LARRY with Larry O'Connor

Hakeem Jeffries dodges reporters' questions on the Save Act (which would require voter ID and citizenship verification to register to vote), refusing to say why he opposes it. Then Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) says the quiet part out loud at a fundraiser: ensuring only U.S. citizens vote would make it "hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election." This video breaks down that comment, how motor-voter registration and driver's licenses for illegal immigrants set the stage for it, Slotkin's "fake book club" story about "tricking" Republican husbands, and Texas Senate candidate James Talarico's puzzling argument that a border wall would hurt tourism.

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A deadly ICE shooting in Biddeford, Maine left an immigrant dead behind the wheel — and before any investigation, evidence, or facts were confirmed, Democrats and Democratic candidates were already calling federal agents "murderers." This video walks through what's actually known (bullet holes through the windshield, an eyewitness account, video of the vehicle moving toward agents), contrasts it with Fox News's chaotic on-the-ground coverage, and breaks down reactions from Maine Senate hopefuls Troy Jackson and Seth Moulton, AOC, Rep. Sylvia Garcia's "shoot the tires" comment, and Whoopi Goldberg's take on The View. The larger argument: Democrats benefit politically from unrest around ICE, and their rhetoric around "resistance" may be fueling more of these confrontations.

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Rep. Ro Khanna claims he was "detained" by armed Israeli settlers and IDF soldiers while on a trip to the West Bank — and released a tearful selfie video describing the ordeal along with a string of secondhand horror stories. But the Israeli ambassador tells a very different story on Face the Nation: Khanna ignored the embassy's request to coordinate his trip, refused their offer to visit October 7th survivors, and instead coordinated with Palestinian activists and J Street. This video breaks down Khanna's viral claims, the video evidence, the ambassador's rebuttal, and how the whole episode conveniently distracted from Khanna's messy exit from endorsing scandal-plagued Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner — all while he eyes a 2028 presidential run.

Senator Lindsey Graham died suddenly Sunday morning after what his office called "a brief and unexpected illness" — just 36 hours after appearing energetic and healthy on a trip to Kyiv. This video covers the disturbing reactions from the left (Margaret Cho, Anika, and others celebrating his death), the odd timeline and messaging around his passing, President Trump's emotional call-in to Fox News Sunday recounting what may have been his last conversation with Graham, and a look back at Graham's career — from his "team player" approach to the Senate to his legendary takedown of Senate Democrats during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

Gavin Newsom says he's fine with the Democratic Socialists of America "taking over" his party — and it's on tape. This video breaks down Newsom comparing DSA to the Green Party he beat in San Francisco, his dodge on whether Israel is an "apartheid state," and his attacks on Netanyahu over the two-state solution. Then it exposes DSA's actual playbook: using the Democratic Party as a host (the "cuckoo" strategy) to win low-turnout primaries, take over city halls, and push socialism from the inside — in the words of DSA organizers and NYC's Zoran Mamdani. Closes with Rashida Tlaib's "seize the power" speech and why Schumer, Jeffries, and Newsom keep welcoming the far left instead of confronting it.

A breakdown of the evidence presented in the pretrial hearing for Tyler Robinson, charged with the first-degree murder of Charlie Kirk — including what prosecutors describe as four separate confessions, surveillance footage, ballistics and DNA evidence, and text messages between Robinson and his roommate. We also cover a widely circulated open letter from researcher "Data Republican" that fact-checks, claim by claim, the alternate theories pushed by Candace Owens on her show — including claims about who was on the rooftop, the cause of death, and an alleged ritualistic motive — measuring them against sworn testimony from the trial.

Gavin Newsom is under a federal investigation that reportedly began under the Biden administration, and new reporting claims someone inside his inner circle wore a wire for the FBI. We look at President Trump's latest Truth Social broadside calling him "New Scum," then break down Newsom's press conference meltdown — from his "great grift" rant defending California's Prop 50 gerrymander, to his claim that the FBI is "abusing" him and his family, to a tense back-and-forth with reporters who press him directly on the investigation. Plus, a closer look at his body language: the rapid blinking, the flop sweat, and whether any of it looks like a man who's confident in his own innocence.

Governor Tim Walz pardoned a foreign national convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, keeping him in Minnesota just days before his scheduled deportation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded by revoking the man's legal status, and federal agents removed him from the country. Larry breaks down the story, then puts Minnesota AG Keith Ellison's evasive answers on illegal immigration to the test against Sen. Bernie Moreno's simple questions. Plus: a heated CNN exchange over Americans killed by illegal immigrants, Rubio's new push to designate Antifa-aligned groups as terrorists worldwide, and a look inside the Party for Socialism and Liberation's own words on what a "socialist revolution" would mean for the U.S. — and how closely it lines up with the Democratic Socialists of America.

On Air Force One home from NATO, President Trump bragged that the US hit Iran "20 to 1" and told reporters Iran "called a little while ago" begging for a deal — while ticking off 159 sunk ships, a collapsed granite mountain, and 350% inflation. Then at his NATO closing presser, a reporter called the Iran war a "strategic dead end," and Trump buried him. Watch Secretary Marco Rubio completely lose his poker face the moment Trump answered "what changed" with "I got to know him so well."

Graham Platner just torched an 11-minute video quitting the Maine Senate race — one month after winning the Democratic primary by 150,000 votes — and spent the whole thing blaming "oligarchs" and the establishment instead of the sexual assault accusation, Nazi tattoo, and "P hustle" dating-app posts that actually sank him. Even better: he accidentally admitted he was only using the Democratic Party's money and machine to run. And John Fetterman — the ONE Democrat who called Platner a "trash bag" from day one — took a victory lap on Fox News that has to be seen.

JD Vance took the fight to Wisconsin, calling out Democrats on government fraud and daring them to pass voter ID if they want the fraud talk to stop. Hours later, Spencer Pratt — denied a spot on the LA mayoral runoff ballot — dropped a viral breakdown of exactly how that happened: he led by 40,000 votes on election night, then late mail ballots swung 43,000 votes to the one Democrat who needed them, under a law Gavin Newsom signed five days before the election banning oversight of ballot counting. Larry unpacks the "red mirage" myth, the envelope/ballot separation trick, and what it means that Pratt was just seen in the Oval Office with Trump and Susie Wiles.

The women of The View tangled over Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, with Alyssa Farah Griffin branding Democrats "the Epstein protector party" and Sunny Hostin admitting she'd "plug her nose" and vote for him anyway despite the abuse allegations against him. Marjorie Taylor Greene, now a View ally, melted down over AIPAC and called Israel's war "genocide." Plus Lindsey Fifield's account to CNN's Jake Tapper — and why Bernie Sanders still hasn't actually pulled his support.

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President Trump used a NATO summit photo op in Turkey to unload on Iran, calling its leaders "scum," "cuckoo," and "sick people" while declaring the ceasefire effectively over. He warned of fresh strikes "again tonight," floated reinstating a blockade on Iranian oil, and — when New York Times reporter Tyler Pager asked what changed — told the room to "just finish the job." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's frozen reaction as the president floated the blockade says it all.

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Donald Trump Jr. sat in the Utah courtroom as prosecutors laid out the evidence against Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk — and he walked away calling the case "cut and dry." Minute-by-minute surveillance video, DNA testing, and Robinson's own text messages to his roommate paint a devastating picture. And yet CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post have gone nearly silent on the trial.

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Lindsey Fifield handed the New York Times five witnesses, diary entries, screenshots and emails documenting Graham Platner's abuse — and the Times called only the two who knew nothing, then told readers it "could not corroborate" her story. A Times MeToo reporter who helped break Harvey Weinstein went on CNN to insist Platner's accusations weren't "classic MeToo," and columnist Charles Blow defended him with a "two separate rule books" excuse the day the story broke.

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Jenny Racicot went on CNN and told Jake Tapper everything Graham Platner did to her — and Tapper spent as much time pressing her on whether she still wanted a Democrat in the Senate as he did on what Platner actually did. Larry breaks down Tapper's "gross" loaded questions, Platner's own Reddit post blaming drunk women, and the fact that Bernie Sanders still hadn't dropped him — apparently too busy running a poll.

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Graham Platner called the new allegations against him "false" — then abruptly paused his Maine Senate campaign to "reflect," and the timing lines up perfectly with the moment his super PAC money dried up. Then Debbie Dingell went on CNN and couldn't finish a sentence, calling the "real victims" the Democrats who endorsed him and insisting the party has to "fight fire with fire."

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The Michigan Democratic Senate primary just went from three candidates to two — and it's a microcosm of the whole party. Abdul El-Sayed deleted his defund-the-police tweets, then refused to say whether Israel has a right to exist in a tense CNN sit-down with Casey Hunt, calling it a "gotcha game." Larry O'Connor breaks down Mallory McMorrow dropping out, El-Sayed's Taylor Swift image makeover, AOC's endorsement, and why Haley Stevens and the AIPAC fight could hand the seat to Republican Mike Rogers.

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Maryland Governor Wes Moore used the 4th of July to redefine patriotism as "nationalism" and accuse the right of banning books and rewriting history — from the oldest statehouse in America. Then Spencer Pratt answered from the burned rubble of the Pacific Palisades with the speech the entire right is now sharing: a home-and-memory metaphor explaining why communists must erase your history first. Larry O'Connor breaks down Wes Moore's hypocrisy and why Spencer Pratt just became one of the best communicators on the right.

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Zohran Mamdani sat behind George Washington's desk — backwards, jammed against a fireplace — to lecture America on the 4th of July, using ten newly naturalized citizens as silent human props. Larry O'Connor tears apart Mamdani's "American exceptionalism" speech line by line, exposes the pro-Hamas activist lecturing Americans on treating Jewish people, and breaks down the miserable face Mamdani made at a press conference after an NYPD detective was shot.

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