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The Rachel Maddow Show

Podcast extra: Rachel Maddow talks with Nicolle Wallace about Trump's early Cabinet picks

The Rachel Maddow Show

MSNBC

Madow, Washington, Rachel Maddow, Congress, Campaign, Policy, Election, President, Nbc, Public, News, Government, Maddow, Politics, Issues

4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

From the November 14 episode of Deadline White House, Rachel Maddow talks with Nicolle Wallace about Donald Trump's clown car of Cabinet picks and how they fit into his broader authoritarian project, and what Americans who care about democracy should keep an eye on as the second Trump administration takes shape.

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0:00.0

Today, we have added the Secretary of State, the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy,

0:07.8

the NASA administrator, the head of the Forest Service, and the President's personal assistant.

0:12.4

We have gone to the big wall in three columns.

0:15.8

Anybody else going tonight?

0:17.1

There needs to be a new director of the CIA as well.

0:20.1

And now tonight, the National

0:21.5

Security Advisor is out too. And so, yeah, we're going to need another wall soon.

0:32.0

Hi again, everybody. It's 5 o'clock in New York. One of the hallmarks of the first Trump

0:36.7

administration was our friend and dear colleague

0:39.6

Rachel Maddow and her wall, her giant wall, keeping tabs on and listing all of the many,

0:46.0

many, many, many people who left the White House under Trump, often under duress, often fired

0:52.8

after a blow up.

0:55.6

Many of them unceremoniously fired on Twitter by the ex-president himself for not giving

1:00.7

him exactly what he wanted.

1:04.8

We show that blast from the past, that time capsule with you.

1:08.6

Because this time, it's not clear that Rachel's going to need a wall

1:12.5

and maybe not one that big because Donald Trump is now surrounding himself with the kind of

1:18.0

people who would never have any tension with them, the kind of people who only say yes.

1:24.3

People whose only qualification for the kinds of jobs they're getting are that feature, that fact, that they're loyal only to him, not the Constitution, not the expertise, once associated with the agencies they've been tapped to lead.

1:38.3

Just take the most recent cabinet picks, a Fox News weekend morning show anchor to head the Department of Defense,

1:45.3

a former Democratic Congresswoman who publicly spreads Russian talking points, who has been now

1:52.0

tapped to lead the nation's spy agencies, and a man who was the target of a years-long

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