[See NewsBusters for more.] Speaker of the House Paul Ryan doesn’t get defended much on liberal MSNBC. But host Lawrence O’Donnell did just that during live Super Tuesday coverage. After Donald Trump threatened Paul Ryan, O’Donnell called on Trump to “check the Constitution,” telling the businessman he would “discover the Speaker of the House is far more powerful than the president on all matters of domestic governing.” On Tuesday, Trump lashed out at Ryan after the Speaker of the House chided him for not quickly condemning the KKK. The frontrunner threatened, “he's going to have to pay a big price.” O’Donnell retorted, “Tell that to Richard Nixon, who got driven out of office by a Speaker of the House, tell that to Bill Clinton, who got impeached by a Speaker of the House.”
