Now it's time for the last word with the great Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening,

Lawrence. And you know it's Friday night when I haven't remembered to turn off

my phone. Which I, wait, my phone rang during the show. Oh,, well, that's happened to me but it won't happen tonight because I just fixed it

It's been a long week. It's been a long week. It has you know and Neil Katiel is going to join us tonight to talk about the Supreme Court decisions and I need

this because I like Neil Gorsuch.

I don't know the difference between Nitrous Oxide and whatever the other thing is.

And so, which Chris Hayes and you both explained beautifully and I've already forgotten it,

but Neil Katial is going to take me through it again.

He's the guy to have.

It is a very, very big day at the High Court. I will be watching. Thanks Alex. Have a great show. Thank you.

Okay. 24 hours later, if you're ready for some calm analysis about what we all saw last night, this is the

place to be for the next hour.

The very first thing you need to know about what we all saw last night is that most

voters didn't see it. It was the lowest rated presidential debate in a very long time. It had the smallest audience of any

first presidential debate, first in a series, in the 21st century. And only about one third of the people who voted in the last

presidential election actually watched the debate. Only 51 million viewers out of 155 million voters who voted last time.

So two-thirds of the voters didn't see a second of what happened last night.

And that's an important number to have in mind when you consider the impact of presidential

to base because everyone who thinks that that thing

last night was some kind of big problem for Joe Biden believes without

evidence that the debate changed the minds of undersided voters, even though

undecided voters are the most likely kind of people to not watch debates like last night. In 1980, when we had about

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