Jen Psaki compares Trump’s proposed $5,000 checks, promised only if Republicans keep control of Congress after the midterms, to a scene from Idiocracy, where a “comically dumb” president makes essentially the same promise. It’s a promise that even Fox News’ Laura Ingraham questioned.

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The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump personally pushed for and was involved in creating the campaign-style ads. MS NOW White House Reporter Laura Barrón-López, MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde, and Policy Editor for The Bulwark Mona Charen join Katy Tur to share their reactions.

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This week, officials erased critical words from a Confederate memorial marker at the Arlington National Cemetery. MS NOW political analyst and Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude joins Antonia Hylton to discuss the changes by the Trump administration as well as changes within the Smithsonian. 

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President Trump has promised more than a half dozen imminent foreign policy deals during his second term, but hundreds of days after those promises, none of those deals appear complete.

MS NOW’s JM Rieger digs into the archive.

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New York Times investigative reporter Susanne Craig joins Chris Hayes to break down Trump’s narrowing options to secure his $464 million fine in the NY fraud case—and what happens if the ex-president can’t pay.
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