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Hassan Piker tells Axios that America is worse than al Qaeda, and Abdul El-Sayed still won't say his name.
Larry O'Connor breaks down Piker's Axios interview with Alex Thompson, his MSNBC appearance with Eugene Daniels, and Abdul El-Sayed's answer when asked about him. Plus the Detroit News endorsing Mike Rogers, John Kennedy on the Michigan race, and El-Sayed in Washington on the flip from running against Chuck Schumer to meetings...
Federal arrests in the LA homeless fraud case, Karen Bass declining to testify, and HUD cutting off the money.
Larry O'Connor walks through the federal arrests over money meant for homeless Angelenos, including Alexander Sufer's guilty plea and the $670,000 Michael Young allegedly spent on a vintage Impala. HUD Secretary Scott Turner announces that more than $75 million ran through the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, and M...
The House Judiciary report on ActBlue, a hidden-camera video of James Talarico's pastor, and Scott Jennings on tariffs.
Larry O'Connor walks through ActBlue's internal Slack messages released by the House Judiciary Committee, including the passport check that only counted digits and the deleted warnings from in-house counsel Zain Ahmad. Then a Daily Wire undercover video of Pastor Babs Miller of St. Andrew's Presbyterian on what Ja...
A Townhall undercover video shows a Texas Majority PAC organizer describing a $25 paid program to boost Democrat James Talarico.
Townhall's Kyle Olson reports on organizer Sky McAdams and the "paid relational program." Larry contrasts it with arrests announced by Ken Paxton, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche, and with comments from Pramila Jayapal, Jamie Raskin and Jasmine Crockett.
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FBI Director Kash Patel clashed with Sens. Cory Booker, Adam Schiff and Peter Welch at a Senate Judiciary hearing.
Chairman Chuck Grassley cut Booker off, the acting chair told Patel to "knock it off" during his exchange with Welch, and Welch later took his election-interference charge to CNN.
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Larry O'Connor on the Lindsay Clancy hung jury, Virginia's parole board under Gov. Abigail Spanberger, and Roy Cooper's Senate run.
The New York Post reports the lone holdout juror is a Haitian Catholic immigrant. Former Virginia AG Jason Miyares blames Spanberger after her board paroles Christine Allen's convicted killer, and Larry contrasts it with Glenn Youngkin's record before turning to Cooper's "health care, not handcuffs" in...
Gavin Newsom tells CNN's Jake Tapper on a fishing trip that he won't run for president if Kamala Harris does.
Larry O'Connor on why Tapper's advice is a problem for a possible debate moderator, what Newsom's "Venn diagram" comment says about Harris' donors and staff, Harris' $8 million Malibu home, her AI statement after Barack Obama's, and her "AI is kind of a fancy thing" clip.
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Larry O'Connor reacts to Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico naming his favorite drag queen in Texas.
Also: Talarico on kindergarten classrooms and rainbows in class, his Texas House committee remarks on gender identity and child abuse, a Massachusetts Catholic family's custody fight, Pete Buttigieg's Meet the Press answer to Kristen Welker on Kamala Harris' book and a gay president, and a classic Joan Rivers clip.
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sues over Trump's new public charge rule, and Larry O'Connor says the rule it replaces is Biden's.
Plus Speaker Mike Johnson on Mamdani and AOC at the 9/11 memorial, Mamdani's chief counsel Ramzi Kassem, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, and Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit against Columbia University.
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Iowa Republican nominee Zach Lahn tells Larry O'Connor that Democrat Rob Sand is a liberal running as a moderate.
Lahn lays out his plan to cut the state gas tax, contrasts his business and farm background with Sand's 20 years in government, and explains why he ran after Gov. Kim Reynolds stepped aside. He also calls for ending tax breaks for data centers, and Larry weighs in on Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Rachel Maddow's ...
Ilhan Omar told Don Lemon there is "no legacy to honor" a year after Charlie Kirk's assassination, and posted nothing at all for the 25th anniversary of September 11th.
In the same week, police raided the Minneapolis home her 20-year-old son shares with a roommate and found weapons and ammunition belonging to that roommate, a convicted felon barred from possessing them. A Fox Digital reporter asked Omar about it on camera and got n...
Asked a fourth time about Hasan Piker, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed still won't say his name - he calls him "a streamer in California."
El-Sayed brought Piker to Michigan to campaign with him. On Face the Nation he was asked directly why he has condemned antisemitism but never Piker's rhetoric, and answered by counting how many times he had been asked about a Twitch streamer. The anchor then apologized for raising it. A...
John Cornyn condemned a Republican candidate's post about the University of Texas, and Democrat James Talarico publicly thanked him for it by name.
Bo French, a Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, posted a photo of the crowd at the Texas-Ohio State game with a comment about the student body. Cornyn, who lost the Republican Senate primary to Ken Paxton and said afterward that he would support the nominee, called it...
On the 25th anniversary of September 11th, Larry O'Connor delivers a pointed opening on why the threat that caused the attacks hasn't disappeared, then turns to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Ground Zero remarks — contrasting them with a resurfaced 2019 clip where Mamdani framed 9/11 primarily around being bullied as a Muslim student. O'Connor plays NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch's remarks at a separate ceremony insist...
Larry O'Connor breaks down Senator Ted Cruz's closing-night speech at the Republicans' midterm convention, where Cruz warned about a "red-green alliance" between communists and Islamists inside the Democrat Party, drawing on his own family's experience under Cuban communism. O'Connor plays CNN Newsnight's reaction, where host Abby Phillip clashes with commentator Noah Rothman over whether Cruz's remarks target Islam as a religion o...
Larry O'Connor breaks down Vice President JD Vance's closing speech at the Republicans' first-ever midterm convention, calling it one of the most effective political speeches of the cycle. He plays highlights of Vance quoting Democrat candidates in their own words on defunding the police, open borders, and radical rhetoric around Israel and 9/11, then explains the three strategic goals behind the two-day convention: energizing Trum...
Larry O'Connor breaks down the fallout from the hung jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial, opening with a CBS Mornings clip where Gayle King presses a juror on the racial and age makeup of the panel — then visibly freezes when she learns the lone holdout juror who refused to acquit was a Black man. O'Connor walks through Gayle King's reaction moment by moment, arguing it reveals she'd assumed the holdout was white. He then turns ...
Larry breaks down President Trump's speech at the first-ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas, where Trump told the crowd to "pretend I'm on the ballot," floated a controversial $5,000 dividend check for every American adult, and unloaded on Texas Senate candidate James Talarico's bizarre "Beat Meat" campaign moment. Plus, Attorney General Ken Paxton gets his turn at the podium, and Trump closes out the night comparing Talar...
Larry breaks down the Texas Senate race — predicting a coin-flip finish or a Ken Paxton lead over James Talarico — and hands the mic to rising GOP star Congressman Brandon Gill, whose midterm convention speech torches the Democratic Party's "land acknowledgment" culture and calls out its most extreme nominees by name. Then it's Talarico's turn in the hot seat: Larry replays his Fox News interview where he's pressed on s...
Hillary Clinton resurfaces on Morning Joe to warn about the "far right" — but Larry says her reappearance two months before the midterms is a tell that Democrats know they're in trouble. From there, the show tears into a CNN "investigation" that spends four minutes combing through a Texas congressional candidate's old YouTube jokes while giving his opponent a pass, and closes with a hard-hitting RNC ad reminding voters what s...
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