penn jillette of penn & teller. thanks so much for joining us tonight.nnell in for keith olbermann. our msnbc coverage continues now with "the rachel maddow show." good evening, rachel.

penn jillette of penn & teller. thanks so much for joining us tonight.n." i'm lawrence o'donnell in for keith olbermann. our msnbc coverage continues now with "the rachel maddow show." good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence. i always believed in sucking up to the judges no matter what i am being judged on. i completely agree with mr. jillette. just for the record. >> there you go. i'm with you on that one. >>> thank you at home for staying with us for the next hour as well. amid the intense fighting over health care today, the other news of the day was a series of jaw-droppers. we learn eed the rest of the sty about the chief of staff to the u.s. senator that claims straight porn makes people gay. it turns out that may now be an issue in the virginia governor's race. today also saw the return of condoleezza rice to the national debate over the wars that the bush administration started but never won. scandal-plagued senator john ensign is back in the headlines. and, of course, there's that story about gadhafi pitching a tent on donald trump's law