top of the priority list in the new year. i think something can be worked out, but will be right back talk about how that is. all remain hopeful that something is not gonna be destroyed for something so good. thank you very much senator. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening chris. thank you, my friend. appreciate you being here. thanks at home for joining us. appreciate you being here. it is a very excite lead-up to the christmas holidays at the end of this week. so much so that i feel like the news is kind of all rushing into the off-ramp, trying to get all done before the christmas holidays are upon us. one of the stories we ve been watching tonight starts in the great state of georgia amid the tidal wave of election laws and voting rights restrictions enacted over the course of this year in republican-controlled states, all these laws coast to coast, aimed at making it harder to vote, easier for republicans
for the next one. one thing i think about is, like, we need more supply of good quality and affordable of health care for people. that s something to work towards in the future. thank you very much. i think we lost your connection. that is all in on this monday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. thank you. and thanks for joining us. we have some breaking news to start with at this hour. we could report exclusively tonight that attorneys for former president donald trump have now met in person with the fulton county district attorney s office in georgia. now, it was months ago that we first learned that the prosecutor who leads that office, a prosecutor named mr. willis, opened a criminal investigation into alleged violations of georgia state law that occurred when elections officials in georgia were pressured and intimidated after
sentences early on, the sentences will rachet up as we tackle the more serious cases, and his quote was, this is purposeful. they re building from the ground up, which it is way we make these cases. and to zoe s point, we ll see that trial and we ll be looking ahead to that, we ll have you back on to talk about that as we get closer. zoe tillman, glenn kirchner, thank you both. that s all in this wednesday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, chris, much appreciated. thanks to all of you for joining fours this shower. senate majority leader chuck schumer is our guest live in just a moment, very much looking forward to speaking with him since once again and as usual now, he is the man at the center of the question of what can or cannot be done in washington, what the biden administration can or cannot get passed. we ll be speaking with senator schumer live in just a moment.
thanks, chris. that is all in on this monday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, chris. how was your holiday? oh, it was wonderful. it was truly, truly joyous and wonderful. cooked a lot of good stuff. got to see some family members that i hadn t seen in a while. spent some time together. i m big on the christmas tree and all that stuff, really into the holiday music, the whole thing. it was great. how was yours? do you have any regrets about the matching pajamas? never, no. that s one of our favorite that s who we are. that s who we are. the first year i was like, really, we re doing this? we got matching pajamas for our dog shadow who is in the picture. i will say, i feel like it s a far-reaching decision by and you kate, being like, listen, our kids seem to like us, they seem to like each other, let s give them something easy and safe to rebel against. exactly. and really, really decide
but we are talking about the fundamental building blocks of democracy and whether or not we will have free and fair elections in 2022 and 2024. so, you know, we have had debate after debate after debate about the need to strengthen and protect democracy and it is time for every member of the house has already stood up and voted and it s time for the senators to do the same. all right, marc elias, thank you so much for your time. thank you. that is all in for this week. the rachel maddow show starts right now with ayman mohyeldin in for rachel. thank you, chris. enjoy the rest of your night off. thanks to you at home for joining us. rachel does have the night off but we do have a very big show tonight, capping off what has been a pretty extraordinary week of news here in the united states. the last few days may very well be a part in our history as a nation that we look back on as