Families of the U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS Lincoln are speaking out about the conditions being reported on board the vessel. President Trump said Friday that despite spending several months at sea, he thinks the deployment has been “not nearly long enough.” Retired U.S. Army Captain Allison Jaslow and President of Elevation Global Strategies Kevin Baron join Alex Witt to share their insights on this and more.
New concerns are surfacing over President Trump’s personal profiteering from the presidency and the Trump family’s business dealings. Former Trump White House Attorney Ty Cobb joins Alex Witt to discuss this and why a new DOJ policy protecting communication between Trump and his private advisers isn’t supported by the Constitution.
Moderates and progressives are both seeing victories in Democratic primaries, raising questions as to how big the Democratic party’s tent can get. Former Special Assistant to President Biden, Meghan Hays, and former senior advisor to the Harris-Walz 2024 Campaign Adrienne Elrod join Alex Witt to discuss this and more.
After the death of a third ICE detainee at a detention facility in New Jersey, lawmakers and activists are raising urgent questions on the treatment of those caught up in President Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-NJ), member of the House Homeland Security Committee, joins Alex Witt to share her thoughts on this, her re-election bid, and more.
MS NOW Political Analyst Matthew Bartlett and Michael Hardaway, former Communications Director for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, join Alex Witt to discuss the state of the midterms and the buildup to the 2028 presidential primary season.
The Washington Post reports around $900 million is being spent by the Trump administration on vanity projects for President Trump’s legacy, including a new White House ballroom and changes to the Kennedy Center. The New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman joins Alex Witt to lift the lid on the Trump White House’s lack of approach to the midterms and Trump’s struggle with the Iran war.
California Rep. James Gallagher joined “Saturday Agenda” to discuss the growing influence of democratic socialists, California’s high gas prices and cost of living, his push to reform congressional redistricting and U.S. policy in the Middle East.
The U.S. Navy has scrambled in recent days to deploy a different aircraft carrier to waters off Iran after families of sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln confronted military leaders over poor conditions. MS NOW Pentagon reporter Priya Sridhar reports.
A new documentary film, “American Doctor,” takes us inside Gaza’s hospitals with three U.S. physicians: Dr. Mark Perlmutter, Dr. Thaer Ahmad, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa. Dr. Perlmutter said they participated in the project in order to “promulgate the truth” and “advance the actual facts coming out of what our American tax dollars were doing.” Dr. Ahmad says doctors in Gaza face immensely difficult situations when waves of injured people come in. “You have to sit there and make this decision of, who are you going to try to resuscitate… it’s something that caused a significant amount of moral injury for all of us, but I would caution and say Palestinian doctors have been making those decisions every day for almost three…
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