Sinopsis
Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.
Episodios
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Musk tries to blame paid protesters for his wild unpopularity, collapse of Tesla
23/04/2025 Duración: 42minAfter Tesla showed a steep drop in profits and a sliding stock price, Elon Musk was quick to blame fake protesters for manipulating public opinion against him. Rachel Maddow takes a look at the very real protesters and polls of public opinion that suggest that Musk should reconsider the public appetite for destroying the U.S. government and firing public workers.
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Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
22/04/2025 Duración: 43minRachel Maddow surveys some of the many "No Kings" protests that took place in cities large and small across the United States against Donald Trump's push toward autocracy, and notes that unlike previous remarkable protest days, this one was given prominent attention by major news outlets.
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Lost in the sauce: Stories Trump probably hoped you wouldn't notice while he 'flooded the zone'
19/04/2025 Duración: 42minDid you know Donald Trump plans to eliminate Head Start the preschool program? Did you know he gutted Americorps? Have you heard what he did to the National Weather Service? Rachel Maddow rounds up stories that would be huge news in normal times but may have slipped by unnoticed by many Americans in the shadow of Trump's daily wrecking ball spectacle.
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'This should be shocking': Judge torches Trump admin. for neglecting due process for deportees
18/04/2025 Duración: 43minRachel Maddow reads from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the Trump administration as it tries to avoid accountability for mistakenly deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia without the due process that is foundational to American values.
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'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat
17/04/2025 Duración: 42minThe judge hearing the case against Donald Trump's deportation flights is losing patience with the administration's excuses and stall tactics, and today raised the specter of holding members of the administration in contempt of court. Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, discusses with Rachel Maddow.
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'They can't hide the ball': Judge cracks the whip on Trump lawyers in deportation case
16/04/2025 Duración: 47minTrump administration lawyers are running out of excuses to avoid being accountable for the rights and whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland immigrant father who was improperly deported and sentenced without due process to an indeterminate amount of time in a prison in El Salvador. Rina Gandhi, and attorney for Mr. Abrego Garcia, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the judge is pinning down the Trump lawyers for answers and accountability.
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Making a mockery of Musk: Backlash against dismantling U.S. government focuses on hatchet man
15/04/2025 Duración: 43minRachel Maddow looks at creative new ways activists are mocking and protesting Donald Trump's top campaign donor, Elon Musk, for his central role in butchering the staff and services of the U.S. government.
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'How is it possible that you have this job?': RFK Jr.'s incompetence becomes too glaring to overlook
12/04/2025 Duración: 43minFrom his cluelessness about critical cuts made to his agency, to his celebration of dangerous quackery, Robert. F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's HHS secretary, is distinguishing himself as not only incompetent but dangerously so, leading a department with lives at stake. Rachel Maddow reports.
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'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
11/04/2025 Duración: 44minFormer Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's efforts to intimidate the legal system in the United States and bend it to his will, and emphasizes the importance of the American legal community standing together and pushing back in defense of the rule of law. "The time is now to stand up and do all that we can to fight this administration."
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Trump caves on tariffs: One economic indicator made even Trump realize he'd gone too far
10/04/2025 Duración: 42minEven with new polling showing significant disapproval among Americans of Donald Trump's handling of the economy, Trump's indifference to tanking the stock market did not waver. But when his ill-considered tariff scheme began to affect the bond market, even Trump knew it was time to dial back his one-man global trade war.
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Trump in search of waste need look no further than his own staff
09/04/2025 Duración: 43minRachel Maddow looks at the bizarre, frivolous demands of members of Donald Trump's staff even as vital public services are being cut in the name of waste.
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Fierce backlash against Trump's agenda seen in sweeping, nation-wide protests
08/04/2025 Duración: 42minFrom small towns to the largest cities, Rachel Maddow reports on the wide diversity of issues being protested in demonstrations across the United States on Saturday, as hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets to make their objections to Donald Trump's agenda heard.
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The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
05/04/2025 Duración: 43minRachel Maddow looks at ways to understand the scope of the damage Donald Trump has done to the entire world economy, and reminds viewers where the tariff idea came from that has turned Donald Trump into a one-man global disaster.
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Needless economic pain from Trump not even worth it if his tariff gambit works: economist
04/04/2025 Duración: 42minBetsey Stevenson, former chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor, discusses the likely consequences for average American consumers of Donald Trumps ill-considered tariffs, and explains why, even in Trump's best case scenario, his tariff gambit is not worth the pain he is imposing on the U.S. economy.
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Donald Trump fired the man who likely saved his life; U.S. may never fully recover from Trump's cuts
03/04/2025 Duración: 43minDr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner and chief science officer of the White House Covid-19 Task Force, talks with Rachel Maddow about the devastating effects of Donald Trump's cuts to HHS, not only in dismantling important services, but compromising U.S. medical and scientific leadership to a degree that may not be recoverable for decades.
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Exclusive: Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker reflects on his historic, record-setting speech
02/04/2025 Duración: 46minSenator Cory Booker talks with Rachel Maddow about holding the Senate floor for a record-breaking 25 hours and 4 minutes to raise attention to the perils of Donald Trump's agenda and inspire American activism against that agenda as many of his constituents have taken to regular public protests on their own.
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Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
01/04/2025 Duración: 42minRachel Maddow looks at a string of bizarre headlines about Donald Trump's secretary of defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, whose insistence on surrounding himself with close family while acting in his official capacity speaks poorly of his professionalism.
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'This is shameful': Trump sows animosity and mistrust abroad, degrading Americans in the process
29/03/2025 Duración: 43minRufus Gifford, former U.S. ambassador to Denmark, talks with Rachel Maddow about the animosity and mistrust Donald Trump is sowing among even allied nations, and the shock of betrayal people around the world are feeling about Americans they'd previously held in high regard but who they do not see pushing back against Trump and standing up for long-term international friendships.
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Allies wary of Trump admin's incompetence after scandal over military plan group chat
28/03/2025 Duración: 42minNot only has the scandal over Trump officials discussing military plans in a group chat on an insecure commercial platform made the Trump administration look like fools to Americans paying attention, but overseas allies are drawing conclusions about the risk of sharing intelligence with America when its top officials are so careless with sensitive data. Alexander Ward, national security reporter for the Wall Street Journal, talks with Rachel Maddow about his reporting that it was actually an Israeli intelligence asset that was exposed by the sloppiness of the Trump officials' group chat.
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'Two perfect months?!': Trump's rationalization of insecure group chat scandal backfires
27/03/2025 Duración: 43minDonald Trump says the scandal over his top officials discussing secret military plans in an unsecured group chat is just a "glitch" in an otherwise perfect first two months in office. Rachel Maddow looks back to help Trump jog his memory and realize that "perfect" is probably not the best word for what has happened so far in Trump's second term.