a special holiday edition of the last word. 2024 will be another year of defendant trump and another election here in which democracy itself is once again at stake. the republicansha only a three state majority in the house of representatives. the democrats have only a one seat majority in the united states senate with democratic senators facing difficult campaigns in ohio, montana, pennsylvania, michigan, and nevada. democrats will be running on a 3.7% unemployment rate. unemployment has not been has been below 4% for 22 months, the longest stretch since 1969. president biden was at a temperature of ain t at the cop with this international training center in battleground state of nevada. on the final jobs report floor 2023 was released. folks, all this project stands in stark contrast to my predecessor. he always talked about infrastructure week. [laughter] four years of infrastructure week, but it failed. he failed. on mount watch, the state of infrastructure week ameri
the republicans have only a three seat majority in the house of representatives. the democrats have only a one seat majority in the united states senate, with democratic senators facing difficult campaigns in ohio, michigan, montana, pennsylvania and nevada. democrats will be running on a 3. 7% unemployment rate. unemployment has not been, has been below 4% for 22 months. that s the longest stretch since 1969. president biden was at an infrastructure event at the carpenters international training center in the battleground state of nevada on the day the final jobs report for 2023 was released. folks, all this project stands in stark contrast to my predecessor. he always talked about infrastructure week. [laughter] for years infrastructure week. but it failed. he failed. on my watch instead of infrastructure week america is having infrastructure decade. [applause] decade. trump just talks the talk. we walk the walk. [applause] look, he likes to say america is a failing natio
All of the events and tickets online. A few tickets left in kingston, new york for saturday may 4th. That will do it for me for now. Now it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Finally something to watch ly on tv on a saturday night before snl. Finally. Rachel, of course, the breakingh news of this minute is the celtics 102, miami one 88. They are up 31. I have arranged with adam silver, the nba commissioner, to make sure the celtics are not playing after 10 00 p. M. On any night of the playoffs so that i can watch. People ask is what we do with our political capitol we accrue by having television shows. I think that is a very noble use of it. Rachel, being the multitasker that i am, i was i watching you and the celtics and i loved that you went into detail. I just cant get tired of reviewing the detail of who has not shown up for donald trump and hes begging them to show ng up at this trial in manhattan and hes pretending there is some problem. I have been doing my credit
this kind of extreme measure. let s not forget our shared humanity and our share faiths. right. that s part of the american contract. it s great to get your perspective on this very difficult issue. s that the show for tonight. now we go to alex warren. we re going to be joined by a former clerk of samuel alito who says justice alito should recuse himself from the trump cases. that former clerk is going to join us to make his case. i am looking forward to hear that clerk s story on something i agree with. the breaking defendant trump news of the night is that donald trump has to give up his guns. donald trump who has had bodyguards for many many years before he had secret service protection, never had any rational reason to carry or even possess a firearm but like many people, who hope that a handgun might make them feel, i don t know, more like a man. donald trump owns three handguns. and he obtained a license to carry a concealed handgun. a license that the new york
hitler s invasion of france. president biden said that peace and ukraine looks like making sure russia never, never occupies ukraine and it doesn t mean nato. it means we have a relationshipr with them like we do with other countries where we supply weapons so they can defend themselves in the future. no word yet on how donald trump plans to commemorate the d-day anniversary tomorrow. joining our discussion now is simon rosenberg, democratic strategist and the author of hopium chronicles on substack. i am thinking about the next few days without them being campaign days for joe biden, to demonstrate and display joe biden sense of duty against a candidate who everyone knows has no sense of duty other than duty to himself.