lee, thank you so much for making some time for it tonight. i really appreciate it. thank you. that is all in for tonight. the rachel maddow show starts right now. dpeng, rachel. good evening, chris. much appreciated. thanks for joining us this hour. this is one of those news days where i spent the whole day prepping for a completely different show than the one we re going to end up doing tonight. a lot of just tearing stuff up and starting over today, which is fine. but there s just a lot of important developing news, including news stories that are developing over the course of this evening. and we are going to cover a lot of different bases tonight. we are of course keeping eyes on afghanistan and what is turning out to be just a massive, massive, unprecedented in size u.s. military airlift out of that country. in recent days we have watched as the number of people being airlifted out of kabul climbed from a few hundred per day to 2,000 per day to 5,000 per day