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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 05-08-2025-235711

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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Congress, Madow, Politics, Issues, Campaign, Policy, Election, News & Politics, Public, Nbc, President, Washington, Government

4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 13 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.

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0:00.0

At this point, we are all pretty familiar with Trump's flood the zone strategy. I mean, we've all seen it. This is what he does all the time.

0:06.7

Move fast, try to bend as many things as possible. Throw so much at us at all times, including some completely bizarre obsessions with renaming things, like lots of things, like the Gulf of Mexico, for example.

0:19.8

It's all kind of hard to keep up with

0:21.0

sometimes I mean that's the point though he wants to make it harder for us to figure

0:25.8

out what's real and what's just Trumpian bluster but one way to cut through some of that I

0:32.4

think to figure out what's real what he really cares about what's going on in his head a little

0:36.6

bit is to go back to January 20th.

0:39.7

And what did Trump prioritize when he was sworn into office

0:43.3

a second time?

0:44.5

What did he care about?

0:45.4

Enough to do immediately.

0:48.2

Well, one of the first things he did,

0:50.4

really, pretty much the very first thing he did

0:52.7

after taking the oath of office on January 20th is he installed this guy as the top federal prosecutor in Washington DC now the US Attorney's Office in Washington as you probably know is one of the most important most powerful prosecutors offices in the country and for the last years, it has been in charge of literally the largest criminal

1:14.2

probe in American history, the investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

1:20.4

And the moment Donald Trump took office again, he put a guy named Ed Martin in charge of that

1:26.0

office.

1:27.1

Now, Ed Martin has zero experience as a prosecutor.

1:31.3

And he was also literally at the Capitol on January 6th.

1:35.3

And he described it this way.

1:37.3

He said it was great, compared it to Mardi Gras, of all things.

1:42.3

Now after that, he then later went on to serve as a defense lawyer for several

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