you may not have not heard anywhere else, and why so many people, even in the we will set the record straight then, taking apart the dangers of antisemitic attacks o manhattan da alvin bragg and george soros and later, one democrat chos the rest of his party how to get angry on gun violence an school shootings and why tha anger matters. good evening. i am mehdi hasan we have all heard it it is unprecedented. it is shocking to see. a taboo has been broken. the indictment of donald trump by a grand jury in manhattan s impending arraignment in les than 48 hours has less - including for many liberals, about how rubicon has been crossed when it comes to dealing with former presidents how this can open the doors to endless political persecutions of former presidents going forward. so tonight, i have one simpl message for everyone following the story, especially for my fellow journalists we have her entire framing o this indictment wrong. in fact, earned her approach t this indi
sure want to watch lawrence tonight. for sure. there are three democrats in congress that republicans are going to try to block from serving on committees. in this next hour, lawrence are going to have three of of those democrats on live. reuben diego, congressman, combat veteran marine, progressive democrat, diego and ends today that he is going to challenge incumbent kyrsten sinema for her seat in the senate now that she s dropped out of the democratic party which is should be a battle royal. lawrence has those three democrats that the republicans are threatening and reuben calle go, it is all just ahead on the watch word with lawrence o donnell. now it is time for him. good evening, lawrence. good. evening we have a situation. here sunday because you didn t mention him here. it is actually in ukraine when the supreme court released their investigation of itself last week, and then they had to amend that. it s gonna join us tonight to talk about is meeting with presiden
festive nights of the year. how this case is an outlier on so many levels, from the age of the suspect to the age of the victims, to the town where it happened, traditionally known as one of the country s best places to live. plus, democratic congressman ruben gallego wants wants to che arizona independent kyrsten sinema for her senate seat. how it could pave the way for something we rarely see, a three-way race that could help decide control of the senate. finally, yeah, it may be hard to believe, but we have entered year four of the covid pandemic. how do we balance the fact all of us are ready for this to be over with with the fact that we are still averaging nearly 50,000 new cases every week? we will start in southern california where police are trying to put the pieces together in one of the more unusual mass shootings in recent memory. a 72-year-old man is accused of opening fire inside a popular dance hall in monterey park. it was filled with mostly senior citizen
how did we get here? well, the war in iraq went sideways and there were never any wmds. katrina exposed how unprepared we were for natural disasters. and then a great recession cooked up by bankers left the country in a huge hole. and not a single one of these crooks went to jail for it. we re losing faith in our institutions because they keep failing us. and in other cases these institutions are being destroyed on purpose. a new gallup poll shows less than half the country has confidence in the police. this started in ferguson. they told us an unarmed black man was killed by a police officer while he had his hands up. remember? the riots over hands up, don t shoot? turns out it was a hoax. then george floyd s death created the defund the police movement that caused the a crime wave. even less, americans trust the medical system. people don t like getting billed by insurance monopolies and we don t like being drugs we don t need by doctors who are compensated by drug companie
antisemitic stereotype of th kind of jew trying to. destroy the country. look at happened at tree o life synagogue these people have forgotte that the guy who shot up the tree of life synagogue i pittsburgh believed that soros in the hebrew immigrant ai society we re bringing these immigrant caravans, and that i why the attack the synagogue this is not stuff to be played around with. which trump and other republicans endorsed at th time, in 2018. the reason why i am not as generous as you when it come to saying i don t think he s been antisemitic, i think it i no we will tell you why let s say george soros was funding alvin bragg, which h isn t. since one republicans not okay with billionaires fundin politicians are lawyers? don t they say money s speech? still they say corporations ar people don t they think it is fine fo billionaires like koch to give their money, charles koch, but not the evil george soros? you have to ask the question what is it about the jewis billionaire that t