because of that ongoing desire, we have decided for this special rachel maddow show today to gather four of the best legal minds in the country who will answer our phone calls. we're sort of thinking of this as trms law school. trmsjd. trms esquire if we're feeling fancy. part of what we're going to do tonight is air out some of the questions we've had had as a staff about this scandal. but we've also solicited questions from you at home. got good set of viewer questions to ask as well. without further ado joining us are our professors of the night. there will be a quiz. former u.s. attorney for it eastern district of virginia appointed by president bush. until a few months ago the administrator of the drug enforcement administration. president obama's u.s. appointee president trump and in addition to being a fake professor here tonight. edward stanton was the u.s. attorney under president obama. he's now in private practice and our point guard who was obama's u.s. attorney efor new jersey. he's now a real-life law professor at seton hall. as you can tell from the repeatedty of my speech

the rachel maddow show now. >> much appreciated. >>> thank you for joining us this hour. the day started today with an unimaginable, terrible train derailment in washington state. we're continuing to follow the on going response now. the derailment happened at 7:3 many 3 a.m. local time. 10:33 a.m. our time this morning. came off the track and nose dived on to interstate five. 80 passengers and five crew members were on board. all but one of the 14 cars on the train, all but one, 13 of the 14 cars jumped the track. now, this is a train that was bound from seattle south to portland, oregon. the derailment happened south of tacoma, washington. as of tonight, officials are confirming three passengers on the train were killed and at least another three passengers suffered critical injuries. more than 100 people were sent to the hospital after the crash. this train was making its first run on apparently, what we're refurbished tracks meant to provide a faster trip for this popular route. it happened at a spot where the track curves and the speed limit drops. they are looking a

we've had rachel maddow compare him to adolph hitler. where are the apologies for that? it's disingenuous. they treated hillary clinton with much more respect. i don't think that she's done much to earn it, frankly. >> i think vanity fair's greatest crime is it wasn't funny at all. >> it wasn't. it was ecstatic. >> i thought it was kind of funny. do anything else to not run. she didn't to them any favors. >> i think they might have done a better job on the video. in fairness, they gave trump a hard time and gave carry cone a hard time. it was a overreaction and democrats need to learn if everything is an outrage, nothing is an outrage. >> and snl is always making fun of the president. >> there's a little bit of truth. snl is pretty funny. you can set your politics aside and see the humor in it. the way they portrayed hillary clinton was not the kindest. but the thing with the -- this is just an overreaction. it's a problem for democrats. >> trish: so you're a former democrat, harlan. >> yes. >> trish: what would it take to get someone like you back in the party? i think

up next, rachel maddow with a special report on the dossier, who wrote it, released it and what we know to be true. "the dossier" starts now. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. nice to have you here. we have a special report for you tonight on a story we've been working on for a very long time now. for going on a year and a half, we've been digging into the russian attempt not just to interfere in this election but interfere for the benefit of russia's chosen candidate. that candidate of course, is now the president. and his administration has been dogged since before day one by questions of whether his campaign was involved in the russian intelligence operation that tried to influence our election. two members of the president's campaign including the former national security advisor plead guilty to

. >> and here's a former federal prosecutor who was speaking to our own rachel maddow about these issues and how mueller is doing things a little differently. take a listen. >> ordinarily, a plea agreement says you plead guilty to a, or a, b and c. you won't be prosecuted for everything we know about right now. >> it doesn't say that. >> this plea agreement does not list what potential prosecutions could happen at a local level or other federal prosecutions. >> i think what's going on, you can tell from hissalcution. >> it goes to the materiality on the conspiracy between russia and the trump campaign. it has nothing to do with any other acts or anything that occurred after the campaign. so the big question is, what is it about the lies after the campaign and after the election that relate back to the election. what is it about talking to kislyak about sanctions that occurred back to what occurred during the campaign? >> you are an eagle eye lt we are indebted to your expertise. >> coming up, one of the men she illegally tried to stop from getting his own marriage running against her. he

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. rachel? >> i'm endebited to you. >> i feel good as opposed to guilty as going over an

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. all right. buckle up. things are getting a little weird. we knew it would happen but it's happening. since the president's national security advisor mike flynn pled guilty on friday morning, there have been some strange utterances coming out of the white house about this investigation that threatens to engulf the trump presidency. specifically, strange utterances coming from white house lawyers about this investigation. we should have probably seen it as the first sign that mike flynn's guilty plea was really rattling the white house. when white house russia lawyer ty cobb gave his initial response to that guilty plea as if he was beaming into this news story from some other distant backwards planet where this was good news. mike flynn plead guilty to lying to the fbi and simultaneously agreed to cooperate without limit with the special counsel's investigation on all other matters and white house lawyer ty cobb greeted that news by praising quote the conclusion of this phase of the sp

that just happened to me with the host of this show, rachel maddow. >> my dear, dear bad lip-reading, i have loved you for so long. i love you, bad lip-reading. >> god bless you, bad lip-reading, you are a national treasure. >> yes, rachel likes bad lip-reading. she loves them, in fact. and like holiday magic, the lovely folks at bad lip-reading put out a new video this afternoon just in time to gift to my friend and yours, here you go, rachel, this one is for you. ♪ so christmas time is here again, shove it up your vegan face, you'll do a lot more stuff in the new year unless you're dead ♪ ♪ people love different foods ♪ organic chicken is a snooze ♪ i want more grease ♪ and i want more chocolate cake ♪ ♪ i really feel all the magical christmas spirit ♪ ♪ i like a bunch of christmas flowers ♪ ♪ i've been eating jelly beans for hours ♪ ♪ i just got a very adorable present ♪ ♪ a trump robot clearly sent from heaven ♪ ♪ i'm not the real donald trump ♪ ♪ but i can scare you just as much ♪ ♪ christmas is here ♪ play in the snow ♪ grab a frie

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my advice for the president would be, watch "the rachel maddow show" every night to know where this thing is going. >> or, on the night that she's got four really, really intimidating prosecutors on telling you when you're screwing up. at least then. >> they seem like they're way ahead of the president's lawyers but we'll find out. >> i have that feeling. thank you. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, here it is. get the whole thing in here. here it is. this is the republican tax bill. all 1,100 pages of it. and if you're rich, there's very, very, very good news in these pages, pages of this bill for you. the richer you are actually the better the news is. as long as you don't care at all about the federal government running up massive deficits and debt that future generations will have to pay. these 1,100 pages have already done something really amazing. they changed bob corker's mind. even before republican senator bob corker got a chance to read these thousand pages. this bill made bob corker do the thing that politicians never want to do. they never want to get caught doing this. flip flo

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening. >>> thanks for joining us. buckle up. tons of news. big news in washington today was republicans celebrating the passage of the only significant legislation they have passed since they took control of the house and senate and white house back in january. this is the only major

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> returning turncoats. >> that would be an interesting essay. >> they will demand yours first. i understand. well done. thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. all right. let say you live in a house, your house has a driveway in front. you have a car. you tend to park your car in your driveway. some or all of the time. so you get

t"the rachel maddow show" start now with joy reid. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. rachel had a well-deserved off night tonight. we'll take you back to 2004 when george appeared to provide annual testimony on worldwide threats facing the u.s. the lion's share of the testimony focused on terrorism and the insure again in iraq. cia says russia could try to reassert itself after a putin victory. the cia warned after a greater assertiveness and

the rachel maddow shows starts now. >> thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i'm doing something a little different. we are doing something special tonight. and i think we have picked exactly the right night to do it. just in today's news, the president went to the grounds of the fbi and as he was heading into the fbi where he spoke at an fbi ceremony, he proclaimed the fbi to be a disgrace. he was asked about the prospect that he might pardon his national security adviser, mike flynn, and he said, i don't want to talk about pardoning mike flynn -- yet. we then got a sort of red flag

if you are rachel maddow or joe scarborough maybe 1,000 bucks is not a lot of money. think about it cable guy, somebody working in customer service call center or maybe somebody who is working secretarial type position. that $1,000 will be quite a bit of money and appreciated this time of year particularly before christmas. >> david: leslie good to see you. is this a christmas present for america? i know the democrats want to paint this as a disaster. they haven't seen it play out. but to deroy's point, to the money going into the economy, some 200 million from at&t going to employees, 100 million from comcast, may not matter to the rich elitist but what about the americans out there? >> let's talk about the truth. the reason the at&t did this i know we want to make it altruistic but it's not. basically the reason they did it was the $28 million tax incentive for this them this year because they would get screwed next year. in addition, let's talk about the hundreds i have jobs being establish away from individuals. layoffs they are having at at&t. over 600 ever them

maddow tonight. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> i've not talked to chairman nunes since the article came out. i've certainly been aware of a couple of things for a long time. and these are things we have raised the alarm bells about, and i think we need to raise them even further at this point. and that is initially rather than really focus on the russia intervention of our election and the issue of the connections between the trump campaign and the russians, the chairman and others on the committee were focused instead on trying to build a case that the obama administration was either illegally wiretapping the trum administration or they were illegally unmasking people. when they found nothing there, they moved on instead to trying to discredit christopher steele, to discredit the fbi. >> so chuck, you hear it there. how likely is it to go over among your own colleagues in your beloved institution that the fbi to up aerate on the knowledge this attack on this american institution may just

here is rachel maddow on this in february. >> he's a smart, charismatic opposition leader. funny and uncompromising in the way he stands up against putin and did well running for mayor of moscow recently and declared the intention to run for president next year against vladimir putin. obviously, that can't stand. two weeks ago a court in russia convicted him on random charges involving timber futures. when that hammer fell on him, one of our smartest russia watchers said the trump administration notably said nothing. >> rachel was on that as soon as it happened so we're russia watchers who understood what the implication was. tonight, i can report that russia central election commission is now using that saying he cannot run against putin under the rules because of that conviction rachel was reporting on. to be clear, human rights experts and watchers of the region say this is clearly a plilt cli vote mated move to block the candidacy, not an actual real legal situation. i can show you, as well, this new video today and calling putin horribly afraid and calls for protests a

up next, rachel maddow with a special report on the dossier, who wrote it, who released it, and what we now know to be true. the dossier starts now. >> thanks for joining us this hour. nice to have you here. we have a special report for you tonight on a story that we've been working on for a very long time now. for going on a year and a half, we have been digging into the russian attempt, not just to interfere in this last election, but to interfere for the benefit of russia's chosen candidate. that candidate, of course, is now the president. and his administration has been dogged since before day one by questions of whether his campaign was involved in the russian intelligence operation that tried to influence our election. two members of the president's campaign, including the former national security adviser, have now pled guilty to lying about their contacts with the russians. but tonight we'll take a step

maddow show." >> i see what you did there. now you have me blushing so i have to turn away. >> it's that time of year and so i have your present. it's right here. >> huh oh. >> it's -- it's actually the one donald trump promised you. it is -- it is the wicked big republican tax bill. >> thank you for one. also, i didn't get you anything yet. >> all right. well -- >> i'll -- tomorrow. >> i'm used to that by now. you are going to have to make more room at home for another emmy that you won tonight while you were working here on the show. >> somebody yelled something to me as i was running out on to the set from the hallway. >> okay. >> but i haven't talked to anybody about it yet. that's very nice of you to say. thank you very much. >> thank you, rachel. >> good-bye. >> i did it again. so easy. embarrassing rachel. i know you have to run out of the builting because it's friday night an by 10:15 friday night you are deep in new york night life i know. and i got to let you go. but this is a special russia night for "the last word"

or this the chair of the senate judiciary committee rejecting two of trump's nominees as rachel maddow has reported. >> republicans announced coincidently that they are rejecting, pulling the plug on two of trump's judicial nominees. when you have no fear of any political consequences that your president can rain down on you, you are less willing to do something embarrassing on his behalf. >> those two nominees deemed unqualified. the other was actually flagged by the naacp's in november on the beat. >> you just mentioned brett tally, some who has never tried a case, never even argued a motion in court has been nominated to sit on a trial court in the middle district of alabama. yet he may have blogged about paranormal activity, but he also wrote a blog praising the first kkk. >> civil rights advocates were shining a light on that nominee long before the headlines. that's what we're recovering. he's out tonight. and republicans don't usually block republican president's judicial picks. grassly had been zipping through trump's picks. in fact he confirmed 12 circuit judges this year. but

they are not about mueller and the push comes amidst escalating attacks on mueller as rachel maddow noted last night. >> a pretty good portion of the american right has decided to declare the new conservative crusade in america will be that former fbi director robert mueller should be fired. that's the new crusade. some switch somewhere flipped. >> a lot happening right now. when you take a step back and look at it. the white house legal team stresses it is cooperating, turning over evidence, giving interviews and they say they're doing that outside the media. and sekulow has raised questions about jimco comey's actions. >> an illegally leaked memo of conversation that's he had with the president of the united states were the basis for which a special counsel was put in place. >> let me be clear and fair. lawyers have legal sfrats run on multiple tracks. they can cooperate with a probe while laying a ground boriwork challenges. let's go clear. a second special counsel would require evidence of a crime, number one. and a conflict, number two. and something:>c interest warrants, number thre

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> this is a fun day to be in the jobs we have. >> fascinating, one of the most fascinating races. >> so many things to watch and monitor and pay attention to and contention and one of the days i'm super grateful to be here. >> me, too. >> thanks to all of you at home for joining us this hour on this very exciting, very consequential news night. it's going to be very consequential either way and we have no idea how it's going to go at this point. it is now 9:00 p.m. eastern time, which means 8:00 p.m. central, which means poll haves been closed in the great state of alabama for one hour. i mean, more than ever an hour after polls closing, that's the time when there is no reason to speculate on the ultimate outcome of this election. we are going to know soon enough. we are going to know tonight and all likelihood and we will let you know as soon as we know anything. throughout the broadcast this evening until we get a call in the race, you'll be seeing the same raw numbers we got. the most up to date count inb l alabama. with 8% in, leading doug jo

up next, rachel maddow with a special report on the dossier, who wrote it, who released it, and what we now know to be true. the dossier starts now. >> thanks for joining us this hour. nice to have you here. we have a special report for you tonight on a story that we've been working on for a very long time now. for going on a year and a half, we have been digging into the russian attempt, not just to interfere in this last election, but to interfere for the benefit of russia's chosen candidate. that candidate, of course, is now the president. and his administration has been dogged since before day one by questions of whether his campaign was involved in the russian intelligence operation that tried to influence our election. two members of the president's campaign, including the former national security adviser, have now pled guilty to lying about their contacts with the russians. but tonight we'll take a step back, to an intriguing and in many ways pressient document at the heart of the trump/russia story. we'll step back and look at the 35-page trump/russia dossier. the allegations

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you, my friend. big night in washington tonight. if you have late-night plans tonight, you might want to cancel them. you might be late for dinner. i know, just leave everything in the oven, i promise i will take the dogs out but i'm going to be late. here's an interesting thing, though, about what's going on tonight in washington. even though everybody knew in advance that this was going to be a big night in washington, a big consequential night when a very big decision who would be made, there is one person who really doesn't need to be

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you, my friend. big night in washington tonight. if you have late-night plans tonight, you might want to cancel them. you might be late for dinner. i know, just leave everything in the oven, i promise i will take the dogs out but i'm going to be late. here's an interesting thing, though, about what's going on tonight in washington. even though everybody knew in advance that this was going to be a big night in washington, a big consequential night when a very big decision who would be made, there is one person who really doesn't need to be there in washington tonight as this decision is happening. and it's this guy. and this is becoming a recurring theme of the mike pence vice presidency. time and time again we get explanations from his office for the vice president's behavior. explanations that everybody in washington and most people in the media just kind of go along with and they don't make too much of a splash. but time and time again, factually those explanations that we get from the vice preside

. >>> "the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> thanks my friend. appreciate it. it's been a busy news day. tracking a number of stories tonight including uncertain fate of minnesota democratic senator al franken. 20 days since the first woman came forward to allege that senator franken behaved in sexually inappropriate manner towards her some years ago at uso event and half dozen more have come forward to

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> thank you. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us. all right. buckle up. things are getting a little weird. we knew it would happen but it's happening. since the president's national

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> more ways to get chris hayes. that's exciting. >> i'll be there on your commute tomorrow morning. >> i once had somebody come up to me on the subway and hold their phone up to me awkwardly where i got scared and it was my avatar there and they were listening to me. >> it's you. >> don't tell me what part you're at. congratulations, man, thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us. nice to have you here. >>> a lot of news has broken tonight. the judge overseeing the case of trump national security advisor mike flynn that plead guilty to lying to the fbi and became a co- co- co-op raytive witness and the judge in the mike flynn case has tonight recused himself from that case. now the judge in the case with the recruiseusal. there has never been a random lottery, a random drawing from the other judges in that district to figure out who will pick up the case and replace the judge rudolph contreras. instead of him being the judge, the new judge in the flynn case is this man, judge named emit sullivan but this recus

. >>> we have breaking news off the top here on "the rachel maddow show." she is off tonight and will be back in the new year. donald trump has given an interview with michael schmidt of the "new york times." he didn't make new news but it's very interesting. right off the top

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we've been working all day on the assumption by this time this evening, quite possibly in this hour during our show we would be looking at one of these late-night showdown monumental down to the wire votes in washington. as of now, that is not happening but we literally got reporters standing by on scene in the event this gets started up again. the details on why they are not voting now and what went wrong in republican's plan to pass gigantic legislation tonight, the first legislation they will have passed in the trump administration, those details about what went wrong in that story about what happened over the course tonight is pretty dramatic. we're going to have that story coming up in a second. i want to let you know attorney general jeff sessions testified to the house intelligence committee. he testified behind closed doors but after the attorney general's testimony was over, california congressman adam schiff, the top democrat o

this march, my girl, rachel maddow, dropped one of the top cable news moments of the year, donald trump's tax returns. good evening, chris. it's been a little bit of a hullaballoo around here this evening. -i can't imagine! i apologize for being a little flustered. you may have heard, we've got some significant breaking news tonight. donald trump's tax returns have surfaced. do you remember how excited we were? like, this was the liberal super bowl party. i had a platter with quinoa and gluten-free nachos. we could not wait, right? come on, woke baes, but we had to wait a lot. in just a second, we are going to show you exactly what it is that we've got. this document has been made available. part of what's very important about this story... when richard nixon said, "i am not a crook," he wasn't talking about watergate. he was talking about his taxes. hillary clinton, she released every year of her tax returns. ...back to 19... this particular russian oligarch, the guy who paid trump all that money for that house. does the president have foreign bank accounts? did turkey have a financial r

. >> kendall, as rachel maddow was saying yesterday, when you see the deals it is because you are getting bigger fishes than you are. if that is the deal that we're talking about here with michael flynn, there are not a lot of people that are bigger fishes than mr. flynn is. >> well, it is got to be aiming that point at jared kushner or the president himself. and what i think we're all going to see is a focus on obstruction. and one of the critical things is did trump go for example to flynn and say, look, i'm going to make this investigation go away. one way or the other. you sit tight, you be cool. because if he did, if he did something to suppress flynn in order to keep quiet and then of course spoke to comey and fired him and that takes him into the obstruction zone. >> frank, might the robert mueller team be thinking -- using the fishing analogy, this might get the president to consider a pardon and if he were to pardon michael flynn, that would actually help his case. >> i think they factored this in. i think they have affordable care act -- have factors in the fact that the preside

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening. thank you my friend. thanks for joining us this hour. two of the most important stories of the year are unfolding at the same time right now. today what may end up being the two most important stories of the whole first year of the trump administration both at least started happening on the same day. the first, of course, is legislation for the first time. there has been no significant legislation of any kind passed since republicans took control of the house and senate and white house with the inauguration of donald trump in january. well,

. >>> a quick note, right here on msnbc, rachel maddow, in dep-de look apartment the dossier. special report tonight at 9:00 eastern only on msnbc. that does it for our hour. i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. chuck is live in alabama ahead of tuesday's special election. hi, chuck. >> hi, nicolle. i can tell you this, it's cold down here but i've already had warm gumbo and already a happy man. >> ooh, that sounds good. >>> anyway, if it's friday, it's snowing heavily in alabama. really. that's nowhere near the craziest thing happening here. >>> good evening. and welcome to "mtp daily." i'm chuck todd. here's at winceal's oyster house in mobile, al pam here because whatever happens down here in alabama on tuesday is going to send shock waves through american culture and politics. voters are about to decide if an accused child molester is going to join the u.s. senate and a moment when all of washington is reeling from sexual harassment allegations. this is the dilemma facing the gop -- do they want roy moore to win down here? or do they want him to lose? there a

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> thank you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we've been working all day on the assumption by this time this evening, quite possibly in this hour during our show we would be looking at one of these late-night showdown monumental down to the wire votes in washington. as of now, that is not happening but we literally got reporters standing by on scene in the event this gets started up again. the details on why they are not voting now and what went wrong in republican's plan to pass gigantic legislation tonight, the first legislation they will have passed in the trump administration, those details about what went wrong in that story about whatpe

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >>> if you watched our coverage last night of the u.s. senate election in alabama, i hope you were still watching, not just for my hour, but i hope you were still watching right up until the moment the race was actually called by nbc. did you watch that late? news organizations all make different determinations as the to when they think enough of the vote is in for them to be able to comfortably project who wins a race. every news organization has its own approach to that. everybody takes it very seriously and operates with rigorous indep

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> have a good weekend. >> you, too. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. i'm doing something a little different. we're doing something special tonight, and i think we have picked exactly the right night to do it. just in today's news, the president went to the grounds of the fbi and as he was heading into the fbi where he spoke at an fbi ceremony, he proclaimed the fbi to be a disgrace and might pardon the national security advisor mike flynn and

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> more ways to get chris hayes. that's exciting. >> i'll be there on your commute tomorrow morning. >> i once had somebody come up to me on the subway and hold their phone up to me awkwardly where i got scared and it was my avatar there and they were listening to me. >> it's you. >> don't tell me what part you're at. congratulations, man, thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us. nice to have you here. >>> a lot of news has broken tonight. the judge overseeing the case of trump national security advisor mike flynn that plead guilty to lying to the fbi and became a co- co- co-op raytive witness and the judge in the mike flynn case has tonight

my advice for the president would be, watch "the rachel maddow show" every night to know where this thing is going. >> or, on the night that she's got four really, really intimidating prosecutors on telling you when you're screwing up. >> exactly. >> at least then. >> they seem like they're way ahead of the president's lawyers but we'll find out. >> i have that feeling. thank you. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, here it is. get the whole thing in here. here it is. this is the republican tax bill. all 1,100 pages of it. and if you're rich, there's very, very, very good news in these pages, pages of this bill for you. the richer you are actually the better the news is. as long as you don't care at all about the federal government running up massive deficits and debt that future generations will have to pay. these 1,100 pages have already done something really amazing. they changed bob corker's mind. even before republican senator bob corker got a chance to read these thousand pages. this bill made bob corker do the thing that politicians never want to do. they never want to get caught doing

the rachel maddow show now. >> much appreciated. >>> thank you for joining us this hour. the day started today with an unimaginable, terrible train derailment in washington state. we're continuing to follow the on going response now. the derailment happened at 7:3 many 3 a.m. local time. 10:33 a.m. our time this morning. came off the track and nose dived on to interstate five. 80 passengers and five crew members were on board. all but one of the 14 cars on the train, all but one, 13 of the 14 cars jumped the track. now, this is a train that was bound from seattle south to portland, oregon. the derailment happened south of tacoma, washington. as of tonight, officials are confirming three passengers on the train were killed and at least another three passengers suffered critical

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> good evening. thank you my friend. thanks for joining us this hour. two of the most important stories of the year are unfolding at the same time right now. today what may end up being the two most important stories of the whole first year of the trump administration both at least started happening on the same day. the first, of course, is legislation for the first time. there has been no significant legislation of any kind passed since republicans took control of the house and senate and white house with the inauguration of donald trump in january. well, tonight, the senate appears maybe poised to change that with the biggest change to the american tax code in 30 years as chris hayes was talking about with his guest tonight, there is no deadline by which they have to pass this bill. there is no procedural deadline. that isn't a big deal but would make things easier for them. there is nothing. there is no reason they need to be rushing to try to pass this bill tonight before administration has even produced analysis abo

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >>> this is a fun day to be in the jobs we have. >> fascinating, one of the most fascinating races. >> so many things to watch and monitor and pay attention to and contention and one of the days i'm super grateful to be here. >> me, too. >> thanks to all of you at home for joining us this hour on this very exciting, very consequential news night. it's going to be very consequential either way and we have no idea how it's going to go at this point. it is now 9:00 p.m. eastern time, which means 8:00 p.m. central, which means poll haves been closed in the great state of alabama for one hour. i ,

the rach"the rachel maddow show now. >>> it's been a busy news day. the fcc today, as expected, voted to end net neutrality, which in theory will give internet service providers the ability to control what you're allowed to see on the swinterne and what sort of internet based applications and services you will be allowed to use. they will decide, not you. if internet service providers elect to speed up or slow down certain traffic for commercial purposes, that will put the whole online world, your access to the whole online world in their hands. as i say today's vote was expected. it does end up being more controversial vote than the fcc expected for some very specific reasons, including some stuff

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening. >> good evening, chris. thanks my friend. thanks to you for joining us this evening. happy monday. >>> the time between thanksgiving and christmas can go one of two ways when it comes to the news guys. either the time between thanksgiving and christmas is written off by the news gods as the holidays, right? news slows down and important or controversial work gets put off until maybe after the new year when people get around to not being in holiday mode anymore. in years like that, everybody is allowed to have their own personal and family stress around the holidays but as for news, not much happens. then there is years like this year which is basically the other way it can go.