to all of the details of what they went through. the degree of difficulty of what they were dealing with it so much greater than anything that i was ever exposed to or involved with what i was working in the senate on similar issues. look it is like i just cannot believe how easy we had a compared to this team. this is a story, and that was an interview opportunity that resonates on you like somebody put the world s biggest tuning fork on you. it goes right to the heart and soul of what you know best in the whole world. it s so good. and we are starting tonight with neal katyal and andrew weissmann because apparently, there was some, you know, trump legal developments today that are worth discussing, and maybe this week in a big way. if ever there was a day for your defendant, trump, franchise, this is it, my friend. this is it. thank you, rachel. thank you. well, here is the kind of newsday it has been on that defendant trump beat. our first guest tonight, former fed
for me for now. but now, it s time for the guy who i ve been talking about for the last few minutes. now, it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. and thank you for that. we taped this interview with the white house negotiating team in the room where it happened today. and i could still be there. i could listen. i could listen for hours on end, all of the details of what they went through. and the degree of the difficulty of what they were dealing with is so much greater than anything that i was ever exposed to or involved with when i was working in the senate on similar issues. look, i just can t believe how we had compared to this team. this is a story, and that was an interview opportunity that resonates on you like somebody put the world s biggest tuning fork on you. it goes right to the heart and soul of what you know best in the whole world. it s so good. and we are starting tonight with neal katyal and and
In his signature style, Lawrence O Donnell goes into depth on the latest news developments and offers his take on the political stories driving the national.
he did not send in the chairman of the relevant committees involved in the negotiations. the speaker instead chose republican congressman garrett graves of louisiana and patrick mchenry of north carolina to negotiate with the white house. president biden picked the most capable and experienced budget and debt ceiling negotiating team washington has ever seen. steve ricchetti, counselor to the president, has been doing this for 30 years. in 1993, when i was the chief of staff in the finance committee with jurisdiction over the debt ceiling and many other things, steve ricchetti was working in the white house for president bill clinton, where he specialized in dealing with the united states senate for the president. he couldn t find anyone in the senate, democrat or republican, who didn t like and respect steve ricchetti. shalanda young is a budget expert in president biden s cabinet. she was confirmed as the director of the office of management budget with 61 votes, which included the
situations like protecting major metropolitan areas, this is something we should be doing in years and not measuring in decades to get projects in resilience in some of these communities achieved. congressman garrett graves of louisiana, thank you for your time. thank you. i think we re going to go back to the white house here. president trump talking about the relief effort there in texas. the same relief effort we were just talking about there with congressman graves. again, president trump set to head to texas again tomorrow. this will be the second time he s been there. let s take a listen. thank you very much. thank you, gail. thank you very much. great job. great job. thank you all very much. thank you. do you think daca is illegal? thank you very much. thank you. thank you, everyone! we ll be releasing on daca sometime over the weekend. probably sunday, saturday. latest will be monday.