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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 05-09-2025-222905

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It was one of those Fridays where we have unfortunately become accustomed to in the age of Donald Trump.

0:07.0

I mean, it was chaotic, it was bizarre at times, and at times it was very cruel.

0:13.0

I mean, today a sitting mayor, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested during a visit to an ICE facility.

0:19.0

You may have seen that video, and he was just released in the last hour.

0:21.6

If we learn more about that and how he's doing, we'll bring that to you.

0:25.6

But Mayor Osbaraka and members of Congress from New Jersey say they were there as part of an oversight visit,

0:30.6

something that is very much allowed for members of Congress, something that has been allowed since the first Trump administration.

0:38.0

And after the mayor was arrested, there was an incredibly chaotic scene.

0:41.8

You can see it there, in which members of Congress were basically in the middle of a scrum

0:46.2

with masked ICE agents.

0:48.3

A member of Congress who was there is going to join me live in just a few minutes.

0:51.5

I just mentioned that.

0:52.5

We're going to ask more questions about where things stand. Also today, a Tufts University student was released after spending 45 days.

1:00.6

You can see her there after her release 45 days in a Louisiana detention center simply for writing an op-ed.

1:07.9

That's what she did. That's why she spent 45 days in this detention facility.

1:12.1

That apparently, or maybe was one of the things that made good old Stephen Miller pretty big

1:17.9

mad because today he suggested that the administration is considering suspending people's

1:22.9

right to challenge their own imprisonment. And White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt also gave a pretty

1:29.3

bonkers briefing today. So a little later in the show, I'm going to go back to my roots,

1:33.4

some of my roots, and feel some of the same questions she was asked, but actually answer them

1:37.8

truthfully. I'm not going to show you what she said. I'm going to show you what the questions

1:41.2

were asked because everybody wants to know what's actually happening out there.

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