She cant lose that job. That does it for us tonight. Now it is time for the last word for lawrence odonnell. Im 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 hes 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 emails, stolen texts, that sort of thing. And here is someone that stands up and says, im 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 ive 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 theyre trying to, apparently, in bezoss words blackmail or extort the richest man on earth. Did they think they would get away with it, no consequences . Something drove them to desperation. You sense they must be very nervous about the way federal prosecutors see the operations of the National Enquirer which has already come under fire in the Trumpmichael Cohen case in manhattan. They had to deal with prosecutors around those Campaign Finance felonies in order to enter into that nonprosecution agreement. Which means prosecutors know a lot about ami and their operations, including their operations that are considered to be federal crimes and for which somebody is about to go to prison and which the president himself has been implicated in. So they are in a spot, and they were desperate enough to try to do this to bezos. And i have no idea how this is going to end, but, boy, was this a surprise. And they might be in much worse legal trouble tonight. We will help to get through it all. Thank you. We do have a lot to cover tonight. We will have a special last word tonight about what is always, always the strangest speech that donald trump can give, and thats the one he gave today at the National Prayer breakfast. We will also be joined tonight by two fathers. Two fathers who are republican congressman tried to get kicked out of a hearing yesterday in the house of representatives. Those two fathers were at that hearing because their kids were killed in the massacre at margery stone man Douglas High School. He wanted them thrown out because of their reaction to what he had to say in that hearing. Those two fathers will join us tonight. But first, we have crossed a threshold tonight in the history of Digital Communication and the manipulation and theft of Digital Communication. Everything changed tonight because someone who has had his Digital Communication stolen decided to stand up to the thieves and say you cannot hurt me with what you have stolen from me. And it took the richest man in the world to do that. We live in an age where public figures like movie stars have had their Digital Communication hacked and private photographs distributed publically. We have seen north korea attack a movie studio, steal and publish all of its emails because north korea didnt like a movie the studio made. We have seen newspapers publish the information north korea stole. We have seen newspapers publish photos we now know were stolen by russia from Hillary Clintons campaign. We have seen journalism adrift for years now in an ethicsfree zone presuming that stolen Digital Communication is newsworthy. And none of the victims of these digital thefts have known what to do about it except to suffer the pain of the exposure of their private communications. And then came the National Enquirer which obtained stolen communications to and from jeff bezos. And jeff bezos said no more. He became the richest man in the world because 24 years ago he had an idea that became amazon. He is now the owner of the Washington Post and tonight jeff bezos did the bravest thing you can possibly do when confronted by people who have stolen Digital Communication. Instead of surrendering to what he now calls their attempts at extortion and blackmail, jeff bezos has published a letter, a statement, in which he details what has been stolen from him, the embarrassing material thats been stolen from him. And in the process, he condemns the National Enquirer for its gangsterlike approach to him and to their coverage in general. Jeff bezos published a statement tonight in which he said, rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail, ive decided to publish exactly what they sent me, despite the personal cost and embarrassment they threaten. Attached to his statement were a series of written exchanges between people working from National Enquirer and a los angeles attorney. Dillon howard, an editor of the National Enquirer sent the email describing every stolen photograph of jeff bezos that the National Enquirer now possesses. In the last line of the email, Dillon Howard says, i hope common sense can prevail and quickly. The common sense that Dillon Howard and david pecker who runs the National Enquirer wanted to prevail was the jeff bezos team of investigators led by los angeles security expert gavin de becker would stop says it is a political motivated organization. It is a politically motivated publication. Also attached to jeff bezoss statement tonight is a letter from a lawyer in new york named jon fine. He is the deputy general counsel of the company that owns the National Enquirer. This is an email to martin singer, the lawyer in los angeles, and it is an email that could end jon fines career as a lawyer if it is adjudged to be, as jeff bezos says, an attempt at extortion and blackmail. It demands that jeff bezos and his team publically state that, quote, they have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that amis coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces. And in exchange for that, for that statement, the letter says the National Enquirer agrees not to publish, distribute, share or describe unpublished texts and photos. And then jon fines email says in the case of a breach of the agreement by one or more of the bezos parties, American Media is released from its obligation under the agreement and may publish the unpublished materials. So that is attorney jon fine putting a threat in writing written in new york sent interstate to a lawyer in los angeles, possibly incurring federal criminal liability on the way in an extortion scheme. Jeff bezos decided he was not going to take it. Jeff bezos wrote, if, in my position, i cant stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can . These communications cement amis longearned reputation for weaponizing journalistic privileges, hiding behind important protections and ignoring the tenants of true journalism. I wont participate in their well known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption. I prefer to stand up, roll this log over and see what crawls out. We have hurries to assemble the experts in this area from journalistic and legal perspective, including someone that spent 28 years at the National Enquirer. Were joined by manuel, who has been in the awkward position of covering this story for the Washington Post, which is owned by jeff bezos and has been covering it thoroughly and professional. Also tim obrian is with us. He has studied Donald Trumps relationship to david pecker. And joyce vance is here to cover the legal points for us. She is a former federal prosecutor. And were joined by jerry george who spent 28 years at the National Enquirer, including as the Los Angeles Bureau chief. Has david pecker ever been up against anyone like jeff bezos before . I think for the first time david pecker has met his match. We have finally gone through the looking glass, and we are way beyond yellow journalism. We are now in the area of the rico act. This is extortion. Yeah. Joyce vance, let me go straight to you on the legal points here because there is so much in here. Jeff bezos is very clearly saying this is extortion. This is blackmail. I read that email from a lawyer in new york to marty singer from los angeles, and i have never seen an email quite like that from lawyer to lawyer. It looks like our common understanding of what blackmail is, this kind of a threat. In federal law, there is a family of crimes under this umbrella of extortion and blackmail. But what they consist of at their core is this notion that ami would have to try to threaten in this case mr. Bezos into giving up some property in exchange for ami not doing damage to his reputation by releasing these photos. The legal fight is over whether what bezos is being asked to give up is actually property as the law defines it. But there could well be other crimes here. There could be hacking. There could be receiving stolen property. Other crimes we dont yet know enough to perceive here. It really looks as i think everyone agrees as though there is something here that is not right. There is two other jurisdictions involved here. There is new york state law that could have been violated by that lawyer. New york state bar procedures could have been violated. He could risk disbarment in new york state for this. Then there is california criminal liability that can be slightly different from new yorks, joyce. So there is plenty of things to study here legally. Thats right. There is federal law. There is state law. There are ethical obligations for lawyers. There is a lot that i think well be looking at over the next few days and weeks. No one has been covering this story more thoroughly than you have at the Washington Post. I just want to ask you at the top what has jeff bezos had to say about your coverage of him, the owner of your newspaper . We have no idea. We havent spoken with jeff bezos, and he hasnt been involved at all in our reporting, but we have spoken extensively with his security consultant, and hes provided us with some very interesting insights into the back stages of this whole drama, including the investigation that has taken place in which they have begun to believe, the bezos camp, that this publication by the National Enquirer might have been politically motivated. I would just add one other thing. You mentioned hacking at the top of the show. Gavin de becker told us that he does not believe that jeff bezoss phone was hacked. He thinks its possible that a Government Entity might have gotten a hold of his text messages. And jerry george let me go back to you because as the Los Angeles Bureau chief im sure you know of gavin de becker. He is the person people in los angeles turn to for security and personal protection. He has a large firm and provides all sorts of services. He has been doing this for a long time. There is no one im aware of in the country, in the private sector with more experience and resources in knowing how to handle an investigation like this. Well, gavin has had the reputation of being the best in the business for the past 25 years. So his involvement alone bespeaks a major concern. Yeah. And tim obrian, you have been studying Donald Trumps relationship to david pecker, who runs the National Enquirer. The idea, the idea that they were trying to, in effect, extort out of him a statement that the National Enquirer does not have a political agenda. Right. I mean, there is no one there is no one who could possibly sign their name to that statement. It is the motion corrupt publication in america. You know, two things i think worth pointing out here. Jeff bezos the National Enquirer already published a piece about jeff bezos and his extramarital affair, which relied on stolen personal property. Yes. Whether it was a federal agency that intercepted it or it was a hacker, information was stolen and put to use. Jeff bezos launched an investigation to find out what happened. The National Enquirer says to him, we are going to use more stolen information to prevent you from continuing an investigation of how we used previously stolen information to embarrass you. The second thing going on here is of course there is politics at work here. David pecker has a long standing relationship with donald trump. The National Enquirer has reportedly buried years of different stories about donald trump that contain embarrassing information about him. We know more recently, obviously, that pecker was involved with trumps Attorney Michael Cohen to bury stories about trumps relationships and sexual liaisons with Stormy Daniels and another woman. He is cooperating with a federal investigation in that. He weaponized prior to that the National Enquirers coverage in aid of Donald Trumps candidacy. When they say to jeff bezos, it is time to stop looking into this and its also time for you to say there arent politics involved, its they know on the face that both of those things are false fronts and bezos has the resources to say, no, were not going to do this. And jeff bezos is by donald trump a declared enemy of donald trump. There is always a political agenda with the National Enquirer. The entire newspaper, yeah. To go back to the Washington Post coverage of this, jeff bezos makes the point tonight in his statement that there is a saudi connection to this story. He says the posts essential and unrelated coverage of the murder of its journalist Jamal Khashoggi is unpopular in person circles. The National Enquirer, the company, has been trying to obtain saudi finance. And, so, that they have an interest in making life difficult for jeff bezos and hoping they can possibly also influence saudi coverage in the Washington Post. Well, its quite plain from looking at jeff bezoss letter that he published tonight that hes interested in what would be described as the saudi angle, whether that ends up developing and becoming a major part of the story i think it remains to be seen. But at this point it is still in the formative stages as far as this trajectory of this scandal. Jerry george, knowing david pecker and knowing the company and the way they operate, theyre in feed of money and financing. Theyre looking for saudi financing. What would they be willing to do to try to help the saudis in terms of their coverage in, say, the Washington Post . Well, ive mentioned earlier that the special issue that they would have in the spring touting saudi as the new Magic Kingdom was suspicious in itself in that three months later they acquired enough money to procure their biggest competitor. But i might add that, you know, as much as the world knows bezos as the worlds richest man and the founder of amazon and the owner of the Washington Post, to inquire of readers, jeff bezos isnt really a name. Jeff bezos doesnt really warrant the kind of cover that the they gave him. I doubt if 10 of National Enquirer readers even know who he is. So, i mean, i think that was suspicious in itself. Where does the story go from here . I think well keep digging like we do every other story. Well ask everybody questions and well find out every piece of information that we can. As they say, well turn every page, every single page. Thank you all for joining us. Areally appreciate it. And when we come back, the president s attacks on democrats and the congressional investigations continue, and they are increasing. Congressman Shawn Patrick maloney, the newest democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee will join us. And we now know how republicans will continue to use Donald Trumps wall in campaigns. They will blame every problem in america on the fact that we do not have a wall on the southern border. And in tonights last word, donald trump as preacher is the least convincing version of donald trump. That rocking chair would look great in our new house. Ahh, new house, eh . Well, you should definitely see how geico could help you save on homeowners insurance. Nice tip. Ill give you two bucks for the chair. Two . thats a victorian antique all right, how much for the recliner, then . Wait wait. How did that get out here . That is definitely not for sale is this a yard sale . If its in the yard then its. For sale. Oh, here we go. Geico. 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So now congressman adam schiff announces after having found zero russian collusion that he is going to be looking at every aspect of my life, both financial and personal, even though there is no reason to be doing so. Never happened before unlimited president ial harassment. The dems and their committees are going nuts. The republicans never did this to president obama. There would be no time left to run government. No. President obama was never under investigation because there was no reason to investigate president obama. But president nixon and president clinton were both investigated in every aspect of their lives, including every aspect of their financial lives, and the government continued to function during those investigations. And we know from the recent release of the president s schedules that there are vast tracks of president ial time in which donald trump is apparently doing absolutely nothing. And, so, the one thing we know the investigations of donald trump are not doing is distracting him from the important business of being president. In another tweet, the president complained about new hiring that chairman adam schiff has done at the intelligence committee. The president even called one of those hires stealing people who work at the white house. Chairman schiff has hired abigail grace who worked on the National Security council in the obama and trump white house. Here is what the chairman had to say about that. We have a long tradition of hiring out of the intelligence community, out of the National Security counsel, and if the president is worried about our hiring any former administration people, maybe he should work on being a better employer. Our next guest is the newest member of the president ial Harassment Team on the House Intelligence Committee, at least thats the way donald trump sees it. Joining us now is democrat Shawn Patrick maloney, which had been conducting the most in depth investigations of President Trump and his campaign. Thank you. I want to begin by getting your reaction to breaking news thats happened in the last hour, and that is the passing of former congressman john dingell, the longest serving member of congress, 59 years of service in the house of representatives. Thats longer than any house member or senator. He entered service at the age of 28, taking his fathers seat in the house of representatives. I know he was there when you began your career. Your reflections on the loss of john dingell tonight . Well, he was a pillar of the congress, totally unique in american history. You know, he was on the floor of the house of representatives as a page listening to Franklin Roosevelt deliver the day of infamy speech, and he was there 70 years later when i started my career in the house. I have to tell you he treated me like we were lifelong friends, with respect and courtesy. He was a great man and our hearts go out to his wife debby, to their family. We have lost a great american. And it was a measure of his greatness that right until the end he had one of the most clever and wittiest twitter accounts you are ever going to find. For someone in his 90s to do that shows you how nimble an intellect he was. He was the author of some of the most important pieces of legislation in america. Hes a long serving chairman and an expert in many subjects. One thing he did do is introduced a universal Coverage Health care bill and it was the very same bill that his father introduced during Harry Trumans presidency. It was a version of that, an updated version of that. So he was always pushing on that issue. I need to bring you to your new position on the intelligence committee. There is the president attacking your committee today and attacking the committee for possibly a new hire of someone who has already worked in the white house. What is your reaction to that . My reaction is that thieves think all men steal. The president cannot imagine that we would do legitimate, professional, constitutional oversight. You know, i think sometimes the republicans believe that every investigation is like their investigations. When they trumped up the benghazi investigation or remember fast and furious or those of us that served in the Clinton Administration certainly remember what that was like. The idea that we would be doing a Serious Investigation about foreign influence over high government officials, including the president , about the influence of money, not just from russia, by the way, but from countries like saudi arabia and that we would finish the important work left undone in that disgraceful report the republicans issued whitewashing the russia interference in the election. We will do serious work. Ill tell you what, judge us by our work. We got started yesterday, so it is a little early to be name calling. It is a fine group, and we will do a good job. Lets listen to what congressman schiff said about investigating the president s finances. The president has gotten used to the idea that congress doesnt do oversight because for the last two years the republican majority as essentially been missing in action when it comes to being a coequal branch of government. But that ended with the midterms. Congressman, as we know, the previous president s have had their finances investigated very closely. Bill clinton every penny that he and Hillary Clinton ever made was investigated during his time. But the president seems to think you just cant go near his finances. Well, he should stop whining and start governing. He should start doing the work and put down the twitter account. Look, we have real work to do and we could do that together and we could do that in the course of these constitutional oversight activities. You know, the Clinton Administration somehow managed to balance the budget with Newt Gingrich even when all those investigations were going on in the second term. This president is consumed with selfpity and has been whining up a storm. He should let the congress do his work and if hes innocent he should stop acting so guilty. Has chairman schiff given you a sense of the timing of the way he expecting things to possibly unfold during this year . We just convened yesterday. The first thing we did is vote to make sure the special counsel has all the transcripts from the work thats been done uptodate and that they can use those for any purpose, including prosecution of perjury. Thats very important. Those will also be released publically in a rolling basis as soon as possible, provided only that they dont interfere with the special counsels work or that they dont reveal National Security information. But those are going to be made public. I think thats very important. Well go back and fill in the holes that they left undone. But well also look at the role of foreign money and foreign influence, as i mentioned, i think thats critically important. We will defend the integrity of this commit tease work because if people come to this committee and lie, they will pay a price. Thank you very much for joining us and please come back as the committee develops its work this year. Really appreciate it. Thank you, lawrence. 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The wall has taken up a permanent place in our politics. The trump wall is not going to be built on the southern border. Everyone knows that. Republicans in congress are already telling reporters they know there will be no money for wall in the budget bill next week that will prevent the next government shutdown. He expects the president to be reasonable and sign that bill with no funding for the wall. But it seems like the wall that will never be built will continue to be used by republicans to explain every bad thing that happens in america. Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee had its first hearing on gun safety regulations in ten years. The bill would require background checks for all gun sales. Most republican members of the committee boycotted the committee. But one used his time in the hearing to complain only, only about the small percentage of our gun violence linked to undocumented residents of this country. I hope we do not forget the pain and anguish and sense of loss felt by those all over the country who have been the victims of violence at the hands of illegal aliens. Hr8 would not have stopped many of the circumstances i raised, but a wall, a barrier on the southern border may have and thats what were fighting for. Gentlemen would suspect. The man standing up and protesting there will join us in a moment. The man sitting next to him is his friend. He will also join us. Manuel lost his son and fred lost his daughter in the mass murder that killed 17 people at Margery StonemanDouglas High School in florida. The gunman who has been charged of that murder in parkland, florida, is an american citizen born here in this country and attended that same high school. A wall on their southern border would not have kept any of those 17 people alive. We are joined now by manuel, whose son was 17 years old and fred whose daughter was 14 years old when americas epidemic of mass murder came to their high school. And i wanted to show you both that moment in the hearing that im sure you will never forget where congressman gaetz pointed at you and basically tried to get you thrown out of the hearing room. Were going to show that to the audience now. Is there a process in the committee whereby if the very same people are repeatedly interrupting the time of the members that those people will be asked to depart the committee, or is there i will. Excuse me. Fred, what did that feel like to you, to have the congressman point at you, wanting you thrown out of that room . You know, that congressman showed who he was. I felt like that was democracy at work. You had mannie and i simply not letting him get away with that nonsense. And i want to tell you something about my friend mannie sitting next to me because mannie has been in this country 15 years. He fled venezuela because of the violence in venezuela with his family to give them a safe, secure environment in this country. So to have that congressman put his finger out that way when mannies son, my daughter were killed here by an american male was, from my perspective, the lowest form of political performance. But you know what, lawrence . Put that sunshine on who these people are because i think it was it was good for america to see that he is an example of who has been in charge of doing things regarding gun safety or not doing things. And now we get to see the nonsense that they put behind it. And democratic chairman adler didnt go along with this crazy notion of having you thrown out of the room. Mannie, let me ask you how it felt for you. We all saw fred at the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Justice Brett kavanaugh when Justice Brett kavanaugh refused to shake his hand. Was that your first congressional hearing . It was. Fred is a pro when it gets to talking to politicians. Thats not my cup of tea. It is not my field. But i thought that i needed to be there to support fred and the other parents and the kids. The kids are actually fighting for their lives and trying to have a better future. So i dont regret being there. I think that my presence there, its a must. I need to be there. However, now that im there, i want to make sure we dont waste time in there. And this person was totally out of any context that was supposed to be discussed in that room. And my reaction and freds reaction is a reaction of a father. You have to keep in mind that we are still fathers. The fact that jaime is not here does not mean were not here. We are here, and we will defend our kids forever. So that reaction, any father should be able to understand what we did and what well keep on doing as long as we are in this life. Fred, what do you imagine congressman gaetz would say if the accused mass murderer was an undocumented resident of this country . Well, if that were true, we would have been guests of the president at the state of the union. But because the killer of our children was an american male, we were not. But i do want to say that what congressman gaetz did takes the story away from the 40,000 a year who are murdered in this country, the real emergency. 40,000 people a year. And the problem is, while were sitting here doing this interview, and i have spoken a bit about this lately, in this time frame, somebody is getting the news that their loved one was killed. Somebody right now is planning a funeral for a loved one who was killed that will be happening tomorrow. Somebody just buried a loved money who was killed. It is an epidemic. And when you have a congressman who will put on a political stunt like that rather than dealing with the emergency that is gun violence, its shameful. And i think if he if the killer of our children was an undocumented immigrant that wasnt the case, he would have been having a political field day with it. But it didnt happen that way. And, mannie, i know that the congressman knows who fred is. Fred has been very prominent out there, and he knows exactly why fred was at that hearing. I think it would be pretty easy to figure out, even if he had never seen you before, why you were sitting beside fred. Hearings like this always have the parents of victims at these kinds of hearings. The members know that. And, so, when hes asking to have you thrown out, i know that he knows, in asking to have fred thrown out, i know he knows hes trying to throw out someone who lost his daughter at Margery StonemanDouglas High School. He should have been known you were in the same situation. It doesnt really matter who i am. He made a mistake. Regardless who is sitting there, he made a terrible comment about the actual serious discussion that we were all planning to have. So lets say he didnt know who i was, which doesnt really matter, he made a mistake. He was out of context. And that seems to me that is totally a wasting time. He had five minutes to make a point, and in five minutes, i mean, someone is dying. And this is an emergency, and we have no time, extra time, to solve it. By the way, i have to say that they are not here and we cannot bring them back. But we are doing that for the rest of the kids. He should know that because maybe because of what were doing his kids will be safe. Absolutely. Thats our point. I am very sorry for your loss. Im sorry you have to join us under these circumstances and im sorry about what you had to go through in that hearing yesterday. Thank you very much for joining us. Lawrence, thank you. Thank you very much. Well be right back. 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Now the current president in real life does not believe in god because he says stuff like this. But have you ever asked god for forgiveness . Im not sure i have. I just go and try to do a better job from there. I dont think so. I think if i do something wrong, i think i just try and make it right. I dont bring god into that picture. I dont. Perfect answer for an athiest. Strange answer for a man that talked about the power of prayer without giving a single example of anything that he has ever prayed for at any point in his life. There is nothing stranger than donald trump presenting himself as a religious man. He did it again today, and we have the video. And this being donald trump, that means we also have the video of donald trump contradicting what donald trump had to say today when he presented himself as a man of god. Tonights last word is next. Each day justin chooses to walk. At work. And after work. He does it all with dr. Scholls. Only dr. 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And has since become a highly politicized event that every president feels compelled to attend. Its always an attempt by a president to demonstrate his religiosity. And no president has done a less credible job than donald trump. Here he is today. As president i will always cherish honor and protect the believers who uplift our communities and sustain our nation. Really . Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States. Until our countrys representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. Here is more from the president s teleprompter today. My administration is also speaking out against religious persecution around the world. Including against religious minorities, christians and the jewish community. [ applause ] really . Donald j. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States until our countrys representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. The president created some controversy today when he said this since the founding of our nation, maybe of our greatest strides from gaining our independence to abolition of civil rights, to extending the vote for women have been led by people of faith and started in prayer. Twitter lit up with people saying abolition of civil rights . The white house later released a transcript of the speech what the president actually said and what the white house says he was supposed to say if he could just read a teleprompter correctly. The line was supposed to be, since the founding of our nation, many of our greatest strides from gaining our independence to abolition to civil rights, to extending the vote for women have been led by people of faith and started in prayer. So you have a choice to make, which i leave to you. Did donald trump purposely say abolition of civil rights to thrill some or most trump supporters. Or did the worst teleprompter reader in the history of the presidency simply make a mistake. You get to make up your minds about this. Having made enough teleprompter mistakes myself, im going to have to let he or she who has never made a teleprompter mistake cast the first stone on this. Lets look at what he just said there. Led by people who believed in god and prayed. Slavery was created by people who believed in god and prayed. And the treasonous war against the United States of america led by robert e. Lee and other confederate generals was led by people and fought by people who believed in god and prayed. The Confederate Army prayed for their success in killing anyone who fought against their right to own human beings. Today the president found just one passage from the bible in his teleprompter, it was, of course, from the new testament. And it actually might be the only passage in the bible that donald trump has publicly proved that he really believes in and really does try to live by. As jesus promises in the bible, ask, and you will receive. And your joy will be complete. It always worked that way for donald trump, and his father. His father made him a millionaire in his own right when he was a little boy. Long before donald trump started asking his father for money to bail him out of his losses. And his Atlantic City casinos. Ask and you will receive seems to have been the golden rule between donald trump and his father. With other president s, you could listen to these religion filled speeches with a straight face, because they had not already publicly proved that they dont believe the religious sentiments they were delivering. But with donald trump. Here was the very last line that the white house speech writers put in the teleprompter today for donald trump. The man of god. And let us always give thanks for the miracle of life, the majesty of creation and the grace of all mighty god. Really . Thats what you always give thanks for . Heres that same person answering the question, what are you most thankful for, mr. President . What are you most thankful for, mr. President . For having a great family and for having made a tremendous difference in this country. Ive made a tremendous difference in the country. This country is so much stronger now than when i took office, you wouldnt believe it. I mean, you see it, but so much stronger that people cant even believe it. Youre absolutely right, mr. President , people cant even believe it. Thats tonights last word, the 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight, new details on what Paul Manafort tried to conceal from mueller and the feds, including a russian who manafort was allegedly trying to protect. Including a russian who manafort was allegedly trying to protect. Plus, after threats back and forth, we learn tonight that the acting attorney general will appear before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow. Just hours from now, in fact, one of his last days on the job. A new inside look tonight at the Trump Inauguration and why it is of interest to the feds of the Southern District of new york. And jeff bezos says hes getting blackmailed and extorted by a longtime friend of the president. The 11th hour begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. Day 749 of the Trump Administration and there is