Rachel Maddow Has Emotional Breakdown On Live TV

Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow

She had an on-air mental breakdown and it was kind of fantastic to watch

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Now listen, there's no love lost here or in either party I think for Ronna McDaniel

She's like a woman without a country right now. She was recently hired by NBC

MSNBC, their hosts went so crazy about it that Rashida Jones who's in charge of MSNBC

she had to say no no no we won't have her on this network because of course MSNBC is an echo chamber

They can't hear any opinion that differs from their own opinion. Now, Ronna spent this week and with her first appearance on MSNBC or I'm sorry NBC

basically disavowing things that Trump has said and you know all that to try and put herself in

the good graces of the mainstream media but Maddow and her crew, they weren't having it

and they went out of their minds. I want you to watch this video and let me know what you think

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We love you guys. God bless you. Take care everybody. You know in the press we do not take it personally when we get attacked

When they you know say they want to put us on trial and execute us for treason

we don't we don't take it personally. But we do defend ourselves as an institution

not because we're personally offended by the way that we're treated, but because a free and uncowed press is necessary for our democracy

A free and uncowed press is part of our system of government

We stand up for ourselves as a way of standing up for our country and for our constitution, the first amendment to which makes it possible for us to exist at all

And so I want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at MSNBC and at NBC News

who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone

who hasn't just attacked us as journalists, but someone who is part of an ongoing project

to get rid of our system of government. Someone who still is trying to convince Americans that this election stuff it doesn't really work

that this last election it wasn't a real result. That American elections are fraudulent

Because that argument, that is a necessary part, that is the most necessary part of the

overall project of getting us as Americans to give up on this election stuff

Because wouldn't we rather have a real man in charge anyway? Somebody who could really get some stuff done

If only we could clear away all the things in his way. We have a long history in this country of forgettable men

telling us that we need a new system of government where everything's under their control

where everything's under their control and politics is over and this new strongman way

of government is gonna make America great again. We have had a lot of these guys

But our generation's version of this guy has gotten a lot farther than all the rest of them

And why is that? He would have been as forgotten as all the rest of them

had he not been able to attach himself to an institution like the Republican Party

and had the leader of that party in his time not decided that she wouldn't just abide him

she would help. She would help with the worst of it. It's my understanding that MSNBC's leadership

did not object to Ronna McDaniel being hired by NBC News when the matter first arose

But when the hiring was announced and MSNBC staff essentially unanimously and instantly

expressed outrage, our leadership at MSNBC heard us, understood, and adjusted course

We were told this weekend in clear terms, Ronna McDaniel will not be on our air

Ronna McDaniel will not be on MSNBC. And I say that and give you that level of detail because there has been an effort since

by other parts of the company to muddy that up in the press and make it seem like that's

not what happened at MSNBC. I can assure you that is what happened at MSNBC

Ronna McDaniel will not appear on MSNBC, so says our boss since Saturday

and it has never been anything other than clear. And I will also say, you know, if you care what I think about this, I will tell you the

fact that Ms. McDaniel is on the payroll at NBC News. To me, that is inexplicable

I mean, you wouldn't hire like a wise guy. You wouldn't hire a made man like a mobster to work at a DA's office, right

You wouldn't hire a pickpocket to work as a TSA screener. And so I find the decision to put her on the payroll inexplicable

And I hope they will reverse their decision. And it's not about, you know, Democratic Party, Republican Party

It's not about partisanship. It's not about right versus left. It's not about being a political professional versus some other kinds of person

It's not about being mean or nice to journalists. It's not about just being associated with Donald Trump and his time in the Republican Party

It's not even about lying or not lying. It's about our system of government and undermining elections and going after democracy as an

ongoing project. Right? And this is a difficult time for us as a country

And I think that means we need to be clear eyed about the implications of it

Difficult times make for difficult decisions. We are contending with something we've never heard before

We've never had to contend with before. In the news business, yes, we are covering an election, which we do all the time, but

we're also covering bad actors trying to use the rights and privileges of a democracy to

end democracy. The chief threat among them now is not the rioters and the coups, but the slick political

professionals who are turning their considerable talents to laundering violently revolutionary claims that America's elections aren't real, that election results aren't real, and that

they shouldn't be respected. We are contending with this now not from William Dudley Pelley's brown shirt militias

right, but from the multibillion dollar massive political operation of one of the two governing

parties of the United States of America. And that's new. And with our country up against something that daunting and that scary and that dangerous

for the country, I think bad decisions will inevitably happen. Mistakes will be made

But part of our resilience as a democracy is going to be recognizing, us recognizing

when decisions are bad ones and reversing those bad decisions, hearing legitimate criticism

responding to it, and correcting course, not digging in, not blaming others

Take a minute. Take a minute. Acknowledge that maybe it wasn't the right call

It is a sign of strength, not weakness, to acknowledge when you are wrong

It is a sign of strength. And our country needs us to be strong right now

I'll be right back