MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 07-14-2025-231053

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.4 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 25 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	really happy to have you here. You ready? Pop quiz. Who is this man? Who is this man?
0:12.3	There's several men in this picture. Can we zoom in, please, on the man in question.
0:18.8	Ah. Now I know what you're thinking.
0:21.6	You're thinking, Matto, honestly, can you please not zoom in any further?
0:26.6	I get it. I get it. You're talking about the Saturday Night Fever guy here. We don't need to see this any closer. We understand.
0:34.6	Okay. I get it.
0:38.3	How about a different view?
0:39.3	Same guy.
0:40.3	Same number of buttons.
0:42.3	But you are perhaps not as distressed by that in this picture,
0:47.3	because it's very hard not to focus in this picture on the hat.
0:51.3	And actually this one, it gets worse if you zoom out rather than zoom in.
0:56.0	Somehow the hat actually gets worse and more alarming when you see it in a broader context.
1:02.0	Usually getting closer makes things worse, but in this case, something about the hat and maybe the shoes, I don't know, maybe just the contrast with the normal person standing next to him.
1:11.1	I don't know. I don't know. Somehow worse, wider. Do you know who this person is? It's okay if you
1:19.0	don't. I'm about to tell you who it is, and honestly, it's still not going to help. His name is
1:25.1	David Richardson.
1:30.3	And I don't know if that name means anything to you.
1:31.1	It probably doesn't.
1:32.3	It's okay if it doesn't.
1:35.1	But here's who he is.
1:38.9	You might remember, if you're old enough to remember,
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