This evening, the Rachel Maddow show starts now. Early for a change. I have something to spend this time doing. Exactly. Thanks, my friend, appreciate it. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Very happy to have you here tonight. Who here is old enough to have ever used a typewriter . I took typing class and it was on a typewriter. Im that old. Typewriters started off with a mechanism that looked like this. You pressed a button on a keyboard for a specific letter, but then a little arm, a little bar would swing up from the guts of the keyboard and smack that letter into the inked typewriter ribbon, and thereby pressed the imprint of that letter on to the paper, right . So that was the mechanism. Each keystroke on the typewriter would cause a piece of metal to fling itself up toward the paper. A different little bar with a different letter on it for each keystroke. That was how they started out. But then in 1961, ibm changed all of that. Ibm invented a whole new kind of elect
Rev. Al Sharpton reviews the days top political and humaninterest stories and interviews newsmakers from across the political spectrum. Might be shrinking a little bit, but that base is going to stay the same. The Republican Party hasnt changed. It remains free trade, doesnt like his tariffs, remains very solidly behind brett kavanaugh, they like neil gorsuch, they like the military buildup, they love 4 gdp. If the president were not dragged down by the scandals and the russian investigation, 55 , the generic ballot right now is 7 if you look, about 5 of them, but it is about 7 , i dont think there is a blue wave, i think that Heidi Heitkamp will lose in north dakota. I think that joe manchin will lose in west virginia, joe donnelly in indiana will lose, bill nelson will lose in florida. I think the republican to pick up four or five seats in the senate and theyre going to hold the house because you do not have outside of the core msnbc audience, outside of your core support, al, there
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Team. Facing charges of Insider Trading and lying to the fbi. The government alleging that collins tipped his son off about a failed drug test at a bio tech company. Family and friends then sold their stock in the company before the news broke saving them more than 768,000 in losses. Noting that no one is above the law as charges were laid out against the congressman. Congressman collins cheated our market and our justice system. These charges are a reminder that this is a nation of laws and that everybody stands equal before the bar of justice. Now collins has pleaded not guilty to the charges and his statement that lawyers say we are confident he will be
the news about stock trade and news about his Making Recommendations of other members of congress to buy stock of this company of which he was a member of the board has become public for more than a year. What does this case look like to
russia, and they really are hoping that that threat will be enough to deter president putin from carrying out any sort of military incursion. susan, remember, we still don t know what was exactly said during that meeting with former president trump and putin in helsinki years ago. contrast that to what we should expect in terms of a readout between biden and putin this week. well, look, i mean, first of all, it s not a one-on-one summit meeting. that s still a possibility again. biden and putin have spoken twice by telephone as the crisis has escalated with ukraine. the talks this week will begin with wendy sherman, senior state department diplomat meeting her russian counterparts in geneva. she s an experienced diplomat, but it keeps it below the level of the leaders for right now, and that s probably a good thing, but, you know, again,
from january 6th in the early days afterwards, there did seem to be a shared purpose between the two parties about holding people accountable for january 6th, about condemning the mob violence, about identifying the perpetrators and bringing them to justice. first, that s a tremendous story from betsy. and you know, i d like to point out, we still don t know who planted those bombs. that person is still at large, has not been arrested, and but yes, i mean, look, mike pence s life was obviously threatened. he had to be rushed out. people were chanting hang mike pence. this was designed to put pressure on him and what has mike pence s reaction been? it has been now to call that one day in january and say democrats are making too much of it and that he just has a minor disagreement with president trump over what happened with the counting of electoral