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

Good evening, Lawrence.

Good evening, Alicia.

We have Dr. Anthony Fauchy joining us tonight.

He will never be thanked enough for the lives that he's saved, our own for all we know with the COVID vaccine

but I'm going to try I'm going to spend some time trying to thank him enough trying to

thank him think him on behalf of all of us, Lawrence.

We will. Thanks, Alicia.

Thank you.

Well, there will be a parade tomorrow

for this year's NBA champions, the Boston Celtics. we give our heroes parades.

In the early days of space travel, we gave astronauts parades.

But then we shot so many astronauts into space and even to the moon, but we stopped giving them parades. We took space travel for granted.

There was no longer the stuff of heroism. Our most important heroes have always been taken for granted.

They never get parades.

I'm talking about the people who do the most important work a human being can do.

They save lives.

There is no higher calling than saving lives. Some of you might know what it feels like, but most of us

don't. Most of us have never and will never save a life, not one.

We won't drag a wounded soldier off a battlefield,

we won't drive a dying person to an emergency room just in time.

We won't pull that drowning child out of the water and we won't treat

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