“I’m still far from perfect, but every day I wake up and I try to be a little bit better, and a little bit kinder than I was the day before.”

Graham Platner won the Maine Democratic Senate primary, clinching the nomination to face Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican whom national Democrats hope to topple on their way to recapturing control of the Senate in November.

The political newcomer triumphed at the ballot box despite allegations that roiled his campaign before Election Day: that he sexted women outside of his marriage and that he behaved in a demeaning way to some former girlfriends, including two incidents in which he was allegedly physically menacing to one of them. Platner denied those incidents.

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As federal judges push back against Donald Trump’s degradation of the rule of law, threats to their safety have increased by an alarming rate. Judge Esther Salas joins Nicolle for discussion.

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MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how “no one believes any of Donald Trump’s deadlines” for his war in Iran because “Donald Trump has lied repeatedly every single time he has asked when his war will end and Iran has not lied once about when the war will end.”

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“The question for all of us, and the one that is looming, is, who is Todd Blanche? Who is he going to be? Is he going to follow in the footsteps of Bill Barr, where there was a line that Bill Barr would not cross?”

MS NOW Legal Analyst Andrew Weissmann shares his take on Trump’s recent election claims and what those claims could look like with a DOJ under Todd Blanche, Trump’s nominee for AG.

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“It also is not clear to me that Donald Trump is a big Knicks fan.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries criticized President Trump’s planned appearance at Game 3 of the NBA Finals, saying Trump is “injecting himself” into the event and bringing “the MAGA circus into town.”

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