britain s strawberries and how british cheese could be made, and making good old fashioned english fishermen where her nets. there was even a column about the evil making condoms too small. none of this was true but he seemed to think it was all great fun. he told an interviewer quite, i was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall and listening to the amazing crash from the greenhouse next door over an england. everything i wrote from brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the conservative party. it really gave me this i suppose rather weird sense of power and quote. his right-wing newspaper would splash its headlines over the front page of the secret evil plans of european bureaucrats to take over british life and rule the u q k from afar. and this newspaper for readers learn to distrust and hate the eu. those readers included a lot of your conservative lawmakers and he watched with glee a civil war broke out in his own party about how anti europe they
prosecuted for murder, in the states, and prosecuted federally, for the civil rights. i will remember in minneapolis for that verdict, and i remember people saying to me, it s not just us everywhere, is accountability. justice would be if george floyd was alive. and a number of people who had been killed by police were alive. but it s a step toward justice by at least holding police accountable for what they do. it is that. and it s a big. one thank you. ali have a good show. thank you. and it s a big today, the most clownish british prime minister of our lifetime announced his humiliating resignation pending the choice of a successor and thereby demonstrated once again, the superiority of the british parliamentary system, over the system chosen by our founders, who believed they were smarter. and deciding to lock the country into fixed four-year terms, of presidents, who we now know, for partisan reasons, cannot be removed no matter what crimes they are caught comm
is accountability. justice would be if george floyd was alive. and a number of people who had been killed by police were alive. but it s a step toward justice by at least holding police accountable for what they do. it is that. and it s a big one thank you ali. have a good show. thank you. today, the most clownish british prime minister of our lifetime announced his humiliating resignation pending the choice of a successor and thereby demonstrated once again, the superiority of the british parliamentary system, over the system chosen by our founders, who believed they were smarter. in deciding to lock the country into fixed four-year terms, of presidents, who we now know, for partisan reasons, cannot be removed no matter what crimes they are caught committing. the founders obsession, to avoid all things british, in government, led them to the creation of the most grotesque institution ever imposed on a so-called democracy. the electoral college. the only reason to wor
nara, about 20 miles southeast of osaka. the chaos from the shooting and the subsequently takedown of the man police say carried out the attack was caught on camera. we want to warn you though, that you may find this video very disturbing. y find this video vey abe shot mid speech. he was immediately air-lifted to a near by hospital. after officials say he went into a state of cardiac arrest. the suspect, according to police there, is a former member of japan s navy. speaking to the country after the attack, the country s current prime minister, and abe s successor, called the shooting a quote despicable act that we cannot allow. joining us now live from beijing is nbc news foreign correspondent janis mackey frayer, obviously the shooting rocking the region. there what is the latest on how the former prime minister is doing? reporter: we have reports from ntv, a broadcaster in japan, that the hospital where they have been fighting to save shinzo abe s life will be holding
with his longer 22 and a half year state level sentence. but the sentencing marks the last of chauvin s slate of cases. and in larger sense, both the state and federal sentences against derek chauvin, signal a new commitment to justice by the minneapolis justice department, and our federal justice department. willingness that has not always been there to hold police officers accountable criminally for the crimes that they commit. that does it for us time now for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening. ali and i was actually just going to begin with pretty much word for word the same summary of the derek chauvin update tonight. which doesn t add, as you pointed at, doesn t at present. time correct. but it does add that federal civil rights violation as a conviction that he pleaded guilty to, and spared everyone trial. on that. and so, you are right, this is that s a rare case, where case, where the police officer was