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07.30.2021

Tonight's guests are Yasmeen Abutaleb, health reporter for the Washington Post, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, former Obama administration health advisor, Jared Bernstein, member of the Council of Economic Advisors, and Senator Alex ...

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07.30.2021 Internal CDC document outlines increased danger of delta Covid variant: Washington Post Tonight's guests are Yasmeen Abutaleb, health reporter for the Washington Post, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, former Obama administration health advisor, Jared Bernstein, member of the Council of Economic Advisors, and Senator Alex ...
07.29.2021 'This country needs this bill': Sen. Tester bullish on new infrastructure deal Tonight's guests are Devlin Barrett, national security reporter for The Washington Post, Senator Jon Tester, Mayor Tishaura Jones of St. Louis, and Dr. Ashish Jha.
07.28.2021 New Covid variant data prompts change in CDC mask guidance Tonight's guests are Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, Ryan Reilly, senior justice reporter for HuffPost, and Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the House Select Committee on the January 6th Attack.
07.27.2021 Parade of Trump-tied criminal cases marches on Tonight's guests are Rep. Jamie Raskin, Dr. Rachel Villanueva, president of the National Medical Association, LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, and Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent.
07.24.2021 Role of Trump era corruption pondered in delay of arrest of Trump friend Barrack Tonight's guests are Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, and Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor under the Obama administration.
07.23.2021 Trump cashes in on election lie; counties replace voting machines tainted by 'audits' Tonight's guests are Representative Sheila Jackson Lee and Senator Tammy Duckworth.
07.22.2021 Speaker Pelosi rejects Republican move to sabotage 1/6 committee with Jim Jordan Tonight's guests are Peter Strzok, former deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division, Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chairman of the Poor People's Campaign, and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke.
07.21.2021 Tom Barrack, Trump's inaugural committee chair, arrested on foreign agent charges Tonight's guests are David Kirkpatrick, national correspondent for the New York Times, and Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer.
07.20.2021 Trump campaign really did pay fake supporters to attend 2015 campaign launch, aide admits Tonight's guests are Senator Amy Klobuchar and David Hickton, director of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security.
07.17.2021 How to reach out to the vaccine hesitant and convince them to get the shot Tonight's guests are Denise Taylor, clinic operations manager for the Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University and author of "On Tyranny."
07.16.2021 'Summer of activism' for voting rights begins to heat up Tonight's guests are Melanie Campbell, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Texas State Rep. Senfronia Thompson, and Dr. Robin Trotman, CoxHealth medical director of infection prevention.
07.15.2021 Weakly vaccinated regions of U.S. see new jump in Covid cases Tonight's guests are Matt Zeller, co-founder of No One Left Behind, and Emily Bass, author of "To End a Plague: America's fight to defeat AIDS in Africa."
07.14.2021 Biden rips into Trumpist Republican attacks on democracy Tonight's guests are Rep. James Clyburn and Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity reporter for the New York Times.
07.13.2021 Trump grows more unhinged; GOP devotion deepens; U.S. becomes more imperiled Tonight's guests are Texas State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer and David Fink, attorney for Detroit in the Michigan Trump lawyers sanctions case.
07.10.2021 Texas charges man who waited six hours to vote with illegal voting Tonight's guests are Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier and Bharat Ramamurti, deputy director of the National Economic Council.
07.09.2021 U.S. legacy of evacuating, protecting military allies looms over Afghanistan withdrawal Tonight's guests are Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero of Guam, Rep. Jason Crow, and Wade Henderson, interim president of the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights.
07.08.2021 While Democrats work to solve problems, Republicans focus on attacking democracy Tonight's guests are Rep. Lauren Underwood and Matt Zeller, co-founder of No One Left Behind.
07.07.2021 New normal for Republican candidates: willingness to overturn elections Tonight's guests are Rep. Jake Auchincloss and Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity reporter for the New York Times.
07.03.2021 Indictment of Trump Organization delivers devastating blow to already cratering brand This is hour two of a special two-hour Independence Day Weekend Rachel Maddow Show.
07.03.2021 Supreme Court turns a blind eye to history, reality in upholding AZ voter suppression law This is the first hour of a special 2-hour Independence Day Weekend Rachel Maddow Show.
07.02.2021 Tax scheme outlined in Weisselberg indictment echoes NYT reporting on Ivanka Trump payouts Tonight's guests are Susanne Craig, investigative reporter for the New York Times, Daniel R. Alonso, former assistant district attorney with the Manhattan D.A.'s office, and Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump.
07.01.2021 Donald Rumsfeld, master at 'lies about the most consequential things,' dead at 88 Tonight's guests are Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, and Danya Perry, former deputy attorney general for New York.
06.30.2021 House votes (again) to remove Confederate statues, bust of disgraced justice from Capitol Tonight's guests are Desmond Butler, investigative reporter for the Washington Post, and Laurie Roberts, columnist for the Arizona Republic.
06.29.2021 Arizona election circus becomes increasingly a money-making scheme and grifter magnet Tonight's guests are Particia Mazzei, Miami bureau chief for the New York Times, and Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, reporter for the Arizona Mirror.
06.28.2021 Listen: TODAY Show is now a podcast As a bonus for The Rachel Maddow Show listeners, we’re sharing the first episode of the brand new TODAY podcast! Join Savannah Guthrie & Hoda Kotb every morning for the latest news headlines, interviews with newsmakers, and stories that inspire ...
06.26.2021 'Motivated by discriminatory purpose': DOJ joins groups suing Georgia over voter suppression law Tonight's guests are Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Janai Nelson, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
06.25.2021 Donald Trump's orbit is a dangerous place for a lawyer to be Tonight's guests are Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus, and Daniel R. Alonso, former federal prosecutor and former assistant district attorney in the Manhattan D.A.'s office.
06.24.2021 Republicans thoroughly debunk Michigan election fraud claims; push to restrict voting anyway Tonight's guests are Senator Elizabeth Warren, Manuel Oliver, co-founder of Change The Ref and father of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed in a shooting at his school in Parkland, Florida, and Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action.
06.23.2021 GOP filibuster protects state-level voting restrictions from Democratic reforms Tonight's guests are Senator Amy Klobuchar and Steve Benen, author of "The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics."
06.22.2021 Maddow: Republican war on democracy is as dangerous as its premise is bananas Tonight's guests are Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, and Senator Jeff Merkley.
06.19.2021 A 'profound' mistake: Prosecutor fights to free wrongfully convicted man still in prison Tonight's guests are Jean Peters Baker, Jackson County, Missouri prosecutor, and Texas State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer.
06.18.2021 Persistence: Once a lone voice against open-ended military authority, now in the majority Tonight's guests are Rep. Barbara Lee, Senator Tim Kaine, and Dahlia Lithwick, Slate senior editor and legal correspondent.
06.17.2021 Criminal probe of Trump in Georgia may be keen to know why U.S. attorney quit Tonight's guests are Amy Gardner, national political reporter for the Washington Post, Ann Simmons, Moscow bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, and Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia.
06.16.2021 'Inherently lazy:' NYT report exposes Amazon's low regard for workers Tonight's guests are Katie Benner, Justice Department reporter for the New York Times, and Jodi Kantor, investigative reporter for the New York Times.
06.15.2021 Abuse from Republicans pushing Trump's big lie drives away (real) election workers Tonight's guests are Katie Benner, Justice Department reporter for the New York Times, Rep. Eric Swalwell, Barb Byrun, county clerk for Ingham County, Michigan, and Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia.
06.12.2021 Election workers terrorized in Trump Republicans' attack on 2020 results, democracy Tonight's guests are Lindsey Holden, reporter for the San Luis Obispo Tribune, and Luke Nozicka, reporter for the Kansas City Star.
06.11.2021 'Terrible abuse of power': Schiff rips Trump, DOJ for reportedly seeking his private data Tonight's guests are Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for the New York Times, Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian.
06.10.2021 Failure of 'norms' to restrain Trump corruption prompts calls for criminal accountability Tonight's guests are Senator Chris Murphy, and Bill McKibben, climate activist and founder of 350.org.
06.09.2021 Trump corruption of DOJ lingers under Merrick Garland Tonight's guests are former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
06.08.2021 Biden working to restore U.S. as model of democracy on world stage Tonight's guest is former Attorney General Eric Holder.
06.05.2021 'It's all nonsense': Dr. Fauci dismisses targeting by right-wing media and Trump acolytes Tonight's guests are Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania attorney general.
06.04.2021 Maddow: Trump is taking Republicans down two dark paths, both put the U.S. in grave danger Tonight's guests are Marc Elias, voting rights litigator, and Matt Zapotosky, national security reporter for the Washington Post.
06.03.2021 'Larger breaches at a much larger scale': Russia-based hackers targeting key U.S. systems Tonight's guests are David Kennedy, a former NSA hacker, and Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
06.02.2021 How authoritarianism spread and the U.S. faltered as a global model for democracy Tonight's guests are Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to President Obama, Oklahoma State Rep. Regina Goodwin, and Steve Kornacki, MSNBC political correspondent.
05.28.2021 Why Trump's moneyman may be the key to the Manhattan D.A.'s investigation of Trump Tonight's guests are Former Congressman Beto O'Rourke, Lina Hidalgo, Harris County, Texas executive, Senator Gary Peters, Rebecca Roiphe, former Manhattan assistant district attorney, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal.
05.27.2021 Exxon, Shell, and Chevron suffer major setbacks as climate concerns cause power shift Tonight's guests are Senator Amy Klobuchar and Bill McKibben, a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org.
05.26.2021 As Manhattan D.A. moves to grand jury in Trump Org probe, other Trump investigations loom Tonight's guests are Senate Sheldon Whitehouse and Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
05.25.2021 Crises for democracies abroad serve as warning to weakening U.S. system of government Tonight's guests are Timothy Snyder, author of "On Tyranny," and Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
05.22.2021 Postal workers rally public support to block DeJoy's plan to weaken mail services Tonight's guests are Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus, and Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers Union.
05.21.2021 What made the recent conflict in Gaza 'different and unique' Tonight's guests are Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, and Amy Gardner, political reporter for the Washington Post.

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