pete bud but ti should tell you pete will be on live with lawrence o'donnell in the next hour.rview. every declared candidate has to release these numbers and pretty soon. and you know numbers aren't everything and money isn't everything. but these fund-raising totals will tell us a little bit about how much cash these candidates are going to having to run their campaigns. it's also going to matter in the practical sense that fund raising is part of how people are going to make the cut or not to get into the first democratic debates. so these fund-raising numbers are important in terms of understanding how well these candidates are doing in the money part of the race and whether they're going to be on stage when it comes time for the first debate in june. now that the first quarter is done, we'll get fund-raising totals from all the other candidates today following harris and but t harris. one of the first candidates to launch a campaign will be here tomorrow night. julian castro. he will be my guest right here on studio. we'll be speaking for the first time since he launched h

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now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. fisher cat. i'm just changing my first question. i had never heard that scream. i never heard of that particular creature. but, of course, of course bill weld would choose something -- >> a fisher cat. >> something obscure like that. >> seriously. i mean, points to him on this. the fisher cat lives in trees. it's really big. it drops down on to its prey. it kills more than it can eat. it's a ferocious thing. if you had to pick something to be like your spirit thing for the -- i -- props to him. >> so, rachel, you know how in pros writing in books we get to use footnotes and that's kind of, like, wicked difficult to do in this form? i'm going to do my footnote with you. >> okay. >> then i can go on and do the story. the footnote is pete m mcclausk he challenged richard nixon, but he dropped out right after new hampshire. he was challenging him from the left as an anti-war candidate when the democrats had the anti-war candidate coming thr

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now it's time for the last word with the great lawrence o'donnell. >> i'm adjusting the volume in myistening device here. >> now it's time for "the last word" with the great lawrence o'donnell. >> this problems rehearsal doesn't help. because i actually liked the first read better even though it was lower volume. >> i was trying to -- in case you still couldn't hear me, i was trying to enunciate clearly. >> it was the way people used to talk on long distance phone calls meaning from boston to springfield, massachusetts. they would can you hear me? can you hear me. >> do you still have pete buttigieg has your guest this hour. >> guess who is going to teach me how to pronounce his last name. >> he's going to join news this hour. i got great questions from twitter. i solicited questions on twitter today. i now have 100 great questions, rachel. i'm going to get, i don't know what, ten maybe? if i'm lucky. >> if i get off the air let you do your show, you'll get in more. >> thank you, raich >> well, you know, i've never seen a more surprising and sudden rise of a presidential candidate th

at 10:00 p.m., fox's laura ingram winning against the anti-trump duo of don lemon and lawrence o'donnelltwo bright souls, certainly getting clobbered. unprecedented donnybrook. kim fox back by left-wing billionaire dropping all charges against jesse small at. donating $4 million by the way to support fox back in 2006. a little outraging of his own over the years. chicago police eddie johnson. the fbi investigating why jussie smollett charges were dropped. i think we know why. don't you? former reagan white house political director, foxbusiness political analyst, ed rawlins new york coast columnist and foxbusiness contributor, did i mention pulitzer prize -- >> not yet. >> michael goodwin. good to have you. cook county is involved in what looks to be abject corruption. >> the system does not work. >> working pretty well. doesn't work for the people who basically, you know, very carefully put together investigation. obviously they charges guy was 16 counts of lying to the police. not once, but twice. the prosecutor decides. >> did not decide on her own, though, did she? >> we don't know. i

now it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. i'm sorry i'm standing on your show. >> this is the demilitarized zone. this is the shared space. this is as much your territory as mine, rachel. and thanks for the first presidential campaign interview of seth moulton. we now eventual two military veterans running for the democratic nomination. >> three. >> who is the thirded? >> tulsi gabbardard, pete buttigieg and sething. > all among the youngest. when i was a kid, had you to be a military veteran to run for anything. i mean anything. and they all were. the only person i can think of running for president when i was a kid in high school was bobby kennedy who was the only member of his family who didn't serve who was old enough to serve, didn't serve in world war ii. so it's fascinating see that we then created this massive gap that was basically provoked by vietnam era where avoiding military service for the first time became the dominant approach to war. and so we had john kerry, but it's been pretty rare to have the -- have mili

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. g, rachel. fisher cat. i'm just changing my first question. i had never heard that scream. i never heard of that particular creature. but, of course, of course bill weld would choose something -- >> a fisher cat.

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. is, what is william barr doing? we know he's not responding to the timeline and that he says he's working on redactions of the mueller report, and in the next few weeks it's going to come out, but by what is he doing, i mean is he working to try to protect the president? are his redactions designed to protect the president? is the delay designed to protect

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. do you know how we know you live in western massachusetts? >> hmm? >> it's not your eastern accent, which really is no accent at all. you call him richie neal because he is the local congressman up there in massachusetts. >> he is my congressman, he is. he has a large area in a very small state because there isn't very much of us in massachusetts. he is richie e. neal but i've always known him as richie neal. >> that's how i've always known him. there are questions among democrats who are saying, what is chairman neal doing? he has the right to demand these tax returns and he isn't doing it. you can see it is just a meticulously crafted piece. he has found exactly what tax returns and tax return information he wants, especially beyond the personal returns from the trump businesses. and that surely took quite a while to figure out exactly which trump businesses to go after. >> what do you make, lawrence, of the fact -- especially because

now it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. your show. >> this is the demilitarized zone. this is the shared space. this is as much your territory as mine, rachel. and thanks for the first presidential campaign interview of seth moulton. we now eventual two military veterans running for the democratic nomination. >> three. >> who is the thirded? >> tulsi gabbardard, pete buttigieg and sething. > all among the

it's time for the last worded with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel.view. you took elizabeth warren through every question that we're all wondering about how

i'm ali velshi in for lawrence o'donnell. the democrats took control of the house of representatives. tonight, i'll be joined by several freshmen democrats who already made a big impact on the trump presidency. we're looking ahead to 2020 in tonight's last word with the policies from one of the democrats making waves in the race but we begin with the imminent release of the mueller report. it could tell us a lot about interference. rod rosenstein in a speech said the report describes russian cyber crimes during the 2016 election, but the mueller report might tell us the most about the man in charge of its release. attorney general william barr. '70s and '80s, loyally and ruthlessly protected him. the comparison comes used the word spying this week for the lawful surveillance of the trump campaign. he admitted he had no evidence to support his claim but that hasn't stopped the president from repeating it. barr's statements from continuing to anger democrats. >> i think when he used the obviously political charged expression of

just to recap something that happened on our air this hour, it's time for the last worded with lawrence o'donnelld evening, rachel. i was riveted to that interview. you took elizabeth warren through every question that we're all wondering about how did she come to this position,

. >> let me quote lawrence o'donnell.tweeted earlier that there is a misremembering of what happened during impeachment with republicans who went after bill clinton on the basis of a sexual affa affair. then republicans won the house in the next election and republicans won the senate again and republicans won the white house and it's a political myth that the clinton impeachment hurt republicans. i showed a young looking lindsey graham. he is now a senator. he got a promotion after participating in the impeachment. isn't it a myth? they benefitted. >> they lost seats in the election. >> they're won the house in the next election and the senate. >> i'm telling you, newt gingrich resigned. >> that was his scandal. he had a parallel scandal. they won seats. >> i share your concern and i'm possible not getting through to you. i believe in my heart and my soul that this president needs to be held accountable and i share your passion for how screwed up this is for what he's guiltying away with and the conduct that is laid out

it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> i believe it's the next daying that barr testifiesions committee. >> yes. >> there's a big overlap on senate appropriations with senate judiciary. i'm just looking at the list, patrick

time now for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, and thanks for filling in for tonight and thanks for filling in for me. really appreciate it. >>> we're going to have another tax class tonight now that the president is desperately trying to prevent the irs from handing over his tax returns to the house of representatives. in tonight's class, i'm not going to be the teacher. i'm going to be the student, because our first guest tonight is the highest authority that we have ever had on this program on taxation. george in is a former chief of staff of the joint committee on taxati

that does it with lawrence o'donnell. >> i know exactly what you're going to be doing tomorrow morningg to read as soon as we get it in our hands, sounds like noontimish, maybe. >> we'll see. if it's the length of a pamphlet and fits on a bumper sticker, no collusion. we'll see. >> rachel, i'm sure google will confirm this, but from my own personal memory, of the government of the united states, i'm about to bold little assert we have never before in history seen a group of house committee chairman call on the attorney general of the united states to cancel a press conference. >> right? >> attorneys general don't have a lot of press conferences and tend not to be controversial.

i'm ali velshi in for lawrence o'donnell. house of representatives. tonight, i'll be joined by several freshmen democrats who already made a big impact on the trump presidency. we're looking ahead to 2020

busy week, exciting times, you won't want now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> apparently this week, fox news won't be the only network that mentions secretary clinton. which they do apparently. i don't know this, but i read that they like every minute or every hour certainly there's some in primetime there's some reference tops why they're talking about secretary clinton instead of any of the investigations of this president. >> they're still literally talking about hillary clinton's e mails. that's a fresh thing like the republicans in the senate are about to advance the prospect there needs to be a new investigation of her e mails. if it comes up, i'll talk about that with her, but i imagine we have other topics. >> thank you, rachel. well, at the end of this hour tonight, we're going to talk about what happened at that synagogue just north of san diego this weekend. we don't want to have to talk about these things but we know why we have to continue to talk about these things because they're going to continue to happen. 8-year-old girl who was wounded in

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. the question for everyone is, what is william barr doing? we know he's not responding to the timeline and that he says he's working on redactions of the mueller report, and in the next few weeks it's going to come out, but by what is he doing, i mean is he working to try to protect the president? are his redactions designed to protect the president? is the delay designed to protect the president? we have reason to wonder about that. it might not be the case at all. >> and the, you know, the -- in that letter that went from the democratic chairman to the attorney general within the last 24 hours, they had one line in there which i think was supposed to be important for all of us, which was they said that nadler in his call with barr was led to believe by barr's comments that these grand jury redactions that he's making are substantial redactions. meaning he's cutting a ton out of the report based on the fact that it's grand jury information. that immediately calls to question as to whe

kpa time now for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> good evening.ou do. thank you. >>> we are going to have another tax class tonight now that the president is desperately trying to prevent the irs from handing over his tax returns to the house of representatives. in tonight he is class i am going to be the student. our first guest tonight is the highest authority that we have ever had on this program on taxation. he is a former chief of staff of the joint committee on taxation you don't hear about that much. the joint committee on taxation is a congressional committee composed of house members and senate members and the staff of the joint committee actua

kpa time now for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> good evening. thanks for filling in for me as often as you do. thank you. >>> we are going to have another tax class tonight now that the president is desperately trying to prevent the irs from handing over his tax returns to the house of representatives. in tonight he is class i am going to be the student. our first guest tonight is the highest authority that we have ever had on this program on taxation. he is a former chief of staff of the joint committee on taxation you don't hear about that much. the joint committee on taxation is a congressional committee composed of house members and senate members and the staff of the joint committee actually advises the two tax-writing committees and their staff, the senate finance committee and the house ways and means committee. the staff are by far the leading experts on taxation in washington and the chief of staff of that staff on the joint tax committee is simply regarded in awe by all members of the staff of the tax-writing committees. and so i am fi

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> i'm still pondering fingers and toes and what we've got after that. i guess ears, right? we can use ears. you got that. >> anything. >> so rachel, joe biden because he's not a presidential candidate today, he was not at that forum that joy reid comoderated with the presidential candidates, and that means he was not one of the men who was asked why women of color should vote for him. joy reid will join us later in this hour with a lot of highlights from her forum today, which was really fascinating watch. >> it was stunning. > an interesting turning of the tables in so many ways. >> it's a fascinating thing for democratic politics and democrats coming to terms with their electorate and the needs of their electorate and who they are and who had he need to stand for. as a political event, it was astonishing and the tape was amazing. > i hope there's a lot more of them coming. we have so much news to cover tonight and we are lucky tonight to have pro iffer laurence tribe with us, harvard law school's constitutional law professor

it's time for the last worded with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. was riveted to that interview. you took elizabeth warren through every question that we're all wondering about how did she come to this position, which she had already tweeted i think earlier today. >> this afternoon. >> she got out there right away and then that hypothetical you gave her about if you could see into the future and actually kn impeachment would be actually politically harmful for democrats. >> that it wouldn't result in him being removed. >> wouldn't result in him being removed. in other words, a clinton version of impeachment is it worth doing and her answer to that was so powerful. >> solidly yes. it's the right thing to do because it's the right thing to do. let the chips fall where they may. it's interestinging to -- you and i cover these guys and know all these candidates not only for how they're running but how they have campaigned and the kinds of people they are. i would not have expected that warren would be the one coming out and saying impeachment is the rig

we don't know what all of are now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening. it's thursday. it's only thursday. i should say. in what has become leak week. so there could, there could be more leaks about the mueller investigation that we're reporting on at this very hour tomorrow night. >> this time last night when you and i were talking what was going on with the "new york times" story, we're finally hearing from people in mueller's investigation for the first time in 22 months. after that, "washington post" had their own version of the story, nbc news had their own version of the story, cnn. that means reporters at all of those news organizations nouz have sources connected to mueller's team willing to talk. >> and those stories are all now interacting with chairman jerry nadler's approach toet going the mueller report. we see this letter where he's quoting these news articles and putting it to the attorney general that this actually increases his rationale for demanding the full report. >> a whole new ball is rolling. >> thank you, rachel. >>> on a day whe

it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening. >> that was an extraordinary interview. i want to get your reaction to different than a conversation that happens among straight people when it comes to people coming out. it's not about homophobia. it's that gay people, for straight people, gay people have nothing interesting going on in terms of their sexual orientation till they come out. then the act of coming out is a notable thing. if you're you know, if you're pro gay rights and supportive of your gay brothers and sisters that's seen as a positive thing. among gay people we live before we come out a time of being closs is heed and being closeted is an active thing. it's not an absence of something else that straight people can't notice. and i don't exactly know. i'm sure there's ways in which i'm being politically incorrect by bringing this up but for somebody who put his marriage at the center of his campaign and talks so much what that means in terms of his hope for the country and evolving values it's interesti

again that hearing open it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> i believe it's the next daying that barr testifies to the senate appropriations committee. >> yes. >> there's a big overlap on senate appropriations with senate judiciary. i'm just looking at the list, patrick leahy, dianne feinstein. there's more than a few who will have real knowledge about how to question the attorney general about the inner workings of the department on something like you know what do you do when you get a special prosecutor's report. >> right, exactly. he was very, very, very he slippery on the subject when he was at his confirmation hearing. kept talking about everything as a hypothetical. now they're asking about a specific matter that is no longer the hypothetical. hopefully skilled questionsers from either house of congress over these next two days of hearings will get some explanation. his behavior has been very freelance. he's been sort of making it up as he goes long. hopefully he'll explain what he's been doing. >> yes, america awaits the mueller report and the attorney general

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> i know exactly what you're going to be doing tomorrow morning. we're going to read as soon as we get it in our hands, sounds like noontimish, maybe. >> we'll see. if it's the length of a pamphlet and fits on a bumper sticker, no collusion. we'll see. >> rachel, i'm sure google will confirm this, but from my own personal memory, of the government of the united states, i'm about to bold little assert we have never before in history seen a group of house committee chairman call on the attorney general of the united states to cancel a press conference. >> right? >> attorneys general don't have a lot of press conferences and tend not to be controversial. so that was one of the items of breaking news during your hour. and this is one of those situations that chaos has broken out really since the attorney general actually the president announced on a radio show the attorney general was going to have a press conference. then the attorney general had to hustle out his announcement. >> from all of your time covering the news from all of y

with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. you sure you don't want to host this hour also?much in this report, rachel. it's been overwhelming to try to pick what can we squeeze in to these segments. >> the only thing i want to do that would still give me pleasure even though it may result in me having to stop reading it for awhile, the only thing is take a little break to go to a casting office somewhere to pick the people who i would like to play to act out all of the scenes involving kt mcfarland. >> yes. >> it's like the new efforts at obstruction we didn't know about, the kt mcfarland, erik prince stuff, steve bannon stuff, lune do you quoukowski stuff, especially stuff never

busy week, exciting times, you won't want now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell."won't be the only network that mentions secretary clinton. which they do apparently. i don't know this, but i read that they like every minute or every hour certainly there's some in primetime there's some reference tops why they're talking about secretary clinton instead of any of the investigations of this president. >> they're still literally talking about hillary clinton's e mails. that's a fresh thing like the republicans in the senate are about to advance the prospect there needs to be a new investigation of her e mails. if it comes up, i'll talk about that with her, but i imagine we have other topics. >> thank you, rachel. well, at the end of this hour to

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> i know exactly what you're going to be doingorning. we're going to read as soon as we get it in our hands, sounds like noontimish, maybe. >> we'll see. if it's the length of a pamphlet and fits on a bumper sticker, no collusion. we'll see. >> rachel, i'm sure google will confirm this, but from my own personal memory, of the government of the united states

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. i'm public speaker in the attorney general's job since jeff sessions. we will get to that in a moment. at the end of this hour, at the end of this hour, we are going to consider what will happen if donald trump is not inaugurated a second time on the next inauguration day. if a democrat is inaugurated on the next inauguration day. why that will be the worst day in donald trump's life. t the things that donald trump now has stacked up that can fall on him, the day he is no longer president. that's what we'll considerate the end of this hour. and there are a bunch of those things now. but today, william barr came into his second tour of duty as a republican attorney general with a relatively solid reputation in the legal community specially the republican legal community in washington, d.c. the image packagers of william barr were telling the world that they would now see a more scholarly approach to the work of the attorney general than we saw under one of the worst and least qualified

it is time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell.". >> that was an extraordinary interview. i want to get your reaction to the discussion you started which is a discussion i believe we have never seen before in presidential campaign history about the challenge of coming out and what that -- what was your reaction to pete buttigieg's plains to you about why it was so much slower a process for him than it was for you. >> it's weird because he's sitting right here. i'll give you my response as if that's not true. you know, i think that there is a conversation that happens among gay people that is different than a conversation that happens among straight people when it comes to people coming out. it's not about homophobia. it's that gay people, for straight people, gay people have nothing interesting going on in terms of their sexual orientation till they come out. then the act of coming out is a notable th

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> apparently this week, fox news won't behat mentions secretary clinton. which they do apparently. i don't know this, but i read that they like every minute or every hour certainly

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> kind of surreal in the last hour to see bridget kelly sitting there with you. >> right. >> who investigated bridgegate, better than any of us and more extensively than any of us. it was a rackable interview. i have to tell you, i had this kind of vision into the future where a parade of trump administration officials come to rachel maddow's desk years after the fact to plead for a new place in history. >> well, the thing that's going on with bring jet kelly is fascinating. first of all, the chance to talk to her about what was going on when this retribution scheme was being meted out by the christie administration in new jersey, she was in the middle of it. the chance to talk to her about it, i wasn't going to pass up about it. she's being sentenced to federal prison. she's saying chrissiest is the only person powerful enough to pull it off and i'm willing to tell you some of the ways he got off. she's a remarkablebly specific person in that scandal. that story she is telling is provocative stuff. >> it was just riveting to

now it's time for twbld with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, laushs. >> good evening, rachel. when did you switch to wheaties? >> from? >> i've never seen you have wheaties at breakfast before. >> we're not supposed to talk about the fact we know what each other eats for breakfast, lawrence. >> okay. >> i can't say that without cracking up. >> we'll just say good night, rachel. >> good night. see you later, dear. >> see you at breakfast. >>> okay. enough of that. presidential candidate julian castro is joining us tonight. we will get his reaction to what the president said about the president's family separation policy. today julian castro is running on, among other things, his own immigration reform proposal. we'll get julian castro's reaction to the latest developments of the mueller report. we'll also ask him what we've asked every presidential candidate so far, what is the best idea you've heard from one of the other presidential candidates. now i know julian castro is not everyone's presidential candidate at this point. no one is everyone's presidential candidate at this

we'll see you again tomorrow it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening. >>g. we will have david cay johnson tonight. >> nice. >> he's going to be breaking some news what's going on in the treasury department and the irs with donald trump's tax returns. it is very serious news for receive mnuchin. we can only hope his lawyers have already told him about this. >> we are in a weird netherworld where they are clearly breaking the law and nobody knows how the law is ultimately going to get enforced here. it's not the sort of thing will likely be allowed to slide. >> david cay johnson has dug out yet another piece of the tax code that relates to in that i didn't know about. this is great for me because i've learned about a couple provisions i knew nothing about. one reason i knew nothing about