us tonight. thank you for being with us, and now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. this program recently has become a kind of first stop for people announcing their senate candidacies. at least, is that way again tonight, but before that we will be discussing all of the new revelations in the dominion filing today. congressman schiff will join us for that. and then rachel, the only power that i had here was to decide where this happens with the show, and i feel like it will happen at the very end. the very end of the show, america and you are going to watch me lose an argument. and i mean, lose an argument and just get kicked out of the studio. you don t lose arguments, generally speaking. rachel, our friend mehdi hasan will join us at the end of the hour, and guess what the name of his new book is? how to win every argument. now, this not only is going to produce humiliation for me at the end of the hour, but imagine how my pu
morning. today s thursday. i know today actually is don t rush time because it moves fast , right too fast too fast. but it is thursday. thank you for joining us. everyone caitlin is off a lot to get to won t we start with five things to know for this thursday, april 20th 2023. we re gonna start with the tornado outbreak striking oklahoma. at least two people are confirmed dead in the town of coal. significant damage, reported the supreme court, delaying its decision on myth of kristen until tomorrow, the justices seeking more time to assure ruling that could impact the accessibility of the abortion pill across the country and a judge here in new york, ordering mark pomerantz to testify today before june. jordan s house judiciary committee, pomerantz is a former prosecutor who once led the manhattan d. a s investigation into donald trump s business dealings also happening today, twitter says it s going to remove you know those check marks. we have one. with legacy blue check
good afternoon. i m peter alexander in for chris jansing. as we come on the air, we are following that breaking news out of memphis. all five police officers involved this the fatal confrontation case of 29-year-old tyre nichols are behind bars. in a few hours, we re expecting a live update from the shelby county da. former prosecutor paul butler is joining us. we have a reporter on the ground who is there. we ll the get to her in a moment too. paul, i want to walk tokes through what happened. we know about the death of of tyre nichols. he was attacked by these officers. the family has seen video of what happened. this happened earlier in the month on january 7th. he ended up dying three days later. the police chief this memphis there has called the actions of the five officers, all of whom happen to be black, saying that it was heinous, reckless and inhumane and making a plea to the residents of that city to protest peacefully when video of the arrest is released to the publ
she opens up about life, lose and a complicated relationship with her father. before he died, i was able to tell him that i loved him. and wait until you see what led to this exchange. are you married? yes. why? are you interested? but first, a crisis at the border. a spy balloon in the sky. homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas has more to deal with than ever and we talk about more of it including republicans that want to remove him from office. how seriously do you take these calls for your impeachment? we have two things in common. do i get a hint? i find cooking really hard. i find it really stressful. do you feel your life is in danger? and the love of my mother brought me here. what was the worst investment? there is a long list of bad ones. u.s. officials saying the military just shot down yet another high altitude object. mysterious threats in the sky. a stream of balloons and other objects at least one coming from china flying over
katy tur. here we are again, another fed meeting and another expected rate hike. we re going to get to the number in just a second. it is expected to be a quarter of a point. we re going to see how the markets react to that because they have been on a relative upswing and we re wondering does that trend continue? we are also watching as you well know, memphis. the funeral for 29-year-old tyre nichols is today. and supposed to begin right about now. weather has been delaying it, so we ll go there as soon as it does start. but again, there is breaking news from the fed. just confirmed, they are raising it, interest rates, by a quarter point. joining me now is nbc news business and data reporter, brian cheung. a quarter point, what can you tell us? the nation s central bank, the steward of the u.s. economy raised interest rates by .25 percentage points in their meeting today, after some encouraging news we had gotten in previous weeks that inflation was coming down. was at 6.5