republican debate, wednesday ten pm eastern, the day after tomorrow. i will see you here then. that s gonna do it for me for now. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. at 9:30 a. m., it means i m gonna be glued to my sofa listening to msnbc, which i have to say is way more dramatic than images, for me, it actually carries what i guess was the drama of radio drama before television, you know, before i was around. and just your imagination is more active. and my concentration is better, i think, just locked on those words that we can hear. for me, it also means that i can, like, do the dishes, walk the dogs, and, like, get on the treadmill, although i probably wouldn t, while listening to it because i can focus on the audio like that in a way that i can t focus necessarily on taking it in visually. so, i mean, federal court ruling, d. c. circuit. a huge deal, huge implications for the case in general and wha
tomorrow morning, 9:38 am eastern, a federal appeals court in d.c. is going to hear arguments on trump s claims that he is immune from prosecution. federal courtrooms, there are no cameras. but for a big case like this, you re going to release live audio of the hearing while it s happening. we are all gonna be able to hear that as it happens. we will have it live here on msnbc starting, again, 9:38 am eastern time tomorrow morning. i will also be back with you here wednesday night this week, live at 10 am eastern, for a special coverage for the next week republican debate, wednesday ten pm eastern, that day after tomorrow. i will see you hear that. that s gonna do it for me for now. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. at 9:30 a.m., it means i m gonna be glued to my sofa listening to msnbc, which i have to say is way more dramatic than images, for me, it actually carries what i guess was the drama of radio
italy in world war ii. democratic senator of hawaii had no right arm because he lost it in combat in world war ii. other current and former senators left parts of their body on battlefields while in combat, something no one in the trump family has ever endured. the day after donald trump lied about joe biden and his stuttering on the word democracy, he told iowa voters that he will try to repeal obamacare again if he wins the presidency. again, he didn t tell them that he will fail once again to repeal obamacare because republican senators now live in fear of the political dangers of repealing obamacare. and while he was on the subject, donald trump could not hide his hatred of republican senator john mccain who has been dead for five and a half years. obamacare is a catastrophe. nobody talks about it. you know, without john mccain,
everyone in the senate always knew that because of his war wounds suffered when shot down in vietnam, and he was tortured for several years as a prisoner of war, john mccain could not raise his hands above his head when casting his vote. he wasn t the only one. republican senator bob dole could not remove his right arm at all because of the wounds that he suffered in combat in italy in world war ii. democratic senator of hawaii had no right arm because he lost it in combat in world war ii. other current and former senators left parts of their body on battlefields while in combat, something no one in the trump family has ever endured. the day after donald trump lied about joe biden and his stuttering on the word democracy, he told iowa voters that he will try to repeal obamacare again if he wins the presidency. again, he didn t tell them that he will fail once again to repeal obamacare because republican senators now live in
that the battles of were even more ferocious than the battles of vietnam. remember, world war ii started in europe in 1939. the united states did not get into world war ii, despite the mythology, until 1941, two years later. and we did not declare war on germany so, germany declared war on us. germany there was not a reading of the news of pearl harbor and then say, okay, we are declaring war on germany. it took several days. there s an old saying misattributed to churchill, that you can always count on americans to do the right thing once they ve exhausted every other possibility. i think that we are at a place where of course there is reflexive partisanship, there is of course separate realities. but all you can do is tell the