We're a month out from the most consequential midterm elections of the 21st century. With momentum on its side, the Democratic party is hoping that big wins in November will lead to a dredging of the entire federal government – one that's continued an ICE surge with impunity, that's failed to stem a worsening affordability crisis, and that's started wars after promising to end them. As the countdown to the elections winds down, Symone and Eugene invite the one-and-only Rachel Maddow back into the groupchat to share their hope that the Democratic party will rise to the occasion and start cleaning up the political mess we’re in. They also get into how her new true crime documentary – Kill, Bury, Print – reflects local communities…
President Donald Trump has promised to campaign in the country’s 35 most competitive races before Election Day. But his midterm blitz opens this week in friendly territory — Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas — and that may be by design. MS NOW's Jake Traylor has the latest.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins October 1, and for more than three decades, actress Elizabeth Hurley has used her platform to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. Now, The Estée Lauder Companies and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation are launching a 5-year, $15 million global initiative focused on breast cancer in younger women — an area that has been significantly underfunded. Hurley, a global ambassador for The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign for decades, joins Morning Joe to discuss the initiative and why the issue is so personal to her.
President Trump says he will not rule out invoking the Insurrection Act in November. President of the Brennan Center for Justice Michael Waldman joins Alicia Menendez to share his reaction to Trump's comments.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth leaned into the Christian religious messaging that has characterized much of his Pentagon stint during a speech on Wednesday to troops at a military base in Quantico, Virginia. The secretary quoted Bible verses and detailed new reforms to the military chaplaincy intended to raise their profile within the Pentagon bureaucracy. CNN's Erin Burnett speaks to US Marine Corps veteran Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) about Hegseth's push to inject religion into Defense Department practices. Also, former US Army Major Harrison Mann and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta weigh in on Hegseth's Pentagon makeover. 0:00 Hegseth comments on new office of religious affairs 1:27 Sen. Gallego responds to Hegseth saying the US…
While talking about his White House ballroom at a Hispanic Heritage Month event, President Trump said "only a Hispanic could survive” a fall at the construction site. This comes as Trump tries to court Hispanic and Latino voters. Former Rep. Charlie Dent, "The Good Liars" Comedian Jason Selvig and Co-founder of The Lincoln Project Mike Madrid join Alicia Menendez to share their reactions.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a striking address where he railed against "beardos, weirdos, and wimps." Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) joins Peter Alexander to share his reaction.
Their accounts, detailed in hundreds of pages of investigative files obtained by The New York Times, were disjointed. All the men denied any wrongdoing.
