lawrence o'donnell is live right now with "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell.here's nobody i'd rather hear from in the world right now than lawrence o'donnell. >> at this hour, that may be the best we can do for good news. you just did an amazing job of keeping up with this as it was happening during your hour. none of the information that you've spent the last 40 minutes on existed when you started at 9:00 p.m. tonight, and it has been a stunning thing to watch develop. we keep coming back to that unprec

lawrence o'donnell is live right now with "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. frankly there's nobody i'd rather hear from in the world right now than lawrence o'donnell. >> at this hour, that may be the best we can do for good news. you just did an amazing job of keeping up with this as it was happening during your hour. none of the information that you've spent the last 40 minutes on existed when you started at 9:00 p.m. tonight, and it has been a stunning thing to watch develop. we keep coming back to that unprecedented. we keep looking back at the nixon model, and what you see right away is this is far, far beyond the nixon model already. there was legal opinion given in the nixon white house at the time to the president that there were some in the white house counsel's office who believed the president does not have the authority to pardon himself. so it wasn't even something that nixon was confident that he could have done. it will be fascinating to see where president trump comes out on it. >> yeah, and i think that sort of the other side of that coin, to

i'm lawrence o'donnell. and i didn't get fired today. if you didn't get fired today, you had a better day than reince priebus. >> reince is doing a fantastic job at the white house. and i believe he has the president's confidence. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. >> that war of priebus and anth scaramucci ending very well for mr. scaramucci. >> i'm beginning to believe that scaramucci was brought in for a purpose, and that was to humiliate reince. >> he was called "reincy" by the president as if he was a pet and not the chief of staff. >> the president has confidence in general kelly. he has to have a person around him that he has confidence in. >> at no turn has this white house demonstrated functionality. i don't think introducing one competent person is going to change that. >> they should have approved health care last night. you can't have

he said it is now time to look to the democrats to see what their solution is, lawrence o'donnell joins me on the phone, and you heard the first strains of this, lawrence, they want european style health care, socialized medicine. there was no conciliation in his tone, he said he sees it as a failure and that democrats don't have a better solution. >> well, the other word for what he was describing, ali, as you know, is medicaid. which is the system that mitch mcconnell is on himself, it is a federal government system. a single payer system. we throw around a lot of terms that i think are not that clear to a general audience, single payer, things like that. we should always just use the word medicare, because that is what it is. and if the united states were to go to a broader version of medicare to include more people that is how you would do it. the so-called single payer approach is to expand medicare to people below the age of 65. and that is not a scary thing to anyone in america who knows what medicare is and knows anyone who is on medicare. but ali you have to be very careful in

lawrence o'donnell whose hour this normally is on reair after airing initially on the east coast is with us by telephone. lawrence, sum up what you just witnessed having spent many years in and around the united states senate. >> i have been on the senate floor for dramatic votes. i never have been on the senate floor for a vote as dramatic as this. because this was a vote we didn't know the out come of before the vote. we usually do. no matter how close they are. this was decided by john mccain as it was developing and it became clear that's how it would be decide. what we saw tonight was in the end of this story which really this drama really began when john mccain boarded a plane after brain surgery to participate this week and gave a speech that indicated as i said at the time he gave the speech, it indicated he would vote this way, but he confused people by voting with republicans on a procedural step. several spots where a commentator said john mccain just voted to take health care away which he didn't do. this was the vote. this was the real vote. he voted to preserve the affordab

lawrence o'donnell whose hour this normally is on reair after airing initially on the east coast is with us by telephone. lawrence, sum up what you just witnessed having spent many years in and around the united states senate. >> i have been on the senate floor for dramatic votes. i never have been on the senate floor for a vote as dramatic as this. because this was a vote we didn't know the out come of before the vote. we usually do. no matter how close they are. this was decided by john mccain as it was developing and it became clear that's how it would be decide. what we saw tonight was in the end of this story which really this drama really began when john mccain boarded a plane after brain surgery to participate this week and gave a speech that indicated as i said at the time he gave the speech, it indicated he would vote this way, but he confused people by voting with republicans on a procedural step. several spots where a commentator said john mccain just voted to take health care away which he didn't do. this was the vote. this was the real vote. he voted to preserve the affordab

is coming up next and then this lawrence o'donnell is back here at 10:00 p.m. i'll see you back here on monday. good night. >>> happy friday, thanks for being here. russia trying to influence american policy to influence american democracy. that is not a new thing. we're going to learn about how much it is not a new thing. this year something different happened when russian president vladimir putin launched a multipronged effort to subvert our american presidential election. just in the past few weeks we've learned that donald trump's eldest son and his campaign manager and son-in-law all attended a meeting with a russian lawyer during the campaign promising russian government help with the trump campaign and russian government dirt on hillary clinton. we learned that the president, president trump and vladimir putin held a second undisclosed meeting at the g-20 summit, at which there were no other u.s. officials besides the president himself. he learned that federal investigators are now actively exploring financial and business dealings between trump business

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, richard. the president -- the white house has announced tonight that the president will sign the russia sanctions bill. so i imagine we will have more of a reaction tomorrow from moscow. >> well, we already saw the reaction today with russia putting a cap on the number of americans who can serve here diplomatically, seizing the american compound outside of moscow, and a warehouse in the city. moscow says it may reciprocate with economic sanctions. so this is definitely an escalation. >> thank you, richard. really appreciate it. >> absolutely. >>> good evening. i'm lawrence o'donnell, and i didn't get fired today. and if you didn't get fired today, you had a better day than reince priebus. >> reince is doing a fantastic job at the white house, and i believe he has the president's confidence. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. >> that war of words between reince priebus and anthony scaramucci ending very well for mr. scar

on assignment with richard engel is coming up next and then this lawrence o'donnell is back here at 10:00 p.m. i'll see you back here on monday. good night. >>> happy friday, thanks for being here. russia trying to influence american policy to influence american democracy. that is not a new thing. we're going to learn about how much it is not a new thing. this year something different happened when russian president vladimir putin launched a multipronged effort to subvert our american presidential election. just in the past few weeks we've learned that donald trump's eldest son and his campaign manager and son-in-law all attended a meeting with a russian lawyer during the campaign promising russian government help with the trump campaign and russian government dirt on hillary clinton. we learned that the president, president trump and vladimir putin held a second undisclosed meeting at the g-20 summit, at which there were no other

lawrence o'donnell popping up on the show.ling in for him while recovering from a car accident three years ago. lawrence said he was grateful to me at the time. let me say i'm grateful to him and the whole lass word team because i obviously spent more time learning how to anchor here than on any other show. and with that in mind i'm excited to officially announce my new nightly show, the beat, which preers monday night at 6:00 p.m. eastern. i will need plenty of help from viewers. i hope you'll tune in and i'll need plenty of advice. i have to pick out my tie for that first show. i am thinking i got -- thinking of this one. could we get a close-up of that? i recall it's an audience it's a good one. we'll see what happens. you guys can let me know of course at ari melber if you have thoughts. i hope you have a great weekend >>> the breaking news tonight about attorney general jeff sessions and the russian ambassador. it's a new "washington post" story. quoting intelligence intercepts. >>> plus sean spicer's out anthony scaramuc

. >>> i am ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell this evening. it seems attorney general jeff sessions' week did go from bad to worse. we have this breaking news tonight among several stories. first from "the washington post," that current and former u.s. officials are saying u.s. spy agencies intercepted these conversations of russia's former ambassador to washington, sergey kislyak. a source saying, kislyak told his superiors in moscow that he did discuss campaign-related matters, including specifically policy issues that are important to moscow with, yes, jeff sessions, smack dab in the middle of the ongoing 2016 campaign. the post cites a u.s. official that says this means jeff sessions was misleading the public. >> i never had meetings with russian operatives or russian intermediaries about the trump campaign. and the idea that i was part of a, quote, continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government is totally false. >> and, quote, a former official said the intelli

lawrence o'donnell, thanks for being on. that does it for "all in." us every weeknight at 8:00 right here on msnbc. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm dara brown. it's 7:00 a.m. at msnbc world headquarters. it is day 191 of the trump administration. here is a look at what's happening. >>> a new day dawns on the white house with a new chief of staff to start on monday. reince priebus out. homeland security secretary, john kelly, in. could it be the change that brings new stability to the chaotic west wing. >>> north korea's ballistic missile, they fear it has major range to hit cities not just on the

lawrence o'donnell, thanks for being on. that does it for "all in." you can catch us every weeknight at 8:00 right here on msnbc. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm dara brown. it's 7:00 a.m. at msnbc world headquarters. it is day 191 of the trump administration. here is a look at what's happening. >>> a new day dawns on the white house with a new chief of staff to start on monday. reince priebus out. homeland security secretary, john kelly, in. could it be the change that brings new stability to the chaotic west wing. >>> north korea's ballistic missile, they fear it has major range to hit cities not just on the west coast. the path forward for health care after friday's defeat. >>> new this morning, president trump expected to sign a bill with new sanctions on russia which restricts the president's abilities to lift sanctions. congress passed the bill by an overwhelming margin. sarah huckabee sanders says, president jondonald j. trump ha read early drafts of the bill and negotiated regarding critical issues and approves the bill and intends to sign it.

to do is talk about books coming out a little bit later this year and join us now is msnbc lawrence o'donnell. 's new book, comes out in november and is called "playing with fire". mr. o'donnell, why'd you have the word transformation the subtitle? >> guest: so many things were transformed, transformed utterly in 1968. for example, that is when what is now called our culture wars began. our culture prior to 1968 campaign was pretty unified around most things. there was a big disagreement especially in the south about segregation and civil rights. that was but disagreement that ran through the 1960s, but by the time you get to 68 you have a massive antiwar movement going on, which it then becomes the cause of the presidential candidate who really got everything going in 1968 and that was gene mccarthy. mccarthy made a decision that no one before him had ever done. he decided he was going to run for president, but he was going to be ready for president against the incumbent president of his own party, lyndon johnson for this opened up a kind of division within the democratic party that we had n

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. ood evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i watched the beginning of your show tonight after that cliff-hanger that you left last night. there's so much to talk about in it, but the basic lesson seems to be that the people who are telling us that it's all fake

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. as we've become accustomed, "the washington post" broke a big story tonight. robert costa is going to be our first guest about this scoop that the president is really thinking about getting rid of his attorney general, bringing in a new one. the interesting report is how he would do that including a recess appointment during the august recess, which skips the entire confirmation process and gives him an attorney general in a day. >> yeah, and they're admitting at the white house -- white house sources are admitting to "the washington post" now that the reason they want to do that is basically so it could start the process of getting rid of bob mueller. i mean recess appointment isn't the only way to do it. it's definitely the easiest way to do it. boy does that put a spotlight on whether or not the senate is going into recess. >> yeah, and of course the president has been saying up to now anyway, they shouldn't go into recess. they shoul

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. > good evening, rachel. on the health care bill, we notice that ted cruz actually missed the entire judiciary committee confirmation hearing today for the new fbi director because he was working on the health care bill, which i have to believe is good news for people who don't want the bill to pass. >> the bigger ted cruz fingerprints there are on it.

our continuing coverage now on "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. ce. >> good evening, rachel. this is of course huge news as you made very clear at 9:00 p.m. tonight. and for me, it's one of those moments where i think, oh,

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i watched the beginning of your show tonight after that cliff-hanger that you left last night. there's so much to talk about in it, but the basic lesson seems to be that the people who are telling us that it's all fake news might want to actually produce, deliver some fake news that they can therefore point to as proof that it's all fake news. >> yeah. i don't know who -- i mean i don't want to speak to the origin of this thing, this forgery that we were shopped. i think the bottom line is we all need to do due diligence all the time. but it is worth being aware that somewhere, for some reason -- and we don't know what that reason is -- somebody is shopping pretty good forgeries of what appear to be nsa documents about trump and russia. and so it's just -- i felt like -- it's kind of a weird thing to do a news story about, but i sort of feel like i need to send a flag up the flagpole to just let everybody else know what we have figured o

our continuing coverage now on "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. this is of course huge news as you made very clear at 9:00 p.m. tonight. and for me, it's one of those moments where i think, oh, okay. so the old senate rules still hold, and the old rule being that the longer it takes the senate to get to a controversial vote, the weaker the support is. but, you know, rachel, i can't rely on any of the old rules anymore. but this time it seemed to work. >> well, yeah. you know, mitch mcconnell shouldn't be underestimated. mitch mcconnell is good at getting stuff passed, and he moves in mysterious ways. it's possible that he has some plan b around this, but i can't imagine that his plan for getting this through involved losing both a moderate like susan collins and home state iconoclast like rand paul, and also conservatives like mike lee and jerry moran. it's such a heterojennous group that is saying no. it implies that any plan mcconnell might have had for how to maneuver around the votes he needs mig

now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening. do you think he will be asked about recusing himself from matters involving investigations of the president? >> i think he will be asked if the president asked him to pledge his loyalty. he is going to be asked if anyone has already tried to impede his work on anything related to the russia investigation. he is going to be -- i mean, tomorrow is going to be -- it is going to be so distinct and so different from any other confirmation hearing for an fbi director ever. i don't even really know what to anticipate. >> i'm fascinated to see what position he will take on recusal. he could just do that. he could just say i will recuse myself from everything involving the trump investigation. leave that to the deputy and to the people already doing it. special prosecutor. >> yeah. we don't -- we know very little -- very little about christopher ray. but we know even less about how the administration came to nominate him. why they nominated him. and how they expect this nomination to function

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. > it's been a night of really stunning news, but the sad news about senator john mccain's predicament with cancer, that's very, very tough news to be reporting on tonight. >> yeah. >> we're getting statements from presidents and politicians everywhere about this. great cheering on for john mccain tonight when he really needs it. >> yeah, and you know senator mccain is unlike anybody else in not -- not just in the senate but in american politics. he's

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> it's been a night of really stunning news, but the sad news about senator john mccain's predicament with cancer, that's very, very tough news to be reporting on tonight. >> yeah. >> we're getting statements from presidents and politicians everywhere about this. great cheering on for john mccain tonight when he really needs it. >> yeah, and you know senator mccain is unlike anybody else in not -- not just in the senate but in american politics. he's unlike anybody else in american life in his public life and in his heroics in war. he's a singular figure in american life and american history, and i think for everybody who has ever had a political difference with him tonight, that just instantly evaporates in the face of wanting the best for him. >> and it's hard to think of him without thinking about what a ball of energy he is. >> yeah. >> i mean i remember when i was working in the senate, he just, you know, enters every room and went down every hallway at th

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. vening, lawrence. >> it's been a night of really stunning news, but the sad news about senator john mccain's predicament with cancer, that's very, very tough news to be reporting on tonight. >> yeah. >> we're getting statements from presidents and politicians everywhere about this. great cheering on for john mccain tonight when he really needs it. >> yeah, and you know senator mccain is unlike anybody else in not -- not just in the senate but in american politics. he's unlike anybody else in american life in his public life and in his heroics in war. he's a singular figure in american life and american tonight, that just instantly evaporates in the face of wanting the best for him. >> and it's hard to think of him without thinking about what a ball of energy he is. >> yeah. >> i mean i remember when i was working in the senate, he just, you know, enters every room and went down every hallway at the highest speed possible and just, you know, was always that way. i think people saw that

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. rence. >> good evening, rachel. as we've become accustomed, "the washington post" broke a big story tonight. robert costa is going to be our first guest about this scoop that the president is really thinking about getting rid of his attorney general, bringing in a new one. the interesting report is how he would do that including a recess appointment during the august recess,

now it's final for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i really liked your point in the show about trump tweeting about the transgender policy in the military going straight to the supporters of jeff sessions, the jeff sessions base, which by the way existed politically before there was ever a trump base. and i hadn't considered that today. i hadn't linked that up. when you try to make sense of a trump tweet, at first it feels impossible. it always does. but i think you might have found the light in there that makes sense. >> i try to avoid the president's tweets except when he tries to change major poli policies affecting the largest military in the world with them. but i think both the transgender policy stuff that he tweeted and also that super like bordering on violent anti-immigrant stuff he's been doing, i mean you put those two things together and you're pretty close to a portrait of the things that matter to jeff sessions as a politician and the things that might excite a pro-jeff se

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. ng, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. as we've become accustomed, "the washington post" broke a big story tonight. robert costa is going to be our first guest about this scoop that the president is really thinking about getting rid of his attorney general, bringing in a new one. appointment during the august recess, which skips the entire confirmation process and gives him an attorney general in a day. >> yeah, and they're admitting at the white house -- white house sources are admitting to "the washington post" now that the reason they want to do that is basically so it could start the process of getting rid of bob mueller. i mean recess appointment isn't the only way to do it. it's definitely the easiest way to do it. boy does that put a spotlight on whether or not the senate is going into recess. >> yeah, and of course the president has been saying up to now anyway, they shouldn't go into recess. they should stay here and work on health care. he might have a completely different id

now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening.ed about recusing himself from matters involving investigations of the president? >> i think he will be asked if the president asked him to pledge his loyalty. he is going to be asked if anyone has already tried to impede his work on anything related to the russia investigation. he is going to be -- i mean, tomorrow is going to be -- it is going to be so distinct and so different from any other confirmation hearing for an fbi

now time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening. asked about recusing himself from matters involving investigations of the president? >> i think he will be asked if the president asked him

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. on the health care bill, we notice that ted cruz actually missed the entire judiciary committee confirmation hearing today for the new fbi director because he was working on the health care bill, which i have to believe is good news for people who don't want the bill to pass. >> the bigger ted cruz fingerprints there are on it. >> no one has more enemies in the senate, in the republican party, than ted cruz. >> that's why he has such a long list of legislative victories, why there's been so many bills he's passed. yeah, thank you, my friend. >> we will be watching. thanks, rachel. >> cheers, lawrence. >>> well, now donald trump's lawyers want to build a wall to keep out jared kushner. >> if the president asks you to do something unlawful or unethical, what do you say? >> first i would try to talk him out of it, and if that failed, i would resign. >> there's no evidence, i think, that this white house is functioning normally. you know, al

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell.> witch hunt. >> this is not a witch hunt.ch for facts. >> the fbi is investigating whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. >> the whole russian thing, that's a ruse. >> there are three investigations. these are not hoaxes invented by democrats. >> it should be over with. in my opinion, it should have been over a long time ago. >> has the dismissal of mr. comey in any way impeded any investigation. >> you cannot stop the men and women of the fbi from doing the right thing, protecting the american people and upholding the constitution. >> what trump is going to find out eventually is that the rules do apply to him, and it's going to come by way of bob mueller. >> the president of the united states is under criminal investigation for his conduct in office. >> look, who brought this on?

. >> lawrence o'donnel do i tease joe pesci or is that wait and see? >> joe, please. we're begging.e new yorker. all of those lines, 10:00 p.m. you can phone it in. no makeup. stay at home on your sofa. we'll send you the lines. >> live reporting, live analysis and live booking request. always an honor. >> i've never booked my show before. this is my first attempt. please. my cousin vinny goes to the white house. >> 10:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. pacific. >>> coming up, what's the best way to take on president trump? how do you respond to all of this? we have a very special guest. stay tuned. where, in all of this, is the stuff that matters? the stakes are so high, your finances, your future. how do you solve this? you don't. you partner with a firm that advises governments and the fortune 500, and, can deliver insight person to person, on what matters to you. morgan stanley. not necessarily after 3 toddlers with boundless energy. but lower back pain won't stop him from keeping up. because at a dr. scholl's kiosk he got a recommendation for our best custom fit orthotic to relieve his foot, kn

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >>> the entire thing has been a witch hunt. >> this is not a witch hunt. this is a search for facts. >> the fbi is investigating whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. >> the whole russian thing, that's a ruse. >> there are three investigations. these are not hoaxes invented by democrats. >> it should be over with. in my opinion, it should have been over a long time ago. >> has the dismissal of mr. comey in any way impeded any investigation. >> you cannot stop the men and women of the fbi from doing the right thing, protecting the american people and upholding the constitution. >> what trump is going to find out eventually is that the rules do apply to him, and it's going to come by way of bob mueller. >> the president of the united states is under criminal investigation for his conduct in office. >> look, who brought this on? it was the president who brought it on himself. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. >> he can't control himself because there is a disorder

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. for giving me tomorrow night off. i just discovered that. no, i've been looking forward to richard's show all week. i think you know what i mean. >> we just had a little h.r. moment. >> i was riveted to the beginning of your show, especially when you were doing your dramatic reading of the e-mails of marc kasowitz, provoked by your show last night. and i'm actually going to have to read some of them here too because there's some points i want to make about them later in the show. is that the reason he gave in his apology for doing such crazy things last night in those crazy e-mails was that it was 10:00 p.m. >> it was 10:00. >> i thought, wait a minute, that's my excuse. i own that. that explains everything i do. >> it only happened because it was 10:00 on a day that wasn't yet over. i was like you realize you're leading the legal team for the president of the united states in the biggest american political scandal ever. like 10:00 is not like nobody should be turning into a pumpkin a

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. thank you for giving me tomorrow night off. i just discovered that. no, i've been looking forward to richard's show all week. i think you know what i mean. >> we just had a little h.r. moment. >> i was riveted to the beginning of your show, especially when you were doing your dramatic reading of the e-mails of marc kasowitz, provoked by your show last night. and i'm actually going to have to read some of them here too because there's some points i want to make abo

. >>> joining me now is lawrence o'donnell, host of the last word which is on tonight live at 10:00 p.m. >> i'm stealing your instruction for this segment. the highlight was the worst week in the trump presidency. you did it in 70 seconds. >> so you worked in the senate and have been sort of in the room at various times. have you seen something like what happened last night? >> never. never. no, no. listen. i've seen, you know, votes decided by that one vote on the senate floor at 2:00 in the morning. i've been there. i was there when bud kerry did it as a democrat who cast the vote to decide the whole thing. never with this kind of suspense. and one of the reasons for the suspense has been the inconsistency of john mccain. so john mccain comes back from his surgery -- by the way, it's kind of inconceivable that someone gets off the bed from surgery. >> he had a tumor taken out of his head. >> then you would fly across the country to take health care away from tens of millions of people. this that is impossible to imagine off of the bat. but i listened to his speech when he came back an

frankly there's nobody i'd rather hear from in the world right now than lawrence o'donnell. >> at thisr, that may be the best we can do for good news. you just did an amazing job of keeping up with this as it was happening during your hour. none of the information that you've spent the last 40 minutes on existed when you started at 9:00 p.m. tonight, and it has been a stunning thing to watch develop. we keep coming back to that unprecedented. we keep looking back at the nixon model, and what you see right away is this is far, far beyond the nixon model already. there was legal opinion given in the nixon white house at the time to the president that there

. >>> i am ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell this evening.f sessions' week did go from bad

it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >>> the entire thing has been a witch hunt. >>s investigating whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. >> that's a ruse. >> these are not hoaxes invented by democrats. >> it should be over with. >> has the dismissal of mr. comey impeded any investigation? >> you cannot stop the men and women of the fbi from doing the right thing, protecting the american people and unholding the constitution? >> what trump will find out eventually is the rules do apply

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel.ngel is reporting tonight that in capitals around

it is now time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening. >> now i know what i'm doing tomorrow night at 9:00. >> thank you, my friend. >> that's just a lovely cliff-hanger, and i'm sure we just picked up an awful lot of 9:00 p.m. viewers tomorrow night. so you've been working on -- any hints? any category? >> i was just thinking, like, i know i'm being outrageously vague about this. but i don't even consider this to be a tease. this is more like a warning. we have a strange exclusive story tomorrow that has taken us a long time to nail down. it is unlike anything else you are seeing in this news cycle, and i can't really tell you more than that. >> rachel, i've got news for you. >> yeah. >> everything that happens on this network between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. is unlike anything else we see in any news cycle. >> that's very kind of you to say. >> it is the best. >> thank you, my friend. >> thank you, rachel. >> take care. >>> so north korea fired off a missile that demonstrates that north korea has the capacity to reach the unite

. >> i am ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell. we have more on that breaking news, "the wall street journal" adding details to that big report yesterday about a republican activist effort to, according to him, obtain hillary clinton's e-mails from hackers linked to russia. but first republican majority leader mitch mcconnell did promise republicans would continue to work on repealing obamacare. senator mcconnell in kentucky, and their own deadline to come up with a plan has come and gone. the republicans didn't get help from president trump today because he can't stop tweeting. and apparently watching msnbc. >> the president threw his support behind a plan to immediately repeal obamacare. >> it's dead. it's essentially dead. >> and then replace it at a later undetermined date. >> this option of repealing without replacing is dead on arrival. >> by kicking them off their health care at this point, that's cruel, sir. >> we made a promise to repeal obamacare, and we should keep our promises. >> the president hasn't changed his thinki

. >> i am ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell.e have more on that breaking news, "the wall street journal" adding details to that big report yesterday about a republican activist effort to, according to him, obtain hillary clinton's e-mails from hackers linked to russia. but first republican majority leader mitch mcconnell did promise republicans would continue to work on repealing obamacare. senator mcconnell in kentucky, and their own deadline to come up with a plan has come and gone. the republicans didn't get help from p