MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 12-23-2024-222538

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.4 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 22 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	Thanks you at home for joining us this hour.
0:01.5	It is December 23rd.
0:03.1	Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.
0:04.6	So Merry Christmas to everybody who celebrates.
0:07.2	I actually have two news Christmas presents for you.
0:12.1	One of them I'll tell you about in a little bit later on this hour,
0:14.6	something I am going to give you as a Christmas present on Christmas Day.
0:22.6	We will get to that later on this hour. But the other one is just this.
0:25.6	It is a true story that I think of as a Christmas present.
0:29.6	It at least I think is, can maybe be something helpful for understanding today's news.
0:40.8	And it arrives at an auspicious time.
0:44.3	All right, this is a story about this man.
0:47.2	His name is Joseph E. Davies.
0:50.9	He was born in Wisconsin to immigrant parents.
0:53.8	He got involved in Democratic Party politics. He became Democratic Party
0:55.0	chairman in the state of Wisconsin. He then moved to Washington, had some government jobs. He
1:01.3	ended up getting very, very rich as a corporate lawyer. And then in the 1930s, two things
1:09.6	happened in his life.
1:11.6	First, he became a diplomat.
1:13.6	He became a U.S. ambassador.
1:15.6	He was ambassador to Belgium and Ambassador Luxembourg.
1:20.6	Most famously, he was also America's ambassador to Russia, to the Soviet Union.
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