Arianna Hosts The Rachel Maddow Show with Guests Bill Maher, Lawrence O'Donnell, Nate Silver, Cory Booker and Google's Eric Schmidt

Monday night, Arianna sat in for Rachel on the Rachel Maddow show.

She asked Google CEO Eric Schmidt about whether Obama will be America's first Internet president and how he can use the Internet to promote a more open and transparent government that will lead to a more engaged electorate. Scroll down for more interviews from the show.

Bill Maher, comedian and host of Real Time with Bill Maher

Nate Silver, of FiveThirtyEight.com

Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC political analyst and HuffPost blogger

Cory Booker, mayor of Newark

Comments

[RTIII]

From the Better Late Than Never Department:

I loved your show, Arianna. Great Job.

Thank you for being a Progressive! And, thank you for speaking out!
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[TurnToTheLeft]

Love you Arianna. You are best when unscripted.

[maxa143]

Arianna rocks!

Chuck Norris will always have B flick movies and a sore mouth. LOL.

Take it away, Arianna!

[alinag]

Arianna, you are so ready for your own show. You're intelligent, eloquent, you know your stuff, but more than anything you call a spade a spade. You're equally good at monologues and dialogues and you've got a brilliant combination of self-assurance and being passionate about the subjects. Excellent

[Ono4Hoopono]

Great job, Arianna. I especially appreciated your commentary at the end about having a grandmother in the White House, with the revelation that Michele Obama's mother will be living there to provide stability for the kids and to be near them. My mother in law was invaluable as a caregiver in the early days of our parenthood. I think you are right that it will give grandparents a higher profile as people who want to contribute, a largely untapped source of good will for many, something which I'm sure they will all appreciate, and hopefully lead to a consciousness about the elderly that improves their lives.

Well done.

[knowBuddhaU]

O'Donnel said, "Don't look for job performance to enter into it." If it did, we'd be in a "whole 'nother ball game." And he made the ludicrous claim that Lieberman should now be expected to "embrace Obama" in order to save himself. Riiiiiiight.

You want transparency and openness? How 'bout calling for a game-changer in the Senate? What's so crazy about expecting democracy? "But Larry, a game-changer in the senate is exactly what the people just voted for, how can you suggest that it is out of the question?"

Do we have a democratic republic, or feudalism?

"[F]eudalism in this sense is... based on the relation between lords and the peasants who worked their own land and that of the lord. The peasants owed labour service to the lords, who provided military protection and also had extensive police, judicial, and other rights over the peasants. In this view, feudalism came to encompass all aspects of social organization and was characterized as a system that was both oppressive and hierarchical...feudalism involves the exchange of allegiance for a grant of land (fief) between two people, usually men, of noble status." [Encyclopedia Britannica 2008]

Substitute "parties" for "people;" that's the game going on right now, that your friend only alluded to, and you didn't call him on it.

More of the same ol' comfortable half-truths re: who stands to gain or lose what fief and when.

[bbbbmer]

Wouldn't THAT be a hoot -- the MSNBC news night with Olbermann, Maddow, and Arianna!!! That would make me so happy!

[JRPActor]

We watched and loved it! Arianna - you have become a GREAT VOICE for us Progressives - THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

[KSloan]

I love it when Arianna says "Convicted felon Ted Stevens...."

LMAO....the tone was spot on.

[PapaPig]

Great job Arianna. You need your own show you can set up with your style. Hope you get an offer.

[hapiday]

Good job Arianna, I enjoyed the interview with Bill Maher the most. The little banter back and forth was fun and it seemed like you and he are friends. Keep doing what you do. Peace and blessings to you.

[hapiday]

Great job, Arrianna! I enjoyed your interview with Bill Mahr the most. I love your voice too.

[Hillblogger]

Bill Maher is the most sensible of all these stand up comic commentators in American media.

Listening to him answer Arianna's questions, you can't help but appreciate his brilliant common sense!

Bill Maher rocks!

[AbrakadaBarak]

But Keith Olbermann. is the God, and Bill Maher is the second god; why the small "g" for Bill. They are so intelligent. i could listen to them forever, just as the Religulous Monks would recite the wHoly Book non stop. LOL!

[ajsnarr]

Hey you should get your own tv show you should come out with your own cabel tv network
fox news has for GOP DEMS NEED ONE

[Mainbob]

Great Job, Arianna..... I think that *when* you get your own TV show you can have more of your own style.... I love Rachel's show but it has her look and feel..... and I'm sure that you would have your own
set and clip style. Thanks! Oh and I did appreciate your "First Grandma" piece... I'm forgetting your name for Grandma.... In my family both are known as Nana.