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JoAnna Mendoza, a Marine veteran, former Drill Instructor, and Democratic nominee for Congress in Arizona, says Secretary Hegseth is undermining trust in the military: "I have talked to parents, conservative parents, who have kids who are deployed, they're pending orders, and they're terrified that their kids are going to come back in a flag-draped coffin."
Ali Velshi lists all the ways that Pete Hegseth's "State of the Force" speech was racist and bigoted.
MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how one Republican senator humiliated himself “in stupidity and disgrace” as Speaker Johnson admits that Republicans will continue to do what they’ve been doing – pushing Donald Trump’s illegal tariffs and his unpopular war in Iran that are driving up costs – if they win in November.
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Instead of addressing the military conflicts that the United States is involved in, Secretary Hegseth’s “State of the Force” speech focused on culture war nonsense. Retired Lt. Col. Amy McGrath and MS NOW's David Rohde join Ali Velshi to discuss Hegseth’s wayward leadership and horrendous remarks.
Senator Eric Schmitt was warned that the text message he planned to use as a perjury trap for special counsel Jack Smith had not been vetted, but Schmitt was so convinced of his own conspiracy theory about the criminal investigations of Donald Trump that he ignored the warning and ran headlong into humiliating himself in the national spotlight. Capitol Hill reporter Mychael Schnell joins to explain MS NOW's exclusive reporting and former Senator Claire McCaskill provides her analysis.
JoAnna Mendoza, a 20-year Marine veteran and former Drill Instructor, is hoping to flip Arizona's 6th district blue after Trump's signature legislation brought about "devastation" in southern Arizona. "People are paying attention, they are suffering, and they know who is in charge."
Listen to the audio version of The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell from the Sept. 30 broadcast.
President Trump and the AI industry have co-signed one of the biggest economic and technological wagers of all time. - If it goes right: A new age of abundance — explosive productivity, staggering wealth and a generational leap in American power. - If it goes wrong: A catastrophic bust that destroys capital, jobs and, in the words of several involved, threatens widespread human harm . Why it matters: Neither Trump nor the AI titans have plausible deniability. Their fortunes have become so tightly bound that success will be shared — and failure impossible to disown. The big picture: Trump and Big AI have fused their futures around four enormous bets. 1. The economic bet: That trillions poured into chips, data centers and power will…
We examine the arts center’s saga in Washington.