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. >> we should continue with the rachel maddow show staff band, and we're all be sorry. >> my favorite best new thing in the world was when we had to go out and rent a trombone -- >> oh, that's right. >> -- to use on the set because there was this video posted by a trombonist, and what he did with his trombone was like the best new thing in the world. >> didn't i have to play the trombone? did i? >> i think you attempted it, and beautifully. >> yes. >> you had good -- >> wouldn't you like to be a senior producer? >> okay, this might not work. best new thing in the world. you know how there are all kinds of extreme sports videos all over the internet these days? videos shot from the point of view of the athlete? they've got the camera on them so you can feel like it's you hurdling down the ski slope or catching a wave or whatever. the reason there are lots of videos out there like this now is because the cameras that you do this with have gotten small and cheap, like the gopro, a fairly cheap camera that you can stick on a helmet or skateboard while you do something involving velocity.

so, out of all the best new things in the world, at least as portrayed on "the rachel maddow show," we do have to sort of -- i feel like we have to show the breadth of what we've done, right? because best new things in the world tend to be a wide-ranging feature, right? so did we have -- i can't remember if we had any that were international and that were particularly good. did we have any good international ones? >> i have one. remember over the summertime, there was the huge anti-government protests in turkey and the media was just not covering it. they were running films about penguins and they were -- >> the state media in turkey was like, nothing to see here. >> totally, penguins! so, like, there was this turkish game show host and he basically figured out a way to bring up the government crackdown 70 times in his show and it was like totally awesome. like, i don't speak turkish, but i could totally understand it. >> and he devised it as part of the game and it blew everybody's mind. >> he'd ask questions, and the answers would be words against the government. >> it was awesome. i

but for valentine's eve the rachel maddow show gives you lbj ordering pants. this is how you know that i love you. best new thing in the world. oh, my god. >> he's not like trying to be crass. he's just calling the pants guy explaining his particular preference from the white house phone for all eternity. >> nuts and bum holes. you would think those two words would make a return to the american language. >> i didn't know we could say those things on tv. >> we can't. but he's the president of the united states. >> well, here's to lbj. [ applause ]. happy new year. >>> drama on the high seas still. we'll tell you what happened when an ice breaker tried to reach the ship frozen for days in antarctic water >> it's all legal. that's what the government says about the government's sweeping phone snooping. >>> behind the numbers. how will the ending of benefits affect the economy? the answer might surprise you. >>> he's back. in fact, it's like he never left. the "duck dynasty" dude no longer suspended. did it just serve to promote the show?

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that is it for "all in," and rachel maddow is next, with steve kornacki filling in. >> good evening, i'm steve kornacki, rachel has the night off. there is no need to adjust your television, but the united states congress tonight has actually done something. on this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 36. the motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to house hj res 59 is agreed to. >> earlier tonight, the united states had passed that mouthful of senate jargon, otherwise known as a budget. as you heard there, the margin was pretty wide. 36 yes, six against it. the house that passed the vote in a vote that was even more lopsided. this makes it the first time since 2009 that a budget has actually been agreed to. this is admittedly a low bar, not exactly the monumental legislation that we're talking about here. but even at that, the fact that there is any budget deal that shows congress functional in a way that it has not been in a long time. at least the math behind the budget was made possible by something else that happened this year. when the bush tax cuts wer

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for more we go to nbc an four grader trick-or-treating rachel maddow. >> the nearest and deerest to jayie dimon this holiday see be, recently graced with this panoramic holiday card in your mail box. it shows the first family of finance having a great time hitting tennis balls inside what seems to be their home. and says hey, we're so rich we can destroy our own stuff with a smile. >> stephen: disgusting. calf or thing around your own home with your own family? at christmastime. come on. i condition think of anything more decadent except maybe murdering a tree and dressing it up like a whore. no wonder, nond withouter, folks, no wonder "time" magazine called the cards maddeningly tone deaf and ask could you pick a more elitist sport? yes, elitist, ten sis just polo without a horse that can be played in a public park. jamie die upon forgot the golden rule of 1 percenters, the 99ers need to previous your money has made you miserable. his christmas card should have been him weeping alone on a pile of money. folks, this is why, this is why, i didn't mail out my christmas card this year. it's

that is it for "all in," and rachel maddow is next, with steve kornacki filling in. >> good evening, i'm steve kornacki, rachel has the night off. there is no need to adjust your television, but the united states congress tonight has actually done something. on this vote, the yays are 64, the nays are 36. the motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to house hjres 59 is agreed to. >> earlier tonight, the united states had passed that mouthful of senate jargon, otherwise known as a budget. as you heard there, the margin was pretty wide. 36 yes, six against it. the house that passed the vote in a vote that was even more lopsided. this makes it the first time since 2009 that a budget has actually been agreed to. this is admittedly a low bar, not exactly the monumental legislation that we're talking about here. but even at that, the fact that there is any budget deal that shows congress functional in a way that it has not been in a long time. at least the math behind the budget was made possible by something else that happened this year. when the bush tax cuts were

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that is it for "all in," and rachel maddow is next, with steve kornacki filling in. >> good evening, i'm steve kornacki, rachel has the night off. there is no need to adjust your television, but the united states congress tonight has actually done something. on this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 36. the motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to house hj rez 59 is agreed to. >> earlier tonight, the united states had passed that mouthful of senate jargon, otherwise known as a budget. as you heard there, the margin was pretty wide. 36 yes, six against it. the house that passed the vote in a vote that was even more lopsided. this makes it the first time since 2009 that a budget has actually been agreed to. this is admittedly a low bar, not exactly the monumental legislation that we're talking about here. but even at that, the fact that there is any budget deal that shows congress functional in a way that it has not been in a long time. at least the math behind the budget was made possible by something else that happened this year. when the bush tax cuts wer

rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks for staying with us for the next hour. in june, a man named dimitri isakoff stood on a street corner in his hometown and held up a sign that said this. being gay and loving gays is normal. beating gays and killing gays is criminal. that is all the sign said. the sign did not look like we're showing on the screen though. in real life, it looked more like this. a ha. because he is russian. and the place where he held up the sign was a street corner in the central russian city of khazan. about 500 miles east of moscow. yesterday, a russian court convicted mr. isakoff for holing up that sign holding up the sign because in russia now, it is illegal to express that sentiment. it is illegal to say out loud or write on a sign that being gay is an okay thing and that liking gay people is a normal and okay thing. saying that is now illegal propaganda and so, he was convicted of that yesterday. two other russians were convicted and sentenced for doing something similar two weeks ago. >>> yesterday in uganda, central african nation th

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. i am with you, i think not stumbling into another land war in the middle east, kind of hard to top for this year, yes. >> amazing. amazing, amazing. and it's amazing how we covered it so much and as soon as it was off the table, all right, what happened to that? >> we'll move on to other things. thanks, chris. have a merry christmas. >> you, too. >> thank you at home for joining us this hour. >>> all right, at the eastern edge of the hoosier state, in the small town of richmond, indiana it was an average saturday. and in the middle of that average saturday in the early afternoon, something really quite terrible happened. it was 1:47 p.m. on a saturday, april 6th, 1968, and in richmond, indiana, the world just exploded. >> about the time we are ready to across 6th and "a," just a huge explosion, just two tiers of a kaboom, kaboom, like that, and it was large, and we couldn't imagine what in the world happened. >> we know now that an old cast iron pipe carrying natural gas had rusted ou

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening, chris, thank you for joining us. we begin with breaking news about a fascinating and potentially scary detective story that kept us all glued to the news wires all day long today as this story evolved. this story starts here in the city of tijuana in mexico, right across the border from san diego. last thursday on thanksgiving day, a big truck left the hospital in tijuana, ultimately heading across the country, almost a thousand miles to mexico city. that is how far they were supposed to go on the route. it was a very long trip and a very important trip, because that truck was carrying this. it is an old piece of equipment from that hospital in tijuana. this particular equipment was used in radiation therapy, which means that the equipment itself was radioactive. the hospital was ready to replace the old equipment with new stuff. but first it had to send the old, now radioactive equipment to a facility for storing nuclear waste. the piece of old equipment from the hospital in tijuana was loaded with little pellets wi

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is the kind of pass that you had to carry. it had your fingerprints on it and your photo. and who you worked for and where you lived. and where you were allowed to go and when you were allowed to go there and for how long and for what purpose. and for how long what purpose. starting in 1950 with 2 p population reng strags act, everyone had to register with the government by race. a racial review board, essentially, would give you a look, decide what race they would say that you were and they would give you a racial id card so you would know which laws applied to you and what you were allowed to do. >>> but as of 1952, every black personal in the country over the age of 16 had to have not just a rashlg id card like everyone else, but also this passbook which any white person could demand to see at any time. and if you were found to be in a place that was not just reserved for black people, if your passbook did not

the rachel maddow show starts now. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. watch. >> i cherish the ideal of a democratic and free society. in which all persons live together in harmony and equal opportunities. it is an ideal which i hope to live for and to achieve but if needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die. >> president obama today in johannsberg quoting the words of nelson mandela in his extended eulogy at mr. mandela's memorial today held in a huge soccer stadium who had been built in johannsberg. one of the others was raul castro, brother of fidel castro and lately the president of cuba.

that is it for "all in," and rachel maddow is next, with steve kornacki filling in. >> good evening, i'm steve kornacki, rachel has the night off. there is no need to adjust your television, but the united states congress tonight has actually done something. on this vote, the yeas are 64, the nays are 36. the motion to concur in the house amendment to the senate amendment to house hj rez 59 is agreed to. >> earlier tonight, the united states had passed that mouthful of senate jargon, otherwise

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> you did it! >> we did it! >> you did it! >> we did it, america. >> yes, we have, indeed, launched, and tonight we're going to bring you back to some of the most entertaining and important stories we've covered this year, with a little "click 3" awesomeness sprinkled in between. we begin our trip down memory lane with the political story of the year, the disastrous republican-led government shutdown. remember, it was the republican party, led by senator ted cruz and his outside interest groups, who convinced the united states house of representatives that it would be a good idea to hold the united states government hostage in exchange for a repeal of obama care, but this time, the hostage-taking didn't work. this time it didn't work because after giving in to the hostage-takers nearest past, president obama and the democrats stiffened their spines and held firm. >> good morning. crisis averted. president obama and congressional leaders agree on a plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling, but not everyone on capi

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> as long as we all move into the manufacturer and retailing of robots, problem solved. see? done! >> problem solved. and cable news. >> yeah, doing that is very important. thank you at home for joining us this very, very important cable news hour. >>> mississippi. mississippi is not only a great state in its own right, mississippi has also for a generation, no, for a century, no, for the entire existence of our country, provided a great service to the rest of this country. number one, mississippi has forever helped american schoolchildren get over their native fear of spelling long words, because m-i, double s-i, double s i-is fun to say. so, you can smell mississippi and then you can spell anything. mississippi also helps us stay patient when we are counting off

the rachel maddow show starts now. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. watch. >> i cherish the ideal of a democratic and free society. in which all persons live together in harmony and equal opportunities. it is an ideal which i hope to live for and to achieve but if needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die. >> president obama today in johannsberg quoting the words of nelson mandela in his extended eulogy at mr. mandela's memorial today held in a huge soccer stadium who had been built in johannsberg. one of the others was raul castro, brother of fidel castro and lately the president of cuba. president obama's hand shake with raul castro at this memorial service today does not seem to have been intended to have any diplomatic consequence other than being polite at a funeral. but it nevertheless caused a significant portion of the belt way and the american political right to get very, very excited today and not in a good way. senator john mccain went to far as to say today that the hand shake with raul castro today was just like hitler. yes,

the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks to you, my friend. >>> thanks for you at home for joining us. this is a white elephant. white elephants exist in nature. they're not just a figure of speech. the important thing about a white elephant is it turns out, it's a very awkward spent. it's expensive. cleaning up after an elephant of any color is a real responsibility. and legend has it that in thailand, the royals would give a white elephant as a gift to people who they did not like. so, it's like a courtly gesture. here, i'm giving you this very impressive gift! look. it's enormous! this enormous thing. it's for you! it's a present. but the effect of the present is to cause you a great burden. because, now, you are saddled with taking care of this big, awkward, difficult, expensive thing. so even though for us in the political world here, donkeys and elephants are associated with our two political parties, the white elephant as an idiom has nothing at all to do with republicans.

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening, chris, thank you for joining us. we begin with breaking news about a fascinating and potentially scary detective story that kept us all glued to the news wires all day long today as this story evolved. this story starts here in the city of tijuana in mexico, right across the border from san diego. last thursday on thanksgiving day, a big truck left the hospital in tijuana, ultimately heading across the country, almost a thousand miles to mexico city. that is how far they were supposed to go on the route. it was a very long trip and a very important trip, because that truck was carrying this. it is an old piece of equipment from that hospital in tijuana.

the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks to you, my friend. >>> thanks for you at home for joining us. this is a white elephant. white elephants exist in nature. they're not just a figure of speech. the important thing about a white elephant is it tupprns ou it's a very awkward spent. it's expensive. cleaning up after an elephant of any color is a real responsibility. and legend has it that in thailand, the royals would give a white elephant as a gift to people who they did not like. so, it's like a courtly gesture. here, i'm giving you this very impressive gift! look. it's enormous! this enormous thing. it's for you! it's a prest.

the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks to you, my friend. >>> thanks for you at home for joining us. this is a white elephant. white elephants exist in nature. they're not just a figure of speech. the important thing about a white elephant is it turns out, it's a very awkward pet. it's expensive. cleaning up after an elephant of any color is a real responsibility. and legend has it that in thailand, the royals would give a white elephant as a gift to people who they did not like. so, it's like a courtly gesture. here, i'm giving you this very impressive gift! look. it's enormous! this enormous thing. it's for you! it's a present. but the effect of the present is to cause you a great burden. because, now, you are saddled with taking care of this big, awkward, difficult, expensive thing. so even though for us in the political world here, donkeys and elephants are associated with our two political parties, the white elephant as an idiom has nothing at all to do with republicans. nothing to do with partisanship of any k

the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks to you, my friend. >>> thanks for you at home for joining us. this is a white elephant. white elephants exist in nature. they're not just a figure of speech. the important thing about a white elephant is it turns out, it's a very awkward pet. it's expensive. cleaning up after an elephant of any color is a real responsibility. and legend has it that in thailand, the royals would give a white elephant as a gift to people who they did not like. so, it's like a courtly gesture. here, i'm giving you this very

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> as long as we all move into the manufacturer and retailing of robots, problem solved. see? done! >> problem solved. and cable news. >> yeah, doing that is very important. thank you at home for joining us this very, very important cable news hour. >>> mississippi. mississippi is not only a great state in its own right, mississippi has also for a generation, no, for a century, no, for the entire existence of our country, provided a great service to the rest of this country. number one, mississippi has forever helped american schoolchildren get over their native fear of spelling long words, because m-i, double s-i, double s i-is fun to say. so, you can smell mississippi and then you can spell anything. mississippi also helps us stay patient when we are counting off seconds in time. so, if you're covering your eyes and counting to ten while your friends run away to hide, if you use the word mississippi while counting, that will actually afford your friends enough

the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel. >> you did it! >> we did it! >> we did it, america. >> you launched! >> yes, we have, indeed launched. and tonight we're going to bring you back to some of the most entertaining and important stories we've covered this year, a little click three awesomeness sprinkled in between. we begin our trip down memory lane with what was certainly the political story of the year. the disastrous republican-led government shutdown. remember, it was the republican party led by senator ted cruz and his outside interest groups who convinced the united states house of representatives that it would be a good idea to hold the united states government hostage in exchange for a repeal of obamacare. but this time, the hostage taking didn't work. this time, it didn't work because after giving into the hostage takers in years past, president obama and the democrats stiffened their spines and held firm. >> good morning. crisis averted. president obama and congressional leaders agree on a plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling, but not e

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> did that piece say "game of phones"? well done. thank you at home for joining us this hour. >>> the numbers are in. it is official now. the congressional election last week in massachusetts appears to have been the lowest turnout congressional election in massachusetts history. only 13% of people turned out. 13% of voters in that district turned out to choose a replacement for ed markey, when he got kicked upstairs to the u.s. senate in a special election earlier this year. so, yes, massachusetts now has a new member of congress, one of the very few women that massachusetts has ever elected to federal office, and that is very exciting, except that nobody actually bothered to show up when it came time to decide whether or not that would happen. do not despair, though. turns out, this is not the new normal, there is no reason to extrapolate from that result in massachusetts and say, ah, that's the way it's going to be now. and we know that, because less than a week after that election, this past weekend, on saturday, rhode island pro

"the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. i am with you, i think not stumbling into another land war in the middle east, kind of hard to top for this year, yes. >> amazing. amazing, amazing. and it's amazing how we covered it so much and as soon as it was off the table, all right, what happened to that? >> we'll move on to other things. thanks, chris. have a merry christmas. >> you, too. >> thank you at home for joining us this hour. >>> all right, at the eastern edge of the hoosier state, in the small town of richmond, indiana, it was an average saturday. and in the middle of that average saturday in the early afternoon, something really quite terrible happened. it was 1:47 p.m. on a saturday, april 6th, 1968, and in richmond, indiana, the world just exploded. >> about the time we are ready to across 6th and "a," just a huge explosion

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. good evening, rachel. >> as long as we all move into the manufacturer and retailing of robots, problem solved. see? done! >> problem solved. and cable news. >> yeah, doing that is very important. thank you at home for joining us this very, very important cable news hour. >>> mississippi. mississippi is not only a great state in its own right, mississippi has also for a generation, no, for a century, no, for the entire existence of our country, provided a great service to the rest of this country. number one, mississippi has forever helped american schoolchildren get over their native fear of spelling long words, because m-i, double s-i, double s i ppi is fun to say. so, you can smell mississippi and then you can spell anything. mississippi also helps us stay patient when we are counting off seconds in time. so, if you're covering your eyes and counting to ten while your friends run away to hide, if you use the word mississippi while counting, that will actually afford your friends eno

the rachel maddow show starts now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks to you, my friend. >>> thanks for you at home for joining us. this is a white elephant. white elephants exist in nature. they're not just a figure of speech. the important thing about a white elephant is it tupprns ou it's a very awkward spent. it's expensive. cleaning up after an elephant of any color is a real responsibility. and legend has it that in thailand, the royals would give a white elephant as a gift to people who they did not like. so, it's like a courtly gesture. here, i'm giving you this very impressive gift! look. it's enormous! this enormous thing. it's for you! it's a present. but the effect of the present is to cause you a great burden. because, now, you are saddled with taking care of this big, awkward, difficult, expensive thing. so even though for us in the political world here, donkeys and elephants are associated with our two political parties, the white elephant as an idiom has nothing at all to do with republicans. nothing to do with partisanship of any

rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks for staying with us for the next hour. in june, a man named dimitri isakoff stood on a street corner in his hometown and held up a sign that said this. being gay and loving gays is normal. beating gays and killing gays is criminal. that is all the sign said. the sign did not look like we're showing on the screen though. in real life, it looked more like this. a ha. because he is russian. and the place where he held up the sign was a street corner in the central russian city of

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is the kind of pass that you had to carry. it had your fingerprints on it and your photo. and who you worked for and where you lived. and where you were allowed to go and when you were allowed to go there and for how long and for what purpose. starting in 1950, with the population registration act, everybody in south africa had to register with the government by race. a racial review board, essentially, would give you a look, decide what race they would say that you were, and they would give you a racial i.d. card, so you would know which laws applied to you and what you were allowed to do. but as of 1952, every black person in the country over the age of 16 had to have not just a ratio i.d. car, like everyone else, but also this passbook, which any white person could demand to see at any time. and if you were found to be in a place that was not just reserved for black people, if your passbook did not explain what you had explicit permission to be there, as a nonwhite person, the

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> for the next hour, this is david duherst. he is most famous for two things. one, famous for losing what everybody thought was going to be a gift of a u.s. senate seat to him. he lost the republican primary for that seat last year to a guy named ted cruz. everybody thought that he was going to get that seat, but he lost it and that's why we have ted cruz now. the other thing he's famous for is is using the fact that he is the lieutenant governor of the state of texas to try to spring one of his relatives out of jail when she got arrested for shoplifting this year. >> good evening, taking heat tonight over a phone call to police. >> in that call, he says he wants to get a relative out of jail. >> i would like to find out what i need to do to get her out of jail, post bond, whatever. >> that was just a portion of the phone call. but tonight, critics say the lieutenant governor overstepped his bounds. >> police arrested ellen beavers at 6:30 on a saturday night. at 10:30, this call came in. >> i want to talk to the most senior po

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> for the next hour, this is david duherst. he is most famous for two things. one, famous for losing what everybody thought was going to be a gift of a u.s. senate seat to him. he lost the republican primary for that seat last year to a guy named ted cruz. everybody thought that he was going to get that seat, but he lost it and that's why we have ted cruz now. the other thing he's famous for

the rachel maddow show starts now. >> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is the kind of pass that you had to carry. it had your fingerprints on it and your photo. and who you worked for and where you lived. and where you were allowed to go and when you were allowed to go there and for how long and for what purpose. starting in 1950, with the population registration act, everybody in south africa had to register with the government by race. a racial review board, essentially, would give you a look, decide what race they would say that you were, and they would give you a racial i.d. card, so you would know which laws applied to you and

the rachel maddow show starts now. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. watch. >> i cherish the ideal of a democratic and free society. in which all persons live together in harmony and equal opportunities. it is an ideal which i hope to live for and to achieve but if needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die. >> president obama today in johannsberg quoting the words of nelson mandela in his extended eulogy at mr. mandela's memorial today held in a huge

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> good evening, chris, thank you for joining us. we begin with breaking news about a fascinating and potentially scary detective story that kept us all glued to the news wires all day long today as this story evolved. this story starts here in the city of tijuana in mexico, right across the border from san diego. last thursday on thanksgiving day, a big truck left the hospital in tijuana, ultimately heading across the country, almost a thousand miles to mexico city. that is how far they were supposed to go on the route. it was a very long trip and a very important trip, because that truck was carrying this. it is an old piece of equipment from that hospital in tijuana. this particular equipment was

the rachel maddow show starts now. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. watch. >> i cherish the ideal of a democratic and free society. in which all persons live together in harmony and equal opportunities. it is an ideal which i hope to live for and to achieve but if needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die. >> president obama today in johannsberg quoting the words of nelson mandela in his extended eulogy at mr. mandela's memorial today held in a huge soccer stadium who had been built in johannsberg. one of the others was raul castro, brother of fidel castro and lately the president of cuba. president obama's hand shake with raul castro at this memorial service today does not seem to have been intended to have any diplomatic consequence other than being polite at a funeral. but it nevertheless caused a significant portion of the belt way and the american political right to get very, very excited today and not in a good way. senator john mckacccain went to as to say today that the hand shake with raul castro today was just like hitler. yes,

"the rachel maddow show" starts now. >> i'm hung up on the conversation of the nail polish remover and the whopper in the same row with liz. i think i've been on that flight with liz. > thanks to you at home for joining us for this next hour. i appreciate you being here. so congress is done. the house is over now. they have gone home. it was only just last week that they came back from their thanksgiving break, but now as of tonight, they have already gone home for christmas. must be nice. they're gone for christmas, they're gone for new year's, their gone for the first part of january. see ya! we'll see you well into next year. they are putting the house of representatives to bed.

the rachel maddow show starts now. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. watch. >> i cherish the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and equal opportunities. it is an ideal which i hope to live for and to achieve, but if needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die. >> president obama today in johannsberg quoting the words of nelson mandela in his extended eulogy at mr. mandela's memorial today held in a huge soccer stadium that had been built for the world cup in johannsberg. one of the others was raul castro, brother of fidel castro and lately the president of cuba. president obama's handshake with raul castro at this memorial service today does not seem to have been intended to have any diplomatic consequence other than being polite at a funeral. but it nevertheless caused a significant portion of the beltway and the american political right to get very, very excited today and not in a good way. senator john mccain went so far as to say today that the handshake with raul castro today was just l

the rachel maddow show starts now. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. watch. >> i cherish the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and equal opportunities. it is an ideal which i hope to live for and to achieve, but if needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die. >> president obama today in johannsberg quoting the words of nelson mandela in his extended eulogy at mr. mandela's memorial today held in a huge soccer