national political reporter. that is our show for tonight. time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. lawrence, i m gobsmacked by some of these numbers. i m just gonna leave it to you while i scratch my head. ali, you know that thing happens once in a while where one of our great guests really is getting warmed up right when we have to go to commercial break because that s life on commercial television? that happened last week with yale professor david blight, who is an expert on the 14th amendment. he knows everything about how it came to be, the congressional debate about it. we are bringing him back tonight to finish his thoughts about that. that is worth watching because the most important amendment nobody ever thought about six months ago, and this is worth staying and listening to. certainly not thought about in this context. and he will follow harvard law professor laurence tribe, also an expert on constitutional law and the 14th amendment, who will give us
s junior senator democrat john fetterman tweeted to new jersey s senior democratic senator robert menendez, resign as a perfect christmas present for the people of new jersey and the united states senate. senator fetterman, the first of what became 31 democratic senators who called for robert menendez to resign after he was indicted in september best to proceeding indictment october. senator menendez has not resigned and he isn t facing a he is facing off new indictment accusing the senator and his wife of participating in a bribery scheme involving the government of qatar in addition to similar charges he already faces involving the government of egypt. today s superseding and