Trump ends summer with record low approval ratings
All In with Chris Hayes 9/4/17
Most presidents start their first September in office with high hopes for a productive legislative session. Donald Trump is starting his with record-setting disapproval ratings. Duration: 10:56
Rachel Maddow looks at the genesis of the "Alternative Right" and its connections with a prominent conservative think tank that is very influential in Republican politics. Duration: 13:59
Rachel Maddow revisits a racist rally that took place shortly after Donald Trump's election victory at which attendees shouted, "Hail Trump!" in celebration of their expectations of the advancement of their racist cause. Duration: 7:24
White nationalists gain path to power through Bannon
The Rachel Maddow Show 9/4/17
Rachel Maddow notes the role of Steve Bannon and the Breitbart web site in the white nationalist "alt-right" community and the awkwardness of someone with those racial views attaining a high position in the White House. Duration: 4:07
Klan's political resurgence foreshadowed in Wilson administration
The Rachel Maddow Show 9/4/17
Rachel Maddow looks at how a screening of "Birth of a Nation" at the Woodrow Wilson White House in 1915 foreshadowed a political resurgence by the Ku Klux Klan. Duration: 1:24
Klan's historic political ambition finds foothold with Trump
The Rachel Maddow Show 9/4/17
Rachel Maddow looks back at how the Ku Klux Klan flexed its muscles in national American politics in the 1920s and how those same racist political ambitions are finding accommodation with Donald Trump. Duration: 16:47
Congress returns in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and Trump's threat to shutdown the government over funding for a Mexico border wall. Can the GOP unite to raise the debt ceiling? Jonathan Allen, Indira Lakshmanan & fmr. GOP Rep. David Jolly join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 10:46
Donald Trump called a senior Republican senator from Iowa on Wednesday whose congressional committee is investigating his son, Donald Trump Jr, and promised him critical federal support for the biofuel ethanol, a key issue for the lawmaker.
Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee and a major advocate of the ethanol industry, announced on Twitter that he had received a phone call from Trump and had been assured by the US president that Trump was “pro ethanol” and was “standing by his campaign promise” to support the biofuel.
The phone call came less than a day after CNN reported that Trump’s eldest son had reached an agreement with the committee to appear in a private session and answer investigators’ questions. The committee, which has oversight of the Department of Justice, is investigating a 2016 meeting that occurred in Trump Tower before November’s election. During the meeting, Trump Jr and other campaign staff met with Russian operatives after being promised compromising information about the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
US Deputy Attorney General Warns About the Right-Wing Terror Threat Trump Ignores
Published on Sep 4, 2017 by Mike Malloy
Last week I reported on concerns among US law enforcement and security leaders about a rising threat of domestic right-wing terrorism. For some, those fears were exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s equivocating response to the deadly car attack earlier this month by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville, Virginia. As one high-level US official told me, Trump’s handling of the crisis “has been hard to view as anything other than a disaster. There are real concerns about where it leads the country.”
Trump also has a history of downplaying, if not downright ignoring right-wing terror attacks, as I’ve also documented. But in a speech at a national security conference in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein went where Trump takes pains not to go. After telling an audience of law enforcement professionals that fewer radicalized Americans have been seeking to join ISIS overseas, though still pose a danger at home, Rosenstein addressed the threat from the far right: “The Department of Justice also remains vigilant about the threat of domestic terrorism,” he said. “Violent domestic extremists have plotted attacks on government buildings, businesses, and houses of worship. They have planned and carried out assassinations of police officers, judges, doctors and civil rights leaders. They have acquired biological and chemical weapons, illegal firearms, and explosives. They have carried out killing sprees that terrorize local communities.”
On "Day 228" of the Donald Trump White House Regime, Trump continues to try and Bluff China about a Trade War. But if China knows it is a Bluff, than who is the Bluff directed towards ? AMERICANS !!! Trump should tell America the Truth.., a Foreign Power has taken over your Congress and My Hands are Tied, I can't do anything and one day your Store Shelves will be Empty !!! God Bless America.
AI will be the 'most likely cause of WW3': Elon Musk tweets chilling warning in response to Vladimir Putin's claim that whoever cracks artificial intelligence will 'rule the world' Musk tweeted the comments this morning in reponse to Putin's claims last week Putin said the development of AI raises 'colossal opportunities and threats' Musk tweeted 'competition for AI superiority at national level' could spark a war He added that a war is likely to be started by one of the AIs itself, rather than a country leader http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4850410/Elon-Musk-claims-AI-likely-cause-WW3.html