i always do at this time the lawrence o'donnell show because that's the premises of the bit we're about to do. anyhoo mr. o'don't is supposed to interview craig sonner the lawyer at the center of george zimmerman case. >> george sonner the courageous defender of george zimmerman walked out of studio. there is his chair in orlando. >> not the most enthralling television but it's miss neeb. i didn't think dressing a grizzly bear in human clothes of a good idea but you know they made that work. [ laughter ] panda, what no? [ laughter ] anyway have it it. who is page you, mr. lawyer? who hired you? when exactly did they hire you? does george zimmerman have a job? does he have any property? did you represent him when he

note to self, do not go to ikea with lawrence o'donnell. [ laughter ] do you call yourself a faraloggin you are no more a garfung -- i live in new york city i see a lot of people yelling at chairs. none of them have tv shows. [ laughter ] after watching this p for like ten minutes i started feeling badly for the chair. tonight we have the chair's lawyer who was with him during the interview. we have fan with us. hello fan. thank you for joining us. i know you are busy this time of year in florida flm it's in between spring and summer, people don't want to use their air conditioning. all right. even i can't sustain this bit. [ laughter ] you know, the other way we were going to go this with because we were so excited when we saw him yelling at the chair? we came up with two ideas for the bit. the other premise was simply zimmerman's lawyer there was the whole tiny he is just tien. did you represent him then. >> i'm right here. give me a chance to talk you pompous son of a (bleep). i'm out of here. >> jon: not just that was ignored but after he bailed on the interview it took him 20 minut

starting with lawrence o'donnell.k up to what the republicans are putting on the table? >> well, it's clearly a matter of they ran out of patience. they couldn't sit around waiting for this nominee to emerge and they started running that general election campaign now. which means biden has to mention multiple names when he goes out there and does this. but, of course, every one of them oppose what the president and steve were doing with the bailout of the auto industry. and so, you just got the feeling with joe biden that it's -- i've been dying to say this for months and months and months, since these guys were in iowa, i've been dying to say it. and it was really, really fun to watch. >> steve rattner, you know a thing or two about the auto bailout having designed it. but do you think people truly understand what was at stake and what was saved? >> i think increasingly, they do. when you look at the polls at the time the president made the decisions that biden was talking about yesterday, the auto bailout was extrao

time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, have a great night. coming. rush limbaugh says liberals made him call sandra fluke a slut and a prostitute. >> rush limbaugh is on the defense. >> the apology to her over the weekend was sincere. >> rush limbaugh has apologized. >> apologizing this weekend for calling a georgetown student a slut. >> i don't think that a statement like this changes anything. >> his apology was a nonapology. >> he's under significant pressure from his sponsors. >> aol is now suspending its advertising. >> that makes a total, if you're counting, of nine advertisers. >> the rush limbaugh debacle last week was incredibly damaging to the party. >> many americans perceive rush limbaugh as the face of the republican party. >> let's talk about women. >> independent women may be the key swing group in this election. >> let's look at some of these numbers. >> oh, my, so many numbers to unpack. >> the new nbc/"wall street journal" poll. 40% have a less favorable opinion of the gop. >> where is mitt romney in all of this? >> 39% of americans

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that's something you said last night on lawrence o'donnell.ou've taken time off from work. >> i have taken time off. >> i went to work monday morning and i've had conversations with my employers and it was agreed that it would be best for the security of my co-workers that i take some time and i address this until i'm no longer a part of the story. >> are you -- are you worried for your own safety? >> yes. >> why? >> because of the threats out there. there would vail there have been veiled threats coming to my employer for me. i know we're seeing this that more and more and more facts about the case are coming out and they're going to be revealed and the motive and what happened is getting clearer. there's a reason why it's taken so long for the investigators to release their information because they know just how volatile it's going to be when they come to the original conclusion that george was acting in self-defense. >> we shall see how it all cracks out. joe oliver, thanks for taking time for us. we appreciate your insights in all of this.

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. have a great night. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. have a great night. >>> the really big winner in michigan yesterday was president obama. and the big winner in the senate today was harry reid, now a bob kerry has decided to run for senate again. >>> the republican plan to take back the senate is in serious jeopardy this morning. >> senator olympia snowe threw republicans a curveball. >> senator olympia snowe shocked everybody -- >> when she announced that she is leaving the senate at the end of the year. >> she is not seeking re-election. >> that could be the biggest political story of the night. >> it sounded like the republican establishment was very much caught off guard. >> this really shocked senate republicans. >> the democrats now have a much better shot. >> democrats are seeing a light that they didn't quite have. >> democrats have a much better chance of keeping control. >> maine in a presidential year should favor the democratic candidate. >> de

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. >> lean forward with the last word with lawrence o'donnell, on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> now here's your "first look" at other news going on around america today. frightening moments at a miami beach gas station, after a car crashed into a pump. customers hurried to get away, fearing a disaster. a quick-thinking clerk shut off the pumps. >>> in california, a man was rescued from a grain silo. he had been cleaning what was supposed to be an empty grain bin, but instead it filled up. trapping him all the way to his chest. rescuers had to dig over and over again. >>> in kentucky, fire swept through a home and nearly led to a deadly tragedy. but a 10-year-old boy who escaped the flames looked back and saw his 6-year-old sister trapped inside. he ran back in and rescued her. >>> finally the family of a middle school student in delaware is seeing red over their daughter being punished for having pink hair. they claim the school kicked her out because of it. they claimed she could get her hair colored if she improved her grades, she did, even getting on the honor roll. the school sa

host of "the last word" lawrence o'donnell. up next, politico's top stories of the morning. but first, bill karins has a check on the forecast. >>> the weekend is shaping up for a big change. as you know, we couldn't hold onto this incredible summer warmth forever. it will be cooler this weekend. yesterday, detroit warmest temperature you have ever had in march at 86 degrees. boston at 83. now here's what's changing. the storm in the middle of the country right now bringing rain to chicago and the deep south is going to slide to the east coast. so for today, one more really nice day from d.c. to new york, all the way down through the southeast. but you see all the rain in the middle of the country? that's going to slide to the east coast beginning saturday afternoon and it looks like it's going to linger into sunday. if you have weekend plans, the northeast from boston to new england, a lot of rain on sunday. also the west coast, a new storm for you from san francisco to l.a. everyone in the middle of the country, looks like you'll enjoy a great, great weekend. new york city

. >>> right after the show, this is big news, on the last word with lawrence o'donnell, his guest tonightyer for george zimmerman, the lawyer for the man who's alleged to have shot trayvon martin. so you will not want to miss that. and here, the new issue republicans are hoping will be their big win against president obama this fall, i think they are wrong bsh i i will tell you what it is next. >>> all told, thousands of pounds of nuclear material have been removed from vulnerable sites around the world. this was deadly material that is now secure and now can never be used against a city like seoul. >> president obama speaking today in south korea. the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on her hiroshima. there is a photo of the bomb that blast. the plane that dropped the bomb on nagasaki a couple of days later. this is the photograph. you can see the mushroom cloud over nagasaki there. the reason we have these photos of these nuclear bombs going off in these two cities in japan is because along with boxcar and the anola gay we flew planes with them that took pictures of the explosions. th

he has been saying he was a friend of zimmerman, but then on the lawrence o'donnell show, not exactly>> i've known george for about six years. i knew him ever since he started dating his wife. his mother-in-law is a close friend of the family. >> so you haven't known him that long. your mother-in-law is a close friend of your wife or something long those lines. he's going admit how close or not close they are. >> how can you claim that you are a close friend of george zimmerman when none of that is true of you. you don't really know george zimmerman if you don't know those things about georgia george zimmerman is, and if you haven't seen him in over a month, and you've been saying that george cannot stop crying, which you cannot verify because you are not there. you have been saying that there are lacerations and that his nose is broken. and the only thing you know is what george may have told us but you were not there and you have not seen him in over a month. none of this ring true. your playing people like they're stupid, and we're not. >> so he hasn't even seen zimmerman? we just

tonight on "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell, he will have all the latest information on the specialforce to investigate the case. stay tuned for him as soon as we are done. we are back with a keep you up at night trick to a rick santorum tape event. [ male announcer ] can febreze set & refresh make even this place smell fresh? [ facilitator ] what do you smell? takes me outdoors. sort of a crisp, fresh feeling. [ facilitator ] go ahead and take your blindfold off. [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] the febreze set & refresh. breathe happy for 30 days, guaranteed. >>> the next republican presidential primary is in the great state of louisiana. this was an event in central louisiana on sunday. a pastor named the reverend dennis terry introducing republican candidate rick santorum to his congregation watch. >> i don't care what the liberals say, i don't care what the nay-sayers say, this nation was founded as a christian nation, the god of abraham, the god of isaac and the god of jacob. there's only one god, there's only one god and his name is jesus. i'm tired of people telling me that i c

. >>> how perfect is this, right after the show on the last word, guess who lawrence o'donnell's guest will be? steve schmitt, we mention him and he appears. >>> the segment we were going to call in newterloo lands you word neuter, still no title but combined of newt and waterloo is next. >>> this weekend there were caucuses in the u.s. virgin islands and in guam and in the northern mariana islands and in kansas. this year it all matters. the republican race is still not decided. so it matters that rick santorum won kansas and mitt romney won all the other places i just mentioned. there are two things you should understand about those results. first, in the u.s. virgin islands, ron paul got the most votes, but mitt romney is getting the most delegates. no, it makes no sense to me either, but that is how the delegate math works out in the virgin islands. so mitt romney wins there by losing to ron paul. the other interesting result is the one out of kansas where rick santorum not only won, but he won by 30 points. 30? at the start of an election season, you look at the calendar to plan y

. >>> right after the show, this is big news, on the last word with lawrence o'donnell, his guest tonightn, the lawyer for the man who's alleged to have shot trayvon martin. so you will not want to miss that. and here, the new issue republicans are hoping will be their big win against president obama this fall, i think they are wrong bsh i i will tell you what it is next. ok, guys-- what's next ? chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast speeds. we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small businesses that want to grow use 4g lte technology from verizon. i wonder how she does it. that's why she's the boss. because the small business with the best technology rules. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 1-800-974-6006. i bathed it in miracles. director: [ sighs ] cut! sorry to interrupt. when's the show? well, if we don't find an audience, all we'll ever do is rehearse. maybe you should try every

nbc's coverage of the republican presidential primaries continues now with lawrence o'donnell on the last word. good evening, mr. o'donnell. >> rachael, we heard a lot from rick santorum. we heard from mitt romney. but we didn't hear enough from you. those guys took up all of your time. i got an empty chair over here. why don't you run across the hall. >> okay. >> i'm sitting here all alone. >> i'll be there in 27 seconds. >> all right. >> thanks. >> nbc news projects mitt romney will win the illinois primary after his campaign and his superpac outspent rick santorum by a 7-1 margin. that includes santorum's superpac spending. mitt romney will not win all 54 delegates. they will be split among the 18 congressional districts. and among the winners, the majority of voters also said the economy was the most important issue in this race. and tonight, mitt romney used his victory speech to attack president obama's policies. >> many of us believe we were in danger of losing something even more than the value of our homes and our 401(k)s after years of too many apologies and not enough jobs

though you think i'm mostly a liberal nut job but you're interested in this i"the last wd with lawrence o'donnell." >>> we have breaking news tonight, during a rally of trayvon martin, former governor rick scott announced a new special prosecutor in the case and a formation of a task force to examine all of the elements of the killing of trayvon martin. >>> dozens of church goers packed buses bound for samford. >> we will not allow trayvon to be undervalued. >> reporter: unimaginable tragedy. >> it's been 25 days since the killing. >> the attorney general, the state of florida, and the governor of the state of florida need to step in. >> what is it that they are hiding? i don't know. >> we need to have an independent investigation. >> it seems as though the police department of samford or the city of samford is condoning what is taking place here. >> my role is as a leader of this agency has become a distraction from the investigation. >> he has become a lightning rod. >> i stand by the police department. >> he has some nerve. >> i have come to the decision that i must temporarily remove myself a

i saw you last night on lawrence o'donnell. i hit the ceiling, i was up and blogging all night.d. how is that possible. all of the things we heard about the story have been secondhand, or the chief was playing, i believe the term used, was he was the spokesman for the shooter. that's absolutely ridiculous. >> how did you feel when you heard mr. boneparte -- >> i said it on my show, and i was not going to shake that man's hand. my attitude is look, i'm a real man, i don't shake hands with people i don't respect. for me, the fact that we have a black man -- he is a black man in a position to make a move and make a decision to get a man out of the way for something that had a lot of contradictory questions. we have a lot of good cops being troubled with man. now the police department and every police officer has to defend. >> and you would not shake his hand? >> no. >> governor paterson, i have known you many years. you called me and said what day is the rally, i'm going with you. when i got to the airport this morning, you were already on the plane. former governor of of the state

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now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. have a great night. >>> breaking news tonight on the killing of trayvon martin. we have new witnesses to hear from tonight, and for the first time we are seeing what the shooter, george zimmerman, looked like immediately after the killing of trayvon martin. this police video obtained by abc news shows zimmerman arriving at the police station in sanford, florida, in handcuffs, after shooting and killing trayvon martin. and in an exclusive report by nbc news, a source with knowledge of the investigation says it was then sanford police chief bill lee along with captain robert o'conner, the investigation supervisor who made the decision to release george zimmerman from those handcuffs on the night of february 26th after consulting with state attorney norman wofinger in person. the state attorney was there. it's not known whether that in-person meeting took place at the scene of the shooting or inside this police station that you're seeing right now where george zimmerman was questioned by

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jonathan, you've been taking apart zimmerman's defense point by point led by lawrence o'donnell and othersour air. what do you find most dispositive about the tape that emerged, the police tape even though it is fuzzy and you don't see everything but he certainly does not appear to be terribly injured. he's walking. >> that's it. we had been hearing until this tape was revealed that he was in a life and death struggle, that they were rolling around in the grass, that his knows was broken, his head had been bashed several times into the sidewalk. and then out comes this video where he doesn't look like he was in a life or death struggle but someone who may have been arrested for illegally driving a golf carton the highway. his shirt is tucked in. he just looks unbelievably presentable. that will to me was literally eye opening to discover and to understand and to realize that the story that we had been hearing does not match the videotape that we are seeing. >> eugene, what is so profoundly disturbing beyond the obvious that we've lost the life of a young man? >> you know, i think the reaso

. >>> right after this show, lawrence o'donnell has chris hayes and melissa harris-perry, score and scoren't miss that. and here, remember the axis of evil? it's back. ah, at least here it's back. that's next. >>> states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world. >> meanwhile in the axis of evil, yeah, it turns out the world does not stop turning while we obsess whether or not mitt romney agrees with mitt romney on the issue of contraception. this week we had an announcement in which might be a huge deal in whether or not there's going to be a nuclear war on our earth. during the george w. bush administration, north korea became a nuclear power, testing the first nuclear weapon in the fall of 2006. now we have the first news out of the country since north korean leader kim jong-il killed over. a senior north korea negotiator will travel to the united states next week. the state department says there are no plans at the moment for official government meetings with the official. he's just attending a conference, they say. but