The Rachel Maddow Show

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• Yes, Trump could get in trouble for his 'IRS settlement' slush fund scheme 02.06.2026 43min

  Amid a politically punishing backlash against Donald Trump's flagrant $1.776 billion money grab for his criminal allies, a judge is considering whether to investigation if the "IRS settlement" on which the slush fund is based began as a legitimate court case or was a fraud on the court from the beginning. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance talks with Rachel Maddow about the legal guidelines the judge is considering.
• Bonus: This is how a prosecutor of organized crime sees Trump's corruption and how to defeat it 01.06.2026 45min

  Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade talks with Rachel Maddow about her acclaimed new book, "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government," in which she draws upon her experience prosecuting fraud and organized crime to understand how to defeat Donald Trump's style of intimidation and inflicting pain on others to dominate them and get what he wants.
• Special episode: Rachel Maddow in conversation with Steven J. Ross, author of 'The Secret War Against Hate 26.05.2026 42min

  A special broadcast of Rachel Maddow's recent live event at the 92nd Street Y: A conversation with Steven J. Ross, author of "The Secret War Against Hate."
• 'The biggest presidential corruption scandal in U.S. history'; Trump shocks nation with brazen grab 19.05.2026 42min

  Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's attempt to have $1.8 billion taxpayer dollars handed to him to distribute to his friends and allies, and debunks the notion that this money-grab has anything to do with suing the IRS. Rep. Jamie Raskin, who calls Trump's scheme "nothing but a racket," joins to discuss Trump's increasingly open, shameless corruption.
• Trump's corruption of the Justice Department yields embarrassing results 12.05.2026 42min

  As Donald Trump has tried to use the Department of Justice as his personal tool for petty revenge and political intimidation, the department's track record has been abysmal and its frequent mistakes, mortifying. Rachel Maddow takes a look at the degradation Trump has brought to a once-distinguished facet of American government.
• Introducing WITHpod: The AI End Game 05.05.2026 1min

  AI – and coverage of it – is everywhere. But what is artificial intelligence, really, beyond the buzzword? Each week, in a special new miniseries - ‘The AI End Game’ - Chris Hayes is joined by preeminent experts on AI and its effects to help make sense of this revolutionary time in history.
• Maddow: Trump is terrible at everything except this one thing 05.05.2026 43min

  Rachel Maddow makes the case that from the first day of his second term, Donald Trump has been engaged in "a concerted and intense targeting of Black Americans," from firings to executive orders and including his Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act, which will likely largely eliminate Black congressional representation in the American South.
• How Trump's bungling turned his top issue into his greatest liability 04.05.2026 50min

  Julia Ainsley, senior Homeland Security correspondent for NBC News and author of the newly released, "Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump’s Mass Deportation Program" talks with Rachel Maddow about her original reporting into how the Trump administration's series of ad libs on implementing Trump's immigration policy led to a cascade of failures that turned Trump's biggest political boon into a disaster that turned the country against him.
• Americans thwart Trump's immigrant prisons plan by making it too hard 28.04.2026 42min

  The Trump administration "would prefer to do things that are easy," Rachel Maddow points out. And so, by making the implementation of a nationwide immigrant prison system not at all easy, and, in fact, quite hard, Americans pushing back against Trump's plan are winning, and Trump's prisons are not opening.
• 'Another one down': Wheels coming off Trump's clown car Cabinet 21.04.2026 42min

  Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Donald Trump's secretary of labor, is resigning in a cloud of scandal, extending a string of high-level departures from the administration. Rachel Maddow surveys the landscape of Trump's Cabinet.
• Maddow: Trump's fear is palpable as authoritarian peer Orbán is resoundingly rejected in Hungary 14.04.2026 44min

  Rachel Maddow highlights some striking parallels between Donald Trump and the authoritarian regime his administration is modeled on, Victor Orbán in Hungary. Maddow notes that the basis for an authoritarian's power is the sense that their continued rule is inevitable, so seeing Orbán tossed from power so handily by the voters of Hungary sends a clear and upsetting message to Trump, and an encouraging message to Trump's opponents.
• Maddow: U.S. military fights war on two fronts: Iran and Trump incompetence 07.04.2026 43min

  Rachel Maddow looks at how Donald Trump's overall cluelessness and incompetence is made worse by Pete Hegseth's active destabilizing of the U.S. military and poor decision-making in wartime.
• 'Smells like corruption': Maddow points out bizarre pattern of overpayments for warehouses by DHS 31.03.2026 43min

  Rachel Maddow points out several instances of Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security paying tens of millions of dollars more than the assessed value of warehouses the administration wants to turn into massive prison camps for immigrants.
• Maddow on Trump's unbridled chaos: 'We are having some drama at the moment' 24.03.2026 43min

  Rachel Maddow looks at the news stories we would have trouble believing if we weren't living through them in real time, including Denmark, a U.S. ally, making preparations to defend itself and Greenland against the U.S., Donald Trump staggering around war crime-level threats against Iran, a MAGA sheriff seizing hundreds of thousands of ballots, and ICE agents being sent to airports with no real job to do.
• Trump frantic over Iran mess as rival nations take advantage of his poor planning 17.03.2026 43min

  Rachel Maddow looks at how Donald Trump's fast talk and gaslighting can't change the reality of the mess he has made in the Strait of Hormuz as allies resist his bullying and rivals and opportunists take advantage of him to enrich themselves.
• Maddow: Trump admits what the attack on Iran is really for 10.03.2026 37min

  In a rambling press conference full of bizarre answers to questions about the war he started against Iran, Donald Trump admitted that he is doing it "for the other parts of the world." Rachel Maddow looks at how Russia is benefitting tremendously from Trump's attack on Iran, even as it helps Iran target American interests, and how Trump has set off a global energy crisis of historic proportions.
• MS NOW's special 'We The People' primary coverage of elections in Texas and North Carolina 04.03.2026 1val 39min

  Rachel Maddow and her MS NOW colleagues track the primary election returns in Texas and North Carolina, with Ali Velshi offering special statistical insights from the big board as one of the most closely watched elections, the Democratic Senate primary between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico mired in legal complications after polling place confusion in Dallas.
• Maddow: Trump's clown car Cabinet now an alarming liability as threat from Iran spikes 03.03.2026 42min

  "They're not sending their best." Rachel Maddow reviews how the collection of unqualified culture warriors Donald Trump has put in charge of key facets of the United States national security apparatus is much worse than merely incompetent now that Trump has started a war with Iran and stoked a new level of threat against Americans and American interests.
• MS NOW's live breaking coverage with Rachel Maddow of U.S. attacks on Iran 28.02.2026 44min

  Rachel Maddow joins MS NOW's ongoing live breaking coverage of the United States' attack on Iran.
• Trump's 2026 State of the Union 25.02.2026 2val 30min

  Listen to MS NOW’s Special Coverage of President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union Address on February 24th, 2026.