Trump gets rude awakening on the reality of the limits of his power
7/10/202642 min
Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent for the New York Times and co-author of "Regime Change," shares some of the inside perspective she has gleaned from her reporting, including Donald Trump's fixation on his own power and how the war he started with Iran has shown him the limits of that power.
As a new Washington Post report finds Donald Trump's vanity projects consuming an ever-increasing amount of his attention even as crises at home and abroad would seem to require more of a president's attention, passengers at the Palm Beach Airport did not seem to have their appreciation for Trump improved at all by the airport now being named after him.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes talks with Jen Psaki about what it means for the upcoming midterm election and U.S. elections broadly that Donald Trump has fired the last members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Committee, an important resource for elections administration.
Juan Proaño, CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, talks with Jen Psaki about the family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo seeking justice for his killing at the hands of ICE.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins to discuss her run for the Democratic nomination to run for Senate in the wake of the implosion of Graham Platner's campaign.
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Jen Psaki· Host0:49
We do have some breaking news to tell you about, and I wanna give you a little bit more detail, because multiple outlets are reporting tonight that Donald Trump has essentially wiped out what is left of the US Election Assistance Commission. That is a bipartisan commission that helps states and local officials run elections. They certify election equipment. They distribute federal election funds. They maintain the national mail voter registration form. They basically do a whole bunch of things that help elections across the country run smoothly. But as we, we have seen through his actions over and over and over again, Donald Trump does not want elections in this country to run smoothly. Quite the opposite. He wants to mess with them in whatever