At an event Tuesday honoring 9/11 first responders, President Donald Trump claimed two firefighters carried him to safety when a nearby appeared unstable. For years, Trump has made similar claims that he was at Ground Zero on 9/11, but there is no evidence to support his account that firefighters carried him from the site. “What in the world?” Mika asks on Morning Joe. The Bulwark’s Sam Stein calls the comments “blasphemous” and “demeaning to the people who were there.”

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President Trump insists today gas pieces will come down and the Iran war will end after the midterms, even though diesel hit another new record high today. Retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling and geopolitics analyst Bobby Ghosh join Antonia Hylton to share their thoughts on the state of the Iran war and political developments in the Middle East.

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“To the extent [Trump] cares about AI,” says Chris Hayes, “it’s not because it might put millions of Americans out of work. Or it might threaten the survival of humanity. Or it might commit war crimes using AI targeting with no human evaluator. He just wants to beat China and he wants his rich friends to get richer.” 

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As we commemorate Labor Day, many in the American working class are struggling with rising costs as wages have fallen below inflation. The Trump administration, economist Darrick Hamilton says, has engaged in “investment towards the wealthy while the rest of us suffer.”

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Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) asked FBI Director Kash Patel about President Trump’s statement that the only way Democrats will win November’s elections is if they cheat. He went on to press him about allegations of excessive drinking and his trip to Italy for the Winter Olympics.

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