The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey Lawrence.

Hey, Jen. Thank you very much for that report about Melissa Hartman from Minnesota. It's so easy in the rush of news to lose the actual human beings that are at the center of these stories, especially these tragedies.

No question about it.

I had a, I talked to Ken Martin on Saturday who knew her well,

and that conversation just stuck with me about what a tremendous public servant and human she was

and all of the things she did in her time there in the legislature.

And that's what we've heard from everyone we've had on

our programs from Minnesota who knows her and loved her and who are all suffering so much

tonight. Absolutely. Thank you, Jen. Thank you. Thank you, Lawrence. Well, if Donald Trump

gets dementia, how will we know? Donald Trump's mental decline,

which is more and more obvious, started from such a low level of mental processing power

that it's hard to track his decline. It's from low to lower. And then there are days like today when Donald Trump

asks himself out loud in public if he is allowed to appoint himself chair of the Federal Reserve.

Now, it may be tiresome to hear, but we must not grow weary of making

the point that no other president was ever capable of saying anything as stupid or as indicative

of dementia as that. Am I allowed to appoint myself, chair of the Federal Reserve?

And we must not grow weary of reminding ourselves what the White House press corps would have

done if Joe Biden ever said anything like that. And how big the headlines would be in the next

day's print editions of the New York Times and the Washington Post and every newspaper in the country.

Because if we grow weary of making the point of how singularly stupid and possibly clinically demented Donald Trump's statements are, then we will become part of the normalization process

of those statements which most of the American news media has unwittingly participate in,

and 14-year-olds in this country will think it's perfectly normal for a president to say those

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