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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 07-16-2025-231929

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

🗓️ 16 July 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

There is a ton of news coming in tonight.

0:03.4

We've just learned that Maureen Comey, James Comey's daughter and longtime DOJ prosecutor in the Southern District of New York,

0:09.3

who worked on the cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Galane Maxwell, has been fired.

0:14.1

We're going to get into all of that with Senator Adam Schiff and Congressman Rokane in just a moment.

0:18.0

But I want to start tonight with some of the very strange

0:22.4

behavior we are seeing from the president. Look, I don't know that Donald Trump has always been

0:27.5

far, far from a normal guy. That's one way of describing it. I mean, his behavior is often erratic.

0:33.5

His public statements can be completely bizarre. And at times he doesn't seem to know what is going on inside his own government.

0:39.3

But recently, it seems like he is, well, not at all okay, I guess is one way to describe it.

0:45.3

Let me show you what I mean.

0:47.3

Yesterday, Trump attended an AI summit in Pittsburgh,

0:50.3

and within 10 minutes of taking the microphone,

0:52.3

he launched into an utterly strange

0:55.5

digression about his uncle and the notorious domestic terrorists of all people, Ted Kaczynski,

1:01.2

better known as the Unabomber. My uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors, 51 years,

1:08.7

whatever, who was the longest serving professor in the history of MIT.

1:12.8

Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There's very little difference

1:17.1

between a madman and a genius. But Kaczynski, I said, what kind of a student was the uncle

1:22.5

John, Dr. John Trump? He said, what kind of a student? And then he said, seriously good.

1:29.0

He said he'd go around correcting everybody, but it didn't work out too well for him.

1:35.4

I love the look on the face of the guy next to him.

1:38.1

You can sort of see in that video.

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