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Show, money, power politics. the gop's controversial tax bill moving forward with the senate opening formal debate on the measure after a 52-48 party line vote. the senate could hold a vote on the bill as early as tonight. are you ready for this? joining me now, the one, the only, lawrence o'donnell, host of msnbc's the last word. also the author of the new book looks like the perfect christmas gift "playing with fire, the 1968 election and the transformation of american politics." lawrence, welcome. >> it's the perfect christmas gift for aging hippies like me who want to relive 1968, the most...

Became permanent and unrelenting then. we used to have liberal republicans in 1968. and literally the last liberal republican standing on a republican convention stage was the mayor of new york city john lindsay who had the insulting -- he was insulted by given the duty of seconding the vice presidential nomination of spiro agnew and that was the last liberal standing on a republican convention stage. >> my goodness, lawrence o'donnell, thank you so much. christmas, hanukkah, kwanzaa, new year's gift, got to get this thing. >> aging hippies. >> aging hippies. the hottest new thing. see lawre...

Economy, we talk about health care. we have student loan debt. these are the things that bother us when we go home. these are the things we are thinking about when we go to sleep. these are the issues we should be focused on. how to live to the next day. are we going to have the resources before we can think about recreational use of marijuana. i think there are uses for medical reasons. i mean there's research out there to support that. making it a big issue takes all this attention away from what really matters most. >> i wonder if it's the aging hippies that care. >> listen, in my mind, the...

Attacked anti-sharia law protesters holding rallies across the country. governor, i got beat up a little bit for a monologue blaming the left but these are left-wing protesters getting more and more violent. >> mike: berkeley was once the center of the free speech movement. when i was a teenager, it was where people were writing to make sure other people could be heard. now they are writing so that people can't be heard. i'm wondering, where are those aging hippies, those once we get free part d medicare drugs who ought to be mellowed out enough to be able to say hey, kids. we were fighting fo...