meanwhile carol rosenberg keeps reports. she keeps filing.e news that hundreds of suspected isis fighters could find themselves at guantanamo. nobody is better equipped to follow that story for

meanwhile carol rosenberg keeps reports. she keeps filing. just in the past day she has delivered the news that hundreds of suspected isis fighters could find themselves at guantanamo. nobody is better equipped to follow that story for you than carol rosenberg. she wants to keep covering it. frankly, the nation needs her to keep covering it because nobody else can the way that she has. does she get that chance? there has to be some kind of way, right? it will be something that we will all own at the end of our lives. carol will be the reason we know the story of it. she can't lose that job. that does it for us tonight. now it is time for the last word for lawrence o'donnell. i'm sorry i took your minute. >> it was a minute we wanted to give you, rachel. this is one of those nights where we had a plan and jeff bezos happened. this statement that he's released tonight is absolutely extraordinary, and i think it is a gigantic moment, actually, in the history of our digital communication, which everyone has known has been at risk for quite a whil

rosenberg is back. paul butler is onset, carol lee, and sam stein, at "the daily beast," it is a big, big news day. what was that? >> i have interviewed terrorists that were more cooperative and respective than matt whittaker was today. i say that with sadness because the attorney general role is america's lawyer. we're his clooint and we're represented by the congress members sitting in that room and he treated us with utter disdain, sarcasm, barely barely trying to get through this seriously. this is basically thumbing your nose at oversight by the people. and the way he conducted himself today is an indication that he is not america's attorney, he is seeing himself as trump's attorn attorney. >> and i understand some of whittaker's goals today, there was a lot of preparation, but not for the reasons we may believe. whittaker was auditioning for another job in this administration, he had an audience of one, and he had as one of his goals to be the sarah huckabee sanders of the justice department, does that explain some of what we saw? >> it jives with what we saw today. i think possibly we will s

attorney chuck rosenberg, with us on set from d.c., paul butler, and msnbc national political reporter carol lee and sam stein, politics editor at the bailey beast. big guns, all of them, for a big, big news day. frank, i've got to start with you. what was that? >> i'm not kidding when i say i have interviewed more terrorists that were more cooperative than whit we are was today. i tell you, i say that with sadness because the attorney general is america's lawyer. we are his client. and we're represented by the congress members sitting in that room and he treated us with utter disdain, sarcasm, barely trying to get through this seriously. this is basically thumbing your nose at oversight by the people. and the way he conducted himself today is an indication that he's not america's attorney. he's essentially seeing himself as trump's attorney. >> so let me, frank, put on the table some of my reporting this week about what the preparations for today's testimony and some of what i understand to be whitaker's goals today. one, there was a lot of preparations but for for the reason we believe the