podcast, rachel maddow, presents ultra. rachel maddow, herself. nice to see you my friend. always good to see you. i feel very blessed to have you on this television program, to talk about this really, i will say, everyone has said the same thing, but it doesn t make it less true. incredibly urgent and revelatory podcast. we should all know this history, and yet somehow, we ve been walking around with these insane, so this is conspiracy blinders on! [laughs] and i gotta ask, people who haven t listen to it, father coughlin, who was he? and how big was his audience really? he was spreading this facistic, anti-semitic, rhetoric. apparently had a lot of takers. oh yeah, and it s only interesting things about him. and i feel like he s kind of the only person in this whole story, this whole eighth episode arc of the podcast, where you might have heard of before. you know father coughlin maybe never heard of him. but if there s anyone
went missing because the commander of a new york national guard machine gun company took that stuff and gave it to the christian front. the christian front, by then, had started to prioritize the recruitment of new members who had military training and military connections. they decided to escalate their own military training and their own arsenal of weapons. by then, father coughlin s christian front militia has decided it was time to move beyond rallies and protests and pickets and beating up jews in the streets. by then he had decided that it was time to move as an organization. in a big way that true story about what seditious conspiracy plot to overturn the u.s. government, what that is a taste of the riveting and, dare i say, shocking, new podcast called rachel maddow presents ultra. guys, run! do not walk, download the first two episodes that are available now! now it s my pleasure to say, joining us now is someone you all know very well! the creator and host of the new
talking about her new excellent podcast, rachel maddow presents ultra that pocket explores the assault on american democracy from right wing extremists and elected officials. and an assault that took place and you re the lead up to the american entry into world war ii. and there are a lot of parallels to what we are seeing today but there is one significant difference between had a history that is explored on rachel s podcast and our current state of affairs. today s anti democratic extremists are no longer on the fringes of america s two major political parties. today, extremist beliefs are part of the mainstream republican platform and they have swept up republican voters en masse. according to the washington post, a majority of republican nominees for state and federal offices this year, are election deniers. and more than a handful of them are with inches winning those close races. like herschel walker. who despite all the scandals and the foibels, conspiracy theories. he is just t
this. on the other hand, knowing that we ve faced it before and effectively faced it before and americans had great ideas how to outflange and defeat those forces, that to me is energizing and a story i ve been desperate to work on for months. and it is out today. the title is rachel maddow presents ultra. now, tonight as i mentioned, we re going to be speaking with the man in charge of the democratic s efforts. we re going to be joined by the national security spokesman john kirby. russia today just launched bigger and worse attacks on ukraine than anything else they ve done since the start of the war in february. if putin is going to just do this now. if he is going to keep up what he did today and russia is just going to be shooting long-range
country by some means other than democracy. when it comes to threatening force as a way of seizing power, there is not only room. there is a necessity for a whole society response. for everybody to do something. for activism. for journalism, for political organizing to keep them away from real power. it can i see a way in which you learn, we ve been through le something like there before and it can be enervating, are we ever going to get away from this. on the other hand, knowing that we ve faced it before and effectively faced it before and americans had great ideas how to outflange and defeat those forces, that to me is energizing and a story i ve been desperate to work on for months. and it is out today. the title is rachel maddow a presents ultra. now, tonight as i mentioned, we re going to be speaking with the man in charge of the democratic s efforts. we re going to be joined by the