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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 06-18-2025-223052

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

🗓️ 18 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here's some of the headlines we've seen in just the last few hours.

0:04.3

Just the last few hours.

0:05.8

Axios had a headline that said,

0:07.4

Trump presses AIDS on whether Bunker Buster plan to bomb Iran will work.

0:12.9

The Wall Street Journal has a headline that says Trump privately approved attack plan for Iran,

0:17.3

but has withheld final order.

0:19.9

And Rolling Stone, and man, this is a dozy of a headline.

0:23.8

Fox News is demanding war with Iran.

0:26.1

Donald Trump is listening.

0:29.1

And yeah, I'm going to get to that last one or no moment

0:31.4

because the story of how Trump got here,

0:33.7

and yes, Fox News played a part, no quitting, no surprise.

0:37.2

It does tell us a lot about how insecure and easy to manipulate this man is, which we all know, but it's just a reminder.

0:45.3

Before I get there, I wanted to dig into something else, because it's also important.

0:49.3

Because the question of war with Iran has now sparked a bit of a civil war among rival MAGA factions

0:56.0

inside the Republican Party.

0:58.0

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, I think the odds are unacceptably high, that we would

1:05.0

find out with a mushroom cloud.

1:07.0

The American people have been brainwashed into believing that America has to engage in these foreign wars.

1:13.6

But we most certainly need to have regime change in Iran.

1:16.6

The Bush era doctrine of regime change wars in the Middle East is foolish.

1:21.6

We've got a chance to end the threat to the state of Israel forever by replacing this regime was something better.

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