Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell is the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word. He was formerly the chief of staff for both the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and the Committee on Environment & Public Works in the 1990's. He is also an actor, and has been executive producer of the television shows The West Wing and Mister Sterling. O'Donnell blogs at the Huffington Post as well. In the past, O'Donnell has described himself as a socialist.
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"The president and vice president can't be from the same state."
Because of the current immigration crisis, Republicans want to "repeal" a 2008 law that President George W. Bush signed and "want to be on record as…
"Radio Marti and TV Marti have spent more than $500 million to reach less than 1 percent of the Cuban population."
Chris Christie "helped funnel $6 million in federal Hurricane Sandy money to a senior center in Belleville, N.J., a place that suffered no damage."
"The IRS has been specifically forbidden ... from ever actually pursuing either civil or criminal remedies" for people who don’t purchase health insurance.
Says critics called the original GI Bill "welfare."
"Most Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant."
"There are no similar clips of Newt Gingrich talking about how ineffective President Bush was in trying to control North Korea."