earlier, a heated exchanging with al franken. a question about his dealings with russian officials during the campaign, whether there was any collusion, whether he had any conversations with the russians during his campaign. he said no. we have learned since then he had several meetings with the bam bass door to the united states. senator franken says his answers keep evolving. to him, listen, still unsatisfactory. >> that's been the suggestion that you've raised and others that somehow we had conversations that were improper. >> may i suggest that. >> no, no, no, you had a long time, senator franken. i'd like to respond. >> we'll note that senator cruz went two minutes over. so i don't -- they're going to cut me off. so i want to ask you some questions. >> i -- no, mr. chairman, i don't have to sit in here and listen to his. >> you're the one who testified. >> charges without having a chance to respond. give me a break. >> the attorney general is a former member of the senate before the hearing, if you weren't watching at the ve

senator franken? senator franken: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. smith, you were talking about human error. i want to be clear about something. in your written testimony, you that sophisticated cyber criminals who had been behind attacks on a long list of countries and agencies, including now yours, but i understand numerous other entities were provided with the same u.s. cert alert that equifax was. thethose entities, vulnerability was assessed and patched. within hours and at very little cost. this was not a novel vulnerability with a novel solution. would you agree? would.th: guess, i senator franken: yesterday at you told representative walden that the human error was the individual who was responsible for communicating to the organization to apply the patch did not. you said the same thing in your flake to chairman ,epresentative walden asked does that mean the individual new that the software was there, that it needs be patched, and did not communicate that to the team, that does the patching? is that the heart of the issue here, and you conf

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the guy didn't take as much time as senator franken prayed >> let me just deal with senator franken prayed three more minutes please. >> first of all, you said i didn't have communications with the russians. this is about ongoing communications, you had three communications and now you can't recall answering senator leahy, you can can't recall what you discussed with him. >> go ahead. you go and make a lot of allegations, it's hard for me to respond. >> can i have a little bit more time? okay. you've said today in response to senator leahy that you don't recall whether you talked about the campaign, you don't recall whether you talked about issues and trump's views on issues with russia. those are very, very relevant to the campaign. whether a surrogate from the campaign is talking with the russian ambassador about the candidates' view on russian policy, especially at the republican national convention at the mayflower hotel the day before trump is going to give his first maiden speech on foreign policy? that's a very different not being able to recall what you discussed with him is very d

the senator who nailed hill on that was minnesota senator al franken and al frank season the guest of lawrence o'donnell on "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." that does it for me. lawrence is about to begin. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. thank you for alerting the audience to that because as you alerted us all to this hearing that was coming this morning, that we all watched and al franken had said on this program once he had the time to digest the attorney general's confirmation testimony that it was perjury. said it was perjury. here we come back today an i know you saw that litany that senator franken read off of the adjustments to jeff sessions' testimony to his story since his confirmation hearing. >> yeah. and jeff sessions today insisting to senator franken as far as he's concerned no surrogates for the trump campaign met with the russians. when he himself now admitted that he's one of the trump surrogate that is meat with russians in the campaign. that shrug and response from the attorney general is going to end up being important and senator franken g

there are a lot of trump-franken voters or franken-trump voters in my state. now i am co-chair of the rural health caucus and so during these, again, these iterations of trumpcare, i've gone to a lot of hospitals and nursing homes and they hate this trumpcare, they hate it 'cause they know that slashing medicaid will hurt rural america worse than anything. the hospitals in minnesota, because we expanded medicaid, there's so much less uncompensated care now that they're able to hire more people and deliver better care at their hospitals and that has been a tremendous boon for everybody in rural minnesota and i've had round tables where people will cry because they know what happens if you cut medicaid this much. my mom, someone will say, gets her home healthcare through medicaid, my husband and i both work. if they take that away, there's a good chance they will if this happens, we don't know what we're going to do. - so the root back is for you to persuade those people you're on their side. - yeah. - that's it, you and people like you. - yeah, and then to talk

senator franken, i'm not aware of those activities. i have been called a surrogate a time or two in this campaign, and i did not have -- i didn't have -- did not have communications with the russians, and i'm unable to comment on it. i don't think that can fairly be interpreted as saying i never had conversations with any russians. it was referring directly to the suggestion that there was a continuing exchange of information between trump's surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government, which did not happen. at least not to my knowledge. and not with me. and that's why i responded the way i do. and i'm disappointed -- yes, you can say what you want to about the accuracy of it. but i think it was a good faith response to a dramatic event at the time. and i don't think it's fair for you to suggest otherwise. >> three minutes, and then finish. >> he took more than three minutes. >> no, he didn't. >> yeah. >> he took about two-and-a-half. >> no, no, no. >> how much do you want? i don't want to take a long time bargaining with y

franken. senator franken, before swearing in the witness, we'll turn to chairman grass lley. >> thank you. for the audience, i don't normally attend all the subcommittee meetings. i have great confidence in our chairman and ranking members. but this is such an important one i wanted to be here to say a few words and then i have to go back to the budget committee meeting. chairman flake, i know this isn't an unfamiliar subject to you monopoly in the last congress you held a hearing and a subcommittee examining the data broker industry security standards for protebing personal information. i appreciate your hard work and the bipartisan approach that you and senator franken have taken in examining this eschew over a long period of time. today's hearing continue as committees long-standing history involving our committee and data breach and data security. we've held hearings to examine past data breaches and spent years working on legislation to establish a uniform national day the security and br

took. >> let me just deal with senator franken. three more minutes, please. >> okay. first of all, you said "i didn't have -- did not have communications with the russians." this was about ongoing communications? you had three communications with kislyak. and now you can't recall answering senator leahy, you can't recall whether you discussed what you discussed with kislyak. >> what i would say to you is -- >> please. >> go ahead. you make a lot of allegations, senator, it's hard for me to respond in the time i've got. >> can i have a little bit more time? okay. [ inaudible ] >> you said today in response to senator leahy that you don't recall whether you talked about the campaign, you don't recall whether you talked about issues with russia. those are very, very relevant to the campaign, whether a surrogate from the campaign is talking with the russian ambassador about the candidates' views on russian policy, especially at the republican national convention, at the mayflower and president trump is going to gi us his opinion on for

chairman: senator franken. sen. franken: attorney general sessions, welcome back. last time we spoke, i asked you about russian interference in the 2016 presidential election there is now absolutely no question that the russians meddled in the election in order to undermine confidence in american democracy to damage the campaign of hillary clinton, and to boost donald trump. our intelligence agencies have confirmed this. we also know that there were many contacts and communications between russian operatives and trump campaign officials and associates. now in order to make sure that this kind of attack never happens again, we need to understand what happened. and whether anyone inside the trump campaign assisted the russians effort. during her confirmation hearing, i asked you, and i quote, "if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trunk -- trump campaign communicate with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what would you do?" that was a simple, straightforward question. what will you do? the implication was will you recuse yourse

chairman: senator franken. sen. franken: attorney general sessions, welcome back. last time we spoke, i asked you about russian interference in the 2016 presidential election there is now absolutely no question that the russians meddled in the election in order to undermine confidence in american democracy to damage the campaign of hillary clinton, and to boost donald trump. our intelligence agencies have confirmed this. we also know that there were many contacts and communications between russian operatives and trump campaign officials and associates. now in order to make sure that this kind of attack never happens again, we need to understand what happened. and whether anyone inside the trump campaign assisted the russians effort. during her confirmation hearing, i asked you, and i quote, "if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trunk -- trump campaign communicate with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what would you do?" that was a simple, straightforward question. what will you do? the implication was will you recuse yourse

franken: nasa just that -- a.g. sessions: no, you had a long time, senator franken. i would like to respond. sen. franken: we will note that senator cruz 12 minutes over. off soe going to cut me i want to ask you some questions. a.g. sessions: mr. chairman, i don't have to sit here and listen to -- sen. franken: you are the one who testified. a.g. sessions: without having a chance to respond. give me a break. sen. franken: ok, thank you. go ahead. a.g. sessions: it's not a simple question, senator franken. sen. franken: i'm sorry. a.g. sessions: it was not a support question. the lead in to your question was very, very troubling. way thatd to you in a i felt was responsive to what you raised in your question. let me read it to you. you said, cnn has just published a story, meaning that day, while we were in a hearing, that i had not heard about. sen. franken: keep reading. a.g. sessions: i'm telling you this about this new story that has just been published. i'm not expecting you to know whether or not it's true. cnn just published a story alleging that the intellige

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senator graham: senator franken. senator franken: thank you ranking member and chair for holding this. we've been looking at the russian attack on our democracy and questioning government officials past and present and campaign people for the trump the ign but now this is -- extent to which the russians exploited your -- exploited your platforms is bringing the question in, maybe this isn't something just the government has to do. this is something you guys have deal with and fix. and you were kind of the canary in the coal mine in 2016 and at was me time russia conducting cyberespionage against american political organizations they deployed this propaganda program on your platforms, in some cases paying for it in rubles. i want to understand why no one seems to have caught on to the russian effort earlier. mr. stretch. how did facebook, which prides itself on being able to process billions of data points and instantly transform them in the personal connections for its user somehow not make the ads ction that elector

>> yes, and before you heard that, the last question we just heard from senator franken, franken made a few other comments basically suggesting that sessions has been changing his story and possibly lying. so sessions is obviously very frustrated about that. but they've had exchanges before that were very testy and sessions pointed to those exchanges in past hearings. and what he wants to say is basically i haven't done anything wrong and you are continuing to suggest that i have. so there's a lot of frustration on both sides. senator franken was also trying to nail him down and trying to get him to admit that he did talk about the campaign with kislyak and the russians and that he did say something improper and that his story is changing which never looks good. i think the most important thing that came out of this hearing and dipped into that campaign is that sessions said he's not been interviewed by bob mueller. >> the great thing about improper is it's an adjective and therefore matter of opinion whether improper or not. so this allows him avoiding contradiction in the future, if

i know senator franken had an additional question. i'll just say, i know we're getting close to votes and we need to go. this has been a really good hearing. we have a lot of work making sure we do this right. it's critically important balancing workers civil rights and privacy. this has been a really important hearing and i appreciate everybody being here. thank you. senator franken. >> thank you both for this hearing. it's very refreshing, to be talking about keeping people healthy and having a healthcare discussion that isn't all about structures of insurance, although this has something to do with that. i do want to talk about the national diabetes prevention program, which has been very successful. before that, i just want to return one thing on the housing thing, which is on the opioid crisis, i had a visit yesterday from, i think it was yesterday from boys ford, a band in minnesota. in minnesota, we just had an explosion in opioid use especially in indian country. in indian country, housing is an enormous issue. as we go into t

senator franken: this is important, too. is no matter how much is nvested in security even if up like two guys linbehind gus the no guarantee that there isn't going to be some unforeseeable data bases as large as equifax. although this was not an it is eeable threat something they screwed up. both of you for discussion's do we rethink this? ow do we rethink this industry more broadly? not terribly whose ive to the paoeeople information was breached because not the product, customer. in is the incentive we put place for them to act more in this ly circumstance? you can't are saying datedo social security and of birth and what was the other? >> address. do you do? it is time that we put a chip in that is important r born? five-month-old at -- he might object. >> he is already born. i'm talking about your next child. >> i think we start with brother accounting of alarms that take place. at the cybersecurity industry at large there are but there ich occur are limits to what companies have to disclose. when they lose personal to

jeff sessions has in fact said that franken and senator patrick leahy, democrat from vermont, that he had no contact with the russians. but it came out in the washington post that he had at least two meetings with the then-russian ambassador. there are questions about a third meeting. -- sessions'unts accounts have evolved, overtime n said there were major inconsistencies and sessions' testimony. he also didn't understand why sessions never reported those contacts on his security clearance forms in connection with his justice department job this year. those are questions to which we have no firm answer. stonewalling,o democratic senator richard blumenthal from connecticut argued that sessions was stretching the concept of executive privilege to the breaking point. there is a challenge here from democrats, which is, in order to action with any contempt against jeff sessions, you need the cooperations of republicans, chuck grassley, the chairman of the judiciary committee. and there is no sign the republicans are buying in. >> my question has to do with, she just had a comment about com

senator franken. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for holding -- and to the ranking member for holding this important hearing. before the hearing started i spoke to all of you about housing. these wellness programs that are employer run are very helpful but what we're trying to do is to help people be healthy and lower the cost of their health care in the long run. mrs. mathis, you pointed out research that shows a strong connection between a person's health and stable housing. despite the fact that they're actually very often talked about as completely separate issues. in minnesota, han apin health in the accountable care organization in the twin cities saw the lack of stable housing was a major barrier to improving the health of their members so they decided to develop a program that paired health care, housing and social services. just one year after participates were placed in supportive housing, han apin health saw significant reductions in hospitalizations and psychiatric care and imprisonment or going to jail. the nu

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especially with his exchange with senator al franken.ost as if he was accusing al franken in the past of trapping him and making this out to be a bigger situation than it was. his interactions with russians, and not being forthcoming, but let's not forget, he recused himself for a reason. it wasn't just semantics that maybe i met someone and i didn't disclose i did. recused himself from anything regarding the russian investigation for a reason. i think given that, i would have expected a bit more preparation from the attorney general when it came to questions about russia, and also, he seemed a bit uncomfortable when he was asked point blank, do you think that enough is being done to combat any sort of russian interference in future elections. and he said no. it's a serious threat, and not enough is being done. >> very quickly, fiphil, were y surprised that the special counsel robert mueller's team has not yet asked sessions for an interview. >> no, if you go in a room with him, he's a key witness. you want to box him. you want to finish

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chairman grassley: senator franken. senator franken: i want to thank the witness force being here and be clear from the outset that what we're talking about when we're talking about ending daca. we're talking about completely upending the lives of over 800,000 young people. people who came here as children, worked hard, played hard by the rules, all for a chance to take part in the american dream. and people who will contribute mightily to our country. we talk about our fiscal health and the fiscal future and our country. we always demoan the demographics that we have. when we get in those debates it's always like if we just had more young people. this is a thousand young people who are working and are studying. those who we're talking about. -- we're talking about people like marlon. this remarkable young woman was an intern in my office in minnesota last summer. her mother, a sing the parent, -- single parent, brought her here from mexico as an infant because she wanted a bert life for her daughter. in marlon and her

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i thought the exchange with al franken was just hilarious. he's going back and forth. >> kimberly: can i play it for you? let's play more from sessions' testimony. juan wants to hear it. here is his fiery exchange with senator al franken. because the goalpost has been moved. first it was "i did not have medications with russians." which was not true. then it was "i never met with any russians to discuss any political campaign." now it's "i did not discuss interference in the campaign." >> i conducted no improper discussions with russians at any time regarding a campaign or any other item facing this country. mr. chairman, i don't have to sit in here and listen until -- >> you are the one -- >> without having a chance to respond. give me a break. the lead-in to your question was very, very troubling. >> kimberly: obviously some contention and tough moments between them here. >> juan: that was interesting because that's the way i feel sitting here some days. i don't have to listen to this. >> kimberly: but you do, for an hour. >> juan: it was i

. >> senator franken. >> thank you, mr.n for holding and the ranking member for holding this important hearing. before the hearing started, i spoke to all of you about housing. what we are trying to do is help people be healthy and to lower the cost of their health care in the long run. mathis, you pointed out research that shows a connection between people's health and stable housing. despite the fact that they are actually very often talked about as completely separate issues. in minnesota, hennepin health, an accountable care organization in the twin cities, saw the lack of stable housing was a major barrier to improving the health of their members, so they decided a development program that paired health care housing and social services. just one year after participants in the program were placed in supportive housing, they saw significant reductions in participant hospitalizations and psychiatric care and imprisonment or going to jail. the number one cure for homelessness is, it turns out to be a home. if you can wrap

>> reporter: sessions classed most bitterly with minnesota's al franken. >> mr.hairman, i don't have to sit in here and listen to his -- >> you're the one who -- >> without having chance to respond in give me a break. >> reporter: franken accused sessions of changing his story about a meeting with were's ambassador during last year's campaign. >> not being able to recall what you discussed with him is very different than saying, "i have not had communications with the russians." the ambassador from russia is russian. >> reporter: senators wanted to know how he plans to prevent future meddling. >> i don't know that we're doing a specific legislative review at this point. >> do you think it would be prudent? we have been warned. >> i think that is a suggestion. >> reporter: republican ben sasse asked if the u.s. is doing enough to combat russia interference online. >> probably not. we're not. >> reporter: sessions did eventually confirm in that hearing that he had not been asked to sit for an interview in connection with the russia probe, but he said he's committed

. >> may i suggest -- >> you had a long time, senator franken. i would like to respond. mr.on't have to sit in here and listen until his -- >> you are the one who testified. it is to go without having a chance to respond. >> bret: it was fiery. attorney general on capitol hill. senators, many democrats, pressing him for answers on the russian investigation among other things. back with the panel. byron. >> what was remarkable as it didn't really move the ball very far at all. the scene you saw with al franken and sessions, they were going over an exchange that it happened during confirmation hearing nine months ago. there were more conversations, more talk about sessions not revealing his conversations with the president which he still is not doing. it didn't really move the ball forward. it was almost like the attorney general showing up for his semiannual meeting at the judiciary committee. >> we saw two things today. general sessions is a very good lawyer and he came back primed for this entire experience with notes about his previous interactions with senator franken. it

sessions: senator franken, i would ject the phrase unrelenting hostility. do not -- this department of justice has no hostility to transgender or sexual orientation issues. in fact, we follow the law as i promised to do. with regard to several of the job employment issues you raised, that is directly controlled by title seven of the civil rights act and title seven of the civil rights act has never been held or at least by the department of justice under the entire eight years of the obama administration to include these protections. and the 11 courts of appeals, my understanding 10 of the 11 courts of appeals all agree that it is not protected by titleployment law under seven. only one circuit has recently reversed that position. so the position we're taking is the president obama, eric holder, lynch position. in the title seven issue. on title nine, the education, the schools question, it likewise is not covered in our opinion in the same way that seven is not covered, does not cover this employment issue. the department of justice or the department the d

the attorney general pushed back very hard against those accusations, saying that when senator franken asked him about the issue, he was relying on a cnn report that had just crossed that morning and that sessions had no knowledge of the report. let's listen to another exchange. >> you qualified your denial to say that you did not, quote, discuss issues of the campaign with russians. what in your view constitutes issues of the campaign? >> let me just say this without hesitation, that i conducted no improper discussions with russians at any time regarding a campaign or any other item facing this country. >> reporter: aside from the hearing before the senate judiciary committee, there was another key development over at the house intelligence committee. two members of this opposition research firm fusion gps, this is the firm that commissioned the anti-trump unverified dossier that kick started the fbi russia probe last year. they went before the committee in a closed classified session and they took the fifth to every question they were asked about the dossier. the committee has tried

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you also have senator susan collins and al franken. pretty interesting pair there, by the way.e some of the key things you hope to learn from them and what can we expect? >> we have a great show tonight. i'm very excited about the premiere, and we did, we spoke to paul ryan. you played a little bit of that. we talked to him a little bit more about tax reform. i also asked him about harvey weinstein because i think that's something at the forefront of a lot of people's minds. that should be interesting. from senator franken, one key question i think as well going forward is what does the future for democrats look like? you have to remember that even though we talk a lot about republicans struggling to govern, at the end of the day, if democrats want the job back, they have to put somebody forward to do it and decide how aggressively they want to run against this president. there are some on the left calling for people to say that the president should be impeached, for example. that may turn into a litmus test. so we'll talk to him about that. and susan collins, i think she made

we're joined by senatorial franken who claims he's back to being funny in public again.nd some are giving up and going home. susan collins stays the course. steve bannon takes center change declaring war on mitch mcconnell. we'll hear from chris mcdaniel, a conservative state from mississippi who came this close to beating an incumbent republican in 2014. will he try it again? we start with drama -- over the president's decision not to certify the iran deal. secretary of state rex tillerson has reportedly developed a tense relationship with nikki haley, the ambassador to the united nations. a white house official described the spat as, quote, world war iii proportions. the speculation, haley wants tillerson's job and has a better relationship with the president o. meet the press haley didn't encourage the feud but he didn't exactly deny it either. >> that is just so much drama. i mean, it's really -- it's all this palace inteagrigue. i am glad to be living in new york. i don't want to be near the drama and i don't want to be near the gossip. i'm going to continue to do a

do we have the al franken sound? i'm guessing we don't. matt, let me ask you, look, there were times, i'm sure you saw it, we saw pretty combative jeff sessions. what's the impact, do you think? if we didn't necessarily learn anything. first of all, do you agree with that? but what's the impact then of what happened today? >> i agree we didn't actually learn anything, although when the a.g. declines to answer questions, in ways that's a confirmation. having prepared a former attorney general for these types of questions, if the president hadn't talked to him about comey's firing being related to the russian matter who would have answered the question. might have said i can't discuss specific conversations with the president but can tell you the president never raised anything inappropriate with respect to russia in this context. there's a way of answering the question. the fact he wouldn't tell us, tells us out in what we need to know but the general direction. in terms of what we learned. it was a somewhat shaky performance i thought by t

the party she's going to campaign for candidates and that's the test of these things so there's al franken had to enough's enough basically it's time to time to move on we have to move on by proving we're the party that cares about a lot of the people who voted for yes i agree i agree with that. and i think she does too actually if you read the book i think she does say that her economic message didn't get through enough and i think that's an important important argument i think the democratic party right now is in a battle for the hearts and minds of people and the competition is you know an ugly zenith back racialized politics whether it's charlottesville or the muslim band or drum statements in puerto rico he's trying to appeal to people by attacking you know basically mining their hatred of other people and that's what the democratic party is up against and we have to have a we have to do a better job i think trump a lot of people voted for trump thinking he would be a champion for of the working class his policies have betrayed that and was up to democrats to not only criticize trump

>> sessions ed builterly with minnesota's al franken. >> mr.hairman i don't have to sit in here and listen. >> you are the one who testified. >> what having a chance to respond. give me a break. >> franken accused sessions of changing his story about a meeting with russia's ambassador during last year's campaign. >> not being able to recall what you discussed with him is very different than saying i have not had communications with the russians. the ambassador from russia is russian. >> senators wanted to know how he plans to prevent future election meddling. >> i will be frank. i don't know that we are doing an, a specific legislative review at this prudent to do it. we have been warned. >> i take that as a suggestion. >> republican ben sass asked if the u.s. is doing enough to combat russian interference online? >> probably not. we're not. >> sessions did eventually skun fiskun -- confirm he has not been asked to sit for an interview in connect, with russia probe. but said he is committed to cooperating and reit rate ereit had no improper con

franken: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to discuss the consumer financial protection bureau's recently finalized rule to limit the use of predispute forced arbitration clauses in contracts for financial services and products. i strongly oppose the congressional review act resolution to dismantle this vital consumer protection. forced arbitration clauses force individuals to sign away their right to go to court as a condition of buying a product or service, and they allow corporate america to take advantage of a shadow justice system that is inherently biased toward the corporation, offers no meaningful appeals process. to put it bluntly, these clauses serve one purpose and one purpose alone. to help make sure the giant corporations still come out on top if they have wronged consumers. thankfully we've started to make some progress in addressing forced arbitration. five years ago the consumer financial protection bureau began an intensive study of forced arbitration clauses in consumer financial services contrac

senator franken, thank you for chairing. >> thank you. as you're leaving, i'd like to thank you and senator murray for calling this hearing and also for the negotiations that you're -- the important negotiations that you're involved in. so thank you. i just wanted to do that. sorry, i haven't been here for the whole thing. i had some other stuff to do and i ran back so that i could do this. so you'll excuse me. actually, i didn't run back. this is just such an exciting hearing. it seems like from your testimony and -- mainly from your testimony that like every one of you in some way or another is responsible for getting prices down. that's what it seemed like from your testimony. and i think senator young touched on this, but i want to try to go over it again for myself. the u.s. spends more on prescription drugs than any industrialized country in part because drug prices are higher in the u.s. than in any other country. the drug industry pushes back and says that these price comparisons don't take into account the discounts that manufact

kidd: before he was senator al franken, he was a writer and star on "snl."aid there was something different about david letterman's show. senator franken: dave was patient. kidd: late-night tv and jokes are no longer his priority. his focus is on family and his son, harry. david: are you a father? kidd: i am not. david: it is a switch that goes on the minute they are born and you never turn it off, and the love is equal in measure to the concern and fear you have for the child, and it never takes a second off. adrianna: seems like just the coolest. josh: yes, he does. adrianna: all of my weekend weather. josh: couldn't ask for much more. you will wait until the end of october. we will see a few more of these cooler and wet and windy days. most of the bad weather moving through overnight. in quotation "bad" marks because we need the rain and we are thankful it is coming through. cloud cover will be in and out for us. chantilly come right over there at dulles airport, and a temperature-wise, warming up. for pc fredericksburg is 78. cloud cover has been working

the senator who nailed hill on that was minnesota senator al franken and al frank season the guest ofo'donnell on "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." that does it for me. lawrence is about to begin. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. thank you for alerting the audience to that because as you alerted us all to this hearing that was coming this morning, that we all watched and al franken had said on this program once he had the time to digest the attorney general's confirmation testimony that it was perjury. said it was perjury. here we come back today a