MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 05-29-2025-231700

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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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	It has not been a good 24 hours for Donald Trump.
0:02.6	It's been a very bad 24 hours for Donald Trump.
0:05.4	I mean, last night, a federal court unanimously ruled that Trump's erratic tariff policy
0:10.3	is illegal.
0:11.5	Surprise, surprise.
0:12.7	They said that Trump does not have the authority to just randomly declare tariffs on every
0:18.7	country in the world.
0:20.4	And then today, another federal judge in a separate case said basically the same thing.
0:24.3	Donald Trump cannot unilaterally tariff countries just because he feels like it.
0:29.5	Now those decisions are on hold tonight, and that is thanks in part to a federal appeals
0:33.4	court that agreed to take up the case.
0:36.3	But this is still a huge loss for Trump.
0:39.3	And there are a few issues Trump has fixated on as much as tariffs.
0:43.3	And every day the universe is telling him that upending global trade as we know it isn't as
0:48.3	easy as he thought it would be.
0:50.3	It's hard.
0:51.3	And this is not the only issue where Trump is learning that lesson. I mean, who can forget the extremely confident promise about the war in Ukraine that Trump
0:59.1	made over and over and over and over again?
1:01.0	I will end that war in one day.
1:04.6	It'll take 24 hours.
1:05.6	It would be easy.
1:06.6	That deal would be easy.
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