Following Stephen Colbert’s interview with former President Barack Obama, Jen Psaki shares insights from her years working with Obama on how the former president calibrates how much to get involved in the political news cycle while staying deferential to the Democratic luminaries who are the future of the party.

Also in this week’s episode, JD Vance extended his awkward losing streak by losing his place in a speech in support of a Republican congressional candidate in Iowa and Marco Rubio fails to impress in the briefing room. And Jen celebrates the Pulitzer Prize for Hannah Natanson, the Washington Post reporter whose well-sourced reporting on the radical reductions in the federal workforce under Trump led to FBI agents raiding her home.

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Senate Republican Leader John Thune said it’s “hard to say” whether Todd Blanche would have a difficult time getting confirmed as Attorney General. MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell argues that Republican senators may not want to confirm Blanche, “the architect” of Donald Trump’s slush fund and Trump’s “weak” criminal defense attorney whose client was found guilty on 34 felony counts, as Attorney General.

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President Trump has nominated prosecutor Jay Clayton as the new Director of National Intelligence, stepping back from his initial temporary pick, Bill Pulte, an official with no intelligence experience, after widespread backlash.

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Listen to the audio version of The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell from the June 9th broadcast.

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MS NOW’s Ines de La Cuetara reports from Tirana, Albania, where protests are growing over a development project linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump that would transform a largely undeveloped island into a luxury resort.

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