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EPISODE · Aug 19, 2025 · 17 MIN

Trump targets mail-in voting; Legislating the skies

from Here's the Scoop · host Matt Dixon, Allan Smith, Yasmin Vossoughian

President Trump says he wants to pull the plug on voting by mail. In the Oval Office yesterday, he called mail-in ballots “corrupt.” It might sound like it came out of nowhere, but this idea’s been bubbling for a while. And it just got a boost from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who at that high-stakes summit in Alaska on Friday echoed Trump’s unproven claim that mail ballots “rigged” the 2020 election. Host Yasmin Vossoughian talks with our senior politics reporter, Matt Dixon, who breaks down what this could mean for the 2026 midterms. And is the government really controlling the weather? Some Republican lawmakers seem to think so, and they’re introducing a bill to ban so-called “weather modification.” NBC News Political Reporter Allan Smith is with us to explain. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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