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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 03-20-2025-222531

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

NBC News

Congress, Madow, Politics, Issues, Campaign, Policy, Election, News & Politics, Public, Nbc, President, Washington, Government

4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour.

0:02.0

Are you ready for this one?

0:04.6

These geniuses.

0:06.9

You know, if you are going to have somebody who consolidates the whole 250-year-old

0:12.4

tripartite system of checks and balances that we got from the founding fathers in this country,

0:18.6

if you're going to have someone who says, you know,

0:21.7

there are parts of the Constitution that must be terminated, if you're going to have somebody

0:25.7

who calls himself a king and who says elections don't count unless he wins them, if you're going

0:31.3

to have an overthrow of the Constitutional Republic in favor of all power consolidated in one

0:37.2

man who says term limits don't apply to him

0:39.4

and Congress and the courts don't constrain him and all the rest of it. If you're going to do it,

0:44.5

if you are going to abolish the American form of government in favor of an autocratic and unopposed rule by one man,

0:52.2

he better be good at it. Am I right? one man, he better be good at it.

0:55.5

Am I right?

0:57.0

You know, he better be compasmentis on the ball.

1:02.8

If you're going to like overthrow 250 years of who we are as a country to instead just be like,

1:08.8

let's say you.

1:10.3

Like, if we're just going to have it be that one dude, you just hope that dude is with it, right?

1:17.9

Or instead, you could have what we have.

1:21.5

On Monday this week, President Donald Trump went to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.,

1:26.6

where he has recently fired

1:28.1

the entire board and appointed himself as the new chairman.

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