night. alice wagner tonight starts right. now california has a lot on its plate, chris. but housing has they need to build more housing in upstate and given where they are in terms of environmental decline, the housing situation is complicated as well. thank you, my friend. thanks for being here tonight. tonight, we start with merrick garland. it s no surprise that republicans are not fans of the attorney general. ever since he arrived at the justice department, republicans have repeatedly accused garland of weaponizing the doj. and using it to go after president biden so-called political enemies. here s garland testimony before the judiciary committee in october of 2021. more republican senators had their say about garland s memo on protecting school board members, just to be clear that was a memo on protecting school board members. take a listen. a leave it at this, general garland, you weaponize the fbi in the department of justice, it s wrong, it s unprecedent
and of course, a press conference. that is it for us tonight. now it is time for the last word, lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening alex. we now have to special counsel investigating a former president and a current president. the reactions from the two subjects of these investigations are very different though. as the man themselves and the top detention itself are totally different. so too has been the reactions from president biden and former president trump. gonna get into it right here. today, the president called the special counsel appointed to investigate his possession of classified documents after leaving office, a thug. he then attacked the special counsel s wife and said, his quote, friends and other family members are even worse. he called the special counsel, now investigating him, and unfair savage. who, quote, may very well turn out to be a criminal. and then, he added, his conflicts on fairness and mental state of derangement make hi