men should treat women with respect. >>> joining me now is the host of msnbc's "last word" lawrence o'donnelli can hear you, you don't have to up the volume. >> we'll do it live! >> yes. that's where it's coming from. >> so, lawrence, bill o'reilly says just being a wealthy and powerful man means you're a target for sexual harassment lawsuits. i know a few wealthy and powerful men. i don't know any who are being sued? >> i for one are not wealthy and powerful enough to have a stack of lawsuits against me. so, here's two words to counter that -- sean hannity. fox news is a cesspool of sexual harassment and abuse of women as they've discovered in their own investigation. sean hannity's name never, ever, ever comes up. no one has ever sued him for sexual harassment. tucker carlson who hasn't been there as long. steve doocy. i'll just rattle off the names who you've never heard this happen and there's that guy bill o'reilly saying, oh, it happens to all of us, much more famous in show business who have never been sued. >> yeah. >> people from the zuckerbergs in business, never ever, been sued for

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> we have a big group here tonight. we have three women whose accusations in the last few weeks came out about bill o'reilly, the stories that really did change what was happening an fox news. they are going to join us. >> incredible. >> lisa bloom will also be here. she represents all of those women. and if you are afraid that donald trump could succeed in taking your health care away and repealing the affordable care act, i'm just going to take care of that for you tonight. you do not have to worry about that. >> there's a great plan and this will be great health care. it's evolving. the plan gets better and better and better and it's gotten really, really good. and a lot of people are liking it a lot. we have a good chance of getting it soon. >> you've got a lot to worry about with that guy, but i'm going to tell you why you have nothing to worry about on health care. that's coming up. >>> and, could next week bring donald trump's biggest defeat? >> how you going to make the mexicans pay? how? >> i said they are goin

personal tax, david cay johnston is going to be live on this network on "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." what a coincidence. >> finally, rachel, something happened in the oval office today that i completely agree with. i agree with every word that donald trump said today about something that almost no one saw him talk about. >> that's the best tease you've ever given in lawrence o'donnell teases ever. >> that's what you're going to see tonight. >> all right. >> you're going to see that thing that president trump did today that i agree with word for word. it finally happened on -- is this day 97? >> dreaming. >> get home and watch, that rachel. >> i will. thank you, lawrence. >>> also, as the clock ticks down on the president's first 100 days, if they can't have legislative achievements, at least, at least they can have legislative announcements. and so today was all about taxes, which in the trump white house always comes back to trump tax returns. >> this is going to be the biggest tax cut. >> this is not a plan. this is a piece of paper. i'm surprised it didn't come on a napkin at th

lawrence o'donnell, thanks for being here. >> joy, i can hear you. you don't have to up the volume. >> we'll do it live. we'll do it live. >> that's where it's coming from. >> so, lawrence, it's interesting because bill o'reilly says being a wealthy and powerful man means you're a target for sexual harassment lawsuits. i know a few wealthy and powerful men. i don't know any who are being sued -- >> i am not -- i for one am not wealthy and powerful enough to have a stack of lawsuits against me like bill o'reilly does, so here's two words to counter that. sean hannity. now, fox news is a cesspool of sexual harassment. and abuse of women as they've discovered in their own investigation. sean hannity's name never, ever, ever comes up. no one has ever sued him for sexual harassment. tucker carlson, who hasn't been there as long. >> right. >> steve doocy. i rattle off the names who you've never heard of this happening and there's that guy, o'reilly, saying, oh, it happens to all of us. >> all the time. >> the endless stream of much more famous, much richer

erin: i think it's overplayed when you see lawrence o'donnell calling him a liar. as we know in journalism and political discourse. never make the hitler comparison. strike it off your list. but i think alan dershowitz made a comment. howie: there was one mention of this on martha maccallum's show. was it newsworthy? marie: absolutely. i know how hard it is to be in the briefing room. but sean spicer has shown not just in this case, although this is definitely the most egregious, but throughout the whole administration that he's a little out of his depth. he was trying to make a historical analogy that wasn't historically accurate. when his first briefing started out as not telling the truth about the size of the crowd at the inauguration. that's how he got off to a bad tart with the press. if you are the press secretary and i asked you to do that, you say no. howie: when you were the state department spokesman you got a lot of flack about going after isis and the opportunity for jobs. when you were in that harsh spotlight did you feel there was a lot. marie: i hav

it's so preposterous, it's not surprising that it comes from lawrence o'donnell who used to write fictional scripts for "the west wing." liz: thoughts an opinions are not facts. but ways obscene. victims of gas attacks are now just political props in this poweru struggle they made up in their own mind, this wag the dog scenario. this is in overdrive. reporter: i was watching all of the political talk shows setting forth the talk shows it was illegal and unconstitutional for president trump to launch a military strike. no it isn't. on 125 occasions presidents of the united states have used military force without authorization of congress. none of those have been held to be unconstitutional. they can do it under the war powers act. they can do it under the constitution. this isn't an act of war. it's confront an adversary that is killing people and jeopardizing the lives our assets in that region. liz: there are children, mothers and fathers being gassed to death. that matters nothing. what matters most is this conspiracy theory, right, gregg? reporter: absolutely. the conspiracy herive i thi

and now it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." ce. >> hey, joy. speaking of performance artists, that is actually my excuse for everything that's gone wrong on this show. and there have been many moments over the last whatever it, six or seven years. i calk it up to performance art. performance art gone wrong. >> we love you just the way you are. >> and don't make me say that phrase again because with a boston access it is wicked hard to say performance art. don't make me say it again. >> excellent point. >> thanks, joy. >> well, the verdict is in. and republicans on the house intelligence committee agree that susan rice did nothing wrong. and the president now says he is not going

flashing red light follow the money thing now it's time for "the last word" with the great lawrence o'donnelllawrence. >> there is no great moment in the history of the modern presidency where something like this would not have already been deeply investigated. it would be the suggest of an ongoing investigation by this time. >> yes, exactly. >> just astonishing. >> and the one thing that congress likes to look into, ever since watergate is money. and on this it's like 40th on the list. maybe we'll get to it. >> so rachel, you broke the news tonight about donald tmp's statement about north korea which i'm holding in my hand. >> yeah.

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." show up here with nothing planned to say to you, and i listen to what's going on. but tonight i actually showed up with something planned to say. >> oh, okay. >> and you ruined it. because i just listened again. rachel.

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and now it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> hey, joy. speaking of performance artists, that is actually my excuse for everything that's gone wrong on this show. and there have been many moments over the last whatever it, six or seven years. i calk it up to performance art. performance art gone wrong. >> we love you just the way you are. >> and don't make me say that phrase again because with a boston access it is wicked hard to say performance art. don't make me say it again. >> excellent point. >> thanks, joy. >> well, the verdict is in. and republicans on the house intelligence committee agree that susan rice did nothing wrong. and the president now says he is not going to be tough on china because china is helping with north korea. and republicans who thought the day after easter would be a safe day for town halls, mmm, they had a pretty rough time today. >> we're right on track. >> lock him up! lock imhundred. >> -- him up. >> i want to know what you republicans are going to do to try to control ou

flashing red light follow the money thing now it's time for "the last word" with the great lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> there is no great moment in the history of the modern presidency where something like this would not have already been deeply investigated. it would be the suggest of an ongoing investigation by this time. >> yes, exactly. >> just astonishing. >> and the one thing that congress likes to look into, ever since watergate is money. and on this it's like 40th on the list. maybe we'll get to it. >> so rachel, you broke the news tonight about donald tmp's statement about north korea which i'm holding in my hand. >> yeah. >> and it's got to be the most explosive thing he has said as president. there is a chance we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea absolutely. we're going to go into this during this hour with reaction to that. >> good. >> but it is a stunning statement from an american president. >> it's a stunning statement for my american public official. but for the president to have thrown that line up before hitting the button on his

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. you know what is coming up next? because you know the president was just watching that segment. his next paycheck is going to the coast guard. and there is going to be a coast guard guy standing there with that look on his face, you know getting the check. >> that's exactly right. >> for the 82,000 bucks. thanks, rachel. tonight we will be joined by jon ossoff, the democratic candidate for a vacant congressional seat in georgia. he has a huge lead tonight over the republican in that race for a seat that has been held by republicans for 38 years. >>> also tonight, a new report that foreign intelligence agencies were the first to uncover contacts between the trump campaign and russia. and nbc reporting tonight that the trump white house has a plan for a preemptive strike on north korea. >>> but first, is there any nonpropaganda reason for giving a bomb a nickname? >> the u.s. has dropped the largest nonnuclear bomb ever used in combat. >>

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> rachel, i usually show up here with nothing planned to say to you, and i listen to what's going on. but tonight i actually showed up with something planned to say. >> oh, okay. >> and you ruined it. because i just listened again. rachel. >> bless our hearts and other parts. >> all right. but -- [ laughter ] i didn't know i could get you to say that again. >> i'm regretting it immediately. >> okay. i'm going to try to say the thing i planned to say. >> okay. >> and what i planned to say is wouldn't it be nice if it was just completely totally absolutely impossible to suspect that vladimir putin orchestrated what happened in syria this week so that his friend in the white house could have a big night with missiles and all of the praise he has picked up over the last 24 hours? wouldn't it be so nice if you couldn't even in your wildest dreams imagine a scenario like that? >> wouldn't it be great if we could go back to "wag the dog" being a sitcom plot, you know.

lawrence o'donnell has a special while i've been gone? >> barack obama back in the spotlight.president delivers his first public remarks since leaving office and steering clear of trump talk. >>> plus, with the government shutdown looming, president trump signals a willingness to back away from the border wall fight. >>> arkansas's first double execution in more than two decades. . >>> good morning, everyone. it is tuesday, april 25th. i'm

you are about to hear from him right now because he is joining lawrence o'donnell on "the last word" msnbc. >> great. another great rachel and andrea segment. if you can just keep those coming? is that too much ask. >> for the rest of my life. >> thank you lawrence. >> thanks. >> well, with another missile launch in north korea and the worst chemical weapons attack yet in syria, the trump administration has taken no action of either of those things. the president has said nothing about it because the administration is very busy trying to prove a lie that donald trump tweeted a month ago. >> the allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilitized intelligence for political purposes, that's absolutely false. >> i believe susan rice abused the system. >> she was abusing her job. >> i leaked nobody to nobody. >> she needs to be brought in and questioned under oath. >> is this chaos sustainable, especially when we're facing the threat of north korea. >> there's breaking news here, word that north korea has fired an unidentified projectile into the see. >> any miscalculatio

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening. the gorsuch strategy is one of the more difficult ones that the democrats have face there is always that question if they do manage to stop it, what do they get next? who is next on that list that gore such's name was lifted off of. >> right. and i think the only thing the democrats know for sure if they don't stand united, they won't win on anything they try to do. that's the secret of being this the minority you. all have to get on board. and right now that's chuck schumer's challenge to show that he can get all democrats to do any one thing. >> and when you watch the senate in general terms, it's always easier to keep the minority together than the majority together. it's kind of easier to gang up around a no than it is an active agenda of legislation. >> and even on this one they got wobblers already. >> thank you, rach. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> well, one big advertiser is pulling out of bill o'reilly's show on fox news after "the new york times'" front page expose yesterday of th

. >>> now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell."as thinng of buying the rights for the folk singer runs for office movie.

i'm ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell. first, the breaking news this hour. monitor this massive parade in north korea's capital. this is often an opportunity for north korea to show off some of its military assets, as rachel was mentioning. and there are rising tensions. we will bring you updates on that as warranted. as for our show tonight, let's begin with this. on the campaign trail, donald trump told his supporters he would win so often, they would be tired of winning. but there has not been any victory fatigue during his first two months in office at home. trump facing losses on hea

lawrence o'donnell must think his viewers are among the world's most accomplished idiots to even haveny kind of chance of not laughing him off the screen and turning the channel. i'm stunned and frankly, i'm more than a little embarrassed for him. it's just ridiculous. liz: you know, danielle, as i noted chris matthews made similar comments suggesting that the syrian strikes quote killed the native that president trump is in bed with putin and basically is providing trump a welcome distraction. let's listen. >> maybe it's cynicism, but i thought here was a way for him to kill the narrative, then he's in bed with putin, it would be this. take on putin's freshwater port. take on his ally, his satellite, his loyal ally assad, and that would be a way of saying i was never in bed with these guys. i never planned any kind of coalition with this guy in moscow. you're right. i was thinking of it. liz: matthew made these comments a few hours after the strike. is msnbc now still a reputable news organization? is that a reputable news organization doing that? is it reputable to do that? >> i thi

lawrence o'donnell has a special tonight. it's called 100 day

. >>> now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> as i was listening, i was thinking for the folk singer runs for office movie. i realize they made it. it's called bogg roberts. i don't have time to check indb.

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> we have a big group here tonight.accusations in the last few weeks came out about bill o'reilly, the stories that really did change what was happening an fox news. they are going to join us. >> incredible. >> lisa bloom will also be here. she represents all of

you're about to hear from him right now on this subject, he's joining lawrence o'donnel on "the last word" right here on msnbc. good evening. >> when you were saying all of that's i was getting ready to go, and rachel guess who my first guest is. she's going to love this who she hears who we've got. >> i'm inside your brain right now. >> you are. >> great. another great rachel and andrea segme segment. if you can just keep those coming? is that too much ask. >> for the rest of my life. >> thank you lawrence. >> thanks. >> well, with another missile launch in north korea and the worst chemical weapons attack yet in syria, the trump administration has taken no action of either of those things. the president has said nothing about it because the administration is very busy trying to prove a lie that donald trump tweeted a month ago. >> the allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilitized intelligence for political purposes, that's absolutely false. >> i believe susan rice abused the system. >> she was abusing her job. >> i leaked nobody to nobody. >> she needs to be

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening. >> good evening, rachel.t breaking news is that steve bannon had to be pushed out. that he resisted the move, and at one point threatened to quit if the move went forward. we came this close, rachel. we came this close. to the quitting story. >> threaten

i sat down next to lawrence o'donnell who works with you guys now. he was a producer on the west wing back then. two things come to mind about that dinner. one was how anyone from the west wing was elvis returning to memphis in that environment which was overwhelming, but lawrence was sitting next to me and he was pointing out around the room all of the enemies that were talking to each other. special prosecutor star and gingrich and ted kennedy. he was in love with that aspect of the dinner where people are cordial to each other and respectful to each other and have some fun together and he worked for the great senator who was one of those old school senators that crossed the aisle like joe biden and people used to con gre gate for the purpose of that dinner. lawrence loved to explain how the dinner was to create that environment. clearly those days are over. i'm very very worried about this president and the way he attacks the press. your panelist earlier talked about the first amendment. trump is very specifically trying to delegitimatize what you

i'm ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell. first, the breaking news this hour. we'll continue to monitor this massive parade in north korea's capital. this is often an opportunity for north korea to show off some of its military assets, as rachel was mentioning. and there are rising tensions. we will bring you updates on that as warranted. as for our show tonight, let's begin with this. on the campaign trail, donald trump told his supporters he would win so often, they would be tired of winning. but there has not been any victory fatigue during his first two months in office at home. trump facing losses on health care, on the two travel bans, the failed attempt to support baseless claims that obama wire tapped trump tower and recently blocking effort for police reforms in baltimore. that's the story at home. but the story abroad is different. trump aides say he is winning on foreign affairs, an argument undergoing intense debate as we head into this weekend there is little doubt that the thrust of the trump presidency itself did shift when he ordered the firing

>> well, i was grateful that a man named lawrence o'donnell did tweet at the same time that he believed me. so that balanced it all. i will say that i was really sort of doing a shake my head, like there aren't bigger fish to fry? like syria and a potential war in north korea that he's got to be tweeting and talking about this? but as i said, these are two men of a certain generation, a certain belief system about women and so it didn't surprise me. >> i want to say something about the other side of this story. all of these negative things are true but there has been a tidal wave of love at all of my three clients here that i think none of them expected. am i right? >> absolutely. >> very. >> before we finish here, before you came out publicly, the president of the united states had taken a position on this. were you worried about that part of this? the trump part of this? were you worried about getting attacked by president trump? >> i'm afraid of getting attacked by north korea more than donald trump. he attacks -- i don't care. i'm not reading the comments. i don't care what anybody

you're about to hear from him right now on this subject, he's joining lawrence o'donnel on "the laste on msnbc. good evening. >> when you were saying all of that's i was getting ready to go, and rachel guess who my first guest is. she's going to love this who she hears who we've got. >> i'm inside your brain right now. >> you are. >> great. another great rachel and andrea segme segment. if you can just keep t

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." i hope you have enough softwood lumber stockpiled for your weekend do-it-yourself projects that you need that lumber for. >> i don't like to talk about it, but you know that i've been quite a hoarder when it comes to pine. >> price is going up. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, the resistance has stopped donald trump once again both in congress and the courts. and rush limbaugh, of all people, might be joining the right wing resistance to donald trump. >> we're going to build a wall. build that wall. build that wall. build that wall. that wall will go up so fast, your head will spin. >> i'm very, very troubled to have to pass this on. >> the wall delayed. >> it looks like president trump is caving. >> we have plenty of time. a lot of time. >> i was hoping that trump would throw this shut down thing right back in their face. >> the fact that the wall is now off the table, americans should breathe a huge sigh of relief. >> it's delayed for now? >> no one said delayed. >> the wall is going

it's worked very well on msnbc with rachel maddow and lawrence o'donnell.ble news. cnn always said that the news was the star. that wasn't the case once bill o'reilly came along. personality became what cable news is about and he was the biggest, certainly on his side and he had a lot of influence. you wanted him to be on your si if you were a politician. >> weren't we saying this when roger ailes was leaving? that this was the man who built fox? roger ailes left the building and the beat went on. >> 50 corporate logos. some among the most recognizable on the planet. these are the sponsors that took off, that left bill o'reilly. you're saying if the credit for this goes to the sons of rupert murdock, this spoke loudly, these logos, female employees, the power of the female consumer melded into the decision. >> murdock's wife who was a model put pressure on her husband. this is no longer a people don't feel good about this. money is talking. advertisers are so concerned bot what their brands represent and it is women in the homes doing the spending and when

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. >> now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnel. >> wouldn't it be nice that we can be sure that the policy isn't that donald trump will fire missiles at the bad reporting. >> no surety on anything at this point, even the worst stuff? >> people are getting to this question of, did -- did russia know about this attack before the attack, which is an absolutely crucial building block, one, in figures out what really happened last week? >> trying to figure it out based on this microsoft word produced document from the white house, which is unsigned, attributed to nobody, purports to be a declassified summary of what the intelligence community thinks, and shopped to reporters, if that's how we're suppose to track that down, we're trying to discern about active u.s. policy. >> but what we're hearing from both sean spicer, defense secretary, they're saying, we don't yet know is their basic stance. we don't yet know what russia knew ahead of time. >> check the five paragraph essay that somebody just leaked to the times to see. >> appreciate it. >>> breaking news is from the washingt

i'm joy reid in for lawrence o'donnell. welcome the our special edition of "the last word." march madness, the month it was. a new poll today found literally 1/3 americans give donald j. trump an f for his performance in office in the first 71 days. much of that letter grade has been earned in the unbelievably historic and at times hysterical month it was. it began with trump accusing president obama of tapping his wires in trump tower. and days later in a very public humiliation of the president, fbi director james comey was compelled to say there is no evidence to support the trump claim. and oh, by the way the fbi is investigating the trump campaign for possible collusion with the russians to tip the 2016 election in their favor. then there is the one-man drama that is house intelligence committee chairman and former trump transition member republican devin nunes. he tried to help trump find evidence to back his surveillance claims and instead triggered a torrent of questions about him. like why is he working with the trump white house instead of investigating it? and who

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> rachel, what about the tax cut -- i refuse. that is not what the republicans are talking about. they're talking about a massive tax cut. what about legislating the massive tax cut when we don't know which of these provisions will mean how many millions to donald trump personally? >> and the little bit of taxes that we have seen, the two pages of federal tax return that we got and premiered on this show and that you and i talked about sht

. >>> now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." as i was listening, i was thinng of buying the rights for the folk singer runs for office movie. i realize they made it. it's called bogg roberts. i don't have time to check indb. but it was the folk singer runs for office movie. >> and you can remake at a high school drama level. somebody in the hat. >> everyone has forgotten the movie. so whom am i kidding? i got to get those rights. thanks, rachel. >>> donald trump picked up new converts today to the idea that he is presidential. the converts had to overlook a couple of things he said today to reach their conversion. >> right now we're not getting along with russia at all. we may be at an all-time low. >> i was here during the cold war that was pretty low. >> there is a low level of trust between our two countries. >> president putin and his government don't even recognize there was a chemical weapons attack. >> young killed and dying. babies dying, fathers holding children in their arms that were dead. >> putin asking -- >> transl

lawrence o'donnell has a special while i've been gone? >> barack obama back in the spotlight. the former president delivers his first public remarks since leaving office and steering clear of trump talk. >>> plus, with the government shutdown looming, president trump signals a willingness to back away from the border wall fight. >>> arkansas's first double execution in more than two decades. . >>> good morning, everyone. it is tuesday, april 25th. i'm alex witt along with richard lui. louis burgdorf is in studio with us. the border wall was the centerpiece of the president's campaign. it's now become a sticking point to keep the government open. at issue, a spending bill that includes $1.4 billion just to get that wall started. but now the white house appears to be backing down from demands it be funded immediately. a senior white house official telling nbc news that president trump is open to getting funding for the border wall this fall. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker has more on the president's week. >> reporter: with the president's 100 days in office fast ap

you are about to hear from him right now because he is joining lawrence o'donnell on "the last word" > great. another great rachel and andrea segment. if you can just keep those coming? is that too much ask. >> for the rest of my life. >> thank you lawrence. >> thanks. >> well, with another missile launch in north korea and the worst chemical weapons attack yet in syria, the trump administration has taken no action of either of those things.