Graham Platner has yet to drop out of the U.S. Senate race in Maine despite growing calls for him to do so from fellow Democrats. Reporter for The Maine Morning Star Emma Davis shares more on what she is hearing from inside Platner’s campaign. Democratic strategist Basil Smile and Host of the “Fast Politics” podcast Molly Jong-Fast and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker join Katy Tur to discuss the fallout.

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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump mistakenly referred to Iran as the “Islamic Republic of Japan” while speaking to reporters at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. In response, Joe points to repeated criticism of former President Joe Biden, saying there’s a “double standard” in Trump’s favor.

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FBI Director Kash Patel has been demanding special perks from bureau employees during his taxpayer-funded travels throughout the country, including helicopter tours and jet ski excursions, according to whistleblower accounts given to Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees and obtained exclusively by MS NOW. Ken Dilanian breaks it down.

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The Supreme Court has decided that it cannot review temporary protections for Haitians and Syrians. MS NOW Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin and MS NOW Legal Affairs Reporter Fallon Gallagher have more details. Contributing Writer for The New York Times Opinion Molly Jong-Fast, former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance and Senior Data Editor and Columnist for CT Insider Philip Bump join Stephanie Ruhle to break down the decision.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s birthright citizenship concurrence and how it reflects the lived history of Black Americans whose ancestors endured slavery and sharecropping in the American South. Wilkerson says Jackson’s opinion recognizes that formerly enslaved people sought citizenship not only for themselves, but as “vanguard” for the rights of all marginalized people.

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