Rachel Maddow

where this is headed. We're going to talk with Congressman Raskin about that in just a moment. You're going to want to see what the instant emergency reaction was when it was announced this morning that Trump had arrested a judge. You're going to want to see this.

But it is not weird for there to be a correlative, if not causative, connection between a politician's deep and evident weakness, his profound unpopularity with the American people, and that same politician showing a new willingness to do the craziest stuff imaginable. Right? I mean, it's not just a Trump phenomenon. This is a political science thing.

But it is not weird for there to be a correlative, if not causative, connection between a politician's deep and evident weakness, his profound unpopularity with the American people, and that same politician showing a new willingness to do the craziest stuff imaginable. Right? I mean, it's not just a Trump phenomenon. This is a political science thing.

You know, if people like you and they like what you're doing, you'll do more things that they will like. You will try to hold on to the support that you've got. You will try to build on that support. You will try to keep the people on your side.

You know, if people like you and they like what you're doing, you'll do more things that they will like. You will try to hold on to the support that you've got. You will try to build on that support. You will try to keep the people on your side.

If, on the other hand, your approval rating is, I don't know, negative 19 in the Pew poll and getting worse in every successive poll, and you've got, I don't know, 70-point margins against you on the stuff you're saying you want to do, well, then what do you do? It's not like you got anything to build on. People hate everything you're doing. So what do you do? You just do something crazy.

If, on the other hand, your approval rating is, I don't know, negative 19 in the Pew poll and getting worse in every successive poll, and you've got, I don't know, 70-point margins against you on the stuff you're saying you want to do, well, then what do you do? It's not like you got anything to build on. People hate everything you're doing. So what do you do? You just do something crazy.

You do something wild and reckless to change this stuff up, to change the conversation, just to blow things up, just to make things different. You arrest a judge or something. This was two days ago in Storrs, Connecticut, on the campus of the University of Connecticut, home of the UConn Huskies.

You do something wild and reckless to change this stuff up, to change the conversation, just to blow things up, just to make things different. You arrest a judge or something. This was two days ago in Storrs, Connecticut, on the campus of the University of Connecticut, home of the UConn Huskies.

Students protesting about Trump targeting immigrants and international students and revoking student visas. This was yesterday at UNLV in Las Vegas. Students protesting at UNLV about Trump targeting students, targeting immigrants there, too. This was a big one. This was Syracuse University. A big protest. Look at this. Against Trump going after immigrants, going after student visas.

Students protesting about Trump targeting immigrants and international students and revoking student visas. This was yesterday at UNLV in Las Vegas. Students protesting at UNLV about Trump targeting students, targeting immigrants there, too. This was a big one. This was Syracuse University. A big protest. Look at this. Against Trump going after immigrants, going after student visas.

And this is all just within the last couple of days. And, you know, we have been covering these kinds of protests against Trump's arrests of students, his attacks on students, for weeks and weeks now. I mean, we've just got reams and reams of this kind of footage. Left to right, top to bottom here, this is just an unrepresentative sample. This is— New York City, Columbia University.

And this is all just within the last couple of days. And, you know, we have been covering these kinds of protests against Trump's arrests of students, his attacks on students, for weeks and weeks now. I mean, we've just got reams and reams of this kind of footage. Left to right, top to bottom here, this is just an unrepresentative sample. This is— New York City, Columbia University.

That's in the top center. That's Newark, Delaware, the University of Delaware. On the upper right, that's Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bottom row, that's Cobb County, Georgia, Kennesaw State. Center in the bottom there, that's Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University. Lower right there, that's Tempe, Arizona. That's ASU, Arizona State.

That's in the top center. That's Newark, Delaware, the University of Delaware. On the upper right, that's Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bottom row, that's Cobb County, Georgia, Kennesaw State. Center in the bottom there, that's Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University. Lower right there, that's Tempe, Arizona. That's ASU, Arizona State.

Colleges and the communities around them have been protesting in one way or another every single freaking day about these kids being snatched off the streets, snatched off campus by Trump's agents, students being thrown out of the country, in many cases for no apparent reason at all. Are you one of the people who has participated in one of those protests?

Colleges and the communities around them have been protesting in one way or another every single freaking day about these kids being snatched off the streets, snatched off campus by Trump's agents, students being thrown out of the country, in many cases for no apparent reason at all. Are you one of the people who has participated in one of those protests?

We've driven past one of those protests and given them a honk and a thumbs up. Have you done anything to publicize the cases of those kids? Posted about it on social media, wrote letters to the editor, called into call-in shows, called your member of Congress about it, put up a sign in the window.

We've driven past one of those protests and given them a honk and a thumbs up. Have you done anything to publicize the cases of those kids? Posted about it on social media, wrote letters to the editor, called into call-in shows, called your member of Congress about it, put up a sign in the window.

Have you done anything to bring attention to this, to show or say that you objected to what Trump was doing in arresting all these students and jailing them or throwing them out of the country? Have you done any of those things? If so, today is your day. Headline, Trump administration reverses course on student visa cancellations.