ADDING: Special Schedule tonight: Rachel will be a guest with Lawrence at 10pm ET. Then the Ed Show is live and new at 11 and Rachel will be a guest for part of that, and then there will be some additional live Rachel Maddow coverage at midnight. So it's a full night ahead.
Tonight's guests include:
Steve Schmidt, McCain-Palin campaign senior strategist and msnbc political analyst
John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC and political writer for The New York Times
Rev. Al Sharpton, host of “Politics Nation” on msnbc, founder of the National Action Network
Gene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and msnbc political analyst
Steve Kornacki, senior writer for Salon.com
While watching tonight's video preview, take a listen to tonight's soundtrack. (Be sure to allow the ad below to play out entirely before starting the video)
Executive producer Bill Wolff shares a preview of tonight's show: