do it for us tonight thanks very much for being here now, it is time for the last word. with the great lawrenc o donnell. good evening good evening, rachel. you know, when i heard elizabeth warren say that sh wants banking to be boring, thought mission accomplished my entire life, i ve considere those two words have alway gone together, banking and boring and of course, until one o them fails and so, here we are. listen, you are either person who is excited by the movement, or you are lulle asleep by it i mean, yeah i took a lot of economics in college. and definitely, like, put in m hours in terms of learning it. but i can t say it ever move me or give me feelings that said, on days like this you ve got to i mean, you need somebody like elizabeth warren, somebody who s like katie porter, who i on our air earlier tonight, to both explain what s going on but you also, i, think point the finger at the people who did wrong here, that got us to trauma like we ve had over th
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speeches, two very different messages to the world. the dramatic split screen as russia s war hits an inflection point. the american president in europe, defending democracy. democracy is the world stand guard over freedom today, tomorrow and forever. his russian counterpart, defending his illegal invasion of ukraine. they are responsible for the escalation of the situation in ukraine. for the huge numbers of casualties. at the center of it all, alliances. some steadfast. some dangerous. nuclear threats and a devastating war nearly a year old with no end in sight. appetites of the autocrat cannot be appeased. they must be opposed. this hour, christiane amanpour interviews polish president duda. what needs to be done to ensure what you say is ukraine s victory in this war and boris johnson joins me with his take on where putin takes this war next. this was a war of choice that he initiated. it was his vicious, non-provoked attack on ukraine. we want to
thing. the pentagon briefing has begun, let s go there. the pentagon for a variety of reasons our normal call-in options will not be available, for those that have had to call in, we apologize. we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your patience and extend our thanks to department of air force for using airmen s hall for temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a productive series of meetings in the republic of korea in the philippines, the secretary and his counterpart reaffirmed measures for deterrence on the korean peninsula, and pledge to closely cooperate regarding assets in the future, as well as further expand and bolster level and scale of combined exercises and training. in the philippines, secret
she is urging independent-minded democrats to do the same. the former congress from and announced her departure in a series of tweets in a video posted this morning. i can no longer remain in today s democratic party that is under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoking antiwhite racism. who actively worked to undermine our god-given freedoms that are enshrined in our constitution, who are hostile to people of faith and spirituality. who. who demonized the police to protect but protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding americans, who believe in the open border, who weaponized the national security state to go after their political opponents and above all who are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. i believe in the government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. unfortunately today the democratic party does not. instead it stands for a gover