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he will sit down with lawrence o'donnell to discuss the push to get every american vaccinated. beccerra will also join the conversation tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. of course, it will be streaming online as well. >>> we are moments away from president biden's remarks on the covid vaccination effort. meanwhile 66-year-old senator is saying he is not going to take the vaccine and others shouldn't be pressured to do so either. and with a scenario that makes it a possibility, she'll enjoy her dream right now. that's the planning effect, from fidelity. i'm ordering some burritos! oh, nice. burritos?! get a freshly made footlong from subway® instead. with crisp veggies on freshly baked bread. just order in the app! ditch the burgers! choose better, be better. subway®. eat fresh. we started with computers. we didn't stop at computers. we didn't stop at storage or cloud. we kept going. working with our customers to enable the kind of technology that can guide an astronaut back to safety. and help make a hospital come to you, instead of you going to it. so when it comes to yo

on wednesday he sat down with msnbc's lawrence o'donnell.e is an extended cut of their conversation about dealing with republican leadership. >> you're trying to make a deal today in a room with kevin mccarthy where what he was doing before he came up here was expelling liz cheney from his leadership group for saying things like, the election is over, as she said last night on the house floor. kevin mccarthy is the same person who supported liz cheney just weeks ago. how can you accept whatever someone like kevin mccarthy says today has something that you are actually going to legislate a few weeks from now or months from now? >> if a man looks me in the eye, gives me his word something is going to happen, i take it unless he breaks it. he may have broken his word to someone else, but to me because he made that deal -- we're nowhere near having made a deal. we agree we should try to get a bipartisan agreement, but the liz cheney/mccarthy thing is above my pay grade. i mean i have enough trouble figuring out my own party all the time, let alo

that's we did when he invited left wing liberal lawrence o'donnell to the white house.g a bizarre rambling interview o'donnell did his best to protect the president. >> there is a partisan resistance among people who fail a basic mental competency test, who is the president of the united states. they actually get that question wrong. how are you going to convince them to get the vaccine? >> they are showing up. judge jeanine: how can you say there is a partisan opposition if these people don't even know your pal joe is the president. here to respond is leo terrell and tomi lahren. leo, what's your response to --to lawrence o'donnell. >> the mainstream media is afraid of donald trump. they are protecting joe biden. the problem is this. donald trump is feared by the democrats. completely feared. the people loyal to donald trump remain loyal. so they try to twrash him by attacking him and attacking the 75 million people who currently remain supportive of donald trump. so they try to build up joe biden. that's impossible. what we are experiencing right now is jimmy carter p

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> i need your advice, the way to handle a particular guest. it's patrick, the author of "empire of pain." he's done some press about it and he tweeted this, rachel, about one of his appearances on tv. he said just had a priceless call from my father who saw a tv interview i did about the book and said in a decidedly accuse tory tone quote i noticed you're doing a lawrence o'donnell and dropping your boston accent for professional reasons. so rachel, here is my question -- [ laughter ] >> here is my question. do you think patrick keefe and i should do this interview in boston accent or in our dropped boston accent for professional reasons? >> you should do it in your boston accents and you should subtitle it. you should get it closed captioned so that we can all know -- we can all know the true depths of what you're talking about. you should -- can i actually just say a second about patrick. he's one of the few non-fiction writers in america who i read everything he writes. every time he write as book, i read it. every time he

president joe biden will be joining my colleague lawrence o'donnell at 10:00 eastern and lawrence willony fauci, surgeon general murthi, xavier beccera will all be answering audience questions. to preview the big event we are tackling the myths and our doctors will separate fact from fiction. joining us now dr. patell, our medical adviser for the town hall tonight, a former white house health policy director to president obama, and dr. emanuel, the prvost and a former member of the biden transition covid-19 advisory board. we have great doctors here. let's start sorting out some of the myths starting with myth number one. let's say people will say i had covid-19 so i don't need to get a false. true or false? >> false, andrea. it is recommended if you've had covid-19, we encourage you to get a vaccine for a simple reason. we don't know how long your immunity from covid-19 lasts and, furthermore, the vaccines have been proven to boost immunity if you've had covid-19 and help protect against the concerning variants which probably cropped up after your infection and could be responsible fo

now it's time for the last word lawrence o'donnell. good evening large. >> good evening rachel, and thank you for that. hearing from steven richer is going to be important to get a republican perspective from arizona. he says what's going on there is unhinged. award that i think it has gotten more currency in the last five years than it has in the previous 500 perhaps. it's been the word of the day so often but rachel our first guest tonight is really unique in american presidential history because our first guest and i'm opening this team in the audience to guess who this is. they've been an adviser now to three real presidents and one fictional president. and he is now an adviser to joe biden. the fictional president, by the way -- >> you know me. yes, go on. >> big hands. the fictional president was of course jet bartlett on and receives the west wing and our first guest was a consultant advisor to that fictional president and three real ones clinton, obama, and now biden. >> take your time. >> we have all night. >> no, not gonna do

but first of all, you need to know that lawrence o'donnell has an interview with president biden comingthe president is part of this blockbuster town hall that lawrence has here tonight on msnbc. that will include not only his exclusive interview with president biden but he's also got dr. anthony fauci and the surgeon general vivek

>>> i am going to tell you i have got to scoot now to make way for my colleague, lawrence o'donnel, because it is time for his exclusive interview with president joe biden. that starts right now. >> help is on the way, we'll move heaven and earth to get more people vaccinated, 100 million shots of our first 100 days in office. we are going to beat that goal. >> it is a race between the vaccines and the virus. >> 200 million shots. this is an american -- >> the exponential growth in vaccinations seemed to be stopping. >> there are millions of americans who need a little bit of encouragement to get the shot. >> i don't know if i am going to get it. >> i am good and i am pretty healthy. >> you hear so many stories of side effects. i don't need it. >> we really need to do whatever we can for people who are hesitant. >> our goal by july 4th is to have 70% of adult americans of at least one shot. the only way to get our economy back and our lives back is to beat the virus. this is an "msnbc town hall: vaccinated america." [ applause ] good evening, and welcome to "vaccinating america," an msnbc t

mccarthy of california that wants to be speaker of the house, he was asked by lawrence o'donnell.ll listen to that answer and talk about it on the other side. >> how can you accept whatever someone like mccarthy says today as something that you're going to legislate? >> if a man looks me in the eye, gives his word i take it unless he breaks it. the liz cheney/mccarthy thing is above my pay grade. i have enough trouble figuring out my own party all the time let alone the republicans. >> peter, to the president's point, how closely is the white house watching the agony some of the republicans are going through and putting each other through as opposed to the crisis out of nowhere 70% of the gas stations in the atlanta metro area have nothing to sell? >> yeah. i think for the biden administration that's the bigger, higher priority of taking care of their business and making sure that the country is in operating shape and the politics. they know they're judged on the performance and not the republicans. it doesn't mean they're not watching the republican crack-up. but i think they rec

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now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell.o terrible at jealousy because what you just did is tell the biggest possible audience in the world, the rachel maddow audience would is happening tomorrow night at 10:00 and so, that's not what you're supposed to do with your jealousy. thank you very much, rachel. really appreciate it. here is the truth -- >> i am super psyched for you. >> i am very excited about speaking to joe biden as president for the first time ever, for the first time on this network. the truth is, i have been speaking to joe biden

president biden sits down with our own colleague lawrence o'donnell with a special townhall, vaccinating america wednesday, 10:00 p.m. eastern we encourage you to check it out here on msnbc, up next is "the reid out,". >> good evening everyone and we begin tonight with the anti-democratic soul of the republican party. they tell us a lot about the future of that party and our democracy itself, on wednesday, it's expected that house republicans will vote to remove wyoming congressman liz cheney from party leadership for telling the truth in the face of a disgraced former president's big lie. what is left of the formerly grand old party has made it clear that the big lie is its only degree organizing principal. a day after endorsing new york congresswoman elis stefanik as cheney's replacement, the republican leader of the house said to the party, said unfortunately each day spent relitigating the past is one day less we have to seize the future. this is as his party is currently relitigating the 2020 election in arizona for the umpteenth time and he is looking to oust cheney after it was wh

but first of all you need to know that lawrence o'donnell has an interview with president biden coming up right after the show, an hour from now at 10 pm eastern. his interview with the president is part of this blockbuster town hall that lawrence husker tonight on msnbc, that'll include not only his exclusive interview with president biden, but he's also got doctor anthony fauci, and vivek murphy and the health and human services secretary xavier becerra, and the superstar 34-year-old scientists, dr. kizzmekia corbett, who was on the team at moderna that develop the covid vaccine. that is all coming up tonight on lawrence is special town hall that he has here on msnbc at the top of this hour starting at 10:00 eastern. that town hall, and all of that news, that'll comes on the day where the cdc has just given approval for kids 12 and up to get vaccinated. we're gonna have more on that story a little later on including some of the practicalities in terms of what it means for you and your family, if you have kids aged 12 to 15 in your household. but honestly i'm under no illusions, i rec

you can watch us on vaccinating america town hall hosted by lawrence o'donnell tonight 10 p.m.eryone. we begin "the reid out" tonight with a day that will go down in history books. the day the republican party slid closer to full trumpian autocracy. liz cheney of wyoming as the number three member of the minority caucus in the house of representatives for daring to rebuke the former president of the united states donald trump who despite wielding no political power as we sit here

but first of all, you need to know that lawrence o'donnell has an interview with president biden coming up right after this show, an hour from now at 10:00 p.m. eastern. his interview with the president is part of this blockbuster town hall that lawrence has here tonight on msnbc. that will include not only his exclusive interview with president biden but he's also got dr. anthony fauci and the surgeon general vivek murthy, and the health and human services secretary xavier becerra, and the superstar 34-year-old scientist that was on the team at moderna that developed their covid vaccine. that's all coming up tonight on lawrence's special town hall that he's got here on msnbc at the top of this hour starting at 10:00 eastern. and of course that town hall and all of that news, that all comes on the day that the cdc has just given approval for kids age 12 and up to start getting vaccinated. we're going to have more on that story a little later on this hour, including some of the practicalities, in terms of what that means for you and your family, if you've got kids aged 12 to 15 under you

he's going to be joining the great lawrence o'donnell tonight in just a few minutes to talk about it. you will want to see that. that's going to do it for me. i will see you again tomorrow. now it is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> thank you for that hearing from steven richer is going to be very important to get a republican perspective from arizona. he says what's going on there is unhinged. a word that i think has gotten more currency in the last five years than it has in the previous 500 perhaps, it's been the word of the day so often, but rachel, our first guest tonight is really unique in american presidential history because our first guest -- and i'm opening this to you and the audience to guess who this is -- has been an adviser now to three real president s and one fictional president. and he is now an adviser to joe biden. the fictional president, by the way -- >> you know me, i don't -- yes, come on. >> big hint, the fictional president was, of course, jed bartlett on nbc "the west wing" and our first guest was a consultant, adviser to that fictional p

he's going to be joining the great lawrence o'donnell tonight in just a few minutes to talk about it. is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> thank you for that hearing from steven richer is going to be very important to get a republican perspective from arizona. he says what's going on there is unhinged. a word that i think has gotten more currency in the last five

. >> as some spom people are holding out t lawrence o'donnell sits down to president biden in a special msnbc town hall event happening tomorrow night. he will be joined by members of the white house covid-19 response team and the developer of the moderna vaccine. watch it tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc, streaming on telemundo.com. that is "all in" on this tuesday night. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. >> is it okay for you and i to kick it's about how lawrence go got a presidential interview before us? >> interesting. should we do it here? >> we don't have to do it in front of anybody. i think -- >> i mean, i'm sure -- >> it totally makes sense. >> good for him. >> yeah. >> these things pop up as news to me. i am like, all right, good for them. i am here. joe biden, if you want to talk. >> that's exactly how i feel. a, i'm happy for lawrence. i am b, like, lawrence? c, like, did everybody know this was happening except for? >> i heard whisperings of it. we are going to watch it. we are excited for our colleague sitting with joe biden. >> true. >> zero professional j

now it's time for the last word lawrence o'donnell.> good evening rachel, and thank you for that. hearing from steven richer is going to be important to get a republican perspective from arizona. he says what's going on there is unhinged. award that i think it has gotten more currency in the last five years than it has in the previous 500 perhaps. it's been the word of the day so often but rachel our first guest tonight is really unique in american presidential history because our first guest and i'm opening this team in the audience to guess who this is. they've been an adviser now to three real presidents and one

liberty. ♪ >>> good evening, i'm lawrence o'donnell here for a special two hour edition of "the lastll biden and vice president kamala harris to honor the men and women of the united states military. president biden lost his son beau to brain cancer six years

he was asked by lawrence o'donnell, how do you engage with people who don't think that you're a legitimate president? and he said i believe everyone is -- no one is above redemption and most importantly, that he has to do this job. and so i think that is actually how they are seeing this. you talk to people behind the scenes at the white house. and they don't engage in kind of -- they know that when someone gets in the oval office it's a completely different conversation. there's no cameras. there's no reason to -- to peacock and talk about the things that you would talk about if you're on cable news. but at the same time, you have mccarthy sending out an email right after saying that -- calling the president names. and so it is going to make it a little bit difficult. and it's hard for this white house, i think, to understand how -- when republicans are coming in a good faith effort. and so they really want to get this bipartisan deal on on infrastructure. how they do that, when people don't think that he's the president, he doesn't -- need many people to believe that he is to get the job

now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and i'm going to do something we've both been promising to do and i'm sure you've never done. >> okay. >> i'm going to use a script tonight at the end of the hour written by kyle griffin for monday night's show that has gotten bumped all the way to wednesday because of the news. it's one of these wonderful stories about what a difference the presidency makes, the difference between joe biden and donald trump. and so, just, you know, get out of here, so, get yourself positioned and get ready to watch that. now three-day old kyle griffin script at the end of the hour. >> you sure know how to sell it. ha ha. >> no. and i want you to tell us tomorrow whether you think it worked, whether you think the shelf-life held. >> okay. i will report back, thank you lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. thank you. >>> well, if there were a pulitzer prize for tweets i'd nominate a tweet by washington post critic peter marks written at the end of the first week of november when we were on the verge of calli

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i'm planning to do a short script for monday night tomorrow night. it's still news worthy. it's a nice little story, but who knows. i was planning to do it tonight. that's off. and we are now going to have to stock up on our list of former assistant manhattan district attorneys, as it seems, with the handling of the grand jury there. we're going to need their expertise. and tonight i've got the former chief -- former chief -- assistant district attorney, daniel alonzo, who's joined us before on the workings of this investigation. >> he's great. >> he's becoming an mvp here because he's really been in there with these manhattan grand juries. he knows every wrinkle about this. and this -- this does feel like the beginning of what will be a significant chapter of our coverage of the world of possible defendant trump material. >> yeah, and i will say dan alonzo has been absolutely irreplaceable. i mean, i've learned more from him about state

now time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. still have time to make the right decision and vote, not for a conviction, not for a decision, just to investigate what happened on january 6th. i will be an optimist, lawrence, and think that ten republicans will come around. >> well,

now time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, we are on the cusp of something potentially very, very important tonight at the united states senate. there are still republicans who still have time to make the right decision and vote, not for a conviction, not for a decision, just to investigate what happened on january 6th. i will be an optimist, lawrence, and think that ten republicans will come around. >> well, and the thing about that math at this hour is if that's going to happen, that would mean that some republicans would have to change their minds over the course of the afternoon and evening because john thune, who's technically the vote counter on the republican side, he announced confidently today we have the votes, we have the votes to block this. so i agree with you. i think it is possible because this is just an extraordinary thing for the republicans to be voting against. so there might be some republican senators at this hour who are struggling with this decision, but it would have to be a change of mind amo

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> rachel, you're always welcome on this side of 10:00, and i'm holding stacey abrams' new book "while justice sleeps" is number 1 on the best-seller list. she knocked off my friend laura dade who was number 1 with her brilliant new novel "the last thing he told me" which i loved. i cannot promote laura dade on this show because she is not one of the leaders of politics lake stacey abrams, so i'll be supporting stacey abrams' number one position for fiction, knocking off laura dade's "the last thing he told me." she's still on the bestseller list, she's just down from number 1. stacey abrams holds the number 1 spot, so i can't help laura dade. >> what was the name of her book again? >> it's called "the last thing he told me." really good. >> well done. >> rachel, the triumphant return to this hour of the amazing dr. kizzie corbett. she's going to join us tonight. i want you to imagine this scene, rachel. imagine you're in your local walgreen's today and you're g

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, good evening lawrence. >> rachel i'm actuallyit's still newsworthy, it's a nice little story. but who knows, i was planning to do it tonight. that's off. we are now going to have to stock up on our list of former assistant manhattan district attorneys as it seems with the impaling of the grand jury

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, and without having any idea with america going to tell us, i have to tell you when i was working in the senate and senators would and mount, sometimes some very big announcements, and stunned reporters would be asking why? we would all be sitting here saying, well know it would be strange or if we ran for reelection. understanding not running for reelection has always been the easy part from me, from living inside the lives that these people have to live. it is the running for reelection and staying with it that is the harder thing to both do and understand as you watch people do it. it is such a difficult job. >> yeah. although in this case, she so clearly seemed to have gotten through that switch and decided that is where she was going and having had options to stop what she was doing and instead go to something very different in washington, know she was gonna stay in every up in atlanta, did the fund-raiser, so this is a late breaking shocker

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now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. aving any idea with america going to tell us, i have to tell you when i was working in the senate and senators would and mount, sometimes some very big announcements, and stunned reporters would be asking why? we would all be sitting here saying, well know it would be strange or if we ran for reelection. understanding not running for reelection has always been the easy part from me, from living inside the lives that these people have to live. it is the running for reelection and staying with it that is the harder thing to both do and understand as you watch people do

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and now it's time for the last word lawrence o'donnell. out something tonight. the way to handle a particular guest. it's patrick rodman keefe, he is the author of a brilliant new book about the opioid crisis called empire of pain. he has already done some press about it and he tweeted this, rachel, about one of his appearances on tv.

now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. to do

coming up this week on wednesday, lawrence o'donnell is sitting down with president joe biden as partent to talk about how to get everyone american vaccinated. he will be joined by anthony fauci who will all answer questions from the audience. that is at 10:00 eastern and it will be streaming on telemundo.com. >>> coming up, advocates pressuring the biden administration to help evacuate thousands of afghans that helped the u.s. before the taliban finds and kills them. we're talking with mikie sherrill. >>> and more than 50 dead after a bomb attack targeting schoolgirls. we'll have more as families bury their daughters, next. familiesy their daughters, next. this is our block. our place. our people. our block, it's just like yours. full of the people who shaped you. they all deserve care and access to the vaccine. no matter their address, income, or skin color. not having a ride to get the vaccine. can't be the reason you don't get it. you wanna help? donate a ride today. from prom dresses to workouts and new adventures you hope the more you give the less they'll miss. but even if your

on wednesday, my colleague, lawrence o'donnell, go lawrence, is sitting down with president joe biden for an msnbc town hall to discuss how to get every american vaccinated. lawrence will also be joined by dr. anthony fauci, vivek murtha, xavier becerra, and a vaccine developer who will answer questions from the audience. watch vaccinating america, an msnbc town hall with my pal lawrence, wednesday night, 10:00 p.m. eastern, right here on msnbc. that's all for us tonight. "all in" with chris hayes starts now. >> tonight, on "all in." >> right now, it's basically the titanic. we're like, you know, in the middle of this slow sink. >> the top republican in the house is officially telling his party to cancel the number three house republican for the unforgivable sin of advancing the truth. >> tonight, kevin mccarthy's letter calling for the purge of liz cheney. new reporting on the origin story of the big election lie, and jane mayor on the original dirty trickster who normalized trump. >>> then, the fierce urgency of now for the biden agenda. why republicans are closer to controlling con

gonna do it for us tonight, i'll see you again tomorrow and now it's time for the last word for lawrence o'donnell. good good evening lawrence. evening ranch. all you are gonna make an appearance in the next hour, in fact very early in this hour. elizabeth warren is our first guest tonight, and we're gonna show some of that video of you with elizabeth warren in her home in cambridge, right after she announced she was dropping out of the presidential campaign. because it was such a fascinating and moving hour of television that you did that night with senator warren and she, you know, is still with us of course in so many ways and in the book she talks about losing and how there are more things that can happen then you just lose a campaign. there are more dimensions to losing than people realize, including some of the winds that come from losing. like getting joe biden the nominee to adopt ideas that she impressed upon him. somewhat against his well during the presidential debates, for example. >> yeah, and also in the case of elizabeth warren, turning out to be maybe the most influential member of

gonna do it for us tonight, i'll see you again tomorrow and now it's time for the last word for lawrence o'donnellrance in the next hour, in fact very early in this hour. elizabeth warren is our first guest tonight, and we're gonna show some of that video of you with elizabeth warren in her home in cambridge, right after she announced she was dropping out of the presidential campaign. because it was such a fascinating and moving hour of television that you did that night with senator warren and she, you know, is still with us of course in so many ways and in the book she talks about losing and how there are more things that can happen then you just lose a campaign. there are more dimensions to losing than people realize,

>>> good evening, i'm lawrence o'donnell here for a special two hour edition of "the last word" on this memorial day weekend. today president biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier in arlington national cemetery and joined by jill biden and vice president kamala harris to honor the men and women of the united states military. president biden lost his son beau to brain cancer six years ago yesterday. here is what president biden said after the wreath-laying ceremony. >> our son beau's service in the delaware army national guard unit, the year he spent deployed in iraq was one of the things that he was most proud of in life. yesterday marked the anniversary of his death. and it is a hard time, a hard time of year for me and our family. just like it is for so many of you. it can hurt to remember but the hurt is how we feel and how we heal. i all feel beau close to me on memorial day. i know exactly where i need to be, right here honoring our fallen heroes. >> after the congressional recess president biden will be pressing congress on his legislati

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. of course, we don't have any idea with the mayor is going to tell us tomorrow. when i was working in the senate and senators would sometimes announce sometimes very big announcements, like bill bradley not going to run for reelection, and stunned reporters would be asking why, why, why. we'd all be sitting there saying well, no, it would be strange fer he ran for reelection. understanding not running for reelection has always been the easy part for me from living inside the lives those people have to live. it's the running for election and staying with it that is the harder thing to both do and understand as you watch people do it. because it is such a strain and it is so difficult. >> yeah. although in this case she so clearly seemed to have gone through that switch in terms of the rail lines and decided that's where she was going and having had options to stop what she was doing instead go do something very different in washington. no,

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now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. we have late word tonight from "the new york times" that don mcgahn is likely to testify next week on wednesday to the house judiciary committee. that is breaking news a couple of years in the making. >> well, you know, don mcgahn is the lead witness from the mueller investigation on president trump obstructing justice. all of those, you know, ten instances, ten instances plus of alleged criminal obstruction of justice laid out in great detail in the mueller report. mcgahn has never had to testify about it. this will be the first testimony that we've heard about it, and it happens just as the justice department is deciding right now whether or not they're going to release to the public the memo that bill barr's justice department prepared about why trump shouldn't be prosecuted for any of those alleged incidents of obstruction of justice. it's kind of all happening at the same time. >> and because of the late hour at which this justice d