I m vivek ramaswamy, and this is an open discussion about some of the biggest issues facing americans. We were supposed to have a red wave in 2022, but that never came. They blamed trump. They blamed abortion. But the real reason is that we got lazy. We railed against the democrats, but without offering an alternative vision of our own. And i m worried we re going to be in for a rude surprise this november unless we fix that starting right now. Think about it. Criticizing joe biden for his cognitive deficits over the last two years ended up backfiring. His cognitive deficits weren t a bug for the people who controlled him. They were a feature, and eventually they used it as their basis to swap him out. He was never really the functioning president of the united states anyway. He was a puppet for the people who controlled him. And you know what? the same thing goes for kamala harris today. She s just another cog in the system. We re not up against a candidate here. We re up against a ma
night and lots of states across the country, we hear at msnbc we ll be covering it until the cows come home, until steve kornacki s eyelids turned inside out on live television. all, right that does it for us tonight. now it is time for the last word with of the great lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. as word witgood evening, rachel. i have a programming question to your programming note about wednesday night. you said we will all be here discussing the so-called debate. you don t have somewhere else to be, do you? does all include me? yes? because i haven t watched a single republican debate. i have a perfect record of not watching or commenting on a single republican so-called debate. i am going to change you to the proverbial loom, it is good for you, you know, anything can happen, lawrence. do i have to talk? yes. okay. i won t ever tell you what to say, but, also i like that you are appealing to me like i am making these decisions. it s up t
it s up to you lawrence. yes, it s completely up to you. you must discuss a lot about vivek ramaswamy. now, rachel, i ve spent the weekend curled up with this amazing new york times number one bestseller, debuting at number one on the bestseller list. and i have so many questions. and i was kind of wondering if maybe tonight, you could come over? yes. okay, here s what we ll do, to give you time to come over. here is what we are going to do. we are going to do a first segment with mary trump s reaction to her uncle being out of control in court today. and then we are going to talk about rachel maddow s number one best selling, new york times number one bestseller, debuts a number, one prequel, an american fight against fascism. and what i m gonna do, rachel, is it is going to be a discussion, but i am going to be selling the thing. no, but it s specific. i am going to be selling the audio book. and you know why i want to push the audio book. we will discuss all of t
than the underlying hurricane. and the question of whether the trump administration s response to american disasters thus far appears to turn on which part of america they are in. for more, i ll joined now by george will from the washington post. and from the harvard kennedy school of government profit if he issor, i will begin with you although i have two guests here rich with knowledge of american history. professor, your few of the comparison that president trump makes there. so i think part of what was happening during this visit was that donald trump was trying, it was all about the optics. this was about making good p.r. and trying to recover from the weekend. and instead of pulling himself away and not drawing a comparison to katrina, which is what he s trying to avoid, he sfwlums into one. and he does that by centering
this is do they vote? but you know what the best revenge would be? if obama could in the white house receive the petition and say, okay, go ahead. you re on your own. because the states, the various that have filed for these petitions, red states, tend to take in a lot more in government benefits than they pay in taxes. it would be very good you didn t name names in your one-eighth theory. but here are some names. ron paul, very recent congressman, national candidate for the presidency many times. he said secession is a deeply american, a deeply american principle. meanwhile, alan keyes, he wrote that while he doesn t think we ve reached the point where secession is necessary necessarily, it remains a, quote, god endowed inalienable right. there you have people with educations, people with brains and a knowledge of american history, who come out and argue that this is something that should be put on the table. yeah. i guess brains and an education but still somehow profound