During a health care affordability event, President Trump pivoted to a 12-minute story about ongoing renovation work he is overseeing at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

MS NOW’s The Weeknight Alicia Menendez reacts.

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#Trump #LincolnMemorial #WashingtonDC

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Jen Psaki examines Trump’s obsession with the length of the Reflecting Pool — and questions how exactly he’s spending his time, aside from working on construction projects.

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In public appearances over the first five months of 2026, President Trump has falsely claimed that he won the 2020 presidential election approximately once every four days. MS NOW’s JM Rieger compiles each instance to date.

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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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#StephenColbert #Obama #JDVance

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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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#DOJ #AttorneyGeneral #ToddBlanche

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