Fantastic on that note, i wish you a great night. Remember, you can catch the Night Cap not just tonight but every night at 11 00 and you can see the Documentary Series my generation. Saturday, 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tomorrow night, order in and watch tv all night. But for now, im signing off. For all of our colleagues on the networks of Nbc News, thanks for staying up late. See you at The End of monday. In august of 2020, Donald Trump was campaigning for reelection amid a series of ongoing crises. We were in the throws of the covid19 pandemic. The Summer Saw A Wave of protests and uprisings over the murder of george floyd. And, to top it all off, the state of california was experiencing its largest wild Fire Season in recorded history. And it was that last crisis that prompted Donald Trump to say this during a Campaign Rally in pennsylvania. And i see again the Forest Fires are starting. They are starting again in california. You got to clean your forests. They have many, many years of l
Im redoing my speech to say pie in the face. That was too good. You can also steal the song how to marry your bachelor senator to get health care. That was good, too. It looked absolutely dead and over. Here we are again in the senate, but bringing this back in the senate will be even harder than it was to bring back in the house, but youre right. It is not over until its over, but this is a very big day for people who want to preserve obamacare. And tactically, its interesting to have seen the senators learn from the house. The house did it openly, crashed and burned, amended it secretly and thats how they got it through. The senate started off doing it secretly. They also crashed and burned. The question is what can they now evolve to to try to pass it after this recess and we just dont know yet. I think now we know there were probably a handful of republican senators who were so happy when it crashed and burned in the house the first time and thought, okay, its not going to come our
And thats how they got it through. The senate started off doing it secretly. They also crashed and burned. The question is what can they now evolve to to try to pass it after this recess and we just dont know yet. I think now we know there were probably a handful of republican senators who were so happy when it crashed and burned in the house the first time and thought, okay, its not going to come our way. We dodged that one. Guess what . It followed you home. Thank you, rachel. Thank you, lawrence. Today President Trump invited all the republican senators up to the white house to convince them to vote for the Republican Health care bill they had just decided to not vote for. In fact, they had decided not to vote at all. It was another big winning day for the resistance. Mcconnell didnt have the votes because evidently health care is complicated. Its a very complicated subject. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. I had hoped that we could have gotten to the floor this
You have to wonder if they are regretting that decision now. That does it for us tonight. Its going to be a big day tomorrow. Well see you again then. Its time for now last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel am and Michael Avenatti appeared on your program this week where he previewed what happens today. Michael avenatti will be my first guest tonight taking us through what happened today and some of the accusations made against him by President Trump, Lindsey Graham and others. But, rachel, at this time tomorrow night we will be wondering if there is a republican who believes that we need to hear more or there needs to be an fbi investigation now that theyve heard this testimony. And that republican could be jeff flake. If it is jeff flake, then this whole thing stops because jeff flake is on the Judiciary Committee. They need every republican vote on that committee in order to move that confirmation out of the committee. So if they dont have jeff flake on the committee
Its going to be a big day tomorrow. Well see you again then. Its time for now last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel am and Michael Avenatti appeared on your program this week where he previewed what happens today. Michael avenatti will be my first guest tonight taking us through what happened today and some of the accusations made against him by President Trump, Lindsey Graham and others. But, rachel, at this time tomorrow night we will be wondering if there is a republican who believes that we need to hear more or there needs to be an fbi investigation now that theyve heard this testimony. And that republican could be jeff flake. If it is jeff flake, then this whole thing stops because jeff flake is on the Judiciary Committee. They need every republican vote on that committee in order to move that confirmation out of the committee. So if they dont have jeff flake on the committee, jeff flake is empowered now to stop the whole thing. And, you know, its interesting. I s