Top to bottom: Cokie Roberts, Steven Roberts, April Ryan, Michael Isikoff, Paul Danahar, and Lawrence O’Donnell
Nobody seems to have a neutral opinion about journalists, particularly now. They’re looked up to as a “last best hope for the republic” or denounced as “enemies of the people”—or something in between. Decide for yourself when you get some first-hand insights into today’s reporters as some of the best of the best discuss life in the trenches.
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Lawrence O'Donnell
Host of "The Last Word" on MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell has seen politics and Washington from all angles. He was a legislative aide to a powerful Democratic senator, a chief of staff of the senate Finance committee, a director of communications for a senatorial election campaign, author, essayist, longtime pundit and executive producer and writer for "The West Wing." From his weeknight perch at MSNBC, O'Donnell draws on all those skills with interviews of the day's newsmakers and a biting essay in which he gets, well, the last word.
His signed book Deadly Force and Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics (Penguin) are available for sale after the program.
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