Lawrence

Political commentary.

• Rep. Clyburn: Sen. Booker’s marathon speech ‘ignited’ Democratic Party

  South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn joins MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss the impact of President Trump’s tariffs and the importance of Sen. Cory Booker’s historic floor speech that slammed the Trump administration’s policies as “not normal.”

• Federal judge says Trump admin. acted in ‘bad faith’

  The Trump administration found itself in federal court today in a hearing to determine whether it defied a federal judge’s order to turn around planes deporting migrants—and that judge did not mince words. Adam Klasfeld joins MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart with his report.

• Lawrence: After Cory Booker's 25-hour Senate speech, the odds don't seem so impossible anymore

  MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech put him in the history books and gave other Democrats a voice against Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s assault on fundamental rights of all Americans.

• Lawrence: Trump's 'biggest tax increase in history' makes Republicans admit 'tariffs are taxes'

  MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains how four Senate Republicans said “loud and clear” with their vote to undo Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada that “tariffs are taxes” on the same day Trump levied the “biggest tax increase in history” with his “cowardly supporters in Congress” who vowed to never raise taxes on Americans.

• Rep. Jeffries: Wisconsin voters rejected Trump, Musk and ‘rapidly deteriorating GOP brand’

  House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss what the elections in Wisconsin and Florida mean for Democrats, his reaction to Sen. Booker’s “soulful, authentic” record-breaking speech, and how Democrats are fighting back against Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to cut programs like Social Security.

• Liberal candidate Susan Crawford beats Trump-Musk pick for WI Supreme Court seat

  MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow discuss the Wisconsin Supreme Court election where NBC News projects the liberal candidate Susan Crawford has defeated the Trump-Musk backed candidate Brad Schimel after Musk and groups linked to him spent $20+ million on the election.

• Rep. Swalwell: GOP hearing on judges opposing Trump is a ‘power grab’

  Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), member of the Judiciary Committee, joins MSNBC’s Symone Sanders to discuss why Republicans on the Judiciary Committee want to hold a hearing about impeach judges who disagree with Donald Trump and how this “philosophy goes against how this country was founded. Professor Melissa Murray also joins the conversation.

• 'Not on my watch': Democrat hoping to take Mitch McConnell's old seat says GOP has failed Kentucky

  MSNBC's Symone Sanders is joined by Col. Pam Stevenson, the Kentucky Democrat, former Air Force JAG officer, ordained pastor, and Kentucky State House Minority Leader who is running for the U.S. Senate for the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell.

• 'The fringe went mainstream': Toxic masculinity surges online in the age of Trump

  With polling showing young women moving to the political left at a rate that vastly outpaces young men and research showing young men encounter blatant misogyny in online content, male members of Gen Z are being radicalized online. MSNBC Contributor Jason Johnson discusses with author and columnist for The Independent, Chloe Combi.

• Rep. Robert Garcia: People want Congress to ‘fight like hell’

  Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) joins MSNBC’s Jason Johnson from backstage at his latest town hall where he tells Jason that he’ll be holding a town hall in Republican Rep. Young Kim’s congressional district. Rep. Garcia her constituents need to know that, because of Donald Trump and Republicans, they’re at risk of losing Medicare and Social Security.