donnell, goo speaking of geori raised the debt ceiling once. actually twice, that is the george santos way of describing my involvement in raising the debt ceiling a couple of times when i was working in the senate. and the speaker of the house, i ll tell you when negotiations are ongoing. i m going to tell the story of me raising the debt ceiling all by myself, a little bit later in this hour. i will tone down the george santos exaggeration to try to get it somewhere closer to the strike zone of truth. it s always must see television, lawrence, have a great show. thank, you alex. we have breaking news at this hour from a lawsuit in florida, where the judge is now sanctioning donald trump and donald trump s lawyers to the tune of about 1 million dollars, $937,000. this is a lawsuit, the plaintive donald trump brought against hillary clinton in florida, and that suit was dismissed. the judge in the case, in assessing in effect fines to donald trump and his lawyer, say
in august of 2011. senate leader, mitch mcconnell, told the washington post exactly how he saw our nations stepmom it. quote, what we did learn is this. it is a hostage that s worth of rain summing. a hostage. that is how republicans view this. that is how we should to. here is what happened, five days after mcconnell s hostage statement. this was a dark day for the nation s finances, and for millions of americans with a financial stake in the market. the very same americans, who are still processing the fact that our country has lost its top credit rating. here is the damage from today. the dow, down 634 points. that is the sixth largest point drop in its history. the worst, since await. nasdaq, losing just about 7% of its total value. s&p 500, losing 6.6% of its value in one day. the president went on television, midday, to reassure americans that the damage was done. the markets continue to drop while he spoke, and the damage continued. it is a bigger systemic problem wi
i am going to use a word tonight that i do not use lightly. i am not using it because it s my word. i m using it because it s mitch mcconnell s. after the first time republicans used there payment national bargaining trip, back in august of 2011. senate leader, mitch mcconnell, told the washington post exactly how he saw our nations stepmom it. quote, what we did learn is this. it is a hostage that s worth of rain summing. a hostage. that is how republicans view this. that is how we should to. here is what happened, five days after mcconnell s hostage statement. this was a dark day for the nation s finances, and for millions of americans with a financial stake in the market. the very same americans, who are still processing the fact that our country has lost its top credit rating. here is the damage from today. the dow, down 634 points. that is the sixth largest point drop in its history. the worst, since await. nasdaq, losing just about 7% of its total value. s&p 500, losi
that does it for us tonight, it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. speaking of george santos, i raised the debt ceiling once. actually twice, that is the george santos way of describing my involvement in raising the debt ceiling a couple of times when i was working in the senate. and the speaker of the house, i ll tell you when negotiations are ongoing. i m going to tell the story of me raising the debt ceiling all by myself, a little bit later in this hour. i will tone down the george santos exaggeration to try to get it somewhere closer to the strike zone of truth. it s always must see television, lawrence, have a great show. thank, you alex. we have breaking news at this hour from a lawsuit in florida, where the judge is now sanctioning donald trump and donald trump s lawyers to the tune of about 1 million dollars, $937,000. this is a lawsuit, the plaintive donald trump brought against hillary clinton in florida, and that
we begin with the aftermath of him, and what could be the costliest hurricane in u.s. history. and was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone today, the storm delivering with heavy rains from the creek of islands to new england marking. out some and delivering strangers storm surge to the south. in florida, it s climbing. in this hour it stands at 77. that number is expected to rise. they re also assessing the damage, it could amount to billions of dollars in the southwestern part of the state. businesses destroyed. homes flattened. residents, left in complete shock. i wish we should be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with that storm. the power of that storm? it would ve crashed into that side of the house. we would ve been swept away. to see the damage of clothes, it s almost frightening to see just how easily he d chewed through tons of concrete and steel. but to the danger above? heartbreaking. when you realize this is the only way an entire community c