It's kind of the perfect night. It's kind of the perfect night any night to have Rachel Maddow here.

But tonight is really kind of the perfect night because not only does Rachel have an incredibly timely new podcast, I was just talking with Chris about, out that I have definitely been binging.

There are four episodes out now.

But just a few years ago, Rachel quite literally wrote a book about the corrupting influence of the oil industry on global politics, which

feels incredibly relevant today. Because today we learn that Trump once again escalated his

military aggression against Venezuela, this time by seizing an oil tanker off of that country's

coast. I've also got Senator Ruben Gallego of the Senate Armed

Services Committee standing by for his reaction to that news a little bit later in the show,

and Senator John Ossoff is going to come by to talk about Democrats' shocking win in his home

state of Georgia last night. And of course, what the heck's happening on the Hill with health

care as well? The point is we have an embarrassment of riches tonight, but I wanted to start with the news

that we unfortunately can't report today.

I wish we could because we didn't get widespread condemnation from the Republican Party

for Donald Trump saying this.

Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right?

Why can't we have some people from Norway, sweet, just a few?

But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right?

Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.

The only thing they're good at is going after ships.

I mean, first of all, that was a speech that was supposed to be about the economy.

But that was obviously just a repulsive and racist thing to say. And yet, with a few exceptions, just a few, barely a peep, not an even barely a peep from most

Republicans. And it made me think back to that time during Trump's first term. Remember when the

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