january six committee is going to make the case that she is at the beginning of the battle. and she is going to drop a blunt message, a warning, a message warning about the danger to america from this misinformation and. why remove what she told cnn earlier this month from the threat from the former president? here it is. if defending the constitution against the threat that he poses means losing a house seat, then that s a sacrifice i m willing to make. i do not intend to lose. but, but some things are more important than any individual office or a political campaign. so, that s wyoming. we are also going to take you to alaska, right now. votes are still being cast their, where the former presidents trying to take down senator lisa murkowski for the for the uncharitable sin of voting to convict him in his second impeachment trial. now, make known stake though, this is no ordinary primary night. what we are learning tonight, and the new revelations today about the janua
incredible work holding down this hour before this launch and for that i am incredibly forever grateful. thank you. and on a final note, please don t forget to set your dvr s for alex wagner tonight. that is the time for the last word with, my friend lawrence o donnell. good evening. lawrence hey alex this is very exciting. it s wagner week. that s the way it s gonna be remembered in television history. you know, i saw the little gremlins attack at the beginning of the show. here s the thing to know. on my first show, first one of these which i did which is 12 million episodes ago. the very first one. in the first segment, the teleprompter went down. now you have to be bryant williams to handle a teleprompter going down. you have to be a professional which i wasn t and still am not. so there s this gremlin thing. you re still on the air 12 million episodes later that s the important part of this. that is the lesson. i believe that is the blessing from the gremlins saying
land is more important than the principles that we re all sworn to protect. and i well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty. our republic relies upon the goodwill of all candidates for office to accept honorably the outcome of elections. and tonight, harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over. but now, the real work begins. she put country over party. and, joe, she paid for it politically. yeah. she did. but, my gosh,ful anybody s watched this show more than a couple days heard me say that in politics, sometimes, when you win, you lose. and sometimes when you lose you win. i think here is the beginning of something much larger than being one of 435 members of the house, one of 535 members of congress. the language was remarkable. talking about in the spring of 1864, the union, after the union suffered more than 17,000 casualties in the battle of the
in may of 1864, after years of war and a string of reluctant union generals, ulysses grant met general leads forces at the battle of the wilderness. in two days of heavy fighting, the union suffered over 17,000 casualties. at the end of that battle, general grant faced a choice. most assumed he would do what previous union generals had done and retreat. on the evening of may seven, grant began to move. as the fires of the battle still smoldered, grant wrote to the head of the column, he wrote to the intersection of brock road and orange blank road. and they are, as the man of his army watched and waited, instead of turning north back towards washington and safety, grant turned his fourth south towards richmond and the heart of leads army, refusing to retreat, he pressed on to
malicious. no patriotic american should excuse these threats or be intimidated by them. our great nation, must not be ruled by a mob provoked over social media. [applause] [applause] our duty as citizens of this republic is not only to defend the freedom that has been handed down to us. we also have an obligation to learn from the actions of those who came before. to know the stories of greats and perseverance. and the brave men and women who have built and saved this union. and the lives of these great americans, we find inspiration and purpose. in may, of 1864, after years of war and a string of reluctant union generals. ulysses s grant met general leads forces at the battle of the wilderness. in two days of heavy fighting,