LARRY with Larry O'Connor

New undercover footage is raising questions about what Senate candidates are saying away from the campaign stage. Larry breaks down Townhall’s exclusive footage involving James Talarico, another hidden-camera exchange involving Dan Osborn, and the uncertainty surrounding CNN as its parent company’s massive merger moves toward completion.

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Kamala Harris is back on the campaign trail in Michigan. Larry breaks down her pitch to voters, her response when asked about another presidential run, and a tense exchange between Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and a reporter.

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Hasan Piker’s latest comments are creating another fight over his relationship with Democratic politicians. Larry breaks down Piker’s new remarks, DNC Chair Ken Martin’s response, new polling about Democratic leadership and a contentious CNBC exchange with Rep. Ro Khanna.

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President Trump delivered a wide-ranging address at the United Nations, laying out his choices on Iran and taking aim at Cuba, the UN, the International Criminal Court and warnings about artificial intelligence. Larry breaks down the biggest moments from the speech and the new U.S. security agreement involving Greenland.

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CNN and other television networks announced they would suspend pool coverage of President Trump after a dispute over White House access. Hours later, Trump spotted CNN covering him at the United Nations. Larry breaks down what happened and the media fight that followed.

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President Trump met with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion and struck an unexpectedly cordial tone despite their major political differences. Larry breaks down the strange meeting, Trump's exchange with reporters and what may be behind the relationship.

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Fox News joined the other major television networks in suspending White House pool coverage after CNN was blocked from its assigned pool duties. Larry breaks down the media fight and revisits past clashes involving Barack Obama, Fox News and Brian Stelter.

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Kamala Harris' own aides and allies are casting doubt on another presidential run as other potential 2028 contenders begin making moves. Larry breaks down the latest on Harris, Mark Kelly, JB Pritzker and Wes Moore.

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Spencer Pratt is taking his message to the national stage ahead of the midterms — and he's not holding back. Larry breaks down Pratt's fiery speech, the latest campaign messaging from both parties, and some revealing moments from candidates on the trail.

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Hasan Piker sat down with Axios reporter Alex Thompson and talked about Iran, 9/11 and Israel. Larry breaks it all down.

Chris Stigall — former Townhall and Salem colleague, now the Republican nominee for Congress in Missouri's 6th district — joins to go through the interview: Abdul El-Sayed distancing himself from Piker in the Michigan race, Piker's claim that a nuclear Iran would mean a more stable Middle East, his explanation of "Americans deserved 9/11" and the Pew number he had to walk back on camera, Osama bin Laden and "blowback," Elizabeth Warren pretending not to know him, and why Israel "in its current formation" is the only country he keeps coming back to.

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Abdul El-Sayed went on MSNBC to face Joe Scarborough six weeks out from the Michigan Senate race. The first question was about fishing.

Larry walks through the whole interview: the football questions, the Ohio State jokes, Scarborough finally raising Hasan Piker and then comparing El-Sayed's problem to Ronald Reagan's Birchers, El-Sayed refusing to say Piker's name or Chuck Schumer's, the "cost of peanut butter" pivot, and his explanation for bringing Kamala Harris to Michigan after leading the uncommitted effort against her in 2024. Plus why Mike Rogers is chasing the Haley Stevens voters El-Sayed can't reach.

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The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial issued a statement pushing back on what the other jurors have said about him.

Larry breaks down the juror's statement, the interview about it that aired on Chris Cuomo's show, the CBS panel reaction, juror Devlin's call for postpartum care reform, a man-on-the-street interview with a woman who wouldn't say the children's names, and Judge Judy's take on whether Lindsay Clancy should be retried before the September 29 hearing.

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Hassan Piker tells Axios that America is worse than al Qaeda, and Abdul El-Sayed still won't say his name.

Larry O'Connor breaks down Piker's Axios interview with Alex Thompson, his MSNBC appearance with Eugene Daniels, and Abdul El-Sayed's answer when asked about him. Plus the Detroit News endorsing Mike Rogers, John Kennedy on the Michigan race, and El-Sayed in Washington on the flip from running against Chuck Schumer to meetings he calls "really, really warm." 

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Federal arrests in the LA homeless fraud case, Karen Bass declining to testify, and HUD cutting off the money.

Larry O'Connor walks through the federal arrests over money meant for homeless Angelenos, including Alexander Sufer's guilty plea and the $670,000 Michael Young allegedly spent on a vintage Impala. HUD Secretary Scott Turner announces that more than $75 million ran through the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, and Mayor Karen Bass tells the House Oversight Committee she can't attend — a week after resigning from LAHSA's governing board.

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The House Judiciary report on ActBlue, a hidden-camera video of James Talarico's pastor, and Scott Jennings on tariffs.

Larry O'Connor walks through ActBlue's internal Slack messages released by the House Judiciary Committee, including the passport check that only counted digits and the deleted warnings from in-house counsel Zain Ahmad. Then a Daily Wire undercover video of Pastor Babs Miller of St. Andrew's Presbyterian on what James Talarico really believes, with Ken Paxton's response, and Scott Jennings against Abby Phillip on CNN over tariffs and corporate income taxes. 

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A Townhall undercover video shows a Texas Majority PAC organizer describing a $25 paid program to boost Democrat James Talarico.

Townhall's Kyle Olson reports on organizer Sky McAdams and the "paid relational program." Larry contrasts it with arrests announced by Ken Paxton, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche, and with comments from Pramila Jayapal, Jamie Raskin and Jasmine Crockett. 

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FBI Director Kash Patel clashed with Sens. Cory Booker, Adam Schiff and Peter Welch at a Senate Judiciary hearing.

Chairman Chuck Grassley cut Booker off, the acting chair told Patel to "knock it off" during his exchange with Welch, and Welch later took his election-interference charge to CNN.

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Larry O'Connor on the Lindsay Clancy hung jury, Virginia's parole board under Gov. Abigail Spanberger, and Roy Cooper's Senate run.

The New York Post reports the lone holdout juror is a Haitian Catholic immigrant. Former Virginia AG Jason Miyares blames Spanberger after her board paroles Christine Allen's convicted killer, and Larry contrasts it with Glenn Youngkin's record before turning to Cooper's "health care, not handcuffs" in North Carolina.

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Gavin Newsom tells CNN's Jake Tapper on a fishing trip that he won't run for president if Kamala Harris does.

Larry O'Connor on why Tapper's advice is a problem for a possible debate moderator, what Newsom's "Venn diagram" comment says about Harris' donors and staff, Harris' $8 million Malibu home, her AI statement after Barack Obama's, and her "AI is kind of a fancy thing" clip.

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Larry O'Connor reacts to Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico naming his favorite drag queen in Texas.

Also: Talarico on kindergarten classrooms and rainbows in class, his Texas House committee remarks on gender identity and child abuse, a Massachusetts Catholic family's custody fight, Pete Buttigieg's Meet the Press answer to Kristen Welker on Kamala Harris' book and a gay president, and a classic Joan Rivers clip.

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