. >> steve mcqueen, i cannot thank you, john ridley and the entire team for delivering this film to uscar night, it is one of the greatest contributions to our understandings of ourselves in this country through film. thank you. >> well, yeah. forgive me. not only to this country, but to the world. there were other countries that were involved in it. it's not just america's history. it's the world history, unfortunately. >> steve mcqueen, tonight's "last word." thank you, steve. chris hayes is up next. more than 6,500 flights were canceled today. and as of this afternoon, nearly 500,000 households were without power across eight states. >>> dragnet. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews down in washington. let me start tonight with this. up in new jersey tonight, the dragnet is closing. the iron grip of subpoenas now ensnaring chris christie's political army, from trenton to the hudson river. the people who stopped traffic across the country's busiest bridge are now among those caught in a web of investigations that threaten trouble to them and the governor for wh