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of chicago and the south side cultural sent, thank you for having us. [ applause ] thanks for joining us tonight, happy friday. nice to have you with us. look at this awesome picture from 1968. i love every single thing about this picture. this is the central middle school band from orville, california. this is the majorettes part of the band and they are marching through downtown orville, california, on may 1, 1968. this picture is perfec and this picture the property of the california department of water resources. the reason the california department of water resources had a photographer on site taking pictures that day of the majorettes in orville is because that day the governor of california and his wife came too orville, california, to tour a really big awesome new piece of water structure the california governor at the time was ronald reagan. he and his wife nancy went to orville for the dedication of the brand new orville dam. it looks kind of fun. they got to go in ....
this is what we do. we protest when we disagree and i don t think there s any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they don t believe in it. i m not suggesting support tonight s nominee but don t plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. and that is where we are. we re at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening. thanks, my friend. thank you for joining us at this hour. this is a big important historic news day. good to have you here. thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow supreme court justices. even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most in terms of their day jobs. they loved his company. justice scalia and justice ruth ....
and lockheed loves him. intel building a $7 billion plant in arizona that they took off the shelf during the obama years. so, yeah, lots to talk about. thanks to hugh and our guests. that was the scene from a town hall earlier tonight with arkansas senator tom cotton. the mood is indicative of what we re seeing at town halls across the country. we have news tonight from this new administration s continued whiplash pattern of radical changes in course. tonight the justice department, which is now led by attorney general jeff sessions announced that they are reversing the obama administration policy on the rights of transgender students in american schools. we have known that the white house intended to roll back lgbt rights. we thought they might first take aim at kids. we ve been waiting all day for the official notice. here it is. very high turnout election. it was an unusually long ballot in montana this year, because they had a bunch of stuff to vote on in the state ....
special counsel? eventually can he fire everyone? i mean, it s going to be fascinating tomorrow. we re going to hear every one of those questions. what we don t know is how many answers we re going to hear. yeah. that we re not sure of. yeah. this question of executive privilege and what they re going the call executive privilege and such a i mean that s a difficult legal theory anyway. that s not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think we re going to get into appeals court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. and i have a feeling that jeff sessions isn t going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. it is my feeling that i shouldn t talk about this. i have discomfort. yeah. yes. i have a gavel. we will seattle. thank you, rachel. thanks. when president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked headline writers who immediat ....
nothing to do with his qualifications. they are opposed to donald trump pointing anyone to the supreme court. kneneil gorsuch a good man. it s the democrats who are breaking the rules, what they re doing is changing the 200 year status quo. the ironny is that you could have said the exact same things, regarding judge garland. that, of course, was president s garland s dom knee to fill the same vacancy who republicans refused to hold a single confirmation hearing, much less a vote. it was an unprecedented feet of obstruction. which mitch mcconnell on the campaign trail later, one of my proudest moments. the garland affairs seem to have taught democrats a lesson about the up sides of obstructionism and now with engaged based marching the streets and turning up the town hall showing to posed any kind of cooperation whatsoever with this president, there s new in washington. just four democratic senators came out against a gorsuch fill buster, facing tough re-election battles ....