Vice President JD Vance discusses the upcoming midterm elections, the Trump administration’s decision to remove CNN, Politico, and MSNow from White House, and the ongoing conflict with Iran.
Rob Schmitt on left-wing outlets: "They don't view themselves as propagandists for the left." "They don't see the world, or at least see the political world, as either liberal or conservative. They view it as either truth or conservative."
Liberals' selective outrage strikes again, and Bob Brooks looks at the newest example that proves their "messed up" bias.
Rachel Maddow shares reporting from a Danish news outlet that a U.S. group connected to Ron Lauder, billionaire friend of Donald Trump, bought a house for a Greenlandic politician whose wife is the former foreign minister tasked with dealing with Trump's urgent desire to acquire Greenland.
Rachel Maddow shares reports of a man shot in the back in the course of being arrested by ICE. MS NOW's Alex Tabet reports live from a protest in Austin, Texas and shares the latest on the man's condition after he was imprisoned with the bullet still lodged in his back.
Rachel Maddow reviews the fundamental legal principles that are working against Donald Trump's attempt to ban news organizations from the White House, as well as the American cultural principles that would never accept Trump administration propaganda as a replacement for a free press. Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, joins to discuss.
Rachel Maddow notes that as Donald Trump's popularity continues to decay to new lows, the institutions that he successfully bullied at the start of his term are finding new courage to stand together in defiance of him, including news organizations that are finding new solidarity in the face of Trump banning members of the press from the White House.
As Trump's Iran war drives up oil costs and his administration kills cheaper, cleaner renewable energy projects, Americans are feeling the pain in their pocketbooks. Former Washington Governor Jay Inslee tells Ali Velshi that the advantages of renewables are "practical," not just "ideological."
Listen to the audio version of The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell from the Sept. 21 broadcast.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Donald Trump’s military complex plan for his triumphal arch, the impact of Trump’s policies on Americans, and what Sen. Kelly describes as a Trump’s attacks on Americans’ freedoms.