phoebe picking rachel. you know who else picked rachel? ross. you know what else ross did? he stole my joke. you know what? i'm going to get a joke journal, you know? and document the date and time of every single one of my jokes. that's a good idea. yeah. you know what's a bad idea? picking rachel. that's right. ( knocking on door ) hey, you guys. hey. hey. oh, don't you guys look cute. you guys make such a cute couple. monica, what are you doing? nothing. i'm just trying to recreate some of the fun that we had at my place the other day. remember? when you picked rachel over me? ( laughing ): that was funny. yes, it was kind of funny. it wasn't funny at all. why would you do that? why didn't you pick me? fine. the reason that i was leaning a little bit more toward rachel than you is just, you know, you're... kind of high maintenance. okay, let's go to lunch. that... that is completely untrue. you think i'm high maintenance? okay, prove it-- i want you to write out a list and we're going to go through it point by point. no, you're right-- you're easygoing. you're just not a

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thanks for coming on the show. >> hi, rachel. thanks for having me. >> let me ask you first, you've been covering carl paladino's candidacy longer than we have at the national level. did i get anything wrong there or do you think i missed anything in terms of points of emphasis of what people should know about him? >> no, you pretty much hit the nail on the head on that one. you know, there's been other controversies as well with the mosque issue in new york city. he at one point called the current governor a drug addict. he called the assembly leader in new york state antichrist. so there's been a whole deluge of news from the paladino campaign. >> am i right, also, that on the mosque issue -- the way that got covered nationally, he essentially dragged rick lazio into a fight over who could be more against the downtown lower manhattan mosque, but am i right carl paladino at one point said if that community center were built they would put up photos of the 9/11 hijackers on the walls of the community center to lionize them? >> i

joining us are rachel a professional mediator and abby associate director of jewish community relations council. this is a wonderful initiative cosponsored by the jewish federation of marin and sonoma counties, jewish relations council and northern california rabbis. i am president of the board of rabbis so i am excited to talk to rachel, erin and abby. >>> thank you very having us. >> what is the year of civil discourse and why focus on israel? >> we are really excited about this project eric. we are launchling this because of controversy that brewed within the jewish community. we at jcrc are often -- most of our work is looking at community relations outside of the jewish community but the way in which our community dialogues about israel and other controversial matters has signaled to us we also need to focus at building bridges within the jewish community. we are launching initiatives to elevate the level of discourse within the jewish community on controversial issues. we heard from community leader who have felt verbally and physically attacked because of their support of israel

enthusiasm matters, rachel. >> enthusiasm absolutely matters. is it what we're seeing here the enthusiasm of a campaign that was never before about five minutes ago expected to get anywhere and had no institutional support? that dynamic is very minor on the left compared to the right. >> in the wilmington paper tomorrow, you're going to see a headline as big as you can believe that she won this thing. remember when schumer beat d'amato late in the game. you don't have to stop now. she goes right into the next couple of weeks and doesn't stop. it's great to win in the fall. >> lawrence, by my count, this means that eight nrsc-endorsed candidates, eight candidates endorsed by the national republican senate candidacy have lost this year. eight of them. what does this mean for the republican party? is the party not actually part of equation now when we figure out whether or not candidates are viable? >> certainly not in the primary season. this does create the only hope that the democrats had. it's not to say the democrats are now going to win delaw

evening, rachel. >> invaluable. thank you very much. >> well, it's not me saying that, that was the deputy press secretary who said that. >> well, you too are invaluable if i remember the quote correctly, keith. >> well, i wasn't going to point that out, but thank you for doing so. >> well done and very subtle. thank you, keith, and thank you at home for staying with us for the next hour. during which, i hereby promise we will talk about white supremacist football. white supremacist football and its connection to one insane new york congressional race. do not try this at home. this is stunt wing nutry to be handled by professionals only. you are in good handle this. white supremacist football is coming up later on this hour. >>> but we begin tonight at the university of wisconsin in madison. where president obama has just launched a new get out the vote effort. simulcast. when the president spoke at this same wisconsin campus in early 2008 during the presidential primaries, the 17,000 strong crowd that turned out to

thank you for being here and congratulations on the ruling. >> thank you, rachel. >> thanks, rachel. >> major witt, let me ask what you think this means practically for you in the short-term. do you expect you will be reinstated right away? >> you know, i sure hope so. i'm ready wherever they are. >> what are you been doing since you were discharged under the don't ask, don't tell policy? what have you been doing in civilian life? >> pediatric physical therapist and also the rehab coordinator for the veterans hospital. >> and if this goes through, if what the judge says has to happen ends up happening, if the air force does take you back, you are -- you're eager to get back to the air force? >> oh, absolutely. i can't get -- i can't wait to get back to my unit and be with my incredible unit members. they're wonderful group. >> colonel fehrenbach, you're currently fighting your own discharge from the air force, like major witt. you did not tell anyone anything about your sexual orientation, you were outed by a third party. what is this decision today mean to you and to your case? >> w

it's nice to see you. >> hey, thanks rachel. good to be back. >> everybody has been saying all year that the religious right is really disenfranchised in republican politics right now. fiscal conservatives have taken over the party. it seems to me like the religious right is really back. do you think that it is? >> look, it's like claims for cures for cancer, you know. there's always something coming along saying that now there's a cure but it always comes back that it's not quite the cure. the religious right is a fund raising operation. it's not a political operation at all. people like gary bauer, who i knew back in the day when i was in the religious right and my dad was a leader and i was a leader before i dropped out in the early '80s was in the same business he's in tonight. and so when he comes in there bashing muslims but, say, wasn't bashing them before 9/11 or people show up and say it's refreshing to be in the middle east before 9/11 and then come back and say change their minds, you have to understand they don't hav

so i have katherine howard, lindsey, rachel herbert and then jamie whitaker in that order, please. >> good afternoon again, commissioners, katherine howard. i'll take off my early 1900's hat with a feather and put on my 21st century hat for the golden gate park preservation alliance. there will be a meeting on september 23 at 7:00 p.m. at the senior center on fulton street and 37th avenue to talk about the west side water treatment plant and the environmental impact report. this plant will build a 40,000 square feet of buildings in one corner of golden gate park. the tallest building will be 30 feet in height. there will be new paving for the entry road and parking, nightlighting and gates. the purpose it is to use the aquifer water for drinking and treated water from the oceanside waste water plant for irrigation. we would like the people to come. we'd like the people to comment on the e. the i.r. and to turn in written comments. there's more information on our website. we are particularly concerned because the plant is being built above ground in gold epigate park where the master p

>> always a pleasure, rachel. thank you. >> thanks, mike. >>> coming up on "countdown," president obama hosted a town hall today and got an earful from his supporters. richard wolffe ways in on that. >>> and on this show, when publicly taking credit for someone else's successful idea, it is often helpful if you didn't oppose that exact same idea in public. otherwise, you might get booed. voters are angry and some of them keep track of these things. please do stick around. it doesn't take much; an everyday moment can turn romantic at a moment's notice. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction can be more confident... in their ability to be ready with cialis. with two clinically proven dosing options, you can choose the moment that's right for you... ... and your partner. 36-hour cialis and cialis for daily use. cialis for daily use is a low-dose tablet... you take every day, so you can be ready anytime the moment's right. day or night. tell your doctor about your medical condition... ... and all medications

good booking, rachel? the republican nomination for senate from delaware, but i will remember where i was. i was here on msnbc 24 hours ago. and in the wake of that ever lasting gobsmacker, i traveled from our home studios in new york here to washington, d.c. for the rare opportunity to sit down with the man who for a very long time -- a long, long, long time -- held the senate seat that christine o'donnell now wants. tonight my sit-down with vice president joe biden. the vice president had plenty to say about the delaware senate race. a pretty bold assessment of the possible repeal of don't ask, don't tell. and some very direct talk for the democratic base. >> one reason i want to be on your show is to tell the progressives out there, you know, get in gear, man. >> having just given away why the vice president would agree to spend a good part of his day with me today. we will get to the rest of what he had to say about christine o'donnell in delaware, the republican party this year, don't ask, don't tell,

>> always a pleasure, rachel. thank you. >> thanks, mike. >>> coming up on "countdown," president obama hosted a town hall today and got an earful from his supporters. richard wolf weighs in on that. >>> and on this show, when publicly taking credit for someone else's successful idea, it is often helpful if you didn't oppose that exact same idea in public. otherwise, you might get booed. voters are angry and some of them keep track of these things. please do stick around. - woman #1: hey. - woman #2: hey. i was just in town for a few days and i was wondering if i could say hi to the doctor. - is he in? - he's in copenhagen. - oh, well, that's nice. - but you can still see him. - you just said he was in-- - copenhagen. - come on. - that's pretty far. - doc, look who's in town. - ellen! - copenhagen? - cool, right? vacation. - but still seeing patients. ( whispers ) workaholic. - i heard that. - she said it. - i-- cisco-- introducing healthpresence. ♪ now the healing power of touch just got more powerful. introduc

now commemorating politics here is rachel maddow. >> thank you very much for that. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. we begin tonight with what they said could never be done. they said that wedge issues only wedge one way. if you are a democratic politician, if you've got a culture warrior opponent, you essentially just have to take it. they can win points with their base for being super antiabortion, super antigay and all the rest but there is no way that you as a liberal, you as a democrat can raise those issues from the other side. sorry. you just can't do it. don't bother. you can campaign against reproductive rights. republicans have made an art form of that in recent years but you can't campaign for reproductive rights. that just can't be done. this is how the culture war has settled out over the past decade or so. campaign all you want against all sorts of civil libertarian issues. you can campaign against gay people. you can campaign against religious freedom for anyone who is not your particular brand of christian. you can campaig

>> always a pleasure, rachel. thank you. >> thanks, mike. >>> coming up on "countdown," president obama hosted a town hall today and got an earful from his supporters. richard wolffe ways in on that. >>> and on this show, when publicly taking credit for someone else's successful idea, it is often helpful if you didn't oppose that exact same idea in public. otherwise, you might get booed. voters are angry and some of them keep track of these things. please do stick around. ♪ well, look who's here. it's ellen. hey, mayor white. how you doing? great. come on in. would you like to see our new police department? yeah, all right. this way. and here it is. completely networked. so, anything happening, suz? she's all good. oh, my gosh. is that my car? [ whirring ] [ female announcer ] the new community. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco. [ male announcer ] we all need people who will be there for us in life. people who say, "we're with you, no matter what." at wachovia and wells fargo, we're with yo

rachel alexandra has run her last race. the famous wine maker and owner has decided to retire her as a 3-year-old rachel alexandra won all eight starts beating the boys three times and this year, she won only two of the five starts and he said, she owes us nothing and he plans to mate her with two time horse of the year, curling to this in a few years we'll see another curl iing or rachel alexandra horse at the freak next. >> okay. toms up next to look at the old gibbs canning company. today these factories are full of dot com businesses. and now my job is helping maryland create new economy jobs. training new math and science teachers investing in our institutions of excellence pioneering new cyber security jobs and giving an old gm plant a jump start building electric motors. i'm barbara mikulski. i approve this message so you'll know i'm fighting for you. bob ehrlich's real record on energy. lobbyists helped write utility regulations. we got stuck with a 72% rate hike. but martin o'malley got tough on bge, forcing them t

thanks for being here. >> thanks, rachel. it's great to be back. >> first, i want to get your reaction to the family's reaction to you. the family's pr offensive. it seems strange that they would be developing a website. >> you know, 75 years of secrecy and denying your own existence and confronted with your culpability and all kinds of things, ranging from sex scandals to possibly genocidal bills in africa, so you got to do something. so a website, that's where they're starting. it's a small first step. >> the family has been working in the background of international politics and american politics for decades now, as you have documented. and every now and then over the years, stories about them surface. but usually they are dropped and forgotten about. what do you make of the cyclical nature of the coverage of this group? >> well, it speaks to the kind of sort of limited understanding, i think, of corruption that we function within the press. we understand a scandal when it involves a politician in bed with the wrong person

don't te," here is rachel maddow. >> in politics and news and civil rights, it has been a very, very big day. 17 years and coming. today was going to be it. the beginning of the end of "don't ask, don't tell." surprise. the push for repeal went kersplat on the floor of the senate. jim webb votes with the democrats. another surprise, senators pryor and blanche lincoln vote with the republicans. the bottom line is no progress against "don't ask, don't tell." not today. all the political and practical details with msnbc's lawrence o'donnell. and "don't ask, don't tell" expert nathaniel frank. >>> and this jaw-dropping exchange between senator john mccain and a reporter. >> find out if someone -- i don't know if they are. they do not. they do not. they do not. you can say they are. >> that is the case, senator. >> major mike almy joins us live. >>> and the senator standing for reelection by write-in scores a sad own goal against her own campaign. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >>> today in the united states senate, language in the defense authorization bill that would let the

ladies and gentlemen, here's rachel maddow. good evening, rachel. >> i appreciate you taking a break from counting your rare gold antique coins to join us on tv today. >> gold coins. you know what else? they have chocolate in the middle. >> the great scandal of 2010. thank you, keith. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. we begin tonight with the great unveiling. house republicans held their big take your jacket off photo op today to prevent their agenda for this election year. it was a bit of a flop. not in terms of the photo-op. the photo-op looks awesome. the blue shirts, it's amazing. no problem there. but the reception it received, that greeted it upon arrival was blunt and not positive. their big election year pledge was called, drek and pablum and full of glaring contradictions. also, milquetoast. those were things from people on the right. those terms were from the most popular, heavily trafficked red wing blog, red state and for the club for growth. for all the criticism on the right, if you

last night on the "rachel maddow show," vice president joe biden talked about the u.s. civilian commitment to iraq and what the future holds for the end of "operation new dawn." >> when we leave iraq next year, we are not -- we are leaving militarily, but we are significantly ramping up our civilian presence. i mean significantly. and we are working -- i conduct a meeting once a month with our folks in iraq as well as with our every cabinet member. i have the secretary of commerce, the secretary of education, the secretary of treasury, the secretary of agriculture. we're all there working now with the iraqis, providing for the ability to help them build their institutions so they can function, including how to make the electric grid function. so that say process. we're not walking away from that. we are increasing our civilian commitment, and we're trying to work out what they call a, you know, a strategic arrangement long term with them that is not military but it is on the civilian side. >> you don't want to miss rachel maddow's unique take on politics and all the top

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so nice to have you here. >> great to be here, rachel. >> democrats seem to be okay with conservative democrats sort of waging war against their own party. why is that? >> sort of hoping that one day maybe one of them will be the 60th vote on some compromise piece of legislation and therefore he cannot afford to really take them on. it's also something else which is that maybe progressives and the middle class need to sort of face up to the fact that the president is not that much into them. that he would rather hang out with larry summers or flirt with olympia snow or play war games late into the night with general petraeus. and there is something about that, too. plus, the fact that he has compromised his own arch narrative. remember, he set up the deficit commission before he set up a jobs commission. and we're not talking here about a marginal issue. we're talking about the core issue of the democratic party, which is jobs and protecting the middle class and working people. so when you do that and when you go against your own campaign promise, and allow offshore oil drilling just

see you, rachel. >>> coming up on "countdown." for years, karl rove cared for and fed the far right edges of the republican party. now they are waging war on him. coming up on this show, guess who thinks the ban on gay people serving in the military is about to go the way of the dodo, lawn darts, and the whole idea of installing the gas tank right next to the back bumper. vice president joe biden told me today that don't ask, don't tell will be ending. he got pretty specific about how that will happen. that's coming up. the world work. the world work. ♪ when it's planes in the sky ♪ ♪ for a chain of supply, that's logistics ♪ ♪ when the parts for the line ♪ ♪ come precisely on time ♪ that's logistics ♪ ♪ a continuous link, that is always in sync ♪ ♪ that's logistics ♪ ♪ carbon footprint reduced, bottom line gets a boost ♪ ♪ that's logistics ♪ ♪ with new ways to compete ♪ there'll be cheers on wall street, that's logistics ♪ ♪ when technology knows ♪ right where everything goes, that's lo

rachel bilson is the denim darling. kate middleton, the princess in waiting. and bill karins is the weather guy. >> don't go there. did you come up with those names or that's what the magazine -- >> that's what the magazine -- i'm not that creative. the daring darling. i spent all morning preparing for this. no, thankfully i have more important things to do. >>> i'm lynn berry this is "first look" on msnbc. stay tuned, "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. >>> christine o'donnell, day two. one day after trashing her in public, establishment republicans circle the wagons around the tea party candidate who sprung the upset in delaware what does o'donnell say in a clip from her past that has detractors lathered up this morning. >>> and mahmoud ahmadinejad tells andrea mitchell his country does not need the united states? the question is what does the little guy have in store for us in his u.n. visit next week? >>> and derek jeter is accused of being a

. >>> a hot topic on "the rachel maddow show." she asked governor ed rendell why the health reforms aren't pore popular. >> the health care reform bill was popular when you broke it down into segments. it got spun out of control and people don't like the concept or the idea but they like the individual stuff. i was in pittsburgh today at a senior center talking about the 250s. i'm in harrisburg tomorrow with some 24-year-olds who are now being covered through their parents. they lost their jobs but they're covered by their parents. people see that stuff and say, oh, yeah, the high-risk pool. the pre-existing condition and for small businesses, you know, the republicans have been saying, absolutely lying saying this is going to drive up costs for small business, well, in pennsylvania, there are 150,000 small businesses under 25 employees, if they give health care to their employees they're going to get a 35% tax credit this year for the money they laid out this year. we ought to be talking about these individual things. they're all

my name is rachel. i am here with bernard heights neighborhood center, a member of the coalition for health in san francisco. i am a resident of bernal and go to st. luke's for medical services. the statements from seniors that spoke earlier and recalling speakers, there is a profound need for accessible healthcare services in the southeast part of the city. people need to access a full range of quality medical services in the community, including the increasing medical needs of seniors as they age such as skilled nursing facilities, health, education and nutrition education, preventive approaches, trauma care, support for parenting teens and complex birthings, psychiatric services and treatment including in patient services. cpmc needs to commit hiring from the communities and implementing discriminatory practices. in essence, if cpmc expects to reap the benefits of operating as a non-profit organization and touts itself as a community-minded entity, then their plans should reflect that. in the current

rachel, how do you respond to rumors you're incredibly difficult to work with? >> well, as her boyfriend, i can answer that. >> we've been dating all summer. >> rachel's what you'd call a controlist. >> i'm controlling. >> oh. >> i'm controlling. performing is my life. and yet, do i have opinions about it? is my need to constantly express those opinions annoying to other glee clubbers? >> yes. that was out loud, wasn't it? [ cheers and applause ] >> oh. >> i'm controlling. performing is my life. and yet, do i have opinions about it? is my need to constantly express those opinions annoying to other glee clubbers? >> yes. that was out loud, wasn't it? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's awesome, hey. just to get you guys psyched about the second season of "glee," cory brought a box set of the entire first season of "glee" for everybody in the audience. [ cheers and applause ] everybody gettin' one. cory monteith, let him hear it. come back whenever you want, buddy. we'll be back with a cover from superchunk. come on back! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now..

thank you for joining us. >> can we please have the whole hour, rachel? there's a lot here. >> i'm going to make my first question very short so you can just start. huh? what do you make of this, melissa? >> you've got a lot of complicated things going on here. on the one hand, this group of insurgent young women in the gop who are doing something that scholars of women's politics would say is very unlikely. they are running with little experience, with little name recognition, against incumbents. this is precisely why we've said we don't have many women in national government. it's precisely because it is so hard to be a person of less experience running against an incumbent. on the one hand, there's this tiny bit of me that wants to cheer for the fact that you have women candidates willing to be courageous enough to put themselves forward in this very tough political situation. on the other hand, let's be completely clear about the facts here. there is no place in the world and no time in history where restricting women's reproductive rights makes a peo

. >>> when rachel joins you at the top of the hour, a flashback. she talked about being master of your domain. unrelated among rachel's special guests tonight is me. >>> at worst, you all heard the story, now hear who's at fault. the answer is everybody. >>> when they offered a compensation fund of $20 billion you knew there was a catch. they revealed that catch tonight. >>> we have a call shortly out of delaware ahead on "countdown." >>> nothing like having your former campaign manager come out against you on election day. christine o'donnell. first get out your pitchforks and torches. >>> sports reporter at the mexican tv station azteca. she shares the bronze with everybody in the world. that's right, i said everybody in the world. don't cross me, i'm in a bad mood. the jets coaches said throws during practice should be directed toward her. the players acted inappropriately toward her in the locker room. national coverage has given her more coverage of bp gulf disaster just so they could show more pictures of her. various women's media groups hav

and if you're on the left, someone like keith olbermann or rachel maddow, someone who helps keep our government honest, then he thinks those folks provide an invaluable service. i want to thank mr. burton for his kind words and the president for his. and i want to sort of rise to this bar, i hope, by asking this. if on the eighth day of the administration, if the president knew the gop has been anti-everything, why has he been negotiating with them as if he could get a yes from them? >> because the president doesn't watch zombie movies. and you can't negotiate with zombies, you can't trust zombies and you -- you know, he continued after that point. i read the "rolling stone" interview today, and that was a striking acknowledgment on his part. after getting that big no from them on stimulus spending, he ran into it again and again on the energy front, on health care, on wall street reform, and each time he was, you know, he spent a lot of effort and a lot of political capital trying to work with the zombie party. and he kept hitting his head against the same wall. maybe if he'd come t

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last night major almy was on rachel maddow's show and he said he was dumbfounded, was his word by the mccain remarks. what's your reaction to him? >> that his outburst had everything but "get off my lawn." props to kerry eleveld for committing an act of journalism and challenging mccain. he's not entitled to his own facts. some of us are old enough to remember when senator mccain condemned agents of intolerance on the left and the right. and it is saturday and tragic and pathetic to see that he has become himself, an agent of intolerance, who hopes to get his cut on november 2nd. >> in a strange way, does it help your cause when you see a john mccain launch into full-fledged fingers in the ears, pissy old man mode when it comes to don't ask, don't tell? >> as long as he's called on it. we have a media culture in this country where politicians are allowed to assert falsehoods and then a lot of the lamestream media, if i may borrow a phrase, not msnbc, who has trotted out the facts, won't challenge him on what he knows to be true. we know mccain was incorrect or lying or diluted or seni

congressman murphy, thanks very much for your time tonight. >> thanks, rachel. i appreciate that. >> is privatizing veterans' care as third rail of an issue as i think it is? to me this seems like a positively nuclear proposal. >> absolutely. and that's why they don't want to talk about it except in republican circles. it is outside the mainstream. i mean, this is not where the american people -- and i can assure you -- this is certainly not where the american veterans believe the privatized the va -- we need to make sure it's strengthened, not to privatize it and cut it loose. >> who is out there in the government right now or in politics really who is defending these programs? who is talking about how popular these are, who are their cheerleaders? sometimes it seems the people who receive this care as social security beneficiaries or veterans getting va care are left on their own to defend this thing they're benefitting from. >> that's right. that's because, you know, the veterans in america are the majority population. you talk to the veterans that i served b

here is rachel maddow. good evening. >> did you say commitment phobic? >> commitment phobic guy, i did. >> sure enough. wanted to have that for the record. thank you. >> what did you think i said? >> i just didn't want -- i didn't want to have it end up where you said something totally different and i invented that. >> like the french justice department minister? >> oh, the giggly guy? >> no, no, no, the woman who didn't say -- meant to say inflation but didn't say inflation. >> oh, yeah. that was -- that was one of those ones i saw the headline and couldn't breathe any further. i got verklempt for the rest of the day. >> me, too. >> thank you, keith. thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. for the next hour in which we shall celebrate the launch of lawrence o'donnell's new show which is tonight right after this hour. we shall celebrate the arrival of our new desk which inexplicably has something to do with the start of lawrence's new show with you i'm not sure what. i'm very excite body my new desk. we shall also celebrate the retur

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