Rachel Maddow

His approval ratings have never been lower.

The number of Americans who strongly approve of Donald Trump right now is dropped into the teens.

His approval rating with Americans overall is 27 points underwater.

His approval rating with independents overall is 47 points underwater.

That is a portrait of a country that is repulsed by their president, while his cabinet is convulsed in scandal, each one more repulsive than the next.

I mean, the only saving grace for some of these cabinet members is that the president himself is so awash in scandal, it's kind of hard to share the spotlight with him.

But amid this smoking mess,

What's he trying to do?

He's trying to build himself a huge new archipelago of mega prisons to lock up huge, huge, huge numbers of people without due process effectively outside the legal system.

I don't know who the designated survivor is going to be tomorrow night.

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It's home to about 4,000 people.

On Christmas Eve, the people of Chester read for the first time in the Washington Post, of all places, that the Trump administration was planning on sticking a huge new prison camp in their little town.

They were planning on doing it here in this warehouse that used to belong to a Pep Boys.

Local officials from the village of Chester saw this in the Washington Post, and they immediately wrote to the Trump administration to say, hey, nobody's told us anything about this.

What's going on here?