senator lindsey graham relates to something much deeper and more important. tells us about where not only the republican party is but why we have so many problems defending our democracy these days. you may know him. really one of the people who has had kind of a self-defeating obsession of winning over trump even though he initially warned more than many about how bad trump is and that made graham a politically troubled character because the public record shows he knows exactly what he s doing. that may be different from someone who gets caught up in the emotion of it or is a true believer. he was humiliated even though he has tried so hard to win trump back over after warning about him. this was in graham s home state of california. politics matter to him there. even though he has gone on a long, long road trying to win over trump and we ll get into some of that, just watch as this crowd unleashes before he even speaks. thank y all. welcome to pickens. thank y all for com
trump s feud a statement congratulating elon musk on twitter. he said his account will be back on monday. that does it for, as we will see you again tomorrow, now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. good evening alex, it is candidly night here at the last word. we have senator mark kelly from arizona, katie hobbs running for governor of arizona, governor kathy hochul of new york running in new york, beto o rourke running for governor in texas. they all have one thing in common. one very important thing in common. every one of them is running against an election denier. the republican candidate for governor in new york voted to overturn the presidential election as a republican member of the house representatives. that is how pervasive this is on the republican party. you cannot escape it. greg abbott, kari lake, these are important names to remember as you talk to the candidates that he will have tonight. lawrence, that is a great
faced before in this country. it is the most important election of our lives because the losers of this election might not just be candidates. we might actually lose democracy and this election. and then maybe you will be relieved of ever hearing again that this was the most important election of your life because the election will not matter in the future because america lost democracy in 2022. in the 2020 election, we did not know before we voted that democracy itself was at stake. there was some rumblings about republicans in some states thinking about how to deliver their electoral votes to donald trump even if he came in second in that state. but there were no legal mechanisms for them to do that. those scenarios were always legally impossible in 2020. but the republicans running for office now want to create legal processes for stealing elections. let me say that again. because that sentence has never been an element of american politics before in our history. republica
Dont wait call today. Code now and ask about the bosley guarantee central. Today. And second welcome back. Its wednesday, april 10, right now on cnn this morning, a Civil War Era Abortion Law Reinstated in arizona, igniting a problem for republicans that donald trump was trying to tamp down President Biden, questioning israels war strategy against hamas and elevating his criticism of Prime Minister netanyahu and House Republicans delaying their attempt to impeach Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas all right 6 00 a. M. Here in washington, theres a live look at the Nations Capital on this wednesday morning. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us problem leave it up to the states. That was Donald Trumps Big Announcement On Abortion Rights on monday. But it didnt take long for voters to be reminded what leave it up to the states actually can look like. The state Supreme Court in arizona upheld an 18, 64. Yes, thats correct. 18 64 law. The bands
witnesses in the doj election case, but he is free to attack the special counsel. and israeli raises its flag in gaza city, a highly provocative move. the united states stand alone in vetoing a resolution calls for a ceasefire. plus, grim, that s how one pollster describes his latest findings. young voters, black voters, lgbtq voters all currently giving higher grades to trump than biden. what s going on? i ll ask him. i m john king in for erin burnett. trump silenced, a d.c. court of appeals upholding most of a gag order in the federal 2020 election case. the three judges say trump can no longer target witnesses or single out individuals related to the court proproceedings, writing, some of trump s statements pose a significant and imminent threat to the fair adjudication of the criminal proceeding. trump has repeatedly gone after potential witnesses, calling mike pence delusional, mocking bill barr as slow-thinking and lethargic and he tore into mark meadows, writing,