Episode 27

For reasons that are hard to fathom, included among Biden era gun rules that Donald Trump has rolled back are restrictions on people who have been adjudicated mentally ill, making it easier for them to get access to guns and ammunition. Marianna Mitchem, former associate assistant director at the ATF, talks with Rachel Maddow about the danger Trump is courting with his recklessness.Rachel Maddow looks back at how past national milestone anniversaries were celebrated and considers how history will view the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the nation's birth, marked primarily by narcissistic celebrations of Donald Trump.Rachel Maddow shares a collective cringe with other Americans ahead of Donald Trump's trip to a NATO meeting in Turkey as Trump always finds a way to insult and undermine NATO at these meetings. This time the Kremlin has informed Americans that Vladimir Putin has been in touch with Trump, talking with him on the phone for 90 minutes on July 4th. What ideas is Putin growing in Trump's head?