was very allowing of different points of view, including dr. fauci's. dr. fauci should not have contradicted him in public. that is not the way you handle your boss. obviously or you don't stay in that position.

this big monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, how rachel. highly said, thank you so much, this is a big night for all of us, here it's been great to have you here for the 8:00 hour. thank you. and thank you to home for joining us this hour, tomorrow is a day where you will want to buy the physical copy of the newspaper. you're gonna want to buy it and folded carefully, if you put it in a little archival paper parchment if you don't have that. put it away someday, you might depending on how saucy you are feeling, you might want to note in archival ink in the margin of tomorrow's paper -- note, anniversary of richard nixon's resignation as president. people will get a kick out of that some years down the road. the reason you might buy tomorrow's paper is if the world doesn't collapse into ash by then, your grandkids some day will look at that old physical paper that you were able to say from august 9th, 2022 and they are going to google at the thought of what your life must be like. they will goggle at the thought of what it must be like to se

next generation that would cause us to lose their liberty people heard a lot about me because rachel maddown were already calling me dangerous any responsible and reckless. i want people to read this book and understand why i made the i made and why i believe in our constitution i was so focused on trusting people personal responsibility. it's really the way our government was intended to function in the encrypted environment that i believe is a testimony to the country our state is bringing hope to people we believe it works and we need to point to the consequences and adhering to those principles what those consequences are and what they can bring in a success that they yield for pursuing the american dream for so many people across this country. mark: how and why did you get into politics. you explained in the book. >> when i was young going to w college my dad was killed in an accident he was 49 a years old t the time. it was tragic for our family. he was superman. time even whenn vacation it was hard work. when we lost him i quit college, i came home i remember just a few months after

rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, charles. thank you very much. it's good to see you there. >> good to see you, too. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. after the 9/11 attacks it took about ten years for the united states government to get osama bin laden. they got him in may 2011. now as of tonight we know it took another 11 years after that to get bin laden's brain, to get the man who was bin laden's number two in al-qaeda, the man who took over as al-qaeda's leader after bin laden was killed by u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. the string of attacks and murders attributed to ayman al-zawahiri is stomach turning. he was the ideological mastermind behind the term of al-qaeda and groups like that towards indiscriminate mass murder of civilians anywhere including muslims all in the name of islamic piety. and how he got there now looking back at it seemed like a straight shot, but if you sort of dropped in on him at any time in his biography you wouldn't have known he was going there. by the time he was 15 years old he was a

. >> that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening, rachelrs, in the early 1970s, the u.s. just department department bumbled its way stating for itself, putting into writing a new rule, this wasn't a rule in the constitution in any way, an issue that had never really been seriously considered and decided one way or the other, before the justice department was confronted with it urgently during the nixon administration, but thanks to this again sort of odd series of things happening all at once in the early '70s, the vice president may be going to prison, the president, richard nixon may be removed from office against his will by impeachment, thanks to those things comin

this big monday night, the rachel rachel maddow show star right now. hi, rachel. >>> hi alicia.ch. this is a big night for all of us here. it's been great to have you here for the 8:00 hour. >> thank you. >>> our thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. tomorrow is the day you're going to want to buy a physical copy of the thup. you're going to want to buy it and fold it carefully, maybe put it an archival paper or parchment. depending how saucy you're feeling you might want to note perhaps in archival ink in the margin of tomorrow's paper, note, anniversary of richard nixon's resignation as president. people will

it was chris hayes, not rachel maddow on the handcuff. we all make mistakes, don't we?led. we'll dive into what it means, and what could happen with one of the "wall street journal" reporters who was first to report on the contents of that warrant. we're going to go to the top story tonight -- in wyoming -- >> will: acon the bright side it can only go up from there. sadly when one door opens, another one closes. cnn is announcing the cancellation of its sunday media show, "reliable sources" after 30 years on the air. now, its host, resident hall monitor is also leaving the network. sunday will be his last show, which is a real shame. but let's be honest, he's what we call big j journalism, you know, the type that's searching for the truth, doesn't fall for the easy narrative that confirms his own bias. no, no, no. this guy has incredible instincts. he never hyped up the russia probe. >> the pro-trump media wants the russian investigations to be over. they're pretending they're over. they're not curious, want questions answered about what really last year, and what might

rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, charles.hanks to you at home for joining us this hour. after the 9/11 attacks it took about ten years for the united states government to get osama bin laden. they got him in may 2011. now as of tonight we know it took another 11 years after that to get

. >> that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening, rachelvening, chris. thank you my oo evenin. muchg, rachel. appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to havein you here. through an odd series of events surrounding the profoundly, profoundly criminal presidency of richard nixon and the really, really, really criminal vice presidency of nixon's vice president, spiro agnew, through an odd confluence of events, in the early 1970s, the u.s. justice department kind of bumbled its way into stating for itself, putting into writing, a new rule. this is a rule that wasn't in the constitution in any way.

. >> that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening, rachel. >>> good evening, chris. thank you my oo evenin. muchg, rachel. appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to havein you here. through an odd series of events surrounding the profoundly, profoundly criminal presidency of richard nixon and the really, really, really criminal vice presidency of nixon's vice president, spiro agnew, through an odd confluence of events, in the early 1970s, the u.s. justice department kind of bumbled its way into stating for itself, putting into writing, a new rule. this is a rule that wasn't in the constitution in any way. it's an issue that had never really been seriously considered and decided one way or the other before the justice department was confronted with it urgently during the nixon administration. but thanks to this, again, sort of odd series of things happening all at once in the early '70s, the vice president, spiro agnew, maybe going to prison, the president, richard nixon, making being removed from office

that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show he has to break into the national archives and steal it. but it's for a good reason. it's because he has followed the string of ancient creepy totally non-plausible clues and those clues have revealed to him a big secret. the big secret is that there is a big treasure and to find the big treasure you have to follow the treasure map and the treasure map inconveniently is printed in invisible ink on the back side of the declaration of independence. and so he has to deal the declaration of independence. not just because he wants the treasure map written in invisible ink on the other side. not just because of that. but because the bad guys have followed the same set of clues that he followed. they have figured out the same secret as him and the bad guys are going to steal the declaration of independence for bad reasons so the good guy has to steal it before they can get to it. that's the plot. at least i think that's the basic plot. there is something about freemasons and pyramids, too. i don't know. probably other parts i missed.

rachel maddow. there are so many investigations surrounding donald trump right now. can we say definitively this does not have to do with something else? that this doesn't have to do with the investigation or lack there of into january 6th? >> we don't know. there's reporting that it is about the retaining of government documents, and they could be classified or not. a couple points. one, it could be that this is relevant to a voter probe. there is also the case while you are doing a search, if you find evidence related to other investigations, you're entitled to take that as well. it is a doctrine. i would point out even if it is classified or declassified, even if he somehow declassified documents, it is certainly possible for the current president and for merrick garland and members of the intelligence committee to reclassify. to disagree with what the former president did and to classify those documents and say we need those back. i really strongly that you can that the documents that merrick garland agreed to proceed this way. the search of the former president'

the response on the left, on monday msnbc rachel maddow, described as gushing. house speaker nancy pelosi, beaming as she reminded nobody is above the law, even an ex-president. steven colbert positively giddy. over on twitter, george conway of the lincoln project tweeted belated happy mar-a-lago search and seizure day to all who celebrate. hillary clinton hawking but her emails merchandise. at the intercept, they were wondering, could trump go down like al capone? at least there was this from jonah goldberg, quote, just remember, if these reports are true, that means that if they can search the ex-president's home for vital nuclear documents and signals intelligence, they can do it to you, too. where we can't agree on the facts, there's the concern that things will get even worse. as david brooks writes "the new york times" under the headline, did the fbi just re-elect donald trump? america absolutely needs to punish those who commit crimes. on the other hand, america absolutely needs to make sure that trump does not get another term as president. what do we do

joining me now, lisa reuben, legal analyst ram as i bases rachel maddow show. and meredith mcgraw, national political correspondent for politico. ladies, good to see you both. lisa, i will start with you. first question here. most notably, the statutes driving this warrant include obstruction and espionage. so, from a legal perspective, how do you interpret that? >> i know you know the warrant never says on its face who is being investigated. so i want to be very careful here to say that while the warrant application and the warrants say that the department has probable cause to look for evidence of violations of three statutes, we don't know by whom. that having been said, when representatives of trump will go out and say, they could have had anything they wanted, the warranted so puts the lie to that. and that is because of aids to usc 1819. that is the obstruction statute, alex, that you just referenced. i'll call that the sleeper hit of this war it's. and here is why. it is not just about the removal of a government document. it is about the destruction, mu

this big monday night, the rachel rachel maddow show star right now. hi, rachel. >>> hi alicia. thank you so much. this is a big night for all of us here. it's been great to have you here for the 8:00 hour. >> thank you. >>> our thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. tomorrow is the day you're going to want to buy a physical copy of the thup. you're going to want to buy it and fold it carefully, maybe put it an archival paper or parchment. depending how saucy you're feeling you might want to note perhaps in archival ink in the margin of tomorrow's paper, note, anniversary of richard nixon's resignation as president. people will get a kick out of that some years down the road. i mean the reason you might buy tomorrow's paper is if the world doesn't collapse into ash by then your grandkids grandkids someday are going to look at that old physical newspaper you were able to save from august 9, 2022, and they are going to goggle at the thought of what your life must have been like. they're going to goggle at what it must have been like for you to see this happening in your l

that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show he has to break into the national archiveseepy totally non-plausible clues and those clues have revealed to him a big secret. the big secret is that there is a big treasure and to find the big treasure you have to follow the treasure map and the treasure map inconveniently is printed in invisible ink on

tb gubernatorial republican nominee in pennsylvania, until he was called out on it, largely by rachel maddowil he was called out about the philadelphia enquirer, leading the way, he was connected to the most toxic website, ashley, anti-semitic website. >> well, again, the republican party under trump has shifted. and it's not that every republican is a white nationalist, but there is this element that, you know, previously, the most it would sort of be dog whistles. and there would be criticism and it would get shut down. and then former president trump, we don't have time to list all the things, but just, you know, in charlottesville, saying that both sides were to blame. or later, when asked to condemn the proud boys, saying, stand back and stand by, gave a permission structure of this ideology to pervade his party, of which he's still the ladder. >> brandon buck and ashley parker, just beginning to scratch the service. to be continued. thank you both so much. >>> and bring brittney home. the growing pressure on the biden administration to free the jailed wnba star after russia says it's f

rachel maddow's staff is epic. so, do not break them. feel like we are in this explosive moment in the news right now, right? where, you know, we are all under the microscope, and everything is under scrutiny, and we got all sorts of critcisim we have. but to all this have incredible privilege and responsibility to cover this moment, when america might stay a democracy and might not. >> i think it's not an overstatement to say it's an open question whether the experiment works, you know? like, we have taken for granted that this form of government is kind of democracy, will always exist, because that's all we've ever known as americans. but it really feels like there is an existential threat, and to be in the news as we are, not just a fire hose, but grappling with some of the craziest, most significant urgent issues of the time is, you know, it's overwhelming. but it is also terribly exciting. i feel almost guilty saying that, right? but as a journalist, i mean, to have to navigate these choppy waters, and to do it in this place, with t

major schuman spoke to rachel maddow last year when he found out that all of this hard work paid off.erywhere, it was just this series of hail mary's. there are so many close calls and so many moments where i thought, maybe we contacted the right person, maybe we had the right solution to this. it was a series of tragic events. >> it wasn't easy, but back in his family are now in the united states and have been here for almost a year. i had the honor of speaking with dak and major schuman last week. zak explain the moment he realized he was going to be rescued. >> i saw some people that there was -- i had been with the military and knew who they were, i saw that they were seal team guys and and i feel happy. i saw the guy, i think they've come for me. i shake my hand and my son was on my shoulders. they saw me from the roof top and said, sack, we see -- he sees my son he says he's wearing the blue t-shirt. i say yes or, i'm him. i jumped out and grab our bank and saw them just go bow down to the occasion open the gate. they get us in. and that, at that time i just feel pristine me. >>

i am not an expert, aunt debbie rachel maddow's i do not do what really happened there, that will --on who matters, i do not know what happened there, swedish experts were shocked. we have seen studies, a swedish team of expert -- researchers looking at countries that entered into lockdowns. what was the course and what was the timing? they look to the state of the health care system, the spread of the disease, the number of cases and deaths in that cannot explain the timing of lockdowns. only one thing's claimed it, what did the neighbors do? they basically imitated the policy of other countries. i think there is, if you are a politician and there is this general exception -- expectation that you will deal with the situation, at least you did not want to go it alone, that is scary, you do not want to be the odd man out doing something risky that others do not agree with and then you make a mistake. it is much safer if you do the same thing everyone else did. that explains it more than anything we wargame and looked at in advance. >> could i add something there? >> yeah, sure, sorry.

watch fox and friends or rachel maddow. you don't just want that warm feeling that you have friends that are joint and three. you just need to know some numbers about hurricanes or about where in new york that are like bike lanes being built and my partner is very interested in banning cars and bikes so he looks to see where the bike lanes are. i would go for newsletters on this and stay away from the places with a big feeling tone. if you're being hit with cortisol, this is more assault than the free press. this is meant to get into your bloodstream and either it feels good or it doesn't but i turned tonetflix for that . >> let's stop there and i want to say thank you to everyone who joined us around the world . thank you thomas for joining us from france. thank you virginia for joining us here in new york and the book comes out next week. again there's the cover on the left. on the other side, >> we all have a mutual friend who helped design the cover . >> that's the brilliance of alana newhouse . >> great job and this is

if they had the facts, rachel maddow would rub your nose in it. they say it is all -- guess what ?d have a real january 6 committee had to get to the bottom of wray and the fbi, the 14,000 hours of tape, we find out who murdered ashli babbitt, we get to all of it. we are going to adjudicate through november because it is part of a cause. we are going to see that insurrection is what markey lies and scumbags did to steal this election from a duly elected president and anybody who says it is too much for me, we have to focus on the future, does not understand the future, how the future develops. it develops from here and now and from the past. i am so sick. i am so sick and tired of these phony, and this is what they are, the same gutless phonies that got us in the are -- that got us in this and say forgot about it. we will never forgot about it. matt: i think we are done on that note. [applause] ♪ >> kind of hard to conjure a punchline after that. there is a silent auction at cpac central. it closes at 6:00 tomorrow night. an electric a tar signed by pat and a tar, don't tell her it