Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, is exiting her role just five days into the job after a series of gaffes even the White House couldn’t ignore. Co-host of MS NOW’s “The Weeknight” Michael Steele and MS NOW White House Reporter Laura Barrón-López  join Alicia Menendez to share their reaction. Plus, Chris Hayes discusses “Trump’s reverse meritocracy at work,” showing how members of Trump’s circle defended the indefensible after Zacharia’s disastrous debut as White House press secretary.

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MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell slams Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s Iran war strategy following a bombshell report from MS NOW’s Priya Sridhar exposing new details of attacks on a U.S. Naval base in Bahrain.

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Next week’s Knesset elections in Israel come as the country grapples with continued violence in the West Bank. “Israel is changing before our eyes,” Joe warns, blasting radical extremism from the country’s far-right. Joe says Israel supporters must speak out against such radicalism.

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MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s “ignorant and amoral” envoy Steve Witkoff called the murderous Vladimir Putin a “humanitarian” but Republican lawmakers, who “spend their lives appeasing the dictator of the Republican Party, Donald Trump,” refused to condemn those words in fear Trump will “kill their careers.”

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“I don’t think anyone expected the president to be quite so effusive.” Chris Hayes reacts to Trump’s cordial meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House.

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