Rachel Maddow

You don't win every fight, but you can't win any of them without fighting.

And sometimes, sometimes you do win.

Joining us now is Democratic Congressman Pat Ryan.

He represents the village of Chester.

He started that petition against the prison camp that has more than 20,000 signatures.

Congressman, it's nice to see you.

Thank you for being here.

First of all, I just have to ask you with the blizzard, how's your district doing?

Yeah, I live in western Massachusetts, and I feel like people don't understand that we already had a couple of feet of snow on the ground before this new couple of feet came down.

It feels different, but I know you guys are tough.

So let me ask you about this process.

Do you actually believe that the prison camp isn't coming to Chester?

Do you think this is settled now?

Yeah, I wanted to ask you about that because your district sort of famously is a real swing district and it's very, very ideologically diverse in terms of your constituents, town to town and county to county.

Has it been a unified no from all those different types of people in your district?

It kind of seems like it's been a really wide swath of people, certainly a bipartisan swath of people that has all got the same idea that this shouldn't come in.

Do you have any advice having been through this for all the other communities around the country that are trying to fight these same kind of fights?

Congressman Pat Ryan, Democrat of New York, sir, thank you for being here.

I know it's a busy time right now in your district, especially.

Thank you so much.