New reporting from the Portland Press Herald and the AP reveal the violent history of the ICE agent who fatally shot a 25-year-old father in Maine—and raises urgent questions about how he was hired.

“The problem is here and it is getting worse. This is no longer abstract or theoretical,” says Chris Hayes as wildfire smoke blankets U.S. cities.

WATCH: Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator made more than $90,000 betting on Kalshi about what the president would say in speeches on, the prediction market company said on Thursday.

WATCH: According to Politico, Trump's fellow Republicans are terrified of what he will say during his primetime speech. One former Trump administration official reportedly said, "The people I talk to are scared shitless.”

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Trump said this morning that ICE agents will not suspend their vehicle stop operations, just a day after officials announced a temporary pause.

According to MS NOW’s exclusive reporting, Secret Service agents assigned to JD Vance’s family are “fed up” with costly, last-minute travel demands—including a helicopter trip to take his young son to a golf lesson across town. Carol Leonnig joins to discuss her reporting.

Chris Hayes: "There is no humane and orderly, under-the-radar way to do what they want to do. And so, cruelty and chaos will inevitably follow."

WATCH: Officials confirm an ICE agent shot and killed a 26-year-old man in Biddeford, Maine, the second fatal shooting of a motorist by ICE in less than a week. Rep. Chellie Pingree joins to discuss the latest.

“Graham wasn't a victim, or a mark. He wasn't weak. He didn’t flip flop. No, he was a man who had his own project he was pursuing, and he viewed Trump as crucial to that project,” says Chris Hayes on the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.

WATCH: FBI Director Kash Patel abruptly canceled a planned flight Friday to see his girlfriend in Chicago this weekend, after top administration officials frustrated with Patel summoned him to the White House, according to two people with knowledge of the change.

“The communicator who sort of brought people together has really disappointed, betrayed, and enraged them. But that doesn't mean that energy's not still there, and that that hope's not still there,” says Rebecca Traister on Democrats’ path forward after Graham Platner’s exit.

Whistleblower claims about Kash Patel’s alleged taxpayer-funded travel perks are drawing new scrutiny from Democrats—and even a Republican senator. MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian joins to discuss his reporting.

New footage obtained by KHOU 11 News raises serious questions about ICE’s account of a fatal Houston traffic stop that left 52-year-old father of three Lorenzo Salgado Araujo dead.

WATCH: Graham Platner releases a video announcing the end of his campaign for Senate, and our MS NOW panel immediately reacts.

“Everything Donald Trump touches is worse off for it. And he wants to put his touch on everything—especially America’s most talented and popular athletes,” says Chris Hayes.

Sen. Mitch McConnell has not been seen or heard from publicly since he was hospitalized on June 14, the same day paramedics responded to a cardiac arrest call at his home.

WATCH: The USMNT player at the center of Trump’s FIFA scandal is exactly the kind of American that MAGA keeps attacking. “Folarin Balogun is American, and that is a wonderful thing,” says Chris Hayes.

A new report from House Democrats alleges Trump allies cashed in on America’s 250th birthday celebration, turning a national milestone into a vehicle for access, contracts, and political self-promotion. Rep. Jared Huffman joins to discuss.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: “We can do it, but we're not going to do it with the crew that it's in Washington right now. We need a political revolution. It's beginning to happen, and I feel confident about what you're going to be seeing in the next few months.”

According to a new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Trump demanded his private bathroom be fully carpeted, leading staffers scrambling to avoid mold.

“That’s the White House’s message to Americans who are struggling in their daily lives and looking up at this guy and his family swimming like Scrooge McDuck in a sea of corruption and greed that is quite literally unprecedented in American history,” says Chris Hayes.

WATCH: “It’s hard to explain just how unhinged and racist that position is. But let me try,” says Chris Hayes on the Trump administration’s case against birthright citizenship. Constitutional scholar and advocate Sherrilyn Ifill joins to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision.

WATCH: The reflection in a guitarist’s shades may have accidentally exposed the turnout problem at Trump’s America 250 celebration.

WATCH: Trump and his allies are melting down after the Supreme Court handed them a “tremendous loss” in their fight to restrict mail-in ballots.

Leon Black’s voluntary interview in the House Epstein probe abruptly ended with subpoenas after he refused to answer questions about alleged NDAs with women linked to Epstein. Legal analysts Katie Phang and Joyce Vance join to discuss that and more Epstein developments.

WATCH: “That’s a pretty telling confession from Vice President JD Vance,” says Jacob Soboroff on Vance complaining that the “deep state,” and not constitutional safeguards, took down Richard Nixon.

WATCH: According to Bloomberg Law, Stephen Miller was behind a DOJ memo that lets states institutionalize Americans with disabilities instead of funding the community care that allows them to remain home—undoing decades of reform and precedent.

WATCH: Markwayne Mullin—now serving as Trump’s DHS secretary—had to appear before Congress clutching a stress ball to apparently keep his anger in check as he clashed with Democratic members and the Republican committee chairman.

“I think what you’ve seen from New Yorkers … is an exhaustion with status quo politics and a desire for something that actually responds to the needs that they have in their own districts,” says Mayor Zohran Mamdani on his slate of endorsed candidates sweeping their primaries.

WATCH: “A president who is concerned about persuading voters would sign the bipartisan housing bill—but he chose not to do that because he doesn’t want to win, he wants to cheat,” says Chris Hayes on Trump derailing the housing bill to push his anti-voter legislation.

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social reminds @jonlovett.bsky.social of what he said about the Reflecting Pool two weeks ago.

Rep. Ro Khanna is calling for accountability over Musk’s USAID cuts, which one study projects could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030. After Musk lashed out, Khanna responded to Chris Hayes.

WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.

WATCH: “Before I knew it, I was being handcuffed,” says former U.S. Olympian David Hearn, who was arrested after touching the Reflecting Pool water amid Trump’s renovation fiasco.

David Hearn: I went over and furnished my id and kind of before I knew it, I was being handcuffed and realized I was being arrested.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says President Trump fabricated his claim that she “begged” him to take a photo with her at the G7 summit.

WATCH: The New York Times reports that Trump’s green reflecting pool mess now has a swampy new twist: a no-bid cleanup contract tied to a Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor.

Chris Hayes: Trump’s reflecting pool is looking a lot less “American flag blue” and a lot more “Iranian flag green.”

WATCH: "It was truly one of the best days of my life,” says NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the Knicks championship parade.

WATCH: Ta-Nehisi Coates says Democrats can’t outrun the base on Gaza. “There is very real political energy, around this that, as far as I'm concerned, has the right and correct moral view. So, I think even from a practical perspective, there's no choice,” says Coates.

“It is true and accurate to say that Donald Trump started a stupid, devastating war for no reason, and then he lost it. And he should be remembered for it,” says Chris Hayes.

WATCH: Trump spent millions to make the reflecting pool “American flag blue.” Now it’s green, full of algae, and has become the latest taxpayer-funded cleanup job.

WATCH: AP projects Rep. Mike Collins to win the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Georgia. The far-right congressman will face Sen. Jon Ossoff in November.

According to Axios, Trump aides are worried that recordings of Situation Room meetings about the Epstein files made their way to New York Times reporters. Rep. Ro Khanna joins to discuss.

According to a new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, JD Vance urged Trump to consider invoking the Insurrection Act to quell the anti-ICE protests in Minnesota. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse joins to discuss.

Trump’s DOJ said the $1.776B payout fund was off the table, but after Trump praised the plan and new reporting suggested it may still be alive, a federal judge is demanding proof in writing.

Chris Hayes: Trump and Musk took a chainsaw to the obscure government programs that kept flesh-eating screwworms away from American farms. And now that failure could hit farmers, ranchers, and your grocery bill.

“Trump wants a deal that makes him look better than Obama or a total conquest of Iran. And absent that, he just wants a few minutes or a few hours of some good press,” says Chris Hayes. “Whatever makes the headlines good.”

WATCH: Rarely released grand jury transcripts from Chicago's "Broadview 6" case reveal a shocking look at alleged misconduct inside Trump’s DOJ—and how prosecutors tried to push charges against anti-ICE protesters after jurors already rejected the case.