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

Hey, Jen. I have been begging the control room to never show that video again. And I'm losing.

I'm losing that campaign. It's so charming. But I heard you're working on a tango this year.

So I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Let's just say I'm not going to be taken by surprise this time. All right.

Good.

It's going to be a whole different thing.

So, Jen, we are being joined once again tonight by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman.

The last time he was here, Donald Trump decided to attack him and throw really ugly insult at him, which I can't even bring myself to say until Professor

Krugman is with us later in this hour. That's when you'll hear it. And he'll get his chance to

respond to Donald Trump's terrible insult of him. And I have a feeling he might not. He just might not stoop to Donald Trump's

level, but we'll find out. We'll find out. We also know that Donald Trump is a viewer of the last

word. So there's that too. Well, he's been throwing those kinds of insults at me for a very

long time. Actually, actually much, much worse than what he said about Professor Krugman, much worse.

Yes, that is true.

Thanks, Jen.

Thanks, Lawrence.

Have a good show.

It's all a game of diversion.

That's what one man on the street in Washington, D.C. said today about Donald Trump's

deployment of a tiny force of National Guard soldiers to the streets of Washington, D.C.,

where they will have absolutely nothing to do because they are not legally empowered to do anything.

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