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Pepper spray up to 5x hotter than spiciest pepper

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Pepper spray up to 5x hotter than spiciest...

Deborah Blum, author of "The Poisoner's Handbook," discusses the intensity of pepper spray and the health effects it can have on someone exposed to the substance.

The Rachel Maddow Show

11/22/11

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Refugee office blocking girl's abortion right

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Refugee office blocking girl's abortion right

Rachel Maddow reports on an anti-abortion extremist appointed by Donald Trump to lead the Office of Refugee Resettlement trying to force a teenage girl refugee to give birth by denying her access to medical care, including abortion services.

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10/20/17

Duration: 5:51

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Puerto Rico backsliding one moth after storm

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Puerto Rico backsliding one moth after storm

Rachel Maddow reports on the updated death toll, the rate of infection, and the reverse in progress restoring electricity to Puerto Rico as the inadequate response to Hurricane Maria is turning a natural disaster into a public health catastrophe.

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10/21/17

Duration: 3:13

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John Kelly lied in attack on Rep. Wilson

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John Kelly lied in attack on Rep. Wilson

Rachel Maddow reports the latest developments in the mess Donald Trump has made politicizing military next-of-kin notifications with the fact that Trump chief of staff John Kelly's attack on Rep. Frederica Wilson in his defense of Trump was completely

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10/21/17

Duration: 4:08

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Search for answers on Niger deaths grows

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Search for answers on Niger deaths grows

Rachel Maddow looks at circumstances and U.S. interests in and around Niger and the increasing demand for answers about the how four American soldiers were killed there.

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10/21/17

Duration: 7:07

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Expert sees risk of corruption in Trump deals

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Expert sees risk of corruption in Trump deals

Sarah Chayes, author of "Thieves of State," talks with Rachel Maddow about the structure of corruption in some developing nations and why she sees a risk of that kind of corruption spreading to the United States under Donald Trump.

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10/20/17

Duration: 9:13

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Trump flouting norms risks venal turn in US

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Trump flouting norms risks venal turn in US

Sarah Chayes, author of "Thieves of State," talks with Rachel Maddow about why Donald Trump's business with corrupt foreign governments risks spreading corruption to the United States.

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10/21/17

Duration: 5:00

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Trump US attorney interviews raise eyebrows

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Trump US attorney interviews raise eyebrows

Rachel Maddow reports on Donald Trump meeting with candidates for U.S. attorney positions in the districts that would have jurisdiction over Trump's affairs, which isn't illegal but is unusually enough to draw concerned attention.

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10/21/17

Duration: 2:22

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Trump U.S. attorney screenings unheard-of

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Trump U.S. attorney screenings unheard-of

Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about the rarity of presidents meeting with candidates for U.S. attorney positions and why Donald Trump doing so is of particular concern.

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10/21/17

Duration: 3:48

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Greater need but less help for Puerto Rico

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Greater need but less help for Puerto Rico

Rachel Maddow compares the amount of help the Houston area received after Hurricane Harvey and the progress made in recovering from that storm to the comparatively meager response Puerto Rico and the corresponding slow progress there.

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10/21/17

Duration: 2:55

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Trump travel ban preceded US Niger exposure

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Trump travel ban preceded US Niger exposure

Rachel Maddow looks at the utterly confounding decision by the Donald Trump White House to add important partner Chad to the latest iteration of the travel ban, and how it might put U.S. military lives in danger in places like Niger.

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10/19/17

Duration: 25:22

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Pentagon scrambles for answers on Niger

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Pentagon scrambles for answers on Niger

Courtney Kube, national security and military reporter for NBC News, talks with Rachel Maddow about the Pentagon's effort to find answers about what happened in Niger that left four U.S. service members dead.

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10/19/17

Duration: 6:43

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Eric Holder joins Rachel Maddow Monday 10/23

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Eric Holder joins Rachel Maddow Monday 10/23

Rachel Maddow reports on how the Wisconsin voter ID law had a deleterious effect on voter turnout, something Attorney General Eric Holder warned about at the time. Eric Holder will join Rachel Maddow for an interview on Monday 10/23 at 9pm ET.

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10/19/17

Duration: 1:43

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FEMA grants dubious storm recovery contracts

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FEMA grants dubious storm recovery contracts

Matthew Philips, politics and policy editor for Bloomberg Businessweek, talks with Rachel Maddow about reporting his team has been doing into the companies being given FEMA contracts to help in the recovery from this season's hurricanes.

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10/19/17

Duration: 5:27

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CIA forced to walk back director's statement

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CIA forced to walk back director's statement

Rachel Maddow shares video of CIA director Mike Pompeo stating falsely that the U.S. intelligence community's assessment is that Russia's meddling did not affect the outcome of the election. The CIA would later walk that statement back.

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10/19/17

Duration: 1:31

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New V.A. plan raises privatization concnerns

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New V.A. plan raises privatization concnerns

Rachel Maddow reports on a new proposal by the V.A. that has some veterans advocates concerned that conservatives are taking advantage of the Trump administration to enact the privatizing of veterans' health care they have long sought.

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10/19/17

Duration: 3:00

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Trump fight with Gold Star families shocking

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Trump fight with Gold Star families shocking

Rachel Maddow struggles to process how it could be reality that Donald Trump has picked a fight with the families of people who died in service to the United States, to whom Americans owe a debt, not an insult.

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10/18/17

Duration: 17:31

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Maddow: What is Trump hiding about Niger?

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Maddow: What is Trump hiding about Niger?

Rachel Maddow points out that for all the attention given to Trump's disgraceful behavior toward gold star families, the actual question Trump was asked was about Niger. Why the Trump distraction?

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10/18/17

Duration: 13:05

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Sessions reveals no plan to protect elections

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Sessions reveals no plan to protect elections

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about testimony from Jeff Sessions in which he reveals that the Justice Department does not have a plan to protect future elections from outside influence.

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10/18/17

Duration: 9:41

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Brennan: Implausible Russians had no US help

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Brennan: Implausible Russians had no US help

Rachel Maddow shares video of former CIA director John Brennan explaining that he thinks it is implausible that Russians were not able to get some help, wittingly or unwittingly, from Americans in their mission to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.

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10/18/17

Duration: 1:34

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