In the new book, “The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts,” bestselling author and award-winning journalist Janet Reitman traces the lives of nine Americans over three decades — from a former Navy pilot whose son drifts toward extremism to an Iraq War veteran who embraces white nationalism. Through hundreds of hours of interviews, Reitman reveals how she believes the fear following 9/11 changed American values and deepened divisions across the country. Reitman joins Morning Joe to discuss the book.

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Is Blanche the new Bondi? MS NOW’s Andrew Weissmann breaks down how Attorney General Todd Blanche’s press conference showed he’s not so different from his predecessor.

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Jen Psaki shares reporting from NOTUS that Donald Trump is working to give a potentially very valuable part of Yosemite National Park to a private developer who has some interesting ties to the Trump administration.

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A federal judge is set to rule on Donald Trump’s media ban by midnight, but as the case plays out, the administration is openly flouting orders from other judges across the country. Jim Acosta, former CNN Chief White House Correspondent, and Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund, join The Weeknight. 

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In 2023, a former Marine strangled a homeless Michael Jackson impersonator to death on a New York City subway. The story became national news, as Americans chose sides, either demanding justice for another Black man’s death at the hands of a white man or defending the actions of a former soldier who said he believed he was protecting the car’s passengers. Anand Giridharadas chronicled this deadly chapter in American history and its aftermath in his latest book Man in the Mirror. He dissects the divisions that have been spreading in the country in this – as he calls it – age of estrangement. “In a case about dehumanization,” he says. “I wanted to humanize everybody. ”

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