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Senate Historian: Senate has been ‘shameful’ in failing to challenge Trump’s ‘authoritarian blitz’

Longtime United States Senate Staffer and co-editor of the book “Betrayed: America Didn't Vote for This” Ira Shapiro joins MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss his “damage assessment” of the second Trump administration. Shapiro says, “The connecting thread for everything that Donald Trump does is contempt for the law.”

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