Rachel Maddow

Trump Sparks New Controversy With U.s. Attorney Dismissals

... federal prosecutors doesn’t seem controversial. U. S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of a president, and there’s ample recent precedent for new administrations nominating new prosecutors soon after Inauguration Day. But as is often the case with Donald Trump, there’s nothing routine about developments that unfolded late Friday and over the weekend. The Rachel Maddow Show, 3/10/17, 9:26 PM ET. Abrupt Trump purge of US attorneys raises questions. Rachel Maddow reports on the sudden, unexpected purge of 46 U. S. attorneys from the Justice Department, including Preet Bharara, U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who has been asked personally by Donald Trump to stay on. share tweet email save Embed. Let’s start with the basics. On Friday afternoon, 46 Obama-era federal prosecutors were told to submit their resignations – and clean out their offices before ...

Rachel Maddow Calls Bs On Pence Claim He Never Knew About Flynn’s Turkish Contract

... in an interview with Bret Baier on Fox News, Vice President Mike Pence said that the story about Flynn and Turkey was “hearing that story today is the first [he’s] hearing of it.”. Maddow noted that Baier didn’t ask Pence when he heard about Flynn. Yet, twice when asked about the topic, Pence sought to say that it was the first time he’d heard about it. “That cannot be true,” Maddow said bluntly. “It is impossible this is the first Mike Pence has heard of it. Mike Pence was the head of the [Trump] transition, while all of those news stories of Mike Flynn being on the Turkish government’s payroll were breaking. He was the head of the transition when Mike Flynn was being vetted for the National Security Advisor job. He was the head of the transition when Congress formally notified the head of the transition that Mike Flynn appears to be on a foreign government’s payroll. He was the head of the transition when Mike Flynn’s personal lawyers came and told the transition that Mike Flynn maybe needed to register as a foreign agent.”. However, Pence now claims that he’s only now hearing about the information. Maddow ...

Tax Story Puts Spotlight On Msnbc’s Rachel Maddow

... taxes being released. Trump failed to release his taxes during the campaign, claiming that he was under audit by the Internal Revenue Service and he had been advised against it. “It ought to give you pause that his explanations have never made any factual sense,” Maddow said. The White House pronounced Maddow desperate for ratings and said she had violated a law against the unauthorized release or publishing of federal tax returns. Maddow said that First Amendment protections of the press gave her the right to broadcast the information. She brought Johnston, a former San Jose Mercury News reporter, on her show to discuss the return. He speculated that Trump — or someone authorized by the president — could have been a possible source of the leaked document which he said “came in the mail over the ...

Rachel Maddow Exclusive Debunks Extreme Vetting Propaganda Of Muslim Ban

... edition of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show. Loading the player reg. RACHEL MADDOW (HOST): Now tonight, we have got this, this is another leaked report. I'm not going to tell you how we got it, but the Department of Homeland Security has tonight confirmed to us that this is authentic, that this is real. You can see at the top of it here, I think we've got it on screen, yeah - it's labelled "Unclassified, for official use only," it's dated yesterday, March 1, 2017. This is a report that's from the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Again, that's the U. S. intelligence agency that's based inside Homeland Security, and interestingly, it says it was prepared by that intelligence office, but look at that small print there. "Prepared by the Office of Intelligence Analysis" that's the Homeland Security Agency, but it was coordinated with Customs and Border ...

Rachel Maddow Explains What Galloping Gertie, Bechtel And Trump Have In Common

... how construction workers were warning there was something wrong with the bridge from the onset and the video of it rolling in the wind are pretty amazing.). Maddow then goes on to talk about the company that much later built the third Tacoma Narrows Bridge, one of two that currently crosses the span. That company, Bechtel, is a world wide company, Maddow says, and she then explains how the company placed a bid to build roads in Azerbaijan that was rejected by a person she claims is a corrupt bureaucrat who became a billionaire despite a salary of about $12,000 a year. Then she begins to get to the point, a point made in the article “Donald Trump’s Worst Deal” in The New Yorker.  In Azerbaijan, there is a hotel that not long ago had the letters TRUMP emblazoned across the top. The author of the article then goes on to explain the ties between that building, the corrupt official who rejected Bechtel, Trump and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which trains and funds terrorist organizations. The whole thing, Maddow claims, raises a lot of red flags and calls for an investigation into Trump and his ...

Monday's Campaign Round-up, 3.13.17

... when it comes to drawing district lines, former Attorney General Eric Holder, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Virginia Gov. Terry Mc Auliffe have begun raising money for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. * Despite chatter last week about Republican recruiting former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) to run for the Senate, the actor-turned-politician-turned-reality-show-host suggested over the weekend he’s not interested, at least not now. * In a bit of a surprise, the Washington Post reported over the weekend that “state prosecutors in Miami have an active investigation” into Steve Bannon’s voter registration in Florida. * In Massachusetts, Jay Gonzalez (D), a veteran of former Gov. Deval Patrick’s (D) administration, is kicking off a gubernatorial campaign today, hoping to take on incumbent Gov. Charlie Baker (R) next year. * And commenting on the Republican health care plan, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), ...

Mike Pence's Falsehoods Start Catching Up With Him

... health care bill, Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday that Obamacare is falling apart and must be replaced. “Obamacare has failed the people of Kentucky,” Mr. Pence told an audience in Louisville. “It’s failed the people of America, and Obamacare must go.” […] Mr. Pence called Kentucky “a textbook example of Obamacare’s failures.”. Even by 2017 standards, this is bizarre. To the extent that reality still matters, Kentucky is actually a textbook example of the Affordable Care Act succeeding. As regular readers know , under Gov. Steve Beshear’s (D) leadership, the state’s success story has served as a national model, watching its uninsured rate drop from 20.4% to just 7.5%. In terms of state-by-state improvement, the Bluegrass State is tied for first  as the greatest percentage improvement in the nation. Pence pointed to ...

Sean Hannity Blasts Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper As 'worst Examples' Of 'propaganda Press' Video

... a hit show while resurrecting Williams’ career at the same time. 17. “Anderson Cooper 360”. Cooper had CNN’s most-watched program of 2016, with 1.14 million viewers. While Cooper is a household name and widely recognized, many will find it odd that he finished behind so many cable news competitors. 16. “Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”. O’Donnell, who was a writer on “The West Wing” before landing his MSNBC gig, averaged 1.24 million viewers in 2016. 15. “Fox & Friends”. The Fox News morning show hosted Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt averaged 1.27 million viewers. By comparison, cable news rivals “New Day” averaged 508,000 and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” averaged 677,000. 14. Fox News’ 2 p.m. ET Hour. This one is complicated, as “Real Story with Gretchen Carlson” occupied this spot until she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, who eventually ...

Republicans Take Aim At Men Paying For Prenatal Care

... committees. “What about men having to purchase prenatal care?” Shimkus said. At that point, one could hear the room start to stir. “I’m just … is that not correct?” Shimkus said. “And should they?”. Apparently, the point of this preoccupation with the issue is the Republican belief that the ACA isn’t fair to men because it forces them to pay for a benefit they’ll never, physiologically, be able to use. Scrapping the guarantee, the argument goes, will make coverage cheaper. As we discussed  the last time this came up, it’s worth appreciating the fact that the Affordable Care Act’s architects set up the system deliberately so that women wouldn’t be penalized for being women, and they wouldn’t be forced to pay more for the coverage as men. This is a feature not a bug. The New Republic’s Brian Beutler had a good piece on this a few years ago. The Affordable Care Act’s ...