Pod Save America - Rachel Maddow Talks Trump, Biden, and the Speaker-less House

Special guest Rachel Maddow joins the show to talk about the latest in the Speaker-less House, Trump's legal troubles, and President Biden's message strategy. Then, Maddow discusses her new book, "Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism," which recounts a long-forgotten chapter of U.S. history that's eerily relevant today. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

Duration: 1h 8m
Broadcast on: 24 Oct 2023
Audio Format: other

(upbeat music) - Welcome to Plates of America, I'm Jon Favreau. - I'm Jon Lovett. - I'm Tommy Dieter. - And joining us in studio is a special guest host, the host of the Rachel Mano Show and best-selling author whose new book is called Prequel, An American Fight Against Fascism, Rachel Mano. Welcome back. - Guys, it's nice to see you. - Great to see you. - Last time I was here, I was on crutches, Jon, remembered. - Yeah. - Yeah, that was my last book door. I did the whole thing on crutches. - Right, it was October of 2019. - Before it all began. - Before everything got interesting. All right, we're gonna talk about your book a bit later. We're also gonna talk about President Biden's growing number of political challenges and Donald Trump's growing number of legal challenges. But first, we are now on week three of House Republicans' failure to agree on which of them should be speaker. A clown show that has paralyzed the government just a few weeks before it runs out of money in just a few days after President Biden asked Congress to pass $100 billion in additional funding to defend Ukraine against Putin, Israel against Hamas, Taiwan against China and beef up security along our southern border. So since Jim Jordan went down in flames last week, eight House Republicans have declared their candidacy for speaker, actually nine did, but we lost one tonight. - So why do you mean we like, we lost our tragically? (laughing) No, we just, we turned up, we thought, I thought he'd been in my pocket. - Some guy, his name is from Pennsylvania. - Dan Muser. - There you go, Tommy. - Muser, Muser, Maiser. - He went down. Anyway, none of these people are well known to anyone outside their districts who isn't a political junkie, including the leading contender majority whip, Tom Emmer of Minnesota, whose face I couldn't pick

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