I wanted to tell you. On may 26, i will be at the town hall in provincetown, massachusetts. You can get information about how and where to get tickets at msnbc prequel. That will do it for me now. It is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. May 26th does not help me i had to look it up, it is a sunday. All right. I can do that. Would you like me to save you a seat . How many of my brothers can i bring . There could be four of us. We will work it out. I will get the exact count. Lawrence and brothers. All right. I will buy you some tickets myself. Excellent. Otherwise known as, the gang. I cant wait. Thanks, rachel. In his sharply effective State Of The Union last week, President Biden, included the best Tax Policy Speech ever given by a democrat. Folks at home, does anybody think the tax code is fair . Do you really think the wealthy and big corporations need another 2 trillion tax rate . I sure do not. I will keep fighting to make it fair. President biden, has been using some
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a major dam destroyed in ukraine. there are mass evacuations and plenty of blame as russia and ukraine point fingers at the oh. trouble for trump as one lane of the special counsel investigation nears its end. jack smith attended a meeting with the legal team and a bizarre plot twist. cnn learned it led to a flood of suspicion from prosecutors. and chris christie makes his 2024 entrance. the former governor is also a trump friend turned trump critic who sees himself as the best republican hope of derailing the former the president s comeback bid. we begin with a major development in ukraine. a major dam was destroyed overnight. the collapse of the dam on the river prompting evacuations and fears of large-scale devastation. new video shows the surging waters leading to massive flooding and fears now of a potential environmental di disaster. you can see water creepin
all while protecting social security, health care and other critical programs. president biden delivers for us. again. let s be clear. it s a very modest six-figure campaign targeting washington, d.c. and several battleground markets. it comes as the president s campaign tries to ignore challenges from provocative voices within the progressive family. robert f. kennedy says he deserves a primary debate with the president and he spent two hours yesterday chatting with elon musk. also monday the progressive legal scholar announce d a thir party presidential bid. jeff zeleny is here to join our conversation. let s start with robert f. kennedy jr. his positions outlined yesterday he wants to close the border permanently. he says the united states should consider the ukraine war from russia s perspective.
because the anxiety you can t do anything. you don t want to watch this all day. right now the work is done and you re waiting for returns. so unplugging for three to four hours because when the returns come in there will be a lot of anxiety and anticipation and it drives you crazy. but a lot of campaigns, when you work on many of them, off rue teen. i expect president obama did the same in those campaigns he worked on. he did. president obama on election day, he started this in the primary in 2008 and continued through the 2008 general election and 2012 and today as he plays basketball on election day. he is a very cool guy but he s superstitious and election day is hard for candidates because they have had not a moment to themselves for years now and suddenly there s almost nothing he can. do would he read a book? well, you sit around, maybe you hear anecdotal stuff that means nothing and president obama would do television interviews to battleground markets and do phon
here he was writing off half of the american people when he was trying to lead them. and i remember huddling meal with david axelrod and stephanie cutter and trying to calibrate our response. when we took a look at the tape, we decided the most important thing for to us do was to get out of the way, let the american people hear mitt romney talk about the 47% in his own words. and that s what we did in battleground markets across the country. we put that tape up on the air for all americans to hear. and i think that was wise that you got out of the way. didn t stand in the way of the story. it spoke for itself. there was nothing else to do. that s right. and ultimately it became a critical contrast in the campaign. the president s campaign was all about strengthening the middle class. and here you had mitt romney going down a list of 47% of americans, retirees who d worked their entire life paying into social security, paying into medicare, so that they could have a secure retiremen