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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...

They are simply inventing a principle that they hope a trump friendly supreme court can accept. special prosecutor jack smith's 82 page brief to the appeals court describes what is at stake this way. the defendants sweeping immunity claim threatens to license presidents to commit crimes to remain in office. the founders did not intend and would never have countenanced such a result. jack smith says that if the appeals court accepts the trump argument, then that would give immunity to, quote, a president who accepted bribes in exchange for directing a lucrative government contract to the payer,...

In jail and a lot of this as we're seeing immunity deals granted to the national inquirer head and of course the former cfo of the trump organization what you make of that. let's get the read on how he reads all of this former white water prosecutor robert ray when you grant someone an immunity deal, obviously they feel they have something they can share with you that would make it worthwhile, but it can also encourage maybe just a false story, but your thoughts? >> i was always reluctant to grant immunity deals, because of course you have really no leverage over the person that you grant immu...