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Rachel Maddow reports breaking news that the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Donald Trump's bid to use the U.S. Postal Service to subvert mail-in ballot voting. Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket and stalwart defender of U.S. elections in the Trump era, joins to discuss why even this major victory for democracy is not a reason to relax in the face of an increasingly desperate Trump looking for any way he can to undermine the coming midterm elections.
Democrat Mary Peltola, hoping to flip Alaska’s critical Senate seat, has spent months traveling to many parts of the rural state that are off the grid. She tells MS NOW’s Chris Jansing “it's a lot of air time” and “living out of a duffel bag,” but it’s the only way to meet voters face to face.
MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell examines warnings from tech leaders that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity. Lawrence discusses Donald Trump dismissing concerns about AI as a "hoax" and highlights Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff's call for Congressional investigations into the AI industry and scrutiny of the Trump administration's financial ties to technology companies.
AI companies are acknowledging the risks of their developments after leading their "agents" hacked companies on their own. Roger McNamee says it's these companies have "always been able to put guardrails in. What they've actually done is to create really, really poor software."
Rachel Maddow shares details of new reporting from ProPublica that Donald Trump Jr.'s lavish weekend wedding celebration was largely paid for by a "very generous" Russian oligarch who even helped plan the festivities despite there being some questions about just how well he knows the couple or what he might expect in return for his generosity. Brett Murphy, investigative reporter with ProPublica, joins to talk about the report.
Former federal appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the Supreme Court blocking Donald Trump’s new USPS mail ballot rules from being used in the midterm elections, a “humiliating defeat” for Trump who has tried to “affect the midterm elections unconstitutionally.”