0 night. and the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening rachel. chris, do you have a connection to the fbi? do i personally? every time you go on vacation the fbi does something that nobody expected that blows everybody away and i have to call you and ask where in the world you are. i found out the search warrant in mar-a-lago from a text from you, and i hadn t even gotten to the american news, and i guess things are kinds of crazy, woe, babe, they searched mar-a-lago. rachel just rang again. every time i leave the east coast. anyway, i m putting a leash on you, my friend. i can t take the suspense anymore. welcome back. good to be back. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. great to have you here. do you remember the name brandon van greg? it is a very memorable name, you might remember the sound of it and if not the circumstance you first heard. it but if you are like me, and all likelihood the first time you heard the name brandon van grack was t
takes a lot of logistic, plan [resources. yeah, the logistics were crazy. there was a google doc where we mapped everything out and there were lots of spread sheets. but beyond that i use credit cards are travel rewards. i m super loyal when it comes to an airline. no matter what airline you fly, collecting all those miles, using the credit card for every day spending, but paying it off at the end of the month. we want to be fiscally responsible, but those are some of the ways i maximized it. it goes without saying not every country you went to are safe, some of them even less safe for a plaque woman. were there anyplaces you were apprehensive to visit? you know, honestly, no. i ve been traveling extensively since my early 20s, and one of the biggest lessons i learned visiting almost every country in the world is most people are good. for me i m not afraid of strangers. so if you aren t afraid of strangers what is there really to be afraid of?
more amenable to supporting these things. one thing we found in our reporting is that there are some people in the white house, and those are the people directly negotiating with her, that say look erin else who is frustrated, that s because they re not part of the process. they don t know because they don t need to know. we think she has been honest and direct. she is detailed oriented. she comes in with spread sheets. so among those core people in the white house talking to her regularly, they are the most optimistic of the entire bunch. so peter alexander, excuse me, i get choked up when we talk about this every day. but peter, this is a day before nancy pelosi said she wanted to bring the infrastructure up on the hill. what about the progressives? we have nod heard anything from bernie sanders in a few days
yeah for excel spread sheets. and manchester united hos injuries stricken everton runs on fumes but this is like the scene from rocky iv where old rocky realizes he can bleed. and then look at this. ronaldo s signature celebration. manchester united the og media of the premier league. you say that with daddy here. it burns. i m a sort of city arsenal fan. i was on way too early this morning. i get all these sports stories, baseball. i have no idea. viewers, i m honest, why don t
in the world, you have in your sports teams, franchises, salary caps, socialism for rich guy owners. there s none of that in the premier league. at tend of the day, we re just cheering for money, for excel spread sheets. this week the united states men pick up their qualification for world cup. it will be in qatar. roger bennett, thank you very much. and it s great to have you on. ed loose, your latest piece for the financial times is entitled we should pay more heed to alarmists. it sounds like very optimistic way to start the week. fill us in. i was responding to the bob kagen piece and my colleague martin wolf wrote a piece called the the strange death of more than democracy . just to push back, haven t we