Rachel Maddow

So we've got a lot of things to watch on that story this week.

A lot of places fighting a lot of battles on that front right now as we speak.

And I do think this week looks like it's going to be a crucial week.

I think that Wednesday night in Chicago may be a very big deal.

But again, we're seeing it everywhere.

I mean, this was yesterday.

Concord, New Hampshire.

Yet another protest against yet another planned Trump prison camp, one that is slated for the southern New Hampshire town of Merrimack.

I gotta say, that Merrimack-Trump prison camp plan has turned into an absolute debacle for the Republican governor of New Hampshire, Kelly Ayotte.

She has refused to say—here's a brave one—she has refused to say whether she is for or against that prison camp in her state.

The whole state is rising up against it.

Merrimack is absolutely up on its hind legs, totally against it.

And Governor Ayotte keeps trying to say that she doesn't have a position either way.

And her way to try to get around this is to repeatedly say she just doesn't understand what's happening.

She can't figure it out.

She feels like she's out of the loop.

It's an incredibly weak performance from a governor who's otherwise ambitious and has designs on national office.

We're going to have an update in just a few minutes from New Hampshire on how Trump's effort to force one of his prison camps into southern New Hampshire is just turning into a political disaster for that otherwise ambitious Republican governor in that state.

We're also going to get an update this hour from one of the journalists

who's been arrested by the Trump administration, is now facing federal charges just for reporting on a protest against ICE.