'Ignorance is Strength': Judge shuts down Trump's history re-write in devastating ruling
2/17/202644 min
Rachel Maddow shares highlights from a judge's remarks in rejecting Donald Trump's power to dismantle a national monument i Philadelphia to hide the fact that George Washington owned slaves. The judge compared Trump's censorious "anti-woke" edict to the mission of the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984.
Independent journalist Georgia Fort talks with Rachel Maddow about ICE harassment of media and activists.
Rachel Maddow reviews the latest batch of terrible poll numbers for Donald Trump, including on issues that are meant to be his political strength, and points out that his familiar trick of making empty promises he has no idea how to keep are insufficient distraction from the cruelty of ICE and the paucity of his economic ideas that are turning Americans against him.
New Hampshire State Rep. Wendy Thomas joins to discuss the fight against a new ICE prison in the town of Merrimack, New Hampshire and the waffling indecision by Republican governor, Kelly Ayotte.
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Thanks to at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here this President's Day. Happy President's Day! Um, the first US president to live in the White House was the second US president, was John Adams. Uh, John Adams moved into the White House in November of the year 1800. Before that, while he was president, but before he moved into the White House, before the White House was complete, John Adams lived in Philly. Um, both John Adams, the nation's