joining us this evening. remember back in august last year, when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president has knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and publicly about that. he also fund-raise off it and took every opportunity to put out what a victim he was of a deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, first real justification for why he kept all of the documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing order that documents remained from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. the idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all these documents, whatever a sta
tonight. can you believe it? i get to talk to someone, i m, you know through a whole lifetime and never meet someone who files a discharge position, because it s so rare. and the circumstances of the filing district petition were, like, the plot of a mission implausible. it is a cape, or if you will, lawrence, one that has yet to be resolved because we don t know how the drama is going to and, in the end. but it is certainly, he is the person of the hour as it concerns the financial stability of the american colin economy. it s going to be, at the end of the, are because we have a lot of other stuff to get through with neal katyal and others, and it s one of those things where you just have to have just a little bit of belief in miracles for it to happen. we will. see i always believe in miracles, lawrence. i m here, aren t? i thank, you. have a good night. i get the joke. thanks alex, thank you. well, if you re tuning into this program in the hope that for the
jealousy that your effective at your job. thanks for your time tonight. good luck in this fight. that is the show for this evening. we will see you again tomorrow, and now it is time for the last word, with lawrence o donnell. good evening. lawrence. and i know that all you kids grow up and washington and lee parliamentarians at heart. i know deep down you guys, you learn the house rules an elementary school. yep. senate rules and high. school this is such an exciting night for me because we are going to cover, once again, the single most exciting thing you can ever see in the house of representatives. unfortunately it s almost inexplicable and it is of course the procedure that the democrats are using right now to try to force a vote on a clean debt ceiling v bill. the discharge position. the man who filed the discharge petition shun is joining us