Our coverage continues on the last word with my friend lawrence o donnell. Good evening. A big newsnight. Yes and minutes before you started your live coverage, we just got the news and i was reading it as you are handling it live. I have been following these swarming investigations of city hall and eric adams at what i felt was relatively closely, but i have never been able to describe to anyone the full shape of it. I think by tomorrow we will have the diagrams built to put on screen to show you the number of commissioners who resigned from this administration. The number of people in the adams administration alone who have had telephones seized. I first covered it on this program two weeks ago for the first time when the police commissioner was forced to resign. That had reached a level that really made it feel like it was now happening at the very top and here we are tonight at the top of the top, at city hall. Stunning news and new york city history in the making. Have a good show
to debate on legislation that opens up more opportunity. poppy, i think about 2020, the summer of 2020, when people of all races took to the streets, when many people thought the best we could do in terms of activism was clap outside of our windows or uplift investigative journalism. but people took to the streets to stand up and make their voices heard around racial justice. to stand up and push back against the injusts they were seeing. people came together. the challenges we have with so many of our rules and our democracy is that we can t translate that majority belief into a governing majority. the majority of americans want to make sure that everyone can express their will for a better future through the vote. what we are seeing is rules that actually prevent that. then we have members of the senate who i think in so many
pulling the levers, and it can all be just put back with the flip of a switch? absolutely. this is fractured a little bit since inauguration where they were kind of hoping something would happen, where biden would disappear, but there s a strong belief especially in the qanon space that biden is a puppet, that he s not really there. some people talk about him being an alien. there s heat of talk about him not being legitimately in office. there are people trying to look at video clips and say they re fake, he s not really there, and there are a lot of people who think the military is waiting for the time to step in to reinstall trump, or could be the military takes control. i wouldn t say that s the majority belief, but there are people hoping for that and pushing forward whatever bread crumbs they can find to say that s something that will
but the american people want action. at the table steven spalding, staff counsel for common cause, a group suing the nat to have the filibuster declared unconstitutional. tara wall, dorian warren and lawyer and nbc latino contributor, raul reyes. all right, steven, how could it be unconstitutional? the constitution does say each chamber can set its own rules. we think the senate should be able to do that with a majority belief. contemporary to popular belief, the 11th amendment was thou shalt need 60 votes to pass a bill. if you go back to the founding, the founders in the federalist papers said they considered a super majority requirement and rejected it. they said to have a super majority requirement could be used by a corrupt hunt a to embarrass the administration,