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WATCH: President Obama added Chris Hayes' book, "The Sirens' Call" to his 2025 Summer reading list.
WATCH: "In a huge blow to the White House, and a big win for everyone else, a federal appeals court has just ruled that Trump's sprawling tariffs are unlawful and invalid," says Chris Hayes.
BREAKING: Epstein estate agrees to hand over documents to Congress, including the "birthday book," according to ranking member @robertgarcia.bsky.social.
Trump’s Border Patrol raided a Washington wildfire camp, forcing firefighters to pause their work for hours. "Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller and their ilk are going to burn the country to the ground if that’s what it takes, so they can rule over the ashes," says Chris Hayes.
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“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
A D.C. grand jury refused to indict the man accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal agent in D.C. “This is the latest example of [people] refusing to go along with Donald Trump's weaponization of the Department of Justice," says Chris Hayes.
After refusing to change vaccine policy, CDC Director Susan Monarez was reportedly ousted by RFK Jr—prompting several top officials to resign and plunging the agency into turmoil, though her lawyers say she has not formally resigned nor been fired.
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“Soldiers wear camouflage to conceal themselves from the enemy they want to kill. Safety vests are what municipal workers put on so you can see them at work,” @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the “comically absurd” spectacle of Trump’s army of garbage collectors in DC.
WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social and @ayman.msnbc.com discuss the Israeli double-tap strike on Gaza’s largest hospital that killed at least 20 people, including five journalists.
"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says Chris Hayes.
"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
WATCH: According to the interview transcripts and audio released by the Trump DOJ, Ghislaine Maxwell says Jeffrey Epstein “liked being with younger people” because “they gave him ideas, and they were up to date on music.”
“Lady Justice is supposed to be blind. Right now, she’s wearing a MAGA hat,” says Ian Bassin on the Trump FBI searching the home and office of top Trump critic John Bolton. George Conway joins Chris Hayes, too.
According to the interview transcripts and audio released by the Trump DOJ, Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump was "never inappropriate with anybody in the times I was with him." In the same interview, she says she never saw Jeffrey Epstein engage in "unconsensual" behavior.
WATCH: Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump was "never inappropriate with anybody in the times I was with him." In the same interview, she says she never saw Jeffrey Epstein engage in "unconsensual" behavior.
Rightwing podcaster Tim Dillon slammed Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., saying it is “everything Alex Jones has warned us about.” Heather McGhee and Ben Rhodes join to discuss.
“Where I come from—in LA representing Crenshaw and Slauson—when they go low, we squabble up,” says State Assemblymember Isaac Bryan on the redistricting fight. “They've changed the rules of the game, and we've got to meet them where they are. And that's what we did today.”
WATCH-- Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorses California redistricting plan: "I applaud California standing up and punching back."
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WATCH: JD Vance has been vice president for seven months now. And in those seven months, he has gone on eight vacations. Yes, eight.
WATCH: Laura Loomer, a self-described "Islamophobe" with very close ties to Donald Trump, successfully pressured the U.S. State Department to halt medical visas for severely injured Palestinian children from Gaza. @chrislhayes.bsky.social
“We're living in a country of lawlessness,” says Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Texas Republicans demanding Democrats agree to around-the-clock security escorts to be released from the state Capitol.
"It is such a stark reminder—with someone else doing it—of how truly, and utterly deranged our current President sounds when he communicates. And also how accustomed we've all become to his very weird behavior," says Chris Hayes of Newsom's trolling Trump.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes on the Trump-Putin push to end mail-in voting: "Donald Trump, I don't work for you. I work for the people of the state of Arizona."
The New York Times’ Mara Gay reports former President Obama picked up the phone for a “lengthy call” with Zohran Mamdani after his NYC mayoral primary win in June. Christina Greer and Max Rose join to discuss.
Donald Trump has only expanded his executive powers. But the Americans who oppose him are not letting up either. Indivisible’s Ezra Levin joins to discuss.
WATCH: New reporting from Rolling Stone reveals what Trump said behind closed doors about the women who have spoken out about Jeffrey Epstein. Senior Political Reporter Asawin Suebsaeng joins to discuss.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is mocking Trump with all-caps posts promoting California’s move to redraw state maps as a counter to the Texas GOP’s redistricting ploy: “DONALD TRUMP (THE CRIMINAL PRESIDENT) GET READY FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PAYBACK YOU’VE EVER SEEN!!!”
"We don’t have Ronald Reagan anymore. We have Tony Soprano. He’s holding people up, threatening them, bullying them, doing things that are beyond his legal powers,” says George Conway in the wake of Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.
Beto O’Rourke speaks out after Texas attorney general Ken Paxton asks a judge to jail O’Rourke amid the redistricting fight: “They're clearly trying to silence me to stop any one of us who wants to fight back against this power grab in Texas.”
"Perhaps if more Democratic leaders could meet the people where they are and emulate what millions of people are doing, by protesting across the country, that would feel authentic,” says Ali Velshi. “Right now Americans are angry and they want change.” youtu.be/g_NOgxtWnZo
Donald Trump secretly directed the Pentagon to use military force against drug cartels – just like the movie, “Clear and Present Danger.” Ali Velshi adds, “the plan to send American soldiers after the cartels was a bad idea in the movie and it’s a bad idea in the real world.” youtu.be/63ND593iA7w
WATCH: NBC News reports JD Vance was set to host a private dinner with top DOJ officials to discuss strategy for handling the Epstein scandal. While Vance and Trump denied the dinner was Epstein-related, multiple outlets confirmed it was planned—and likely scrapped amid mounting scrutiny.
“Since Day One of this administration, President Trump's posture towards Netanyahu's government is that it can, effectively, do whatever it wants to the Palestinians with impunity,” says Ali Velshi. Sen. Chris Van Hollen joins to discuss.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett on the Texas redistricting fight: “I'm so proud of my former colleagues from the State House, because Texas Democrats, well, we do everything bigger in Texas, including fight as Democrats.”
“Donald Trump does not want you to know the truth. He does not want you to listen to the data or independent experts. He wants you to believe that only he can be trusted to tell you the score,” says Ali Velshi on Trump firing the labor stats chief.
A week after meeting with Trump's DOJ, sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has suddenly been moved to a minimum security prison in Texas. She'll join Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jen Shah.
“The idea that Trump would use tariffs as a political weapon against a country like Canada who chooses to speak out on the horrors in Gaza is absolutely insane,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders on Trump taunting Canada after it backed Palestinian statehood.
“Firing the people in charge of publishing accurate information on the economy is exactly the kind of thing people have worried about since Trump returned to office,” says Chris Hayes on Trump ousting the labor statistics chief after a disappointing jobs report.
WATCH: Maxwell was ineligible to be transferred to a minimum security prison because she is a convicted sex offender. The Bureau of Prisons had to reach in and waive the rule specifically for Maxwell to allow a sex trafficker—a sexual abuser of girls—to be moved to her current facility.
Sigrid McCawley, longtime attorney for Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre on the possibility of Trump granting Ghislaine Maxwell some sort of clemency: “It just simply cannot happen. The American public has to rise up and do what's right and say, ‘We will not allow this.’”
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"I feel like I know him. And right now, l'm watching my government facilitate the destruction of his life," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on his favorite fitness influencer Mohammed Hatem. youtube.com/shorts/oWgLI...
In his attempt to spin another story about how he broke up with the late child sex trafficker, Donald Trump said something truly disturbing about one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre.
"If this administration was trying to cover something up, what would they be doing differently?" says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Epstein scandal.
“I told them I was an American citizen. I questioned why they were using those tactics on me. I asked about my constitutional rights. An officer outright said out loud that I have no constitutional rights at a point of entry,” says Wilmer Chavarria, a school superintendent in Vermont.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social to Sen. Mark Kelly: "As a U.S. senator, what can you do in your role to pressure the Israeli government to change its policy such that we do not see more starving children die in Gaza?"
WATCH: After a back and forth on Twitter, Chris Hayes exposes the gaps in JD Vance’s defense of Trump over the dirty letter the president reportedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein.
I talked to Chris Hayes last night about my trip to Ohio this weekend where I'm holding another town hall in a Republican district. Trump's voters are starting to see him as a fraud, and Democrats need to be out there speaking up in Republican areas.
After signing a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount, “South Park” used its premiere episode to roast the president—and to make fun of their own network’s settlement with Trump. Sam Seder joins to discuss.
“It is a completely abnormal, transparently suspicious meeting between Epstein’s closest confidant and fixer…and the No. 2 law enforcement official in the country, who is absolutely loyal to Trump,” says Chris Hayes.
Watch @chrislhayes.bsky.social and @chrismurphyct.bsky.social react to Trump's bullying fail. "I hadn't seen that one yet!" says Murphy.
I will be on @allinwithchris on @MSNBC around 8:25 tonight to talk about escalating, mind blowing corruption rotting out the core of the executive branch right now. I know...not uplifting TV. But important!
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse reacts to Deputy AG Todd Blanche’s upcoming jailhouse interview with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
“This is madness. We are running out of words to describe it. And the people of Gaza are running out of time,” says Chris Hayes on the dire aid situation amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
“If Bondi did tell Trump at that meeting that his name was in the files, then why did he say the opposite when asked about that very thing last week?” says Chris Hayes on the Wall Street Journal report that AG Pam Bondi told Trump he is named in the Epstein files at a meeting in May.
WATCH: Here's what Trump has said about the Epstein case AFTER he was reportedly told his name was in the files.
The Wall Street Journal reports “FBI Director Kash Patel has privately told other government officials that Trump’s name appeared in the files.” “Who exactly would Kash Patel have been telling this to?” asks @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
“This looks a lot, smells a lot, sounds a lot like you're purchasing favors from the President of the United States. And that's a serious problem. If those facts are proven, that sounds a lot like bribery,” says Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
“That's what the victims are concerned about. They think that this is all an effort for her to secure some kind of a sweetheart deal herself,” says the Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown on Trump's deputy AG meeting with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
"He’s backed into a corner, and so his DOJ officials—led by his personal criminal lawyer—are in negotiations with Epstein's accomplice, whose only hope for freedom might be a presidential pardon or clemency," says on Ghislaine Maxwell meeting with the Trump DOJ.
“That's what the victims are concerned about. They think that this is all an effort for her to secure some kind of a sweetheart deal herself," says @jkbjournalist.bsky.social on Trump's deputy AG meeting with Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
“It's worth remembering how the Epstein scandal also rocked his first administration,” says Chris Hayes. “It's a saga everyone has basically forgotten.”
Sen. Dick Durbin—the top Democrat on the committee overseeing the FBI—says agents were “pressured” by AG Pam Bondi to rush review Epstein records and “flag” any that mentioned Donald Trump.
WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social on what he thought when the Epstein story first resurfaced last week vs. what he thinks now.
“Do you really think that Pam Bondi and the Justice Department are making the determination as to what gets released? Or is her client—Donald Trump—and the people in the White House making the ultimate decision? I think that it is clearly the White House,” says Eric Holder on the Epstein files.
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WATCH-- @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Israeli strike on the only Catholic church in Gaza that killed three and wounded the priest: "Today's shelling only proves that literally nowhere is safe."
WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social reads out the Wall Street Journal's reporting on Trump's birthday letter to Epstein.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social's close reading of Trump's reported note to Epstein: "They share some secret that they both know about each other. That is a secret that has to do with sex, hence the drawing of the naked woman. And is the one thing that you have if you have everything."
“Do you really think that Pam Bondi and the Justice Department are making the determination as to what gets released? Or is her client—Donald Trump—and the people in the White House making the ultimate decision? I think that it is clearly the White House,” says Eric Holder on the Epstein files.
“I know he's got something to hide. That's the only reason it's not out there,” says Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Trump and the Epstein files.
NEW: Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was abruptly fired by Trump’s DOJ from her role as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan. She is best known for prosecuting both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Chris Hayes: The only person on the right who seems really happy about how Trump has handled the Epstein controversy is Trump's former megadonor and co-president Elon Musk.
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"Either Donald Trump, Pam Bondi and that whole crew have been lying to the American people over the last several years about what is actually in the Jeffrey Epstein files, or alternatively [they're] hiding something from the American people right now," says Hakeem Jeffries on the Epstein files.
“Trump is—at the very least—a little worried about his potential inclusion in the Epstein files,” says Chris Hayes.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social asks Hakeem Jeffries about Zohran Mamdani: "What do you say to people who say, 'What gives, why are you not endorsing the guy that won the Democratic primary in a contested election in your backyard?'"
Hakeem Jeffries: "Josh Hawley is complete and total phony at this point. He spent the last few months talking about how devastating these Medicaid cuts would be for the people that he represents in Missouri, and then turned around and actually voted for it."
"Either Donald Trump, Pam Bondi and that whole crew have been lying to the American people over the last several years about what is actually in the Jeffrey Epstein files, or alternatively [they're] hiding something from the American people right now," says Hakeem Jeffries on the Epstein files.
“Donald Trump continues to blame his failure to prepare for and react to extreme weather on forces beyond anyone's control. Rather than actually plan ahead, he tries to pass it off like it’s just completely unforeseeable. He does it every single time,” says Chris Hayes. youtu.be/06c8aR2ZBdQ
“I have never seen this level of incredible disarray within the MAGA movement,” says Brandy Zadrozny. “This is their line in the sand. They are not budging.” youtu.be/Qgmvt1RDqPQ
Chris Hayes: Meet Randy Fine, a Trump-endorsed, extremely online, far-right troll who has spent his short time in Congress launching a barrage of utterly disgusting, bigoted statements. Brendan Buck and Alex Wagner join to discuss.
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According to a new report, Secretary Noem did not sign off on deploying FEMA’s urban search and rescue team to Texas until this Monday—more than three days after the floods struck. In the meantime, she was on Instagram crowd sourcing opinions about her official portrait.
WATCH: “Were lives unnecessarily lost because of incompetence or policy decisions or dysfunction? It is not partisan politics to ask those simple questions,” says Chris Hayes amid new reporting on the response to the deadly flooding in Central Texas.
WATCH: After a recent update to the AI chatbot’s code, Grok started posting openly antisemitic responses to queries from X users on Elon Musk’s platform. WIRED's Brian Barrett joins to discuss.
WATCH: Donald Trump's administration is facing a full rebellion from the MAGA faithful after his Department of Justice basically said, “Nothing to see here” in regards to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
WATCH: Investigative reporter and Epstein investigation-expert @jkbjournalist.bsky.social reveals the security footage Trump DOJ released of Epstein's prison cell was not in fact his cell. "They’re implying that nobody went into his cell. But you can’t see his cell!"
WATCH: “It has been one of the most obscene and depraved undertakings I have ever seen,” says Chris Hayes on reporting that Israeli soldiers and private American contractors have been firing into crowds of hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat.
“The message is pretty simple. You shouldn't take health care and food assistance away from the working class and make them poorer to give tax breaks to the billionaires,” says Rep. Ro Khanna.
“If there is one thing Mamdani has demonstrated over the course of this campaign so far it’s he’s pretty good at sticking to his principles and message discipline," says Chris Hayes.
WATCH: “It has been one of the most obscene and depraved undertakings I have ever seen,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on reporting that Israeli soldiers and private American contractors have been firing into crowds of hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat.
WATCH: “Here’s something we already know about Donald Trump’s big reconciliation bill: It is one of the most unpopular acts of Congress in recent history. This is not hyperbole,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. Data journalist @gelliottmorris.com joins to discuss his findings.
WATCH: “Donald Trump and the Republican Party know the less people pay attention to the actual bill, the better it is,” says Chris Hayes on Trump signing a law to kick millions of health care.
WATCH: Last night, Trump said his bill saved 2 BILLION family farms in Iowa from paying the estate tax. As @chrislhayes.bsky.social points out, the number is closer to 50 for the entire country.
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