Rachel Maddow - Green 960

Rachel gets Congressman Barney Frank's (D-MA) take on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow no limits on corporate campaign donations, and on the state of Congressional healthcare reform now that the U.S. Senate Democrats have lost their filibuster-proof status due to Scott Brown's election to the U.S. Senate; Rachel questions Erroll Southers about his decision to step down as President Obama's nominee as head of the Transportation Security Administration, and otherairline security matters; Rac...

Rachel gets the opinion of what the election of Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate this week means to the political climate of Congress from Michigan U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow; Since the addition of Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate fails to make the Democrat-controlled Senate filibuster-proof, Rachel questions MSNBC political analyst on what power Republican members of the U.S. Senate will have on legislation, including the healthcare reform bill in Congress; Rachel brings on Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendel...

With the election of Republican candidate Scott Brown for the late Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, Rachel talks about the result and related issues with Chris Matthews, host of NBC's "Hardball": Chuck Todd, NBC News political director, talks about the Democratic Party's reaction to Brown's victory; The Washington Post's Ezra Klein talks about how Brown's victory might affect Congress' work on the healthcare bill in Congress; Rachel and Joan Walsh, editor-in-chief of Salon.com, discuss the conser...

In her continuous coverage of the aftermath of the Haiti 7.0 earthquake, Rachel taps the firsthand knowledge of NBC News chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, to get an idea of the extent of medical injuries in Haiti; Rachel talks with Neil Watkins, executive director of Jubilee USA Networks, about the trend of some European nations to cancel Haitian debts and the need to provide grants, not loans to Haiti at this time; Rachel talks with Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi about the Massachusetts U...

Rachel continues with her coverage of the 7.0 earthquake which has devastated Haiti with some indepth coverage provided by NBC Nightly News correspondent Kerry Sanders; Rachel talks with Marie Michel, a nurse who was visitiing Haiti at the time of the earthquake; Rachel interviews Brigadier General David H. Berger, Director of Opererations at U.S. Marine Corps Headquarters, on the work the Marines are doing in getting vital supplies into Haiti; Rachel looks at the part Hollywood celebrities are playing i...

Rachel continues her coverage of the aftermath of the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti with an update of the situation from NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and NBC News correspondent Carrie Sanders; Michelle Wucker, author of "Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans,Haitian, and the Struggle for Hispaniola," talks about the vital role the Dominican Republic must play in the relief work in Haiti; Tracy Kidder (Partners in Health) talks about medical response in Haiti and about some of the major challenges; U.S. A...

Rachel devotes the hour to news of the Haitian 7.0 earthquake and the international communities' effort to provide relief. Included is news provided by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams; Raymond Joseph, Haitian ambassador to the United States, speaks of the help coming from neighboring countries and comments on televangelist Pat Robertson's erroneous statement the earthquake being the result of the Haitian peoples' "pact with the Devil"; Nan Buzzard, senior director of international response a...

Rachel talks to David Applegate, senior science advisor for earthquake and geologic hazards at the U.S. Geological Survey, about the reasons for so much damage in the 7.0 Haitian earthquake; Rachel brings on NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss to assess President Obama's first year in office and compare that to previous Presidents; Rachel interviews David Boies and Ted Olson, a team of attorneys challenging California's Proposition 8, which outlaws gay marriage.

Rache talks with Tricia Rose, Professor and Chair of Afirican-American Cultural Politics and Gender Studies at Brown University, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's racial comments about President Obama and the effect of racially inappropriate language on racial minorities; Rachel asks Talking Point Memo reporter Zachary Roth about the uproar within the Tea Party about its upcoming convention in Nashville; Rachel calls on former legal counsel to President Nixon to explain the significance of certai...

Rachel spends time talking with Roll Call reporter John Stanton the efforts of some in the Republican Party to oust Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee; Rachel's guest, New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich, talks about the loose structural makeup of the Tea Party movement and its contention with party leaders like Florida Governor Charlie Crist; Rachel and Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University, discuss...