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 we've got right now, and there's another four right there and it keeps going on. when you look at the number of czars in the united states, yeah, look, we've got a border czar and a drug czar. >> yes, these are actually present day people. >> yes. he's installed a bunch of czars. look at that. >> i thought i lived in america. the big headlight. and now we're 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 didn't 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 you're 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 that's one of the harder wisens. just because you're on the couch with jack tripper and janet doesn't mean you have to pretend to be chrissy. so i don't want to have to turn you on tomorrow and see you're 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 doesn't 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 three-year period of time. i don't 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 wasn't really the heat of the moment around that. in 2010 and 20 1 1, republicans and our friends at the fox news channel didn't 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 don't 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 don't 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 doesn't appoint an ebola czar, the republican response, say it with me now, we don't 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, he's not a doctor. it should be clear that the ebola czar should not be inserting i. vichlt lines. what they're supposed to do is coordinate all the different parts of the administration's 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 administration's response to ebola. but these two high-ranking 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 they've 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. it's all coming back. there's 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, there's a crisis and what the president does is say the president can do some things well. when a crisis comes along, oftentimes there's conflict between agencies. they don't focus. they get distracted. so that's where presidents 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 that's 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. that's something that requires a lot of sensitivity. >> when presidents 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. it's 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 i'm telling you on behalf of the president, you know, listen to what i'm 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. >> nbc's presidential 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 presidential 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. this is called non-24, a circadian rhythm disorder that affects up to 70 percent of people who are totally blind. talk to your doctor about your symptoms and learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. don't let non-24 get in the way of your pursuit of happiness. here we go, here we go, here we go. ♪ fifty omaha set hut ♪ losing feeling in my toes ♪ ♪ nothing beats that new car smell ♪ ♪ chicken parm you taste so good ♪ ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ mmm mmm mmm mm mmm mm mmmmmm ed a lift? 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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 he's been able to get these hurdles in place is by telling people. >> look, this is a real probable all across the country, really. and that's because fraud has such powerful connotations for people. nobody is for fraud. on the flip side, we can't 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. she's fighting for attention and air time right now. he should be up a lot. and the fact that he's 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 i'm really sure is not going to work. it's a lot of room for error. a lot of expectation that there will be grave errors. that's coming up. the design of the ford escape is clearly intended to grab your eye. ♪ oh, and your foot. ain't that a kick? 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>>ives referring to the borders in africa. >> oh, that border. what's all of this i hear about violins on television? but that was not the best moment accidentally spoken outloud. jam, comey was giving a talk on encrimination and how much law enforcement wants to spy on us and how much we don't want to be spied on. that's after the fox news channel raised his hand and it was time for things to get amazing again. >> is there any credible evidence that terrorists can use ebola here as a weapon? >> no. >> no, but thanks for playing. thank reallies for playing. really stupid stuff being asked. being said. being misunderstood about ebola. in washington, that kind of thing happens. but it's not only washington. it is escaped. here on the porous border between stupid and offensive is something called ebola.com. is ebola.com an informational web site about the vie russ that's run by medical experts? nope. as you can see there down at the bolt tom of the page is for sale. ebola.com, that domain name is owned by a squatter who tells cnbc he's trying to sell it to the highest bidder. the current asking price is 150,0 0 0 sdla$0 e but that pri subt to change as the situation evolves. this guy might really make baeng. cross your fingers for him. if you don't want to buy ebola.com, perhaps i can interest you in a fake ebola-proof suit. scared of catching ebola? 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oh, it's like aids. but you know how we define direct contact? being within three feet of someone. we're talking about it has to be within a cup to get on you. this thing is incredibly contagious. people getting a fully gowned massing and they're still getting it. >> i'm a doctor. nee say you need to be in contact with the bodily fluid of a person to get it? i'm telling you you can catch it at a cocktail party. all it takes is a tiny little inkno inknocklomm. >> but he's a doctor. he speaks from a position of medical authority. that's why he says things like inocculum. rand paul is a doctor, he's an of that 3458 gist. he's not board certified. he says he is, but he's not. this came up as an issue when he first ran for senate. ophthalmologists get board certified. when he says he is, it turns out what he means is that he is certified by a group that he, himself, incorporated in 19 9 9, and that he heads. i'll tell you it's rand paul, rand paul's wife and father-in-law who founded his own ophthalmology board as the board's vice president. so instead of being a board certified ophthalmologist, like he sid e says, rand paul decided to found his own eye doctor organization and then to have the rand paul eye doctor organization certified fill him. tada. when they asked when they could talk to him about this, he said um, you know, never. don't deed of trust them, trust e trust the authorities. trust him. he's a doctor. kind of. there's a lot of stupid stuff going on around ebola right now. stupid, ignorant, exploitive, bordering on evil stuff. and there's also a lot of reasonable concern out there about this really scary disease, right? 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>> there is not. what i'm told is a nostalgic west coaster, missed the actual mount rainier and decided to found a town. >> i love it. i'm going to ask you three multiple choice questions. if you get two or more of them right, you will win a piece of swag. i forgot what it is. >> rachel, the swag tonight is a minir rachel maddow mixer. >> these are very cheap and tiny. so they're for baby-sized cocktails. i have to introduce you to one other important person. it's our judge. he is the guy who puts the mad in maddow blog. steve bennett. he is sequestered in a bunker deep in the wilds of new england. but he knows everything and so his disembodied voice will be the one to tell you if you get a question right or wrong. so disembodied voice, say hello to shawnna. >> hello to both of you. >> here's your first question. monday's show. we discussed the modern washington, d.c. tradition of former high-level administration officials writing tell-all books about their former bosses. ronald reagan's former chief of staff john regan revealed in his tell-all book that president reagan consulted an astrology. do you remember all that? here's your question. what kinds of decisions did president reagan and his wife nancy console their astrologer about while president reagan was president. auz it a, the president's schedule, b, what meals to serve at state dinner, c, staffing decisions for the president's cabinet, or d, all of the above. >> i believe it was a, it had to do with his schedule and travel? >> stodid she get that right? >> i'm going to let the nbc news archives answer that one. >> tom, sources tell nbc news that the president and mrs. reagan have consulted an astrologer several times while they're in the white house, and that changes in the president's schedule have been made based on the advice from that astrologer. >> the correct answer is a, the president's schedule. >> yay, that's excellent. this is going to be so much fun. we're going to do this every day. you got one right. you have to get two to win the prize. we're going to go to question two. also from monday's show. after a 2012 explosion, a refinery in richmond, california, that made local citizens and elected officials very, very angry at the company that ran the refinery, that big oil company is now spending hugely in richmond, california, to try to elect its chosen candidates to the local city council and as mayor. the question is, which oil company is burying the rich mond mond, kcalifornia in campaign money. is that company a, exxon, b, shell, c chevron or d, the marvel mystery oil company. >> c, chevron and i like that you made the alliteration work there. >> the answer? >> c, chevron. >> well done. are you ready for your last question? >> mm-hmm. >> on tuesday, we reported, it was breaking news at the time that a surprise supreme court decision would let more than a dozen abortion clinics in texas reopen after they had been shut down by the state. so the ruling that the clinics reopen. but, this is kind of a hard one. there was a descent filed by thr -- dissent filed by three judges that they would have left them closed. which of these conservative justices surprised some of the observers by not signing on to that dissent. by now signing on to the keep the clinics closed dissent. a, chief justice john roberts, justice samuel alito, c, justice clarence thomas, or d, justice antonin scalia. >> that would be a, justice john roberts. >> i will let one of the plaintiffs give us the answer. >> i'm very delighted. i can't believe we got both kennedy and roberts to rule in our favor. >> that means the answer is a, chief justice robert, just like shawnna said. >> all right. i know there's tons of suspense here, nick, you obviously are very good at math. you can tell just by looking at you. did she get enough answers to win the swag? >> carry the one, yes, she did. >> i was hoping to get a question about mo the baby river otter. but this is okay, too. >> the thing about mo the baby river otter is he's just mo the baby river otter. there's nothing wrong with mo the baby river otter. thanks for watching the show all week and memorizing all the stuff. i'll appreciate it and we'll accepted you your tiny cheap shaker. >> excellent, thank you, rachel. >> it worked. if any of you out there think you have what it takes to survive the friday night news dump, head over to maddowblog.com for inen instructions about how to apply to play. it could be you with a giant head in the skype feel. whe for the rest of you, now you have to go to prison. due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ all inmate deaths in the florida department of corrections are investigated by our inspector general office.