The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey Lawrence. Hey Jen, we have a quorum. We have two United States senators. We have one member of the House representatives. They're waiting patiently, but I don't want to make them wait too long. Good. Please don't. Look forward to hearing what they have to say. We're going to get right to it. Thanks, Jen. Thank you.

A whole civilization will die tonight.

Hitler never said that.

No head of state in the history of the world ever said that.

Civilization had to wait literally thousands of years until today.

April 7,

2026 at 806 AM for a head of state to say and threaten, a whole civilization will die tonight. No cruel

king ever threatened that. No mass-murdering tyrant anywhere in the world ever said that or

even thought it was possible.

And so the United States of America now must live with the permanent stain on our history,

that we are the only country in the world who has produced a head of state who said

a whole civilization will die tonight and with that

statement it could not be more tragically clear now that a whole civilization

has already died the whole civilization beginning with the model of the British

Parliament leading to the first

independent American government formed under the Articles of Confederation, followed by the Constitution,

that wrote the presidency into existence and nearly 250 years of the American presidency.

All of that. that whole civilization forming the presidency,

died with the elevation of Donald Trump to the presidency a second time, proving that it wasn't

just an electoral college accident the first time,

the country that claimed so self-righteously to be the conscience of the world. And sometimes,

in some ways, came very close to reaching that ideal, elected a president who had been convicted of business fraud in covering up payments

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