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Kennedy's autograph. and then there is another line almost as big to get ed brook's autograph. and then there is a line bigger than both of those to come to me to get a favor. >> the perils of being famous in the senate. >> exactly. >> very being in control. >> and everybody knew uif you really needed something to get done, you go to tip. >> yeah, that's great stuff. thank you, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. >> all right. good night. >> well, jeff flake was supposed to be a lifer. that's what republicans were hoping for when jeff flake won his senate seat at the age of 50, the same age that j...

Him. and even he waded really deep into watergate before he made those remarks. >> and of course he lived in the day when there was a thing called a liberal republican. >> yeah. >> and he was one of the last truly liberal republicans in the senate. and he in his beginnings with the nixon presidency, he actually opposed nixon in '68 in the election that gave nixon the presidency in the first place. which is the quickest little plug i will ever get in here for my book about the 1968 election, which is coming thought ah foo week, which you know about and have been generous about. but rachel, have...

Brook was the first republican to stand up and say richard nixon had to go. i had forgotten he was the first republican. and now i remember how proud so many of us were in boston when ed brook did that. >> for me the ed brook is instructive at a number of levels. number one, ed brook is an amazing figure in american history who deserve morse attention than he gets. number two, he was an unusual senator in the sense that he was the only african american serving in the senate. he was an african american republican from massachusetts serving two terms, world war ii

And i was like that i will do. that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the last word with the aforementioned lawrence o'donnell. >> it's my turn to blush. >> there is a very nice woman named judy who has great taste in diners who definitely wants you to run for president. >> you had me hooked on the enormous breakfast. that story was good enough. and we didn't -- the other part, wow. wow. >> just not to throw that in your lap or anything. i'm just saying, that's how i started my day today. physical therapy, enormous breakfast, larry needs to run for preside...

I'll be dead by 60. but i was leaving there feeling and we didn't -- the other part, wow. wow. >> just not to throw that in your lap or anything. i'm just saying, that's how i started my day today. physical therapy, enormous breakfast, larry needs to run for president. >> well, i actually skipped breakfast this morning, rachel. so we have balanced out the 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. so rachel, imagine my joy, imagine my joy when i was sitting there almost a half an hour ago watching you remind us that massachusetts senator ed