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MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show October 18, 2014

I was wondering myself why we are having so many czars kings now in america. Every problem has a czar. King of the border, king of drugs, king of the car problem. When you think about it, czar is a russian word. On the big screen up there, we put up the russian czars through history. That is horrible. When you look at the number of czars weve got right now, and theres another four right there and it keeps going on. When you look at the number of czars in the United States, yeah, look, weve got a border czar and a drug czar. Yes, these are actually present day people. Yes. Hes installed a bunch of czars. Look at that. I thought i lived in america. The big headlight. And now were russia. That is what it was like. That is why it makes your stomach curdle like old milk left in a dirty bottle in the sun. E should say its redeeming value did actually lead to one of the greatest daily show rejoinders of all time. God forbid we hear about obama apointing all of these czars. When i looked up czar in the dictionary or googled it, the word that came up was king. And ifgs wondering to myself why we were having so many czars, slash kings now in america. Czar 12 . You didnt know what a czar was . How do you get a job on television that you need to pin your address to a coat so that a stranger ask help find their way home. Unless. Unless unless youre just dumbing yourself down. To connect with an audience that you think sees intellect as an elitist flaw. That would be easy to check. I googled Gretchen Carlson and guess what came up. She was valedictorian of her high school and went to stanford and spent time studying abroad at oxford. Yeah, not the mississippi oxf d oxford. The europe one. Not to mention she won the miss ms. America crown in 1989 by doing this. Holy [expletive]. A classical rendition of [ speaking Foreign Language ] and you know thats one of the harder wisens. Just because youre on the couch with jack tripper and janet doesnt mean you have to pretend to be chrissy. So i dont want to have to turn you on tomorrow and see youre actually surprised that the interior secretary is in charge of the outside stuff. From now on, i want to see you give it 120 . Yes, so the czar thing was painfully stupid in a way that still hurts five yearings later. But in the obama presidency, the point people on response of specific policy matters, it really was a huge, conservative media freakout and a huge Republican Party freakout in washington. Of all the biggest, dumb political stories, it was the biggest of the dumbest stories. We have about two dozens czars, the pay czar, the car czar, all of these czars in the white house. The president of the United States should cease and desist with any apointing of czars. You know, the constitution of the United States doesnt get read enough in this building. Nowhere in this document can i find the word sharyl e czar . Who came up with czar . I could see car czar, because it rhymes. But all the others fell to me on deaf ears. I think the president just likes the term. A czarist russia had 18 czars over a threeyear period of time. I dont really know. Maybe this president just likes the idea of turning us into russia. And not the good, putin russia. That specific congressman there lamenting the sound of the word czar on fox news is jnamed Jack Kingston. The Jack Kingston legislation would have blocked the president to appoint the president s action on an area of policy, which, before 2 0 0 9, was a totally uncontroversial technique that nobody talked about in a way that made you hate the sound of that word. Navs our National Experience in 20 0 9d. But 20 0 9 wasnt really the heat of the moment around that. In 2010 and 20 1 1, republicans and our friends at the Fox News Channel didnt move onto other sources of excitement. There was the new black Panther Party that they had gotten excited about. That pretty much riveted them for all of 2010. That was the obamacare thing to get excited about, as well. After 2 0 0 9, they did get into other things. And they forgot that they did hate the czar thick. By the time the ebola cry sisis rolled around in 2014, this guy said the whole reason we have czars is because president obama likes the sound of it. He wants to turn us into russia. That same congressman this year just published an oped. And we know he wrote his own headline because he posted it on his own congressional web site under his own picture. We need an ebola czar says the man who tried to ban czars. And jerry moran from kansas, Frank E Frank wolf from oklahoma just demanded that the Obama Administration ban the ebola czar. And how barack obama had more czars than the actual czars had czars. Thafgs that was 20 09. Now, john mckaib e cain went on cnn to stare his former self in the face and say new john mccain likes the czar. In fact, demands a czar. I would say that we dont know exactly who is in charge. There has to be some kind of czar. I do not know whether this sort of thing is evidence of the fact that smart people do not go into politics anymore, or if this is the reason that smart people dont go into politics anymore because our politics is like this. But this really is how stupid our politics is with issues around czars and stuff. After republicans demanding that he appoint an ebola czar, saying that as long as he doesnt appoint an ebola czar, the republican response, say it with me now, we dont need an ebola czar chlts that was the response today of senator ted cruz of texas. He chose ron clain, who is the chief of staff to attorney janet reno. He was a top advisor to obama directly. All of that has led to republican criticism that, well, hes not a doctor. It should be clear that the ebola czar should not be inserting i. Vichlt lines. What theyre supposed to do is coordinate all the different parts of the administrations government response to the ebola crisis. The person who had the closest thing to this job as klain today, she and susan rice were basically taking on this role of coordinating the administrations response to ebola. But these two highranking officials do have other stuff to do given that they are the top officials in Counter Terrorism issues and Homeland Security. A white house official is pleased with how theyve done in their response to ebola. So that is the. Idea, to bring more capacity to the spongs to make more than one person responsible for knowing all the Different Things that the government is doing. Also, if you can call him a czar, he will be the king. He can be the king of ebola. Its all coming back. Theres a rich vein of profound stupidity on issues like this when they get discussed in washington. On issues like in in the insult sphere otherwise known as in congress on tv and in recess. But despite that stupidity, there is the real matser of getting stuff done about this very real crisis. And if we put aside all of that nonsense, is picking a poent person, somebody to coordinate the specific response on a specific policy matter, is that, in fact, a good way to ensure that good policy is made and smart actions are taken on that policy matter. Historically speaking, if this had been done, what do we know about that experience . The ebola dry sis is difficult stuff. It brings out the worst in everyone. Is it a good thing that somebody like ron klain, an experienced manage. Guy who knows everybody in government, is it smart to put somebody in charge of a Big Government response like this . What do we know about how to predict whether this will work. Usually, theres a crisis and what the president does is say the president can do some things well. When a crisis comes along, oftentimes theres conflict between agencies. They dont focus. They get distracted. So thats where president s in history have apointed a czar. Franklin rose velt really popularized all of this. Kaiser came in and that was done. So hiring a shipbuilding guy in order to get more ships built, that seems like right on the nose. President nixon after the Arab Oil Embargo appointed simon as our first energy czar. Simon was a very tough manager. Knew almost nothing about energy. He was a bond trader on wall street. Not even ron cklain would argue that he has that background. And one thing thats very important is he will have to say a lot of things in public that the government will have to take this seriously but not go too far as to alarm people. Thats something that requires a lot of sensitivity. When president s have an envoy like this, somebody that they have picked to rum something, is their direct connell next to the president the president s direct faith in them, part of the power that they bring to getting stuff done . Hugely. Its absloutly essential. A czar like this has to be able to go to an agency around say, essentially, i tell you to do this and im telling you on behalf of the president , you know, listen to what im saying as if herp talking to you himself. A great example, after 9 1 1, agencies of our government were not talking to one another enough. President bush invited tom ridge as the first Homeland Security czar. He was able to come in and make some rational structure where there had not been one before. And speak from the position of someone who definitely had the president s confidence. Crucial. Nbcs president ial his xx yal, thank you for helping us understand this. I really appreciate it. All right. Still ahead tonight, what one u. S. Senator with president ial aspirations is doing to try to up the panic because it might help him. One of my least favorite and most enthusiastically telling you stories of all time. Stay with us chltst night, and stay awake during the day. 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Here we have the surprisingly large number of states in which the top of the ticket race in this years elections are currently tied. Tied directly or at least within the margin of error in recent polling. This is the number of senate races that are tied right now. And this is all of the races for governor that are tied right now. One, state that didnt change when we just did those two maps, one state in which both the senate race and governors race are both statistically stiy are both statistically st titis the great state of kansas. And in the u. S. Senate race, republican senator pat rob erts expecteds greg orman from keeping his seat in the race. But in the state facing two topoftheticket races that are that close, that are essentially tied, this is what theyre fighting about in kansas right now. More than 20 ,000 people who have registered to vote in the state or who have tried to register to vote in the state but the kansas republican secretary of state chris kobak does not consider those more than 20 ,0 0 0 people to be actual voters. He does not consider them to be properly registered. And, as such, does not plan on letting them vote. Under kansas secretary of state from keeping people allowed to vote. And sometimes that kind of thing is a real sleeper issue. But in a year when the governors race is tied and the senate race is tied and even chris kobaks on race is pretty close, all of the sudden, the idea that 22 ,0 00 people in that state are essential ly ess atempted registered voters. Thats an issue with big implications for everybody. Joining us now is jeff jarm aurks n. Political analyst for ksm tv. Professor jarman, thauchg for being here. Thank you for wearing that bow tie. It makes me very happy. You get. Bet. Absolutely. If it works out that theyre not anyone to vote, particularly that is the margin that could be very serious in kansas this year. Education specially when the impetus for this is voter fraud. Kobak can only find a handful, 5 or 10, compared to 20,0 0 0 . That would definitely swing an election. Do voterings in kansas believe that voter fraud is as big a problem as chris kobak says it is . The way that hes been able to get these hurdles in place is by telling people. Look, this is a real probable all across the country, really. And thats because fraud has such powerful connotations for people. Nobody is for fraud. On the flip side, we cant convince people that suppression is just as bad as fraud. We played that little clip from the debate, somehow, the democrats have raised the issue. E eve seen some opinion columns written in kansas papers this election season that i was shocked by in terms of being very, very upset about this. Clearly, there is an effort in the state to try to make this an issue, to make suppression an issue, those more than 20, 20,00 0 people an issue. Is it getting an attraction . In some ways, it getting a lot of attraction. Shes fighting for attention and air time right now. He should be up a lot. And the fact that hes tied is a real sign that he is in trouble. Professor of Political Communications and political analyst for tv. Thank you for your time. Yeah, absolutely. So we have a thing coming up at the end of the show tonight which im really sure is not going to work. Its a lot of room for error. A lot of expectation that there will be grave errors. Thats coming up. The design of the ford escape is clearly intended to grab your eye. Oh, and your foot. Aint that a kick . The ford escape with the footactivated liftgate. Go open up something interesting. Go further. Dave, im sorry to interrupt. I gotta take a sick day tomorrow. Dads dont take sick days, dads take nyquil. 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Before we get to that stuff, we do have an update on a story that weve been following very closely about tens of thousands of voters allegedly disappearing off the voter rolls in a state where this years elections are all tied up. Its happening in kansas as weve just reported from jeff jarman in wichita state. Its also happening georgia. Its also happening where the governors race and the u. S. Senate race are both literally tied. So democrats think the way to a blue georgia is by registering voters. The new georgia project says they turned in 85,00 85,00 0 applications for voters in georgia. But then they say half of those voters never turned up in the system. Its a really serious allegation with serious potential consequences. They tried to register, but their registrations just disappeared. The counties have processed all the Voter Registration applications that theyve received. The applicants have either been added to the roles or theyre in pending status. And the kcounty has contacted to get the required information so that they may be registered if theyre eligible too do so. Its now time for the new project and owners to stop throwing out random numbers and baseless accusations. I would ask that sector development, the new georgia project, the Lawyers Committee for civil rights, pastor warnock, congressman john lewis and anyone else who has akuccus the county of Voter Suppression to apologize for them and also to withdraw this ridiculous lawsuit. We found those voters its all there. Its all fine. Well, we spoke tonight to the Voter Registration group. We can report tonight that they are not backing down. They have filed an official request for evidence for documents and records that might support the states claim to have found those 40,000 missing voters. So the secretary of state is calling them ridiculous and demanding an apology. They are quite confident and steaming ahead. The First Court Hearing on this is scheduled from friday. 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