bruce boynton died this week at the age of 83. a long way to go as a country, but thank god for people like him who help lead the way. that does it for me tonight. have a happy and safe thanksgiving. it is time now for "the last word" with my good friend lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, i've gone across this country in the last few months listening to people talk about their civil rights to not wear a mask, and i think about bruce boynton and i think about the real fights we've had about real things versus the nonsense we're facing right now. >> it is such an important lesson. and we're going have a lesson tonight, ali, that you'll be very interested in, that you already know. is from richard schiff, my dear friend who we worked together on the nbc series "the west wing." richard is recovering from covid-19. he just spent five days in vancouver general hospital, and he has a lot of good things to say about the canadian health care system. he is going to join us later in this hour.

bruce boynton died this week at the age of 83.t thank god for people like him who help lead the way. that does it for me tonight. have a happy and safe thanksgiving. it is time now for "the last word" with my good friend lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, i've gone across this country in the last few months listening to people talk about their civil rights to not wear a mask, and i think about bruce boynton and i think about the real fights we've had about real things versus the nonsense we're facing right now.

bruce boynton died this week at the age of 83. we've get a long way to go as a country, but thank god for people like him who helped lead the way. that does it for me tonight. have a happy and safe thanksgiving. it is time now for "the last word" with my good friend, lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, you know, i've gone across this country in the last few months listening to people talk about their civil rights to not wear a mask, and i think of bruce boynton and i think about the real fights that we've had about real things versus the nonsense that we're facing right now. >> yeah, it is such an important lesson, and we'll have a lesson tonight, ali, that you'll be interested in, that you already know. this is from richard schiff, my dear friend, who we worked together on the nbc series "the west wing." richard is recovering from covid-19. he just spent five days in vancouver general hospital, and he has a lot of good things to say about the canadian health care system. he's going to join us later in this hour. he's good friends with

he came to us about 10 years ago and gave a presentation on his pappy boynton book and we have not managedo get him back here. we tried and he was going to come in april of this year but of course, things go

he came to us about 10 years ago and gave a presentation on his pappy boynton book and we have not managed to get him back here. we tried and he was going to come in april of this year but of course, things got a little out of hand and we had to postpone that event indefinitely to talk on one of his other books. but i'm sure most of our viewers today know many of john's books. hell from the heroes, i'm sorry, hill from the heavens four crew and country and then tin can tightens, which won the samuel l morrison naval award when it came out. probably the most prestigious award regarding naval history. so congratulations on that. many years belated. john was supposed to come in april and we were able to work in the distance learning team to bring the program to you all. this one specifically has to do with our theme of the end of the war. the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. we are going to get right to it so you can get as many of the audiences questions asked and answered by john. i'm going to start off with a handful of my own questions. let's give the audience a brief summary for t

i also do want to say to the family of bruce boynton who passed away, rest in peace to him and his familyht. "all in" with chris hayes starts now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> it's a team that reflects that america is back. ready to lead the world, not retreat from it. >> 57 days until inauguration, the biden team takes the stage. tonight as pennsylvania certifies a biden victory, how america nearly failed the trump stress test for democracy. >>> then, senator ed markey on what looks like bold biden climate plans. dr. rick bright of the biden coronavirus task force on their plans to turn vaccines into vaccinations. and the cruel reality of a president patting h

the civilians were all armed to their teeth waiting for the americans to invade. >> william in boynton beach, thanks for your call. mr. daniel? >> i've heard similar stories. i'm not familiar with the typhoon that william mentioned, but those are stories also that i heard from survivors that although there were some of them that feel that japan was defeated and that it was only a matter of -- i don't know, weeks, months, days before they surrendered. at the same time the survivors tell stories of drilling with spears of fighting with anything that they could, with kitchen utensils. groups of civilians were going to be attached to groups of soldiers to fight side by side. those stories resonate with me and at the same time, civilians were terrified. this was not something that they -- they trained for, but this was not something that they expected. the japanese government was telling us that they were all going fall like the petals of the which acherry tree and cher blossoms and it would be a mass suicide and those are stories that i heard in japan. >> anne is in clayton, north carolina

i also do want to say to the family of bruce boynton who passed away, rest in peace to him and his family. that's the reetout f"reidout" f tonight. "all in" with chris hayes starts now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> it's a team that reflects that america is back. ready to lead the world, not retreat from it. >> 57 days until inauguration, the biden team takes the stage. tonight as pennsylvania certifies a biden victory, how america nearly failed the trump stress test for democracy. >>> then, senator ed markey on what looks like bold biden climate plans. dr. rick bright of the biden coronavirus task force on their plans to turn vaccines into vaccinations. and the cruel reality of a president patting himself on the back for the stock market as millions of americans wait in line for food. when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. it took 17 days from when joe biden was declared the winner of the presidential election by all of the major press outlets and networks, 17 days of lies and absurd court challenges and tantrums, pressure on public officials, but