New polling paints a bleak picture of Donald Trump and the Republican party ahead of the midterms. Alicia Menendez – in for Nicolle Wallace – is joined by Dan Kanninen and Claire McCaskill.
MS NOW’s Priya Sridhar reports on a sailor deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln who recently learned his father has been detained by immigration authorities in Florida — and the family’s plea to bring him home.
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Rachel Maddow walks through Trump’s race-day flag fiasco, where he made a simple job look much harder than it is.
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Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the Trump administration’s “D-Day" framing of new economic pressure on Iran. Kirby also warns of the dangers of what The New York Times’ Jamelle Bouie calls a “degraded, chaotic information environment” surrounding Donald Trump.
MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how the Supreme Court ruling allowing Trump, for now, to restrict mail-in ballots “is as willfully naive and childish as that first sentence” which could only have been written by “the Natalie Harp's of the Supreme Court - the believers that Donald Trump can do no wrong.”
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President Trump launched the U.S. into a new trade war with Canada, imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Trump wants Canada to "negotiate in good faith.” In response, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada was at war with the U.S. and lamented that “America has changed” and promised “dollar for dollar” retaliation. MS NOW Senior White House Reporter Vaughn Hillyard provides more context on how Canada was “the top importer of American goods” prior to 2024. Plus, Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow for Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress, joins The Weeknight to discuss how Trump's escalating trade war with Canada could cost American…
Stephanie Ruhle breaks down why she believes Trump’s escalating trade war with Canada is “uniquely stupid.”
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Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes reacts to the Trump administration's demand for private voter information.
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Listen to the audio version of The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell from the Aug. 24th broadcast.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott once courted tech companies to build data centers in his state, but now he’s pivoting as the backlash comes for Republicans. Pat Garofalo joins The 11th Hour with Ali Velshi to discuss why data centers have become bad policy and bad politics.
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