Jen Psaki

The Last Word is also going to be talking a lot about the protests in the next hour.

They also have former Labor Secretary Robert Reich standing by.

And we'll be right back.

That's going to do it for me tonight.

We have a lot of news to get to tonight, a lot of news.

But tonight, I want to start with the fact that Donald Trump announced he will sign an executive order to pay TSA workers during the ongoing shutdown.

Of course, this comes six weeks after the shutdown began, which begs the question, one of the questions, I should say, as to why Trump didn't do this in the first place.

I think a lot of people have waited in lines for four hours, six hours, whatever it may be, are asking that question.

We're going to talk about that with New Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill, whose state has been hit very hard by that shutdown, both in terms of people waiting at the Newark airport and in many, many different ways.

Oh, and tonight the Treasury announced that Donald Trump is literally going to put his own name on American currency, not making that up.

It's literally...

what has been reported, a move that is definitely very tacky, but might also be illegal.

So I'm going to talk about that with former White House ethics lawyer Norm Eisen later on in this hour.

But I'm actually going to start the show really with Trump's war of choice in Iran, of course, because we are now on day 27 of the conflict.

And gas prices as of today have increased by a full dollar per gallon in just the last month.

I'm sure you all have noticed that.

Wall Street just had its worst day since the war began.

Iran has categorically rejected Trump's offer to end the war.

And even Republicans are irate with the administration over the lack of answers on Iran in the briefings they've done on the Hill just this week.

And amid this ongoing crisis, the president of the United States held the cabinet meeting today where