We The People: A conversation with Rachel Maddow and Timothy Snyder

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Rachel Maddow hosts a prime time special event with historian Timothy Snyder about the rise of authoritarianism and how we can meet the moment. (Recorded on November 21, 2025 at the Harris Theater in Chicago’s Millennium Park)

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0:00.0	They did inflict pain here in their attack on your city.
0:07.0	We don't want you here. We don't want ice here.
0:10.0	But honestly, Chicago, you won.
0:12.0	They're trying to arrest an 11-year-old girl.
0:15.0	She is not in any way in any shape of criminal.
0:19.0	We have to be united as one in this time if we want to save our nation's humanity. Oh, wow. Oh, my goodness.
0:42.3	Wow.
0:44.3	Oh, wow.
0:46.3	Ha!
0:47.3	Ah!
0:48.3	It's very exciting to see you all.
0:51.3	Wow.
0:52.3	Oh! Thank you. Thank you. Oh, hi. So I have to let you know. When I do TV shows,
1:06.1	it's just me and this nice lady named Jackie in the room. She's the only other person in the room.
1:14.4	She's running the camera and stuff, like moving stuff around, and that's it. And I know you are out
1:18.3	there. I can see through the TV theoretically in my mind's eye, but I can't actually see your
1:23.5	faces. So seeing all your faces here is very exciting. Thank you all so much for being here.
1:36.2	I love you too. I love you more than you love me, but it's okay. So this is our first ever
1:43.0	live event as MS Now.
1:45.0	Which is very exciting.
1:49.0	We are at the Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theatre for Music and Dance.
1:54.0	It is a stunningly beautiful place and we are here tonight for talking about democracy.
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