The last word with Ali Velshi in for Lawrence starts right now.

Hey, Ali.

Humor does sustain us during difficult time.

And there's something you do.

And I don't know whether you do it for all of your audience or you do it for me because

you know I enjoy it.

But often on Friday nights, you will play that video of Christy Noem in that remarkably

well-produced series of commercials that she did that got her probably fired.

And I love that you do that.

And I wonder whether there's someone on your staff who loves it as much as I do who just takes any opportunity to say,

you know what, there's an opportunity for us to play that video again because it's fun.

First of all, we've discussed many times. I feel so fortunate

to work with the smartest producers. We have a producer named Sam on our team, who I call

like the corruption, you know, fierce fighter, as everyone is, who finds all these stories.

And I'm grateful for that because, you know, we need humor and we also need to follow what they're doing and make sure people know about it. I think you're absolutely right. You did a fantastic job of it tonight, as you always do. Thank you, my friend. Have a great weekend. Thanks, Sally. Have a great show. It is day 69 of Donald Trump's war in Iran. And there's one thing we can now say for certain. Donald Trump is

nonsense, and his words mean nothing. This is what his unnecessary and illegal war in Iran has further

revealed to the American people, and importantly, to America's allies and adversaries around the world.

Here's what we know. Whatever the ceasefire is supposed to be is not holding,

because Iran and the U.S. exchanged fire in the Strait of Hormuz for the second day in a row.

The New York Times reports, quote, the United States said it had fired on two Iranian-flagged oil

tankers on Friday as Iran's foreign minister accused Washington of a reckless military adventure and of undermining

diplomatic efforts to end the war. The latest strikes came a day after the U.S. military and Iran

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