So i wrote this book. Its called prequel, an american fight against fascism. It has turned out to be kind of unexpectedly topical in the news. I did a book tour for prequel this past fall, but i keep getting asked to give more talks about it and given whats going on in the news, i have decided i am going to do a couple more events. I just wanted to tell you on may 26th, he will be at the historic and beloved town hall in providencetown, massachusetts for a special event sponsored by the provincetown bookshop. You can get information about how and where to buy tickets at msnbc. Com prequel, msnbc. Com prequel. Thats it. Thanks for the indulgence. Thats going to do it for me now. Now its time for The Last Word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Sunday in provincetown, i can do that. Would you like me to save you a seat . How many how many of my brothers can i bring . There could be could be four of us. Well work it out. Ill get the exact count. Lawrence and brothers. All right. I will buy your tickets myself, excellent. Otherwise known as the gang, yes. Okay. All right. Thank you. Cant wait. Thanks, rachel. Folks at home, does anybody think the facts code is fair . Do you think the wealthy and big corporations need another 2 trillion tax break . No. I sure dont. Im going to keep fighting like hell to make it fair. President biden has been using some of the best lines most effective lines from his state of the Union Address on the Campaign Trail, beginning the day after the state of the union. Heres how he began his appeal on taxes today in new hampshire. Republicans oppose everything joe biden is proposing. Everything. So the proposals for a tax code that is more fair, depend entirely on our first guest, becoming the next Speaker Of The House in january. That depends on you, the voters. Electing the majority of democrats to the house of representatives. The leader needs only four seats of democrats to elect him Speaker Of The House. He will be the first Speaker Of The House from New York City which is kind of remarkable. He will be the first black Speaker Of The House. The constitution has exactly one parliamentary rule for legislation. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives. Re that means, all tax bills. It will be up to Speaker Jeffries f to guide the Biden Tax Fairness bill through the house of representatives, which includes affordable increases in taxes, only for people making over 400,000 per year and additional increases for billionaires as well as increases in corporate taxation that still leaves the rateer lower than it was during the Clinton Presidency when the economy was thriving. While he is heat it, Speaker Jeffries will have to guide the rest of the agenda through the house of representatives. If jeffries is not Speaker Of The House than a republican speaker will continue to either operated donothing congress or try to impeach members of the administration or try to take away from the people or things away from the people who Joe Biden New Budget Released Today would protect. Many republican friends want to put Social Security and medicare back on the Chopping Block again. If anyone tries to cut Social Security or medicare or raise the age again, i will stop down your even this morning, donald trump said cuts were on the table again. The bottom line, he is still at it. I wont cut Social Security or medicare. Here is what donald trump mp said today about cutting Social Security, medicare and medicaid. First, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements and cutting. Later, the campaign issued a statement claiming that donald trump was only ltalking about cutting waste in those programs. I know everyone thinks there is waste in all Government Programs that no one has ever identified any in this program that can be cut or in medicare. It is worth comparing to private health insurance. 17 of the premiums that you pay , are not used for healthcare. They are used purely for administrative costs, Executive Salaries and for Insurance Companies, that includes advertising cost. Massive advertising cost. In medicare where the cost is zero, the government run program , everything the republicans have always told you that would lead you to expect that the administrative cost must be much higher than private ri insurance. Again, the administrative cost, including advertising are 17 . In medicare, the administrative cost are 2 . Making medicare simply the most Efficient HealthInsurance Program in the world. Donald trump is lying about cutting waste in the proof that he is lying is that in his four years he never once attempted to cut any waste from medicare because his people couldnt find any. He never attempted to cut waste from Social Security because people could not find any nor did he try to cut any from medicare. What he said about cutting those programs was very clear. Of course his campaign knows it was a stupid thing to say so the campaign is trying to pretend that he meant something else. He has said stupider things. In a new book, john kelly tells the story. He said hitler did some good things and i said what and he said hitler rebuilt the economy and i said you can never say anything good about a guy. Nothing. He recounted that trump expressed aberration for hitlers hold on senior officers. He would ask about loyalty issues and how when i pointed out the german generals as a group, were not loyal and in fact tried to assassinate him ai few times and he didnt know that. After visiting with him on friday, the Hungarian Prime Minister said trump will not give up any in the ukrainian russian war. It is obvious that ukraine cannot stand on its own feet if americans dont give money and weapons, along with the europeans than the war is over. The same thing was true euof britain when hitler invaded all of Western Europe and after conquering france was determined too soon to have troops marching into london the way they marched into paris. The only way the british survived is with military supplies delivered to them by the president of the United States. Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was quoted at the beginning of the address on thursday in a speech that President Roosevelt made, explaining to the people why we needed to help the british survived hitlers attack. The speech was a year before the United States was attacked by japan and then actually entered world war ii to as a participant. If donald trump had been in the presidency when the british needed help to survive, hitler would have won. We know his father was a simplified sympathizer. Donald trump admires every current Head Of State in the world who exhibits hitler tendencies like kim jong un and latimer putin. And in his way victor and hungry. The day after he praised him for the dictator like behavior, joe biden said this in georgia. Here is a guy kicking off his campaign. It can tell you a lot a lot about a person who he keeps company with. Yesterday he e was hosting at h club, victor or bond. He said he doesnt think democracy works, calling it a fantastic leader. Seriously. He bragged about calling him a king and he called putin and said do what you want. I am not making this up. He said he wants to be at the tater and i believe him. Leading off for our discussion, the democratic leader. It is an honor to have you join us. Thank you. President biden released his budget that looks like a big job for Speaker Jeffries, if you get enough democrats into the house next year. That agenda becomes Speaker Jeffries agenda. What for you are the most important things you believe would have to get done by the house of representatives. We look forward to continuing to be supportive of President Biden and his forward looking agenda. The budget would continue that effort to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom of with a focus on Working Families and middleclass families and low woincome families. L that budget will continue the works of lowercost for Everyday Americans who have made progress in that area as it relates to driving down the price of prescription drugs. Sc as mentioned, that work needs to continue. We look forward to partnering at on that. As indicated, in the context, we need to protect and strengthen Social Security and medicare, not try to eradicate it which is what donald trump and the extreme republicans would like to do. Could she share, what it was like to be in the room for that address . I know they are not all the same. That one was extraordinary in the way the president made it interactive. There were so many lines that he came up with because of what he was getting negative feedback noises from the republican side. It was a hostile environment that he was dealing with in terms thof delivering the state of the Union Address with Marjorie Taylor greene and others who are completely out of control and behaving in a manner unbecoming of a member of congress. President biden new what he was dealing with. It was high stakes and intense. It was also an electric environment. His remarks were strong and serious and substantive. They penetrated. He kept it at a high level from the very beginning, starting by Referencing Fdr and the dynamics in this country during the start of world war ii. He stayed at a high level all the way to t the end. I want to listen to more of what the president said about the tobillionaires tax. Unit with the average rate is . 8. 2 . Anybody want to trade that rate . I am serious. If we just charge them i had, 25 . Not the highest, 25 . Do you know how much that would raise . 400 billion. Imagine what we could do from cutting that deficit to providing for child care and healthcare to continue to provide the military with all they need. As you know, we have been on a cycle for decades where republicans come into office with republican assistance and they enact dunning tax cuts that dramatically increase the deficit and the national debt. N that is followed by a Democratic Administration or president who feels the responsibility to rebuild fiscal sanity by increasing taxes. In that cycle, over the decades, i havent heard a democrat find the case or make the case for the democratic policy, better than i heard joe bidend and now on the Campaign Trail since then. As the constitution requires, all Tax Legislation begins under your jurisdiction. In what you are hearing about the approach to taxes, is that possible . I believe so. We support his vision for making sure that we have a tax code that is centered on Economic Growth and growing that middleclass and all americans that aspire to be part of it and through things like the enhanced and improved Child Tax Credit which was part of the plan and republicans allowed it to lapse. We want to restore it in the most robust fashion. It was an incredible tax cut for Working Families and low income families and for middle class families, in terms of returning money into their pockets that could be used for day to day expenses. It was a spectacular success. When they have the ability to address tax code issues, what was the response . The gop tax scam were 83 of benefits went to the wealthiest 1 and saddled our children and grandchildren with 2 trillion worth of debt, unnecessarily to subsidize. President biden is leaning into this issue. More importantly, it is the right issue for the people in terms of tax fairness. One of your leading predecessors, tip oneill, used to say all politics is local. He met he had a massive majority of democrats. They all ran on local issues, whether being elected in alabama, alaska or anywhere else. He never tried to impose or suggest a national message. Has that changed . Surely the races involve local issues. Is there a new balance in which those races also have a unifying national message. We have a topline lens in terms of how we are conducting ourselves. I think that unifies the caucus from progressives to blue dogs and all points in between whichn is we will continue to put people over politics and focus on Kitchen Table breadand butter issues like lowering cost , better paying jobs, growing that middleclass and keeping communities safe. We have said from the beginning, we will find bipartisan Common Ground on any issue, whenever and wherever possible, in order to make life better for the people. At the same period, we will push back against the extremism whenever necessary. They are extreme in every way possible. They want to criminalize Abortion Care and get rid of ivf and impose a nationwide band. We improve believe in the Reproductive Health care decisions. You want to protect and strengthen Social Security and medicare. They want to end it. That stis extreme. We believe in democracy. Former president of indicated he wants to be at the tater. By their extremism, they have in some ways nationalized the stakes. 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