The episode covers a series of urgent global and domestic developments, including President Trump’s escalating rhetoric toward Iran, a high-profile Supreme Court custody case involving a surrogate, Kamala Harris’s political endorsement in Michigan, a shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in
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