this is my understanding of the history of cabinet impeachments, and it goes back to william belknap in 1876, when it was a serious thing. brendan buck, my friend, thank you for your time tonight. good to see you. that is our show for tonight, now it s time to the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. evenin good evening, alex. tonight s tonight, i just can t take it anymore. i have to unburden myself. republicans, the nfl and taylor swift. it s time. listen, i unburdened myself last night and almost took another pass at it today because it s so absolutely bonkers. the whole thing. it just keeps getting more insane, but i hope to make serious points within that story about the dangerous spread of this kind of insanity and what it can reach and what insanity does reach to on the republican side of politics. most republicans have none of these crazy thoughts, but the ones who do can end up being extremely dangerous. yes, insanity coupled with
it s time. listen, i unburden myself last night and almost took another pass at it today because it s so absolutely bonkers. the whole thing. it just keeps getting more insane, but there are, i hope, to make serious points within that story about the dangerous spread of this kind of insanity and what it can reach two and what insanity does reach two on the republican side or politics. most republicans have none of these crazy thoughts, but the ones who do can end up being extremely dangerous. yes, insanity coupled with desperation is never a good thing. we will get to it later in this hour. i ll be watching. donald trump finds himself tonight in agreement with william shakespeare. donald trump doesn t know that, of course, because donald trump is the most ignorant least educated man in the history of the american presidency, including all of those presidents who didn t go to college and were self educated. every american president except donald trump knew or knows
right to make a choice. so it s hard to make it a philosophical discussion when so many people think it s very personal. i agree with that. i do think, though, that there is an approach, for example, on the pro-life side that can say, look, we believe this is life, but we also understand this is not a cleancut or an easy issue for a woman to work through, and so let s help that woman. if it s an economic reason that she s turning to abortion, maybe there are ways we can step up. there is a charity my wife and i contribute to that is in israel that provides for money for pregnant women in the first year, so economic reasons can never be the reason behind abortion. there are ways we can make that choice easier, more per swsuasi. i would like to see the legislation go toward something like that, because i think the abortion movement can set things
administration who were thrown offguard. multiple members of congress, leadership on the hill who were very surprised as we were to see this executive order came through and it became very clear, very quickly that there was not a worked out plan to try to figure out how to reunite these children with their parents and i wouldn t be surprised if that s something that ends up being addressed as these different pieces of legislation go through the process. thank you, jill. still ahead, president trump held a summit with kim jong un this month. it did happen. could vladimir putin be next? we have a potential meeting there. plus, where was ivanka? a senior white house advisor weighs in after staying silent for days on the issue of family separation. those stories and a check on your weather when we come back.
well for the democrats only to find out a couple of days later. this is what happens when you have a president who doesn t have an ideology about guns. he wants to be in the center of it. but when he has that position, that opportunity to lead he sort of leaves it to lawmakers and leaves it to other folks with power like the nra and it looks like nothing is going to get done here. do you think he can get away with doing nothing on guns after parkland? i mean nothing. it would seem on the one hand not but if we look at the history of this, what he s done over the course of his presidency, it wouldn t be the first time that he s talked a lot about doing something big especially in front of the cameras and then when the cameras goes away he backs off of it. that was classic reality show television the other day and it was great reality show television. but it reminded me of the bachelor it seems like love but nobody ever gets married at the end. doesn t seem like we re anywhere closer