On this new hour, blood bath at the rnc. With his sisterinlaw in charge, trump solidifies his grip on the Republican National committee with massive layoffs. Could the hostile takeover backfire . And how his team is plotting to campaign from the courtroom. And my thoughts on this weeks speech from Senator Schumer sending shock waves to israel and why i believe it came 30,000 lives too late. Im ayman mohyeldin. Lets do it. This week it was extremely maga makeover rnc edition. After locking in the republican president ial nomination, donald trump has now set his sights on remaking the Republican National committee in his own image. On monday, the disgraced expresident timed his grip on the party further, using his newly installed rnc leadership team, which includes his daughterinlaw, to push out dozens of officials at the committee. More than 60 employees got the pink slip, including five members of the senior staff. Trumps rnc also began implementing a complete overhaul of the committee
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
He falsely claimed that mexico was sending drugs and rapists and this type of rhetoric moved from the fringe right to the mainstream talk points with the socalled invasion of the Sojourner Border and now with trump vying for another bid at the white house, this rhetoric has only gotten worse in recent months as he promised the largest deportation and to scare voters is the spread of the rhetoric, but the data shows us something different. It shows that trumps claims against the migrants are baseless including with the comments of the should crime wave. The nbc news review of crime data in blue cities where migrants are bussed and flown with Texas Governor abbott shows crime dropping, in fact, immigrant Crime Research over the past 20 years have shown that immigrants commit fewer crimes than nativeborn americans, but despite the facts, antiimmigrant and racist rhetoric is foundation and Fear Mongering for many of the policies like in arizona where a bill passed up the statehouse that al
Court. His team is making highstakes arguments trying to get the documents case thrown out. The change in the plans for the judge and what clues it may give us. The highest ranking official in the senate, Chuck Schumer calling for elections in israel to replace the Prime Minister. What it could mean for u. S. Israeli Relations and the war in gaza. And a small city in oklahoma elected a White Nationalist into office. Now, it faces the question of whether it will be able to vote him out. This hour well take you inside that recall effort. We start in a florida courtroom, where judge Aileen Cannon has heard arguments to get the case dismissed. They cited no precedent for a former president. The Special Counsels response, quote theres never been a situation remotely close to this one. A second motion will be argued today, that the president has virtually unreviewable authority to designate president atrecords as personal, and stash them in unlocked rooms at maralago. I took them very legall
Autocracy. That has people around the world much more exercised than in washington, where it seems like this is just another political game. Its another government shutdown, or another fight over the debt ceiling. Know, if we dont deliver this money to ukraine, they will lose territory. They will lose people. They will lose momentum on the front line of the biggest War In Europe since world war ii. And our politics cant seem to process that. Its a real statement of priorities on behalf of the United States of america. Thank you so much for your time and thoughts tonight, really appreciate it. That is our show for the evening, now its time for last word with lauren, good evening, lawrence. At evening, alex. I was listening to discussion and i have some concerns about the way we use the word strongman, because i fear it can sound just too good to too many voters who think, well isnt the president of the United States supposed to be a strong man . Its a term weve been using for decades in