Donald Trump decided to gamble that a U .S blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would b worth all of its economic and military, diplomatic and security risk to try to put some pressure on Iran. But already there are signs of trouble. According to the Wall Street Journal, Arab officials say Saudi Arabia is pressing the United States to drop its blockade and return to the negotiating table, fearing Trump's move to close it off could lead Iran to escalate and disrupt other important shipping routes.Meanwhile, the ...

"That doctor looks pretty Christlike to me." Molly Jong-Fast breaks down the memes and potential fallout from President Trump's AI-generated post. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. » Subscribe to MS NOW: https://www.youtube.com/@msnow » Subscribe to MS NOW’s We the People Newsletter for exclusive content from your favorite MS NOW anchors. Sign up now for free at https://ms.now/joinus MS NOW is the go-to destination for domestic and international breaking news, and best-in-class opinion jou ...

So J .D. Vance has entered the chat and is offering the world's Catholics proof that he just might be as politically toxic as his caricature suggests, this time by extending Donald Trump's war with the Catholic Church and the world's first American pope. Vance was going to release a book about converting to Catholicism in two months, taking his turn in the ring against Pope Leo after Donald Trump managed to anger religious leaders inside his own political coalition.Vance lobbed shut up and dribble like insu ...

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Joining us now to talk about it, MSNOW contributor Inzamam Rashid in Duba director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Corey Shockey. She's also a former official at the Defense and State DEPARTMENTS AND RETIRED 4-STAR GENERAL AND MS NOW MILITARY ANALYST GENERAL BARRY MCCAFFREY ALSO WITH A SENIOR FELLOW FOR MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA STUDIES AT THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, STEPHEN TRUMP HAS CRITICIZED THE IDEA OF WHICH IRAN COOK, STEPHEN TRUMP HAS CRITICIZED THE IDEA ...

SO BACK WITH ME, RICK STANGLE, DAVID DROCKER, AMBASSADOR JOE DONNELY AND DAVID FRENCH. GENTLELAND GLAD YOU'RE STICKING WITH US FOR THIS CONVERSATION. IT'S AN IMPORTANT ONE AMBASSADOR, JUST TO BUILD ON WHAT WE JUST HEARD, ACCORDING TO PEW, TRUMP HAD SOLID SUPPORT FROM THE MAJORITY OF VOTING CATHOLICS WITH 55 % IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS, TRUMP HAS DONE A STRING OF THESE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN VIEWED AS HOLLY UN-CHRISTIAN AS WE HEARD THERE AT THE TOP OF OUR SHOW FROM SO MANY VOTERS.EVEN BLASPHEMOUS BY SOME OF THEM. ...

Before the war with Iran, the U .S economy was already in a fragile state as Mark Zandy, chief economist for Moody's ANALYTICS POINTS OUT THE WAR COULD MAKE IT WORSE. THE JOB MARKET IS STALLED. CONSUMER SENTIMENT IS DOWN.STUBBORN INFLATION REMAINS ABOVE 2 % AND INTEREST RATES ARE HIGH. HE ADDS, QUOTE, MY ANGST AROUND THE POSSIBILITY OF A RECESSION CONTINUES TO RISE. JOINING US NOW, PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC POLICY AND ECONOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, BETSY STEVENSON, GO BLUE.BETSY, AS THINGS STAND right n ...

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us now co-host of the weekend primetime on MSNOW and economics editor for The Bulwark Catherine Rampell and Jake Sherman still with us Jake, Senate Majority Leader Thune there talking about how the administration needs to plan to try to wind down this conflict. But is anyone in the Senate, anyone in Congress really going to put any pressure on the president to actually wind this down no they're not um i i would say it's it's very far-fetched and i i don't think the problem the the difference in drawing a de ...

rigged. We found that out. What you just said is just a piece of that.It's a big piece, but minor, relatively speaking, compared to what they did. They cheated on the election. They cheated on the vote. They cheated in every way possible.And it's the only way we got an incompetent DONALD TRUMP CAN'T GET PAST HIS 2020 ELECTION LOSS NOW WITH LESS THAN SEVEN MONTHS TO GO UNTIL THE MIDTERMS IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT, SOME OF THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SPREAD election denial conspiracies in 2020 are currently in place to o ...