this is my understanding of the history of cabinet impeachments, and it goes back to william belknap in 1876, when it was a serious thing. brendan buck, my friend, thank you for your time tonight. good to see you. that is our show for tonight, now it s time to the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. evenin good evening, alex. tonight s tonight, i just can t take it anymore. i have to unburden myself. republicans, the nfl and taylor swift. it s time. listen, i unburdened myself last night and almost took another pass at it today because it s so absolutely bonkers. the whole thing. it just keeps getting more insane, but i hope to make serious points within that story about the dangerous spread of this kind of insanity and what it can reach and what insanity does reach to on the republican side of politics. most republicans have none of these crazy thoughts, but the ones who do can end up being extremely dangerous. yes, insanity coupled with
this week, may just go down as one of the best weeks of joe biden s presidency to date. let s start with the economy, today, we got a truly stunning jobs report for july, u.s. employers added 528,000 jobs, more than doubling projections. and the unemployment rate, it fell to 3.5%. the last time the unemployment rate was that low was in 1969. 53 whole years ago. the economy is now recovered all of the nearly 22 million jobs lost since the start of the covid pandemic. president joe biden and his signature aviator sunglasses took a much deserved victory lap earlier today. we re almost had 10 million jobs. almost a 10 million jobs since i took office. that s the fastest job growth in history. today, there are more people working in america than before the pandemic began. in fact, there are more people working in america at any point in american history. in a relief for drivers all across america, gas prices have dropped nearly $1 from highs in june. highs that were driven in
all of the nearly 22 million jobs lost since the start of the covid pandemic. president joe biden and his signature aviator sunglasses took a much deserved victory lap earlier today. we re almost had 10 million jobs. almost a 10 million jobs since i took office. that s the fastest job growth in history. today, there are more people working in america than before the pandemic began. in fact, there are more people working in america at any point in american history. in a relief for drivers all across america, gas prices have dropped nearly $1 from highs in june. highs that were driven in large part by supply shock after vladimir putin started a war with ukraine. the average price of gas is now $4. and in many places, including in many red states, gas prices are well below $4 a gallon. president biden highlighted the seven-week decline in gas prices in his speech today. gas prices are coming down. down almost $1 a gallon from where they were just a month ago. and we are ma
This unusual day in the House Of Representatives. We will figure out a way to talk about this too, with congressman james clyburn, who had every right in the world to think he had seen it all until today. Nobody has seen it all, apparently, with this House Republican conference. Unusual is one word for it, my friend. One word for it. Thank you, alex. Have a great show. Matt gaetz, the 42yearold republican congressman who overthrew the speaker of the house today, had not been born yet when republican Ronald Reagan began running against government. Ronald reagan was the first republican president to be rhetorically and only rhetorically Anti Government. The last republican president , elected before reagan, richard knutson, was a very conservative republican. But he believed in the governments capacity to solve problems. Nixon willingly signed the legislation creating the Environmental Protection agency. Richard nixon pushed a Health Care Bill in congress that was structurally similar to