All posts tagged "Maddow"

The country lusts over its lawless past — particularly organized crime — and for Rachel Maddow, that kind of merciless underworld is ever so familiar with the brutal state of domestic politics.

"Violence is something that we are very good at in this country," she said Monday night on her MSNBC show. "And we all know all the tropes right? You know, making business people pay protection to the mob, and if they don't pay their protection money then the mob guys beat them up and trash their business and maybe even kill them.

"The mob guys running the card games and the other gambling rackets, where sure the odds are against you while you're playing, but the odds are you're going to get yourself killed if you actually get in debt to them. And extortion and stealing and prostitution and drug dealing and armed robbery — we've all seen it in a million shows and you can create all sorts of romance and drama around it. ...

Columnist E. Jean Carroll's attorney in the Donald Trump defamation case is extremely experienced, yet she said it was 'nerve-racking' to be in the same courtroom as Alina Habba, counsel to the ex-president.

Carroll and her two lawyers, Roberta Kaplan and Shawn Crowley, appeared on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show in an interview that was replayed on Saturday to discuss the outcome of the case, which saw Trump being hit by a $83.3 million jury award in favor of the columnist.

Maddow noted that the lawyers have "been against some of the best and brightest opposing counsel in all sorts of different trials," and asked, "How is (former) President Trump's lawyering?" ...

Trump's choosing words to neutralize their power.

In a sit-down chat between MSNBC anchors Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow, the topic of Trump's choice of words was raised.

"The use of the word 'vermin' and with the way that he's calling his enemies 'fascist' — he's started calling you and me and anybody who's not Team Trump a fascist."...

MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Joy Ann Reid appeared on "Deadline White House" Thursday following an interview with President Joe Biden.

In the analysis after the interview, host Nicolle Wallace marveled at Biden's willingness to keep calm and carry on when it comes to democracy and the American people. It is the kind of faith that the hosts all argued they're not sure they share.

Reid recalled Wallace asking Biden specifically about the Justice Department, "which was so politicized by his predecessor... and he was very clear I'm not going to comment on cases about Jan. 6. I'm not going to do anything that this previous president established as what presidents do."...

Rachel Maddow ran a report on Wednesday's edition of The Rachel Maddow Show about the unprecedented level of dishonesty coming out of the Romney campaign. On Thursday's program she took on more examples of ways in which Romney, former Bush administration official Karl Rove, and the Republican party are relying on lies, selective editing and blatant distortions of the facts to sell themselves to voters.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday once again blasted the fact-checking website PolitiFact.