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this is what we do. we protest when we disagree and i don t think there s any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they don t believe in it. i m not suggesting support tonight s nominee but don t plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. and that is where we are. we re at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening. thanks, my friend. thank you for joining us at this hour. this is a big important historic news day. good to have you here. thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow supreme court justices. even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most in terms of their day jobs. they loved his company. justice scalia and justice ruth ....
himself for possible investigation. he was saying he survived this, but we did see gop lawmakers say that jeff sessions should recuse himself. let me ask you this. how much of a wedge will this drive between the white house and the gop? do you see that down the road? it has potential to. this is scandal after scandal. russia, we need a full independent investigation as to what degree russia was involved in influencing or attempting to influence our elections here in the united states. they are doing it in france and around the world and have been doing it for a long time. it s shocking that republicans would be refusing to investigate that. i don t care if it s a democrat or republican. when a foreign power is attempting to influence our elections. i want you to to follow-up on shawn a point. jeff sessions made a mistake and owned up to it. nothing to see here. it is not a mistake. this is a man who has been live and breathing and speaking the language of law since he gr ....
special counsel? eventually can he fire everyone? i mean, it s going to be fascinating tomorrow. we re going to hear every one of those questions. what we don t know is how many answers we re going to hear. yeah. that we re not sure of. yeah. this question of executive privilege and what they re going the call executive privilege and such a i mean that s a difficult legal theory anyway. that s not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think we re going to get into appeals court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. and i have a feeling that jeff sessions isn t going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. it is my feeling that i shouldn t talk about this. i have discomfort. yeah. yes. i have a gavel. we will seattle. thank you, rachel. thanks. when president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked headline writers who immediat ....
suitorman, senior editor at reason magazine. kasie, let me start with you. we ve already seen far right groups like heritage action criticize the plan, club for growth as well, freedom works, rand paul calling it obamacare light. you tweeted this a few hours ago. here it is, it is still early so caveats apply but events of today suggest gop health care bill is already on life support, if not dead on arrival. how can that be so early, kasie? reporter: well look, craig, this bill has run into extraordinary opposition just in the first handful of hours that it has been out in the public, and you re saying you tick through some of the groups that have come out and opposed this, the heritage action went so far as to say this doesn t repeal obamacare. that of course kind of the cardinal sin for a party that has spent the last however many years campaigning specifically on repealing obamacare. so the people who are to younger people and less generous to older people. there woul ....
happenstance? yes, absolutely. the irony of roger stone rejecting a conspiracy theory. and so today, april 13th, 2017, was the day that america woke up to the sudden knowledge that bombs have mothers. that all of the conventional nonnuclear bombs in the american military arsenal have one big beautiful mother. and there she is. the bomb s official name for bookkeeping purposes in the military is the gbu-43. the letters on the side of the bomb describe its function, what you can expect from it. massive ordnance air blast. but the military doesn t want us to call it the gbu-43, or the moab. names are important to the military. they name their bases after war heroes, after general, including generals who have committed treason by fighting in the confederate army against the united states of america. the biggest u.s. military base in the world, the one with the biggest military population is in fort hood in texas, named after treasonous confederate general john bell hood. but ....