We get started, there was some big news last week that slipped through my news crack, and it concerns someone ive admired for years, and yet surprisingly is not me. Im talking about david letterman, who last thursday night announced his retirement. And i am going to miss this good man. Dave has been on the air my entire adult life, late night debuted my first year in college. I learned more from watching dave than i did from going to my classes. cheers and applause . Especially especially the ones i did not go to because i had stayed up until 1 30 watching dave. applause this man has influenced every host who came after him, and even a few who came before him. Hes that good. laughter and i gotta tell you, i do not envy whoever they try to put in that chair. cheers and applause Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen Stephen cheers and applause stephen folks, folks, those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants. laughter nation, wedding vows are supposed t
Casually accept this as the cost of doing business in a dangerous world. Eugene robbins is a columnist and david corn is from mother jones. Both are msnbc political analysts. Lets take a look here at ed carney, the president s spokesman, talk about this. It was a briefing today and carney defended the president s position on drones but also faced some tough questions. Lets listen. I wont talk about specific instances, but the fact is that the methods that we use are designed specifically to avoid civilian casualties. I think its fair to say that far fewer civilians lose their lives in an effort to go after Senior Leadership in al qaeda along the lines we were discussing here as opposed to an effort to invade a country with hundreds of thousands of troops and take towns. Why are you dancing around the question of whether or not we kill civilians . Why wont the government admit . I dont think im dancing around it. I didnt dispute it. You didnt necessarily what i cant do civilians have be
People who are effectively stateless. I hope that folks continue to keep their eyes on this. Well continue to cover it. I think the dmeft dominican the government of the Dominican Republic is going to face some Serious International pressure. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Thank you at home for joining us this hour. Today was amazing in the news. In just the news about politics today, we changed the stories that we were going to cover and the order of everything. We changed the show like 300 times did you say today because new things kept happening all afternoon and into the evening, each of which was more amazing than the things that had come before on this amazing news day. Up to and including jeb bush slow jamming the news with jimmy fallon on the tonight show tonight which has just happened. We actually just got the tape of it. We will have that for you in just a moment. Its mind bending. In addition to that weve got donald trump announcing he is running for the republica