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The Briefing with Jen Psaki
MS NOW, Jen Psaki
Jen Psaki tackles the biggest issues of the week and features one-on-one interviews with newsmakers.
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MS NOW, Jen Psaki
Jen Psaki tackles the biggest issues of the week and features one-on-one interviews with newsmakers.
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Not checked · Oct 15, 2026 · 41:25
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 explicitly endorse his statements. Senator Mark Kelly joins…
Not checked · Oct 14, 2026 · 42:05
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 Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, and Terry…
Not checked · Oct 11, 2026 · 42:41
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 directly. Listen to a compilation special from Together In…
Not checked · Oct 11, 2026 · 44:43
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 directly. Listen to a compilation special from Together In…
Not checked · Oct 10, 2026 · 41:42
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 among the buyers. Trump even thanked Putin even though the…
Not checked · Oct 9, 2026 · 41:50
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 flawed Republican candidates appears to not only be tipping…
Not checked · Oct 8, 2026 · 42:37
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, begged a Trump donor for $100,000 to pay off her credit card…
Not checked · Oct 7, 2026 · 47:36
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, and the liability Donald Trump has become for Republican…
Not checked · Oct 3, 2026 · 46:30
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 Psaki shares examples of Donald Trump making promises on the…
Not checked · Oct 2, 2026 · 42:16
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 disparaging him for it. Rep. Jamie Raskin joins to discuss the myriad…
Not checked · Oct 1, 2026 · 43:04
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 attention to prioritizing a cartoonish image of what it means…
Not checked · Sep 30, 2026 · 41:33
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 his spectacular failure by Senator Amy Klobuchar who pointed…
Not checked · Sep 26, 2026 · 42:41
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 face pushback from angry American voters, but he won't cause…
Not checked · Sep 25, 2026 · 41:54
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 the dictators he admires. Peter Alexander, chief national…
Checked · Sep 24, 2026 · 41:51
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 political power was at a nadir. Polling shows him to be even worse…
Not checked · Sep 23, 2026 · 41:51
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 make excuses for Trump. Jen Psaki dismantles them with facts…
Not checked · Sep 19, 2026 · 40:48
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 Politico from the White House. Trump previously lost a legal…
Not checked · Sep 18, 2026 · 42:29
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 Trump despite having previously been supportive. But Trump is…
Not checked · Sep 17, 2026 · 41:16
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 early to avoid having to deal with it. This comes as new reports…
Not checked · Sep 16, 2026 · 41:47
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 area in which he can use his corrupt influence to make…