There is so much crazy stuff happening in the news right now.

There is Trump's decision, not unexpected, to nominate his former personal attorney,

Todd Blanche, to be the permanent attorney general of these United States.

There's Trump's choice for America's next director of national intelligence.

Super important job.

Guess who's going to get it? Maybe. A Trump loyalist, a 38-year-old

real estate nepo baby with zero experience in intelligence gathering whatsoever. And then there's the

ongoing voterama happening in the Senate right now where a number of Trump's pet proposals

are facing pushback even from Republicans. Those are important stories, and we're going to get to all of them

this hour. They're all symptoms of the way in which Trump and his allies have been running this

country for the past year and a half and why one of the most important questions facing the

country right now is will Democrats actually be able to win back enough power

in Congress to push back on Donald Trump's agenda? Because for all the attempts to convince Republicans

to turn on Trump, for all the attempts to publicly shame this administration and its enablers out of their

worst decisions, the only way Donald Trump and his enablers out of their worst decisions, the only way Donald Trump and

his enablers will truly be held accountable, not removed from office, but held accountable,

is for Democrats to take control of Congress this November. Those campaigns are well underway.

And taking control of the Senate, not just the House. The Senate is a big part of the strategy.

Democrats need to flip four seats in the United States Senate to take control of that chamber.

And one of their biggest targets so far has been the state of Maine, where they're hoping to

finally unseat the long-term Senator Susan Collins. Now for weeks now, the presumptive Democratic nominee

in that race has been the first-time candidate Graham Platner. He's running on a populist message

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