The vice president tried to push back against claims that militarization of the nation’s capital is a “power grab.” He failed in important ways.

Within days of Donald Trump taking over DC’s police force, dozens of the city’s homeless encampments have been cleared. “He attacks the homeless as though that’s the problem,” Reverend Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, tells Ali Velshi. Trump wants “people to disregard our moral centerpiece,” but Bishop Barber adds, “We have to push back and show that everything he’s doing is anti-humanity.”

Trump claims to have “solved” anywhere between 6 and 10 wars around the world (depending on which day you ask him) – a claim that doesn’t hold water. Ana Marie Cox tells Ali Velshi that Trump’s boastful claims about his diplomacy compensate for the fact that he’s a terrible negotiator. In both domestic and foreign policy, Trump “doesn't see these things in terms of negotiations with a compromise, but as deals with a winner and a loser,” says Cox. 

Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J.

God is dead...from laughing.

The president must secure congressional approval to extend the 30-day federal takeover.

For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed

Black political power is on the line.

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office picked up the lawsuit after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dropped a similar one in March.