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President Trump's domestic agenda is now facing a new and major setback. This is on the budget and some of the things that Trump and the MAGA crowd want to ram through the budget, which is despite everything going on obviously in the world, still Donald Trump and the Republican party's greatest priority, getting this done somehow. And yet, as you're going to see in this breaking news, Republican senators are dealing with the setback in real time today.Well, I mean, as you know, it's pretty frustrating, righ ...

Here are some basic facts. We have major problems in the Middle East on a ton of fronts. The Trump administration has pursued these policies to try to contain Iran and had some success.And yet the Trump administration is right now clashing over its own intelligence leaks, which the government is responsible for, and clashing with reporters, which is a kind of odd place to be at the highest levels of government amidst all of these important Middle East and international issues. At the Pentagon today, things ...

Here's what happened when Fox News's Pentagon reporter Hex's former colleague Jennifer Griffin asked the incredibly important and respectful and relevant question whether the Iranians moved uranium out of the Fordo site. Do you have certainty that all the highlyenriched uranium was inside the Ford mountain or some of it. Because there were satellite photos that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days in advance.Are you certain none of that highlyenriched uranium was moved. Of course, we're watching e ...

I've never seen him like this. Um, he's still wearing the same clothes that they got him in. Um, he still has blood on his shirt um, from the beating. His eyes are still burning. He hasn't been able to shower. He hasn't been able to wash his face. Um, he says he's in a in a in a cage, you can say, um, with at least 70 other people. No privacy. um one toilet. Uh he's received water maybe once a day and very very little food. That you may remember was Alejandro Barco, the US Marine veteran whose father Narcis ...

I know this is a fractious time in our economy and in Washington. It seems like we can't move forward. Democrats are stuck playing constant defense against what's coming out of the White House.But defense is simply not enough. No team in history on the field or in Washington DC ever won a damn game without going on the offense. We need to offer a different vision and demonstrate an affirmative, positive plan for the country.That's our responsibility and what this moment demands of us. Hi again everyone. It' ...

Joining us now, former Obama White House health policy director and MSNBC medical contributor, Dr. . Kavita Patel. Okay, Dr.. Patel. So, give us a sense of what this ruling means for Planned Parenthood clinics in South Carolina, and if this at all will curtail women's ability to get care in any way, shape, or form. Yeah, Alex, it does have a pretty widespread impact on care.Maybe just helpful to say that there are many states, including South Carolina, that have already banned kind of use of funds for repro ...

Listen, to me it still appears that we have only set back the Iranian nuclear program by a handful of months. There's no doubt there was damage done to the program. Uh but the the allegations that we have obliterated their program uh just don't seem to uh stand up to reason.I just do not think the president was selling the truth when he said this program was obliterated. There was certainly damage done to the program. Um but there is the significant uh there's still significant remaining capability.I walk a ...

Listen, to me it still appears that we have only set back the Iranian nuclear program by a handful of months. There's no doubt there was damage done to the program. Uh but the the allegations that we have obliterated their program uh just don't seem to uh stand up to reason.I just do not think the president was selling the truth when he said this program was obliterated. There's certainly damage done to the program. Um, but there is the significant there's still significant remaining capability.I walk away ...

Joining us now, former FBI general counsel and senior prosecutor on the Miller investigation, Andrew Weissman. He is now co-host of the Main Justice podcast. Also with us in studio, MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin and Paul Reichoff.He is still with us. Andrew, um, welcome to the conversation. So, what does the Constitution say about the role that Congress plays in declaring war.Sure. Well, there there are two bodies of law that that people have to be thinking about. what is um the constitution sort of ...