Were looking forward to that the beat, 6 00 p. M. Eastern week nights. But more importantly the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, ari. Thanks. Much appreciated. Thanks for joining us at home. It is friday. So that means the news has again a little nuts again. I feel like there is nothing predictable about American News cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. Thats one thing you can count on. Its friday. Things are nuts. Tonight is no exception. Tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. And over the course of this hour, actually, were waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. Ill just tell you flatout, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. As i speak right now, its 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. Republicans have just issue
Expose the chaos consuming the administration and discuss Recruiting Cabinet Members to invoke the 25th Amendment so they would remove president trump, your dual elected president from office for, quote, being unfit. This all took place during rosensteins second week on the job after he fired comey based on Rod Rosensteins recommendation. He didnt even have to like james comeys shoes and he could have fired him. Rosenstein thought he might be able to persuade kelly and the white house Chief Of Staff to invoke the 25th Amendment. Rod rosenstein wanted to wear a wire and secretly record a sitting president of the United States in both the 25th Amendment, a silent coup against his boss by him, mccabe, others,
all against a dual elected president. We are experiencing tonight a massive constitutional crisis and, frankly, this is designed to set up the president. Ill explain what this is about in a minute. Tonight, Rod Rosenstein, he is publicly denying this report, calling the story inaccur
Closer to having this issue be resolved, and judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley had hoped to hold a Confirmation Vote at one point as soon as monday. But sources telling manu raju and Ariane De Vogue that they did reach a tentative agreement to do a hearing on thursday, that news emerging minutes after the white house releasing the statement saying the Judiciary Committee appeared no closer to a hearing. It is dragging it out, from the white houses perspective, but its granting fords request for more time to prepare before she appears before the Judiciary Committee. Again, a tentative date set for thursday, knowing theres more details to be hammered out, which is expected to happen tomorrow. Ariane and sarah, thank you both. Joining us now, former democratic senator barbara boxer, host of the podcast fight back, and back in 1991, she was part of a group of female lawmakers who marched
thursday. So the date is set. But were not sure yet or for sure if it will be public. Would you encoura
Oh the new one well bring out the dogs. Mush dogs barking the old ones just fine well do anything, seriously anything, to help our customers. Thanks. Ally. Do it right. Tonight, they prepare to go before congress and the country. No matter what happens this moment will change our nations politics. Later on, roz roderosenstein. Was he being sarcastic. First, negotiation after negotiation. Shifting the Judiciary Committee on thursday at 10 00 a. M. I, of course, will be there too. Some of the details about this hearing have been worked out. The hearing will be open and dr. Ford will testify first. Democratic senators will ask questions. But important factors are so far unresolved. Like how much time will be allowed for those questions. And then theres the matter of whether republican senators themselves or perhaps their staffers or an outside counsel will do the questioning. This is important in part because all the republicans on the committee are men. At the same time, judge kavanaugh
new york times, washington post would dare ask questions about the mental capabilities or lack thereof of their dear leader. just like they denied riots were riots, just like they protected candidate joe biden in his basement bunker, now president joe and remember, these were the same idiots who were the biggest proponents of all they wanted to talk about was the 25th amendment and whether or not donald trump will get a cognitive test all throughout the presidency. in fact, it wasn t that long ago that the armchair psychologists on the left and in the media had no problem diagnosing the president of the united states and demanding his removal from office for a variety of issues. you might recall let s go to the videotape. rosenstein discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to the u.s. constitution to remove mr. trump from office for being