"The Weekend: Primetime". Tonight: reality vs. rhetoric in Portland. Trump is portraying the city as a warzone, but that's very different from the situation on the ground. Plus, the pressure on Speaker Johnson and the GOP grows as the government shutdown grinds on. 

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This episode aired on Oct. 12, 2025 at 8pm.

 

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