And on. And you think of okay, whats the cancer on this presidency . And i have a theory about that, what the cancer on this presidency is, which i will be announcing in the next hour. And therefore, we will all watch. Thanks, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. Well, President Trump lashes out. We all know that. And he has been doing that for a very long time. Probably since childhood. He started lashing out at me personally six years o when i called him a liar as soon as he opened his mouth about president obamas bih certificate. When he became a president ial candidate, he lashed out at mexicans, at muslims, and of course every day at the news media. He has continued lashing out at news media relentlessly. And he has continued the trump principle of lashing out at anyone who gets in his way, anyone who causes him a problem. And that tendency to lash out at his opponents has become the cancer on the Trump Presidency. That is what i think the cancer on the Trump Presidency is. And the president
And you think of okay, what is the cancer on this presidency . And i have a theory about that. What the cancer on this presidency is. Which i will be announcing in the next hour. And therefore we will all watch. Thanks, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. Well, President Trump lashes out. Well all know that. And he has been doing that for a very long time. Probably since childhood. He started lashing out at me personally six years ago when i called him a liar as soon as he opened his mouth about president obamas birth certificate. When he became a president ial candidate, he lashed out at mexicans, at muslims, and of course every day at the news media. He has continued lashing out at the news media, relentlessly. And he has continued the trump principle of lashing out at anyone who gets in his way. Anyone who causes him a problem. And that tendency to lash out at his opponents as become the cancer on the Trump Presidency. That is what i think the cancer on the Trump Presidency is. The president
Coast of japan tonight. We will continue to monitor it through the evening. That does it for us tonight. For this hour. Well see you again on monday. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Rachel, i watched a watergate documentary today. And soy just want to apologize through you to the audience for possibly wrapping too many of my questions tonight in watergate stuff. Because it is amazing, the parallels are just amazing. And eerie. Until you start doing Fred Thompson accent, you are forb forbidden you. Are forbidden for apologizing for these things because the parallels are real, in real life. Its amazing. They keep going on and on and on. And you think of okay, what is the cancer on this presidency . And i have a theory about that. What the cancer on this presidency is. Which i will be announcing in the next hour. And therefore we will all watch. Thanks, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. Well, President Trump lashes out. Well all know that. And he has
Insensitive. The president fired off this tweet today eric john kelly got in the middle of it this week. And the president explained what prompted the response from the fourstar general, a gold star parent himself, as his son was killed in afghanistan. He was so offended. He was in the room when i made the call, and so were other people. And the call was a very nice call. He was so offended that somebody would be listening to that call, he couldnt believe it. Actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. This is really not. And i was so nice ive called many people. And i would think that every one of them appreciated it. I was very surprised to see this to be honest with you. Eric so general kelly was defending the president and the president now defending the general in all of this. The yeah, thats right, eric. The white house continuing to defend the chief of staff. General kelly has been coming under fire for mischaracterizing congresswoman wilsons remarks. He accused her of
I have ever witnessed. I have been here in washington nearly 20 years. The bottom line for folks at home is that the sentencing of the former National Security advisor, Michael Flynn, has been put off for another 90 days. There will be a status report filed in midmarch. Let me just walk you through what has happened in the last couple of hours. The federal judge in this case, emmet sullivan, began the proceeding by stating to the court i cant think of a day when the court has accepted a guilty plea from a defendant that is not guilty, and that is not going to start today. He then walked the former National Security advisor Michael Flynn through several elements of the case. He gave him multiple opportunities to withdraw the guilty plea, the guilty plea agreement, with the special counsel. He gave flynn multiple opportunities to challenge the circumstances of his fb interview in january of 2017. These are the specific issues of not having consultation with the white House Counsel being