just acts and doesn t have to go through channels and checks and balances, and systems, and lawmaking. and, you know, the challenge for the biden campaign and for all of us who care about this democracy is indeed winning this battle over where did this democracy come from? how fragile is it really? what has it taken before to put it back together? and what it will take again? and that s why the civil war here is so important. professor david blight, i have not been thinking of you as a campaign analyst, but i do now. professor blight, eugene robison oh my god. eugene robinson, thank you both very much for joining our discussion tonight. thank you, lawrence. and coming up, we re gonna show you a case study, in video, of how donald trump lies about
there is no confusion about who trump is. what he intends to do. that was president biden on friday commemorating the third anniversary of the january 6th attack on the capitol, while also hitting donald trump for his hate filled and racist rhetoric. tomorrow, the president will echo a similar tone when he speaks of mother manual ame church and charleston south carolina. in 2015, that historic black church, one of the oldest and the south, was the scene of the states worst mass shooting when nine churchgoers were gunned down during bible study. biden says the church is a setting that embodies the state of our nation at this moment. that the president will focus his remarks on democracy and freedom. joining me now is david blight, professor of american history and african american studies at yale university, and the pulitzer prize-winning author of frederick douglass, profit of freedom. professor, thank you very much
six americans are still being held hostage. this is our fight to. we ll have to leave it there. jeremy bash, thank you so much, as always, for coming to the sunday show. up next, election campaign heats up as president biden sounds the alarm on why donald trump is a threat to freedom and democracy. pulitzer prize-winning author and yale university professor, david, light joins me live, next, to discuss. next, to discuss but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours. for one and done heartburn relief, prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. i know what it s like to perform through pain. if you re like me, one of the millions suffering from pain caused by migraine, nurtec odt may help. it s the only medication that can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks. treat and prevent, all in one. don t take if allergic to nurtec. allergic reactions can occur, even days after using.
national political reporter. that is our show for tonight. time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. lawrence, i m gobsmacked by some of these numbers. i m just gonna leave it to you while i scratch my head. ali, you know that thing happens once in a while where one of our great guests really is getting warmed up right when we have to go to commercial break because that s life on commercial television? that happened last week with yale professor david blight, who is an expert on the 14th amendment. he knows everything about how it came to be, the congressional debate about it. we are bringing him back tonight to finish his thoughts about that. that is worth watching because the most important amendment nobody ever thought about six months ago, and this is worth staying and listening to. certainly not thought about in this context. and he will follow harvard law professor laurence tribe, also an expert on constitutional law and the 14th amendment, who will give us his view o
professor to another, coming up, donald trump might have to go to the united states supreme court to get his name on the presidential ballot in maine colorado, which would leave supreme court justices, once again, playing amateur historians, this time about the 14th amendment, for the guidance of a professional historian, the supreme court should consult the work of our next guest, yale history professor david blight, an expert on the 14th amendment. professor blight joins us next. pfizer s rsv vaccine. abrysvo is a vaccine for the prevention of lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. rsv can be serious if you are 60 or older. having asthma, copd, diabetes, or heart disease puts you at even higher risk.