i'm in mcallen, texas and lawrence o'donnell is in brownsville. ce, it feels like some kind of moral reckoning the country is working through right now. >> well, what we just saw with cory lewandowski is the sad fact that you won't pick up on this network coverage but there are people out there who are actually enjoying this. not feeling neutral about it. not feeling confused about it. not feeling that the law is worth supporting even if it is painful. there are people watching this who are enjoying it and cory lewandowski is one of them. and would it surprise anyone that the campaign manager of the presidential candidate who actually himself on a stage in front of his supporters mocked a disabled reporter and made fun of a reporter's kwl -- physical disability and surprised he would do this. if you put him on television, there is a likelihood of that happening and the real question is why would anyone put him on television. >> there is -- there is this kind of braggadocios from the white house and this happened when -- when it was a complete clust

joining me no you is jonathan capart and tiffany cross and lawrence o'donnell.th you, jonathan. first of all, i think the nostalgia factor, that seems like that was ten years ago. >> right. >> for the president to say maybe he came along ten years too early, what do you make of that assessment of president obama of himself? >> well, what that acknowledges is that the campaign run by president trump was like lifting up a rock in the forest and watching all of the bugs and worms squirm out from underneath. i think the president who ran on hope and change and our better angels and rising to the ideals of who we are as the american people represented by his election and then reelection, seeing that someone who is the an 'tis a sis of him in every way get elected was personally galling, but also i think in that reflection of maybe i was 10 or 20 years too early is maybe the country wasn't ready for me. maybe the country -- maybe i was an aberration is what i kind of get from that in that quote. it's amazing to hear an introspective thoughtful president again. >> espe

lawrence o'donnell will be back later in the show. thank you very much. eting, your coverage has been incredible. lawrence also went down to the border. you have done an incredible job of making sure that we see what we see and we can believe our own eyes. thank you very much both of you and my friend. don't miss jacob on "dateline" for the border special the dividing line on nbc. up next trump tells congress don't even bother. over the last 24 hours, you finished preparing him for college. in 24 hours, you'll send him off thinking you've done everything for his well-being. but meningitis b progresses quickly and can be fatal, sometimes within 24 hours. while meningitis b is uncommon, about 1 in 10 infected will die. like millions of others, your teen may not be vaccinated against meningitis b. meningitis b strikes quickly. be quick to talk to your teen's doctor about a meningitis b vaccine. a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. that's why we created expedia's add-on advantage. now after boo

. >> obviously i'm not lawrence o'donnell, i'm steve kornacki. lawrence o'donnell is coming up. leap frog over keirstead, this would be the scenario democrats areang. alornia, these things can may be a tabulation error resulting in votes for the 4th bottom line that was their goal heading into tonight, to live to fight inll of these in november. brian, we'll accepted it over to you. >> our thanks to steve kornacki. we ask only that you not stray from the big board. we will come back with results as they come in throughout the broadcast. checking in on other news, day 502 this was of the trump administration. and president trump wasted no time again today lashing out at his own attorney general of his recusal from the russia investigation. president trump wrote on twitter, "the russian witch-hunt hoax continues all because jeff sessions didn't tell me he was going to recuse himself. i would have quickly picked someone else. so much time and money wasted. so many lives ruined. and sessions knew better than most that there was no collusion. to say that our president cannot let this

and lawrence o'donnell live from brownsville at 10:00 p.m. eastern." with nicole wallace starts right now. ♪ >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in washington, d.c. we are just over an hour away from what's expected to be an explosive meeting between the president and congressional republicans, who are typically happy to follow donald trump on his misguided policy choices and to stay mostly silent on this unpresidential conduct, but who today, today, are finally trying to pump the brakes on his zero tolerance immigration policy, one that's left thousands of children suffering in detention centers along the border. trump's own party panicking in the face of the political blowback, underscored this morning by criticism from the wall street

. >> lawrence o'donnell in brownsville, texas. and he will be broadcasting his show, the last word with lawrence o'donnell live at 10:00 p.m. eastern time. i'll be there as well. you should be too. there is more to cover here. lawrence thank you very much for joining me. >> thanks, chris. >>> and we will be back here live from mcallen, texas, tomorrow night where much more reporting on this important story. > well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 516 of the trump administration, and we have breaking news from the associated press tonight about those migrant children on the border taken from their families. the a.p. puts it this way. quote, trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the u.s./mexico border to at least three what are called tender-age shelters in south texas, the associated press has learned. we will have more on that later on in this broadcast. meantime, the president remains firm about stickin

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> it's not lawrence, i'm so sorry. >> i thought it was a joke but then you didn't say anything else. >> i didn't know, let me do it again. that's it for us tonight, time for "last word with lawrence o'donnell," except it's not, it's ari! >> today donald trump is claiming credit for, yes, what those exact same numbers show. if there's a problem with the data, turns out tonight we can tell you that's a problem caused by donald trump, who leaked a hint at what was coming by

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. it's ari. >> it's not lawrence, i'm so sorry. >> i thought it was a joke but then you didn't say anything else. >> i didn't know, let me do it again. that's it for us tonight, time for "last word with lawrence o'donnell," except it's not, it's ari! >> today donald trump is claiming credit for, yes, what those exact same numbers show. if there's a problem with the data, turns out tonight we can tell you that's a problem caused by donald trump, who leaked a hint at what was coming by tweeting about the report an hour before the labor department officially releases this the data. now that stunned economists, according to "the new york times," and actually risked a market shift because fast-acting traders could place bets on an optimism-fueled market surge. now let's be clear. there aren't any strong laws against tweeting about this data right before it comes out. it's more of a logical, responsible practice that literally every single presi

i'm joy reed in for lawrence o'donnell. we begin with the fight to replace justice anthony kennedy on the supreme court. it's a fight that can reshape american policy and culture in donald trump's image for a generation or more. the battle lines are being drawn already. the democrats are vowing to stop trump from nominating a hard right nominee. >> when there was a vacancy under president obama, too close to an election, let's let the people decide. we're four months away from an election. is senator mcconnell prepared to keep this office vacant until after the election? i hope so. >> we realize the fact that obama's final year was taken away from him. so that was a new standard, it was a low standard, if you will, but it was a standard, and i for one, and i don't think others have forgotten that. >> but here's the problem. democrats do not have the votes to stop a trump replacement from being confirmed thanks to mitch mcconnell invoking the nuclear option they can seat a justice with just 51 votes. and it depends on the de

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel, it's ari. >> oh, ght it was a joke but then you didn't say anything else. >> let me do it again. that does it for us, it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell except it's not, it's ari. >>> donald trump ran for president claiming that barack obama's jobs was phony because jobs data is phony.

now it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell."lawrence. >> good evening, ari. i'm so glad you gave jacob soboroff the last word in your hour this week because he has done really such a great job of reporting on the border, not just this week but literally for years now. he really has been leading us on this.

now it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell."

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" lawrence, i'm sorry i ate your 33 seconds.. you and elizabeth warren i could watch the rest of the hour. you have as much of the real estate as you need. >> thank you, my friend. >>> the pres

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrence. >> good even, rachel. we're going to have more on that order in a moment. but we'll also have the latest video of a child talking to his mother in guatemala. it's another painful conversation to listen to that has become this uniquely

now it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> good evening, ari. i'm so glad you gave jacob soboroff the last word in your hour this week because he has done really such a great job of reporting on the border, not just this week but literally for years now. he really has been leading us on this. >> it's been great to see what he's doing. also, of course, watching you, watching chris and all of our nbc correspondents telling these stories has been a key part of this, so appreciate everyone honestly, lawrence. >> thanks, ari. >> thank you. >>> we have a lot to cover tonight. tom arnold is going to join us, and that's a lot right there. ay

we will see you tomorrow now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrenceachel. we have news in this hour that has not been reported yet but will be tomorrow. that is in the executive order, part of the component was telling the attorney general to rush into federal court in

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrence. >> good even, rachel. we're going to have more on that order in a moment. but we'll also have the latest video of a child talking to his mother in guatemala. it's another painful conversation to listen to that has become this uniquely american conversation that we're listening in on these parents talking to their children across these borders of these countries. >> amazing. well done, my friend. >> thank you, rachel. >> thanks. >> as rachel pointed out, it only takes one. and this is going to be a different take on how it only takes one and what that means. one senator can stop the nomination of the next supreme court justice. one perfectly placed senator, republicans have a 51-49 majority on the senate floor, but senator john mccain is too ill to vote which means republicans have a one vote advantage on the floor, 50- -49 but when the first vote came up, three democrats voted for neil gorsuch. heidi hide camp in north dakota where the president visited tonight campaigning against her and where donald tru

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" lawrence, i'm sorry i ate your 33 seconds. >> cut it out. you and elizabeth warren i could watch the rest of the hour. you have as much of the real estate as you need. >> thank you, my friend. >>> the president has been silent about the report released today. last week the president was tweeting about the report saying what is taking so long with the inspector general's report, now you would think he would jump at the chance to read all 568 pages about it and tweet about it or at least the 14 page executive summary but because we know the president is not a reader, anything longer than a tweet is too much for this president. but here's the thing. it turns out that these 568 pages can actually be summarized in a tweet. and they have been summarized in a tweet masterfully by veteran washington reporter john harwood of cnbc who delivered the entire report in a digestible morsel perfect for the president of the united states. to sum up justice department inspector general concluded that bias did not affect clinton e-mail investiga

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i couldn't watch ever minute of your show tonight because i do have to do some homework for this hour. so i'm not sure. how much time -- how much of your hour was spent onin others the supl and e president and the national anthem, which i believe the president thinks is the biggest story of the day? >> you know, where does the time go? >> so what, so what, zero, nothing? >> i don't always cover things that are the things that the president is doing. ever. >> oh, that's a choice. that's a choice we can make. we can actually make that choice. >> i believe the presidency is a very important thing, and the president by virtue of the fact that he is the inhabiter of the presidency is important. but you also -- you know earn your place in the news by being newsworthy. and when you do stuff that is designed to attract attention that is not actually newsworthy, you end up getting a chit against you in terms of whether or not people do what you w

time now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrence. >> good evening p if i said to you, thanks, pal, would that sount conspire or the yal? >> were you saying it, thanks pal or thanks pal? >> you and i are lawyers, we're on opposite sides of the case and one of us represents stormy daniels and one of us represents donald trump, and we say thanks, pal, to each other -- >> why are we talking, first of all? >> the secrecy agreement. we're trying to make sure stormy daniels never tells her story about what happened with donald trump. so we're talking -- >> if we're lawyers on the opposite side of that fight why should we be paling around at all? >> that's a really good question. that's michael avenatti's question but he's now putting it in the form of an accusation in a lawsuit against those two lawyers, the lawyer who represented stormy daniels and michael cohen, who was representing donald trump. and michael avenatti has the actual texts of these two guys talking to each other through texts. so you know what that means? dramatic reading of the text right

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i couldn't watch ever minute of your show tonight because i do have to do some homework for

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i was fascinated with what you read in the last hour about united and american airlines that they do not want to participate in way moving these children out of the areas and around the countries. i came out this morning on united airlines, that's basically the only two ways in this and out. we were looking on that plane for exactly that possibility. we didn't see any kids on that plane that looked like they weren't related to and very much a part of the families that they appeared to be with on that plane. actually, very few children at all. >> but what you were doing there on that plane is something that americans are doing all over the country as we start to learn through all sorts of different means about where they put these kids. this program to hide these kids all over the country. it's local media, whistle blowers, sources talking to public officials and narcing out where the trump administration is putting the children. it's all

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrence. >> i'm trying to work with the image of the constitution sleeping on the bathroom floor. >> after dragging itself in there and just barfed sorry. >> something that has come up in our coverage and i'm going to show the video you showed of the kids in the new york city facility. we blur their faces. what's what we would do if we were in a new york city public school room, for example, and didn't have the permission of the parents of everyone involved to show the children's faces. but these are missing children. we used to have the faces of kids on milk cartons in this country because we were trying to reunite these missing children with their parents trying to find them. i don't know what the answer to this is, but i'm wondering whether we should be blurring those faces or whether we should be showing those faces so that perhaps the parent or the cousin of one of the parents of these people somewhere in the country sees one of these faces and is able to tell someone in the family, she's in new york city, i j

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i'm going to hand over to the last word with lawrence o'donnell good evening lawrence. >> i was strucksenate floor which they did more, ask the justice department. don't ask the intelligence committee. and to hear you tell us that ron wyden, a member of the committee didn't know about what the "new york times" is reporting tonight, which seems related to that resolution, that's really quite stunning. >> it seems like whatever was going on with this investigation of this long-time staffer on that committee, i don't know how much senators knew about that, and senators on the intelligence committee won't tell us, they are actually great about not leaking from that committee. but in terms of this investigation from the point of view of the justice department, involving long term surveillance of a reporter, that is a whole different scandal.

i'm going to hand over to the last word with lawrence o'donnell good evening lawrence. >> i was struck by the vote on the senate floor which they did more, ask the justice department. don't ask the intelligence committee. and to hear you tell us that ron wyden, a member of the committee didn't know about what the "new york times" is reporting tonight, which seems related to that resolution, that's really quite stunning. >> it seems like whatever was going on with this investigation of this long-time staffer on that committee, i don't know how much senators knew about that, and senators on the intelligence committee won't tell us, they are actually great about not leaking from that committee. but in terms of this investigation from the point of view of the justice department, involving long term surveillance of a reporter, that is a whole different scandal. there have been scandals about it in democratic and republican administrations. there are supposed to be rules about that, but you can tell from the "new york times" reporting that they are ripping mad about it, as will most news org

lawrence o'donnell isom up. he'll have an update on the important story of children be separated from their parents at the u.s. border. the biggest state, the biggest stakes on the biggest day of the imary. the story here in california, one we've been following is this question of there are seven house races, seven congressional raceshere demrats think they can flip the seats. republicans hold them in california, clinton won them in '16. democrats think they can flip them in the fall. they have this wild top-two primary system in california. can democrats make the ballot in november? they've got to be in the top two. this is dana rohrabacher, republican ibt. let's see if we can get this up on the screen. top-two ary. everybody gets the same ballot, regardless of party, top two candidates regardless of party get through. this is a very tense situation for democrats. dana rohrabacher is moving ahead. the question is who is going to be behind him? you have a democrat running in second place. you can see the differe

we will see you tomorrow now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. we have news in this hour that has not been reported yet but will be tomorrow. that is in the executive order, part of the component was telling the attorney general to rush into federal court in california to try to modify the flores case. they did that today. peter schey, who's the lawyer on the other side of the case, representing all the kids in the class action suit, he told us last night that the justice department called and said they might do that today, turns out they did. and peter schey is going to be here to tell us what they filed and how he plans to respond to it. but i have the motion, let's see, i can squeeze it in. right here. >> very good. >> hot off of our printer and still no reporting yet that the attorney general did take this action today. peter schey is ready for it and he's going to explain it for us. >> super important stuff. i'm already taking notes. thank you, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. on the president's first day of the new

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence, good evening, rachel. those really are strange comments from that judge. it's as if he is running for a supreme court seat that could open at some point. >> at one point he edit would have been better to handle this matter with a bipartisan commission in congress rather than appointing a special counsel. really? who asked you. >> but the important thing is he ruled in favor of the special prosecutor. >> yes. >> that's the important thing. >> unequivocally. >> i think what lawyers will tell you is when they encounter a judge who is clearly leaning against them, it just means they have to be so much better in court. >> yeah. >> they know that if the ball is on the corner of the plate, the judge is not going to call it a strike. he is always going to lean one way. so they just have to be perfect. >> and that is a performative judge. we noerve says he really likes to show off. he likes to get headlines. he likes to get his name in the paper. he has gotten all this p

now it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, ari. i'm so glad you gave jacob soboroff the last word in your hour this week because he has done really such a great job of reporting on the border, not just this week but literally for years now. he really has been leading us on this. >> it's been great to see what he's doing. also, of course, watching you, watching chris and all of our nbc correspondents telling these stories has been a key part of this, so appreciate everyone honestly, lawrence. >> thanks, ari. >> thank you. >>> we have a lot to cover tonight. tom arnold is going to join us, and that's a lot right there. he says he's been spending a lot of time with michael cohen here in new york city and says he plans to spend the weekend with michael cohen. if you've been following tom arnold on twitter, you know that no one is more anti-trump than tom arnold. so why is michael cohen hanging around with and chatting with one of donald trump's fiercest enemies? well, michael cohen has just

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." wrence. >> good evening, rachel. i was fascinated with what you read in the last hour about united and american airlines that they do not want to participate in way moving these

. >> obviously i'm not lawrence o'donnell, i'm steve kornacki.

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrence. >> i'm trying to workf the constitution sleeping on the bathroom floor.

time now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrence. >> good eveningk you for ruining my monday afternoon because i was going to take my new canoe into central park new york. >> can you imagine us in the same place. >> yes. >> michael cohen asked a federal judge from preventing michael avenatti to ever coming on this program again. he cited in his pl

time now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. thank you for ruining my monday afternoon because i was going to take my new canoe into central park new york. >> can you imagine us in the same place. >> yes. >> michael cohen asked a federal judge from preventing michael avenatti to ever coming on this program again. he cited in his pleadings things that michael avenatti have said on this show that should never be said publically and asked the judge to make sure that michael avenatti can never, ever come on this show again. you knew about that? >> i knew. i assume it made mr. avenatti agree right away he would never come on your show again and apologize? >> no. this is the first thing. this is the first time i actually booked him. i booked him last night on twitter as soon as i saw that happen. he immediately accepted on twitter. so michael avenatti is going to be on this show tonight. >> gag order. >> turns out there's reason to suspect that when michael cohen was in law school he was not taking notes during the first amen

we will see you tomorrow now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening, lawrencein thisou

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