joy reid, nicole wallace, lawrence o'donnell. colleagues will join us over the course of this two hour special event coverage tonight, including our in-house law firm of ari melber, msnbc's chief legal correspondent, host of the beat. also former u.s. senator will be there. she's a former elected prosecutor. the reason we are all here together tonight for the special coverage, is because we know from history about the primetime impact of blockbuster congressional investigations. we know. we remember that americans tuned in by the millions, to watch the watergate hearings in 1973. we don't necessarily remember though, that those hearings were on during the day, during the business day. for americans who had to be at work, or at school, or who were tied up with normal things that happened during the course of the workday, it wasn't necessarily possible, in 1973, to watch the watergate hearings, those 51 days of hearings, while they happened in realtime. in 1973, a young and embattled pbs, sort of a brand-new entity, they made the c

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. >> back with me is my colleague, lawrence o'donnell. joining me now, battery betsy woodruff swan, and matthew miller, former special adviser to the national security council, and former chief spokesman for the justice department. the institution saved the day. there is this sense that the institutions will hold if people of integrity are placed there. i think the concern for a lot of folks is that we are seeing people held, not the current world in which outside the justice department, you now have all the secretary of state candidates, all these legislatures running for office, who have committed themselves to the big lie. can we count on institutionalism to save us? >> what you can generally count on, is lawyers not committing crimes. it's not easy. it's a little extra difficult to get a lawyer to commit a crime because they kind of understand the dimensions of what you're talking about. they have that law license, they can lose along the way to getting convicted of a crime which seems to be the road giuliani is on now. what you reall

right now,, though it is time for the indefatigable last word with lawrence. o'donnelle saying a few minutes ago. i'm gonna ask him, if their investigation, talking to the pence staff, did anyone explain to the committee why the day before january 6th, when donald trump put out a statement saying mike pence and i completely agree that mike pence has the authority to reject electors, why didn't mike pence immediately put out a statement saying, no this is my position? why did he wait until the next day, that one of the attack on the capital was already underway -- >> yes. i mean, he could've said i want everyone in america including those who are coming to washington tomorrow to support me and the president, i want everybody to

lawrence o'donnell?chel, we spent a minute last night wildly guessing what today was gonna be about. i don't think i came close. >> [laughs] >> cassidy hutchinson told her college newspaper just a few years ago, i have set a personal goal to pursue a path of civic significance. she needs a new goal for the next 80 years of her life. >> [laughs] bcause she has achieved goal one in a way that no witness in the history of congressional testimony has achieved. this is material unknown within the realm of the presidency, prior to today. it is knowthin thehavior of donald trump. i have to be counted as someone who is not surprised that the guy who was accused by his first wife of raping her within the marriage. he has been in credibly accused by eugene carroll of rape, boasted on the hollywood tape about the way he behaves. the idea that he would throw hamburger, that doesn't even come up to that level. the idea that he would take glee in what was happening on this day? but to have it delivered in under oath t

does it for us tonight, we will see you again tomorrow, it is time now for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening lawrence, there are all kinds of crazy things happening in the world. i just don't want to miss that one, thought for all of the stuff that people think about the supreme court, and some of it is valid, ketanji brown jackson will become an associate justice of that court tomorrow. i think that is a big deal. associat>> history made in mores than one. another reminder, ali, of why we vote for president. no matter what your issues are, no matter where your concerns are about specific legislative ambitions, most voters do have a preference for a supreme court justices being nominated by a republican, or by a democrat. and if you are prepared to live with supreme court justices from either party, then you are a very unusual voter. so this is the product of all of those votes, all of those people who went out and voted for joe biden, that is how this has happened tomorrow. >> a little piece of good news, i'm looking forward to your show tonight, lawrence. >> thank, you ali, t

now, it is time for the last word, with a great lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening to you, rachel. you have set the stage for this week's hearing, the january 6th hearing, which surely are the most important hearings since watergate. and i know you have mentioned your experience with the watergate hearings, and i'm not sure how much you actually remember of those -- [laughs] -- of those hearings, or exactly you know, which diaper you were wearing at the time. >> i was six weeks old. maybe, i remember. i don't know. [laughs] >> so, i remember of it i was a student at the time. and watching it from that distance of a student, where i thought, i know everything. it never felt, it was no horse race component to it. i do not remember any discussion of what's gonna happen, because of these hearings. all i remember was the excitement of what are we going to learn tomorrow. what are we gonna learn, if you watch this thing today? what's gonna be revealed? i mean, it was kind of like, you know, watching barry mason episode on tv. what wa

does it for us tonight, we will see you again tomorrow, it is time now for the last word with lawrence o'donnellds of crazy things happening in the world. i just don't want to miss that one, thought for all of the stuff that people think about the supreme court, and some of it is valid, ketanji brown jackson will become an associate justice of that court tomorrow. i think that is a big deal. >> history made in more ways than one at 12 noon tomorrow. and another reminder, ali, of why we vote for president. no matter what your issues are, no matter where your concerns are about specific legislative ambitions, most voters do have a preference for a supreme court justices being nominated by a republican, or by a democrat. and if you are prepared to live with supreme court justices from either party, then you are a very unusual voter. so this is the product of all of those votes, all of those people who went out and voted for joe biden, that is how this will happened tomorrow. >> a little piece of good news, i'm looking forward to your show tonight, lawrence. >> thank, you ali, thank you. tonight, we

does it for us tonight, we will see you again tomorrow, it is time now for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening lawrence, there are all kinds of crazy things happening in the world. i just don't want to miss that one, thought for all of the stuff that people think about the supreme court, and some of it is valid, ketanji brown jackson will become an associate justice of that court tomorrow. i think that is a big deal. associat>> history made in mores than one. another reminder, ali, of why we vote for president. no matter what your issues are, no matter where your concerns are about specific legislative ambitions, most voters do

we will see you again tomorrow, now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, good eveningning, such a great stpry of but finally paying the interns, and what it does enable, is that enables kids who live in washington d. c. now. to actually take one of those internships and be able to financially survive while doing it maybe, with their mothers, and living with arrangements there that work for them. but your point historically. these internships, if you go back years, they were really the almost exclusive purview of big campaign contributors children, or grandchildren, or nephews, nieces. it was a highly connected operation. this is a great step. >> and, congratulations to the activists who have been pushing for this. and a congressional and executive-level for a long time. hats off to the biden white house. it's an amazing that appreciating president not called trump didn't do this. >> it's about time. good news. >> yes it is. >> thanks.. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> president biden began his address to the nation tonight. on gun violence. with the report on what he

i am joined here by my beloved colleagues lawrence o'donnell, nicole wallace, joy reid, ari melber. and if that's not enough for you, do not worry, we will have more of our colleagues joining over the course of the special two hour primetime recap of today's astonishing public hearing from the january 6th investigation. the hearing started live today at 3:00 pm eastern. if you were able to watch any of the hearing live, as it happened or if you were at school or at work or if you just could not spare three plus hours in the middle of the day, you are in the right place with us tonight. as we have talked about before, the world's changing watergate hearings of 1973, those all happened during the workday too. but americans really wanted to see them and they were very important, those hearings were re-aired in their entirety by pbs every night. there were also i'll recap by the broadcast networks each night in prime time, that was a service to the country in 1973, four hearings that important and consequential. here we are again. following that precedent, we here at msnbc have committe

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and i will see you tomorrow night, also on the panel discussion, and also i will do the last word to 10 pm. i think tomorrow, rachel, the case about what happened in georgia is gonna be clearer than ever to this country. and i long felt that that is where the clearest case of criminal conduct is to be found. >> i think that, i think that is true. i think it is also helpful when you're talking about any crime for the crime to happen on tape, and be released as soon as it happens, that should just be a new rule, that you have to crime on tape, and the tape has to be on tv that night. that helps, i think, in terms of this like, simple-ing it down so that we can all get it. >> you know, i've listened to many hours of wired taps by the fbi investigations that they brought to court. and you know, you listen to the, what did he say, what did he mean, what was that. and he kind of mumbled that thing. there's a lot of interpretation that goes int

right now, it's time for the last word with the great lawrence o'donnell, good evening lawrence. >> goodvening, listen, we don't need more notice. one day is plenty. [laughs] we are ready to go, whenever they say. rachel we will have adam schiff joining us at the beginning here. a member of the committee, and so, just send all your unused questions over here, we'll just get it all done. >> i'm on it, see you. >> thank you rachel. >> today the january six committee delivered the story of a presidency on the verge of committing every crime imaginable. >> i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out onto the west end of that morning. and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of please make sure we don't go up to the capital cassidy. keep in touch with me we are going to get charges of every crime imaginable. if we make that movement happen. >> and do you remember which crimes mr. cipollone was concerned with? >> in the days leading up to the sixth, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. >> and according to today's testimony, the o

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. welcome to the show, i am zerlina maxwell. the supreme court has now done something it has never done before. it has stripped away one of our constitutional rights. the 63 ruling overturning roe v. wade takes away our fundamental right to control our own bodies. which americans have depended on for nearly 50 years. even though we knew this decision was likely coming. it's another thing for it to actually happen! and you can hear the emotion and the anger, even from house speaker nancy pelosi. >> this morning, the radical supreme court is eviscerate-ing americans rights. and endangering their health and safety. the republican control has achieved their dark, extreme goal of ripping away a woman's right to make her own reproductive health decisions. because of donald trump, which coddle, at the republican party. if the supreme court, americans they have less freedoms than their mothers. >> this ruling takes us backwards. and you get a sense of just how far backwards when you listen to w

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> in other words, msnbc audiences are going to get even more rachael tomorrow night. >> i'm quoting myself right now. >> and you will once again be my lead in for tomorrow nights 10 pm hour after i join you in the 8 pm for our earlier coverage. >> is it absolutely impossible for you to get your show prepped when we hold you onset for 9 pm? and then -- >> here's the amazing thing, the time when we did that -- and everyone at the last word staff was amazed with us -- the show was completely done, before we started the 8 pm coverage. and it's never been done before 8 pm -- >> wow. >> there's something about deadlines, rachel. there's something about if, you put the deadline, there it works. >> do not tell the rachel maddow show staff because they are going to put me on a bit and roast meat. you have no idea how late i get everything done every night. >> no one was more surprised than i was. rachel, we have jamie raskin joining us tonight, as our first guest tonigh

well, look i was i was on lawrence o'donnell the other night and he he read something where i had denounced mcconnell and then he said and then you write that's not all of it. i think his i think he's been terrible on voting rights. i think that he and the unified republicans have opposed federal voting rights legislation that is desperately needed and you have people i made that comment that senators are in state legislators. you have people like susan collins saying we don't need federal voting rights legislation because elections were well in maine. well, that's not an answer to the rest of the country and what we actually need part of my reason for encouraging people that the 22 elections and so important whatever your issue. whether it's abortion rights voting rights climate gun control health care mcconnell's at the root of all of it. he's at the root of all of it. i blame him for everything. kind of with the exception of inflation. i don't really blame him for that. it's working. so i come from a slightly different perspective. i'm an immigrant to this country so i don't have that mu

we will see you again tomorrow, now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, good eveningng but finally paying the interns, and what it does enable, is that enables kids who live in washington d.c. now. to actually take one of those internships to financially survive while doing it maybe, with their mothers, and living with a arrangements there that work for them. but your point has historically. these internships, if you go back years, they were really the almost exclusive purview of big campaign contributors children, or grandchildren, or nephews, nieces. it was a highly

plus, nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes, lawrence o'donnell, ari melber, stephanie ruhle, in our special primetime recap of the third day of the january 6th hearings. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from msnbc headquarters. i am rachel maddow, joined here by my beloved colleague, chris hayes, joy reid, lawrence o'donnell, nicole wallace. we will have more of our colleagues from nbc join us over the course of the special two hour primetime recap of today's public hearing from the january 6th investigation. the hearing today started at 1:00 pm eastern. if you were able to watch any of the hearing live as it happened, or if you aren't, maybe you are at school or at work, or you just couldn't spare in three plus hours in the middle of the day, well, you are in the right place, my friend. the watergate hearings in 1973, which of course, changed the course of american history, those hearings all happened during the workday. pbs, at the time, re-aired the daytime hearings at night, in full. the broadcast networks aired summaries in primetime, of what had happened during the day's hearings in wate

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now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, good evening lawrence. >> i'm just going toave some breaking news, rachel -- court schedules an initial appearance of january 6th case of michigan gop gubernatorial candidate brian kelly. his initial appearance is scheduled for thursday at 1 pm, exactly the same time that the

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. welcome to the show, i am zerlina maxwell. the supreme court has now done something it has never done before. it has stripped away one of our constitutional rights. the 63 ruling overturning roe v. wade takes away our fundamental right to control our own bodies. which americans have depended on for nearly 50 years. even though we knew this decision was likely coming. it's another thing for it to actually happen! and you can hear the

right now, it's time for the last word with the great lawrence o'donnell, good evening lawrence. >> good don't need more notice. one day is plenty. [laughs] we are ready to go, whenever they say. rachel we will have adam schiff joining us at the beginning here. a member of the committee, and so, just send all your unused questions over here, we'll just get it all done. >> i'm on it, see you. >> thank you rachel. >> today the january six committee delivered the story of a presidency on the verge of committing every crime imaginable. >> i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out onto the west end of that morning. and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of please make sure we don't go up to the capital cassidy. keep in touch with me we are going to get charges of every crime imaginable. if we make that movement happen. >> and do you remember which crimes mr. cipollone was concerned with? >> in the days leading up to the sixth, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. >> and according to today's testimony, the only reason donald

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, good evening lawrence. >> i'm just going to have to get used to it rachel, this is fun. we have some breaking news, rachel -- court schedules an initial appearance of january 6th case of michigan gop gubernatorial candidate brian kelly. his initial appearance is scheduled for thursday at 1 pm, exactly the same time that the january 6th hearing begins. [laughs] so, histories moving fast on the subject. >> and the question remains in michigan politics as to whether being arrested for his purported role in the crimes of january 6th is going to boost him boost his chances in that republican primary, since apparently participating in that particular crime is a badge of honor. i don't know -- it helps you, somehow? >> we will await republican voters judgment on that. i have to agree with you, rachel, about a point you made. about this whole question of, will the january 6th committee send criminal referrals to the justice department? the attorney general said i am watching the hearings i am watching every minute of them. if i don't w

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence.ieve it was 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldn't believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinion, and then, getting it today was also shocking because the stuff that we and others pointed out in it, that could easily have been cut, was still in there. the quoting, you know, of these guys from the 1600s in england, who thought witches should be tried and executed. the witch trial moral authorities are still in this opinion. they are still being quoted as guidance for samuel alito. >> yeah, justice alito and the majority, they were not taking pains to make sure that this would be broadly accepted. that was not the goal of this one. works. this was just raw power, doing it because they could. and they're not trying to bring anybody along with him. and i think tt'

we will see you again tomorrow, now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, good evening lawrence. >> good evening but finally paying the interns, and what it does enable, is that enables kids who live in washington d.c. now. to actually take one of those internships to financially survive while doing it maybe, with their mothers, and living with a arrangements there that work for them. but your point has historically. these internships, if you go back years, they were really the almost exclusive purview of big campaign contributors children, or grandchildren, or nephews, nieces. it was a highly connected operation. this is a great step. >> and, congratulations to the activists who have been pushing for this. and a congressional and executive-level for a long time. hats off to the biden white house. it's an amazing that appreciating president not call trump didn't do this. >> it's about time. good news. >> yes it is. >> thanks money,. >> think. >> thank you. >> president biden began his address to the nation tonight. on gun violence. with the report on what he found in hi

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, good evening lawrence. >> i'm just going tod to it rachel, this is fun. we have some breaking news, rachel -- court schedules an initial appearance of january 6th case

with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. w, igood evening >> good evenin, rachel. i will be on the port side of the vote from where you -- from where you will be sitting. what's a shocker. i mean, this committee has been very carefully scheduling. and then, the only thing they were doing with the schedule was pushing it further out. and actually, in effect, giving us bigger breaks. just suddenly, i have to jump to position for a hearing from this committee. by the way, for any committee, i mean scheduling a hearing overnight, that's just the rarest thing in committee world. so -- >> why do you think there is -- why is there a rush. i mean, if they got something new, obviously, they could've factored it into the readings that they've already scheduled for july. they could've factored into hearings they have scheduled a week from now. why, what could possibly explain where there is a rush to get the new evidence, get the new witness testimony before the american public, urgently on zero notice? >> and here we crash into the limits on my ability to guess. [laughs] but

speaking of lawrence o'donnell -- well, i'm handing it over to him. good evening, lawrence.. and thank you for, i don't know, it might be the best news of the week, but they're keeping the colors of air force one. and no, thank you, by the way, for reminding me of the trump shuttle, which i flew on a few times. >> did you? >> i'll never forget the first time stepping into the -- >> what did you -- was a taught inside? >> the fake gold faucets in the restroom of the airplane was just so perfectly trumpian. but you know, because it was a struggling airline, and kind of going out of business from the start, the fears were really low. you know, desperately trying to get people like me could barely afford to fly at the time on to the trump shuttle. it was, you know, it was pure donald trump. >> memories. >> yeah. thanks, ari. >> peace.

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel, i will join you tomorrow at 8:00. rachel, imagine it is the mid 1990s, and you are with your elementary school on a tour of washington, d. c. and at the capitol. you are 30 is, 33 is -- >> rounding to the near 30 is? >> you are at an elementary school in the 1990s, and you are walking through one of the congressional office buildings.

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening noise. >> good evening, a man that special is going to air in this hour tomorrow night. i'm looking forward to it. that was really a great report on. it thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you a man. >> we have some breaking news from you all day right now. this is stunning. absolutely stunning news. yesterday afternoon, on our special memorial day coverage, i was echoing from six to 8 pm. and we reported to you then, that peter i would hondo, who was the commanding officer in the school, for those 78 minutes for when the police was doing nothing. he is the chief of police of the school district of you've all day, that very small by person police force that he commands. he was also three weeks ago, an elected to the city council in uvalde. he won an election three weeks ago to the city council in uvalde. he was scheduled to be sworn in as a member of the city council today, at a city council meeting involved a. and yesterday, we reported to you, that that meeting of the cit

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now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell.good evening, a man that special is going to air in this hour tomorrow night. m

speaking of lawrence o'donnell -- well, i'm handing it over to him. good evening, lawrence. evening, la wrence >> good evening, ari. and thank you for, i don't know, it might be the best news of the week, but they're keeping the colors of air force one. and no, thank you, by the way, for reminding me of the trump shuttle, which i flew on a few times. >> did you? >> i'll never forget the first time stepping into the -- >> what did you -- was a taught inside? >> the fake gold faucets in the restroom of the airplane was just so perfectly trumpian. but you know, because it was a struggling airline, and kind of going out of business from the start, the fears were really low. you know, desperately trying to get people like me could barely afford to fly at the time on to the trump shuttle. it was, you know, it was pure donald trump. >> memories. >> yeah. thanks, ari. >> peace. >> thank you. >> well, the most important news of the day, by which i mean, the most important news that was revealed today, and not last night at the hearing, is that clarence thomas now appears to be the mo

speaking of lawrence o'donnell, well, i'm handing it over to him. t, know it might be the best news of the week, but they're keeping the colors of air force one. and no, thank you, by the way, for reminding me of the trump shuttle, which i flew on a few times. >> did you? >> i'll never forget the first time stepping into the -- >> what did you -- was a taught inside? >> the fake gold faet

with some of my beloved colleagues, lawrence o'donnell is here.dy melber is here, the great joy reid, chris hayes. we're gonna be joined by other colleagues tonight, simone sanders, nicole wallace will be with us later on this evening. we are all here together tonight for the special primetime recap of the hearing of the january 6th investigation that happened today in washington. as it was for the watergate hearings in 1973, the bulk of these hearings, the january six investigators are being held during the workday. that means that millions of americans who may want to see these historic hearings can't do so live, just because at the time of the day that they're on. so, taking a few from the watergate era, just as our tv news and sisters did before us during watergate, we here at msnbc have committed that every night there's one of these daytime hearings. we will recap the day's events in primetime, so, you will not have missed a thing. and you know, frankly, today's hearing was talking a dramatic enough that even if you were able to watch it liv

time now for the last word with lawrence o'donnell, of course i say a better future is possible with reference to chargers. but in fact there are bigger problems to solve, and i know you are gonna hit them all tonight, lawrence. laura >> well, ali, that is simply the best news i have heard in a long time. >> take this miles where you can get them! >> i am thinking about that drawer you just described. at home it's filled with those cords. oddly enough, they are never where i need them when i need them. there is that little problem. >> it's a common problem for us, my friend. you have a great show, i will be watching. >> thanks, ali. well, matthew mcconaughey did something at the white house press briefing room today that we have never seen before. we have seen visitors step up to the podium. we have occasionally seen actors do that. but what's matthew mcconaughey had to say in the white house briefing room today may turn out to be the most important speech that an actor has ever given. and i mean ever. because it might -- it just might -- save lives. it might -- it might stop a school