Jen Psaki looks at Republican candidates who have purged their campaign materials of mentions of Donald Trump or have avoided events with Trump or Trump officials. Some candidates are even speaking out in defiance of Trump despite having previously been supportive. But Trump is too unpopular now to admit that support.
The midterms are here as voting in three states starts on September 18. The GOP is worried that polls show voters upset by high costs tied to Trump's Iran war. MS NOW political analyst Peter Beinart notes that "Trump never made the case for this war" and "there's no prospect it's going to end" soon.
Even as Republicans insist that technology companies can police themselves to ensure the public is safe from overstepping artificial intelligence and Donald Trump assures Americans that his firm hand is all that is necessary, the artificial intelligence industry continues to make alarming disclosures about the dangerous capabilities of A.I. and its occasional tendency to do something it supposedly shouldn't be able to do. Ronan Farrow, investigative reporter for the New Yorker, joins to discuss.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Donald Trump’s policies on American democracy and the economy, arguing that Trump’s policies have turned pain at the gas pump into “Trump at the pump.”
MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how Donald Trump expressed “loyalty and fealty to Middle Eastern dictators, being "very protective" of them, while letting the American people suffer through skyrocketing gas prices and diesel prices and inflation” because of his war with Iran.
Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic Nominee for Senate in South Carolina and a pediatrician, joins The Weeknight to call out the dangers of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership at Health and Human Services.
As measles spreads across 47 states, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. headlined a conference for the world’s largest anti-vaccine organization. MS NOW’s Brandy Zadrozny has the story.
Rep. Robert Garcia joins The Weeknight to discuss what state attorneys general are already doing to combat Trump family corruption across the country and what he plans to do if Democrats retake the House in November.