Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.

Good evening, Alex. We're going to pick up that subject later in this hour with a former director of ICE during the Obama administration.

It's that whole question of, okay, we know what Donald Trump is saying, but what is possible?

How can you actually do this? How much of this can you do? I think those details are

going to be increasingly important as before we get to January. It is so expensive. It is so

complicated and it is so wrenching just in terms of our communities, our society. And then to say

nothing of the legal challenges to all of this, I think it's really important that we get everybody

clear on the difference between what Trump's saying

and what can actually be done.

Yeah, we're going to try to do that tonight.

Thanks, Alex.

Have a good show.

Thank you.

In the culture of Capitol Hill, the House of Representatives suffers from a permanent

and irreparable, actually a constitutional inferiority complex,

because the Senate has a superpower that the House of Representatives does not have.

And that superpower is more powerful than the presidential power when those two powers come into conflict over presidential appointments.

Only the United States Senate has the power to confirm presidential appointees.

The House of Representatives has no vote on nominations to federal judgeships,

including the Supreme Court. The House has no vote on nominations for cabinet positions

for 235 years. The House of Representatives has had to sadly and powerlessly sit by and watch across the campus as the United States Senate

made the final decision about all of those presidential appointments to the cabinet,

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