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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 06-05-2025-221739

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 11 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

Obviously, as all of you know, because I know you have all been paying attention to this,

0:03.4

a lot has happened since we last spoke, and we're going to get to all of it, I promise.

0:08.9

But to kind of understand how radically everything has changed today, I think we need to go back to this moment.

0:15.6

This was just six days ago.

0:18.0

Not even a week, not even a week ago, that Donald Trump was practically fawning

0:22.7

over Elon Musk during his Oval Office sendoff. I mean, Trump even gave Musk a big, shiny

0:27.9

gold key. Look at that, very weird, as a token of his appreciation. And he said that even

0:33.6

though Musk was leaving the government, he would still very much be a part of this team.

0:39.8

Many of the Doge people, Elon, are staying behind, too, so they're not leaving. And Elon's really

0:46.1

not leaving. He's going to be back and forth, I think. Elon's not really leaving. He'll be back and

0:52.3

forth. Even though he's living somewhere else,

0:55.2

we're still committed to each other and to the children.

0:58.1

And by children, I mean the 22-year-olds,

1:00.4

Musk and Trump put in charge of the federal government,

1:02.7

obviously.

1:04.0

But that was the message out of the White House six days ago,

1:06.2

not even a week ago.

1:07.4

Trump and Musk were parting ways on what appeared

1:09.8

to be somewhat friendly terms.

1:12.5

Now, we knew at least part of the reason why Musk likely decided to leave when he did.

1:16.5

I mean, for one thing, if Elon Musk stayed on as a full-time White House advisor, he would have

1:20.6

had to disclose many of his own business conflicts. And we're going to be digging into those

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