JoAnna Mendoza, a Marine veteran, former Drill Instructor, and Democratic nominee for Congress in Arizona, says Secretary Hegseth is undermining trust in the military: "I have talked to parents, conservative parents, who have kids who are deployed, they're pending orders, and they're terrified that their kids are going to come back in a flag-draped coffin."
Ali Velshi lists all the ways that Pete Hegseth's "State of the Force" speech was racist and bigoted.
MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how one Republican senator humiliated himself “in stupidity and disgrace” as Speaker Johnson admits that Republicans will continue to do what they’ve been doing – pushing Donald Trump’s illegal tariffs and his unpopular war in Iran that are driving up costs – if they win in November.
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Instead of addressing the military conflicts that the United States is involved in, Secretary Hegseth’s “State of the Force” speech focused on culture war nonsense. Retired Lt. Col. Amy McGrath and MS NOW's David Rohde join Ali Velshi to discuss Hegseth’s wayward leadership and horrendous remarks.
Senator Eric Schmitt was warned that the text message he planned to use as a perjury trap for special counsel Jack Smith had not been vetted, but Schmitt was so convinced of his own conspiracy theory about the criminal investigations of Donald Trump that he ignored the warning and ran headlong into humiliating himself in the national spotlight. Capitol Hill reporter Mychael Schnell joins to explain MS NOW's exclusive reporting and former Senator Claire McCaskill provides her analysis.
JoAnna Mendoza, a 20-year Marine veteran and former Drill Instructor, is hoping to flip Arizona's 6th district blue after Trump's signature legislation brought about "devastation" in southern Arizona. "People are paying attention, they are suffering, and they know who is in charge."
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Desperate for re-election, Netanyahu is flooding the zone with his narrative of a foiled “jihadi terror” attack
By Max Blumenthal When Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud ally and Defense Minister Israel Katz instantly blamed “jihadist terror” for the FlyDubai incident, in which Israeli passengers on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv supposedly stormed the cockpit to prevent the flight from crashing, they drowned out an initial assessment by IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and his top commanders that ruled out hijacking as the motive behind the altercation. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The following day, Saudi and Emirati state media were still avoiding reference to the incident as a terror attack. They seemed to be awaiting the outcome of the Saudi…Open
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