Grounded with Jon Tester and Maritsa Georgiou
Sep 21, 2026 · 32 min · 9 segments
As we start a new work week, major TV news networks suspended their pooled coverage of President Donald Trump after he banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists from the White House over the…
Jon TesterHostYeah, I mean, this is all, for me, it's personal, right, as a journalist, as somebody who's um, covered the white house as somebody who's worked in DC as somebody who, um, has covered politics for a long time.
This is, this is alarming and we've seen it just get more intense and more intense throughout the years.

I want to take you back to the story that I talked to you about offline of AI and a Chinese ship.

They were talking about blowing it out of the water, and then they found out that wasn't the case.

You want to talk about the ultimate pivot to take people off, by the way, which would drive us further, further, further into chaos with not only our military supplies, but also price of fuel, price of everything else.

Part of that keeps some of our enemies at bay, but the truth is his back is against the wall.

I think that folks, if we have a free and fair election and people get sworn in, it's going to be a majority in both the House and the Senate.

I think that here's an opportunity there for folks in Congress to hold the other two branches accountable, and I would hope that that's the case.
and i think that's why that's why voting matters so much this election and i know that you hear people say every single election this is the most important election of our lifetime um but it really does i i was in minnesota this weekend and i'm hearing some alarming trends uh not just in minnesota but um on social media in other states too it seems to me there's a lot of um resentment and anger still being held over from the primaries.
And a lot of people saying, well, I'm going to vote but not in this race because my candidate didn't win or I don't trust them or I don't like them.
There's no perfect candidate out there, but sometimes you have to hold your nose and go vote for maybe not that specific candidate, but right now it's going to be a balance of power and who controls the House and the Senate.
Yeah, I mean, this is all, for me, it's personal, right, as a journalist, as somebody who's um, covered the white house as somebody who's worked in DC as somebody who, um, has covered politics for a long time.
This is, this is alarming and we've seen it just get more intense and more intense throughout the years.

I want to take you back to the story that I talked to you about offline of AI and a Chinese ship.

They were talking about blowing it out of the water, and then they found out that wasn't the case.

You want to talk about the ultimate pivot to take people off, by the way, which would drive us further, further, further into chaos with not only our military supplies, but also price of fuel, price of everything else.

Part of that keeps some of our enemies at bay, but the truth is his back is against the wall.

I think that folks, if we have a free and fair election and people get sworn in, it's going to be a majority in both the House and the Senate.

I think that here's an opportunity there for folks in Congress to hold the other two branches accountable, and I would hope that that's the case.
and i think that's why that's why voting matters so much this election and i know that you hear people say every single election this is the most important election of our lifetime um but it really does i i was in minnesota this weekend and i'm hearing some alarming trends uh not just in minnesota but um on social media in other states too it seems to me there's a lot of um resentment and anger still being held over from the primaries.
And a lot of people saying, well, I'm going to vote but not in this race because my candidate didn't win or I don't trust them or I don't like them.
There's no perfect candidate out there, but sometimes you have to hold your nose and go vote for maybe not that specific candidate, but right now it's going to be a balance of power and who controls the House and the Senate.
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