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Today of all days. happy valentines day. that is it for us tonight. well see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. good evening. lawrence >> good evening, alex. and those 100 judges are -- a really big joe biden and ron klain accomplishment. ron klain having worked the judiciary committee with joe biden when he was chairman and the business of confirming those judges. ron klein told me about is last week of working for the white house that hes their they ar...

Weve got a story about him coming up stealing a dead dogs money. i mean, it actually gets worse. well have that in just a moment, but richard haass, given everything were talking about, can you talk about the global implications given that some of these extreme crazies, if i could use the word, are now in power, and despite over the debt limit is getting dangerous lis serious? ? >> a couple reactions. one is the united states is the worlds oldest functioning democracy. what this does is in many ...

>> the hysteria part was referring specifically to what president biden did the other day. which is basically trying to set the election up as a choice. you can elect democrats or you can end american democracy. so what we heard from democrats following the presidents lead was a lot of this talk about democracy is on the ballot. it is under threat. we might not have a functioning democracy after next tuesday. that kind of talk. it is pretty extreme extreme, but it is fairly characteristic of the...

Committed to the constitution. senator lee has failed that test. he betrayed the document that i think also the american republic, and hes got to be held accountable. most utahans are united around that fact and united around the need for a senator representing us to work across party lines to solve problems. and that doesnt happen unless we have a functioning democracy. senator lee has worked very hard to tear it down. >> you look at the polling averages. you certainly have closed the gap. sena...

Minnesota, nevada. talking about trump-aligned candidates whole reason for running seems to turn over elections if their team doesnt win. a basic problem for a functioning democracy. we can appreciate those with integrity. georgias republican secretary of state rafsenburger. we cant assume that will happen. a common sense solution to the problem. american should have all non-partisan election administration. no business overseeing elections if you have a rooting interest in the outcome. speaking...

That wasnt surprising at all. i think it will continue to boil for sometime between the presidents lawyers an congress. and i do agree someone said this earlier, that this is going to be delay, delay, delay. no doubt about it. that is the tactic from the former presidents side. so i think that is what we could expect. i dont think well see the former president testifying before the election coming up. and once congress swip switches in january, if the republicans prevail, youll probably never se...

>> and keep them for 18, months, what was he doing? why didnt you just give them? back theres no answer for that. and on this point of the threat, it is striking to me. people ask me about politics i say look, one of the paradoxes here, one of the most difficult things about preserving democracy, that most voters are gonna vote on things like inflation or choice. they will be focused on issues on a day-to-day lives generally. its gonna be hard to get to get people to care about democracy as a vo...

In recent weeks there have been rumors that 86-year-old Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ill.

Least, do with they can to respond to with the court trusted. >> especially one of the people that got arrested yesterday. you know, sounds, yeah, a lot of reporters are asking, why. dolly just laid it out. you brought it home. look, we are the majority. were not functioning as a representative democracy. were just not. i think we have serious questions about what lawmakers are to do about. that were engaging a very robust discussions are now about white court reform would look like. at the end ...

Functioning democracy, then whats our future? thats pretty important. >> and it certainly is. congresswoman, i want to ask you one other thing before we gont the capitol police and what theyre sort of -- their motive could be in putting out that statement. obviously as you point out, capitol police members died or injured in this attack, yet they put out this statement saying they dont see anything problematic about that video the day before. what do you think the motive is? is that they are not...