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Jen Psaki tackles the biggest issues of the week and features one-on-one interviews with newsmakers.

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Saturday · 42 min
Trump Vetting Chaos, Corruption Politics, and Starlink in Ukraine
October 16, 2026; 9pm: Michael Steele examines Trump White House turmoil after Katie Zachariah’s short-lived press secretary role, the politics of corruption and campaign money, and questions over Starshield access for Ukraine. Guests George Conway, Chuck Rocha, Rob Flaherty, Mark Hertling, and Brian Poindexter connect the stories to midterm stakes and voter backlash.
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Friday · 40 min
Bend School Shooting and DOJ’s Fight Over California Voter Rolls
October 15, 2026 - Jen Psaki covers breaking news of a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, where three children, a teacher, and the suspected shooter were killed.
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Thursday · 41 min
Psaki: MAGA candidates should answer for Trump's unhinged nonsense
October 14, 2026 - Jen Psaki shares pieces of Donald Trump's speech at a rally in Arizona and makes the case that the media should not ignore the bizarre things he says and should ask the candidates who support him to explicitly endorse his statements.
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Wednesday · 42 min
'Oh, Katie': Psaki lets loose on Trump's new press secretary
October 13, 2026 - Jen Psaki reacts to Katie Zacharia's first day as Donald Trump's press secretary, the mockery she made of the press briefing, and Donald Trump's efforts to normalize a compliant press.
October 11 · 42 min
Together in Texas: Part 2
Together In Texas: We the People 2026. Part Two.
October 11 · 44 min
Together in Texas: Part 1
Together In Texas: We the People 2026. Part One.
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October 10 · 41 min
Trump backstabs allies, breaks sanctions for sudden Russian diesel deal
October 9, 2026 - Jen Psaki reports on Donald Trump giving Russian President Vladimir Putin another big boost by dropping sanctions to allow Russia to move more diesel fuel to market and suggested the U.S. would be among the buyers. Trump even thanked Putin even though the diesel release is not expected to be enough to change global diesel prices, but will yield billions for Russia to spend on its war against ostensible U.S. ally, Ukraine. Brett McGurk, former White House coordinator for the Mid
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October 9 · 41 min
Psaki: It's not just Trump's curse. GOP put flawed candidates in tight races.
October 8, 2026 - Jen Psaki explains that while a popular president may be able to carry a lackluster candidate with the help of local partisanship, the combination of Donald Trump's abysmal public approval and deeply flawed Republican candidates appears to not only be tipping races toward Democrats, but also changing the minds of voters who might have previously voted Republican by reflex.
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October 8 · 42 min
HOT MESS: Report says Guilfoyle begged for money, offered favors ahead of confirmation
October 7, 2026 - Jen Psaki relays new reporting from the Wall Street Journal that Kimberly Guilfoyle, former Fox News host, former Donald Trump Jr. fiance, and current U.S. ambassador to Greece, struggled with debt, begged a Trump donor for $100,000 to pay off her credit card bill, and offered to use her influence in the Trump administration to do favors for the donor ahead of her confirmation hearing.
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October 7 · 47 min
Jen Psaki live from Maine on the road to the midterms
October 6, 2026 - Jen Psaki hosts the Briefing live from Maine, immediately following the debate between Senate candidates Troy Jackson and Susan Collins.
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October 3 · 46 min
Local news busts Trump on empty economic promises
When Donald Trump boasts that a new steel plant is already under construction in Iowa, who better to check the veracity of that claim than the people in Iowa who live where the plant is supposedly being built? Jen Psaki shares examples of Donald Trump making promises on the campaign trail that have no basis in reality as far as the people most closely connected to the news can tell.
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October 2 · 42 min
Trump meme coin hype sputters as his public approval tanks
Jen Psaki explains that Donald Trump is hosting another dinner in support of his cryptocurrency meme coin, ignoring the fact that his own followers took massive losses investing in the coin, with many openly disparaging him for it.
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October 1 · 43 min
'Clown' Hegseth makes a fool of himself with fixation on superficial priorities
September 30, 2026 - Despite the increasingly dangerous global security environment, made even more dangerous by Donald Trump's inexplicable war on Iran and Pete Hegseth's mismanagement of it, Hegseth has devoted his attention to prioritizing a cartoonish image of what it means to be an American servicemember. Michael Steele discusses with veterans Rep. Pat Ryan and Rep. Chris Deluzio.
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September 30 · 41 min
Smug GOP senator faceplants with humiliating 'gotcha' failure
Jen Psaki shares the events at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee in which Republican Senator Eric Schmitt thought he had caught former special counsel Jack Smith in a perjury gotcha only to be called out for his spectacular failure by Senator Amy Klobuchar who pointed out that Schmitt's blind spot for women's sports led him into what Psaki describes as a "slow-moving self-implosion" leaving Smith unscathed and unflapped.
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September 26 · 42 min
Trump's hypocrisy compounds his humiliation in sucking up to China's President Xi
September 25, 2026 - Jen Psaki unearths past video of Donald Trump decrying state dinners, especially with China, and contrasts them with Donald Trump's literal red carpet treatment of China's President Xi, embarrassing himself and the United States with his fawning admiration. Former U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan joins to discuss.
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September 25 · 41 min
Psaki: Trump admiration for dictators seen in his attacks on media
September 24, 2026 - As Donald Trump ban on members of the media whose coverage he doesn't like continues to play out in court, Jen Psaki points out that the media model Trump seems to most want to emulate is that of the dictators he admires.
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September 24 · 41 min
How we know Donald Trump is freaking out about his disastrous poll numbers
September 23, 2026 - Jen Psaki points out that the last time Donald Trump lost his cool and tried to ban a member of the news media from the White House he had just been clobbered by a blue wave midterm and his political power was at a nadir. Polling shows him to be even worse off now than he was then. Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN who successfully challenged being banned from the White House in Trump's first term, joins to discuss why Trump's bad news makes him angr
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September 23 · 41 min
Psaki lays waste to bogus GOP talking points on press freedom
While Donald Trump banning news organizations from the White House because he doesn't like their coverage is objectively inexcusable in the United States of America, Republicans are nonetheless trying their hardest to make excuses for Trump. Jen Psaki dismantles them with facts and context.
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September 19 · 40 min
Psaki: Trump can't hide by attacking the free press
Jen Psaki reviews the history of American presidents clashing with members of the press but still respecting their First Amendment role, and reports on Donald Trump's declaration that he is banning MS NOW, CNN and Politico from the White House. Trump previously lost a legal challenge to banning a member of the press, and Psaki notes that Trump's war on the free press hasn't prevented the press from continuing to cover him and his administration.
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September 18 · 42 min
Alarming new disclosures highlight dangers of A.I. as Trump turns his back on regulation
Jen Psaki looks at Republican candidates who have purged their campaign materials of mentions of Donald Trump or have avoided events with Trump or Trump officials. Some candidates are even speaking out in defiance of Trump despite having previously been supportive. But Trump is too unpopular now to admit that support. Even as Republicans insist that technology companies can police themselves to ensure the public is safe from overstepping artificial intelligence and Donald Trump assures Americans that his firm hand is all that is necessary, the artificial intelligence industry continues to make alarming disclosures about the dangerous capabilities of A.I. and its occasional tendency to do something it supposedly shouldn't be able to do. Ronan Farrow, investigative reporter for the New Yorker, joins to discuss. Rep. Joyce Beatty talks with Jen Psaki about her fight to defend the Kennedy Center from Donald Trump's spitefulness. Sherrod Brown joins to discuss his campaign to retake his old Senate seat for Ohio. And Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, former U.S. Election Assistance commissioners, talk with Jen about protecting the right to vote and also the practice of voting, and emphasize checking to make sure your registration is up to date. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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