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'People are so angry at Gov. Abbott': Texas Democrat slams governor over stalled flood relief
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 13:00
Let's turn back to the headlines. A judge in Texas has blocked a pack run by Betto Oor from financially supporting Democrats who've left the state to stall Republicanled redistricting efforts. The Texas Tribune reports the judge's order on Friday came less than 4 hours after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit accusing the group of deceptively fundraising and illegally supporting the Democratic lawmakers.The judge in the case was appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2019. And joining us ...
'Very encouraged this will be a collaboration': Fmr. Capitol Police chief reacts to Trump's takeover
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 11:55
Let's figure out how this is going to work. Uh, as far as we know, uh, joining us now, former US Capital Police Chief Tom Manger. He's an MSNBC law enforcement analyst.Uh, thank you very much for coming on the show this morning. Um, what's your sense of how this will work. Well, I I will tell you after listening to the press conference yesterday, I am um I feel much better this morning, just in the last 24 hours.Um, uh, Chief Pam Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department has spoken with, uh, Terry Cole, t ...
Joe: Crime going down in D.C. but there's no sense of security who have lived there for decades
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 11:28
This is a fascinating story uh because so many people have been calling me over the past couple days going, you know, we like Washington should have gotten involved years ago. This place is dangerous. It's a mess. It's a wreck and whatever.And then they'll go on Twitter go, this is the worst outrage of all time, the jocking, which I understand it. It's a people need to express their concerns about Donald Trump going too far. We saw what happened back in uh 2020 with the National Guard.Certainly can't have a ...
Maddow points out the dark possibility behind Trump's removal of IRS commissioner Billy Long
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 05:37
Say you want to run the IRS. If you want to be in charge of the Internal Revenue Service, one thing you might need is a facility with numbers. Um, you might need to be good with numbers for Trump's handpicked choice to lead the IRS.Him being good with numbers sounds like this. Three and a quarter now. Half three and 1/2.400. But a four. Four and a quarter.4 and 1/2. We're selling the cell phone there. Four and a quarter.4 and 1/2. Hit four and 1/2. We're 75 500 5 and a quarter. Five and a half.I yield back. ...
The Rachel Maddow Show - Aug. 11 | Audio Only
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 05:35
happy to have you here. Um, so it was the summer of 2016. It was June 2016 and it was a terrible crime.Um, it happened in a small legal office, a legal office that specialized in uh, real estate and in immigration matters. Um, at this little legal office, somebody saw smoke coming out of the stairwell at that office. They called the fire department.Um, firefighters showed up and they did what brave firefighters do. They charged right into that burning building. Firefighters immediately found the source of t ...
The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell - Aug. 11 | Audio Only
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 05:34
a diversion. That's what a federal judge called Donald Trump's Justice Department's request to unseal the grand jury testimony in the criminal case of Gain Maxwell in which she was convicted of sex trafficking for and with Jeffrey Epstein, who said he was Donald Trump's closest friend for 10 years. Diversion is what Donald Trump is all about now more than ever. Donald Trump doesn't want the news media attention on his old friend Jeffrey Epstein and what the Epstein files might say about Donald Trump where w ...
'A way to show fealty.' Trump tightens grip on big business with Nvidia, AMD deal
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 05:32
It is time now for money power politics. Donald Trump has picked EJ Anton as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Antony is the chief economist of the Conservative Heritage Foundation, the same organization responsible for Project 2025, and no surprise, he's a longtime critic of the BLS. We're also following major news in the AI race. Nvidia and AMD are expected to pay the US government 15% of the money they earn from selling AI chips to China. That essentially makes the Trump administra ...
'A lot of show': Is Trump's DC takeover all about appearances?
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 05:31
It is day 204 of the second Trump administration and today Donald Trump announced he will take over Washington DC's police force and send in hundreds of National Guard troops in an effort to fight crime. Tonight, a White House official says those troops will be on the ground as soon as tomorrow. Trump says Washington is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, even though DC police statistics show violent crime there is at a 30-year low.My colleague Gay Gutierrez has those details and gets us started ...
'DANGEROUS DECISION': Trump shamed by health experts for reckless cut of vaccine research money
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 05:29
Over two million lives have been saved because of mRNA technology. It helped us develop CO 19 vaccines in record time. People are going to die because we're cutting short funding for this technology. People are going to die because we are cutting short funding for this technology.That person is Dr. . Jerome Adams. If he looks familiar to you at all, that's because he was surgeon general in Donald Trump's first presidential term, saying now that people are going to die because of a newlyannounced decision by ...
Lawrence: Ghislaine Maxwell may have already earned her Trump pardon on his final day in office
MSNBC· 2025-08-12 03:55
a diversion. That's what a federal judge called Donald Trump's Justice Department's request to unseal the grand jury testimony in the criminal case of Gain Maxwell in which she was convicted of sex trafficking for and with Jeffrey Epstein, who said he was Donald Trump's closest friend for 10 years. Diversion is what Donald Trump is all about now more than ever.Donald Trump doesn't want the news media attention on his old friend Jeffrey Epstein and what the Epstein files might say about Donald Trump where we ...