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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell will do an interview with President Joe Biden from the White House on Wednesday followed by a town hall with the administration’s Covid-19 team. The interview will be featured on Vaccinating America: An MSNBC Town Hall, to air at 10 PM ET on MSNBC and streaming on Noticias Telemundo’s…

A week after he was released from the hospital for Covid-19, The Good Doctor and The West Wing actor Richard Schiff used his personal experience as a warning. “You don’t want this,” Schiff said, speaking to fellow The West Wing actor, Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. On November 3, Schiff…

UPDATED with Doald Trump’s reaction via Twitter: At the start of his MSNBC show The Last Word on Wednesday, host Lawrence O’Donnell apologized for his report that Russian billionaires co-signed Deutsche Bank loans to Donald Trump, hours after one of the president’s lawyers issued a legal threat and demanded a…

UPDATED, 1:17 PM: Score one for Donald Trump and the threat of legal action. Less than 18 hours after proclaiming that Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin co-signed big Deutsche Bank loans to Trump, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is walking back the potentially crippling claim. Not long after NBCUniversal…

Rob Reiner’s film LBJ, with Woody Harrelson in the title role, was unveiled at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, but will be in theaters November 3. Those dates provide viewers a twist of the kaleidoscope, from pre-election to the end of Donald Trump’s first year in office. Any political movie is bound to provoke…

Having watched what happened to MSNBC primetime star Lawrence O'Donnell when someone leaked footage of him having an on-camera meltdown during a glitch-riddled taping, CBS late-night star Stephen Colbert decided to get out in front of his own similar embarrassing Late Show incident. In video leaked this week, The Last…

MSNBC primetime host Lawrence O’Donnell had the last word on some folks in his control room late last month, venting first about someone talking in his ear about “a Labor Day rundown” then some apparent knucklehead using a hammer. Video of his tirade, spiced with no shortage of colorful language, was leaked today, and…

Lawrence O’Donnell took to Twitter tonight to end the long nightmare of his fans: Yes I will be saying hi to Rachel @maddow at 10pm for the foreseeable future. https://t.co/LKlkRTXL3F — Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) June 1, 2017 A couple weeks back, The Last Word host – again on Twitter – had scared the daylights…

MSNBC's president Phil Griffin has a new multi-year contract, according to an informed source, settling one personnel question about the network. Still no announcement on 10 PM star Lawrence O'Donnell, who tweeted May 17 that his contract expires June 4, promising to let fans know “where you can watch me June 5 if…

MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell took to Twitter Wednesday morning to say how sorry he is that his contract negotiations have become public and to make sure we know his possible end date: Contract expires June 4. I'll let you know where you can watch me June 5 if it's not msnbc. I'm sorry this situation…

MSNBC boasted a first-place finish among cable news networks in the weekday primetime news-demo ratings last week. It marks MSNBC’s first such win since the week of December 29, 2008. In total viewers, MSNBC’s weekday pimetime averaged 2.4 million viewers, nipping at Fox News Channel’s 2.6M and nearly double that of…

It’s primary day in New York, and cable news is pretty much wall-to-wall with talking-head pundits. In a break from the pundit parade, MSNBC’s Afternoon MoJoe had New Yorker Harvey Weinstein on to talk about Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, the GOP and the intersection of Hollywood and Washington. The five-minute…