get hurt. we begin tonight with a simple rule of legal professionals. in most cases whenever possible, keep your clients off tv and avoid letting them do interviews, which usually do more harm than good. unfortunately, donald trump s lawyers are needy, attention craving client could only hold out for so long, so last night on one of his favorite shows in an interview with his friend, sean hannity, he seemed to make a losing argument even worse. in his latest throw spaghetti at the wall defense or is it throw ketchup at the wall? trump made this outrageous claim about his magical powers to declassify documents. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision, so when you send it, it s decla
we will see you again tomorrow, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. or good evening alex we are gonna discuss franklin foer article it is hour, with harvard law professor laurence tribe, who was merrick garland s conquered law professor, he agrees, he believes that this article is absolutely right on and this is it s a very good prediction of what merrick garland is going to do. also, we have john fetterman joining us tonight, senate candidates, john fetterman and alex i m going to ask him about the health issue, but i have to tell, you i don t get it. i really don t get it we have two current democratic senators, one a little older than him, one a little younger than him, both of whom have strokes this year in office! and no one said, you gotta quit, you can t be a senator if you have a health issue like. that bernie sanders had a heart attack when he was running for president! what did he take? two days off or something?
see you frank. great to see you, thank you. that does it for us tonight, we will see you again tomorrow, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. awrence. good evening alex. we are gonna discuss franklin foer article it is hour, with harvard law professor laurence tribe, who was merrick garland s constitutional law professor, he agrees, he believes that this article is absolutely right on and this is it s a very good prediction of what merrick garland is going to do. also, we have john fetterman joining us tonight, senate candidate, john fetterman and alex i m going to ask him about the health issue, but i have to tell, you i don t get it. i really don t get it we have two current democratic senators, one a little older than him, one a little younger than him, both of whom have strokes this year in office! and no one said, you gotta quit, you can t be a senator if you have a health issue like. bernie sanders had a heart attac
This was the last day before the Trump Presidencys 100th day. And congress put in less than half a day because there is no trump agenda item alive in congress right now. There is no bill moving anywhere in congress now. No legislative vehicle that is a trump agenda item. We have never seen a 99th day like this for a president. Every president s busiest legislative year is the first year. Its when their power of persuasion over the congress is at its highest. And it only goes down after that. What a president accomplishes in his first year is usually most of what the president will accomplish in his first term. This is so clear historically that when bob woodward chose to write a book entitled the agenda, he decided to focus entirely on a president s first year. And he picked a president with a loaded first year agenda, bill
clinton. At this point in bill clintons first year, the congress was working overtime. At the same time, congress was working on nafta, a giant tax bill which was i