americans who are worried about these issues. it is important read. it s a book that everyone needs to read as we talk about all the others. this is the thing that matters. it s very yellow. josh green, congratulations on publication day, my friend. thank you for the book. that is our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word, with lawrence o donnell. good evening, my friend lawrence. good evening, alex. we have professor andrew weissmann we have professor laurence tribe from , we have glenn kirschner who so valuable was in the room today. during this argument during which i think even donald trump knows the whole thing collapsed. the defense that could save him, the immunity defense, collapsed before his eyes. when you are arguing about navy seal commandoes being able to assassinate your political rivals, i think you are not winning. i am a lame person, i only went to tv law school, i can t wait to be taught somewhere in your hour, but by layman s opinion
the condition precedent argument that there is only liability, criminal liability for a former president, if that president has been impeached and convicted. that is wrong for textual, structural, and historical reasons and a host of practical ones, one of which i ll start with, to amplify the point. it would mean that if a former president engages in an assassination, selling pardons, these kind of things, and then isn t impeached and convicted, there is no accountability for that, for the individual. and that is frightening. joining us now is professor lawrence tribe, who has taught at harvard law school for five decades and is an appeals court practitioner of great success in the supreme court. professor tribe, i want to begin with where the court began today, which is on the question of jurisdiction. do they even have the current jurisdiction to hear this