Luke Russert

[upbeat music] Good evening and welcome to The Week Night.

I'm Symone Sanders-Townsend with Michael Steele and Luke Russert.

Tonight, No Kings is back.

The massive anti-Trump protests are set to be staged across the country tomorrow, and we just found another reason for demonstrators to be outraged.

Good evening and welcome to the weeknight.

I'm Simone Sanders Townsend with Michael Steele and Luke Russert.

We have a very big night ahead, including a conversation with Nebraska Senate nominee Dan Osborne.

But before we get to that, we begin with breaking news in central Oregon and a mass shooting at an elementary school in Bend.

Good evening and welcome to The Weeknight.

I'm Luke Russert with Simone Sanders-Towson and Michael Steele.

Breaking tonight, Donald Trump rallies with election deniers in the crucial state of Arizona as Republicans set the stage to question the results of the midterms.

In just a moment, we'll be joined by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Good evening and welcome to the weeknight.

I'm Simone Sanders Townsend with Michael Steele and Luke Russert.

Breaking any moment, a federal judge is set to rule on Donald Trump's media ban before the end of the night.

But ruling or not, the administration is refusing to follow a series of critical orders from judges around the country.

Hey, Congressman.

Luke Russert here, and I wanna piggyback a little bit off of Simone's question because it's very interesting, 'cause you're running w- what's a very unique race this cycle, especially in a very unique state.

I've had the pleasure to cover races in New Hampshire.

Uh, those voters are very informed, very opinionated.

"I would like to set you up to respond to some nasty comments that were made." You know, it's, it's sort of that way.

It's like this is where everybody on X was like, "She's no Tim Russert." And then somebody else said, "She's no Luke Russert," which that's really-

[laughs] Fuck

... that's really going low.

Tim Russert went to-

Can I call...

Uh, I, I just have to bring up, you mentioned Luke Russert, who made himself famous for saying, "Yes, uh, the students at University of Virginia do tend to, you know, lean more towards the Democratic presidential candidate because they are a little bit more intelligent and better educated than students at the other universities."

Yeah.

Yeah.

And there was a you know, the peak of that was Luke Russert.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Steve Kornacki, the national political correspondent and host, signed a deal to publish his political history books through Echo, an imprint... of HarperCollins Publishers.

Lawrence O'Donnell, the host of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, is a featured author under the HarperCollins catalog.

Luke Russert, the host and commentator, published his memoir, Look For Me There, via HarperCollins Horizon, a HarperCollins imprint.

Joy Ann Reid, the former host of The Readout, and A.M. Joy, published her best-selling books, including Medgar and Merle, and The Man Who Sold America, through HarperCollins.

Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the weeknight.

I'm Simone Sanders Townsend with Michael Steele and Luke Russert.

Breaking any moment, Donald Trump is set to speak in Texas again.

Yes, the Republican Party plays defense as the president and his allies abandon prioritizing America first.

North Carolina BS artist Tom Tillis has a new book out and he's promoting it.

This guy, Tom Tillis, I've been telling you, and there was an incident on MSNOW tonight with Luke Russert calling Tom Tillis out on his BS.

So Tom Tillis, Republican, he quit the Senate.

not going to be senator from North Carolina when the new Congress is sworn in.