Lawrence

Political commentary.

• 'We're fighting back': PA House speaker on how Dems stopped GOP from taking the state house

  MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart is joined by Pennsylvania State House Speaker Joanna McClinton to discuss how Pennsylvania Democrats stopped the state's Republicans from taking control of the legislature in this year's November elections.

• Dem. Rep.: Cabinet picks reveal Project 2025 is ‘Donald Trump’s 2025’

  Rep. Gregory Meeks joins MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss the latest controversial cabinet picks by Donald Trump, including key figures tied to Project 2025, that he says are based on loyalty to Trump over experience, “That’s a dangerous situation.”

• Lawrence: Republican senators say ‘hell no’ to Musk and Trump

  MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how Republican senators said “hell no” to Elon Musk and Donald Trump in rejecting Matt Gaetz, who, embroiled in sex scandal, withdrew his nomination. As disturbing new details of sexual assault emerged against Pete Hegseth, Lawrence asks if four Republican senators will say “hell no” to Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump.

• Lawrence: It only takes one Republican vote to release the House Ethics report on Matt Gaetz

  MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how it only takes one of the five Republicans on the House Ethics Committee to vote to release instead of hide its investigative report on Matt Gaetz, the “most important vote in a confirmation process” that could destroy his nomination for attorney general.

• Lawrence: Matt Gaetz cannot possibly survive a Senate confirmation hearing

  MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell discusses Elon Musk’s sting of lobbying failures after publicly lobbying for Senator Rick Scott for Majority Leader (Republicans elected Senator John Thune as their new leader), Howard Lutnick for Secretary of the Treasury (Donald Trump chose him to lead the Commerce Department), and now, Matt Gaetz who, according to The New York Times, Donald Trump doesn’t believe is going to get confirmed.

• Attorney for Gaetz investigation witnesses on shocking testimony House Ethics Cmte. heard

  MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell speaks to Joel Leppard, the attorney representing two women who testified to the House Ethics Committee about Matt Gaetz.

• Nathan Heller: Trump’s ‘big, sloppy notions’ helped win the 2024 election

  Nathan Heller, staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine, joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss his latest article, “Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information” where he gives a post-mortem on the 2024 election and explains why the traditional approach to micro-targeting voters no longer works.

• Lawrence: Trump is asking the Republican Senate to confirm worst Cabinet nominees in history

  MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell discusses Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees after Trump’s choices for Attorney General and Defense Secretary are accused of sexual assault. Lawrence says that we will find out in January if enough Senate Republicans are willing to confirm “the most unqualified Cabinet nominees in history.”

• ‘I do feel a responsibility’ as first pro-choice OB-GYN in Congress, says new Dem.

  Rep.-elect Janelle Bynum flipped a Republican seat to become Oregon’s first Black member of Congress and Rep.-elect Dr. Kelly Morrison is the first pro-choice OB-GYN elected to Congress after winning her Minnesota House race. Both newly elected Democrats join MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss their priorities in the next term, including protecting access to abortion care.

• 2024: Disinformation & disinterest won

  MSNBC’s Ali Velshi talks with Will Bunch and Tom Nichols about Trump’s support from people who consume no news reports and how “Donald Trump was returned to power by the most badly-informed electorate in modern history.”