thanks, rachel. all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldn t believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinion, and then, getting it today was also shocking because the stuff that we and others pointed out in it, that could easily have been cut, was still in there. the quoting, you know, these guys from the 16 hundreds in england, who thought witches should be tried and executed. the witch trial moral authorities are still in this opinion. they are still being quoted as guidance for samuel alito. yeah, justice alito, and the majority, they were not taking pains to make sure that this would be broadly
and i think that s, i think, part of the reason that you ve had so much discussion today about what s next, because if they re willing to do this on this, which they knew would be the most divisive possible thing in the country, obviously, they would do it on things for what they think they had even more leeway to operate. that, we don t care element to this is, i think, gonna be a profoundly important part of the way this changes the country. and when you think of the presidents who made this happen, beginning with ronald reagan, but more importantly now, george h. w. bush, because he has clarence thomas on the supreme court, and the reagan justice there right now. but from george w. bush, to ronald reagan and donald trump, it is just a statistic statistical likelihood without even getting into their life histories. it s a statistical likelihood that it least one of them has personally, in some sense, participated in an abortion, possibly by paying for it. as is very commo
and you won t believe who border patrol caught this weekend. and nicole. amazon alexa s [inaudible] replicates the voices of your loved ones, including the dead the ones? your privacy at risk. but first, a fox news alert, abortion activists protesting the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade for a third day now. but the protests are getting more violent from rioters vandalizing buildings to criminals defacing the vermont statehouse, to arsonists setting a colorado pregnancy center on fire. the supreme court decision gives the decision about abortion laws back to the states, and stacey abrams, who is running for governor again in georgia, could play a role in those decisions in the future. but today on fox news sunday, she refused to say if she believes there should be any limits on abortion. watch. do you support my limitation on abortion, or does it do you think that women should have the right to have an abortion all the way up to nine monthsesom
and people are advocating for you to have an abortion as opposed, nicole, to giving you the choice to choose whatever you want. it s terrible, and it honestly seems like there s a moral decay that has is set in in our society. and you ve seen this across the country because you have these protests, these rah raging, angry protests. people are angry because there are now limits in some states on abortion. the supreme court did not ban abortion in this country. your state legislature, if you live in one of those states, banned abortion. i know you re going to be shocked that alexandria ocasio-cortez said something outrageous. i want to get your take. [laughter] the thing a lot of people don t like to talk about is the fact that not every democrat is pro-choice, okay? so the ones that aren t, we really need to reassess if it s appropriate for them to continue to serve in 2022. so if you re a democrat and you are pro-life and you are for
some concern a moderate, oh, you re out, you need to be out. what s the second word there? choice. what do the democrats and the hard left want to remove? your choice. this is about the lie that we ve talked about, the pushing narrative. to your point, they didn t ban abortion. there s a 151-week limit 15-week limit before them x states will decide. stacey abrams is one of the biggest frauds in this, but she s an example of this constant lie that s being pushed out. she s gone from i was governor of georgia, i should be governor of georgia to being a leftist organizer who s made herself rich at the expense of georgians while lying about hair choices. they have chosen in georgia, that s how our system works we re a constitutional republic and from that people make a decision that their legislators represent. we delegate that power to them. that s why this country works well, not mob rule. yeah. and while we re on pollices here, i know this person, the former president, it s