lawrence stubs. attacked pro slavery strongholds in and around lawrence. they acquired a cannon that would been confiscated from them in the sack of lawrence but they only had handful of cannon balls, so they got the people to collect the type from the herald of freedom that had been scattered around and molded this into cannon balls. so the next time they attacked the fort, the cannonier as he fired one of the shots off, said here is the edition of the herald freedom. i love that. that's one of my favorite things from the whole story. well the violence nearly stopped in 1856 when the new governor by the name of john geary became the territorial governor. he made it clear he was not going take sides and was not going be free state. so he made it very clear, but also put his money where his mouth was. so the missourians were all ready to attack lawrence yet again for a third time. he sent the army down overnight and they stopped the third, what would have been the third attack on lawrence. but also, as the soldiers were marching back to lee compton, territo

and met with lawrence again and asked lawrence to help him with this project. and lawrence, of course, refused. and he said, you know, i've given a lot of money to kansas, and, you know, to this issue already, which he had. but when john brown asked him if he would take care of his family, if anything happened to him, lawrence agreed to do that. and he did. he actually took care of his family when john brown -- and he wrote a letter to the governor of virginia hoping that they would give him a fair trial. which they did, so that's -- there's more connections. it doesn't really -- there's not a whole lot that fits with the story because he triggered things, but then kind of left. >> the good people of kansas think the civil war started there. they look at mr. brown as a hero. i've always kind of disagreed with that a little bit. >> there's so much debate over john brown, was he completely insane or was he just a zealot? i don't know. was he insane or a zealot, i don't know, i have no idea. anyone else? yes, sir. >> you -- quantril. was there a directive to try a

he wases no a resident of lawrence. he lived a number of miles south of lawrence. he, his sons and others murdered five pro-slavery settlers in 1856 which touched off attacks and counterattacks for smoefrls in what was called bleeding kansas. pro and anti-slave i militias attacked each other in open warfare. one free state militia called the lawrence stubs, i that name, isn't that great, lawrence stubs, attacked pro-slavery strongholds in and around lawrence. and they, the stubs, reacquired a cannon that had been confiscated from them in the sack of lawrence, but they only had a handful of cannonballs. so the cannoneer in charge of the cannon got the people of lawrence to go out and collect all new type from "the heralthef freedom" that was scatter around and mold the type into cannonballs. so the next time around they said here is the next edition of ""the herald" freedom." i loved that. that's one of my favorite things from the whole story. well, the violence nearly stopped in 1856 when a new governor by the name of john geary became the territorial governor. now

and met with lawrence again and asked lawrence to help him with this project and lawrence of course refused. and he said, you know, i've given a lot of money to kansas to this issue already. which he had. but when john brown asked him the if he would take care of his family, if anything happened to him, lawrence agreed to do that. and he did. he actually took care of his family and he wrote a letter to the governor of virginia. hoping that they would give him a fair trial. which they did. so that's, there's more connections. but it didn't really, there's not a whole lot that fits with the story because he triggered things, but then kind of left. >> the good people of kansas find that the civil war started there and i think they kind of looked at mr. brown as a -- and i've always kind of disagreed with that just a little bit. >> there's so much debate over john brourng was he completely insane or just a zealot. i've tried to stay out of u that debate. was he insane or a zealot. i have no idea. anyone else? yes, sir. >> you asked about supporting -- -- [ inaudiblenaud yes. part of the deal wi

"outnumbered" today, lawrence jones, or as i like to call him big law. >> lawrence: only you can do that. >> harris: it's good to see you. >> lawrence: it's good to see you all today. thanks so much for having me. not a lot of joy going on in the world today. >> harris: i'm leaving it to you. >> lisa: it we can make a joyful on this couch. let's do it. >> kennedy: the ornaments on the tree at home. >> harris: we will break it serious now. just hours after al franken plan to resign in the coming weeks and make sexual misconduct claims, and a republican arizona congressman trent franks that he will step down at the end of january. the house ethics committee open an investigation to look at allegations against franks yesterday. he said, "i had never physicall physically, intimidated, coerced, or attempted to have any sexual contact with any member of my staff." franks admits he made two former female subordinates feel uncomfortable by discussing fertility issues, saying he deeply regrets that it caused distress in a workplace. here's more. the house ethics panel also said it is expanding it

can you guys name any jennifer lawrence movie at all? >> jennifer lawrence!jennifer: anybody know where jennifer lawrence's house is? >> oh! >> jennifer: can anyone name five movies i've been in? >> "hunger games." >> "american hustle." >> that's what i was going to say. >> "joy." >> jennifer: bye, guys. i see these vans drive by my neighborhood, so if you see somebody in a tesla giving you the finger, that's me. guillermo, can you name five movies i've been in? >> guillermo: five movies? >> jennifer: five movies i've been in, not just five movies. >> guillermo: "the hunger games." >> jennifer: that's a movie. >> guillermo: "joy." >> jennifer: wow, you're doing well. >> guillermo: "x-men." >> jennifer: oh my god. >> guillermo: "passengers." >> jennifer: oh my god. >> guillermo: "winter's bone." >> jennifer: great work. i'm so honored you're my biggest fan. >> guillermo: i love your movies and i love you too. >> jennifer: oh, shut the [ bleep ] up. [ cheers and applause ] >> jennifer: i do love you, guillermo. we have to take a break. when we come back, parent

lawrence's wife was a fairfax. the second wife of william fairfax, who himself had served sometime in barbados, was deborah clarke, who was sister to ginny clarke of barbados. were well set up -- i went forward to much -- to be accommodated on the island. mantra of real estate is location, location, location. and barbados is very well located. it is in the crossroads of the north atlantic economic system. so south america, africa, north america, europe, united kingdom. barbados in the 17th century was one of the hubs of the british empire's trading system. america, london in the home country, and bridgetown in barbados. important iny terms of the logistical, navigational, and trading aspects. on importance for belying the ane of the island -- belying the sizelyin far of the island. to illustrate the importance of these islands, it seems incredible today, but at the end of the seven years war, france is prepared to give up half of the continent of north america in order to retain the islands of martinique and guadel

on the last word with lawrence o'donnell. lawrence has written an absolutely riveting account of the most tumultuous year of my life, 1968 with the transformation of american politics. it began of course in 1967 and continues into 1968. 2001 will be for most americans the year of their greatest greeting. 9/11 brought america together, if only for a time. 1968 divided us in ways so deep and profound they are still evidenced. what do you make that 9/11 brought us together but 1968 was our most divisive year. >> absolutely, hugh. it was coming toward the end of a decade where we had all been brought together by tragedy on november 22nd, 1963 when president kennedy was assassinated. it is a very, very similar feel to 9/11. but 1968, which saw two assassinations, martin luther king jr. followed by bobby kennedy, was completely divisive all the way through from start to finish. those assassinations, hugh, as you recall, did not have a kind of unifying emotional response to it. there was rioting after martin luther king jr.'s assass

simply unable to do it of the shadowing the situation from but on that note of hope's lawrence at one point in time the u.s. president was praising let him a hootin as a very smart thirsts and in the russian leader as late as october the fourth still sounded somewhat hopeful of better relations with the u.s. saying his country had quote many friends in america what happened was it all down to domestic american politics i don't think it was domestic politics i think it was basically his national security team general mattis and the pentagon secretary chiller sen general mcmaster who's his national security advisor have pointed out to him that russia and putin are taking advantage of the president by pushing their agenda for example has been mentioned in and in syria they show no sign of backing off in ukraine and even with the what korea while they're voting for the sanctions they're not really enforcing a no to the extent that the united states would line now one of the problems with president trump is he will say one thing and then and basically he what they his staff will put out a

of course is north korea there are some common interests between washington and moscow lawrence when it comes to north korea but on december the sixteenth interestingly china russia concluded joint drills and if you listen to some of the former military commanders of the chinese army in their country at least they say it was designed to counter any u.s. military moves should war break out of the korean peninsula we see perhaps less can . sensis emerging between washington on the one hand and perhaps moscow and beijing on the other on the north korean file well i think you saw this week with the new un resolution which the north koreans declared an act of war that russia and china recognize that if you have a confrontation there nobody wins because north korea now has nuclear weapons and that they could really create havoc so i think the russians and our and the chinese basically are concerned that the united states might take advantage of the if you don't buy at the korean peninsula with that is not to is not is not the case a ha but they basically don't want to see north korea get t

with that, i yield to representative brenda lawrence of michigan. rep. lawrence: good afternoon. we in congress are facing a critical point in history. many are calling it a watershed moment. for too long, accountability has not been a priority and bad behavior has gone unchecked. for too long, we have excepted, doubts -- we have a ccepted copouts like locker room talk. for too long, courageous voices have fallen on deaf ears. that time is over. mr. president, you do not live under a different set of force -- different set of rules. as the vice chair of the democratic women's working group and a member of the oversight committee, i stand here to support their right to a voice and to seek justice. i stand here demanding accountability, a full whentigation from congress the white house will not provide its own. i stand here in support of over 100 of my colleagues, and i'm sure millions across america, asking for this fair and transparent investigation. elijah cummings, ranking member of our oversight committee, has already gone out with strong support of moving forward with this in

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening. give me a second for my speechlessness. >> sorry. >> it makes me recall donald trump and the people working inside the trump operation and what they said donald trump said when he actually saw a black accountant working in the trump operations on accounting and saying he wanted all of his accountants to be wearing yamacas which was, you know, this trump vision of where the jews fit in his life at the time. >> apparently after kayla moore said within of our attorneys is a jew, and then gave that priceless look, the next thing she said was, we have very close friends that are jewish and rabbis. so, i just -- i mean -- we can -- making me -- >> yeah, yeah. >> we get paid to talk for a living but there isn't enough money in the world to talk properly about this. >> there is a way to render us speechless. >> yes. >> roy moore's wife has done so. >> yes. thank you, my friend. good luck. >> thank you. >>> well, alabama has not voted for a democrat for united states senate since 1992 when bot

i think professor lawrence just nailed it. there were other options and they weren't -- those roads weren't taken and they include all of these peace attempts. you know, you had operation mary gold. you had operation pennsylvania in '66 and '67 but peace talks were not what leaders in washington wanted to pursue. but at the same time what i see from records from the other side, the north side, they did not want to pursue negotiations in 1966 '67 and so you had sort of more militant leaders wanting to pursue a military solution first and foremost before they engaged in any substantive talk. despite, you know, influential policy makers, scholars, other voices saying that the united states and the belligerents needed to engage in talk. >> may i add one thing? >> sure. >> very quickly. it seems to me that if we are looking for roads not taken, opportunities missed, we would do best to go further back in time into the 1950s, maybe the early 1960s, but once people are dying, once politically, maybe eisenhow eisenhower, kennedy, defi

glad you joined us with lawrence o'donnell in just a moment. >> and from con vi tribuplease lawrence o'donnell, back to the program. host of the msnbc "the last word" worked inside the beltway and behind the scenes of hollywood including as a writer for the west wing. his latest text is called, playing with fire. the 1968 election and the transformation of american politics, lawrence o'donnell, good to have you on the west coast and on our program. my friend. >> so good to be in the studio with you. usually, you're coming on my show. and you i am in new york doing it on satellite from here. and we always get the tavis smiley bump in the ratings, what we are going for. never in the same room. >> sure my ratings will bump that you are on tonight. let me start with, that, since you went there, what is it like being on that network covering this moment in our nation's history? awe up a >> it is a completely changed job. there used to be, you know, a section of the day, good three hours of the day where you were trying to figure out w what you would cover in an hour of cable news primetim

lawrence, i'll ask you. anytime he weighs in on this issue in particular it seems some voters or at least reminded of the accusations that came out against resident trump is a politically wise for him to get involved? >> i think both political parties have decided they're just going to support their candidate because it's politically expedient. i think we're talking about donald trump's decision, he was of the allegations against him weren't true. so i put him in that position with judge more when you say they weren't true. right now, i'm not sure i believe judge moore, i believe that due process should happen but i think the president is coming from the perspective of a victim. >> melissa: i wonder if it just has more to do with he's coming from a place of just

good evening, lawrence. what is your news? >> good evening, ari. you very much for holding the show together. >> sure. >> this week. really appreciate it. the last time i was on was last wednesday night and since then the kind fund has raised $600,000 over the christmas holiday. that's actually bringing our total for this year, which was really just this month, we have only been talking about it for this month, $1.7 million and pushing the total since began this at the beginning of the program seven years now across the $16 million mark. so as of tonight we have collected through the generosity of the audience, a total of $16,050,816 and still with all of that to provide desks for hundreds of thousands of kids in malawi, still most of the kids in the schools do not have desks. we have a long way do go and the audience know that is and they have been wonderfully committed to this. this month we have been crushed with the news that this year we have actually been able to speak about the kind fund on show less than any other year but the audience hung

. >> well, thank you, lawrence. this was a great opportunity to me for me to visit my ancestral county, winston county, the free state of winston and the attitudes i found there typified what's going on in this race. the men are all solidly convincing one another that roy moore's being lied about. the women are timidly -- not raising their voices but stating their opinion and in some cases i ran into one woman who said she and her pastor meeting about roy moore and both of them found him creepy. so, the erosion among women voters particularly in the republican suburbs holds one of the keys. interestingly, shelby's remark today that he was writing in could be a factor because the jones people are hoping for about a 2% write-in drain on the republican vote. it looks to me like this is most important election for alabama's future since the election of 1970. that was when george wallace beat a progressive new south candidate and sentenced alabama to 25 years of retro politics. it's a chilly night here outside dothan but

ali velshi is in for lawrence. >> very well put. thank you, my friend. >> we have a fun thing coming up tonight. you get out soon and you should watch this. or get home in time to watch it. >> okay. >> just in time for the holidays, the staff put together a look back at the best moments from these very conversations that you have every night with lawrence. >> oh god. >> spoiler alert, there's going to be some blushing and may not want to be in public. >> you guys super cut the me and lawrence crossovers? >> uh-huh. >> okay. >> this is part one. have a great weekend. >> thank you, ali. >>> all right. it looked like all smiles this week at the trump white house but behind the scenes tension and frustrations boiled over as those closest to donald trump gave him a warning. it's a blood bath for republicans. according to the wednesday celebration. trump aides and outside advisers held a spirited and at times tense discussion with the president. quote, the gathering saw tempers flare as aids vented the frustrations and concerns about the

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reporting live in washington, edward lawrence. back to you.nd eun. >> edward, thank you. >>> it's 4:48. the secret service says it has interviewed someone claiming responsibility for delivering a gift wrapped package of horse manure to treasury secretary steve mnuchin. >> they've declined top identify the person but a psychologist by the name of robby strong says he's the guy. it was found at the home of mnuchin's neighbor. the bomb squad had to respond to this package. it was marked as being "from the american strong says he was protesting new tax laws. >> this new tax law that's going to kick millions of people off of health care and ultimately going to give the corporations tons of money at the expense of the average working poor family, i felt like i needed to do something equally absurd. >> since coming forward, strong says he's received some death threats as well. >>> a couple from maryland is among the five people killed in a christmas eve plane crash in florida. she was a fourth grade teacher in baltimore. her husband peter was studyin

good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. it's doable stuff and it is so inspiring to watch them do that. i could watch that video you were showing of them just passing the box from one to another up that chain. that's just amazing to watch. >> yeah. and, you know, there was a guy filming it on facebook live and asked each people where are you from? where are you from? from every town imaginable all over michigan. people doing this. it was an entirely volunteer effort. totally nonpartisan and want it to be a technocratic good government thing. i find it inspiring and all good government stuff inspiring and making it work in michigan. >> something of the power of that shot watching that cooperation, just from one hand to the next hand just moving it along. you can't tell those people that their effort doesn't matter. >> yeah. exactly. and they're going to win. watch this space. >> i'm watching this space. i agree with you. thank you. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> well, if he's going to do it he's going to do it now. any day now.

. >> now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." pay attention to american politics. >> sort of. to have beaten bob marshall, the guy that authored the virginia bathroom transban, it shows you that sometimes history is written with a caps lock key on, right? sometimes history is not subtle. >> feels like tonight's history is being written by movie writers. it is so dramatic. >> unsubtle movie writer ice does someone teach the president what medicaid is? >> what is teach? >> i don't know. i don't know what -- what works now. i don't know. >> if this goes on at this pace for another 18 months, i'm going to need to drop some doppelgangers from the parallel dimension and can't work this hard every day. >> maybe you might want more commercials for a change. >> we'll sell more pills. >> the audience loves that suggestion. more commercials. sorry about this. >> i'm trying to get harris to talk to me. i bow down before thee. >> come on. that is first. i think it's a television first. that someone is appearing on this program instead of the

myself and brenda lawrence who is our vice chair. jackie may come in, she is our policies communications chair. i wanted thank -- i want to thanik my colleagues who are hee today. the me too movement has arrived. sexual abuse will not be tolerated whether by a hollywood producer, the chef of a restaurant, member of congress, or the president of the united states. no man or woman is above the law. clear is saying loud and that accusations of sexual abuse should be taken seriously. must be heard, perpetrators must be held accountable, and all party should have an opportunity for a fair resolution. to date, more than 17 women have publicly come forward to accuse donald trump of sexual misconduct. forced kissing, unwanted touching and groping. on an airplane, and incorporate office and in a pageant dressing room. the president meets denials and his press secretary comes out to say the matter has been litigated. which is why, over 100 democrats -- there is a letter we want to initially that was number an overwhelming of women and men have

now it's i'm for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. it is about standards. it's about the thing that the trump administration is collapsing all over the trump administration, robert mueller says there are standards, there are strict standards and you have to meet those standards to work here. that's not -- is that happening anywhere else in the trump administration? >> i know s. that happening anywhere? b, of course the trump administration is now using this as a cudul to beat the fbi and the mueller investigation with. you did the right principled think about political bias? how politically unbiassed you are. >> can't win with those guys. >> exactly thank you. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you. well, twitter is to donald trump what video cameras are to bank robbers. have you ever wondered what happened to america's famous bank robbers? among the most famous people in the country. john killinger. machine gun kelly. willie sutton who when asked why he robbed banks said because that's w

good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. my turn to blush. there's the full screen picture of judy from the diner at barnes & noble today. i told her i would happily accept the vice presidential nomination on the m maddow/o'donnell ticket. >> you have been doing bank-up work and i'm glad we're both going to be the last planes off the island and i look forward to being colleagues with you forever. >> thank you to the smartest cable news host. now that you mention that. >> zip it. stop it. thank you, lawrence. top stop it. >> i love doing that. >> good-bye. >> rachel is blushing. don't cut away from her. >> i have to go. see you. >> thanks, rachel. >>> and thank you, again, to our fearless leader here at msnbc, rachel maddow. >>> up next, george will explains what he calls donald trump's dangerous disability and later the last word's most watched segment of the year online and here's a hint. it has something to do with donald trump not telling the truth. >>> last year columnist george f. will left the republican party when donald trump won the

edward lawrence is on the hill. help people understand this fiscal trigger and why it's a big sticking point here. >> for some republicans it's the deficit and how much it would add to the deficit. the trigger would be language inside the bill that would sort of roll back the tax cuts to increase taxes if the economic development didn't happen the way the administration wanted it to. late last night, the partic parliamentarian said language like that doesn't fall in line with rules of the senate. they couldn't do that. that made the bill fall apart. today they're goingto try to sway those at least four senators. >> edward, on a different topic. rex tillerson -- he's planning to fire his secretary of state now. >> eun, senior administration officials are saying quietly that there is a plan. they tried to find a plan to replace rex tiller son. the plan is sort of there. the way it would go is that the cia director, mike pompeo would -- tom cotton the senator would slide into cia director. the president has been at odd

also mark lawrence, fprofessor f history. we would also like you to join the conversation with your calls and comments. for those of you in eastern time zon zones. we look forward to your calls and comments on your kmeerns. 202-748-8902. we welcome your kmecomments and calls. we are on facebook at facebook.com/cspan history. you are from vietnam. you were born there vietnam. tell us your post war experience. >> i was born november 1974. i was five months old when my family fled. in terms of memories i don't really have any direct memories of the war. my first memory of course where i grew up in springfield, pennsylvania. what happened in 1975 to my family is a story that is very common for vietnamese refugees that fled. it began with ben crosby's white christmas. it was a signal they were going to leave. we had escape routes planned. our first one failed. we were supposed to meet my upg l on top of a roof of a high school. he wasn't able to land the helicopter. they were shooting. a second escape route was revealed to us to g

but you know what, lawrence?at's been paying attention to the president and his twitter habits knows that the most tweet storms that come from the president come usually saturday morning and so president doesn't go on a tirade on twitter, maybe that will be the sign -- maybe it will be a sign of a could things, one that the enormity is sinking in and he realizes he shouldn't be on twitter or two, someone should wrestle the machine out of his hands to keep him from tweeting. we know him. he's going to erupt. it's a matter of when. >> what michael flynn admitted to, prosecutors have been telling us all day, take a glance at that because what they have done is they have got michael flynn to admit to the tip of the iceberg of what they could charge him with so that michael flynn knows there are other charges that he could get hit with. michael flynn knows what those are. probably others in the white house don't know and guessing what they are and might be guessing who of them might be sunk in the possible other charg

meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with the four zone forecast. lawrence karnow: we enjoyed a mix of sunshine and clouds on this christmas day. temperatures remained cool to mild as well. as you can see on the doppler radar there are more clouds streaming across our skies but not enough energy to squeeze much in the way of rain out of them. all of the ski resorts are open. and even though they haven't seen much snow as of late there are plenty of lifts and trails open to ski on. on the satellite image you can see as these storms continue to run into high pressure over california only to fall apart and leave a few clouds behind. that pattern will likely continue now until the end of the year. highs tomorrow will be similar with 50s at the coast and mid 60s in the warmest inland locations. temperatures may actually warm a little toward the middle of the week before cooling again next weekend. (grant) a warning as kids open their presents... a popular retailer is pulling 17- products from shelves over asbestos concerns.(vicki) lab tests found the can

michael and lawrence. having played our society and our love of winston not only so much fun but also so incredibly successful. and i can nnot tell you how, yo know, these things don't happen through accident. they happen through a great deal of work. and michael, lawrence, it's largely been your work. so thank you very much indeed for that. you were talking earlier about lawrence about who is going to say no to a churchill and delighted to discover you haven't said no to a churchill, you and jenny are going to be a proper couple very soon. i can't tell you how delighted i am about that. >> but do you have a favorite that you would write? i feel like. that i'm a writer of fiction. and i write here to be surround i by some of the finest historians of our age and the most eminent writers on the planet. and i simply write works of fiction. of course, writing novels is not a proper job. it was all the thought of margaret thatcher. you may remember her. she was the woman who president of france whether he firn

good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. you had me at bag over the head. >> yeah. >> so we're going to find out tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. why the bag over the head? >> yeah. well, we think we know. we have found out in little dribs and drabs over the course of the year who that guy was, why he got arrested, what was the circumstance there but the whole reason it broke in the first place because of the dramatic details. we think now know why they stormed into the meeting, bagged him and dragged him out instead of arresting him like a normal person. >> bagged him as a literal meaning in some arrests. >> hates a number of different meanings, depending on the context. >> we'll leave it just where we left it, rachel. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, attorney/client privilege is the privilege to refuse to answer any questions about communications you have had with your lawyer and your lawyer has the same privilege, the not reveal any communications he's had with a client. it is not a privilege to refuse t

that's right, lawrence. so what does this is kind of puts a bullet hole in the argument that we have heard that trump administration make a few times to say, look, we were novices going into this. we aren't from the inside washington crowd and that is why some of us may have taken the meeting like the june 2016 meeting where donald trump jr. and the russian lawyer for that dirt on hillary clinton. a reason why they might not have reported everything they needed to on the security clearance forms. that argument doesn't hold up now that you know there was this briefing. that they were briefed and warned. that meant that they should have reported past overtures and overtures that came after this meeting which include donald trump jr. speaking to wikileaks. >> and, natasha, we're getting these reports out of the white house about white house lawyers telling the president don't worry. it is going to be wrapped up soon. it will be wrapped up soon. that increasingly sounds like lawyers trying to manage donald trump

standing by tracking the national freeze - meteorologist lawrence karnow lawrence karnow: it was a nicefor the bay area. high pressure continues overhead keeping us from seeing any rain. but the whole weather pattern is about to change and that means rain returning to the bay area in the new year. dangerously cold weather continues across other parts of the country with with some lows tonight below -20 degrees! some highs tomorrow will be below zero. out west we continue to enjoy rather mild weather but you can see storms off the coast. by late tuesday and early wednesday one of these storms will likely bring some rain and maybe some thunderstorms too. for new years eve we can expect partly cloudy skies and highs in the 50s to mid 60s. the weather will be very similar on new years day. by tuesday clouds will be increase with a of showers late in the day. thunderstorms wednesday. continue on thursday unsettled and weather will continue into (jrs) coming up:we are tracking an especially bad flu season... tonihgt we hear from a doctor about keeping yourself and family healthy for the new y

this show today, lawrence. know, because you are the lonely only, lawrence, i'm going to let you talk first, how about that? before the women begin, i'm going to let you have your final say. what do you make of this march on washington here today? >> there are already some preliminary estimates indicating that it may be a bigger crowd than we saw there yesterday. we'll have something more definitive on that. this is a precedent that began in 1969, the election of richard nixon was the first one to have protests, significant protests at inauguration, especially the day before that inauguration. when nixon was re-elected in 1972, that's when it went huge, that protest was much, much bigger. 100,000 people on the same day as the inauguration and that inauguration that they were protesting, no one knew that day that that president being sworn in was a year and a half away from being driven out of washington through impeachment proceedings and forced to resign. and so the history of inaugural, massive inaugural prot

take some comfort in that, lawrence. your wonderful opening, you set up a dichotomy between lies and falsehoods. i think you got it right but there might be a third option, which is delusions. i'm not being overly glib when i say that. he may really believe that he saw thousands of people protests, cheering on the 9/11 tragedy in jersey city, he may really believe there are 5 million people because it's convenient to believe this. he may really believe he wasn't making fun of a reporter. during one of the debates, hillary clinton said, you called global warming climate change a hoax created by the chinese. he said, no, i did not. that was exactly what he had tweeted. she was quoting him accurately. he may have believed he never said it. maybe he forgot. so i think there's something about his processing of information, to maybe be charitable about it, that still leaves a lot of mystery. it's mystifying. when he goes to the cia headquarters, as he did on saturday, and says i have been on "time" magazine cover more than any