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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 10-15-2025-230820

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 12 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

The first thing I want to mention is right here on set, we're going to have Congresswoman

0:03.4

elect Adelaide to Grahalva, Congressman Robert Garcia.

0:06.2

They're going to join me here in studio for a joint interview momentarily.

0:10.0

Now, by now you've likely heard that Grahalva would be the final signature required to trigger

0:16.1

a vote on the Epstein files, and she's very willing to do that, and that Mike Johnson is refusing

0:21.6

to swear her in. Congressman Garcia is the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee,

0:26.8

who has been fighting tooth and nail to get those files released. But that story is actually

0:33.6

much bigger than just the Epstein files. So both of them are going to be right here at this table together.

0:38.3

In just a moment, we're going to talk all about that.

0:40.3

But I want to start tonight with something that is definitely not a secret.

0:44.3

We all see this. We all see the numbers.

0:46.3

We all see it happening before our eyes.

0:48.3

And that is the indisputable fact that Donald Trump's agenda is deeply unpopular with the American people.

0:54.9

So what do you do when your agenda is toxic?

0:57.8

And when the voters you rely on to hold power to vote for you don't actually like what

1:02.9

you're doing with that power?

1:05.4

Well, you make it harder for people to participate.

1:08.6

You disempower voters.

1:10.4

You do everything you can to rig the rules

1:12.6

and break the process. And we've seen this all before. I mean, Trump and the MAGA movement have a long

1:18.6

history of following this pattern. After all, this is the party that spent years passing laws

1:24.4

that make it harder for people to vote. This is the party whose leader tried to overturn the results of a legitimate election,

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