MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 03-11-2025-222259

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.4 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

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0:00.0	Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really, really, really happy to have you here.
0:03.2	Man, there is so much to get to today. It has been such an incredible news day. There's so much
0:09.6	to get to, and a lot of it is really terrible. To buoy ourselves for that, to get ourselves ready
0:15.9	for that, you want to start with something funny? Let's just do it. Let's start with something funny.
0:20.1	Okay. I know there's a lot of terrible things to talk about. I want to start with something funny? Let's just do it. Let's start with something funny. Okay. I know there's a lot of
0:22.0	terrible things to talk about. I want to start with something funny from the 80s. So it's
0:26.2	1987, a real estate developer in New York City named Donald Trump takes his first trip to Moscow
0:32.1	in what is then the Soviet Union. By all accounts, he kind of falls in love with the place.
0:36.6	He decides he wants to build a hotel there or something. Who knows? Following year, 1988, Donald Trump was back in New York,
0:45.0	and the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, is going to come to New York. He's
0:50.1	coming to New York to participate in the United Nations General Assembly. And on the occasion of that visit, Mikhail Gorbachev coming to New York to participate in the United Nations General Assembly.
0:55.4	And on the occasion of that visit, Mikhail Gorbachev coming to New York City, Donald
0:58.9	Trump decides to invite him over because he's going to be in town.
1:03.4	You know, even though Mikhail Gorbachev is the leader of the Soviet Union and Donald
1:07.9	Trump is real estate guy in New York City, Donald Trump apparently
1:11.8	convinces himself that Mikhail Gorbachev is going to do this.
1:16.8	They're going to hang out.
1:18.9	That yes, Gorbachev has to go to the United Nations to do head of state things, but also,
1:24.4	sure, since he's around, he'll drop by Donald Trump's apartment.
1:29.2	Donald Trump is so convinced of this
1:31.4	that when a Mikhail Gorbachev impersonator
1:35.6	comes to Trump Tower to make fun of the whole situation,
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