absolutely. come and join us, republicans. let s work together across the aisle. congressman luis gutierrez, thank you so much. we ll talk more but we ve got to get to this breaking news. thanks very much. let s get to that right now. this is cnn breaking news. gop congressional candidate katie harington is in the hospital after a fatal accident last night. going the wrong direction on a south carolina highway. the other driver was killed. harrington has fractured her back, broken ribs and partial collapse of the main artery in her legs. it comes two weeks after she won the republican primary against former governor mark sanford. he has tweeted his hopes and prayers for arrington. his democratic opponent has suspended his campaign out of respect for her recovery. we ll keep you posted as we learn about her condition as we move forward.
olivares, who are doing really amazing work down here and i thank you for joining us. thank you. next, how family separation connects to a very clear throughline to the worst moments of the trump administration. congressman luis gutierrez joins me to talk about that, next. i can do more to lower my a1c. and i can do it with what s already within me. because my body can still make its own insulin. and once-weekly trulicity activates my body to release it. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. it works 24/7. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don t use it as the first medicine to treat diabetes or if you have type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don t take trulicity if you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, you re allergic to trulicity, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away
tonight. thank you, chris. keep telling us what s going on. thanks, congressman. i want to. mention, our most recent episode of why is this happening talks about what happened in puerto rico, where luis gutierrez has been doing a lot of work, both before and after the storm. i encourage you to check it out, along with our conversation with an aclu lawyer about their suit against the trump administration over family separation. they re both available wherever you get your podcasts. that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel. you have some news to break, so i have to rush to go watch the show. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. doing great work there. thanks to you at home joining us this hour. we have a little bit of news to break this hour, this segment, in fact. we re very happy to have you here tonight. tonight, i promise i ll hold it together better than i did last night. because there is nothing else going on in the world
impossible to find asylum in the united states. jonathan ryan and efren olivares, who are doing really amazing work down here and i thank you for joining us. thank you. next, how family separation connects to a very clear throughline to the worst moments of the trump administration. congressman luis gutierrez joins me to talk about that, next. it s a t-rex, it s a t-rex, it s a t-rex. stop it. stop the t-rex. see, not a t-rex. ah! come on. let s go. we made it. yeah! rated pg-13.
he agreed to the consent degree, the consent decree, and i want to say one last thing, because i know time is running out. you know jeh johnson, the secretary of homeland security said, i can only keep children in detention for 20 days. i will resign as secretary of homeland security if i can t release the moms along with them. and here s what the obama administration began to do. 20 days detention for children, as they applied for their for their asylum request, right? and the children and the moms were released together. that s the way you do things. transparent, open, we did challenge obama, but you know what? obama had a heart. he had a soul. he had a heart. he had a center. he had convictions. and we could speak to those. i will say, as just a final thought there, that all of the people saying, where were you when barack obama was doing family detention, you, congressman gutierrez, a lot of people were there challenging him on this. you re someone who has been extremely consis