MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 09-18-2025-001345

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.4 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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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	We've changed up our show a bit in the last hour or so.
0:04.1	And we're starting tonight with, of course, the late breaking news that ABC has just announced that they are pulling late night host Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air indefinitely.
0:12.7	And I know you've probably been watching this news.
0:14.6	You've been following this news.
0:15.9	And it's not just about the news today, as I was just discussing with Chris.
0:19.5	And first of all, if this is giving you deja vu, if you feel like you have heard this story
0:25.1	before, we've been here before recently, it's because we have.
0:31.9	I want to let you know something that I found out just last night.
0:35.5	Next year will be our last season.
0:38.3	The network will be ending the late show in May.
0:41.3	And...
0:42.3	That was CBS's late show host, Stephen Colbert.
0:53.3	You are all familiar. I'm very familiar. We'll probably
0:55.2	all watch them. The network, of course, suddenly and shockingly ended Colbert's top-rated show just
1:00.1	two months ago tonight, exactly two months ago. And the network claimed that the cancellation was
1:05.3	purely a financial decision, not related in any way to the show's performance, content,
1:10.3	or other matters happening at Paramount.
1:11.8	That's what they said.
1:13.5	But the move came just after CBS's parent company Paramount settled a lawsuit with President
1:18.4	Trump, paying Trump $16 million over a 60 minutes interview with Trump's presidential campaign
1:24.5	opponent, Kamala Harris, which Trump claimed had been deceptively edited,
1:29.3	even though most lawyers believed Trump's case was baseless and he would lose in court.
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