NEW TO MS NOW: Laura Barrón-López spoke with Rep. Adam Smith, a top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, who remains skeptical about the explanation he received from the admiral who oversaw the controversial September boat strike.

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This month, Trump’s DOJ sent L.A.’s top election official a flash drive, a sticky note with a password, and 48 hours to investigate a list of 20,000 people it identified as “likely noncitizens” who were sent ballots to participate in the midterm elections.

Here’s how the “bizarre” episode went down, according to Dean Logan, the Registrar-Recorder and County Clerk for Los Angeles County.

Watch the full interview on “Connect with Jacob Soboroff.”

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In this new edition of PSAKI BOMBS! Rep. Andy Harris has a total meltdown over a persistent reporter. Donald Trump’s new press secretary is strangely evasive about if and where she passed the bar exam to be a lawyer. Ken Paxton suffers another scandal at the same time that his James Talarico conspiracy theory blows up in his face. And Donald Trump gives new meaning to the phrase “male gaze.”

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Jen Psaki reacts to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Cheesecake Factory appearance, where he took aim at Barack Obama and cast himself as a voice for working Americans. But Bessent’s billionaire background makes the everyman act a tough sell.

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Democratic Senator Cory Booker tells MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell why he lost patience with Senate Republicans and called the Judiciary Committee’s Jack Smith hearing “a farce.” Sen. Booker says Donald Trump only has power because Republicans let him have it and “refuse to check him or balance him or hold him accountable.”

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