time now for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

Lawrence, I think I've eaten up like a, you know, half a minute of your show every night

for the last few nights.

So I think tomorrow night I'm going to give you back a pile of it.

Take your time, Ali.

According to my clock, it's 25 seconds right now.

I wasn't ready to go until you gave it to me anyway.

So this is perfect.

Keep doing it.

Have a great show, my friend.

Thanks, uh. Thank you great show, my friend. Thanks.

Thank you.

Well, the impeachment clause of the United States Constitution seems to be headed to the Supreme

Court if Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyers can get it there. We're going to consider the impeachment

clause tonight from two perspectives. First, a lawyer and law professor Andrew Weisman and

then an historian, Stanford's Jack Rakoff, who is an expert on the impeachment

clause, his book, Original Meanings, Politics, and the Ideas in making of the Constitution won the Pulitzer Prize.

You will hear from both of them.

You will hear both of those perspectives.

Next Tuesday you will hear Donald Trump's lawyers tell the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. that he cannot be tried for crimes leading up to and on January 6th because that would amount to double jeopardy

after Donald Trump faced an impeachment trial in the United States Senate

on essentially the same charges. 57 senators voted guilty against Donald Trump,

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