A Democratic win in a special congressional election all but confirms the House Republicans will be forced to go on the record about whether to release the Epste files. Adalita Graalva won the race in Arizona's seventh congressional district last night. This is the daughter of the late um Congressman Grahalva and she has already vowed to sign on to a bipartisan discharge petition.Now that petition would force a floor vote on the release of the Epstein files. Grahalva's vote would finally give Democrats and ...

Last night's show was a ratings bonanza. 6 million live TV viewers. Online clips of this monologue are going viral, passing 15 million views on YouTube in under a day.The count is still rising as we speak and report it's already now Kimmel's most watched monologue on YouTube ever. Now that type of interest and response to people saying don't watch this or we might take this away or the government doesn't want you to see this actually matches a wider communications dynamic you might have heard of. When you t ...

Lisa, tell me a little bit more. Well, I think one of the things that's interesting about this report, Katie, is it also talks about memos that Jim Comey wrote to himself trying to memorialize conversations that he had had with then President Trump. In many cases, those memos contained classified information of different varieties.Nonetheless, they were shared with other people and people who were not themselves in the bureau. Three particular people are mentioned. There are lawyers outside the FBI who Jim ...

Another deadly act is sparking more fingerpointing despite calls to tone down the political rhetoric in this country. Just moments ago, President Trump blaming a shooting at an ICE office in Dallas on what he calls the radical left. Radical left rhetoric. The radical left is causing the problem.Uh they're out of control. They're saying things and and they're really dumb people. And Vice President JD Vance went a step further.Here's what happens when Democrats like Gavin Newsome did say that these people are ...

And now, exclusive reporting from the Washington Post that reveals that in those critical moments after those flash floods ripped through Texas Hill Country, FEMA's acting administrator, David Richardson, could not be reached for 24 hours. That meant that under new rules put in place by the Trump administration, key resource deployments could not be approved. Search and rescue teams that are typically on the ground within 12 to 24 hours of a disaster didn't show up for 4 days.When asked about by the Post ab ...

And we're following some breaking news. The FTC says Amazon has agreed to pay a historic multi-billion dollar lawsuit for tricking people into signing up for Prime accounts and then making it hard to cancel. I want to bring in NBC business and data correspondent Brian Chung.This is a lot of money. >> Yeah, this is a big deal. Although, of course, Amazon is a huge company.But just to kind of unpack exactly what's going on here, the FTC saying that it has a settlement with Amazon regarding the way that they w ...

The latest victim of the chaos caused by the Trump administration policies, reproductive services in Wisconsin. Planned Parenthood is pausing abortions because it's about to lose Medicaid funding under Trump's tax and spending bill. And that's happening as a new poll shows the president's approval rating is much lower among women.A dismal 35% with a strong majority, 62% of Americans overall supporting legal abortions. Those are just two warning signs for Trump with voters worried also about being able to pa ...

Well, as Monica mentioned, reporters asked about that reporting that was first made on MSNBC, which we want to dig into. It is that Donald Trump's DOJ is racing to bring charges against one of the president's most high-profile adversaries. Former FBI director James Comey, who he just called a bad person, a sick person.Three sources familiar with the matter tell MSNBC the possible indictment could involve perjury charges tied to Comey's congressional testimony that was way back in 2020. But at the moment it' ...

Joining us now, Democratic Congressman Pat Ryan of New York. Congressman, thank you for being here. We were talking earlier in the show about just how deeply unpopular the Republican legislation uh has proven to be and seemingly only more so uh including with significant tax breaks for the rich.But in these negotiations that may or may not shut the government, it does appear that health care has become really the animating point. >> Well, I think it's healthare, specifically the cost of healthare uh and it' ...

With us we have former MSNBC host Chris Matthews. His Substack is entitled Heartball with Chris Matthews, an opinion writer at the New York Times. Mara Gay is with us. And former US ambassador to Denmark, Rufus Gford. He was senior aid to both President Obama and President Biden and served as chief of protocol for President Biden with experience planning United Nations events. We'll get to the latest uh out of the UN in just a moment with Rufus. Um Chris Matthews on Comey. Um looks like there's a a bit of a ...