Trump makes a fool of himself with mental stumbles at NATO meeting
7/9/202642 min
Jen Psaki rounds up what has been a terrible day for Donald Trump, with a string of court losses and a humiliating collection of mental lapses while speaking in public at the NATO gathering in Turkey.
Jen Psaki reports on the collapse of Graham Platner's campaign for senator from Maine after another sexual assault allegation became too much for his campaign to bear. Molly Jong-Fast, host of the Fast Politics podcast, joins to discuss Platner's attitude and the considerations the state Democratic Party is going to have to make in replacing him.
Miles Taylor, former chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security, joins to discuss using the withholding of federal counterrorism money to manipulate states into giving him their voter rolls.
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Jen Psaki· Host0:49
We begin with some breaking news that you have probably seen. The Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, Graham Platner, has officially announced that he will be suspending his campaign following multiple allegations of sexual assault, which he denies. We co- we knew there, where this is headed. We knew where it was headed. We talked about it last night. But I will say it is an end to what has been an unpredictable, incredibly tumultuous, at times fascinating, simply because of the political story, and ultimately deeply enraging political career for Graham Platner, enraging for all of us. And we have covered this race from the very beginning