[Music] What if I told you that more arguments, not fewer, might be the thing that saves America. I spent years in the courtroom listening to people argue, really argue. As a judge here in Tampa, I saw lawyers going head-to-head over highstakes cases.They had different facts, different law, different arguments, and fiercely different views about what justice requires. But the courtroom is built for that. It's a space where everybody expects to come and make their argument and ultimately reach a conclusion.N ...

Hey Helen, do you remember back in CO when Trump made that weird statement suggesting that injecting disinfectant might be a potential cure to the pandemic. Yeah, Luna, I vividly remember how people actually believed him. I mean, looking back at the absurdity, it's easy to laugh, but at the time, it had serious consequences that could have been disastrous.Public confusion, media frenzy, and even cases of poisoning. We can all agree that the CO 19 pandemic was a time of fear. It was a time of hysteria and es ...

I am in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. I'm in West Morland County, which is a county that Donald Trump won in November with about 64% of the vote. There's about a thousand people behind me in front of the county courthouse. It's been mostly a peaceful protest. A lot of signs, a lot of chanting. Hey, hey, ho, ho. Donald Trump has got to go. USA, USA, USA, USA. the fact that he's having this parade today and wasting what they're saying is going to be $45 million on this parade when there are people in this country ...

Well, outrage over Donald Trump using the military as pawns in a manufactured crisis in Los Angeles is building just hours before Donald Trump intends to abuse the military again to celebrate, as Jen said, himself. Donald Trump is throwing a multi-million dollar military parade for the Army's 250th birthday, which just so happens to coincide with his 79th birthday. But that parade will be overshadowed by the more than 2,000 protest events planned in cities across the country to declare no kings in America. ...

The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Jen, I am in the middle of uh Judge Charles Briar's opinion uh that is a total victory for Gavin Newsome as we heard uh the governor uh telling us uh during your hour and of course you've reported that the Trump administration is already appealing this. Uh but as you read it, as you get through it, it it's very hard to find any space for appeal uh in this decision. And of course, we will also be covering the breaking news uh from Israel tonight about t ...

“[Creating a society on Mars] would be a new frontier and an opportunity to rethink the whole nature of government, just as was done in the creation of the United States.I would suggest having direct democracy. People vote directly on things, as opposed to representative democracy. Representative democracy, I think, is too subject to special interests and a coercion of the politicians and that kind of thing.So, I'd recommend that there's just direct democracy.”Elon Musk ...

Today was really about a test of democracy and today we passed the test. We the people passed the test. I was just 48 hours ago giving a speech almost to the minute talking about some of the enduring principles of our founding fathers who in response to monarchy in response to King George set out to frame a new construct to elevate and support individual freedom liberty.They created a system of checks and balances. A separation of power, co-equal branches of government, framework took the best of Greek demo ...

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Welcome, Senator. Um, thanks for having me. Your reaction, your thoughts to the day. Well, I mean, listen, this is got to be put in context. Donald Trump has made it very clear that he is going to use violence in order to try to intimidate people away from protests, that he is going to encourage violence uh when it is being used on his behalf. And this is a triedand-rue authoritarian tactic. Um, what happened today is absolutely outrageous. Um we're all collea ...

It is unacceptable that a United States senator in his own home state, elected by millions of people, went to ask a question for his constituents to get an answer and was brutally thrown to the ground and handcuffed. That is wrong. And I cannot believe that we don't have senators on both sides of the aisle calling this out as outrageous.This is what a democracy is about. Mr. . President, Mr.. President, it is about us coming to the United States Senate, speaking out, asking questions, getting information so ...

What's happening right now is very different than anything we've seen before. On Saturday morning, when federal agents jumped out of an unmarked van near a Home Depot parking lot, they began grabbing people. A deliberate targeting of a heavily Latino suburb.A similar scene played out when a clothing company was raided downtown. In other actions, a US citizen nine months pregnant was arrested, a four-year-old girl taken, families separated, friends quite literally disappearing. In response, everyday Angeleno ...