I came to office determined with the duty to care and get us through one of our toughest periods in history. And we have. President joe biden continues to hit the former president on the Campaign Trail as the former president yesterday appeared to float cutting Social Security and medicare. Meanwhile, trump is also now flipflopping on tiktok, the platform he pushed to ban when he was in office. It comes as the house is set to vote tomorrow. Plus, theres more fallout from alabama senator katie britts state of the Union Rebuttal and how her speech highlights republicans fears of losing women voters this election. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 12th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Former President Donald Trump is vowing to release Hundreds Of January 6th defendants currently behind bars if he were to be releected this november. On truth social last night trump explained that one of his first acts as president would be to, quote,
So i wrote this book. Its called prequel, an american fight against fascism. It has turned out to be kind of unexpectedly topical in the news. I did a book tour for prequel this past fall, but i keep getting asked to give more talks about it and given whats going on in the news, i have decided i am going to do a couple more events. I just wanted to tell you on may 26th, he will be at the historic and beloved town hall in providencetown, massachusetts for a special event sponsored by the provincetown bookshop. You can get information about how and where to buy tickets at msnbc. Com prequel, msnbc. Com prequel. Thats it. Thanks for the indulgence. Thats going to do it for me now. Now its time for The Last Word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Sunday in provincetown, i can do that. Would you like me to save you a seat . How many how many of my brothers can i bring . There could be could be four of us. Well work it out. Ill get the exact count. Lawrence and brothers. All rig
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tonight on a special holiday edition of the reidout the next trump administration, if there is one, will be more extreme and have fewer guardrails than anything we saw in the first trump administration. donald trump is not hiding his iron fisted authoritarian plans, believe him. my conversation with abc news correspondent jonathan karl on his very revealing new book. also tonight as one source said to me, his arrogance destroyed him. tucker s arrogance destroyed him. one producer on the show said to me, we were burning too bright. we knew it wasn t going to last, and it didn t. brian stelter joins me on his book about fox, network of lies. if you think the worst was over when tucker was fired, think again. plus hitler thought that lynching, what he called popular justice in the united states, was another important thing for the nazis to study in terms of how these things can be look good on paper but still work out in practice the way they wanted them to
guardrails than anything we saw in the first trump administration. donald trump is not hiding his iron fisted authoritarian plans. believe him. my conversation with abc news correspondent jonathan karl on his very revealing new book. also tonight as one source said to me, his arrogance destroyed him. tucker s arrogance destroyed him. one producer on the show said to me, we were burning too bright. we knew it wouldn t last. brian stelter joins me on his book about fox, network of lies. if you think the worst was over when tucker was fired, think again. plus hitler thought that lynching, what he called popular justice in the united states, was another important thing for the nazis to study in terms of how these things can be look good on paper but still work out in practice the way they wanted them to. my conversation with my friend and colleague rachel maddow on her fascinating new book, prequel, an american fight against fascism. also picked up my phon