Now it is time for the last word with my friend Ali Belchi in for Lawrence. Good evening

Ali. An excellent show it was my friend nice to see you and have yourself an

excellent weekend. You too. Thanks Alex.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.

If you're a lover of Shakespeare, that passage from Act 1 of Julius Caesar might be on

your mind right now because this week we saw Maga faithful

Republicans make the latest Trump pilgrimage showing their fealty at the trial of a

man accused of making hush money payments to the former porn star Stormy Daniels to stop her from

going public with their alleged affair during the 2016 election.

And we saw these Republicans indoctrinated by Trump do this not once not even twice but three times

three times

Monday Tuesday and yesterday three different groups of the Red Thai Brigade,

most of them members of the legislative branch of our federal government,

skipped out on their day jobs to do Donald Trump's bidding and attack this nation's criminal justice system.

We've never seen anything like this.

And while this performative display of devotion to Trump is a lot of things, unethical,

anti-Democratic, demoralizing, and just really cringy, it's also, and this isn't exactly

a journalistic way of describing something, it's also weird as hell.

It's just phenomenally bizarre.

Imagine trying to explain what's happening right now this week to yourself from 10 years ago.

Remember 2014, before Donald Trump came down that wretched escalator and began his one man

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