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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 06-06-2025-224643

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 15 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

We are following an absolute avalanche of breaking news tonight. This seems to happen on Fridays for some reason, and we're going to try to get to all of it.

0:08.8

Tonight, Kilmorrow-Berger-Garcia is back in the United States to face criminal charges in a U.S. court.

0:14.5

The administration filed an indictment of a Brigo-Garcia under seal more than two weeks ago, but they have just decided to release it tonight.

0:22.8

Gee, I wonder why. We're going to talk a lot more about that later in the show with the attorney

0:27.4

representing his wife and family. But we also have some other breaking news to get to tonight

0:32.3

out of the Supreme Court that could have impacts on everyone. Because late today in the decision split along ideological lines,

0:39.3

the Justice has granted Elon Musk's Doge team access to the highly sensitive Social Security records of every American as the case moves forward.

0:48.3

The court also handed Doge a second victory by saying that Doge does not have to turn over its internal records

0:55.0

to a government watchdog group, which, by the way, is completely bananas and as crazy as it sounds.

1:01.0

And alarming, and we're going to talk about that.

1:03.0

The three liberal justices dissented in both decisions, and in the matter of whether Doge staffers

1:08.0

could access Social Security data, Justice Kintaghi

1:11.0

Brown Jackson wrote an absolutely blistering dissent, and I wanted to read some of it

1:16.0

to you. Here's part of what she said, quote, once again, this court dons its emergency

1:20.5

responder gear, rushes to the scene, and uses its equitable power to fan the flames rather

1:26.6

than extinguish them.

1:28.3

She went on to accuse her conservative fellow justices of giving unfettered data access to Doge

1:33.3

despite its failure to show any need or any interest in complying with existing privacy safeguards.

1:40.3

And she also accuses them of jettisoning careful judicial decision making and creating grave privacy risks for millions of Americans in the process.

1:50.0

And I hate to say this, but she is completely right.

1:54.0

I mean, this Social Security news may seem like a dry story about access to data, but it is a huge freaking deal and will continue to be

2:04.6

because social security numbers are the key to accessing just about every facet of life in America,

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