Lawrence O’Donnell is the host of The Last Word on MSNBC. Formerly an Emmy Award–winning executive producer and writer for The West Wing, O’Donnell also served as senior adviser to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and was chief of staff of two Senate committees. O’Donnell is the New York Times bestselling author of Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.