Graham Platner responds to NYT report: ‘Anything alleging physicality’ not true
6/5/202651 min
June 4, 2026: 8pm: Tonight, Graham Platner responds to reporting from the New York Times where women recount “unsettling behavior.” Then, the latest results from California and what to make of the midterm landscape, next. Plus, Donald Trump's latest move to weaponize the DOJ.
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First 90 secondsChris Hayes· Host0:00
Hey everyone, it's Chris Hayes. This week on my podcast, Why Is This Happening?, the next episode of our special miniseries, The AI Endgame, I'm speaking with legendary philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers about what is consciousness.
David Chalmers· Soundbite0:11
Once you start thinking about the possibility these AI systems are conscious, everything changes. Right now, we treat every single AI system in the world as a tool. Computers are tools which we can use to help us in our projects, and you'd never think seriously, "Well, could I be hurting the computer?" So now the possibility becomes on the table that once an AI system is conscious, we have to start asking questions like could an AI system itself be suffering?
Chris Hayes· Host0:33
Why Is This Happening?, The AI Endgame. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. [upbeat music] Good evening from New York, I'm Chris Hayes. Tonight we have some breaking news surrounding Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner. New York Times has exclusive reporting tonight on three women who previously dated Platner and called his behavior in those relationships unsettling, volatile, and toxic. Graham Platner will be joining me in just a moment to address the allegations reported in that story. Now the report comes as Democrats are more aware than ever about how the effort to hold Trump accountable will of course require flipping seats in the currently Republican majority Senate. And lots of political observers agree that one of their best shots at flipping a seat should be in Maine. It's a state that Donald Trump actually lost three times. He lost it to Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden. It is represented by longtime Republican incumbent Susan Collins, who has held that