The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Walls are closing in on Trump as missing Epstein documents point to avenue of inquiry

28 Feb 2026

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Ali Velshi reviews the dubious dealings and questionable relationships of Donald Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, not the least of which is...

Hillary Clinton makes fools of Republicans as 'gotcha' subpoena backfires

27 Feb 2026

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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee apparently thought that calling Hillary Clinton to testify about Jeffrey Epstein would score them some po...

Trump apparently numb to federal waste as staff burns through taxpayer money

26 Feb 2026

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California Governor Gavin Newsom talks with Jen Psaki in an extended interview about the damage Donald Trump has done to democracy in the United State...

Trump's 2026 State of the Union

25 Feb 2026

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Listen to MS NOW’s Special Coverage of President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union Address. During his speech, Trump touted the ending of DEI polic...

Psaki: Tariffs are a tool of Trump's corruption at taxpayers' expense

21 Feb 2026

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Jen Psaki points to examples of Donald Trump manipulating tariffs against other countries for reasons that have nothing to do with economics and every...

Family of Virginia Giuffre, accuser of former Prince Andrew, react to his arrest

20 Feb 2026

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Sky and Amanda Roberts, brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, react to the news of the arrest of former Prince Andrew. Virginia Rober...

Trump Cabinet's tone deafness makes election outreach plan ridiculous

19 Feb 2026

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The Trump administration is rolling out a strategy to send Cabinet members to electorally competitive districts ahead of next year's midterms. Jen Psa...

Rep. Crockett speaks out on CBS Colbert controversy with her opponent

18 Feb 2026

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett talks with Jen Psaki about the Texas Senate race and the phone call she received from Paramount in connection to the confrontati...

Noem-zilla: Diva behavior and infidelity rumors cap disastrous week for Trump's DHS secretary

14 Feb 2026

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Jen Psaki rounds up a remarkable list of failures and bad news suffered by Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, and shares high...

Jared Kushner emerges as focus of intel whistleblower complaint about Gabbard

13 Feb 2026

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For more than a week since the initial report from the Wall Street Journal, information about an intelligence community whistleblower report and the a...

Pam Bondi makes an absolute fool of herself frantically ducking Epstein questions

13 Feb 2026

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Jen Psaki shares highlights from the most bizarre and obnoxious testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, or any committee, in recent memory in ...

'Likely incriminated': Congressman names six men unredacted from Epstein files

11 Feb 2026

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Jen Psaki looks at how the Epstein scandal is an actual scandal in places still capable of shame and disgrace, while in the United States, association...

Trump's offensive post provokes questions about the role of racism in his MAGA support

07 Feb 2026

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The panicked response by Donald Trump and his White House support staff to the backlash against his racist social media post suggest Trump miscalculat...

Trump resorts to the ridiculous, desperate to reverse engineer the 2020 election

06 Feb 2026

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Jen Psaki rounds up the myriad conspiracy theories and random ideas that Donald Trump has his White House staff chasing down in a desperate effort to ...

Plummeting popularity sets Trump on a war against the truth

05 Feb 2026

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Jen Psaki looks at Donald Trump's poll numbers sinking to deeper depths as Trump grows more vocal about his intention to interfere in the upcoming mid...

Panicked by bad news, Trump makes elections power grab and leaves staff sputtering with excuses

04 Feb 2026

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Jen Psaki shows how an onslaught of bad news and bad polls for Donald Trump is making him more desperate to control voting and the outcomes of electio...

Exclusive: Don Lemon's attorney, Abbe Lowell, one-on-one with Jen Psaki

31 Jan 2026

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Abbe Lowell, attorney for journalist Don Lemon, talks with Jen Psaki about Donald Trump's escalating war on the news media, and the pattern he sees am...

Georgia raid seen as start of Trump's effort to corrupt elections ahead of midterms

30 Jan 2026

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Senator Warner talks with Jen Psaki about the threat Donald Trump poses to free and fair elections in the United States.Minnesota Attorney General Kei...

Buttigieg to Democrats: Picture life after Trump; Republicans already are

29 Jan 2026

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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg talks with Jen Psaki about accountability for the abuses committed by members of the Trump administrati...

Calls for accountability for ICE run amok puts Noem in the hot seat

28 Jan 2026

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Rep. Seth Moulton talks with Jen Psaki about why so many Democrats (and even some Republicans) want Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to resi...

Americans grow more outraged as Trump's ICE grows more outrageous

24 Jan 2026

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While the Trump administration releases a steady stream of gaslighting statements about ICE arresting "the worst of the worst," Americans are seeing w...

Trump makes a fool of himself on world stage; pretends to solve crisis of his own making

22 Jan 2026

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Jen Psaki reviews the lowlights of Donald Trump's cringey, humiliating  ramble of an address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland which ...

'He's not going to be president forever': Pritzker vows accountability for Trump officials

21 Jan 2026

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker talks with Jen Psaki about resisting Donald Trump's power grabs, protecting the people of his state, and holding Trump o...

Trump's anti-immigrant overreach backfires; 'It looks bad,' says advisor

17 Jan 2026

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As courts rebuke ICE violence in Minneapolis, and Donald Trump doubles down on corrupting the Justice Department by opening investigations into Minnes...

Trump accidentally confesses why he is antagonizing Minneapolis

16 Jan 2026

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Donald Trump's ICE force is not only not making life better for the residents of Minneapolis, it seems to be trying to pick a fight. Today, Trump, who...

Psaki: Trump continues to trample American values with raid on reporter's home

15 Jan 2026

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With Donald Trump already doubling down on the trauma and terror he is inflicting on the Minneapolis community with his federal ICE police force, he t...

No one is buying Trump's ICE shooting narrative and videos of ICE abuses are making it worse

14 Jan 2026

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Jen Psaki reports on new polling that shows Americans are very aware of the deadly ICE shooting of a Minnesota mom and are not buying into Donald Trum...

VIDEO ANALYSIS: Jen Psaki breaks down multiple video angles of ICE killing Minneapolis mom

10 Jan 2026

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Just two days after the deadly ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, several videos, shot from different perspectives have been released to the p...

Get Insider Access to MS NOW Podcasts

09 Jan 2026

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Listen to this special invitation from Rachel Maddow and sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts to take advantage of a 3-month free trial!With M...

NYC Mayor Mamdani calls for accountability for ICE killing of Minneapolis mom

09 Jan 2026

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani talks with Jen Psaki about the need to hold ICE agents, including the one who shot and killed Minneapolis mother Re...

'The truth matters here': Minneapolis mayor rejects Trump narrative on deadly ICE shooting

08 Jan 2026

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey talks with Jen Psaki about how his city is dealing with the deadly shooting by a federal ICE agent, his vehement oppositi...

Psaki: Donald Trump is addicted to power; planning, not so much

07 Jan 2026

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Jen Psaki proposes that Donald Trump is motivated by a the rush of making himself feel powerful, which explains why so many of his actions don't appea...

'Undo Trump' gains traction as a Democratic campaign message as Trump's popularity plummets

03 Jan 2026

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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee apparently thought they could help Donald Trump's cause by attacking former special counsel Jack Smith in...

Loose lips Trump blabs about covert Venezuela mission; appears to be making it up as he goes

31 Dec 2025

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As the U.S. military remains mostly opaque on the details of ongoing aggression against Venezuelan targets, Donald Trump lack of filter and braggadoci...

'Not on the level': Trump makes sketchy business of second term

25 Dec 2025

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Jen Psaki looks at the many ways Donald Trump is using his time in office to enrich himself from the very start of his second term in office. To liste...

New Epstein docs point to potential co-conspirators; Trump DOJ still slow-walks release

24 Dec 2025

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Jen Psaki reports on some of the new discoveries in the latest tranche of files released in the Epstein document collection, as well as new questions ...

DOJ risks criminal prosecution for defying Epstein documents release law: Weissmann

20 Dec 2025

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Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, and Julie K. Brown, investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, talk with Jen Psaki about the Justice Dep...

'Bad, fast-talking infomercial': Psaki fact-checks Trump's address

18 Dec 2025

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Jen Psaki shares her first reaction and offers some corrections and clarifications to Donald Trump's address to the nation. MS NOW's Catherine Rampell...

Trump chief of staff makes disastrous miscalculation in talks with reporter

17 Dec 2025

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Jen Psaki shares highlights and insights from a new Vanity Fair article based on interviews with Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles. The artic...

Tish James, who nailed Trump for fraud, humiliates Trump's prosecutors with third indictment failure

12 Dec 2025

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Donald Trump's prosecutors tried and failed a third time to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has repeatedly humiliated Donald Trump...

Maddow: Trump's attacks on immigrants serve a more sinister purpose

11 Dec 2025

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Jen Psaki introduces viewers to Rachel Maddow's new podcast, "Burn Order," about Japanese internment in the U.S. during World War II, and points out t...

Trump's old tricks fall flat from overuse in the face of hard realities

10 Dec 2025

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Jen Psaki reviews the myriad scandals, disgraces, and bad news stories that are plaguing Donald Trump and his administration, and the familiar playboo...

Psaki: No one home at the White House but the man-children

06 Dec 2025

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Jen Psaki looks at the myriad ways Donald Trump and members of his administration are indulging reckless, juvenile ideas with no one pushing back to f...

Rep. Himes shares shocking details from boat strikes briefing; disputes key points in reported story

05 Dec 2025

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Rep. Jim Himes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee was one of only a few legislators in a classified briefing on the September 2nd bom...

Hegseth's problems snowball despite domesticated Pentagon press corps

04 Dec 2025

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Jen Psaki rounds up reporting and developments from just the past 24 hours that paint Donald Trump's secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, into an even ...

Hegseth, beside sleepy Trump, backtracks on boasts about boat strike amid war crimes talk

03 Dec 2025

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Tennessee State Rep. Aftyn Behn shocked the political world with a disproportionately strong showing in a special election in a congressional district...

Preview of “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order”

01 Dec 2025

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Rachel Maddow’s new series lays bare one of the most shocking decisions in American history. It’s story that reveals how an executive order author...

GOP panics as Democrat closes gap in red district special election

27 Nov 2025

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Jen Psaki rounds up the latest reporting in the investigation of a shooting in Washington, D.C. that has left two members of the West Virginia Nationa...

Trump's clown car Cabinet lives up to the name

26 Nov 2025

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Jen Psaki checks in on "some of the most incompetent people this country has ever seen," some of the higher profile members of Donald Trump's administ...

Jaws drop as Trump has 'nothing but praise' for Mamdani, boogeyman of right-wing media

22 Nov 2025

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Right-wing, Trump-supporting media had so thoroughly demonized New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani that it seemed all but a certainty that Donald...

Trump freaks out at reminder to military that he's not king

21 Nov 2025

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Donald Trump has made flouting the law and daring anyone to challenge his ability to do so a hallmark of his second term, but a new video reminding Am...

Trump fails to stop Epstein bill as his political grip slips and sycophants fall away

20 Nov 2025

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Jen Psaki reports on breaking news that Donald Trump has signed the Epstein Transparency Act after House Speaker (and Trump sycophant) Mike Johnson fa...

Epstein survivor breaks her silence on 'the list,' Mar-a-Lago and the fight for justice

19 Nov 2025

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Epstein survivor Sharlene Rochard tells Jen Psaki in an exclusive interview tonight that the people to whom she was trafficked include well-known name...

New report exposes massive corruption in Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security

15 Nov 2025

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Trump struggles to find excuses and distractions in the face of unrelenting questions about his association with Jeffrety Epstein, leaving his Republi...

'A slap in the face': Family members rage at Trump defenders hijacking Epstein victim's remarks

14 Nov 2025

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Donald Trump and his defenders have responded to the newly released tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents by seeking to discredit any references to Tru...

Finally sworn in, Grijalva slams Johnson's 'abuse of power' for obstructing her

13 Nov 2025

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Rep. Adelita Grijalva, now official a member of Congress after waiting 50 days for Republican House Speaker to agree to swear her into office, talks w...

Trump backpedals as bad economic math triggers widespread outrage

12 Nov 2025

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Jen Psaki reacts to the collapse of Democratic resistance in the shutdown fight and the fact that no Democratic Senate candidates support the deal, wh...

Trump learns to say 'affordability,' but doesn't seem to grasp its meaning

08 Nov 2025

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Jen Psaki looks at Donald Trump's callous disregard for Americans who are struggling to cover living costs while he learns that "affordability" is an ...

Republicans strain to explain election failures, ignoring the obvious

07 Nov 2025

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Jen Psaki looks at some bizarre Republican hot takes explaining their poor performance in this week's elections, with addressing the cost of living in...

Trump struggles to process blame for election 'thumping'

06 Nov 2025

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In the aftermath of an Election Day disaster, Donald Trump struggled to accept the reality of the fallout from his painful policies, though he did at ...

Decision 2025 election preview special edition of The Blueprint with Jen Psaki

03 Nov 2025

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Jen Psaki offers a special preview of Tuesday's elections, including the important race for governor of Virginia with Jen Palmieri, former communicati...

Trump brings signature ignorance, recklessness to U.S. nuclear stature

31 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki shows Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President JD Vance explaining out loud that the reason they don't want to fund food ass...

Trump sinks to new levels of petty to rewrite history of his disgrace

30 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki shares reporting on the suspension of two federal prosecutors after they submitted a sentencing recommendation for January 6 rioter Taylor T...

Psaki delves into the heart of the scandal that rocked the Maine Senate race

29 Oct 2025

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The Maine Senate race was rocked this month when revelations about the Democratic frontrunner Graham Platner threatened to completely upend the Democr...

Trump to test courage of American voters with apparent intimidation tactics at the polls

25 Oct 2025

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In a move seen as a test run for intimidation tactics during the midterm elections, Donald Trump is reportedly sending poll watchers to a few polling ...

Psaki: Trump becomes a parody of himself as corruption and bad taste become hallmarks of his regime

24 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki observes that as Donald Trump gets more comfortable with his autocrat persona, the traits that made him a societal laughing stock all his li...

'An absolute gut punch': Psaki BLASTS Trump on White House demolition as public pushback strengthens

23 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki reacts to Donald Trump's demolition of the White House's East Wing to make room for his vanity project ballroom, and takes heart in the incr...

'No Kings Alliance' launches in wake of massive nationwide protests as movement's next step

22 Oct 2025

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It has been weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected to represent Arizona's 7th congressional district in Congress, but because Grijalva would represe...

Pritzker looks to hold law-breaking ICE agents to account

17 Oct 2025

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Ahead of the premiere of her new documentary, "Andrew Young: The Dirty Work," Rachel Maddow talks with Jen Psaki about parallels between the activism ...

Saddled with Trump's unpopular agenda, Republicans look for ways to subvert voters before midterms

16 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki looks at ways Republicans are trying to avoid accountability for Donald Trump's failures by rigging the election system to take power away f...

Preview of “The Blueprint” Season 2

15 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki is on a mission to show us how the Democratic party can use this political moment to fight and win again. On Season 2 of her podcast, “The...

Trump turns his back on taxpayers while cashing in on presidential power

15 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki looks at the myriad conflicts of interest and outright corruption by the Trump administration while taxpayers foot the bill for his self-ser...

Out of the loop?: Report says Bondi was blindsided Letitia James indictment

11 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki shares reporting from ABC News that the indictment of New York Attorney General Lititia James by Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Linds...

'Thin-skinned and petty and weak': Trump exposes himself, degrades U.S. legal system

10 Oct 2025

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With the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James by Donald Trump's Justice Department, Trump's pattern of political prosecutions is unde...

Bad Bunny breaks through: Evasive Mike Johson finds relevance in Super Bowl show

09 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki shows House Speaker Mike Johnson's pattern of avoiding having to address any issues that might cast Donald Trump in a poor light by pretendi...

Introducing Season 2 of “The Blueprint”

08 Oct 2025

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Democrats are looking to regain power, and there is a whole lot of warranted debate about what a winning formula looks like. “The Blueprint with Je...

Trump spirals as shutdown calls for leadership skills he lacks, a problem endemic to his team

08 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki points out Attorney General Pam Bondi's strenuous efforts to avoid having to answer for anything happening within the department she leads, ...

Psaki: Trump may be too clueless to understand consequences of his shutdown

04 Oct 2025

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Jen Psaki points out examples of Donald Trump not being aware of what his own administration is doing, or of the fallout of his own actions, raising q...

'Unhinged and unwell': Apparent degradation of Trump's mental state raises alarms

03 Oct 2025

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As public displays of Donald Trump's erratic behavior seem to be increasing in frequency and intensity, and the stakes for the fate of the country see...

Jen Psaki blows the lid off Jared Kushner's multi-billion dollar 'donated time'

02 Oct 2025

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Jen's Version: Jen Psaki addresses questions raised in the White House briefing room with real answers instead of the Trump administration's distortio...

Trump, Hegseth put on embarrassing show before a distinguished military audience

01 Oct 2025

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As the federal government heads into shutdown, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries talks with Jen Psaki about Democrats' openness to bipartisan ne...

'Breathtakingly corrupt, and mind-blowingly stupid': Trump DOJ on shaky ground with Comey indictment

27 Sep 2025

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George Conway, president of the Society for the Rule of Law, and Liz Oyer, former Department of Justice pardon attorney, talk with Jen Psaki about the...

Why indicting James Comey may come back to bite Trump

26 Sep 2025

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Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann talks with Jen Psaki about the legal issues inherent in the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, ...

Trump's sketchy prosecutor switch made clear with expected Comey indictment

25 Sep 2025

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While it was generally understood that Donald Trump's installation of his own personal lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, as U.S. attorney in the Eastern Distr...

Trump humiliated by UN escalator; Anatomy of a Donald Trump rage cycle

24 Sep 2025

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Donald Trump managed to take it personally when an escalator at the UN General Assembly stopped working while he was on it. Jen Psaki takes the opport...

Free speech BACKLASH as even members of Trump's base reject his attack on the First Amendment

20 Sep 2025

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Jen Psaki reports on the negative reactions of some surprising Republicans to the Trump administration's use of political intimidation to silence Dona...

Bigger than Kimmel: Psaki shows what's really behind the comedian's suspension

19 Sep 2025

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With Donald Trump saying the quiet part out loud about who should be allowed to speak in the United States, Jen Psaki follows the money through the co...

Pritzker on bowing to Trump intimidation: The consequences of not standing up are worse

18 Sep 2025

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker reacts to breaking news that Disney's ABC television network has capitulated to strong-arming by the Trump administratio...

Gov. Walz TRASHES Trump on shootings, national guard, economy

17 Sep 2025

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz talks with Jen Psaki on the day that he had declared his candidacy for reelection. Walz offers harsh words on Donald Trump...

Psaki: National crises of political violence call for unifying leadership

13 Sep 2025

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Jen Psaki looks back at past examples of political violence in the United States and how political leaders addressed the country with calls for unity ...

With reward and images, authorities engage public in hunt for Kirk shooter

12 Sep 2025

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As the manhunt continues for the person who shot and killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Alicia Menendez talks with Vaughn Hillyard, MSNBC seni...

Ability to 'tap in' to the youth: Charlie Kirk’s rise in conservative politics

11 Sep 2025

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Senior White House Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard, who has covered Charlie Kirk's ascent in conservative politics, joins Jen Psaki to provide insight i...

Trump's lies become more OUTLANDISH as he contorts reality to suit himself

10 Sep 2025

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Donald Trump and his Republican acolytes defy credulity with their bizarre denial that Trump's page in Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book is somehow a 22...

Pritzker readies residents for a CHICAGO SHOWDOWN as Trump amasses troops

06 Sep 2025

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In an exclusive, extended interview, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker talks with Jen Psaki about Donald Trump's threat to blitz Chicago with ICE agents, ...

Lie after lie, Senate committee dismantles RFK Jr., often using his own words against him

05 Sep 2025

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The Senate Finance Committee was not gentle with Donald Trump's HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., grilling him on his perspectives on vaccines and...

Family of Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre speaks out

04 Sep 2025

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The role of Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre in demanding accountability for Epstein and his accomplices, and keeping the case ...

Trump offers oddly meandering answer to rumors of his death

03 Sep 2025

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Jen Psaki shares Donald Trump's seemingly self-contradicting answer to a question about internet rumors that he had been out of the public eye for sev...

Trump faceplants in court on tariff power grab; burned again for overreach

30 Aug 2025

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Ian Bassin, co-founder and executive director of Protect Democracy, and former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg, talk with Jen Psaki about a federa...

The CDC is being 'transformed into a weapon': Top doctor exits CDC with a warning

29 Aug 2025

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Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned in protest from his position as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, talks ...

Psaki: Action on America's gun problem is not hopeless

28 Aug 2025

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Jen Psaki addresses the horrific shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis and the shocking gun statistics in the United States that "should make e...