world headquarters in new york. a busy hour ahead. right now, president biden is on his way to wisconsin on an unofficial post state of the union tour after his rousing address before the joint session of congress last night. imploring lawmakers to finish the job, the president defended his record and called for more bipartisanship. but did manage to tangle with republicans at times. some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i m not saying it is a majority. anybody who doubts it, contact my office, i ll give you a copy. i ve give you a copy of the proposal. coming up, we ll talk about how president biden may use those gop outbursts to his advantage. plus, the drama on the floor before the president even walked out. what senator mitt romney is saying about this moment, the moment when he called out george santos to his face on the house floor, with cameras rolling. he shouldn t have been there. he shouldn t be in the look, he s a sick puppy. also t
us tonight. thank you for being with us, and now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. this program recently has become a kind of first stop for people announcing their senate candidacies. at least, is that way again tonight, but before that we will be discussing all of the new revelations in the dominion filing today. congressman schiff will join us for that. and then rachel, the only power that i had here was to decide where this happens with the show, and i feel like it will happen at the very end. the very end of the show, america and you are going to watch me lose an argument. and i mean, lose an argument and just get kicked out of the studio. you don t lose arguments, generally speaking. rachel, our friend mehdi hasan will join us at the end of the hour, and guess what the name of his new book is? how to win every argument. now, this not only is going to produce humiliation for me at the end of the hour, but imagine how my pu
supreme court. we re going to go through the arguments on both sides of the case. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 28th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. many of the republican party s biggest names will not be attending the annual conservative political action conference in maryland this week just outside washington, d.c. potential 2024 candidates will not be at the annual gathering. rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniels, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker kevin mccarthy are also sitting out this year. this year s conference comes as cpac s chair faces a lawsuit that alleges he fondled a male aide to then senate candidate herschel walker back in october. his lawyer says he denies those allegations. none of the politicians that have said they are not attending have cited the allegations as the reason for their absence. however, several republicans who spoke to nbc news anonymously have said the al
cabinet are barn storming the country, 30 events in nearly two dozen states to support joe biden s vision for the country. the president arriving in madison, wisconsin, in just the last 15, 20 minutes or so, his trip following one of the most contentious state of the union addresses in u.s. history, so what does that tell us about the political road ahead? plus, the images of horror and heartbreak pouring in from turkey and syria, the death toll from monday s earthquake surpassing a 11,000, and with the critical 72-hour window to find survivors about to close that number is expected to skyrocket. and why would one of the police officers indicted for the brutal beating of tyre nichols share pictures of him beaten and bloodied? we ll have a live report from memphis coming up. but we start with president biden in madison, wisconsin, right now. what many see as the unofficial kickoff of his re-election campaign and framed by the strategy we saw fleshed out clearly in last n
administration. kentucky, the kentucky legislature overrode the governor s veto, a bill that restricts aspects of trans youth, gender affirming care and the use of bathrooms. i know the white house released a proclamation for trans day on visibility. there s a march happening tomorrow to commemorate this day, also to protest these types of bills that are continuing to be passed in advanced in legislatures across the country. what is the white house s message to these lawmakers that are passing these bills and those taking to the streets to protest them. we support peaceful protest. we think it s important for americans and people just across the country to make their voices heard just as long as its faceful. we ve been very clear about these anti-lgbtq bills in legislatures across the country, the anti-trans bills as they attack trans kids, attack trans parents. it s shameful. it s unacceptable. as you mentioned, tomorrow s trans visibility day on a day that we should be