In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.
Lawrence O'DonnellIt`s hard to think of John McCain without thinking about what a ball of energy he is. I remember when I was working in the Senate, he just, enters every room and went down every hallway at the highest speed possible and just was always that way. I think people saw that when he was running for president, that that`s the way he handled everything. It`s just this constant never let up attitude.
Lawrence O'DonnellAccording to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.
Lawrence O'DonnellI think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we do stand for the country.
Lawrence O'Donnell