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so i wrote this book. it's called prequel, an american fight against fascism. it has turned out to be kind of unexpectedly topical in the news. i did a book tour for "prequel" this past fall, but i keep getting asked to give more talks about it and given what's going on in the news, i have decided i am going to do a couple more events. i just wanted to tell you on may 26th, he will be at the historic and beloved town hall in providencetown, massachusetts for a special event sponsored by the provincetown bookshop. you can get information about how and where to buy tickets at msnbc.com/prequel, msnbc.com/prequel. that's it. thanks for the indulgence. that's going to do it for me now. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. sunday in provincetown, i can do
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that. >> would you like me to save you a seat? >> how many -- how many of my brothers can i bring? there could be -- could be four of us. we'll work it out. i'll get the exact count. >> lawrence and brothers. all right. i will buy your tickets myself, excellent. >> otherwise known as the gang, yes. okay. >> all right. thank you. >> can't wait. thanks, rachel. >> folks at home, does anybody think the facts code is fair? do you think the wealthy and big corporations need another $2 trillion tax break? >> no. >> i sure don't. i'm going to keep fighting like hell to make it fair.
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>> president biden has been using some of the best lines most effective lines from his state of the union address on the campaign trail, beginning the day after the state of the union. here's how he began his appeal on taxes today in new hampshire. >> republicans oppose everything joe biden is proposing. everything. so the proposals for a tax code that is more fair, depend entirely on our first guest, becoming the next speaker of the house in january. that depends on you, the voters. electing the majority of democrats to the house of representatives. the leader needs only four seats of democrats to elect him
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speaker of the house. he will be the first speaker of the house from new york city which is kind of remarkable. he will be the first black speaker of the house. the constitution has exactly one parliamentary rule for legislation. all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives. re that means, all tax bills. it will be up to speaker jeffries f to guide the biden tax fairness bill through the house of representatives, which includes affordable increases in taxes, only for people making over $400,000 per year and additional increases for billionaires as well as
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increases in corporate taxation that still leaves the rateer lower than it was during the clinton presidency when the economy was thriving. while he is heat it, speaker jeffries will have to guide the rest of the agenda through the house of representatives. if jeffries is not speaker of the house than a republican speaker will continue to either operated do-nothing congress or try to impeach members of the administration or try to take away from the people or things away from the people who joe biden new budget released today would protect. >> many republican friends want to put social security and medicare back on the chopping block again. if anyone tries to cut social security or medicare or raise the age again, i will stop down your >> even this morning, donald trump said cuts were on the
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table again. the bottom line, he is still at it. i won't cut social security or medicare. >> here is what donald trump mp said today about cutting social security, medicare and medicaid. >> first, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements and cutting. >> later, the campaign issued a statement claiming that donald trump was only ltalking about cutting waste in those programs. i know everyone thinks there is waste in all government programs that no one has ever identified any in this program that can be cut or in medicare. it is worth comparing to private health insurance. 17% of the premiums that you pay , are not used for healthcare.
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they are used purely for administrative costs, executive salaries and for insurance companies, that includes advertising cost. massive advertising cost. in medicare where the cost is zero, the government run program , everything the republicans have always told you that would lead you to expect that the administrative cost must be much higher than private ri insurance. again, the administrative cost, including advertising are 17%. in medicare, the administrative cost are 2%. making medicare simply the most efficient health insurance program in the world. donald trump is lying about cutting waste in the proof that
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he is lying is that in his four years he never once attempted to cut any waste from medicare because his people couldn't find any. he never attempted to cut waste from social security because people could not find any nor did he try to cut any from medicare. what he said about cutting those programs was very clear. of course his campaign knows it was a stupid thing to say so the campaign is trying to pretend that he meant something else. he has said stupider things. in a new book, john kelly tells the story. he said hitler did some good things and i said what and he said hitler rebuilt the economy and i said you can
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never say anything good about a guy. nothing. he recounted that trump expressed aberration for hitler's hold on senior officers. he would ask about loyalty issues and how when i pointed out the german generals as a group, were not loyal and in fact tried to assassinate him ai few times and he didn't know that. after visiting with him on friday, the hungarian prime minister said trump will not give up any in the ukrainian/russian war. it is obvious that ukraine cannot stand on its own feet if americans don't give money and weapons, along with the europeans than the war is over. the same thing was true euof britain when hitler invaded all of western europe and after conquering france was determined
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too soon to have troops marching into london the way they marched into paris. the only way the british survived is with military supplies delivered to them by the president of the united states. franklin delano roosevelt who was quoted at the beginning of the address on thursday in a speech that president roosevelt made, explaining to the people why we needed to help the british survived hitler's attack. the speech was a year before the united states was attacked by japan and then actually entered world war ii to as a participant. if donald trump had been in the presidency when the british needed help to survive, hitler would have won. we know his father was a
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simplified -- sympathizer. donald trump admires every current head of state in the world who exhibits hitler tendencies like kim jong un and latimer putin. and in his way victor -- and hungry. the day after he praised him for the dictator -like behavior, joe biden said this in georgia. >> here is a guy kicking off his campaign. it can tell you a lot a lot about a person who he keeps company with. yesterday he e was hosting at h club, victor or bond. he said he doesn't think democracy works, calling it a fantastic leader. seriously. he bragged about calling him a king and he called putin and said do what you want.
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i am not making this up. he said he wants to be at the tater and i believe him. >> leading off for our discussion, the democratic leader. it is an honor to have you join us. thank you. president biden released his budget that looks like a big job for speaker jeffries, if you get enough democrats into the house next year. that agenda becomes speaker jeffries agenda. what for you are the most important things you believe would have to get done by the house of representatives. >> we look forward to continuing to be supportive of president biden and his forward- looking agenda. the budget would continue that effort to grow the economy from
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the middle out and the bottom of with a focus on working families and middle-class families and low woincome families. l that budget will continue the works of lower-cost for everyday americans who have made progress in that area as it relates to driving down the price of prescription drugs. sc as mentioned, that work needs to continue. we look forward to partnering at on that. as indicated, in the context, we need to protect and strengthen social security and medicare, not try to eradicate it which is what donald trump and the extreme republicans would like to do. >> could she share, what it was like to be in the room for that address? i know they are not all the same. that one was extraordinary in
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the way the president made it interactive. there were so many lines that he came up with because of what he was getting negative feedback noises from the republican side. >> it was a hostile environment that he was dealing with in terms thof delivering the state of the union address with marjorie taylor greene and others who are completely out of control and behaving in a manner unbecoming of a member of congress. president biden new what he was dealing with. it was high- stakes and intense. it was also an electric environment. his remarks were strong and serious and substantive. they penetrated. he kept it at a high level from the very beginning, starting by referencing fdr and the dynamics in this country during the start of world war ii. he
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stayed at a high level all the way to t the end. >> i want to listen to more of what the president said about the tobillionaires tax. >> unit with the average rate is? 8.2%. anybody want to trade that rate ? i am serious. if we just charge them i had, 25%. not the highest, 25%. do you know how much that would raise? $400 billion. imagine what we could do from cutting that deficit to providing for child care and healthcare to continue to provide the military with all they need. >> as you know, we have been on a cycle for decades where republicans come into office
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with republican assistance and they enact dunning tax cuts that dramatically increase the deficit and the national debt. n that is followed by a democratic administration or president who feels the responsibility to rebuild fiscal sanity by increasing taxes. in that cycle, over the decades, i haven't heard a democrat find the case or make the case for the democratic policy, better than i heard joe bidend and now on the campaign trail since then. as the constitution requires, all tax legislation begins under your jurisdiction. in what you are hearing about the approach to taxes, is that
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possible? >> i believe so. we support his vision for making sure that we have a tax code that is centered on economic growth and growing that middle-class and all americans that aspire to be part of it and through things like the enhanced and improved child tax credit which was part of the plan and republicans allowed it to lapse. we want to restore it in the most robust fashion. it was an incredible tax cut for working families and low income families and for middle- class families, in terms of returning money into their pockets that could be used for day to day expenses. it was a spectacular success. when they have the ability to address tax code issues, what
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was the response? the gop tax scam were 83% of benefits went to the wealthiest 1% and saddled our children and grandchildren with $2 trillion worth of debt, unnecessarily to subsidize. president biden is leaning into this issue. more importantly, it is the right issue for the people in terms of tax fairness. one of your leading predecessors, tip o'neill, used to say all politics is local. he met he had a massive majority of democrats. they all ran on local issues, whether being elected in alabama, alaska or anywhere else. he never tried to impose or
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suggest a national message. has that changed? surely the races involve local issues. is there a new balance in which those races also have a unifying national message. >> we have a topline lens in terms of how we are conducting ourselves. i think that unifies the caucus from progressives to blue dogs and all points in between whichn is we will continue to put people over politics and focus on kitchen table bread-and- butter issues like lowering cost , better paying jobs, growing that middle-class and keeping communities safe. we have said from the beginning, we will find bipartisan common ground on any issue, whenever and wherever possible, in order
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to make life better for the people. at the same period, we will push back against the extremism whenever necessary. they are extreme in every way possible. they want to criminalize abortion care and get rid of ivf and impose a nationwide band. we improve -- believe in the reproductive health care decisions. you want to protect and strengthen social security and medicare. they want to end it. that stis extreme. we believe in democracy. former president of indicated he wants to be at the tater. by their extremism, they have in some ways nationalized the stakes. because they are so out of control, we are going to continue to put people over politics. >> now just one election away from being speaker jeffries, thank you very much for starting off our discussions tonight. coming up, america's most t
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business fraud and hush money payments that he made to the star stormy daniels to purchase her silence about an evening they spent together. according to stormy daniels, having donald trump's version of sex in a hotel room , weeks after his third wife gave birth to his last child. the phrase hail mary player hail mary pass was born in october of 1922 during a notre dame football game against georgia tech. notre dame won 13-3. before each of the two plays that notre dame ran for touchdowns, a player stopped and as a group, said the catholic prayer hail mary. it is unlikely donald trump's criminal defense lawyers and donald trump know the words. in fact, there is no evidence that he knows who mary wise.
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he does know who stormy daniels is and is now trying to get out of a criminal trial about his payoff scheme claiming that the supreme court consideration on his legal claim that he and all presidents are immune from prosecution from any crimes they may commit should delay the hush money trial until after the supreme court decided that issue. he is the cohost of the podcast prosecuting donald trump and co- author of the new best-selling book, the trump indictments. historic charging documents with commentary. also with us, the former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. they are both msnbc legal analyst.
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the judge has given the prosecution until wednesday of this week to respond to the request to delay or block the trial about those hush money payments. what are you anticipating as a result. >> there is no question the judge will request this -- reject this. it is worth noting that this motion is way out of time, meaning the schedule is one that did not permit this. the judge said he would accept it. there is no question he will deny it. on the big picture, this is not the action of someone that thinks he is innocent, he is doing to our seeking to avoid a
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day in court while prosecutors are seeking their day in court. small picture, the reason it is so frivolous among many reasons is the charges are not related to anything he did as president. when you look at immunity, you look at whether the charges relate to something that was done as president. that is to get even into the ballpark of thing they could possibly be immune to. he is conflating the idea of charges with evidence that comes from tweets or statements while he was president. that is an evidentiary issue whether those statements are relevant. any claim of immunity doesn't go to that claim, i would only go to the charges.
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there is simply not anything related to his official asked to state the obvious, paying hush money to a star is not a presidential act. >> sometimes that is easier than other nights. the last line is very clear to students tonight. choice, the deadline for filing motions like this was february 22. the supreme court did not agree to hear the immunity claim until february 27. that claim is based on another case. there argument would be we didn't know that the deadline that the supreme court would be hearing this, this is important information. the deadline should be flexible. >> that is why the judge is being generous.
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and her was on target when he said it is a frivolous motion. characterizing it as a hail mary is too generous. it really is crazy town. the argument isn't even that he is entitled to immunity, he actually waived that argument when he made it related to his efforts to remove this case from state to federal court. the federal judge said absolutely no immunity. trump initially appealed and then he dismissed that appeal. he can't raise that argument but he is desperate to get the benefit of the supreme court. he made this bizarre argument that immunity bars evidence in essence of any act he took as president. it is i think over the edge on frivolity. >> how long would it take to
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deal with the ischemic how many days? >> not to be snarky but i am not sure days is the correct term. the reason you are hearing us, you can really take what she said more than what i say to the bank. the reason you are hearing such dismissiveness, for lawyers you don't read this and think it is grounded in anything. it is so frivolous. i would be very surprised if there isn't an eminent ruling. then to do something like that he needs to get a say. everyone is thinking courts could be fickle. it is hard to imagine that
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the payment of donald trump's $91 million judgment against him in the case won by e. jean carroll in which she proved that donald trump her. it might be just a coincidence that there was an obscure position in the administration. and on the day when chubb insurance made this bat, and no doubt will not appear in advertising. donald trump proved to the shareholders what a terrible idea it is to suit court the appeal of the defamation verdict. today, donald trump appears to have defamed and lied about e. jean carroll once again. >> i have no idea who she is except one thing, i was sued.
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from that point on i said that is crazy. i got charged. i was given a false accusation and had to post a $91 million bond. >> chubb had fair warning that donald trump was going to take another $91 million risk in lying about e. jean carroll today because , he also lied about her on saturday. >> $91 million, based on false accusations made about me by a woman that i knew nothing about , i didn't know and never heard of. i know nothing about her. >> still with us, andrew weissman and joyce -- he is doing it again. what happens next? >> trump is treating this like he now has a license to continue to defame e. jean
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massive judgments, how many of those people have been supported by the chubb insurance company in a situation like this. the company is in effect ensuring that donald trump or they will pay the verdict if e. jean carroll wins on appeal. it is probably something they have never done in history. >> there is a reputational hit. there is the concern that they essentially have given him license and he feels more leeway to continue the ongoing attack. i think there is an unwritten story to why they are doing
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what they are doing. what were the negotiations. were there promises? were there third parties that were guaranteeing in cosigning a bond. what was it that led them to do this. there is something about this not seeming plausible. there is a concern about, did he really have the assets free and clear that weren't already pledged to others to put up that would give chubb enough security given all of the downsides. this ongoing nature of the attacks tells you, who he is and to quote history, this is at long last how he left no sense of decency.
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it tells you everything. it was sexual assault and repeated defamation to continue doing this. >> thank you both. coming up, joe biden has a huge campaign cash advantage over donald trump that has been burning up cash paying defense lawyers and now the campaign is off to a big head start in tv advertising. this could help other democrats up for reelection in those states, including bob casey who is running for reelection to the senate in pennsylvania. he likes to show off that friendship by calling him bobby. in her face, hands, and feet called tardive dyskinesia, or td.
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that worsens over time. sound like you? call your cardiologist, and ask about attr-cm. the biden/harris campaign launched a $30 million tv campaign. >> i am not a young guy. here's the deal, i understand how to get things done. i led the country through covid. today we have the strongest economy in the world.
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$35 a month for seniors. for four years, donald trump tried to pass a law and failed. i got it done. now we are rebuilding america. the future depends on it. donald trump took away the freedom to choose. i am determined to make roe v wade the law of the land again. donald trump believes the job of the president is to take care of donald trump. i believe that is to fight for you. the american people. >> the campaign also announced a month of action where president biden and vice president harris will visit every battleground state by the end of march. he made his fourth visit this year on friday to pennsylvania, a state that he won in 2020 by 80,555 votes. while in pennsylvania, he reiterated the call for
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congress to pass bob casey's legislation that would penalize corporations for selling smaller amounts of products while not lowering the price. >> they are charging you more and more for less and less. that is why we are cracking down. it looks like companies that they thought you wouldn't notice. it is not a joke. there was a tv thing on. same price. i am serious. congress needs to stop the bill to stop shrink inflation.
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>> bob casey of pennsylvania, the longest serving democratic senator. he is running for the senate in reelection. to some, it will sound like too small of an issue for a president or senator to be concerned about how many potato chips in the bag. what is at stake. >> what is at stake is companies have been shrinking product but not the price. that is the basic ripoff. on a larger sense, it is about a much greater problem. big corporations jacking up prices. the cost of food and price of household items and raising those prices above cost.
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corporate profits in the years between july 2022 2022, profits were up 75 percent. that is a ripoff on a grand scale. what we need is to pass legislation so the trade commission can investigate price gouging. that is another bill that i have. we have to crack down on these corporations. it is ripping people off and it's about time we took action. >> you see those campaign ads because pennsylvania is a battleground state. not going to see them in los angeles or new york. does the enthusiasm that they try to build try to help
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candidates like you running for senate in those states. >> no question. on every one of those issues, i am on his side when it comes to voting to reduce the cost of insulin. i voted for the infrastructure bill. voting to make sure we can invest in infrastructure. my opponent, the republican candidate that just endorsed donald trump, he is on the other side. he wants to repeal the bill and legislation that gave the power to negotiate lower drug cost and enshrined in the law to insulin. on every issue, i am on one side and he is on the other. these issues are front and center. i hope that voters out there,
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if they are with us i hope they go to bob casey.com. >> you are running against a rich republican. to do a bus tour of all 67 counties in the state. on saturday he promised to live on the bus until november. that night he flew back home to connecticut on a private jet. >> are you just getting lucky with these opponents that can do this? >> it is bizarre. when he arrived in pennsylvania to run for office, he had grown up in the stadium and came back decades later. when he arrived in pennsylvania to be a candidate, to run for the senate in a primary, he kept telling people i live in pennsylvania and then telling
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them that in 2023. he lied to the people about where he lives. the associated press caught him and that. people should know that and more and more people do know that. when it comes to this current iteration, when you say you're going to have a bus tour and spend all of this time in pennsylvania, you shouldn't be flying back and forth to your home. it gets down to the basic question of integrity. when people elect a senator, they want to know that senator is someone rooted in the state and understands the challenges families face, trying to pay for the higher cost. he has had real trouble connecting. people don't get a sense that he understands the struggles. he is being financed by billionaires that have already
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