turn on "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" and you will hear donald trump say "i'm guilty" twice before you go to bed tonight. >> promise me. promise me. >> you got it. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, as rachel said, president trump is not happy. not happy that a bipartisan congressional conference committee has decided there will be no money for a trump wall in their new deal to fund the government. and we are lucky, as i said to rachel, to have tonight as our first guest discussing this deal a former senator from a border state. a border state in the middle of the longest international border in the world, which is of course the canadian border, the virtually unprotected, undefended canadian border. no democratic senator had a more difficult political decision to make in the confirmation vote of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh last year. heidi heitkamp voted no on that nomination and then lost her reelection in north dakota. heidi heitkamp has been a member of congressional conference committees, the kind of committee that negotiated this very deal. s

joy reid there in for lawrence o'donnell there. i believe we're going to take a quick break to see if we can reestablish connection with joy. is that what we're going to do now? we'll continue with programming. hopefully we can reconnect with joy, again filling in for lawrence o'donnell. we'll continue and pick up from where she was just moments ago. it looks like the southern district of new york's investigation into donald trump may be a whole lot bigger than just hush money payments to a porn star. a new report in "the new york times" says the president's former attorney michael cohen has met with prosecutors in the southern district to offer them information about possible irregularities within the president's family business, including information about insurance claims the company had filed over the years. last week we learned that prosecutors in that office have already begun conducting interviews with members of the trump organization but this is the if first time we're learning about what "the times" is calling irregularit

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now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and while you were working "the new york times" has once again reported an interview, an exclusive interview in the oval office tonight with donald trump. it is the same newspaper that he calls the failing "new york times." but somehow he just can't stop talking to them. and there's amazing things in here. he talks about basically giving up on trying to make a deal on the wall. he actually praises kamala harris as a presidential candidate while attacking elizabeth warren. he goes on to talk about claims that rod rosenstein told his lawyers that he the president is not a target of investigation. and a bunch of things. also, also there's a point, a spot in here i just want to read to you where the president claims that being president of the united states has been very costly for him financially. >> aw. >> that his company is just losing money because of this horrible curse of the presidency. he says, "i lost massive amounts of money doing

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." nce. >> now i'm ready. i'm wearing my glasses tonight, rachel. >> why? >> well, actually, now that you mention it, the president decided -- he decided to make fun of people who wear glasses today. and that made me go look up how many people wear glasses, say, in the united states, like how many voters. it's only 60%, rachel. it's

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." evening, lawrence. >> now i'm ready. i'm wearing my glasses tonight, rachel. >> why? >> well, actually, now that you mention it, the president decided -- he decided to make fun of people who wear glasses today. and that made me go look up how many people wear glasses, say, in the united states, like how many voters. it's only 60%, rachel. it's only 60. and so i'm going to stand with the 60% who the president made fun of today, because we need a little help. >> you know the president always says, like, i'm your president or i'm our president or something. maybe he just means people who wear contact lenses. >> rachel, put on your glasses as soon as you get out of there. thank you, rachel. >>> trump has a 54% disapproval rating in the latest nbc news poll. and at the end of the hour, we're going to show you the president's disapproval rating state-by-state which shows that at this point the president has virtually no path to coming close to winning the electoral college in his reelection

it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> i have not allowed any suspense on this program to the notion there might be another one. it has been absolutely impossible and everything donald trump has said leading up to this has indicated there would not be a shutdown, and still, of course, there were people who were trying to build that suspense because trump needs it and he needed it with sean hannity and the right wing that hates this deal. and "the washington post" has a report tonight a team led by robert cos ta while after the fact they are trying to create the suspense by saying that this almost run off the rails today. the key passage from unnamed republican aide. we thought he was good to go all morning and suddenly everything is off the rails. that, of course, is exactly what the kind of out-of-control right wing handle to hear, president trump was fighting right 'til the last second and mitch mcconnell had to corral him, and i don't believe a word. i believe the reporting is completely accurate. that's exactly what the sources told them. and it was in all of the so

now it is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. ng, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i'm so glad you played that final word from michael cohen today because there is so much video in this hearing -- >> yeah. >> -- that i'm not going to be able to include in the next hour. that's one of the things. when i saw it, i thought, oh, we have to use that. by the time we get this all done, there is no room. >> no. >> it's one of those days. >> what we did for my show today, first of

i'm ali verbally in for lawrence o'donnell.united states is living in an alternate universe with this border wall. house speaker nancy pelosi has said repeatedly and unequivocally she will not give him the money he wants to build his wall so it seems that the president is okay with simply pretending to have a

we will see you again tomorrow and every day now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell lawrence. >> now i'm ready. i'm wearing my glasses tonight, rachel. >> why? >> well, actually, now that you mention it, the president decided -- he decided to make fun of people who wear glasses today. and that made me go look up how many people wear glasses, say, in the united states, like how many voters. it's only 60%, rachel. it's only 60. and so i'm going to stand with the 60% who the president made fun of today, because we need a little help. >> you know the president always says, like, i'm your president

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." . >> good evening, rachel. and we have one of the leaders of the lawsuit that was filed tonight, in effect, the leader tonight, javier becerra will be our leadoff guest. i have the lawsuit here, i've been reading it. and it, of course, cites the constitution. and as everyone predicted, everyone talking about this last week, it cites the words of donald trump himself. >> "i didn't have to do

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. i'm very excit

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now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. i'm very excited about your show tonight. >> good evening. having a deputy attorney general with no prosecutorial experience is unheard of. >> it is unusual, especially gifren what's going on in the justice department right now, where institutionalists are probably the most valuable thing we could have in country to have someone there is who is new. >> we will have conversation with rod rosenstein about his replacement, including this, rachel. i don't think you've heard anybody mention this from his book. >> we will have conversation with rod rosenstein about his replacement, including this, rachel. i don't think you've heard anybody mention this from his book. the first time andrew mccabe heard that donald trump wants to go to war in venezuela. you want to guess which year that was? >> oh, no. >> it wasn't any time recently. that's in here. it's in this book. >> i have to tell you, lawrence, i'm going to let you go. i've read all the mccabe interviews. i've looked at everything publi

next juncture, but watch this space, by which i mean, now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnellgood evening, rachel. when is the last time you saw a politician do something, that that politician knew would hurt reelection? >> knowingly did it? >> yeah. >> yeah, mmm. >> i'm going to remind you.

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. evening, rachel. that's the first time legislation has passed in that committee since 1993. >> background checks are supported by 10,000% of the american public. even nra members in gigantic numbers prefer background checks as the policy they would like to see in america. this thing polls through the roof, but it takes this long to get it through. >> and, rachel, as you know, the breaking news during your hour was that the same judiciary committee wants to hear from matthew whitaker again. >> mmm-hmm. >> the so-called acting attorney general wanting to clarify some of the things apparently they're not satisfied with what he said in that hearing. and we luckily have a member of the judiciary committee -- >> we good. >> eric swalwell, who can fill us in on that. an

has a real citizen participation element to it, which can be a more powerful thing than with lawrence o'donnell rachel. and we have one of the leaders of the lawsuit that was filed tonight, in effect, the leader tonight, javier becerra will be our leadoff guest. i have the lawsuit here, i've been reading it. and it, of course, cites the constitution. and as everyone predicted, everyone talking about this last week, it cites the words of donald trump himself. >> "i didn't have to do this." oh, doh! i didn't mean to say that! >> that's in here. that's in the lawsuit. >> that helps. it's actually sort of sporting to afford your opponents in the courts that sort of an advantage by using those sorts of words to announce your emergency. >> yeah, they're all in there. all of those transcripts.

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. l. people have had their bail revoked for a lot less than threatening imagery of the judge in their case. >> yeah. >> so it could well be that this time next week, this time next week roger stone is behind bars and therefore might not be able to watch michael cohen's testimony this time next week. >> yeah, i don't know about, like, c-span in the federal lockup. i don't know. >> it depends on luck of the draw of where you are and, you know, some of them have tv. some of them don't. we'll see what happens. >> wow. well, you know -- >> this week, i mean, these hours, rachel, yours and mine on this night next week will be the post-michael cohen testimony hours.

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and we have one of the leaders of the lawsuit that was filed tonight, in effect, the leader tonight, javier becerra will be our leadoff guest. i have the lawsuit here, i've been reading it. and it, of course, cites the constitution. and as everyone predicted, everyone talking about this last week, it cites the words of donald trump himself. >> "i didn't have to do this." oh, doh! i didn't mean to say that! >> that's in here. that's in the lawsuit. >> that helps. it's actually sort of sporting to afford your opponents in the courts that sort of an advantage by using those sorts of words to announce your emergency. >> yeah, they're all in there. all of those transcripts. we're going to have senator claire mccaskill is going to join us with her reaction to all of this and to what -- and she has served in that senate, watching this transformation of the republican side of the senate into basically the trump senate. where they are allowing th

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. that's the first time legislation has passed in that committee since 1993. >> background checks are supported by 10,000% of the american public. even nra members in gigantic numbers prefer background checks as the policy they would like to see in america. this thing polls through the roof, but it takes this long to get it through. >> and, rachel, as you know, the breaking news during your hour was that the same judiciary committee wants to hear from matthew whitaker again. >> mmm-hmm. >> the so-called acting attorney general wanting to clarify some of the things apparently they're not satisfied with what he said in that hearing. and we luckily have a member of the judiciary committee -- >> we good. >> eric swalwell, who can fill us in on that. and rachel, can you help me with something? and that is -- that is i don't -- i don't -- i'm not sure i even have a theory. what is paul manafort up to? what is the lying about? once he entered a c

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. here's my phone, right there. do you know how many people have access to my phone? >> i'm hoping it's a number that -- well, i don't know. >> it's just me and bernie. he's got access to everything, right? you know how many people have access to roger stone's phone? >> no. >> he doesn't either. that's what he said -- that's what he said under oath in federal court today. >> you know, the under oath and talking to the judge thing, it's just not the same thing as going on talk radio. you're really held to a different standard. >> sure is. i mean, the question really is today how much little perjury, if we can call it that, are you allowed to get away with in the hearing to decide whether or not you should be in jail awaiting trial? and it seems like if he gets away with it he got away with a bunch of little perjuries today. >> well, for the moment. the thing is this is the start of his trial, and to the extent that prosecutors are able to b

now it is time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i'm so glad you played that final word from michael cohen today because there is so much video in this hearing -- >> yeah. >> -- that i'm not going to be able to include in the next hour. that's one of the things. when i saw it, i thought, oh, we have to use that. by the time we get this all done, there is no room. >> no. >> it's one of those days. >> what we did for my show today, first of all, there were so many amazing dramatic, personal and even kinetic funny moments. we're not doing any of that. we're going to create a giant list about concrete revelations we didn't know before. there's about 30 of those. we're not going to do any of that. now we need to focus on the serious, you know, multivariant criminal allegations this guy is making about this president since he's been in office because you have to prioritize that because of its importance. but this is 30 days worth of material today. >> yeah, and none of it, not a single thing

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. now i have to wonder what is going to develop on that story during this hour. it is just extraordinary. every day you look up and it changes dramatically. >> the fact that there are now different scandals enveloping all three of those top statewide officials, each of those scandals in its own right would be a story that is national news, but they're all cross-infecting one another, right? the winds of each of those are buffeting each other and they're all developing together. >> it's impossible to make sense of it as it's happening.

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. rachel. people have had their bail revoked for a lot less than threatening imagery of the judge in their case. >> yeah. >> so it could well be

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. now i have to wonder what is going to develop on that story during this hour. it is just extraordinary. every day you look up and it changes dramatically. >> the fact that there are now different scandals enveloping all three of those top statewide officials, each of those scandals in its own right would be a story that is national news, but they're all cross-infecting one another, right? the winds of each of those are buffeting each other and they're all developing together. >> it's impossible to make sense of it as it's happening. you have to take in each one and remember how they relate to each other. >> exactly. >> in that whole line of succession, you can if everything falls in a certain way end up with an actual change of power and end up with a republican governor of the state. i've never seen anything like this. >> no. i mean, well, i remember covering -- i was just mentioning a minute ago, i remember covering the bob mcdonnell s

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. people have had their bail revoked for a lot less than threatening imagery of the judge in their case. >> yeah. >> so it could well be that this time next week, this time next week roger stone is behind bars and therefore might not be able to watch michael cohen's testimony this time next week. >> yeah, i don't know about, like, c-span in the federal lockup. i don't know. >> it depends on luck of the draw of where you are and, you know, some of them have tv. some of them don't. we'll see what happens. >> wow. well, you know -- >> this week, i mean, these hours, rachel, yours and mine on this night next week will be the post-michael cohen testimony hours. the first public testimony michael cohen will give to the house of representatives about everything he was up to with donald trump. >> when you saw that list of topics from elijah cummings today when he laid out the scope of the hearing, tell me honestly, did it not cross your mind that

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence.t. >> good evening. having a deputy attorney general with no prosecutorial experience is unheard of. >> it is unusual, especially gifren what's going on in the justice department right now, where institutionalists are probably the most valuable thing we could have in country to have someone there is who is new. >> we will have conversation with rod rosenstein about his replacement, including this, rachel. i don't think you've heard anybody mention this from his book.

john walcott, author of this piece in "time" magazine, spoke to lawrence o'donnell in the previous hour tonight and described a commander in chief increasingly less engaged with his intelligence community. >> for the most part, lawrence, the briefings have stopped. the president doesn't take them, unlike president obama, who took home three-inch-thick notebooks at night. the president doesn't read them. often doesn't take them. the national security adviser, john bolton, takes some of them. vice president pence has taken some of them. he simply ignores them. >> troubling stuff. the gulf between trump's beliefs and his intelligence chiefs' assessments became public, starkly, last week after a senate hearing. the president criticized his intelligence chiefs and accused the media of misrepresenting their televised remarks. trump was asked about the intelligence assessments during that interview this weekend with cbs news. >> your intel chiefs do say iran's abiding by that nuclear deal. i know you think it's a bad deal. >> i disagree with them. by the way -- >> you disagree with that assess

you said to lawrence o'donnell last night that it appears the president committed a crime. let me just put up the constitution here, impeachment article two section two. the president and vice president and all civil officers of the united states shall will removed from office on conviction of treason, bribery, and other misdemeanors. the constitution has a way to handle when a sitle president commits a crime, do you feel you're duty bound to follow the constitution or should the political argument be part of this process? >> i think is a little bit of both. i think we are moving into territory that is perilous for the president and cannot be ignored by the congress. however we have to build a case, that is what happened in water gate. it too nearly two years. you can't rush to judgment, you to have evidence based process that persuades the american people that this action may be in our future. and so i think we're about that, and yesterday's hearing was the first big step in that process. >> i do think people hear the word impeachment and assume it is about whether or not

lawrence o'donnell and michael steel. out of difference because your title is mr. chairman.utranks mr. anchorman. the great senator from massachusetts. mr. chairman, what did you make of your fellow republican president's "state of the union"? >> to be honest i came at this from a slightly different perspective. i mean i think a lot of what's been said was basically true. the speech struck me in two quarters. the first was an absence of any reference to the shutdown and the idea you had so many federal workers and their families impacted, that there was no sort of, you know, smoothing over that moment with them and with the american people who had been impacted. so it was completely forgotten and set aside. >> that might be because we might be between two shutdowns. >> particularly with that fact looming a week from now. and i thought the president would have a moment there where he could just say i felt your pain, okay, and then move onto something else. but that struck me. the other part i thought was very interesting was the faktd that he laid out a social agenda that i k

chris hayes, rachel maddow, lawrence o'donnell, brian williams, used to be the nbc -- >> sean: the scenean williams that's our dead bodies floating where there was no water? >> may be where he's at msnbc at 11:00 instead of nbc at 6:30. but they covered it for 0 minutes. opinion shows, i give a lot of leeway too. if the editorial page. the problem here, the issue for msnbc here, sean, the fact that they covered the story heavily when the narrative fitted with a thought their audience wanted to hear. this was custom-made for an msnbc audience as a rose presented in the beginning. two white males attack gay black actor with bleach and a noose, yelling mrs. maga country. despite the fact there are many questionable parts of the story from the beginning, why are two men walking around chicago in a polar vortex and 30 a below dege weather waiting for a gay actor they have probably never seen, and then once smollett wasn't handing over phone records are heavily redacted, that is when there was a problem. msnbc, nbc, a lot of other news outlets, not chicago media, they presented it as an attack

booking.com booking.yeah >>> just moments ago, former acting director andrew mccabe spoke to our own lawrence o'donnell in on the "new york times" story that trump may have interfered in the investigation of michael cohen. >> it's not surprising at all. especially when you're familiar with the history that we went through in may of 2017. it's not that different from asking director comey to just let go of the investigation of mike flynn. of course, one of the crucial steps that caused us to believe that this president might, in fact, be trying to obstruct justice. it's not surprising that the reporting in "the times" today, but it is incredibly alarming and it's something the country should be focused on, should be asking questions about. >> and later tonight, during another interview on cnn, his book came out today. he's in the midst of this book tour. mccabe said he thought it was possible that trump could be a russian asset. >> do you still believe the president could be a russian asset? >> i think it's possible. i think that's why we started our investigation, and i'm really anxious to see where di

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now it is time for the last word for lawrence o'donnell. i'm sorry i took your minute. >> it was a minute we wanted to give you, rachel. this is one of those nights where we had a plan and jeff bezos happened. this statement that he's released tonight is absolutely extraordinary, and i think it is a gigantic moment, actually, in the history of our digital communication, which everyone has known has been at risk for quite a while, that any one of us could be hacked. we could have private things revealed through stolen e-mails, stolen texts, that sort of thing. and here is someone that stands up and says, i'm not going to take it anymore and maybe it took the richest man in the world to do that. >> right. and for him to say, listen, they appear to be freaking out by something that i've been looking into when it comes to them. their potential political motivation in pursuing me in this way. why did that set off ami into this panic that they're trying to, apparently, in bezos's words blackmail or extort the richest man on earth. did they think

now it's time for it "last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> rachel maddow calls for a national sick in america. >> well, we didn't rent the movie theater, so i feel like i got to do something. got to at least plan for some sort of accommodation. i'm not planning on coming to work. i'm planning on getting in my jammies, all pie snacks, calling the dog walker, and then we'll be here tomorrow