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
we have been giving the gift of freedom from god and our founding fathers. it s been said that the arc of history bends towards justice and freedom. that is true, but only if we make it bent. today, it is our duty to preserve our nation and its blessings, to ensure that freedom will not perish, to protect the very foundations of this constitutional republic. never in our nation s 246 years have we seen what we saw on january six. like so many americans, i assumed that that they would have prompted a united response, a recognition that this was a line that must never be crossed. a tragic chapter in our nation s history to be studied by historians, to ensure it can never happen again. but instead, major, the party
country, abraham lincoln, was defeated in elections for the senate and the house, before he won the most important election of all. lincoln ultimately prevailed. he saved our union, and he defined our obligation as americans for all of history. speaking of gettysburg, of the great task remaining before us, lincoln said that we have high resolve that these that should have not have died in vain. that this nation, under god, should have freedom. and the government of the people by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth. as we meet here tonight, doing our greatest and most important task, most of world history is destroyed in violent conflict, servitude, and suffering. most people in most places have not lived departure from history.
tonight to join me, as we leave here let us resolve that we will stand together, republicans, democrats and independents against those who would destroy our republic. they are angry and they are determined. but they have not seen anything like the power of americans united in defence of our constitution and committed to the cause of freedom. there is no greater power on this earth, and with god s help we will prevail. thank you all. god bless you. god bless wyoming, god lesia knighted states of america. thank you guys. [applause] that was congresswoman liz cheney conceding defeat in her reelection campaign for her seat in the house of representatives. joining us now is john highland, host of the hell and high-water podcast. he s an msnbc national affairs analyst.