The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee is accusing Interior Secretary Doug Burgum of — at the very least — coming “pretty damn close” to perjuring himself before Congress about Trump’s proposed memorial arch.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum testified Wednesday that there was no final action on the new arch. The next day, there was evidence that things had moved beyond a “discussion” phase.
@kevinjfrey reports.
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SNL’s Colin Jost revealed that the show writers thought of a cold open that involved Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reading a fictional Bible verse from the film “Pulp Fiction” and scrapped it — only for Hegseth to recite a similar passage in real life at a Pentagon worship service.
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Rachel Maddow reports on a new lawsuit to stop Donald Trump's overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Poll on the National Mall and wonders if Trump recognizes the difference between a reflecting pool and the thing at Mar-a-Lago with deck chairs and beach umbrellas.
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Amidst the war with Iran and high gas prices, President Trump is redoing the reflecting pool and continuing construction on the White House ballroom. @mollyjongfast breaks it down.
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"I mean, good lord."
@jenpsaki watches Texas GOP primary ads and ticks through some of the polling ahead of Texas’ Republican Senate runoff primary election between Senator John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton.
On this week’s “Clock It,” @symonedsanders and @eugenedaniels2 discuss the executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, Vincent Evans, calling out Sen. Bernie Sanders on Twitter. Evans questioned why he hasn’t “heard a mumbling word” from the senator on the recent redistricting battles in the South.
Sanders Towsend, a former member of Sen. Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign team, says “the buck stops with the member.”
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“As I used to tell my clients preparing for testimony, ‘no’ is a complete sentence.”
MS NOW’s Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin breaks down why she thinks Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s answers in a newly released transcript from an interview with the House Oversight Committee “are weird and potentially troubling.”
Lutnick has denied wrongdoing, and just as with other prominent individuals, his appearance in the Epstein files does not imply guilt.
@chrislhayes says “it’s very hard to run a low-trust democracy” and that one lesson Democrats should take from the 2024 election is to “say yes” to engaging with everyone — political friends and foes alike.
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