sir? those famous lines ordered by the lawyer, joseph wells, on june 9th, 1954, effectively marked the end of mccarthy-ism, and the investigations that wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy was conducting as chair of the senate permit cup subcommittee on investigations, created initially to investigate government fraud and waste, but he quickly turned into a political pet project to investigate what mccarthy claimed was communist infiltration at all levels of the government. the origins of the mccarthy investigation could be traced back to the post world war i overmine committee, a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee, and to the house special committee to investigate communist activities in the united states, aka, the fish committee, formed and chaired by new york representative hamilton fish. the fish committee walked into the famous house on american activities committee, formed in 1938, and chaired by texas representative merchandise. much like mccarthy, 12 years
That im on. And im kind of looking forward to it because, again, cant be finished with something unless you start it. Michael cohen is set to take the stand monday in trumps criminal trial. Trumps lawyers will call him a liar, but cohens story has been consistent. And corroborated by the other prosecution witnesses. Also tonight, trump is getting the old band back together. A rogues gallery of crooks including Convicted Felon turned pardon bad guy for hire, Paul Manafort, who used to do the dirty work for putins russia and congo among other autocrats. And more recently, has reportedly been shaking his tin cup for china. Plus, trump used to call rfk jr. A very smart person, but now, hes in a state of panic that junior is winning over some of his antivacc maga base. We begin tonight with a man best summarized by the great robert nesta marley. Your best enemy could be your best friend and your best friend your worst enemy, which brings us to one of Donald Trumps most important hires. A hi
Not so fun. Hours from now, former President Trump will be sitting in a manhattan courtroom as his Hush Money Trial is set to resume. This as the judge overseeing the case has yet to rule if trump violated his gag order. In washington, d. C. , the Supreme Court will hear Oral Arguments over trumps claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution in the d. C. Election interference case. Plus, arizonas Attorney General has charged mark meadows, rudy giuliani, and other key trump allies, as well as 11 socalled Fake Electors with state crimes after they attempted to keep trump in power following the 2020 election. I dont know. Did you see that coming . I did not. I didnt see that coming. I really didnt. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, did you see that coming . Not this one. I mean, we suspected it was coming sometime, but didnt see it coming yesterday. And some boldfaced names apparently among the group of aides to donald trump. Giuliani, meadows, eastman. Yeah. Apparently a
congregations just because they were not willing to take on this brawl or mentality. you use the words earlier, a pugilistic, that is in many ways how the evangelical mind has been conditioned to expect something more than just biblical doctrine. it is now we need you to fight against our enemies who are out to get us. tim, it s an extraordinary book. the book is the kingdom, in the power, and the glory. thank you for writing it. congratulations. that s our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. as word w good evening, alex. we all remember where we were the night that the draft opinion of the supreme courts overturning roe v. wade came out. samuel leto s draft opinion on. never forget running down the hallways here with it in my hands, not believing that we had such a document. tonight, in this hour, i have something almost as good. and it involves what will be the opinion of the supreme court and donald trum
criminal charges against trump. that is how you think when you are in a cult. that is how you think when you re in a cult. well put. you know, we hear about situational ethics, in the case of republicans, it s situational patriotism. they love the justice department when their opponents are being prosecuted. they love american democracy when their when their candidates win. but if they lose elections, suddenly, they hate american democracy and they think it s corrupt. if donald trump is convicted of crimes, of felonies 34 times, suddenly they hate the justice system. but if it goes the other way for them, situationally, it s okay. such hypocrisy. so is it biden s justice department being weaponized by biden or is it not? yeah. this lays bare everything we ve been saying on this show for many, many years now about the hypocrisy. i mean, when you look at the disappointment, frankly, for many republicans about the outcome of this trial, they wanted to be able to say