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

Hey, Jen. It was great to hear former secretary John Kerry on Stephen Colbert talking about the

situation in Iran. We're going to play some of that tonight. And we're also going to be joined

by Ernest Monez, one of his negotiating partners, as you know, the Secretary of Energy in the

Obama administration, a nuclear physicist, exactly the kind of person you need in these kinds of

negotiations that, of course, the Trump team does not include.

That is such a key part of it that doesn't get nearly enough attention aside from, of course,

people like you, which is that the Obama team, which I was a part of, brought hundreds of

experts.

People had been working on these issues for decades.

And Ernie Moniz, who was the Secretary of Energy, was one of those key people.

What an interesting person to talk to.

You are going to get right to it. Thanks, Jen. Thanks, Lawrence. Well, it was another day of nothing happening in Donald Trump's failed attempts to negotiate with Iran the day after he ignored his own

self-imposed deadline on those negotiations. Of course, no one violates Trump deadlines more than Donald Trump.

And so he simply made his deadline disappear yesterday in a public statement claiming that Iran

negotiators were just begging him to extend the deadline so that they could come up with a

reasonable proposal for Donald Trump to consider, to which

the Iranian government said, the Islamic Republic of Iran has welcomed dialogue and agreement

and continues to do so. Breach of commitments, blockade, and threats are main obstacles to genuine

negotiations. World sees your endless hypocritical rhetoric and contradiction

between claims and actions.

And so, as of day 53 of Donald Trump's war, all of the explosions and death that Donald

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