we're losing our minds somebody's watching your rachel maddow show drunk decides he can't take it so he tweets a threat look. i have never in thirty years of doing professional commentary in terms of news i thought i remember they hated mixed and reagan was crazy and new medium and i have never at any level in any. consideration seen such acrimony and vile insanity then now i i don't know what it is it's not rachel maddow it's not drinking per se it's not it's just. it's as though everybody is sitting back and the part of the brain that controls judgment and restraint has been somehow electronically ablated because i'm seeing is everywhere in facebook the regular conversations i've lost friends some of them i'm glad but if families are not be able to get along it's everywhere and what happens is when you see one person coming out you have to up that and surpass the hatred and vitriol and what it is we're just collectively encouraging this and this is so common to this line or can this actually be stopped or is this trend just going to continue and continue. well it could be stopped t

was on rachel maddow show on msnbc. >> the haitian government has actually formally summoned a u.s. official to come before the haitian government to explain what president trump meant by these comments. >> ironically, tomorrow is the eighth anniversary of the haitian earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of people. the president has been tweeting a lot tonigh nothing about this controversy so far. and again no denial coming from the white house. doreen, back to you. >> leon, thank you. >>> more breaking news tonight. nbc news has learned former trump white house adviser steve bannon will testify before the house intelligence committee next week as part of the investigation into russian meddling in our election. sources tell nbc news it will happen next tuesday. bannon ran the trump campaign during its final months, then served as the president's top adviser until he was fired last august. then last week the new book "fire and fury" came out quoting bannon, referring to a meeting between russians and donald trump jr. during the 2016 campaign as treasonous. the comments drew t

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening rachel. >> thank you my friend. appreciated. thanks at home for joining us this hour. okay. a lot happened today. good news is we've got this hour together here on tv to sort it out. i will tell you right now we've got more guests than we usually have on the show this hour. that is specifically because i wanted to get experts and lawyers and reporters on the air to explain each of these big surprise developments in today's news, one after other, piece by piece. we're going to get to a lot tonight and have expert help figuring it out. table of contents, i promise you we'll untangle these one after the other over the course of the hour. when we started the news cycle today, got up, thought big news would be the book from journalist michael wolff. everyone currently in and recently out of the trump administration says terrible things about each other. steve bannon reportedly says ivanka trump is dumb as brick and president reportedly calls former acting attorney general sally yates the c word. and tom barrack reportedly one of the

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> in louisville in this brick house on wilson avenue. the two wild about dora the explorer. she lived here with her mom. on may 18th, 2006, police got a frantic 911 call. what was his state of hysterica. >> what was he saying? the detective now a retired officer rushed into the house and found a horrifying scene. a woman almost certainly dead on the floor. >> you see a big pool of blood. >> the officers had to step over the woman to get to the back room where on the bed they saw the little girl. motionless. >> when i first seen her i thought she was dead. >> was she doing anything? >> no. eventually i touched her and she said leave me alone. >> tell pe abome about the emot. >> she was laughing. >> barely. the officers could see the little girl had been shot in the head. dry blood was everywhere. they could tell she had been left there a long time. >> she had labored breathing. >> have you seen any one breathing like that who made it? >> no, i have not. >> there was no time to wait for an ambulance. an officer at the scene barked for a po

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> breaking tonight, fire and fury. open warfare. president trump versus steve bannon. trump says his one time strategist lost his mind. bannon calling don junior and jared meeting with russians treasonous, an explosive new account of what's happening inside the west wing and the reaction, total melt down. "the 11th hour" begins right now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news het quarters here in new york. i'm nicolle wallace sitting in for brian williams. day 349 of the trump administration, a day in which donald trump and steve bannon face-off in a war of harsh words and accusations. bannon one of the architects of trump's populous agenda during last year's campaign went onto serve as chief white house strategist before being dismissed in august of 2017. he's leveling stunning charges in a new book by michael wolf called "fire and fury." the author's account based on more than 200 interviews and a visit to the white house. among them is this quote from bannon about that trump tower meeting between donald trump, jr., jared

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thank you, my friend. >>> steve bannon out of work at breitbart, the first major casualty of that new book on the trump administration. and at a white house anxious to show the president large and in charge, the press gets unprecedented access to a bipartisan meeting where the president tells lawmakers he'll take the heat on immigration, all of it, as "the 11th hour" gets underway. and good evening once again from our msnbc headquarters in new york. this was day 355 of the trump administration, and that new book on this presidency called "fire and fury" has apparently torched its first victim. steve bannon is out as the head of breitbart news. we'll have the latest on that just ahead, but also out tonight, 10 hours in all of testimony from the co-founder of the company behind that trump-russia dossier. that testimony came from glen simpson, that man right there, who appeared before the senate judiciary committee back in august, and the 312-page transcript of that event gives us a much more detailed look at what the research firm fusion gps was doi

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, joy. thank you, much appreciated. >> thank you, have a good show. >> thank you, i will try. >>> i want to thank you at home for joining us, happy monday. this is odd. mike flynn, trump national security advisor currently ocho cooperating with the special counsel investigation into the president and his campaign after he and mike flynn pled guilty, right, to lying to the fbi about his contact with the transition. a month ago, "the new york times" reported when mike flynn had those contacts with the russian government he was not acting on his own. in realtime he was communicating with trump transition officials about the fact that he was talking to the russians, and he was talking with trump transition officials specifically about the fact that he was having conversations with the russians about them taking it easy on the issue of russian sanctions. now, that's important because the white house has portrayed mike flynn contacting the russians about sanctions as some kind of betrayal, right?

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. joy reid in for rachel. >> thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us. rachel has the right off. earlier this month, a couple days into the new year, a very odd and dramatic thing happened in washington d.c. the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein and fbi director christopher wray made an unannounced appearance and the deputy attorney general and fbi director requested the meeting. what made this unannounced meeting particularly dramatic was that at that moment, the justice deputy was in the middle of the this really big ugly fight with a group of house republicans. a group led by this guy, devin nunes, a republican and chair of the house intelligence committ e committee. because of that, he technically recused himself, he's been leading the most aggressive efforts in congress to try and under cut the mueller investigation. and to try to create alternative scandals that the white house likes better. for months, nunes has been issuing subpoenas that to the justice department demanding they turnover documents. for

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thank you, my friend. >>> steve bannon out of work at breitbart, the first major casualty of that new book on the trump administration. and at a white house anxious to show the president large and in charge, the press gets unprecedented access to a bipartisan meeting where the president tells lawmakers he'll take the heat on immigration, all of it, as "the 11th hour" gets underway. and good evening once again from our msnbc headquarters in new york. this was d o

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening, chris. much appreciated. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. there are two things that are very important about obstruction of justice. one is that obstruction of justice is a crime and even very, very high-ranking government officials can be held accountable for obstruction of justice as a criminal matter. right? famously the first article of impeachment was about obstruction of justice and the first article of impeachment against clinton was obstruction of justice. one thing that's important about obstruction. it's illegal. you can get caught for it and impeached for it and you can get indicted for it while you're serving as president of the united states. that's one thing that's important about obstruction but there is something else important about obstruction of justice, as well. which is that it might work. high-ranking government officials don't obstruct justice because they misunderstand the law and nobody has ever told them it's a crime. high-ranking government offic

i here by declare in effect the terrible weather relative good fortune tipping rule of "the rachel maddow show." 50% min fum tips for pizza delivery or any other kind of delivery to you. 50% minimum. you have to factor that in to your dining plans. deal? i say this as a former bike messenger. deal? all right. that does it for us tonight. stay safe. see you tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening. watching the storm coverage of boston and went underwater basically, one of the items of the neighborhood mentioned by bill who runs the local newspaper in dorchester, where you could order delivered pizza today. how you could stay alive by ordering delivered pizza. >> it is the only time a humane idea to have things delivered by drones. >> big thing i wanted to know and asked bill to go out and measure and i want to know exactly how many inches of snow fell on grayson street in dorchester, the street i grew up on. by a storm named grayson. >> grayson. >> come on. we have to snow. grayson street hurt by this? >> with this storm, snow

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening. thank you. much appreciated. >>> thanks to you for joining us. shutdown is over but don't worry, in all likelihood, we'll have another one two weeks from thursday. you can mark it on your calendar now. government shutdown started at midnight on friday. it ended this afternoon. the point of it all is absolutely up for debate. but in terms of concrete consequences, here is the best i can tell. the government is funneled again for 17 more days. so that's why i say we're maybe shutting down again two weeks from thursday on february 8th. the chip program, which is almost literally the least controversial seriously consequential policy in washington, the chip program which nobody is against, which provides health insurance to 9 million kids and lots of pregnant women, that chip program did finally get reupped. republicans had let that program expire in september. again, this is not a controversial program, at all. which means they could have held a vote to reauthorize this any time in the past year, l

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thanks, my friend. appreciate it. >> absolutely. >>> happy to have you here. so as you know, we are on shut down watch. we'll have the latest on this over the course of this hour, but right now as far as we know, we are headed toward a shutdown of the federal government as of 27 hours from right now, midnight tomorrow night. a bill, even a very, very short-term bill to keep the government funded for a little while longer, that needs to pass both the house and senate to avoid a shutdown. a short-term spending bill has already passed the house late tonight, but it's starting to become clear that was the easier of the two chambers. we're expecting maybe procedural votes in the senate but the senate, yeah, there is -- if you need something from your government after midnight tomorrow night, start making other plans. again, we'll have a fill up du in the course of the hour. in addition to the shutdown countdown, there was a big, big story about the most powerful interest group in conservative politics over t

"the rachel maddow show" starts right this second. go, rachel, go! >> i hereby will you some of the sleep that i will get over the next two days, because you've had none. you've had none at all and you're about to work through the weekend, my friend. >> i have a few more pages to read. i won't be sleeping. >> well done. good luck. >> thank you. >> thanks to you at home for joining us. happy friday. attorney general jeff sessions is not invited to camp david this weekend. the only reason that is weird is because the president is hosting at camp david, the vice president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, secretary of homeland security, secretary of education, head of the cia, head of the office of management, the deputy head of the transportation department, also all of the congressional leadership on the republican side, and his chief of staff and his top legislation guy and the political director for the white house, and the top economic adviser and the guy who does the personnel for the white house and and that guy with the crazy wes welker

"the rachel maddow show" starts right this second. go, rachel, go!u some of the sleep that i will get over the next two days, because you've had none. you've had none at all and you're about to work through the weekend, my friend. >> i have a few more pages to read. i won't be sleeping. >> well done. good luck. >> thank you. >> thanks to you at home for joining us. happy friday. attorney general jeff sessions is not invited to camp david this weekend. the only reason that is weird is because the president is hosting at camp david, the vice president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, secretary

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. joy reid in for rachel. >> thank you.hanks to you at home for joining us. rachel has the right off. earlier this month, a couple days into the new year, a very odd and dramatic thing happened in washington d.c. the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein and fbi director christopher wray made an unannounced appearance and the deputy attorney general and fbi director requested the meeting. what made this unannounced meeting particularly dramatic was that at that moment, the justice deputy was in the middle of the this

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening, joy, thanks for helping the ship so ably when i was gone. >> you're welcome. >> when you go to heaven, you'll get a lot of days off work. like one big snooze bar for you, joy reid. every morning you think you have to go to work and god will say uh-uh, sleep in, baby. >> i love it. >> that's how it works. >> have a great show. >> thanks to you at home for joining us. >> it's really great to be back. raise your hand if you're wearing longjohns right now? [ laughter ] >> me, too. national weather service is not putting a shine on this thing. bit early cold temperatures and dangerous windchills to persist east of the rockies into the weekend, lake effect snowfall will continue down wind of the great lakes, reinforcing shots of arctic air will continue across much of the eastern half of the country through this week. keeping high temperatures as much as 10 to 20 at the kndegre normal. snow and ice as far down as the carolinas into florida and that's all before it gets really cold. look at this head lane at the washington post tonight. b

"the rachel maddow show" starts now.

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. it is now officially 51 hours until the federal government shuts down. the republican party controls the house and the senate and the white house, so it is a little hard to believe that they, amongst themselves cannot come up with a way to keep the lights on, but not for the first time in the past year. we are once again on the brink of the shutdown of the federal government. because, even though they mathematically don't need a single vote from a single democrat to do it, republicans appear to, at least at this point, they appear to not be able to agree amongst themselves on a plan to keep the government funded past friday. again. so we are on the brink of that again. in weirder news, today was the day the president announced he would hold some "i hate the media" awards ceremony. it had originally been scheduled for last week, then it was rescheduled today. in a white house press briefing they said maybe something will happen later. they did post something onl

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >>> tonight, steve bannon is set to cooperate with mueller afterarn the fbi came to his home to serve him with a subpoena. new reporting tonight on what happened during his nine-plus hours of house intel testimony. >>> plus white house steve of chaff john kelley says trump's pledge to build that wall was "not fully informed." how will that go over with his boss the president? >>> how the author of "fire and fury" worked his way into donald trump's west wing. we'll talk to the reporter who first broke these details as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a wednesday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 363 of the trump administration, and the former white house chief strategist steve bannon remains in the news as the man investigators want to talk to in the russia matter. one day after we learn special counsel mueller had subpoenaed bannon to appear before a grand

death threats came from a man who was drinking and got riled up watching the rado maddow -- rachel maddow showentified individual reportedly admitted sending threatening tweets to scott pruitt and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell part of the threats were serious enough to get the tulsa police department, fbi, and the joint terrorism task force involved. they are finding the u.s. attorney's office in arkansas which jay declined to prosecute. epa inspector general is looking into the cost of scott pruitt's detail to comply with oversight regulations. and if you think that it is unusual that the head of the epa is getting threats, the head of the fcc is also getting death threats for opposing net neutrality and fighting for a free and open internet. spent >> shannon: all right, trace gallagher, thank you very much. the house of the chair intelligence committee has seen evidence of abuse of government surveillance programs by the fbi. and president trump accuses an fbi agent of committing treason. that is an expert and later when "night court" convenes, passengers on a norwegian cruise consi

t"the rachel maddow show" start now. >> house will we make chris bring in the new baby? if he gets to take all this time off and come back and we've seen pictures of the baby but we don't get to see the actual baby, i feel like we should have a -- we should -- i don't know. i feel like we should get to see the baby. >> all i'll say is i've heard you have a big following on the twitter, maybe the people on the twitter can say they want to see the baby live and the family will decide when that time comes. >> we demand to see the baby. that's an excellent strategy. thank youme. appreciate it. >> thank you for joining us. happy to have you here. >>> this is chromium, atomic number 24. you need chromium to make stainless steel. it's a useful, necessary thing in modern life. mining and processing it, though, tend to be very, very toxic enterprises. if you like chrome, you probably would not be siked to have your home orchids school near a chromium filter. one-third of all the chromium in the world apparently comes from here, from this former soviet facility in western kazakhst

i here by declare in effect the terrible weather relative good fortune tipping rule of "the rachel maddow show 50% min fum tips for pizza delivery or any other kind of delivery to you. 50% minimum. you have to factor that in to your dining plans. deal? i say this as a former bike messenger. deal? all right. that does it for us tonight. stay safe. see you tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening. watching the storm coverage of

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening, joy. what a night to be alive. >> wow. >> yeah. i know, i mean, you have kids, i know that you're a person who does not want to -- i mean, it's this -- i've never really had a night where it's very hard to cover what is going on in the news without saying stuff that's not okay to say on tv. >> that's correct. you have to actually curse to quote the president of the united states, go figure. >> not just cursing in exclamation but cursing to adequately do the story. >> and talking about countries from which both of their parents' families are from. >> thank you, my friend. much appreciated. >> bye. >> we'll get through it. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. all right. last night, we closed this show with a short news item and a reference to something that had happened at the white house that apparently a lot of you guys thought was fake. i didn't realize that when i said it last night at the end of the show, but late last night after we were off the air and over the course of the day

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. thank you. >> good evening. thank you, my friend. appreciate it. >>> we will be joined live this hour by chuck schumer, the top democrat in the senate. we are about to get his first interview since the government shutdown. senator schumer had protesters outside his house tonight in brooklyn. there is a very robust and angry debate going on about why that shutdown happened anyway. why schumer and democrats volted to end it after three days on the terms in which they voted to end it. senator schumer will be here live in just a few minutes. again, his first interview since that shutdown. all right. it has been a very busy news day. i want to start in june of last year. june 8th. that's the day the vently fi re fired james comey gave a full day after testimony before republicans running the various congressional investigations into the russia scandal realized that open hearings were a bad idea. that having these important witnesses give incredibly and dramatic compelling testimony under oath on the russia scandal on tv all day long, this

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, joy. preciated. >> thank you, have a good show. >> thank you, i will try. >>> i want to thank you at home for joining us, happy monday. this is odd. mike flynn, trump national security advisor currently ocho cooperating with the special counsel investigation into the president and his campaign after he and mike flynn pled guilty, right, to lying to the fbi about his contact with the transition. a month ago, "the new york times" reported when mike flynn had those contacts with the russian government he was not acting on his own. in realtime he was communicating with trump transition officials about the fact that he was talking to the russians, and he was talking with trump transition officials specifically about the fact that he was having conversations with the russians about them taking it easy on the issue of

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> and the fight looming this week is how to keep the government running past friday. >>> plus, just hours away now from testimony of one of trump's closest former advisers, steve bannon, as news comes that long-time aide picks could come before house intel before the week is up. >>> is it a kiss of death or a badge of honor? the president bestowed yet another nickname on yet another enemy today. all part of "the 11th hour" just getting underway on a monday night. ♪ >>> and as we start a new week, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 361 of the trump administration, a day devoted, of course, to remembrance of the reverend dr. martin luther king

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. that's a hell of a story. >> i had a really nice show planned. >> exactly. i bet you did. i watch your show. it's always nicely planned. >> thank you very much. tonight's show, the one that was planned before 20 minutes ago is going to be performed for susan in my p.j.s at 3:00 in the morning when i get home and she'll be the only one that sees it. >>> thanks for joining us. i had a perfectly good little show planned for tonight. i'll act it out with puppets for susan and the dog and they can tell me whether or not it's good and it will never make air because boom, again, again. this time, it's the new york types, michael schmidt. headline, trump ordered mueller fired. now, note the past tense there. this is not the president ordering the firing of special counsel robert mueller tonight. this is a report tonight from the times that says the president tried to fire him this past summer. went so far as ordering it, but it didn't happen. essentially, the glitch appears to have been that

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> breaking tonight, fire and fury. open warfare.esident trump versus steve bannon. trump says his one time strategist lost his mind. bannon calling don junior and jared meeting with russians treasonous, an explosive new account of what's happening inside the west wing and the reaction, total melt down. "the 11th hour" begins right now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news het quarters here in new york. i'm nicolle wallace sitting in

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thank you, my friend. much appreciated. thank you for joining us this hour. anything happen today? mostly i just took a big nap this afternoon. like cold. i tuned everything out. i figured i would come on the air tonight and ask around. i didn't hear -- jimmy cricket. this was a freaking news day. and a news night. it is still happening. it's never good when this is the out box on my desk for the first segment we're going to do tonight. there is more than one segment in this show tonight. there is a lot to get to over the course of this next hour. i'm glad you're here. this isn't the show you want to be washing dishes and listening with one ear. if you have a chance to sit down or push pause to sit down later, this is the kind of show for which you might want to do that. and we have to start tonight with some of the news breaking tonight. this evening cnn is reporting there is the possibility there will be two more very high-profile departures from the trump administration. two senior officials who may be readying their own

t"the rachel maddow show" start now. good evening. >> chris, we missed you terribly. seeing those pictures of onya and knowing you've had this time, your family is like over subscribed on adorableness. >> they are great. >> and you have to pay some of that back and spread some of that around. congratulations to you. >> thanks a lot. glad to be back. >> thanks to you at home for being with us. >>> lots going on in the news tonight. i'm very glad you're here. i'll try to get through all of it. i have a feeling this will be one of those ten-pound shows in a five-pound bag. but we will try to get through everything that we can. there is lots going on. there is breaking news two u.s. navy commanders are being charged with neg janligent homi with the two crashes of navy destroyers that happened in june and august. involving merchant ships and the u.s.s. face gerald and u.s.s. john mccain killed 17 navy sealers between them. the face geraitzgerald hit a ta. those were both crashes where these navy destroyers hit ships more than three times larger than themselves. those crash

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. thank you. >> good evening. thank you, my friend.te it. >>> we will be joined live this hour by chuck schumer, the top democrat in the senate. we are about to get his first interview since the government shutdown. senator schumer had protesters outside his house tonight in brooklyn. there is a very robust and angry debate going on about why that shutdown happened anyway. why schumer and democrats volted to end it after three days on the terms in

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour.py to have you here. it is now officially 51 hours until the federal government shuts down. the republican party controls the house and the senate and the white house, so it is a little hard to believe that they, amongst themselves cannot come up with a way to keep the lights on, but not for the first time in the past year. we are once again on the brink of the shutdown of the federal government. because, even though they mathematically don't need a single vote from a single democrat to do it, republicans appear to, at least at this point, they appear to not be able to agree amongst themselves on a plan to keep the government funded past friday. again. so we are on the brink of that

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening, joy.hat a night to be alive. >> wow. >> yeah. i know, i mean, you have kids, i know that you're a person who does not want to -- i mean, it's this -- i've never really had a night where it's very hard to cover what is going on in the news without saying stuff that's not okay to say on tv. >> that's correct. you have to actually curse to quote the president of the united states, go figure. >> not just cursing in exclamation but cursing to adequately do the story. >> and talking about countries from which both of their parents' families are from. >> thank you, my friend. much appreciated. >> bye. >> we'll get through it. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. all right. last night, we closed this sw

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thanks, my friend.utely. >>> happy to have you here. so as you know, we are on shut down watch. we'll have the latest on this over the course of this hour, but right now as far as we know, we are headed toward a shutdown of the federal government as of 27 hours from right now, midnight tomorrow night. a bill, even a very, very short-term bill to keep the government funded for a little while longer, that needs to pass both the house and senate to avoid a shutdown. a short-term spending bill has already passed the house late tonight, but it's starting to become clear that was the easier of the two chambers. we're expecting maybe procedural votes in the senate but the senate, yeah, there is -- if you need something from your government after midnight tomorrow night, start making other plans. again, we'

t"the rachel maddow show" start now. good evening. >> chris, we missed you terribly.e pic

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thank you, my friend. much appreciated.is hour. anything happen today? mostly i just took a big nap this afternoon. like cold. i tuned everything out. i figured i would come on the air tonight and ask around. i didn't hear -- jimmy cricket. this was a freaking news day. and a news night. it is still happening. it's never good when this is the out box on my desk for the first segment we're going to do tonight. there is more than one segment in this show tonight. there is a lot to get to over the course of this

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening, chris. appreciated. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. there are two things that are very important about obstruction of justice. one is that obstruction of justice is a crime and even very, very high-ranking government officials can be held accountable for obstruction of justice as a criminal matter. right? famously the first article of impeachment was about obstruction of justice and the first article of impeachment against clinton was obstruction of justice. one thing that's important about obstruction. it's illegal. you can get caught for it and impeached for it and you can get indicted for it while you're serving as president of the united states.

t"the rachel maddow show" start now. >> house will we make chris bring in the new baby?ets to take all this time off and come back and we've seen pictures of the baby but we don't get to see the actual baby, i feel like we should have a -- we should -- i don't know. i feel like we should get to see the baby. >> all i'll say is i've heard you have a big following on the twitter, maybe the people on the twitter can say they want to see the baby live and the family will decide when that time comes. >> we demand to see the baby. that's an excellent strategy. thank youme. appreciate it. >> thank you for joining us. happy to have you here. >>> this is

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> breaking tonight, the new reporting that says fbi director christophersign after being pressured by donald trump and jeff sessions to get rid of his deputy. >>> plus the government shutdown over, and there is every chance we'll be right back at it two weeks from this thursday. we'll talk about the president's relative silence through it all. >>> and because it looks like immigration is the next fight, are two men who worked for the president becoming his voice on this important issue? all of this as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a monday night. >>> and as we start off a new week, good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. day 368 this was of the trump administration. and if there is rejoicing in the streets where you lived at this late hour, that's because a government shutdown is over. it lasted from midnight friday into saturday until earlier this evening, and we'll be back at it two weeks from this coming thursday. that's the next time funding is set to expire. we'll have more on that in just a moment, but we have new repor

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening, joy, thanks for helping the ship so ably when ias gone. >> you're welcome. >> when you go to heaven, you'll get a lot of days off work. like one big snooze bar for you, joy reid. every morning you think you have to go to work and god will say uh-uh, sleep in, baby. >> i love it. >> that's how it works. >> have a great show. >> thanks to you at home for joining us. >> it's really great to be back. raise your hand if you're wearing longjohns right now? [ laughter ] >> me, too.

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening rachel. >> thank you my friend. appreciated.for joining us this hour. okay. a lot happened today. good news is we've got this hour together here on tv to sort it out. i will tell you right now we've got more guests than we usually have on the show this hour. that is specifically because i wanted to get experts and lawyers and reporters on the air to explain each of these big surprise developments in today's news, one after other, piece by piece. we're going to get to a lot tonight and have expert help figuring it out. table of contents, i promise you we'll untangle these one after the other over the course of the hour. when we started the news

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening. thank you.ed. >>> thanks to you for joining us. shutdown is over but don't worry, in all likelihood, we'll have another one two weeks from thursday. you can mark it on your calendar now. government shutdown started at midnight on friday. it ended this afternoon. the point of it all is absolutely up for debate. but in terms of concrete consequences, here is the best i can tell. the government is funneled again for 17 more days. so that's why i say we're maybe shutting down again two weeks from thursday on february 8th. the chip program, which is almost literally the least

"the rachel maddow show" starts >> tonight, jaw dropping profane comments from donald trump on haiti and african countries during a conversation on immigration. the president then suggesting allowing more people in from norway. >>> plus, steve bannon lawyers up as he and another former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski reportedly gear up for testimony in the russia investigation. >>> and as a candidate donald trump's doctor said he'd be the healthiest individual ever elect the. president trump is scheduled for a physical tomorrow. we have all of it as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a thursday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 357 of the trump administration and on so many previous nights, if you're among our regular viewers, you know we've reported on what's been described as surprising or even shocking comments from this president. but tonight we begin with a report of truly astonishing offensive and racist remarks attributed to the commander in chief of this nation. they include a word not allowed to be spoken in most house

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. that's a hell of a story. >> i had a really nice show planned. >> exactly. i bet you did. i watch your show. it's always nicely planned. >> thank you very much. tonight's show, the one that was planned before 20 minutes ago is going to be performed for susan in my p.j.s at 3:00 in the morning when i get home and she'll be the only one that sees