Rachel Maddow

4 days ago | msnbc.com | Rachel Maddow |Allison Detzel

This is an adapted excerpt from the June 2 episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show.”They nicknamed it the “Bear.” It’s a military aircraft first designed in Russia in the 1950s and built to compete with the American B-52 bomber. The Tupolev Tu-95 can fly across continents before it has to stop and refuel, and it can carry eight long-range missiles. For decades, Russia has had dozens of Tu-95 bombers and other planes like it.

3 weeks ago | msnbc.com | Rachel Maddow |Allison Detzel

This is an adapted excerpt from the May 12 episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show.”Last month, Donald Trump had his annual physical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Usually, health is a personal topic, but when it comes to Trump’s medical report, this story is explicitly not personal. It is about the country; it is about policy; and it is about the health of literally tens of millions of Americans.

1 month ago | msnbc.com | Rachel Maddow

This is an adapted excerpt from the May 5 episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show.”Nine days after Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term as president, a terrible midair collision killed 67 people just outside Reagan National Airport over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Two days later, on Jan. 31, a medical transport plane crashed in Philadelphia. Seven people were killed and another two dozen were injured.

1 month ago | msnbc.com | Rachel Maddow |Allison Detzel

This is an adapted excerpt from the April 29 episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show.”Earlier this month, dozens of people gathered at an airport in New Haven, Connecticut, to protest a small budget airline called Avelo. The company, which markets itself as a consumer airline for the general public, recently signed a contract with the Trump administration for the use of its planes, flight attendants and everything else for deportation flights.

1 month ago | player.fm | Rachel Maddow |Chris Hayes

According to a new CNN poll, President Donald Trump's approval rating stands at 41%. That's a steep drop from Trump's support just before the election, and the lowest for any US president at this point in his term going back to at least the 1950s. Will these negative ratings spell doom for the rest of the president's term? Or are they just one more ride on the Trump roller coaster? Susan Glasser, Staff Writer for The New Yorker, joins the program to discuss.