Trump escalates his 'attack on our civic institutions and our voting'

The 11th Hour with Ali Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

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🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Trump refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill, demanding the GOP first pass the election-targeting "SAVE America Act." Members of the "Leaving MAGA" support group share their experiences. And Darializa Avila Chevalier on the scrutiny she's facing over her past statements, controversial views, and where she goes from here. Melissa Murray, Angelo Carusone, all David Noriega join Ali Velshi on The 11th Hour.

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0:00.0	The 11th hour starts now.
0:02.0	Tonight, a hint about why the president is blowing up his own party's housing affordability bill.
0:08.0	Spoiler alert, it may be about stealing an election.
0:11.0	And the Democratic Socialist at the center of last night's bombshell upset,
0:15.0	32-year-old Darya Liza Avila Chevalier took down a five-term incumbent.
0:20.0	She joins me tonight.
0:21.6	Plus, Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson both say they're done with the Republican Party.
0:26.6	MS Now reporter David Noriega takes us inside a support group of Disillusion MAGA devotees who want out of the movement too.
0:34.6	Then tonight's nightlight takes us literally to the skies.
0:38.7	It's the story of a group of volunteers who won't let unjust laws get in the way of helping
0:43.6	their fellow citizens.
0:50.6	We are 131 days away from the midterm elections, and as Democrats take in what last night's
0:56.7	primaries mean for their base of support, Republicans are having some disputes of a different
1:01.7	sort. Let me set the scene for you. Imagine, if you will, the President of the United States,
1:06.3	getting into a shouting match in a room filled with dozens of lawmakers from his own party.
1:11.5	Imagine him calling one of them a lunatic and being so angry that one member described him
1:17.1	as, quote, mad as a murder hornet.
1:20.2	According to reporting from MS Now, that is what happened earlier today when Donald Trump
1:23.8	visited Capitol Hill to have lunch with senators from his own party.
1:28.3	The person he called a lunatic was this man, Bill Cassidy, the outgoing senator from Louisiana.
1:33.6	Cassidy just lost his primary to a Trump-backed candidate last month.
1:38.0	He's been a target of Donald Trump's ire ever since he voted to convict Trump in his second
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