LARRY with Larry O'Connor

A new AARP poll exposes the crack in Jon Ossoff's Georgia re-election: he's up 23 points with swing voters over 50, but Republican Mike Collins actually leads 53-45 among all 50-plus voters — the exact bloc that decides midterms, where 88% say they're extremely motivated to vote versus just 62% of voters under 50. Larry O'Connor and AARP's John Hishta break down the Georgia Senate and governor races, the Keisha Lance Bottoms vs. Rick Jackson ticket-splitting, and why Social Security's 2032 solvency deadline is about to become every Senate candidate's problem.

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Chuck Schumer is desperate to finally become Senate Majority Leader, but his own party is already turning on him — Chris Van Hollen refused to defend him on camera, and his own crowds are screaming at him at his rallies. Then Hunter Biden went on the Macro Dosing podcast and called Schumer "a piece of," trashed Nancy Pelosi, and unloaded on Donald Trump's entire family, right down to the grandchildren — while his own dad still won't acknowledge Hunter's daughter Navy.

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Francesca Hong is about to win the Democratic nomination for Governor of Wisconsin, and she's running the oldest trick in the book — calling herself a Democratic Socialist while insisting she doesn't back the party's platform to abolish the Senate, the police, and ICE. But her own "Abolish the Senate" tweet from five years ago is still live, and the second she left her scripted Fox News taping, the mask slipped. James Carville is already warning his party this is how Democrats blow winnable races.

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson went on Michelle Obama's podcast to explain how carefully she avoids any "appearance of partiality" — apparently not noticing the irony of the venue. Then Jasmine Crockett bragged that black women are "the most educated demographic in this country" while stumbling over her own acronym, calling it "quote unquote DIE," and blaming racism for World Cup fans rooting against Argentina.

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Larry digs into the ugly scene at a Seattle Storm vs. Indiana Fever game, where two teenage girls wearing "XX-XY" shirts in support of Sophie Cunningham were cursed out and called "trash" by adults sitting nearby — including, it turns out, Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton. Larry unmasks the Nordstrom employee caught on video hurling insults, walks through the girls' full account of the confrontation, and covers the fallout: the Seattle Storm's public apology, the WNBA suspending and fining Keaton, and Sophie Cunningham's own statement backing her young fans. Then he turns to a video the WNBA quietly deleted — Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers openly betting $400 on their own matchup — and asks why the league is letting it slide when other pro leagues suspend players for the exact same thing.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is under fire from his own party. Larry breaks down why Thune keeps hedging on the Save America Act (voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements) even though the House already tucked its two biggest provisions into a budget reconciliation bill that only needs 50 votes — votes Republicans already have. He plays the moment a reporter asks Trump point-blank whether Thune is "still the man for the job," compares Thune's rambling answers to Chuck Schumer's near-identical talking points, replays John Cornyn's confused response, and breaks down Senator Mike Lee's floor speech rallying 15 GOP senators who are refusing to let the Senate recess for August until the Save America Act gets a vote.

Larry is pissed. Newly surfaced entries from Anthony Fauci's diary appear to contradict his public statements throughout the pandemic — from private conversations about shutting down New York City schools to his real feelings about the COVID-19 origin story. Larry breaks down the diary revelations, digs into CNN's Jake Tapper and his cozy personal relationship with Fauci, and unpacks Fauci's combative congressional hearing where he invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times. Larry also covers the mortality-rate testimony that helped trigger the national shutdown, the media's shifting narrative on lockdowns and kids, and Fauci getting doorstepped by a reporter on his morning walk right after testifying on Capitol Hill.

Anthony Fauci strode into the Senate hearing, delivered a self-congratulating opening statement blaming Rand Paul — then pleaded the Fifth 121 times, refusing to answer a single question. But here's the catch Rand Paul exposed: Fauci's blanket Biden pardon means he legally cannot incriminate himself, making the Fifth Amendment claim a sham and opening him to contempt of Congress. Paul even had Fauci's lawyer removed from the room by security, and a contempt vote is now scheduled.

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Freshman Senator Bernie Moreno obliterated Anthony Fauci on the Senate floor, forcing him to admit he was pleading the Fifth on a right he couldn't even explain — and didn't know James Madison wrote. Moreno filled the chamber with real pandemic victims and asked Fauci to look them in the eye. He couldn't. Then Moreno hit him with the story of an Ohio mom arrested for watching her son's football game outside, and demanded an apology Fauci refused to give.

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Josh Hawley just dismantled Anthony Fauci on the Senate floor, forcing him to plead the Fifth over questions as simple as the color of his tie. Then Hawley pulled out Fauci's own emails — proof he used eight federal employees on federal time to solicit over $1 million in cash awards, including a $900,000 Dan David Award, while a million Americans died. Fauci, already pardoned by Joe Biden, had no answer.

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Roughly two hours of Joe Biden's 2017 ghostwriter tapes were released over his objections — and on them he can be heard saying "I just found all the classified stuff downstairs," admitting he kept classified documents in his Delaware basement next to Hunter Biden and telling an uncleared ghostwriter to "be careful" with them. The same tapes show the cognitive decline Robert Hur cited when he declined to charge Biden, all while the media called Donald Trump a traitor over Mar-a-Lago. Larry O'Connor plays the audio CBS gave barely 60 seconds, courtesy of the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project and the House Judiciary Committee.

The second a CNN guest tried to raise the Anthony Fauci story, the whole panel talked over her to shut it down — and then admitted on air the DNC is millions in debt, begging vendors to hold their bills until after the midterms. Harry Enten's own chart lays it bare: Republicans sitting on $657 million while Democrats sink into the red, the party 24 points underwater, and the DSA now twice as toxic as the Tea Party ever was. Larry O'Connor breaks down why the "blue wave" narrative is a myth 98 days out.

Acting DNI Bill Pulte just declassified a document dump exposing FBI political appointee Nikki Flores — who admitted in a text message she was "basically running a shadow government across the FBI," locking China's 2020 election-interference intel out of Donald Trump's presidential daily briefing. Catherine Herridge's CIA whistleblower confirms it, newly declassified files show China compromised voter rolls in 18 states and had a plan to weaponize BLM chaos, and Pulte responds by firing roughly 30% of the intel staff.

Rand Paul just released "Tony's Diary" — Anthony Fauci's private notes — and they're devastating. In his own handwriting, Fauci pegged COVID's fatality rate at 0.2-0.3% while telling Congress under oath it was 10x deadlier than the flu, knew asymptomatic spread was confirmed on February 3rd yet told Larry Kudlow "we're okay," and tracked his own fame, awards, and action figure right alongside the rising death toll. With his pardon only covering the Biden years, Fauci returns to the Senate this week fully exposed to perjury charges.

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A DSA co-chair went on Fox News and told Shannon Bream "absolutely" to abolishing the Senate, the Pentagon, borders, and even prisons — including for rapists and child predators. Larry O'Connor breaks down how these Democratic Socialists are running as a parasite inside Hakeem Jeffries' party, why the DNC is $2 million in debt and hiding its bills until after Election Day, the Bernie Sanders vs. Rahm Emanuel civil war, and how CNN's own data guy just admitted there is no blue wave coming.

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At the White House Correspondents Dinner, President Trump roasted CNN's Caitlin Collins by "mistaking" her for Dylan Mulvaney on the infamous Bud Light can — and Collins responded with a virtue-signaling Eleanor Roosevelt quote on Instagram. Larry O'Connor breaks down why her outrage makes no sense, Dylan Mulvaney's bizarre "freedom" video reply, and the Jake Tapper and Barry Weiss jokes that bombed in the room but landed everywhere else.

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Larry breaks down the 2026 California governor's race between failed Biden HHS chief Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton, whose campaign just dropped a viral "The Machine" ad blasting Sacramento's political establishment. Larry also digs into CA Attorney General Rob Bonta rewriting the ballot language for a voter ID initiative to sway voters, a Hispanic caller who stuns a Democrat congressman by demanding basic citizenship verification for voting, and LA's homelessness numbers spiking under Mayor Karen Bass, who, then, blames Trump. Plus, Adam Carolla sounds off on California's refusal to hand over voter rolls.

Larry reacts to a fatal police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, that is being framed by the left as the next "George Floyd moment." A man fled officers on a bicycle, pulled a fixed-blade knife during a struggle, injured an officer, and was shot after a Taser failed — he later died. Larry then analyzes the police chief's full account, an activist storming the podium at the press conference to demand the officer be called a "murderer," and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong being coached by protesters to call the shooting an "execution" just 10 days before Wisconsin's primary. Larry also digs into Madison's 53-year unbroken run of Democrat mayors and why the city's police department has no body cameras — tracing it back to post-George Floyd budget cuts.

Larry reacts to New Jersey's voter fraud scandal after Gov. Mikie Sherrill's administration admitted nearly 6,600 non-citizens were registered to vote (with ~400 having actually voted) between June 2023 and June 2024. NJ blames a DMV software "glitch"; the vendor denies it. Larry covers Sherrill blasting the Trump administration over the fallout, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt's response, and DOJ Civil Rights Division head Harmeet Dhillon detailing plans to prosecute and deport non-citizens who voted — while New Jersey refuses to hand over its voter rolls to federal investigators.

Fresh off his viral Smithsonian takedown, Congressman Brandon Gill turned his attention to the American Bar Association — grilling its president on the group's own diversity, equity, and inclusion language. Larry walks through Gill's relentless line of questioning: whether the ABA president will admit to her own "implicit biases," whether race and gender factored into Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination, whether the Court should reflect America's racial makeup, why there's never been a transgender Supreme Court justice, and whether race should factor into law school admissions. She dodges nearly every question — and Gill never lets her off the hook.