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

Hey, Jen, it seems like forgetting his real job is Donald Trump's thing. It's not the...

It's evergreen. It's not the first time. Not the first time.

That's true. Jen, later in this hour, I'm going to talk about what I did on Sunday, the morning after

that Mexican Navy sailing ship had that horrible and fatal accident for two sailors at the Brooklyn Bridge.

I just, I walked down to the East River and didn't know where the ship was, but found it on

the east side, right, right on the border of the Lower East Side and Chinatown.

And it was a very moving scene there. And I'm going to talk about what it meant, what it means

for New Yorkers, what it means to be a real New Yorker. It was all on display there in the aftermath

of another tragedy in New York, which New York does know how to respond to.

Sounds incredibly powerful. I always love hearing about your walk-around. So you observe quite a lot.

I'll be watching as you talk about it. Thanks, Jen. Thank you. Well, sadistic zombies is not the kind of phrase you expect from Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman,

who will be joining our program this evening. Professor Krugman is a former columnist for the New York

Times, whose invaluable writing now appears on Substack where everyone who can should absolutely

make an effort to read it and learn. Read it and learn seems to be something

Donald Trump has never been able to do, and the Republicans he dominates in Congress seem to have

the same deficiency. The cruelty of the budget bill designed by Donald Trump and the Republican

Congress has provoked the mild-mannered Professor Krugman, not known for rhetorical

excess, to call Donald Trump and the Republican Congress sadistic zombies.

And I will take the liberty during this hour to extend Professor Krugman's term, to include

the Trump ally,

who actually might be the most sadistic of all, Elon Musk, into the group of sadistic zombies

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