colombia university. he is co-author of the book the matter of black lives. and michelle goldberg, i d like to begin with you tonight and your reaction to that video of senator sinema you wrote one of your op ed pieces about the current posture in the senate and there she is continuing a complete, i don t know what to call it, a defiance of public accountability and inability to comprehend go ahead. sorry. go ahead. i mean, it looks to me like contempt for public accountability and what s significant is that you can sort of make you can make an argument that you re not accountable to the national press core if you reconstituent that put you in office but what progressives, the progressives to mobilize to elect cinema to the senate in 2018 say is that, you know, she won t meet with
rebranding, quote, make america great again again exclamation point launches. now according to this press release, the president s favorite super pac will now forever more be known as the make america great again again exclamation point or in short hand, maga, comma, again, exclamation point. the exclamation point is key. we know how that worked out for jeb in 2016. please clap. why and how? did i mention why? the part of the story i m most stuck on is how it will look on a hat. make america great again again looks a little cramped. do you simplify it, magaa? how do you pronounce that? magaa? maybe you apply some math to this problem. keep the hat the way it is and add make america great again squared.
keep the hat the way it is and add make america great again squared. you don t need a new hat, you can sharpie it on to your own hat. never thought i d have to brush up on the rules of exponents to cover politics, it s like being in middle school math again again. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back tomorrow. thanks for bearing with me. time for the last word with lawrence o donnell who has followed and been involved in politics for a long time but for all you have seen lawrence, you have never actually witnessed the debt ceiling being breached. we never witnessed not paying our bills. me and every american who lived never seen it happen. prior to now we didn t have reason to believe we might see it happen. there would always be stunts and brinksmanship but always knew it could happen and it couldn t