he struck a deal with calk. calk ignored the red flags on manafort's portfolio. ended up approving loans for a whopping $16 million. trump was appointed to the economic advisory council. when manafort needed that multimillion-dollar second loan, this time, calk approved it and shortly thereafter sent manafort a list of administration jobs that he wanted. manafort did end up getting calk an interview in undersecretary of the army, but he never got the job. he did get decided for that scheme in new york city. he was convicted in july of financing institution bribery and conspiracy. yesterday, nearly six years after the start of that bribery scheme, calk was finally sentence. the department of justice aptly puts the news in its head line bank ceo stephen m.calk sentenced to one year and one day for corruptly soliciting a presidential administration police station in exchange for approving $16 million in loans. in addition to spending 366 days in prison, calk must pay $1.2 million in fines, community service and undergo two years of supervised release. as for manafor

manafort did and up getting calk and interviewed him a trump tower, but calk never got the job.k city. he was convicted in july of financial institution bribery and conspiracy, and yesterday, nearly six years after the start of that bribery scheme, calk was finally sentenced. the department of justice aptly puts the news and it's headline announcing the news, quote, bank ceo stephen em cobb sentenced to one year and one day for corruptly soliciting a presidential administration position in exchange for approving 16 million and loans. in addition to spending 366 days in prison, calk must pay one point $2 million in fines, complete community service, and undergo two years of supervised release. as for manafort, he too was convicted of multiple felonies and other schemes, including bank fraud and filing false tax returns. but he is free. of course, because donald trump pardoned him right before he left office. but nice work if you can get it. that does it for us tonight, we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. that's not our world, we

on every member state to leave up to the principles of the chart for mr . president, the guns at calking now, but the passive dialogue must always remain open. it's never too late to engage in good faith negotiations. and whether asked ali shoes peacefully. i hope that the direct dogs not taking place between ukrainian and russia delegations will produce not only an immediate oh, to the fighting, but also a pess towards the diplomatic solution. i welcome and encourage all peaceful efforts to end the bloodshed and loved these conflict. i think the countries who have offered to oceans facilitate negotiations. united nations is regular to support such efforts. if the president's war is not the answer, it is thus human suffering says, 1st destruction, and then immense. this systems destruction, and then immense distraction from the real challenges facing humanity. the climate crisis and biodiversity loss vitally need. the social economic recovery from the pandemic healing the divides of race and gender, and so many of the pressing 21st century challenges humanity can not afford to be locked

in addition to spending 366 days in prison, calk must pay one point $2 million in fines, complete community service, and undergo two years of supervised release. as for manafort, he too was convicted of multiple felonies and other schemes, including bank fraud and filing false tax returns. but he is free. of course, because donald trump pardoned him right before he left office. but nice work if you can get it. that does it for us tonight, we'll see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. that's not our world, we just have to keep on working, we can't just do that stuff and get away with. it on >> we certainly do. and ali, we have steve schmidt joining us tonight. we're gonna get his reaction to the republican national committee. their new definition of what they call legitimate political discourse. i really want to hear what's steve schmidt has to say about this. he used to work with those -- with the republican national committee. and not the same people. but i i'm eager to hear his reaction. >> i'm looking for tua to. i'll be watching, my friend. >> th

committee also subpoenaed the former chair of the michigan republican party, a woman named laura calk's. the committees interested in this event from december 2020 was a number of the -- rudy did at that time. where she was a witness to rudy giuliani pressuring michigan republicans to disregard the old results of the election. again, directly appoint electors who would vote for trump. for three more subpoenas went to people who, while not exactly household names, where some of the most prominent figures promoting trump's big lies conspiracy theory. you have pennsylvania state senator doug mastriano who's running for governor -- excuse me. he is a die hard trump supporter as he tried to overturn the election results in pennsylvania. after the election in late 2020, the mastriano participated in a plan to arrange for alternate slate of electors to be presented to the president of the senate, on january 6th. again, he was doing this fully out in the open. he told steve bannon all about his plan. proposed a solution in the legislature that allowed him to seat a phony slate of electors. >> w

so last year we awarded 110 -- 310 billion dollars in funding through the departments calk's office torcement partners. this included more than 139 billion dollars to the cops hiring program, which provides funding to cities and towns to hire more law enforcement officers and put more resources to work building community trust. we also understand that our society frequently turns to law enforcement to address a wide array of social problems. too often, police officers are the first ones called when someone is experiencing a mental health crisis. such calls are necessarily unnecessarily lead to difficult and dangerous confrontations. that is why we will continue to support programs to provide alternative approaches to engaging with people with problems that are better handled by non law enforcement professionals. we also know that promoting public trust between communities and law enforcement is essential to making both communities and policing safety safer. the department will continue to fulfill its duties to ensure the constitutional policing practices that promote the accountability

committee also subpoenaed the former chair of the michigan republican party, a woman named laura calk's the committees interested in this event from december 2020 was a number of the -- where she was a witness to rudy giuliani pressuring michigan republicans to disregard the old results of the election. again, directly appoint electors who would vote for trump. for three more subpoenas went to people who, while not exactly household names, where some of the most prominent figures promoting trump's big lies conspiracy theory. you have pennsylvania state senator doug pennsylvania who's running for governor -- excuse me. he is a die hard trump supporter as he tried to overturn the election results in pennsylvania. the mastriano participated in a plan to arrange for alternate slate of electors footprint rather than resolving key problems and therefore i'm disappointed that is not the central topic of today's hearing. and then from what i was headed here but as it relates to lng and crude oil exports. is the ban on the table it want to dress energy cost. and then with the lng side and then n