great to have you here, ali. i m going to show the audience something that happened in the senate today that i ve never seen before. the senate chaplain who begins every day in the senate with a prayer, the senate chaplain gave up today on thoughts and prayers. the senate chaplain said that thoughts and prayers are not enough after that mass murder that we saw in nashville yesterday in that school. and it was quite a challenge that he issued to senators, especially republican senators. we ll have that later in this hour. i ll have a few words to say about it. yeah. i spoke to the father of joaquin oliver who died at parkland. he said, it s on us now to all change things, and you can t get away with being sad about it. you have to actually stand up for the next kid so that they don t get shot. i m looking forward to the show. thank you. well, there is a new judge in town, and the bad news for donald trump is the new judge is issuing rulings exactly like the previous
pass, i have three words, welcome to florida. it is time for the last word with my friend lawrence o donnell. a rare treat to hand it over to you. i will show the audience something that happened in the senate today i have never seen before, the senate chaplain that begins every day with a prayer, the senate chaplain gave up today. on thoughts and prayers. the chaplain said thoughts and prayers are not enough after the mass murder we saw in nashville yesterday. it was quite a challenge that he issued two senators, especially republican senators. we will have that later in this hour. i spoke to the father of joaquin oliver who died in parkland and he was saying the same thing. it is on us to change things and you cannot get away with being sad about it. you have to stand up for the next kid. i am looking forward to the show. thank you. there is a new judge in town, the bad news for donald trump is that the new judge is issuing the same way the old judge dead. the new jud
sitting australian prime minister to march in sydney s gay and lesbian mardi gras. he has described it as a celebration of modern australia. hello to you in the uk and around the world. votes are being counted in nigeria s tightest presidential election since military rule ended in 1999. the elections are the biggest democratic exercise in africa, with 87 million people eligible to vote. but many polling stations opened late and some not at all, with some incidents of violence. our correspondent mayeni jones reports from lagos. shouting. frustration and anger. many nigerians want to take part in this election but have been disappointed by the lack of organisation. gang violence and threats by militant islamists have made voting difficult in some regions. and in this polling station on the mainland of lagos, electoral officials never even showed up. they will tell us that the area is dead. there is no one here for this election. most people passing through this place were tell
president, not george w. bush, his father. i m christine romans, this is early start. just hours from now, transportation secretary pete buttigieg heads to the site of that train derailment in east palestine, ohio. buttigieg under pressure as residents and critics worry about the toxic chemicals. alex shaw faced some of that head on in a cnn town hall last night. i m 65 years old, diabetic, hearts disease, everything. did you shorten my life? i want to retire and enjoy it. how are we going to enjoy it? you burned me. we were going to sell our house. our value went jim, thank you for those comments. i hear you. i m terribly sorry that this has happened to this community. what i can do and what i will do is make it right. we ll get the cleanup right. we re going to reimburse the citizens, we ll invest in the long term health of this community. miguel marquez has more from east palestine. reporter: a massive effort under way to clean up creeks and water flowing in an
rogue, we ll explain how it may complicate things for the d.a. what a nightmare. come on. literally. wow. president joe biden is back at the white house this morning following his momentous, three-day trip to eastern europe. before he left, the president took time once again to reassure allies that america will not tolerate russian aggression into nato territory. we ll also play for you president biden s comments on vladimir putin s decision to pull out of a nuclear arms treaty with the u.s., and we ll show you how former president trump turned his trip to east palestine, ohio, into a branding operative. well he didn t throw paper towels, did he? not paper towels. he brought trump-branded water bottles. did he throw it? i don t know. pallets of trump-branded water. it s just tap water, guys. so fascinating week. i ve got to say, historic. people are going to remember, an american president going into a war zone, risking his life to show support for t