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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 11-11-2024-221856

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 26 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

And thanks to it home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. So the last time that Donald Trump was president of the United States, his secretary of the interior got embroiled in a corruption scandal and was referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution.

0:16.8

The last time Donald Trump was president, his secretary of transportation also got embroiled

0:22.8

in a corruption scandal and was referred to the Department of Justice for potential criminal

0:27.8

prosecution.

0:29.5

The last time Donald Trump was president, his secretary of labor got embroiled in a disgusting

0:35.0

scandal involving convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

0:38.5

A federal judge ruled that Trump's Labor Secretary had broken the law in that scandal,

0:44.0

and so the Labor Secretary was referred to the Office of Professional Responsibility at the Justice Department.

0:49.5

He ended up resigning in disgraced ended up resigning in disgraced.

0:56.8

Donald Trump's Secretary of Energy resigned in a corruption and ethics scandal.

1:01.9

Donald Trump's head of the EPA resigned in a corruption and ethics scandal.

1:06.5

Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary resigned in a corruption and ethics scandal.

1:13.3

And I mean, any one of these cases is like a teapot dome-sized scandal, right?

1:20.0

Used to be if you had one cabinet official involved in a big ethics and or corruption scandal

1:25.0

that forced them out of the job or led them to, you know,

1:28.6

to being referred for criminal prosecution, even if you just had one.

1:33.9

That would be enough to brand your whole presidency a disgraced and scandal-ridden mistake.

1:42.3

I mean, Warren G. Harding, what is remembered about the Warren G. Harding presidency?

1:48.1

I mean, maybe you got three things you could remember. A, died in office. B, had an affair.

1:54.7

C, T-pot Dome scandal. Corruption scandal, which resulted in a cabinet official being criminally charged.

2:00.3

I mean, literally a century after that one scandal involving one cabinet official,

2:06.4

that's basically all we remember about that guy's presidency.

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