Just two months after showering House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with praise for rebuking the “child President” Trump, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell devoted another opening monologue to praising the Speaker; this time for her exchange with James Rosen. The Last Word host devoted the first ten minutes of his show Thursday to reporting on how Pelosi “crushed” Rosen after he dared to suggest that she might “hate the President.”

As he bantered with his colleague Rachel Maddow, O’Donnell began by proclaiming “I’m not someone who’s been tracking amazing things done by Nancy Pelosi over the years; but this year, she has really had a year.” O’Donnell himself compared Pelosi’s confrontation of Rosen to “that electrifying moment in the White House when she stood up to President Trump in the cabinet room.”

After Rosen asked Pelosi if she hated the President, the Speaker indignantly responded “I don’t hate…I was raised in a Catholic house. We don’t hate anybody.” For her part, Maddow agreed with O’Donnell’s analysis: “as a Catholic, seeing her invoke her Catholic faith in that moment at the apex of that confrontation was sort of a heart-stopping thing.”

As for O’Donnell, he seemed to enjoy the part where Pelosi told Rosen “don’t mess with me” the most. The phrase appeared in the background and on the chyron at the bottom of the screen as O’Donnell delivered his opening monologue.

O’Donnell also praised Pelosi for seizing the moment “as dramatically as any fiction writer could have provided for any fictional politician in a movie scene” before playing a clip of her “historic” announcement declaring that the House would move forward with articles of impeachment. The self-proclaimed “socialist” O’Donnell surely took pride in reporting that “Donald J. Trump will take his place in history as an impeached President.”

Shortly before playing a clip of the confrontation between Pelosi and Rosen, O’Donnell described the Sinclair reporter as someone “who spent almost as much time working at Fox News as disgraced sexual predator Bill O’Reilly” and trashed his current employer as “a much less prominent, right-wing, so-called news organization.” Less than an hour earlier, Pelosi herself used similar talking points with regards to Sinclair during a CNN town hall.

According to O’Donnell, Rosen “asked Nancy Pelosi the kind of question that would have made his former Fox boss, sexual predator Roger Ailes, very, very proud.”

A transcript of the relevant portion of Thursday’s edition of The Last Word is below. Click “expand” to read more.