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

Hey, Jen. You know, our, my booking policy here for Nobel Prize winning economist, Paul Krugman, is whenever he can do it.

And it turns out that's just, it's my Nobel Prize booking policy. And it turns out he can do it tonight, day one of a government shutdown. I think

an economist will have a few things to say about that, including reacting to some of the deranged

things Donald Trump said yesterday about tariffs. So we're going to be eager to get to that

tonight. Looking forward to it.

He's an always book guest for everybody.

He should be, but he loves to come on with you.

So we'll just all watch.

We're lucky to get him.

Thanks, Jen.

Thanks, Lauren. Thank you.

Well, Tom Nichols, a former professor at the U.S. Naval War College, wrote in the Atlantic

that the question on the minds of the top

military commanders, after listening to Donald Trump yesterday, must have been, how can I know

that an order I received to launch my missiles came from a sane president? They won't know.

How many flashes of insanity from a president should we tolerate?

That sounds like something that deserves a zero tolerance policy. And we have never seen public flashes of insanity from any president other than Donald Trump, and we now see them

every day.

A president who has failed to get his funding plan passed by a Congress completely controlled

by his party, then spends the day creating public versions of his hallucinations about the Democratic leaders of the House

and the Senate. The president gives every indication that you could possibly ask for, that he has

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