The Briefing with Jen Psaki
MS NOW, Jen Psaki
300 episodes
Jen Psaki tackles the biggest issues of the week and features one-on-one interviews with newsmakers.
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After Obama humiliates Trump, an odd choice to push back
October 26, 2026; 9pm: Jen breaks down Trump and allies’ closing midterm message, from attacks over Obama’s Cheesecake Factory joke to DOJ election lawsuits, Comey charges, and claims of corruption. Ben Rhodes, Mark…
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Desperate Trump takes first steps toward undermining midterm election results
October 23, 2026; 9pm: Jen breaks down the Justice Department’s Alaska election lawsuit with Mark Elias, the fallout from Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad with Josh Turek, and Kansas Republicans crossing party lines against…
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Trump Corruption, Women’s Power, and the Fight for the Midterms
October 22, 2026; 9pm: This episode examines Trump-era corruption, attacks on women seeking power, election threats, and the midterm fight in Mississippi. Guests Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Sarah Longwell, and Scott Colom…
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Team Trump running on depravity in midterms' closing weeks
October 21, 2026; 9pm: Jen examines Republican closing messages on Vladimir Putin, Amy Acton, Camp Lejeune veterans, and alleged Trump corruption, with guests Wes Moore, Mitch Landrieu, and Miles Taylor. The key…
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'ABSOLUTE STUNNER': New corruption scandal rocks Trump just weeks before midterms
October 20, 2026; 9pm: Jen covers rising Democratic turnout and fundraising, Republican attack politics, alleged Trump pardon influence, and Elon Musk’s role in Texas politics. Guests Senator Raphael Warnock, Liz Oyer,…
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Trump Vetting Chaos, Corruption Politics, and Starlink in Ukraine
October 16, 2026; 9pm: Michael Steele examines Trump White House turmoil after Katie Zachariah’s short-lived press secretary role, the politics of corruption and campaign money, and questions over Starshield access for…
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Bend School Shooting and DOJ’s Fight Over California Voter Rolls
October 15, 2026 9p.m. ET - Jen Psaki covers breaking news of a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, where three children, a teacher, and the suspected shooter were killed. Michael Feinburg,…
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Psaki: MAGA candidates should answer for Trump's unhinged nonsense
October 14, 2026 - Jen Psaki shares pieces of Donald Trump's speech at a rally in Arizona and makes the case that the media should not ignore the bizarre things he says and should ask the candidates who support him to…
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'Oh, Katie': Psaki lets loose on Trump's new press secretary
October 13, 2026 - Jen Psaki reacts to Katie Zacharia's first day as Donald Trump's press secretary, the mockery she made of the press briefing, and Donald Trump's efforts to normalize a compliant press. Amb. Norm…
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Together in Texas: Part 2
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the politics. With a few weeks left until the midterms, MS NOW anchors and fans gathered in Texas for a day of conversation and community. Now, we’re bringing the fun to you…
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Together in Texas: Part 1
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the politics. With a few weeks left until the midterms, MS NOW anchors and fans gathered in Texas for a day of conversation and community. Now, we’re bringing the fun to you…
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Trump backstabs allies, breaks sanctions for sudden Russian diesel deal
October 9, 2026 - Jen Psaki reports on Donald Trump giving Russian President Vladimir Putin another big boost by dropping sanctions to allow Russia to move more diesel fuel to market and suggested the U.S. would be…
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Psaki: It's not just Trump's curse. GOP put flawed candidates in tight races.
October 8, 2026 - Jen Psaki explains that while a popular president may be able to carry a lackluster candidate with the help of local partisanship, the combination of Donald Trump's abysmal public approval and deeply…
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HOT MESS: Report says Guilfoyle begged for money, offered favors ahead of confirmation
October 7, 2026 - Jen Psaki relays new reporting from the Wall Street Journal that Kimberly Guilfoyle, former Fox News host, former Donald Trump Jr. fiance, and current U.S. ambassador to Greece, struggled with debt,…
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Jen Psaki live from Maine on the road to the midterms
October 6, 2026 - Jen Psaski interviews Troy Jackson, Democratic candidate for Senate from Maine, fresh from his debate with his Republican opponent, Susan Collins, about the tight race, the political mood in Maine,…
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Local news busts Trump on empty economic promises
When Donald Trump boasts that a new steel plant is already under construction in Iowa, who better to check the veracity of that claim than the people in Iowa who live where the plant is supposedly being built? Jen…
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Trump meme coin hype sputters as his public approval tanks
Jen Psaki explains that Donald Trump is hosting another dinner in support of his cryptocurrency meme coin, ignoring the fact that his own followers took massive losses investing in the coin, with many openly…
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'Clown' Hegseth makes a fool of himself with fixation on superficial priorities
September 30, 2026 - Despite the increasingly dangerous global security environment, made even more dangerous by Donald Trump's inexplicable war on Iran and Pete Hegseth's mismanagement of it, Hegseth has devoted his…
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Smug GOP senator faceplants with humiliating 'gotcha' failure
Jen Psaki shares the events at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee in which Republican Senator Eric Schmitt thought he had caught former special counsel Jack Smith in a perjury gotcha only to be called out for…
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Trump's hypocrisy compounds his humiliation in sucking up to China's President Xi
September 25, 2026 - Jen Psaki holds Donald Trump's boasts about helping Republican candidates on the campaign trail up against the reality that he is being sent to safely Republican districts where he not only won't…
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Psaki: Trump admiration for dictators seen in his attacks on media
September 24, 2026 - As Donald Trump ban on members of the media whose coverage he doesn't like continues to play out in court, Jen Psaki points out that the media model Trump seems to most want to emulate is that of…
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How we know Donald Trump is freaking out about his disastrous poll numbers
September 23, 2026 - Jen Psaki points out that the last time Donald Trump lost his cool and tried to ban a member of the news media from the White House he had just been clobbered by a blue wave midterm and his…
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Psaki lays waste to bogus GOP talking points on press freedom
While Donald Trump banning news organizations from the White House because he doesn't like their coverage is objectively inexcusable in the United States of America, Republicans are nonetheless trying their hardest to…
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Psaki: Trump can't hide by attacking the free press
Jen Psaki reviews the history of American presidents clashing with members of the press but still respecting their First Amendment role, and reports on Donald Trump's declaration that he is banning MS NOW, CNN and…
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Alarming new disclosures highlight dangers of A.I. as Trump turns his back on regulation
Jen Psaki looks at Republican candidates who have purged their campaign materials of mentions of Donald Trump or have avoided events with Trump or Trump officials. Some candidates are even speaking out in defiance of…
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Fear of HEGSETH IMPEACHMENT sends Congress to early vacation
Jen Psaki explains how articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, filed by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, put House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans in an awkward position so he ended the session a day…
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Psaki: Trump does not sound like he knows what A.I. is
Jen Psaki shares videos of Donald Trump answering questions about artificial intelligence that suggest that he does not actually know what artificial intelligence is, though he certainly seems aware that it is another…
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Another Trump prosecutor quits as another conspiracy theory fails
Jen Psaki shares reporting on the sudden departure of fervent Trump acolyte Joe DiGenova, who had been tasked with proving the existence of a grand conspiracy against Donald Trump and failed to secure even a single…
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Trump makes himself a laughingstock with $5000 check pitch; even Fox News calls his bluff
Jen Psaki talks with House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries about Donald Trump's "phony promise" to give every adult in America $5000 and why Trump is resorting to such a transparent gimmick with the midterm elections…
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Trump invents excuses for his 'Trump-a-palooza' dud
Jen Psaki shares video of Donald Trump weirdly claiming to members of the media that many Republicans did not attend his midterm Republican convention in Texas because there is no enough room for them, even though the…
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GOP talking points against 'crazy' lead to immediate embarrassment
Jen Psaki points out that Republicans should rethink their new talking points that 2026 is an election of common sense versus crazy when they are running so many candidates who would seem to fall into the crazy…
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Blame for Trump's Iran disaster, Hegseth's Pentagon chaos spreads to negligent Congress
Retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore, a Democratic candidate for Congress, and Rep. Chris Deluzio, talk with Jen Psaki about how the House and Senate should be using their oversight responsibilities to hold…
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Vance flounders in public spotlight trying to push Trump's Iran gaslighting
Jen Psaki looks at how JD Vance is trying to minimize Donald Trump's war against Iran even as there appears to be a new escalation of fighting and Pete Hegseth is reportedly extending deployments in the Middle East.…
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Hegseth's Pentagon political purge draws attention to his incompetence, Trump's dereliction
Jen Psaki takes a closer look at how former weekend right-wing cable news host Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's defense secretary, is gutting the top tiers of the U.S. military while doing a poor job handling Donald…
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'Get right with God.': Tech bros panic as post-Trump accountability comes into view
The tech executives who have debased themselves sucking up to Donald Trump and taken advantage of Trump's negligent regulatory attitude are not only feeling direct political pressure over things like addictive…
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Massive scandal ROCKS Florida politics with major national implications
Jen Psaki peels through the layers of a scheme described by a Florida grand jury in which millions of dollars were laundered through charities and ultimately ended up funding political activities. And while the grand…
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Trump's only campaign idea is a bad one: promoting himself
Jen Psaki talks with David Plouffe, Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager, about the balance of the congressional elections just a few months away from midterm elections, and the challenge Republicans face carrying the…
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Trump Senate pick makes 'empty vessel' a viable political identity
Jen Psaki relays breaking news that Darline Graham, sister of former Senator Lindsey Graham, is projected to win the South Carolina Republican primary for Seante, overcoming some embarrassing gaffes and apparently…
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Hegseth's Pentagon goes to war against independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes
Jen Psaki reports on the firing by Pete Hegseth's Pentagon of the editor-in-chief of the Stars and Stripes military newspaper, as well as one of its reporters, and considers the broader context of the Trump…
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Psaki: Trump administration's 'adult babysitters' are not normal
Jen Psaki takes a closer look at the bizarre devotion Natalie Harp shows to Donald Trump and her reported behavior that is not at all normal for a presidential aide. And the similarly abnormal role of Jennifer Hegseth,…
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Distracted Trump gives Republicans a real estate agent when they need a leader
Jen Psaki looks at the terrible performance of some of the candidates endorsed by Donald Trump, and the lack of help struggling Republicans candidates are getting from Trump, who may be too unpopular to help them even…
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Trump-era GOP produces weak field of candidates as multiple Trump endorsees flop in Florida
Jen Psaki looks at the collection of shameless and scandal-plagued MAGA candidates running in Florida Republican primary races that leave Trump-era Republican voters wanting for good choices. Democratic pollster…
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Psaki: Why it's believable that Trump doesn't actually want to be president
Jen Psaki considers Senator Jon Ossoff's charge that Donald Trump doesn't actually want to be president and would rather spend time with his sycophantic aides flying around on his fancy Qatari airplane, and posits that…
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Trump's cartoonish devotion to gold backfires in ballroom argument
Donald Trump is trying to get around restrictions on the construction of his White House ballroom by arguing that the facility is a military necessity. But as Jen Psaki points out, it's hard to argue the national…
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Psaki calls out Karoline Leavitt for failing to serve the American people as Trump's press secretary
Jen Psaki criticizes the priorities of outgoing Donald Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt for avoiding good faith engagement with real reporters' questions while elevating Trump sycophants. Senator Mark Kelly…
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‘Unconscionable’: Trump uses press and his own staff as decoys amid Iran threat
Retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and former White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby joins MS NOW’s Jen Psaki to discuss Donald Trump’s claims that the United States has “complete control” over the…
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Psaki on what national narratives are missing about primary elections so far
Jen Psaki sets the record straight on extraordinary Democratic enthusiasm in this year's midterm elections, as evidenced by exceptional turnout in the primaries so far, and points out that despite the media's obsession…
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Midterm primaries pit the establishment against outsiders
Jen Psaki and a panel of her MS NOW colleagues watch the primary election returns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Carolina and Connecticut and discuss the intra-party dynamics this primary season. To listen to this…
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Trump abandons ship: GOP left to sink under the burden of a profoundly unpopular president
Donald Trump appears to be distancing himself from his own Republican Party, perhaps hoping to avoid association with expected midterm losses, despite being responsible for the unpopularity Republicans are suffering…
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Blame game clown show: Trump looks for Iran fiasco scapegoats
Donald Trump and his former cable news weekend co-host defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, are reportedly fighting over who is to blame for wasting U.S. military resources and depleting the U.S. weapons stockpile on…
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