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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 i...

lawrence, i'm gobsmacked by some of these numbers. i'm 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 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 back tonight finishes thoughts about that. >> that is worth watching because the...

In colorado, are not really arguments about section three of the 14th amendment and why conservatives and liberals alike have concluded that it applies here. they're basically arguments against the constitution. their arguments say the constitution of the united states made a big mistake in telling officials of the united states, especially a president, that if they take an oath to support the constitution and then turned against it and engage in treachery against the constitution, insurrection against it, then they can't run again. that provision just should not have been there, because it is...

But she was right in suspending the effect of her decision pending an appeal to the superior court of maine, recognizing that she doesn't have unilateral authority to make this decision. >> donald trump's new main lawyer is leaning on the statutes in maine, saying that those statutes only give the secretary of state authority to do things like make sure he has enough signatures to be on the ballot, requires thousands of signatures, make sure his address is correct, kind of clerical things like that in his application to be on the ballot. and then the trump lawyer says, the secretary had no sta...

They can also start by reading chapter two of the book the second founding. it's called toward equality. it's a single chapter on, how do these parts of the 14th amendment come about? they can read that in 20 minutes. then they can go spend hours on the great debates of 1866. and they should especially learn the speeches by john bingham, it was bingham who voiced that quote i use the other day, put them in terror of their laws. that was bingham, and by the way, bingham was an anti slavery genuine abolitionist republican from eastern ohio. almost over to pittsburgh. he never made it into the se...