Episode

6/8 ICE’s NYC Deportation Blitz; Trump Killing Cancer Cures w/ Whitney Wimbish, Jonathan Cohn

June 8, 2026

Welcome back to The Majority Report

On today’s program:

Donald Trump storms out of an interview with Kristin Welker on Meet the Press after Welker challenged the president on his claims of rigged elections.

Whitney Wimbish, staff writer at The American Prospect joins to discuss her piece: “NYC Immigration Courts Speed Deportations as Striking Detainees in Newark Suffer

Jonathan Cohn, writer of The Breakdown newsletter and author of The Ten-Year War, joins to discuss his piece: “The Cancer Research Machine Trump Is Gutting Just Delivered a Big Breakthrough

In the Fun Half:

Rep. Jim McGovern on the NBA’s relationship with the UAE results in supporting war crimes in Sudan.

Donald Trump responds to a question about the sky-high prices for the Knicks home games in the finals by saying you can watch from home. “That’s the way life is”.

Mehdi Hasan dispels Trump’s claims that he won 2024 by a landslide in a debate with Patrick Bet-David.

Ken Paxton‘s former criminal defense attorney endorses James Talarico for Senate.

Van Latham believes that Graham Platner’s campaign is a “moment of Truth” for the Democratic party. He believes that a vote for Platner is co-signing the same behavior as Donald Trump.

A voter in Portland, Maine says that the media is trolling for dirt on Platner and it has no impact on her support for his Senate run.

Pete Hegseth delivers a speech at the 82nd anniversary of D-Day that sounds like it could’ve been given in Germany in 1929.

All that and more.

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