pharmaceutical company, she retired at age 49, good for her. that s all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening. i know that had nothing to do with me but as a 48-year-old, that hit me right here. that s young, that s the point. good for you, you re going to do do your thing. i m sorry that i thought you were still running a big pharma company. no, no. it s totally fine. but i also have a 9:00 p.m. slot to sell you if you re interested. we re not going down that road in this conversation. in this environment, i understand. i ll call you later. sounds great. have a great weekend, my friend. all right. thanks to you at home for joining this hour. it s really good to have you here on this friday night. and what has been just an incredible, incredible news day. today, among a million other things, today for just about an hour and a half, kamala harris was the acting president of the united states. now, having an acting president,
$30 that people pay. this is going to make a real difference and we re going to get my minimum tax through, the one i have with senator king, and we re going to get it through, the one that says giant corporations, amazon, pay nothing in taxes even when they re reporting billions in profits. 15% minimum tax. it s going to raise $300 billion. that is in the bbb being voted on tonight. senator elizabeth warren, thank you very much. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, chris. thank you so much, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it is called the port of new castle. it s the largest coal port in the whole world. it s in australia. about $20 billion worth of coal gets shipped through that one port every year. that s more than any other place on earth. and yesterday all operations at the port of newcastle in
agreed to. so i don t believe that we will weaken beyond the framework that the president laid out, plus, of course, prescription drug price, which was already agreed to. but there s just one or two things and we ll see how that goes. i m confident that the senators will do a great job of delivering 51 votes and keeping their side of the bargain as we have done over here. you said a number of times that you have been the relentless optimist. we described you as the official optimist of the rachel maddow show. i hear it in your voice, confidence. but you also said, you know, knowing it s going to work out in the end doesn t mean it s not going to be rocky or a difficult process. i know that s still ahead. can i ask you for an assessment about what the impact of this process has been on you and other progressives, on the progressive caucus, on the way
pramila jayapal just told us confidently it s going to pass tonight. the votes are there. congresswoman, i know it s going to be a late night. thank you. don t forget my optimist in chief plaque for the show. it s frosting on a big cookie, but i ll send it anyway. we ll get it through. all right. much more ahead tonight as we wait for this big vote. i should tell you, all awards handed out by the rachel maddow show are by statute edible. anything we re sending out, you have to be able to eat it and share with your colleagues. all right. stay with us. in giving back. that s why, in difficult times, we provided one hundred and fifty million meals to feeding america. and now through the subaru share the love event, we re helping even more. by the end of this year, subaru will have donated over two hundred and twenty five million dollars to charity.
think the states should have a monopoly on legislate use of violence. that s just me. chris brown, thank you very much, appreciate it. that is all in on this wednesday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, chris, thank you very much, my friend. you just did that quick hit with put chris back. hi. hello. with steve kornacki about the call in new jersey. the call came in within the past couple of minutes, right? yes, we were in commercial break and we came out of it to go to kornacki at the big board. that is now, as of msnbc, an official call, that phil murphy will be reelected as governor of new jersey. okay. what i m going to do, if you don t mind, i m going to ask steve kornacki who has been weak for a very long time, i m going to ask him to come back in our second segment and walk us through why it took so long, how close it s going to be. to be clear, the call has