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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Saddled with Trump's unpopular agenda, Republicans look for ways to subvert voters before midterms

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki looks at ways Republicans are trying to avoid accountability for Donald Trump's failures by rigging the election system to take power away from voters who would reject them.

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0:00.0

The first thing I want to mention is right here on set, we're going to have Congresswoman

0:03.5

elect Adelaide de Grohalva, Congressman Robert Garcia.

0:06.3

They're going to join me here in studio for a joint interview momentarily.

0:10.4

Now, by now you've likely heard that Grahalva would be the final signature required to trigger

0:16.1

a vote on the Epstein files.

0:17.9

And she's very willing to do that.

0:19.5

And that Mike Johnson is refusing to

0:22.0

swear her in. Congressman Garcia is the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee who has

0:27.1

been fighting tooth and nail to get those files released. But that story is actually much bigger

0:34.3

than just the Epstein files. So both of them are going to be right here at this

0:37.7

table together in just a moment. We're going to talk all about that. But I want to start tonight

0:41.9

with something that is definitely not a secret. We all see this. We all see the numbers. We all

0:46.3

see it happening before our eyes. And that is the indisputable fact that Donald Trump's agenda is

0:51.6

deeply unpopular with the American people. So what do you do when your

0:56.0

agenda is toxic? And when the voters you rely on to hold power to vote for you don't actually

1:02.5

like what you're doing with that power? Well, you make it harder for people to participate. You

1:08.7

disempower voters. You do everything you can to rig the rules and

1:12.8

break the process. And we've seen this all before. I mean, Trump and the MAGA movement have a long

1:18.7

history of following this pattern. After all, this is the party that spent years passing laws

1:24.5

that make it harder for people to vote. This is the party whose leader

1:28.1

tried to overturn the results of a legitimate election, pressuring state officials to find him

1:33.0

votes that didn't exist, submitting fraudulent election documents, and when none of that worked,

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