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that's our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening lawrence. we are joined by a former clerk for supreme court justice samuel alito who says justice alito should recuse himself from the trump cases. that clerk will join us to make her case. >> i'm eager to hear that clerk's argument for something i agree with. >> i think it will sound familiar. >> i will be watching. >> thanks alex. >> have a good show. breaking defendant trump news of the night is that donald trump has to give up his guns. donald trump who has had bodyguards for many, many years before he had secret service protection. never had any rational reason to carry or even possess a firearm, but like many people who hope that a handgun might
sensory there's and impostors who have commandeered our government, implement. it will be their judgement de we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. >> i am your warrior i am your justice. >> and for those who hope have been wronged and betrayed i am your retribution. i am your retina to your leading candidate, leading presidential candidate, and bus, frankly, the person who is he is the de facto nominee of the republican party ahead and many national polls is at least disturbing and it's not just trump it's not the people around him are calling it out. >> in fact, they're rallying around him. republicans more than willing to help them execute his plans. plans that are already now underway because today, house republicans sent criminal referrals to the justice department recommending joe biden's son, hunter biden, and
at first, he said she did it out of anger. and then, he said it doesn't matter why she did it. in a letter to congress, supreme court justice samuel alito where my wife's reasons for flying the flag are not relevant for present purposes. and so, a supreme court justice is refusing to say why his wife angrily according to him flew the american flag upside down in what justice alito has suggested was an angry run-in with neighbors who posted an anti-trump sign on their front line. justice alito has tried to pretend that there was no political context to the dispute. but if the dispute is about
what did she contribute here? >> she does contribute quite a bit by saying right up until mid september, he is using drugs in her presence, crack cocaine and he's also aware of it. he knows that he is an added at the time. so you just need to get it a three weeks further to the date when he purchased the weapon, 11 days that he possesses it. and then they have it, but they do have additional text messages coming a day after in two days after he had purchased the gun, where he's texting about using crack cocaine. so it's building to that point before we go emily, just who had lived next door near and few houses from justice alito talking about the timing here, saying that the letter that justice alito sent to congress in which he said, my wife hung the flag because of this dispute and she was so upset because of the c were all these things and that's why she on the flag it doesn't add up because the police report or the date of which that altercation happened was at least 20 days or close to 20 days after after the flag was actually the troy. and it's
during the convention. >> and this is all silly, but it is dangerous. i mean that there, there are a lot of crazies out there, as we know, and as we have seen through the january 6 proceedings and inviting violence, which is what he does under these circumstances and trying to keep the fervor that were crazy fervor read at a white hot level, all time is really sad and at some point, if something serious happens, people are going to lament the role they played in that although it may all be lost on judge cannon. >> all right. ty cobb. thank you very much. always good to see you nice to be with you. >> thank you. >> next, lock them up. trump is vowing to exact revenge tonight on his political opponents. and now the republican party is carrying out trump's orders plus and outfront exclusive tonight. justice samuel alito's neighbor, one of the people at the center of that quote, very nasty neighborhood dispute, center of that upside
roe v. wade has had so many consequences. and the court made it clear there are not stopping at overturning our right to control our own bodies with regard to accessing abortion care. they are making it clear that they are going to go further. justice thomas as i said before has invited litigators to revisit this issue. and of course, not only do the elections have the consequences of potentially having people like my opponent who would support a national ban elected to office. but they would also rubber stamp any judge and we saw extreme judges dominated by former president donald trump. they would be rubber stamps for those justices and judges. >> wisconsin senator tammy baldwin, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. and coming up, audience
know that the alitos lived in the neighborhood. i didn't know which house i didn't know what they looked like so. it didn't take me long though to put two and two together and to realize when she standing outside. >> so you realize that she's upset about this. so then when january 6 happens, i my understanding is and correct me if i'm wrong, karam because i'm trying to make sure i have all the timeline right as well. >> but you then added yard sign. trump is a fascist, which you just indicated. you you feel that way and you are complicit. and i want to ask you about those specifically because justice alito says that those specific signs you are a fascist and i'm sorry, trump is a fascist and you are complicit were quote, directed at his wife were they yeah. no. no. >> so january 6 was a dark day for our democracy, and i think people have all ideologies feel
election season, many calling for simply to focus on other issues, economic issues that they believe are the winning argument. but there's a big push on the ripe particularly on the hard right? for them to make the issue of going after the trump's political enemies as they see it front and center as in his campaign. paints season, even pressuring the speaker of the house, mike johnson, take a tougher line towards the justice department, particularly when it comes time to fund the government. now i asked johnson himself it's all part of an effort to secret to bhushan. and this is how he put it this is not retribution. >> this is about trying to reset the parameters and to make the people trust or system again i'm just on the ambiguous, and the to cheer justices him, as you, said, would want the fact that hunter biden is being prosecuted. robert menendez being prosecuted, henry cuellar being is being prosecuted. democrats are two is that a two-tier system? >> yeah, but not by their trials are now being presided over by, first of all, by statute, that doesn't exist and
their friends in the propaganda mediaa. and that reality is a very, very serious one that has to do with our economy, our well-being, our livelihood,e and most importantly, our ability to livlihoodt impoed and not have the prospect of war destroyinowg us as c a country or nuclear armageddon, which is where oa biden has put us as a country closer to that potential and possibly t. >> yeah, the ad was crazy. he has democrats arrestings donald trump and he's complaininging abou about t getting enough news coverage for biden-nomicss . and that isn't that doesn't make any sense. >> it's exactly it's completely out of touch with realit>> exayu think you bring up how biden has weaponized the departmenwtd of justice and undermining the rule of law, trying to take out his political opponenting to but we've also seen in the news this week how they are also targetins y arg peaceful pro-lifee protesters, literally locking up a grandmotherpee ever who is
they're being charged with a specific statutory violations. this is the contortion without precedent that's been part of the republican argument here that they are going after his trump's allies trump's opponent it's because they believed that the justice department is working unfairly against donald trump, even as democrats themselves are being prosecuted there. >> but as you can see, marco rubio, who could be on donald trump's vp less, making it very clear where he stands on this issue and saying it's time to go back or after trump's opponents with everything, they got. >> all right. manu. thank you very much. and david axelrod is out front now, is david you hear what manu saying you hear what trump is saying, how concerned are you that trump actually means it that he's serious, that he will follow through on his threats if he wins in november well, i think he means it. remember, aaron, he was saying in before the last election, he was leading chants of lock lock them up. we