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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 05-05-2025-231331

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term in late January, right?

0:05.0

And then right away, a series of things started happening that were very, very, very bad.

0:12.1

January 29th, we had a terrible mid-air collision, right?

0:15.7

Killed 67 people just outside Reagan National Airport in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

0:22.6

Then two days later, it was a medical transport plane that crashed in Philadelphia.

0:27.6

Six people on board the plane were killed. One person on the ground was killed.

0:31.6

Another two dozen people on the ground are injured.

0:34.6

Then two days after that, a United Airlines plane caught fire on the

0:39.5

tarmac in Houston. Flames seen shooting out of the wing, 104 passengers and five crew members

0:46.0

evacuated out of that plane. Three days after that, it's a Japan Airlines plane that smashes

0:52.5

into the tail of a Delta Airlines plane on the tarmac at

0:56.4

CETAC at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Two days after that, they recover the wreckage of a small

1:01.8

commercial plane that crashes in Alaska. All 10 people on board killed. Three days after that,

1:08.8

one person killed as one plane smashes into another at the airport in Scottsdale, Arizona. Five days after that, one person killed as one plane smashes into another at the airport

1:12.5

in Scottsdale, Arizona. Five days after that, two people killed in a small plane crash in Covington, Georgia.

1:18.5

Four days after that, two people killed when two planes collide midair at an airport just northwest

1:24.4

of Tucson, Arizona. At this point, we're not yet one month into Donald

1:28.9

Trump's second term, but it just keeps going. February 24th, a Delta flight from Atlanta

1:34.1

is forced to turn around and have an emergency evacuation after the cabin fills up with some

1:40.2

kind of smoke. One day later, it's an American Airlines flight that is forced to abort its

1:45.7

landing at, once again, Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., in order to avoid colliding with

1:51.6

another plane. Four days after that, it's a FedEx plane that lands at Newark Airport with an engine

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