Web exclusive bonus clip: It's pretty amazing timing that this Trump project in Saudi Arabia got the green light just as this other deal will be needing approval from the Trump administration. youtu.be/ax2mHNQGpyU?...

Watch Rachel Maddow's full interview with Rep. Mikie Sherrill here: youtu.be/UiihDjr2Qog?...

"The national archives’ inspector general is launching an investigation into the release of Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s (D-N.J.) military records, according to an email obtained by POLITICO." www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

NEW! Watch the trailer for MSNBC Films presents "Andrew Young: The Dirty Work," executive produced by Rachel Maddow, which retraces Andrew Young's story as he carried Dr. King's dream into the world of politics. Airs Friday, Oct. 17 at 9pmET on MSNBC After a special Rachel Maddow Show at 8pmET

“There is a reason to settle, but it has little to do with the law,” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

"To President Trump and other White House officials, that is a new-and-improved model for disaster response." It's a feature, not a bug: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"He held several subsequent conversations with the agents about his cash-for-contracts proposal, culminating in a Sept. 20, 2024, meeting in Dallas at which agents recorded Homan accepting $50,000 in cash, according to the document and sources." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

Someone used AI to create a fake Fox News segment featuring Trump touting magical “MedBed” technology. He then used to his platform to amplify the nonsensical pseudoscience. Maybe now’s a good time to renew the whole “cognitive decline” conversation? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Plan ahead! Rachel Maddow's new documentary, "Andrew Young: The Dirty Work," will premiere on MSNBC on October 17th at 9pmET on MSNBC. And we'll have a special edition of The Rachel Maddow Show that night at 8pmET. That's all Friday, October 17 on MSNBC.

In 2018, foreign officials at the U.N. General Assembly laughed at Trump because they thought he was kidding. In 2025, they stopped laughing — because they know he isn’t kidding. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Hey! You can check out our YouTube playlist for individual highlight clips from last night's interview with Kamala Harris. Or... You can watch the full interview here: youtu.be/p8OyMIen9d4

Coming up next hour!

@gelliottmorris.com: "many people fundamentally underestimate how unpopular Trump is." Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.

It's Maddow Monday! TONIGHT! Former Vice President Kamala Harris will be Rachel Maddow's guest. 9pmET on MSNBC

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Donald Trump wants greater control of the U.S. economy. But what does his track record say about whether that's such a good idea? Watch:

Five signs your president may have strongman aspirations...

In case you missed Monday's big announcement, @kamalaharris.com will be @maddow.msnbc.com 's guest this Monday, September 22! 9pmET on MSNBC

Sen. Bill Cassidy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expected you to change the childhood vaccine schedule, despite a lack of science or data to support that move? Former CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Correct."

SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.

"On Friday afternoon, shortly after this article was published, Ms. Cauley sent an email saying, “There was a miscommunication with international staff and no destruction has yet happened but we are reviewing the matter.”" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

Breaking: RFK Jr adds five new members to the federal committee that decides which shots Americans should get and when www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/h...

"Like other members currently on the committee, some of the new additions have expressed skepticism about vaccines or vaccine mandates." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/h...

"One of the troubling directives from that meeting more than a week ago: I was told to preapprove the recommendations of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric." www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...

America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Programming Note! Kamala Harris, in her first news interview since the 2024 election, will be Rachel Maddow's guest next Monday! September 22 at 9pmET on MSNBC

Awful: Sen Tim Kaine reached out to numerous GOP Senators to ask them to join his letter laying out basic questions for Trump about drug boat bombing, Senate staffer tells me. Zero Rs agreed. On the pod we discuss this & deeper legal issues w/ @sranderson.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2003...

You can watch that full video on YouTube here: youtu.be/X9cgWDEKxO0?...

Dr. Tao Sheng Kwan-Gett, chief science officer for the Washington State Department of Health, explains that scarcity is not the only reason states are taking on their own vaccination policies. Another reason is the need, in some cases, for prescriptions.

Looking at the polling, it seems like Donald Trump is not doing anything the country likes.

If the Trump administration's defense on the question of the Epstein birthday book is that the signatures don't match, that's a terrible defense.

"Many of today's grandparents lived through a time when vaccines were unavailable. They remember the itchy fevers of chickenpox, the swelling from mumps, or being quarantined with measles - no school, no playdates and sometimes no happy ending." www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/us-v...

"If he lied about this, what else is he hiding?"

"If you’re having to travel more than an hour to get to your local No Kings protest, start your own." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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"Late that year, the bank did something it should have been doing all along: It filed a report with federal regulators that retroactively flagged as suspicious some 4,700 Epstein transactions — totaling more than $1.1 billion ..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Of course Trump got booed at the US Open final, and caused delays by attending, but it seems a little underplayed that he was there in a luxury box seat provided by Rolex, which is a Swiss company hoping to get out from under huge tariffs he imposed on Switzerland. apnews.com/article/trum...

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

Exclusive: Bill Pulte, President Trump’s appointee as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers reut.rs/466LP3j

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

For the history buffs, a Déjà News addition from @idaronson.bsky.social : The Epstein scandal isn’t the first time a country has been consumed by a saga of wealth, criminality and political connections. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Job growth over the first eight months of the year: 2015: 1.76 million 2016: 1.58 million 2017: 1.51 million 2018: 1.75 million 2019: 1.36 million 2020: [pandemic] 2021: 4.69 million 2022: 3.5 million 2023: 1.84 million 2024: 1.14 million 2025: 598,000 #trumpeffect www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Psaki: "Viruses don't care about state lines, and particularly when comes to the protection offered by vaccinations, we are only as strong as our weakest link."

After Harvard resisted ridiculous White House demands, Team Trump retaliated quickly and cut off $2.2 billion in grants. As a court unfreezes the funds, Harvard will benefit — but so will we. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The list of blue states (or at least states led by Dems) circumventing RFK Jr and Trump on vaccines and public health keeps growing: - California - Oregon - Washington - Massachusetts - Illinois - New Mexico - Pennsylvania This shouldn't be necessary, but here we are. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

As DeSantis’ administration in Florida targets *all* of the state’s vaccine mandates, remember: If Lapado & Co succeed, Floridians would start exporting contagions and serious ailments to other Americans — and in all likelihood, even to other countries. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me: