in august of 2011. senate leader, mitch mcconnell, told the washington post exactly how he saw our nations stepmom it. quote, what we did learn is this. it is a hostage that s worth of rain summing. a hostage. that is how republicans view this. that is how we should to. here is what happened, five days after mcconnell s hostage statement. this was a dark day for the nation s finances, and for millions of americans with a financial stake in the market. the very same americans, who are still processing the fact that our country has lost its top credit rating. here is the damage from today. the dow, down 634 points. that is the sixth largest point drop in its history. the worst, since await. nasdaq, losing just about 7% of its total value. s&p 500, losing 6.6% of its value in one day. the president went on television, midday, to reassure americans that the damage was done. the markets continue to drop while he spoke, and the damage continued. it is a bigger systemic problem wi
i am going to use a word tonight that i do not use lightly. i am not using it because it s my word. i m using it because it s mitch mcconnell s. after the first time republicans used there payment national bargaining trip, back in august of 2011. senate leader, mitch mcconnell, told the washington post exactly how he saw our nations stepmom it. quote, what we did learn is this. it is a hostage that s worth of rain summing. a hostage. that is how republicans view this. that is how we should to. here is what happened, five days after mcconnell s hostage statement. this was a dark day for the nation s finances, and for millions of americans with a financial stake in the market. the very same americans, who are still processing the fact that our country has lost its top credit rating. here is the damage from today. the dow, down 634 points. that is the sixth largest point drop in its history. the worst, since await. nasdaq, losing just about 7% of its total value. s&p 500, losi
that does it for us tonight, it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. speaking of george santos, i raised the debt ceiling once. actually twice, that is the george santos way of describing my involvement in raising the debt ceiling a couple of times when i was working in the senate. and the speaker of the house, i ll tell you when negotiations are ongoing. i m going to tell the story of me raising the debt ceiling all by myself, a little bit later in this hour. i will tone down the george santos exaggeration to try to get it somewhere closer to the strike zone of truth. it s always must see television, lawrence, have a great show. thank, you alex. we have breaking news at this hour from a lawsuit in florida, where the judge is now sanctioning donald trump and donald trump s lawyers to the tune of about 1 million dollars, $937,000. this is a lawsuit, the plaintive donald trump brought against hillary clinton in florida, and that
Anti drug panic. he has endorsed runs that ron desantis s don t say gay bill, which specifically targets drag performers as part of anti lgbtq agenda. and in an interview last year with the news outlet, he promoted his party s new favorite flavor of moral outrage by falsely claiming, quote, there are a total of 300 directions per day in new york city schools. no they re not, well beyond george santos complaining about anything in his past. maybe the best we can hope for at this stage is that cadara will make her own triumphant return to make a stand for all drag queens within the republican party. a certain former new york city republican would make an excellent drag mother.
He even had his own drag queen persona called cadara. he denies ever having been a drag performer. there s nothing wrong with participating in the drag tradition, or having their own direct persona. a secret drag passed is a problem for anybody who s looking to get ahead in a party that has gone out of its way to attack and vilify, and legislate against anybody whose gender presentation does not match their biological sex. over the past three years, republicans have zeroed in on drag performers as part of their anti lgbtq agenda, blasting them as groomers and pedophiles. republican representative mike johnson has even introduced federal legislation called the stop sexualize a shun of children act, which specifically targets drag queen story hours, public events were dragged performers volunteered to read children s books at local community spaces. full-fledged supporter of the anti drug panic.