asitic infection or your asthma worsens. headache and sore throat may occur. haven't you missed enough? ask an asthma specialist about fasenra. if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. that does it for us. we will see you tomorrow. we will be doing a special show focusing on the strength of the democratic 2020 field. very excited about that. see you then. now for the last word a lawrence o'donnell. >> wish me luck. i am going to do something i am not good at here. i am going to be interview one of my heroes. i'm not good at hiding my awe in those situations. so it's going to be what it's going to be. we'll see where it goes. >> do you need tips? >> well, what's it like when that happens to you? >> i leave my body entirely.

i imagine that i'm somebody else talking to somebody who doesn't mean that much to me at all and nothing you say could have any affect on me. i am horrible at it. that's what i try. it doesn't work. >> well, i have never detected that. everything you describe has never actually happened on screen. it's only happened in your head. and so maybe we overworry these things. >> maybe we do. well, i wish you luck anyway, and break a leg and all those things. you are going to be fine. just leave your body. >> thank you, rachel some of the guests on this program might be on their way to the history books, especially the presidential candidates. there is probably a future president and future vice president in that group. we will be joined by somebody in our history books. the one book i rote about the 1968 presidential campaign and many other books. she campaigned for bobby kennedy that year and was on the stage when he gave his speech in what turned out to be the last night of his life. president obama gave her the medal of freedom.

to say it's an honor to have dorlis huerta joint us tonight does not begin to convey how i feel about having her on the show. i am in awe. i have met her a couple of times. she makes that awe temporarily disappear because she is a person with real warmth, real kindness. she instantly feels like an old friend. bobby kennedy thanked her that night in los angeles in what turned out to be his final speech. many people have thanked her before and sin then for her help. people in fresno, california, are thanking her this week for her help. dolores huerta went to fresno this week in what is the latest chapter in her lifetime pursuit of justice and she got arrested in fresno at age 89.

dolores will join us at the end of this hour to tell us why she got arrested in fresno this week and in that discussion i hope we learn something about what it takes to be truly committed to social progress. truly committed to a cause. most of us limit our commitment to social progress to voting and some of us just give up when our candidate loses. dolores huerta saw her candidate in 1968 get shot and killed right before her eyes, and she did not give up. we have much to learn from dolores huerta. america has much to learn from dolores wart. and we will hear from her at the end of this hour in tonight's last word. alan bennett's brilliant play "the madness of george iii" had a premier in 1992, 200 years after the rein of england's truly mad king. it will not take 200 years for

the madness of donald trump to be written. probably more than 200 of those plays will be written in the next 200 years, and the trump playwrights will have an easier time because they will have the video and the tweets of all of the madness. the tweets saying trump is king of israel, the second coming of god, the video of trump talking about wanting to buy greenland. the video of trump talking about himself as the chosen one. the video of trump saying he fell into in love with the murderous north korean dictator. the trump and kim jong un love affair will be set to music in some versions of the madness of donald trump. in others it will be played with the deadly darkness of shakespeare's richard the iii. and if we are lucky, future audiences watching all of the plays about the madness of donald trump will be watching

them the way i watched the madness of george iii in 1992. they will be watching something that feels like it happened a long time ago in a crazy moment in history that could never come again. if we're lucky, when future audiences are looking back at it, the madness of donald trump will look like a four-year explosion in our politics and culture that came and went within the space of two presidential elections and all of the polling that came out this week strongly supports the possibility that the trump presidency will crash into democracy on the next election night and this time lose. donald trump has an approval rating which, if it holds, makes it impossible for him to be re-elected. "the associated press" shows 62% disapprove of donald trump's job appearance with 36% approving. there is a worse number in a monmouth poll. 39% of voters support donald trump's re-election. 57% say it's time for someone new.

that could not be more clear. those numbers have to change dramatically and quickly for donald trump to have a reasonable chance to win the next election. and there is nothing on the political horizon that likely to improve those numbers. donald trump ran for president claiming he would revive manufacturing in america when manufacturing was already doing reasonably well. today "the washington post" reports that thanks to donald trump's trade war, that he is losing. the u.s. manufacturing purchases index fell to 49.9 in august from 50.4 in july. that is the first time that that particular closely watched indicator has fallen below 50 since the first year of the obama presidency. american automobile manufacturers have overruled donald trump's misguided softening of emission standards for their fleets and have made a deal with the state of california for stricter regulation than the trump administration wants nationally. the state of california is, of course, the largest and most important automobile market in the world, and so no auto

manufacturers are going to build a car that cannot be sold in california. something donald trump did not realize about automobile manufacturing until he learned it the hard way. the trump tariffs are becoming increasing expensive consumers and could cost americans $1,000 a year per person. the trump budget deficit is now $1 trillion a year and going up. donald trump talked about the national debt and the deficit almost every day of his presidential campaign. now that he has increased the national debt by trillions of dollars, he no longer says a word about it. that's one piece of ammunition he won't have in his re-election campaign. and as the fourth president in history to face the possible of real impeachment proceedings. today three more members of the house of representatives came up in support of impeachment. illinois democrat brad snider said after months of stonewalling by the trump

administration i believe it is necessary to evaluate the various congressional investigations of the president into a formal impeachment inquiry as the only way to ensure the american people have a comprehensive understanding of the facts uncovered by special counsel robert mueller's investigation and hold the president accountable for his actions. the special counsel made clear then-candidate trump welcomed interference in our election. president trump acted on numerous occasions to block and obstruct the investing into what occurred. i previously believed that congress' oversight and efforts through hearings and lawsuits were the appropriate vehicle to uncover the truth. regrettably, it is clear the administration has little regard for the constitution and is seeking to play out the clock. the american people deserve to know the truth about what happened and those who are responsible must be held

accountable. an impeachment inquiry is the only way to do so and i support opening one immediately. massachusetts democrat bill keating announced his view of impeachment this way. >> the mueller report reveals several instances of obstruction of justice, certainly enough to move forward with an impeachment investigation. indeed, if that vote were today, i'd support it. >> california democrat mark takano said this about impeachment. >> special counsel mueller concluded that russia interfered in our elections in 2016 and that president trump's campaign welcomed the help. and the president committed various acts that amount to obstruction of justice during this investigation in order to prevent it from moving forward. contrary to what president trump, attorney general barr and the trump administration claim, the president was not exonerated of any crimes by special counsel mueller. in fact, in his report the

special counsel laid out his findings for congress to use as a roadmap to hold the president accountable for obstructing justice. >> leading off our discussion, rick wilson, a contributor to the "daily beast." the author of everything trump touches dies. rene graham, columnist for "the boston globe." rene, i want to begin with where the president stands tonight on the eve of his departure tomorrow night for a g7 summit. with the world wondering about the mental health of the president of the united states. >> you know, i have to tell you, lauren, i can't help but think if the president were a building for the sake of public safety he would be torn down. what we've witnessed these last few days, and these days have felt like a month, you know, from these sort of delusions of grand you're, comparing himself to gods, to insulting jewish voters with this anti-semitic

trope, there is just no limit. you add to that the one ace in the hole that trump has always had, the economy. and the fact that the economy is in trouble, i think it's really -- i think that's really weighing on him. part of it is he looking for any distraction to take people's attention away from what is happening with the economy. >> rick wilson, your assessment of where the president stands as he heads off to the g7 summit? >> i think donald trump has had a week in which he is proving that this isn't a 87 dimensional chess game, not some masterful strategy of communications or persuasion. this is an old man who is sick and who has problems and who has mental disconnects and who has moments where he doesn't remember who and where he is and

where the things he says that he thinks sound self-agrandizing instead sound like he is absolutely, you know, nuts and absolutely on the edge of some sort of collapse that will be a shocker to people in our politics that the master negotiator, president big brain, all this stuff, you know, is not a stable genius, but is something quite the opposite. >> well, let's bring in a professional opinion on this. professor of psychiatry at harvard medical school, appeared on this program 30 days into the trump presidency with another psychiatrist to discuss the mental health of donald trump, which to them was already an apparent serious issue for the united states and those psychiatrists at that time

decided they would embrace the principle of the duty to warn and go public with their analysis of the president. dr. dotis was on this program last night after this week of observing the president. let's listen to what he said last night. >> i want to make clear that there are a lot of grandiose people. there are a lot of people who are narcissistic. donald trump goes way beyond that. there is a fundamental way in which -- there is something fundamentally different about him from normal people. there is -- it's a psychotic-like state. the more you press him, the more you see how disorganized and empty he is. the more he flies into a disorganized rage. >> and rene, one of the things that it is striking is the language is so simple about him being empty and disorganized rage, and everything that the doctor says is something that anyone can observe in donald trump on a daily basis. >> you know, i'm not going to diagnosis donald trump. i'm not going to say he is having a mental breakdown or any of those sorts of things.

what we are seeing, however, is a man who is not used to pressure. you know, i don't get the sense that donald trump has really had to deal with a lot of stresses in his life. now he's got to deal with gun reform, which he has shown no stomach for. he is dealing with what's happening, the situation he created with greenland. he is creating all these situations on top of some very real issues he should be dealing with. and donald trump was never -- he is a man who doesn't react well when he is desperate. and he is desperate. it was great before he was president and he could be on tv and could be funny and all that. these are real issues at play now. and so we've gone from having a barely functional presidency to a full-blown tantrum. >> rick -- >> and i think that's where we are right now. >> yeah. rick, it seems to me that this story, this analysis of donald trump definitely connects to the

impeachment story because when a new democrat every day and today three come out and say i am in favor of an impeachment inquiry, it's hard, even for republicans to say, what? how could you possibly be in favor of that impeachment inquiry about this man? >> lawrence, the only easy day for donald trump is yesterday. they always get worse. he always causes more trouble than he has to. he always piles one thing on to another of this large case that he is making against himself and that's being made against him by others across the spectrum. he is morally and mentally unfit. he continues to do things that do nothing to advance the interests of the united states or protect the rights of the american people. these things are adding up.

i think rene is right. there is a pressure building on him and he feels the economic pressure coming from underneath, the political pressure, the fear of exposure of his taxes and business records, the fear of impeachment. all of these things have ground up slowly and made a man who is already kind of a delicate little flower who is kind of a guy who lived in a tower his whole life, never done a hard day's work, never taken a punch in his life, and he is this spoiled little brat who is now in the white house and he is feeling this pressure growing on him by the minute and he hates it. he really -- he is lashing out. of course, because he is so -- look, the honest truth is donald trump is not a super bright man, but he is very feral player. he recognizes risks when they are approaching him. he feels risk approaching from all directions right now. that's why he is lashing out at everyone and everything and that's why these cognitive deficits that are so in our face

are the time are coming to the fore. that pressure on every president has reached the point to where it's breaking him. >> rene, to the question of impeachment, any real advisor of donald trump would say as soon as there are rumblings of impeachment, as soon as the special prosecutor investigation him, that he should behave as presidential as possible, behave in a way that at least his behavior would be something that people could respect, that people could, you know, could see something presidential in. but he has no idea how to do that. and so when even as impeachment, the impeachment number gets higher and higher in the house of representatives, his behavior just gets wilder and wilder. >> he has no capacity to behave like an adult, let alone presidential. you know, it's not going to happen. anyone who is in the white house who might have been able to keep him on a short leash is gone. and even those people failed at it. so who has the president's ear now? stephen miller. that's what donald trump is

getting. so there is really no chance anything is going to change. >> yeah. and stephen miller does not have any ideas about what to do about any shakiness in the economy right now. >> no. and this idea that donald trump had that he is going to browbeat the fed into doing what he wants or unilaterally change the tax code. i'm sorry. i know that constitution is an inconvenience from time to time, but all these things that are fantasy based in his mind. and the people who are left around him, rene is exactly right, they are the steven millers, the ones that are the boot licker, they will never say no to this man. he loves that no matter how bad it is for the country or for his administration. >> rick wilson and rene graham. thank you both very much. really appreciate you being here. >> thanks, lawrence. and when we come back u.s. allies are now just as concerned about president trump's mental

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the g 8 again by restoring russia's membership. russia was expelled after invading ukraine. yesterday donald trump blamed vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine and annexation of crimea on, who else? president barack obama. he blames hitler's invasion of france on president roosevelt. but no reporter has asked him about that one yet. g7 style summits have been occurring since 1975, and every summit has ended with a joint agreed upon statement issued by all the countries involved. president macron has decided to abandon that policy because of what he calls, quote, a very deep crisis of democracy. to consider the dimensions of that crisis we are joined by thomas friedman, pulitzer prize-winning columnist for "the new york times" and author of "thank you for being late." thank you for joining us.

and on the eve of a summit like this, we want to hear from you. what is your reaction to this first time in history declaring ahead of time there is no sense even trying to form an agreed-upon joint statement? >> it's sad, lawrence, because the atlantic alliance, the g7, which is not exactly part of the atlantic alliance, but the atlantic alliance has been so critical for sharing american values and building global institutions that are in our interest since world war ii. i am a big believer that these institutionsle really matter. the world is the way it is because they exist. if we can't agree on a simple statement like we should be working against climate change at a time when, you know, the polar ice caps are melting, and we are seeing terrible forest fires that are blotting out major cities in brazil, that's really unfortunate. but that's the trump era. >> and president macron didn't

go into detail about the deep crisis of democracy presumably everyone knows what he is talking about. those are words that mean donald trump? >> you know, lawrence, i don't mind having putin back in the g7, make it the g 8 again if he were to actually take steps to reverse his violent seizure of crime era. i think it's better to have him in rather than out. the question trump wants -- in to do what? in to fight climate change more effectively? in to reach agreement on non-interference in different countries' elections? for what purpose does he want him in? and trump never says. >> what do we know about how the leaders of other countries see donald trump at this stage in their dealings with him, especially this weekend when it comes at the end of a week in

which they've heard him call himself the king of israel. they have heard him say he is the chosen one. they have heard all the crazy things that everyone here has heard the president say. >> well, i think there is a general consensus that you are dealing with an america that they have never had before. an america that really doesn't want to lead. an america that looks at something like the european union as if it's a ben tone store in a trump hotel that's not paying enough rent. and i think this is tragic. it's my feeling, lawrence, that both russia's putin and china's xi will be voting for trump in 2020 for this reason, because they know as long as trump is president of the united states, we will be an internal turmoil and chaos and america will have a leader who will never be able to build a global coalition against russia and china. have no doubt about it. both putin and xi will be voting trump in 2020.

>> so even china, even facing the trump tariffs, they would rather deal with the trump tariffs because they see the whole regime, the whole governing regime of donald trump as weakening america? >> right, as a time when china is focused on building a.i. and quantum computing. they want an america that basically can never build a coalition around them, and that basically also can't build a high-speed rail between new york and washington, d.c. it's rather sad, but i think that's what they want. they know democrats are anti-trade, too, so there will be no bargain. >> and the g7, they are just holding their breath for 18 months hoping that election night changes everything in america? >> yeah. i think that basically they understand that this america, they hope it's an aberration and they hope it's only a four-year diversion from an america that believes that these global institutions like the g7 are more important than ever at a

time when we faced a whole set of global issues that require global governance like managing all these global technology platforms now or combatting climate change. all these issues that require global governance, but there is no global government. there are only institutions like the g7, e.u., atlantic alliance. when they don't work for four years at a critical moment in history, we will suffer in the long run. >> what would it mean to it the g7, nato, to the united nations if a new president is sworn in in the next inauguration day? what would it mean to their next meetings after that? >> well, you know, it's really hard to know. obviously, they'd rather have a more traditional president like a george w. bush or a barack obama. but the fact is, look, this is part of a larger dilemma we have. i think we are going into a world where just as average as over for every worker, average is over for every country now. it will be a real struggle going

forward to produce inclusive growth in all of these countries, and it can only be done through global collaboration. all of us smarter than one of us, and i think the need for global collaboration going forward is going to be more intense than ever. so having an america that is ready to play in that game again will be essential for all these countries. >> tom friedman, thank you very much for joining us again tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. coming up, mitch mcconnell seeps to be terrified that democrats are going to win control of the united states senate. so terrified that he has gone so far as to warn the democrats not to get rid of the filibuster when they do take control of the united states senate. great riches will find you when liberty mutual

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was a lousy place for a guy like me who wants to get things done, but this is no time to walk away from the table. i know changing washington is hard, but i want to give it a shot. i'm john hickenlooper, candidate for united states senate. i approve this message and i hope you'll join me in this campaign. >> he is ahead already. a new poll shows john hickenlooper leading cory gardner 53% to 40%. if the democrats pick up colorado, they will only need two more wins to take control of the united states senate and knock mitch mcconnell out of the majority leader's job. charlie cook of the cook political report is out with new analysis this week on the upcoming presidential election and it all boils down to this. a lot can and will happen over the next 15 months, and things can certainly change. but at this point this looks to be an uphill climb for the president's re-election.

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>> joining our discussion, charlie cook editor and publisher of the cook political report and columnist for the "national journal." thank you for joining us tonight. i want to start with your presidential analysis. you are talking about it's an uphill climb for donald trump in re-election. what are the most important numbers that viewers should be looking at in presidential polling now? >> if you look at it, when was the last time you saw a national, a credible national poll that president trump was ahead of joe biden? name one. i can't even remember one. they are tied. tied with biden in florida and behind in every other swing state. think about that. now, of course biden may not win the nomination. somebody else might.

the thing is, biden is the clear leader now and he has a lead in every normal poll, oftentimes double digits, and double digits in many of the swing states. so looks really pretty tough for the president when you look at his core is about 35% is going to vote with him no matter what. 45% is going to vote against him no matter what. and that 20% in the middle, he is not even talking to them. >> and what about the numbers we are seeing that where people are saying definitely? the question of i definitely will not vote for donald trump? that's one of the stronger indicators in polling because people tend not to use that world definitely very lightly. >> exactly. you see somewhere between 32% and 35% that say definitely they will not do it the then maybe another three, four, five that are sort of leaning that general direction. but these are tough, tough, tough numbers. and this is with an economy that

has been pretty goods, but now it looks like it's slowing down. i don't think there will be a recession between now and november of next year. the thing is very little question the economy is going to be slowing down. what will that do to those swing voters, that 20% or so in the middle that's malleable? the ones that are going to determine pretty much the outcome of this election. >> i want to throw up the nbc poll on the question of definitely, combines definitely and probably. definitely/probably vote for trump is 40%. definitely/probably vote for the democrat is 52%. and, charlie, for an incumbent, that strikes me as a very troublesome number. >> oh, absolutely. no question about it. now, the thing is could there be another split decision election where the popular vote goes one way and the electoral college goes the other? sure, that could happen. but rather than a two-point gap, even if it's a three or four-point gap, you know, at some point these are really hard

numbers in terms of the electoral college. so against someone other than hillary clinton, this -- i mean, i think that probably that a lot more to do in 2016 than anything else. >> charlie, the united states senate where mitch mcconnell is out there writing an op-ed in "the new york times" talking about the glories of the filibuter and why the democrats should not get rid of the filibuster, which is something they can only do if they have control of the united states senate, which i guess seems to be on mitch mcconnell's mind these days. >> well, yeah. but remember in his piece in "the new york times" this morning mcconnell had warned democrats, you will -- on the senate floor, you will regret

the day that you get rid of the 60-vote requirement for nominations. guess what? they did. they do regret that. and that's what makes the senate the senate, as opposed to the house of representatives, and that you are supposed to get more broadly acceptable nominations. so the thing is, i think harry reid and democrats made a huge mistake back, what, six years ago when they lowered the bar for below the supreme court level, and i think mcconnell is putting them on notice. this is one time where -- i think they probably should have listened to him the last time. >> i think every democrat in the senate would tell you mcconnell was going to do it if the democrats didn't do it. what do you make of the hickenlooper news? what does that do to colorado?

>> colorado was already going to be one of the top two senate targets for democrats. they were going to be going after martha mcsally in arizona and cory gardner in colorado. both of those were going to be top-tier races no matter what. i think it certainly helps democrats to have hickenlooper rather than a lesser known candidate. those were going to be top candidates anyway. gardner's numbers were already fairly soft, even against less known candidates than john hickenlooper. >> and the arizona most recent poll, democrat mark kelly running ahead of martha mcsally. for the democrats, pretty much all of the polls i'm looking at for the senate have good news for the democrats. >> yes, although we haven't seen a lot of numbers out of alabama. as you pointed out, democrats need a three-seat net gain to get up to 50/50 with the new vice president breaking the tie if they win the white house, but what about alabama? doug jones. there is a pretty good chance that democrats are going to lose that. what that means is that democrats need to win four seats, gross four seats to net three. so let's say they get arizona. let's say they get colorado. i'm sitting in portland, maine, where they are going after susan collins. that's probably the third target.

but after that, particularly if they lose alabama, that means they've got to pick up one someplace else s it going to be david perdue in georgia? tomorrow tillis in north carolina? joanie earnest in iowa? they have to come up with one in one place, particularly if they lose alabama, which is a good chance of that happening. >> what about montana and what about the possibility of bullock dropping out of the presidential race as hickenlooper did following that pattern into the senate race in montana? >> bullock is one where he says, look, i'm an executive. i'm not a legislator. this is a case where i actually believe him, where this is a guy that really doesn't want to join a debating society. over the past -- i with been in washington since 1972 and around

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here is bobby kennedy in 1968 celebrating the greatest victory of his political career in los angeles at the ambassador hotel on the night that he won the california democratic presidential primary. >> i want to thank cesar chavez, who was here a little earlier. [ cheers and applause ] >> and corona, who worked with him and all of those mexican-americans, all supporters of mine. and dolores huerta, an old friend of i mean, who has worked with the union. i appreciate her coming tonight. >> minutes later an assassin shot and killed bobby kennedy as he was leaving the hotel ballroom. no one in that room that night has done more to advance the

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seven children so she obviously didn't have a lot of free time. but in the end she agreed. and workers everywhere are glad that she did. without any negotiating experience dolores helped lead a worldwide boycott and ever since she's fought to give more people a seat at the table. don't wait to be invited, she says. step in there. and on a personal note dolores was very gracious when i told her i'd stolen her slogan, yes, we can. >> and through the dolores

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the always busy dolores huerta just left an event in san francisco at city hall where she was introducing nancy pelosi and making her way out of that event took so long with so many people trying to talk to her, that we are going to be able to reach her only in the car on the way to the tv studio where she was going to join us. we're going to reach dolores by phone in that car. and joining us now is dolores huerta, the cofounder of the united farm workers and founder of the dolores huerta foundation. thank you for joining us by phone, and we'll get you on camera next time. >> thank you very much. >> it's great to hear your voice. tell us, the audience, why you got arrested once again this week, this time in fresno?

>> well, i was there with home care workers who are not getting a living wage. they have been trying for three years to get a contract with the fresno county board of supervisors and in their last negotiations they offered them a 10 cent raise. and they do such hard work caring for people that are disabled, taking care of people that are seniors. they have to cook for them, they have to bathe them, they have to be with them 24/7. and to think the board of supervisors would not even give them any kind of living wage. these supervisors makeover $100,000 a year in their salaries and would not give these home care workers any of kind of a wage. they've been negotiating for three years and could not get a contract. so the workers decided to get arrested, and initially i was not going to get arrested but one of the deputy sheriffs grabbed the beater of that union

-- grabbed him by the neck and started checking him. and i just got so outraged and so angry not only the way these home care workers were treated but the way they were physically assaulting the leader of the union. so when it came time to get arrested, i'm going to also get arrested with them. and it's a shame workers have to go through these lengths to get their voices heard, to make people do the right thing. and, you know, by taking care of people in their homes, these home care workers are actually saving the county over $55,000 a year, but they're not respected. so many of these home care workers are people of color, exfarm workers, people that need to be respected. the working people of our country need to be respected, they need to be getting paid a living wage and we've got to embrace the inequity we have in term of income wages in our

country. >> dolores, we only have a minute left and i want to get to our viewers how you deal with the frustration, the discouragement when things don't go your way and how you've been able to keep it at it despite discouragement and setbacks along the way. >> we know everything that's happening in our country right now, that we've all got to move to action, wave all got to become activists, we've all got to stand up and get involved. nobody's going to do it for us. >> but everyone thinks that, and then when they suffer a few setbacks in activism or their candidate loses, it's very easy for people to get discouraged. what do you say to them? >> well, we can't afford to get discouraged. as caesar used to say the only time we get discouraged is when we quit. we know if we keep on working and as they said, they can cut all the flowers but they can't hold back the spring.

and we are the spring, we are are the gardeners that are to we are the spring, we are the gardners that have to sow the seeds of justice and they will bloom, they will flourish and we will make it happen. >> dolores huerta gets tonight's last word. thank you so much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. that is tonight's "last word." 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight the president set to head to france for the g7 where the white house says he will push for russia to regain its seat at the table. but an important u.s. allies says not so fast. plus, while democrats draw big crowds, new polling shows the drumbeat of crisis and outrage has kept the president's poll