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national political reporter. that is our show for tonight. time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. lawrence, im gobsmacked by some of these numbers. im 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 thats life on commercial television? that happened last week with yale professor david blight, who is an expert on t...

lawrence, im gobsmacked by some of these numbers. im just gonna leave it to you while i scratch my head. aly you >>, know that thing happens once in awhile where one of our great guests guests really is getting warmed up right when we have to go to commercial break because thats 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....

african american history course with someone at the center of it all. i am jonathan capehart. this is the sunday show. >> president biden is having to pullens repairs to mark the one year anniversary of russia invading ukraine. this is a tense time for growth both relations as right around the world has continued to ratchet. up secretary of state antony blinken and his chinese counterpart met on the sidelines of the munich security conference saturday. it was a administrations first fa...

ideas around which america is built, it was abraham lincoln. >> politicians recognized the power that his name still has and use it. >> and that vision of lincolns of a generous, inclusive america has driven this country for more than 200 years. >> president lincoln not only understood the heartbreak of his country, he also understood the cost of sacrifice. >> abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. the president said, and i quote, if my name ever goes down into history, ...

Jon Grinspan has written an excellent book about true believers, those who, in the words of Eric Hoffer, held a "readiness to die and a proclivity for united action."

In rounding up millions of people, Trump invites internment and mistreatment based on background.

The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation

A review of “The Political Theory of the American Founding” by Thomas G. West.

Today's Water Cooler

Government and tried to stay in office. now, if indeed his lawyers can win in court on the definition of section three of the 14th amendment, then it is as if we are going back and erasing the very reason it was put there in the first place, which, to the radical republicans who wrote it, the original republicans, in 1866, they were trying to prevent a new slave power. a new organized attempt to create a slave holding republic. they were trying to prevent a new confederacy of some kind that woul...