Rachel Maddow

Zero jobs created in six months in the private sector.

One Trump-supporting Republican sheriff in California has just seized the ballots from the last statewide California election in his county.

Not because the sheriff's office has anything to do with election administration in Riverside County or anywhere else, but because that sheriff and his deputies have guns and badges, and they say they heard something was wrong with the election.

So in Riverside County, California, that MAGA sheriff just seized 1,000 boxes of elections material, including more than 650,000 ballots.

as American air travel absolutely melts down, not only because the price of jet fuel is skyrocketing thanks to Trump's war of choice in Iran, no, as American air travel today absorbs not only that, but also yet another Trump-era fatal collision at yet another airport, this time a runway collision at LaGuardia in New York, which killed two pilots and sent 41 people to the hospital, as TSA security lines tonight exceed four hours just to get through security at

Houston's airport, as Atlanta advises travelers on domestic flights that they're going to need at least four hours lead time at that airport before just domestic flights.

Today, in the midst of that meltdown, President Trump told Republicans at a campaign event in Tennessee that he did not want the TSA crisis to be solved.

He said he did not want there to be any talks about resolving the TSA crisis and funding TSA agents until Democrats agreed to pass new restrictions on voting rights.

He said Republicans had to get this done, quote, for Jesus.

Okay.

MSNOW is reporting tonight that the ICE agents Trump has sent to the airport supposedly to help with the TSA disaster, the ICE enforcement and removal operations officers, the ERO officers that they've sent, they, quote, do not have the ability to check travelers' identification or screen passengers.

So what are they there for?

other than to creep everyone out and crowd the food court and, you know, remind the poor beleaguered TSA agents who actually are trained to do this job that they're not being paid to be at work right now while these random bros from ICE who can't actually do anything are being paid their full salaries to stand around and creep everyone out and add to how crowded it is in the terminal without actually doing anything to help at all.

So the news right now is dramatic.

You might even call it melodramatic.

Everything seems to be just happening on this grand scale.

But here's also part of what's going on that is unfolding more quietly, without melodrama.

It's definitely got moral drama, and it's the kind of story we can only get from people who are watching very, very closely.

This story starts with a guy in Minnesota, a man named Nick Benson, who would not mind if I described him to you as a plane spotter.

He's a plane buff.