you on mondays anymore. how come you re here? you know, there is stuff going on. thought it would be good to be in the chair today. can i say i listened to your debut deja news today which i loved. thank you very much. fantastic stuff. i had actually read something a little while ago. very brief about that episode. and loved it. anyway people should check it out. thank you very much first of all. very kind of you to say. i should credit you actually because it was an interview with a journalist and historian on your podcast which in part got isaac and i really interested in that topic. it is what put it on the table for us to consider as one of our episodes i love that. so you were part of the inspiration for doing that whole story. great. thank you, rachel. thanks, chris. much appreciate it. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. very happy to have you here. as chris mentioned, we do have a new podcast that just launched the first episode today calle
[inaudible] why do you ask such dumb question? jesse: it s actually great question. it s a question every single reporter should be asking. because, before we even knew joe biden was the big guy, before we even had the laptop a ukrainian businessman told an fbi informant that he bribed the big guy 5 million bucks. he used the phrase the big guy when joe was v.p., years before the nickname went public. and tonight we are learning the big guy was throwing his weight around. this alleged $5 million bribe wasn t so much of a bribe. it was more of a shakedown by the big guy, joe biden. he was shaking down the ukrainian. the federalist is reporting that biden coerced the ukrainian to pay the bribe. the big guy was strong arming a ukrainian energy company to wire him cash. the ukrainian told the fbi informant he hid the payments, never directly paid joe, just hid it in a maize of shell companies and said it would take at least 10 years to follow the money back to biden. well, it
i had actually read something a little while ago. very brief about that episode. and loved it. anyway people should check it out. thank you very much first of all. very kind of you to say. i should credit you actually because it was an interview with a journalist and historian on your podcast which in part got isaac and i really interested in that topic. it is what put it on the table for us to consider as one of our episodes. i love that. so you were part of the inspiration for doing that whole story. great. thank you, rachel. thanks, chris. much appreciate it. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. very happy to have you here. as chris mentioned, we do have a new podcast that just launched the first episode today called rachel maddow presents deja news. the whole idea of the podcast is deja vu like something is going on in the news today. doesn t this remind me of something else? yes, it does. something that might seem unprecedented like we ve never fac
supreme court decision barring him from the primary ballot. this is a major step. it is something the united states supreme court has never truly grappled with. we never had an interaction s president seeking reelection. the president of harvard university resigned today, weeks after her controversial testimony before congress about antisemitism. yeah rage came not from her academic peers, but from her political foes, led by conservatives who put her career under intense scrutiny. i think it is going to be really a tremendous victory in iowa. i will defeat president trump fair and square. i have no doubt about that. and the only one who has the chance to beat trump and win the general election. three years ago tomorrow, we saw with our own eyes the violent mob stormed the capitol. everything is on the line right here and the question is, what kind of century is this going to be? the democracy is still america sacred cause, the most urgent question of our t
biological males. lia thomas u penn teammates scared to speak out. i will not be scared anymore. other women should be encouraged to speak out about unfair competition. have you ever had to apologize being a member of the will pga tour? i recognize people are going to call me a hypocrite but circumstances do change. steve: good morning, everybody. it is june 7th. it s 6:01 here in new york city. and we start with a fox news alert. you are looking at a video of former vice president mike pence who officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign by launching this video 25 minutes ago. here is 10 seconds of it. it would be easy to stay on the sidelines, but that s not how i was raised. today, before god and my family, i m announcing i m running for president of the united states. ainsley: pence rolling out that clip this morning on his 64th birthday. just two days after filing paperwork with the fec. he is set to hold a big event today in des moines, iowa after