Tonight, the great Simone Sanders is filling in for Lawrence on the last word. Good evening, Simone.

Good evening, Rachel. I, too, was worried about Lawrence when they first asked me to pull double duty today.

And I said, is Lawrence, all right? Do we need in the country? Like, I don't know if I thought

he had been like spirited away or something. Well, Rachel, he is home. Given the news,

given the news, Rachel, these are questions we have to ask. But I'm glad that Lawrence is all right.

We all immediately go to dark places. Yes. Exactly.

Well, you had an excellent show.

Thank you so much.

Get some rest.

And I'll see you tomorrow.

Thank you.

Thanks, Simone.

Greetings, everyone.

Tonight, Republicans, well, they are either denying or staying silent on the biggest national security failure of the Trump administration to date.

But the folks at town halls, they have a lot to say.

Here is the big and loud crowd that showed up at a town hall rally

headlined by Tim Walz and Beto O'Rourke in Texas tonight.

So last Friday, just to bring everybody back to the same page,

you have Trump and Pete Hegeseth,

the Defense Secretary, in the Oval Office, announcing God only knows what, you can't, you can't

really understand these folks. But Pete Hegset says, under, he's talking about America.

He says, under the previous administration, we look like fools.

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