i'm al franken.'m only former u.s. senator -- [ cheers and applause ] i'm the only former u.s. senator to guest host "jimmy kimmel live!" [ cheers and applause ] but tonight is not about politics. it's about comedy and having fun. [ cheers and applause ] so, who's here from out of state to get an abortion? [ laughter ] [ cheers are ] >> al: wow, wow. all of you. [ laughter ] you know, one of the things i was looking forward to tonight was working with america's number one sidekick, guillermo. [ cheers and applause ] >> guillermo: thank you, sir! you're doing a good job. >> al: by the way, guillermo, by the way -- what people out there probably may not know is that you don't actually have an accent. >> guillermo: that's right. [ laughter ] >> al: yeah. it's actually all, you know, part of the schtick that you do with jimmy. >> guillermo: yes, it's part of a -- ticks. [ laughter ] yeah. yes. >> al: we have some encouraging news out of washington. today, president biden signed "the inflation reduction a

al franken right there, he happens to be one of our favorite guests. i wish you all a very good night. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow >> tonight on all in -- >> house speaker nancy pelosi says she fears for our very democracy if republicans win in november. do you? >> the fate of democracy and the republican party in the wake of liz cheney's loss. >> i think we have to make sure that we are fighting against every single election denier. the election deniers, right now, are republicans. >> then, what did really rudy giuliani tell a fulton county grand jury? >> do you believe president trump is the ultimate target of this investigation? >> and are we on the verge of seeing a roadmap to the government's ongoing

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tomorrow night, al franken will be hosting with his guests bob odenkirk and congresswoman katie porterusic from los lobos. but our first guest is an extremely talented and extremely honest comedian, actor and filmmaker. he's currently nominated for two emmys, and his first feature film as director and star, "on the count of three," premieres wednesday on hulu. give it up for the very funny jerrod carmichael. [ cheers and applause ] >> whoo! >> desus: jerrod, where's your shirt? >> bro, it's l.a. >> desus: is that a nipple? that's why i'm getting tongue-tied here. >> it's l.a. secret, you don't need a shirt. i've been wearing flannels. it's a dry heat. no humidity. so you're not like sweating or gross or anything like that. >> desus: did you start dressing like this before you get two emmy nominations or after? >> the question is did i dress like this before i came out. [ laughter ] and no. no. how you been, bro? >> desus: bro, i'm hosting ki kimmel, dog. >> what you doing out here? [ cheers and applause ] well, i'm trying to imagine how they must feel because it's just like we got a su

. >> former senator al franken tweeted i have decided to endorse liz cheney for the house seat in wyomingtime in gop primary, but i think that the support will carry a lot of weight. absentee voting began here in wyoming about six weeks ago. primary day is tuesday. >> rich edson in casper wyoming. thank you. next. republican senator lisa murkowski is facing off against a trump backed challenger in tuesday's primary. live in anchorage alaska right now. >> seeing lisa murkowski defeated in her reelection bid has been high on former president trumps priority list ever since she voted for his impeachment. the latest chapter in their long-running feud will unfold here tuesday. >> we will get everybody riled and ready. >> she know she is in a fight after 20 years in the senate she is facing the strongest election threat yet. >> thank you. i appreciate your vote. >> kelly running significantly to the right of the more moderate murkowski is pushing hard. >> you can either vote for the senator that joe biden wants to be the next senator of alaska or we can vote for the senator that represents alas

congresswoman cheyney has been trying to go after democrats and she had the endorsement of al franken, former democratic senator from minnesota. she had the endorsement from other people like kevin costner and others coming out and saying this is our person. here's the trouble, registered republicans in wyoming went up 19,000 in august of this year. they're at 215,000. registered democrats went down 9,000. they're at 36,000. so it's tough to imagine that she could get that many democrats to cross over and vote in this election we'll see tonight. it'll be part of this story line about house republicans who voted for impeachment and this is where we are tonight. she's the only one we don't know the answer to ten house republicans. four who retired, you have three who lost, you have two who advanced to the general election. and one tonight. kennedy: yeah, so that's going to be very, very interesting and we will be following that race. thanks to your leadership. and i also want to talk about a.c. lot of people had no idea that sarah palin is staging a comeback there, or she's trying to, b

al franken right there, he happens to be one of our favorite guests. on that find no, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with us, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow. >> tonight, as donald trump's former vice president considers talking to the january six investigation. his former lawyer testifies before an atlanta grand jury and his longtime cfo prepares to plead guilty in turn on the trump organization. despite the presidents considerable legal woes, he can't seem to find any qualified attorneys to represent him. carol lenning, who joins us live. then we go down to florida, where republican governor ron desantis has given some new lessons for -- revisionist history, and christian nationalism. new yorker writer, and dean of the -- jelani cobb will be in the studios to discuss, and president biden cancels -- promising jobs of the future, that never arrived. but we start tonight with mounting investigations into the former president of the united stat

al franken right there, he happens to be one of our favorite guests. and on that final note, i wish you all a very good night. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow >> tonight on all in -- >> house speaker nancy pelosi says she fears for our very democracy if republicans win in november. do you? >> the fate of democracy and the republican party in the wake of liz cheney's loss. >> i think we have to make sure that we are fighting against every single election denier. the election deniers, right now, are republicans. >> then, what did really rudy giuliani tell a fulton county grand jury? >> do you believe president trump is the ultimate target of this investigation? >> and are we on the verge of seeing a roadmap to the government's ongoing investigation of donald trump? plus, raw politics at the green grocer in pennsylvania. >> for those watching in pennsylvania, you know how particular many people are about their groceries. what happened with wegma

al franken, democratic senator of minnesota saying he decided to endorse liz cheney for the republicanron, there are enough democrats to make the difference in wyoming's primary. however, is this something that lends you to believe that she is going to run for president in 2024? >> absolutely. she has built up a national network of donors, way more than 90% of her contributions have come from outside the state of wyoming and this single issue that i was talking about happens to be an issue that does appeal to democrats and to some independents and the relatively small number of anti-trump republicans. so, the fact that she has built up this big war chest, and she has not spent anywhere near that amount in her campaign, which means she's sitting on a lot of campaign money she could use in the future. the fact she's done all those things has suggested to people she might be planning a presidential run in the republican primaries in 2024 to sort of raise the banner of opposition to donald trump and try to gather all the opposition into one force behind her. >> bret: talk quickly about ala