Welcome back to the weekend prime time. We start this hour with the Trump administration's increasingly cruel tactics in their immigration crackdown, turning Halloween into a night of very real terror. The New York Times reports, quote, "Federal immigration agents fanned out across Chicago and its Northshore suburbs on Halloween, chasing suspects through front yards, driving SUVs onto sidewalks, and using chemical agents during confrontations with furious residents." The Times goes on, quote, "Several peopl ...

Miles Taylor and Norm Eisen are back with us. Let's jump right into it. I want to get to this soundbite of Congressman Comr defending the Trump family crypto windfall this week.And let's um get everyone's reaction on the other side. >> The difference between the way the Trump family is operating and the and the Biden family is you they're admitting they're doing this. The president campaigned as a business guy.So, as long as you disclose your income and disclose the sources, I think that's acceptable. >> Th ...

As the pain of the protracted government shutdown hits Americans across the country with thousands of federal workers furled and millions of SNAP food aid recipients facing uncertainty about November's benefits. Despite a federal judge's ruling that the Trump administration must pay them, small businesses around the country are stepping up to do what they can to help community members in need. Heritic coffee shop in Portland, Oregon, has raised more than $300,000 to feed people potentially losing food benef ...

Here to break it all down with us is MSNBC contributor and president and CEO of Votto Latino, Maria Thereskumar, and former Republican congressman and author of The Social Contract on Substack, Joe Walsh. Maria, how much do you think former President uh Barack Obama is needed on the campaign trail in this moment. One of the things that we and we were just discussing it when it was off camera is the fact that he is such an incredible communicator that he is able to sens to synthesize really difficult complex ...

Countdown to election day, where state races across the country will offer a sense of how voters feel about President Trump and his administration and the Democratic party as a whole. In Virginia, Democrat Abigail Spanberger is leading Republican Winom Earl Sears, the lieutenant governor, by 14 points, according to a poll by Yuggov. More than 1 million people have voted already, which is at a higher rate than in the 2021 election.and 376 miles north in New Jersey, the gubernatorial race could be very close. ...

32 days into the government shutdown and two congressional Republicans have emerged as the biggest critics of their own party's handling of it. One of them is California Congressman Kevin Kylie who has been urging Speaker Johnson to call lawmakers back to Washington. The other I'm sure you're familiar with.>> I'm deeply angry. I'm deeply disappointed. I I'm actually to a level of pure disgust that we are wasting the opportunity that we have and not solving the problems.I'm so angry at my own party and I'm a ...

Joining us now is California Congresswoman Zo Lofrren. Uh, Congresswoman, can you tell us what do you make of Kla Harris's message in this moment, especially when you yourself have been so actively opposed to partisan gerrymandering for the last 20 years. >> Yes.Uh, California delegation, which I chair, favors independent redistricting. But uh when Trump weighed in, he knows he's going to lose the midterms unless he rigs the election to get these uh Republican states to do his bidding and redistrict. We dec ...

President Trump vowed during his campaign, "I will be your retribution." And 10 months into his second presidency, he's wasting no time. That retribution is now targeting two federal prosecutors who were put on leave this week by the Justice Department for requesting a stiff sentence for a January 6th rier who was pardoned by Trump. He was later arrested after turning up armed near President Obama's home in 2023.In the memo, prosecutors described him as having been among the mob of riers on January 6th, and ...

Andrew Cuomo, who ran an entire primary campaign on the premise that he was best suited to beat Donald Trump, as soon as we defeated him by 13 points, he proceeded almost immediately to get on his hands and knees to beg that same president for his help and the donors of that same president for their help. And now his closing message is to sound even more like the president than anyone else. >> Are you saying a vote for Cuomo is like a vote for Trump at this point.Yes, I am saying. ...

Who do Democrat voters want as the future of their party. We're here today in North Virginia where former President Barack Obama is campaigning for the Democratic nominee for governor, Abigail Spanberger. And we've talked to a lot of individuals and a few themes are coming through here.One is that they want someone who even though Trump can't run for another term, they want someone who can take him on directly. They want someone with charisma. They want someone as a unifier.>> Obviously, I think the biggest ...