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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 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...

“There we are.” During the yearlong lockdown, nearly every phone conversation begins with “How are you doing?” and ends with, “You watching anything good?” I have a new answer for the second question. My favorite show of the pandemic debuted in late January. Episodes are short and the dialogue is repetitive, but I am obsessed with Vice President Kamala Harris administering the oath of office to cabinet members, especially to women. The series kicked off with the January 26 swearing in of Janet Yellen as Secretary of the Treasury. The cinematography was static and the action was co...