“Most of the warnings that you would want to deliver to a president were widely known and accepted by everyone in the community.”

Julia Curlee, former CIA analyst and intelligence briefer to Vice President Mike Pence, had a remarkable career within the U.S. government, right up until she was fired by the Trump administration for being transgender in 2025. In this episode of The Best People, she shares how Trump’s second term is exponentially more dangerous than the first — and how he ignored the intelligence community’s warnings about a war with Iran.

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Chief Justice John Roberts built his reputation as an institutionalist while authoring some of the most radical expansions of executive power in modern U.S. history. Elie Mystal of The Nation puts it bluntly: “If you are a nonwhite citizen, he is the person stopping you from voting. Not Donald Trump, not Stephen Miller, not the Republican Party in the White House – it has been, and it always has been, John Roberts.” Mystal says Democrats must pursue Supreme Court expansion. “If you don’t control the Supreme Court, you control nothing.”

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Worry is growing among President Trump’s Republican Party as midterms get closer. But, the President believes all they have to do is talk about his record despite his sinking popularity. MS Now Political Contributor Mark Leibovich and Andrew Desiderio join The Weekend to discuss.

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The New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker joins Alex Witt to discuss the Iran war, President Trump’s plan to fly his gifted jet overseas despite security concerns, U.S. envoys in Russia for talks with Putin, Trump’s finances and the midterms.

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Alex Tabet speaks with Trump voters in Florida about the president’s recent White House renovations including the ballroom and helipad.

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