0 covering the beat. it s very much a place that looks like america, but that means it does tend to skew a little bit more to the right because while you have a lot of black and latino, latino people you also have a very strong a lot of people coming from the american south and west. aline cooper, a great reporter on this beat, thanks for making time tonight. i appreciate it. that is all in on this thursday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. thank you, chris. thank you for joining me at this hour. we have thrown out the show, as we sometimes have to do, because we need to start tonight with some news that has just broken on the front page of the new york times. this is a big deal. i will tell you, we re about to speak with one of the reporters whose by lined on this story. we re also about to speak with one of the subjects of this story. but in all the time i have been in this business, i have never covered anything quite like this before. i have never read a