President Trump asking FIFA’s president to review a Team USA red card suspension has caused a major controversy in the World Cup. MS NOW contributor Pablo Torre breaks down why this intervention is also a “political briar patch.”

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Trump’s World Cup intervention benefited the USMNT star whose American citizenship exists because of the very right Trump wants to end.

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Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed faced off in the Michigan Primary Debate yesterday, in a duel of Democratic factions: establishment versus progressive. Meanwhile, Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has still not dropped out of the race after a new sexual assault allegation was leveled against him. The Morning Joe panel discusses the latest challenges Democrats face ahead of the midterms, including how Israel has become a wedge issue for the left.

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BREAKING: Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner said his campaign is considering “the best path forward” after Politico interviewed a woman who previously dated Platner and accused him of sexual assault, an allegation the candidate denies.

In a statement provided to Politico and subsequently obtained by MS NOW, Platner called the allegations “troubling, serious, and false.”

The scandal-plagued candidate repeated his denial in a video posted to X shortly after the Politico story published.

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The war in Iran, high prices and the Epstein scandal continue to engulf Trump and the GOP. MS NOW’s Ari Melber reports.

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