lawrence o'donnell, give you the last 60 seconds. guest: you are hearing from an experienced former police officer there who is telling you the way that things were. he talked about what they used to call a throwdown knife or a throwdown gun. that was evidence they could plant in these situations suspect wasrmed killed. and that is the story i tell in my book, the 1975 killing in boston. very dramatic story and unfortunately it's a story us.'s still with what happened to james bowden's mother, losing her son, is the same thing that happened to antwon rose's mother, who lost her son two weeks ago. there are marginal ways in which we have gotten better in dealing with this phenomenon, and we have become more honest in dealing with the phenomenon, but those marginal improvements are no consolation to the mother of antwon rose jr. today. host:the book, "deadly force: a police shooting and my family's truth," thehe author, lawrence o'donnell. thanks so much for your time morning. [captions performed by national captioning institute] [capt

host: lawrence o'donnell. joining us from boston this morning. and robert is joining us from connecticut. an independent. go ahead. caller: yes, every year in america, twice as many white people are shot and killed the by the police. why is it that we don't see many crying white mothers on tv? clinton andhillary the mothers of the black but domes -- black victims but with the white police officers who killed, where worth their mothers? i have a few friends who are cops and they show me the statistics on black men and how they murdered people at a rate that is 10 times more than whites and latinas put together. but it is always about the black. where are the crying white mothers? guest: every case has to be analyzed individually. and when you do that, you do discover that there is a peculiar phenomenon involved with the unarmed black male victim. that in statistical terms, we see more of those. then we do of white victims. and let's remember what i said at the beginning, when you wonder about the cases that get protested and the ones that don't ge

commendi want to lawrence o'donnell. i want to say the call in from you, heia, as he told was an officer since 1981 and i have in since 1961. and i never shot anybody. i never killed anybody. please threw down guns and anyone who is afraid of police should not get a job as a police officer. you can get any kind of job that you want. and i say this to the washington journal. washington journal, you see what the real america is. because you see people call in and hear the things they say. lawrence o'donnell is about the truth. i had been involved when we had a national black police convention. 1972.e founded in policet is the time when were shooting people and all of this stuff. i commend lawrence o'donnell. truth, thes truth, the opposite of the truth is a lie. the natural enemy of the truth is a lie. the president, you can't deny that the president lies. that is wrong. you talk about the bible and that kind of stuff. it says tell the truth. host: lawrence o'donnell give you the last 60 seconds or so. guest: you are heari

commendi want to lawrence o'donnell.ant to say the call in from you, heia, as he told was an officer since 1981 and i have in since 1961. and i never shot anybody. i never killed anybody. please threw down guns and anyone who is afraid of police should not get a job as a police officer. you can get any kind of job that you want. and i say this to the washington journal. washington journal, you see what the real america is. because you see people call in and hear the things they say. lawrence o'donnell is about the truth. i had been involved when we had a national black police convention. 1972.e founded in policet is the time when were shooting people and all of this stuff. i commend lawrence o'donnell. truth, thes truth, the opposite of the truth is a lie. the natural enemy of the truth is a lie. the president, you can't deny that the president lies. that is wrong. you talk about the bible and that kind of stuff. it says tell the truth. host: lawrence o'donnell give you the last 60 seconds or so. guest: you are hearing f

please welcome, lawrence o'donnell!ause ) ( band playing ) good to see you again. >> and so, i appear before you tonight as an accused enemy of the people. >> stephen: a accused -- by the president of the united states who accuses us all in the media to be enemies of the people. >> stephen: do you take it personally. >> i took it personally. >> stephen: give me your perspective on this. >> okay. >> stephen: i've said many times before that part of the thing we do with our audience is you come in every night, talk about what's going on in the world, the conversation we have been having, and to say to them, you're not crazy. the trump administration and others would like you to think you're crazy for thinking what's going on is crazy. this afternoon that peter strzok thing, was that crazy? am i crazy? >> you're not crazy, they're crazy. so here's what's really crazy -- your first ten minutes tonight -- and this is an entertainment comedy show -- >> stephen: sometimes. ( laughter ) >> -- could be -- could be my first ten m

host: in 1983, lawrence o'donnell published his book, "deadly force." the msnbc host joins us now from boston. that book was reissued in paperback last week. lawrence o'donnell, why did you think now is the time to revisit this particular story? guest: the problem wh

i am in for lawrence o'donnell tonight. as we turn to the news, the big headline here is donald trump did cave into pressure today. he ousted scott pruitt. this story matters for many reasons, but among them is the fact it shows reporting, pressure and accountability still can work in donald trump's washington. it may not be a coincidence that donald trump put this news out today, which is of course a traditionally sleepy period after july 4th. if donald trump has to cave, maybe he wants to do it during a holiday news week when he thinks fewer people may not notice. but that's just the optics part. the substance is far more important. and the substance tonight that i can report to you is scoot pruitt is out. donald trump tweeting it today. he told reporters while everyone knows the controversies with scott, within the agency, he said, we were extremely happy. that is largely false. he was under fire precisely because people within the epa blew the whistle on his contact from making an aid find a job for his wife to spending

i'm lawrence o'donnell. when the president signed a so-called executive order to reverse his policy of separating parents and children at the border, much of the news media reported it wrongly as a rare reversal for donald trump, the tough guy who never backs down, surprisingly backs down. that's what some people thought. but the truth is, backing down is what donald trump does. we can list many more examples of domd trump backing down than donald trump holding to a consistent position. he said he would never settle the trump university fraud case, and then he backed down and settled that case paying $25 million for the fraud that he committed against trump university students. he said he would get mexico to pay for the wall on the southern border and then immediately and famously backed down when the mexican president said he wouldn't pay for the wall. donald trump said he would provide universal health care coverage to everyone in america, and then he backed down when republicans in congress refused to do

with lawrence o'donnell. being, lawrence. >> we be seen at president at the g-7 meetings sign a document and refute everything that was in the document after he left. and so the issues for people involved in the nato summit is when will it actually end for president trump? it will end at a certain hour or a certain moment. it will end perhaps with a signature or whatever. but is that the end of it? will there be something that changes everything said here? >> when he takes a gold or controversial step, he likes to have other people do that. he makes nice with everybody at the g-7 and gets on a plane. he wants robert mueller fired or jeff sessions fired. he dispatches other people to do that firing. when it comes down to being a tough guy, he likes to work through proxies, shall we say. we'll be watching this into tomorrow. >> the wide angle lens challenge that's coming up in london is trying to get the president in the same frame as that blimp that's going to be floating. >> the blimp is upset baby trump? is t

now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. lawrence? >> thanks, richard. thank you. watergate part two. that is where america is tonight. we now have a detailed indictment of the people who broke into democratic party headquarters during the 2016 presidential campaign, the last time that happened was 1972 when burglars were caught breaking into the democratic national committee's offices in the watergate office building in washington, d.c. the people that broke in in 1972 were acting to help the republican candidate for president. and the people who broke into the democratic party's offices in 2016 were acting to help the republican candidate for president. no one caught the thieves in the act during the 2016 campaign because they broke into the office without ever setting foot in the democratic party's office. 12 russian military officers pulled off the theft this time. and today, three days before the president is scheduled to meet one-on-one with vladimir putin, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein made a historic announcement of an indictment returned by a fede

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. ning, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and i realize that your independence day begins as soon as i stop speaking to you tonight. and so, and so unless you'd like to hold forth on any afterthoughts you have after doing an hour of tv, i'm prepared to just say good night. >> bye. >> bye, rachel. thank you very much. and she's off on her 4th of july. well, as america approaches its annual day of

i want to hand it over to the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening. thank you very much. there are exactly two people publically defending donald trump on the possibility that he might have committed obstruction of justice. just two. those two public defenders of donald trump are rudy giuliani and donald trump. that's it. that is the public defense team for the president. giuliani and trump. and both of them are completely incoherent when it comes to publically defending donald trump, and that makes perfect sense. what they say doesn't make perfect sense, but the fact that both giuliani and trump are incoherent in their attempts to publically defend donald trump does make a certain sense and it means that there is no evidence based defense of the president that is available to donald trump or rudy giuliani because if there was an evidence based defense available, at least one of them would use it. the country and the world are long used to the fact that donald trump is generally incoherent most of the time about

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and i realize that your independence day begins as soon as i stop speaking to you tonight. and so, and so unless you'd like to hold forth on any afterthoughts you have after doing an hour of tv, i'm prepared to just say good night. >> bye. >> bye, rachel. thank you very much. and she's off on her 4th of july. well, as america approaches its annual day of celebrating our independence, it is worth emphasizing that this is not donald trump's america. the president does sometimes try to behave like a king. he tries to behave like he owns the place. but what we are celebrating tomorrow is independence from a king. and there is no figurative or poetic sense in which this is donald trump's america. the picture that new polling presents is largely a country that opposes president trump. a new quinnipiac poll tonight shows that 55% of americans disapprove of the job donald trump is doing as president. and some of that disapproval is now coming fr

now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. lawrence? >> thanks, richard. thank you.rica is tonight. we now have a detailed indictment of the people who broke into democratic party headquarters during the 2016 presidential campaign, the last time that happened was 1972 when burglars were caught breaking into the democratic national committee's offices in the watergate office building in washington, d.c. the people that broke in in 1972 were acting to h

now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. lawrence? >> thanks, richard. thank you.hat is where america is tonight. we now have a detailed indictment of the people who broke into democratic party headquarters during the 2016 presidential campaign, the last time that happened was 1972 when burglars were caught breaking into the democratic national committee's offices in the watergate office building in washington, d.c. the people that broke in in 1972 were acting to help the repu

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i want to hand it over to the last word with lawrence o'donnell. g, lawrence. >> good evening. thank you very much. there are exactly two people publically defending donald trump on the possibility that he might have committed obstruction of justice. just two. those two public defenders of donald trump are rudy giuliani and donald trump. that's it. that is the public defense team for the president. giuliani and trump. and both of them are completely incoherent when it comes to publically defending donald trump, and that makes perfect sense. what they say doesn't make perfect sense, but the fact that both giuliani and trump are incoherent in

now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> you are lucky because i love the tapes. i'll take all the tapes they can send me. 100, so that's, let's say, i'd go for one every other day. >> yeah. i don't know why it makes me so crazy. agendas, definite agendas and you just kind of took it and rolled with it and waited until the end to see if it took a shape. >> you're exactly right. and evidence is evidence. and i just -- i just need to like take a shower, get on wit. like you know what i mean? some of this stuff you just have to plow with it. these are their methods. we have to live with it in order to make sense of it. >> so my idea of an msnbc network special of rachel and the tapes, tomorrow, can we sit down and just sketch that out, the rachel and the cohen tapes segment? >> you know i did the cocktail moments where there were drinks at the end of the show? we would have to do some sort of combo. >> okay. so it would start with the drinks. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. did michael cohen

it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> don't surprise me like that. >> i'm sorry! >> i'm used to one of those kinds of things. so, rachel, last night i had this news to break for you. >> yeah. >> about the president's briefing that he got on january 6th, and it has changed everything about what we have been hearing the president say for the last year and a half since then. i am going to show some of the video later in this hour about how after he knew what he knew he continued to just relentlessly lie about it could have been someone else. it might not be the russians. >> well, if he knew and he expressed at the time that he was persuaded by the evidence he was presented, then presumably he'll have to give some explanation publically at some point as to how he became unpersuaded, who unpersuaded them. there won't that be people in the world other than donald trump that were arguing that russia didn't do it other than of course the russians. i'd love to hear his sort of origin story for how he came

i want to hand it over to the last word with lawrence o'donnell. ople publically defending donald trump on the possibility that he might have committed obstruction of justice. just two. those two public defenders of donald trump are rudy giuliani and donald trump. that's it.

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. ning, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. independence day begins as soon as i stop speaking to you tonight. and so, and so unless you'd like to hold forth on any afterthoughts you have after doing an hour of tv, i'm prepared to just say good night. >> bye. >> bye, rachel. thank you very much. and she's off on her 4th of july. well, as america approaches its annual day of celebrating our independence, it is worth emphasizing that this is not donald trump's america. the president does sometimes try to behave like a king. he tries to behave like he owns the place. but what we are celebrating

. >> where is lawrence o'donnell, is he going to come down? >> we made it. turns out silence can be powerful. >>> a star witness. let's play "hardball." >> donald trump's lawyer, the friend he honored with praise now looms as the state witness against him. michael cohen says that donald trump, the man sitting in the oval office knew beforehand about his son and son-in-law and paul manafort's meeting in trump tower to obtain from the russians on hillary clinton. repeat. michael cohen says trump knew ahead of time. good evening. i am chris matthews in washington. source a sources confirmed what cnn reported last night that trump's former lawyer and fixer that trump knew in advance about a meeting at trump tower in june 2016. the source told nbc news that cohen -- that meeting with russians has long been a key focal point in the mueller investigation. it involved three top campaign officials. donald trump jr. jared kushner and paul manafort. information that would incriminate hillary which he was told was quote part of russia and his government's support for mr

. >> now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. rachel. good thing you had a bunch of lawyers around for the release of the cohen -- cohen tape number 1. there's going to be many more. we're going to play it in its entirety for people to decide what it is they're hearing here. but let me begin by telling you who's not going to be on our show tonight. rudy giuliani declined to come on and explain what his client donald trump is actually saying on that audio that we're going to play in a moment. but michael avenatti is here and he has a

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. nce. >> we be seen at president at the g-7 meetings sign a document and refute everything that was in the document after he left. and so the issues for people involved in the nato summit is when will it actually end for president trump? it will end at a certain hour or a certain moment. it will end perhaps with a signature or whatever. but is that the end of it? will there be something that changes everything said here? >> when he takes a gold or controversial step, he likes to have other people do that. he makes nice with everybody at the g-7 and gets on a plane. he wants robert mueller fired or jeff sessions fired. he dispatches other people to do

. >> lawrence o'donnell. >> joe, thank you for the job you did in live coverage of the speech. >> fact check. >> live fact check which i needed. i don't know what his approval rating is in england. >> it is 11%, the lowest ever recorded for a first year president. >> but what was it like sitting here with that kind of challenge, with all of this coming at you -- >> so much to choose from. >> you had to pick which one you jump in on. that's what i was marveling at. when do you jump in, when do you let it slide. >> it is tough for all of us. all of us have to figure out what we look past. for instance, very interesting. at this stage i just never read his tweets unless they make headlines. not like i'm saying i'm not reading his tweets. i know he is going to insult our allies, insult people, i know they're going to be racially tinged. i know what he's going to do. i think it is just part of our responsibility to sift through and figure out what matters. and also how he says they love me in britain. >> if you hadn't done that, we would then have to be replaying every bit of this tape tryi

now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. wrence. >> you are lucky because i love the tapes. i'll take all the tapes they can send me. 100, so that's, let's say, i'd go for one every other day. >> yeah. i don't know why it makes me so crazy.

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and if you were hiring michael flynn, wouldn't you want to know what his sentence is going to be now that he's pleaded guilty? what if he gets six months or a year or something? his plea bargain in. >> you can imagine the negotiations. so what are the personal time plans? is there flex time? and if i'm not able to telecommute will i still be able perhaps through the glass -- i know. it's awkward. >> business development in possibly a federal penitentiary. what do we know about that stuff? >> well, he we know he's not taking the job. >> thank you, rachel. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> a couple of hours after the president landed in brussels today for a nato summit to be followed by a visit to london where he will meet the queen and then a private one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin in helsinki the united states senate had a roll call vote that was almost unanimous. and that is the same united states senate that is paralyzed by party divisio

it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> don't surprise me like that. >> i'm sorry! >> i'm used to one of those kinds of things. so, rachel, last night i had this news to break for you. >> yeah. >> about the president's briefing that he got on january 6th, and it has changed everything about what we have been hearing the president say for the last year and a half since then. i am going to show some of the video later in this hour about how after he knew what he knew he continued to just relentlessly lie about it could have been someone else. it might not be the russians. >> well, if he knew and he expressed at the time that he was persuaded byvi

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. ng, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and if you were hiring michael flynn, wouldn't you want to know what his sentence is going to be now that he's pleaded guilty? what if he gets six months or a year or something? his plea bargain in. >> you can imagine the negotiations. so what are the personal time plans? is there flex time? and if i'm not able to telecommute will i still be able perhaps through the glass -- i know. it's awkward. >> business development in possibly a federal penitentiary. what do we know about that stuff?

. >> now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. good thing you had a bunch of lawyers around for the release of the cohen -- cohen tape number 1. there's going to be many more. we're going to play it in its entirety for people to decide what it is they're hearing here. but let me begin by telling you who's not going to be on our show tonight. rudy giuliani declined to come on and explain what his client donald trump is actually saying on that audio that we're going to play in a moment. but michael avenatti is here and he has a novel take on what's going on with these tapes. adam schiff was here already to talk about what rudy giuliani's been saying about the president possibly cooperating or not with the mueller investigation. we'll get his take on what his read of this tape is as both a former prosecutor and member of congress. but rachel, i think this is -- this is the night that the president has been preparing his followers for. just today saying don't believe what you see, don't

but now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell where katie is in for lawrence. if you have time, i have a quick question for you. >> sure, go ahead. >> yeah? you have time? >> sure. >> i was going to ask you, katie, because i always love talking with you, do you know what is black and white and red all over? >> a newspaper. >> it's a teleprompter. >> wow. you are a very clever man. >> i wish you a fantastic show and a great weekend, my friend. >> ari, good to take it from you for once. instead of me handing off, i get to get the awkward moment where you try to throw me off your game. >> i am accustomed to have you toss to me sometimes at 6:00. this time we have slowed down, flipped it and reversed it. >> ari, surrender the flow, my friend.tie turk. amid the civil war between the president and his former lawyer. today the president lashed out at michael cohen after reports that cohen is willing to tell robert mueller that donald trump knew in advance about the 2016 trump tower meeting where the russians promised to deliver dirt on hillary clinton. cohen's account

lawrence o'donnell starts right now. >>> trying to thaw icy relations with russia. a group of seven lawmakers visit moscow ahead of president trump's meeting with vladimir putin. it comes as the senate intel committee released the report, reaffirming the intelligence community's assessment putin tried to help trump win in 2016. plus, with days to go until his self-imposed deadline, president trump is narrowing his list of potential supreme court candidates. and a threat of heavy rain is forcing rescue teams to consider different ways to get 12 trapped boys and their soccer coach out of a flooded cave in thailand. ♪

i'm lawrence o'donnell.n the president signed a so-called executive order to reverse his policy of separating parents and children at the border, much of the news media reported it wrongly as a rare reversal for donald trump, the tough guy who never backs down, surprisingly backs down. that's what some people thought. but the truth is, backing down is what donald trump does. we can list many more examples of domd trump backing down than donald trump holding to a consistent position. he said he would never settle the trump university fraud case, and then he backed down and settled that case paying $25 million for the fraud that he

but now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell where katie is in for lawrence.time, i have a quick question for you. >> sure, go ahead. >> yeah? you have time? >> sure. >> i was going to ask you, katie, because i always love talking with you, do you know what is black and white and red all over? >> a newspaper. >> it's a teleprompter. >> wow. you are a very clever man. >> i wish you a fantastic show and a great weekend, my friend. >> ari, good to take it from you for once. instead of me handing off, i get

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

now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> thanks for ruining all of our weekends with that announcement. so the interview that he gave with "the sun," has some other gems in it, including he tells this rue newspaper that his polling numbers are better than abraham lincoln. you have to stay with me here. he seems to think that the british will believe that there was polling on abraham lincoln when abraham lincoln was in the white house because what do the british know? >> it was a smaller number because it was fewer states. >> and that's not all. he actually told this british interviewer that he has doubled, he said, that since he's become president the gdp of the united states has doubled. and tripled. doubling takes a minimum of 20 years. and does he think the british, they just don't know this stuff? they don't know about gdp? >> well, because -- i mean, i know a little bit about the pain tore which he gave this interview, and i think that he could safely assume that they wouldn't do the math or fact check or call him out on this. whether or not the average british p

. >>> it's time now for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> don't surprise me like that. >> i'm one of those kinds of things. so, rachel, last night i had this news to break for you. >> yeah. >> about the president's briefing that he got on january 6th, and it has changed everything about what we have been hearing the president say for the last year and a half since then. i am going to show

news gods are trying to pace it out so we have something now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnellm a little torn on this. should we be grateful that federal trials are not televised so we actually don't have to spend the entire day glued to the tv on jury selection and everything else in the manafort case? >> i got to say that i am a person who absorbs information better from print than i do from watching moving images, let alone live humans, which i'm sure you could read into from my personalities. but having the transcripts of these hearings it is like the treasured novels that come out every day and i want to bind them and keep them as books. when people watch stuff happen ve

now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> thanks for ruining all of our weekends witherview that he gave