Tonight on The Briefing! @raskin.house.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @justinjpearson.bsky.social

. @preetbharara.bsky.social takes a wider view on Donald Trump's weaponization of the DOJ: "Do people really think it ends at the end of the list that Trump has put out so far? What do you think happens when Trump runs out of Democrats?"

. @repdangoldman.bsky.social to DOJ prosecutors: "You have to stand up for your oath of office. You have to stand up for the Constitution. It is daunting. You may get fired. But I promise you, the legal profession will reward you for doing the right thing."

Season 2 of Jen Psaki's The Blueprint podcast starts Wednesday, October 15th Find it wherever you get your podcasts. Corresponding with this new season is a new newsletter! Sign up for the Blueprint newsletter here: link.msnbc.com/join/5ck/msn...

Psaki: "There is no longer a question of whether [Trump] can get his Justice Department to actually go after them. But just remember, he’s doing it because he is thin-skinned and petty and weak."

Jeh Johnson: "Somebody managed to snatch scandal out of the jaws of victory. This should have been a good news day for President Donald Trump."

Tonight on The Briefing! @repdangoldman.bsky.social John Brennan @gallego.senate.gov Jeh Johnson

"Not the only one." Reacting to WSJ reporting that the now-deleted Donald Trump post demanding AG Pam Bondi prosecute his political enemies was meant as a direct message, Preet Bharara bets there are more such messages.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he has not yet been briefed since President Trump posted to Truth Social about a signed first phase in the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: "I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene!"

House Democratic leader Jeffries: We're waiting for Trump.

Coming up next hour! House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries will be Jen Psaki's guest on The Briefing. 9pmET on MSNBC

Tonight on The Briefing! @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @preetbharara.bsky.social

Full video: Jacob Soboroff's @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social powerful reporting on how ICE agents are terrorizing suburban Chicago neighborhoods: youtu.be/9dx266qOOic?...

Tonight on The Briefing! @captmarkkelly.bsky.social Sky Roberts Amanda Roberts @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

"Every single week we have seen one-sided escalation from ICE. We come with songs and chants and signs. They come with tear gas and pepper bullets and flash bangs." @katmabu.bsky.social on ICE brutalizing protesters in Chicago.

Rep. Dan Goldman wonders if Trump knows how his policies are impacting Americans: "I think he is fed so much dung from his staff that was put in there with a very express purpose of usurping total control of the government and cutting back as much as possible."

Rep. Greg Casar on Republicans skipping town: "It's like the entire Republican party has taken a lesson out of Cancun Ted Cruz' playbook."

"It's like an erosion of constitutional norms-themed Mad Libs." Michael Feinberg, former FBI assistant special agent in charge, remarks on how everyone at the FBI has pre-emptively composed their resignation letters.

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

"The frantic effort to undo the rolling cuts made to the Homeland Security Grant Program, with the last $100 million slashed over the weekend, underscored the chaos unfolding as the Trump administration moves to punish political adversaries..." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

Tonight on The Briefing! @repdangoldman.bsky.social @repcasar.bsky.social @katmabu.bsky.social @michael-feinberg.bsky.social

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

Psaki: "All around the world, Trump is the butt of the joke, and it's a little less funny to many people living here."

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "It looks like the president is trying to take us off the world stage in terms of our credibility as the indispensable nation. I want the speaker to go to the president and say it's recognizable what you are doing and your deterioration."

Tonight on The Briefing! @repdean.bsky.social Fmr. OMB Dir. Shalanda Young @klobuchar.senate.gov @robertgarcia.bsky.social

Apparently, Trump commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, didn't get the "ixnay on the epsteinyay" memo.

Season 2 of Jen Psaki's Blueprint podcast is almost here! And the first episode, featuring the hilariously witty and politically savvy hosts of the I've Had It podcast will be taped at the MSNBC Live event in New York City on October 11. Details and tickets are at MSNBC.com/Live25

MD Gov. Wes Moore says troops don't need to follow Trump's orders if they are unlawful. "I think this becomes a really challenging moment for the members of our military when you usually have the ability to trust the orders that you are getting are lawful."

"I'm not hearing a world in which John Thune wants to negotiate." @warren.senate.gov reacts to new @politico.com reporting that Senate Majority Leader Thune says he's open to negotiating on health care if enough Democrats support House GOP to reopen the government. (www.politico.com/news/2025/10...)

Donald Trump knew he was going to be speaking to all of those military leaders, but he still didn't bother to write a comprehensive speech? Watch Jen Psaki talk about it with Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré: youtu.be/slvH6OeGrnE?...

Watch Jen Psaki's full interview with House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries: youtu.be/d_BE6Vj2if4?...

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: "We need from the president of the United States an individual who actually is focused on doing his job as opposed to engaging in racist or bigoted stereotypes."

Tonight on The Briefing! @warren.senate.gov @govwesmoore.bsky.social Fmr. OMB Dir. Shalanda Young

Priorities…

BREAKING: The government will shut down after Congress failed to reach agreement. Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries responds on @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social.

House Speaker Jeffries joins the protesters this evening Calls Trump’s AI video disgusting and racist “Mr. President, allow me to reintroduce myself,” he says, vowing to fight for health care for the people

Tonight on The Briefing! @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov @normeisen.bsky.social Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

George Conway @gtconway.bsky.social on the Comey indictment: "This indictment is just quintessentially Trumpian: it is both breathtakingly corrupt, and mind-blowingly stupid."

Rep. Ro Khanna explains the real reason Adelita Grijalva is not being sworn in to Congress after her special election victory this week. @rokhanna.bsky.social

Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) explains "warrior ethos," the reported subject of an unusual meeting of U.S. military leadership called by Pete Hegseth. @markhertling.bsky.social

"In private conversations, senior leaders will ask the obvious question: Why are we spending millions and creating global vulnerabilities for a meeting that could be done in an hour on secure video?" @markhertling.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-qu...

BREAKING: NYT: The Justice Department seeks information on Fulton County, Georgia D.A. Fani Willis

Coming up this hour!

Senator Tim Kaine reads between the lines of Pam Bondi's statement on the indictment of James Comey and sees "deep ambivalence."

Senator Tim Kaine considering the 120-day interim prosecutor rule: "I think the Comey attorneys have an awful lot of grounds to get this thing thrown out."

Interesting timeline insight from Andrew Weissmann: James Comey has a right to a trial within 30 days.

Jen will have @weissmann.substack.com join us tonight. 9pmET in MSNBC

BREAKING: The Justice Department indicts former FBI Director James Comey.