'Who's that good for?': Maddow connects the dots on Donald Trump's behavior toward Russia

The Rachel Maddow Show

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Rachel Maddow looks at a string of peculiar behavior by Donald Trump and Trump administration policies that don't seem to have the welfare of the United States as their goal, and wonders who those policies are good for if they aren't good for the U.S.

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0:00.0	Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Senator Cory Booker is here with us tonight live.
0:05.0	I'm really looking forward to speaking with him. Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFall, is here with us live.
0:10.0	We've got eyes on potentially some developing court proceedings live tonight. It's just a really busy Friday night. There's a lot to get to. I am really glad you are here.
0:21.1	And I will be honest, I'm feeling a little fired up tonight. I'm, what's that phrase?
0:28.3	I'm feeling, I feel like I'm loaded for bear, right? So we're just, I'm just going to do this.
0:36.0	I don't care. I don't care. Let's just do it.
0:38.6	Let's just, let's just start right in with something that Republicans really, really, really do not want to talk about.
0:45.8	And part of the way you can tell they don't want to talk about it is because what they get asked about it, they turn pink, they stammer, they stump their feet and put the microphone down. They do not want to talk about this at all.
1:00.3	Republican Congressman Scott Fitzgerald of Wisconsin, for example, does not want to talk about this at all. You personally, the newly elected of Ukraine
1:15.7	is a dictator and started the war
1:18.8	against Russia.
1:20.4	No, no, I don't, no, I was, like I said, I voted for the first tranche.
1:25.6	No, Ukraine didn't start the war.
1:30.3	Why do we want to say that? You know, I'm not...
1:32.3	Have you expressed your opinion to Trump?
1:36.3	Did Donald Trump? No.
1:38.3	Why?
1:39.3	Because he stood there in front of everything.
1:41.3	Use your voice.
1:42.3	I don't think that the president's goals are not what everybody wants, which is to end the war, right?
1:48.1	End the war.
1:49.0	So if you don't want to end the war, if you don't want to end the war, then you're in a different position.
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