now it is time for the last word with the great lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. stephen colbert is so lucky to have, you rachel. rachel, coming up in the show tonight i don t think you will be surprised to know senator sheldon whitehouse, who will be addressing that age old question in washington him, is something better than nothing? senator sheldon whitehouse, who certainly more than any other elected official, maybe more than anyone else in america pushed the court to be responsive in this totally unprecedented way, for all the shortcomings that they have done today, they had never before fognini through answer to their ethical failings before the american people and i think sheldon whitehouse indeed i state senate is the man who more than anyone, push them to. it will find out if he feels like he has a big win or a tie, or he s losing by fewer points that he was losing by last week. just hottest feel senator whitehouse. listen, if at a regular day, you
pass a new funding bill. just hours ago, the new house speaker, mike johnston, unveiled his plan to keep the government funded. it is a two-step approach, putting some parts of the government until january, there is still february. this new plan does not include spending cuts nor additional military aid to israel. this untested strategy also serves as a major first test for speaker johnson, who has limited experience and battles. already getting pushback from his own caucus, congressman saying today, quote, it has a 100% clean and i 100% opposed. nbc news confirms roy is now one of three republicans to already say no deal. in the meantime, the white house is calling the spawn a, quote, recipe for more republican chaos, and more shutdowns. in a new statement, press secretary added house republicans are wasting precious time with an un-serious proposal that has been panned by members of both parties. nbc news capitol hill correspondent has more. hi, alicia, six days ahe
rights. on monday, donald trump was called to the stand to testify in a 250 million dollar civil fraud trial, that could break up his entire family s business empire. predictably, he was combative as a witness. he often gave long winded responses, and he avoided answering questions directly. instead, he took the opportunity to disparage laetitia james, the attorney general who brought the lawsuit, and arthur engoron, the judge presiding over the case who had ot punishment against the company. now on monday, angwin had asked the presidents attorneys to control their client while trump was on the stand. at one point, when asked about one of his properties, he declared, quote, i m not a windmill person. interestingly, no one had asked him anything about windmills. during another line of questioning about his financial statements from 2020, one trump began to reply, quote, i was so busy in the white house with china, russia, and keeping the country safe, at which point the lawyer
any alternative to donald trump, who s ragged this party through several losing elections now. you probably saw or heard some of that debate which did not seem to clarify a ton, except perhaps how much the vac has managed to alienate everyone from nikki haley to eminem, a sentence we didn t know we d commit to here on msnbc. it was vivek who took the mic and actually told republican candidates and voters something they have not wanted to hear this week. that they are in the middle of an ongoing, rolling, epic losing streak that is not stopping. we have lost 2018. 2020. 2022, no red wave that never came. we got trounced last night in 2023. that is just a mathematical fact, whatever you think of the messenger. it cannot be spun by pundits or trolled out of existence in the echo chamber of elon musk s anti-free speech version of twitter. it can t be buried under the type of fake news that really animates so much right-wing discourse from the internet to actual insurrections.
eastern. our thanks to you for let us into your home. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber starts now. thank you. i ll see you tonight. i want to mention to viewers nicolle was just reporting on the new u.s. air strikes in syria. we have more on that later but we begin with the big political news right now in america. so tonight i say welcome to the beat with ari melber, and welcome to the beat with james carville, one of our special leadoff guests as we track what is clearly a political earthquake in america. democrats surging to victories as these results poured a win for conservative ohio that s upending politics across that state and the nation today. it puts pressure on the republicans who are squaring off in tonight s debate as nicolle just mentioned. this was a moment that was supposed to go different little you re looking at live shots where they re supposed to be talking. it was a moment the republicans were hoping to discuss better news. but right no