Maddow: Trump's clown car Cabinet now an alarming liability as threat from Iran spikes
3/3/202643 min
"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 Carol Leonnig reports on new firings at the FBI that included members of an elite counterintelligence squad specializing in neutralizing threats from Iran. The firings came just before Trump started a war with Iran, setting up a whole new threat environment for Americans and American interests.
Senator Tammy Duckworth joins Rachel to discuss Donald Trump's incoherent explanation for attacking Iran and the burden America's men and women in uniform are taking on for Trump's whim.
And Donald Trump's Justice Department under Pam Bondi is in trouble with a judge again.
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Rachel Maddow· Host0:46
All right. She was born in, uh, Texas, in El Paso. She went to the University of Maryland. She joined the Air Force. In the Air Force, she studied languages and intelligence. She ended up spending more than a decade in US military intelligence, and then she left the military for the private sector. In the private sector, she continued military intelligence work, including on some very sensitive stuff, uh, while she worked as a US defense contractor. And then in the midst of that very highly sensitive, um, US military intelligence career, she defected to Iran. Um, she had convert-