night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening rachel. you know when you re watching the rachel maddow show. and she s going on this. then you have no idea where she s going. she is just going down this trail. for example when she s talking about grand isle s dan, and i m going what the, what is she talking about? and rachel, i don t want to date myself. but all of my experience, was before they had a liquor license. so, so, when we discover, we meaning me. and i guess america. that this little barr in harvard square, made supreme court history through of course, the trial. that is the most important thing i have learned about the texas law. is that law, dated by the supreme court states that a private entity cannot enforce the laws, in the way that this texas abortion law wants private citizens to enforce the law. it does seem that there are several paths to the end of that texas law. in the one about that bar in cambridge, made me, one if not
and you wonder, are we gonna do the thing about the kid in oklahoma, no. maybe. [laughs] it s very very intense news world. indeed, it is. i remember features, remember enterprise something, go find a story that nobody has thought about because i have time. it s just whack-a-mole. and plan when you would show it, plan when you would do it, let s do with the week after next on thursday night, and it would work. you could do that kind of thing. i know. there s a parallel universe in which you and i are both doing shows like that in the news is like that, we look amazing, we both are 20 years younger and it s like earth seven, and it s over there. you can find it somewhere in the corner of youtube, it s there. thank you, lawrence. thank, you rachel. thank you. as you ve heard from rachel, the new texas law that went into effect today, is being accurately reported as banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, in direct violation of federal laws established
there was no statement from the country. he issued a written statement out to the final harry cocktail came out. there was not of what we re seeing in these last two weeks, and so, we ve seen two of these, we ve seen two big losses after a multi decade war. this exit is very different from the vietnam exit. and it s actually a good point. we saw the sitcom commander formally announce that the last aircraft was carrying afghan airspace. we then saw blinking give essentially a formal address to the country, explaining things in terms of the diplomatic mission and doing those things. we just seeing tonight statement from secretary of defense lloyd austin that we re going to get another speech. we ve seen several already from president biden. he says he s gonna talk about his decision to not extend past august 31st. and the military obviously it is a lot, sort of a lot of accountability, in terms of people saying yeah, this is me, and this is happening on my watch, and this i
but we won t know. it s true, and it is humbling, but i am going to try. i m going to try, and that is all i can say. i think you will get it done. thank you, rachel. thank you, lawrence. i appreciate it. we ve been through this only once before in our history. before the evacuation in afghanistan, the american military had carried out only one major evacuation from a war that we lost. that was in vietnam in 1975. in vietnam when the airport we were using came under rocket fire from the north vietnamese army, and two marines were killed, the final two soldiers killed in combat in vietnam, republican president gerald ford immediately ordered the abandonment of the airport, and the switch to helicopters, dangerously taking people from the tops of buildings to finish the evacuation. president ford immediately ordered the evacuation speed it up. the president never gave a thought to try to avenge the deaths of those two marines, or in any way prolong the dangerous situati
from boston. eventually they ruled in his favor. but that boston accent is later in the hour. i always watch rachel s show and you are showing my sweatpants with my mommy water, and i have to, obviously, get through this show in a different way. but i m racing upstairs to change into sweatpants and watch your show with my mommy water in hand, all those box in boston accents. thank you nikole. thank you. senate majority leader chuck schumer just told the senate that he would be working on saturday to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill. there remains a slight possibility that senator schumer will be able to get unanimous consent, to vote on final passage of the bill as early as tonight. but that would require mitch mcconnell s full cooperation and last night on the floor of the senate, rob portman, usually closely aligned with mcconnell, put public pressure on mcconnell on an important bridge that joins their two states, ohio and kentucky. the bryant s pence bridge, it