friday agreement was signed, t bring if not an end, at leas some long overdue respite from the decades of fighting an violence and terrorism i northern ireland it leaves tomorrow t commemorate the good frida agreement. it will be back on friday. now it is time the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening rachel it is on msnbc you just had reinstate representative justin jone from tennessee i am going to have the not yet reinstated representativ justin pierson join us as ou first guest tonight. and so it is remarkable to see how fast this story has move and to see that reinstatemen tonight was just really, reall exciting as a video. i am glad you relayed it the way you did during our hour. that document you gave us. well, i have to say, seeing people on the lawn of the fron of a tennessee capital today saying no justin s no piece, n justin s, no peace, i though that was pretty irresistible but yeah, and looking forwar to seeing that - thank you rachel. thank you
now, we re gonna be keeping an eye tomorrow on presiden biden s trip to ireland in northern ireland, marking 25 years since the good frida agreement was signed, from the decades of fighting i violence and terrorism i northern ireland he leaves tomorrow t commemorate the good frida agreement, he will be back o friday now it is time for the las word with lawrence o donnell good evening rachel. it i on msnbc. you just ha reinstated representativ justin jones from tennessee. i am going to have the not yet reinstated representativ justin pierson join us as ou first guest tonight. and so it is remarkable to see how fas this story has moved and to se that reinstatement tonight was just really, really exciting a a video. i am glad you relayed it the way you did during ou hour. that document you gave us well, i have to say, seeing people on the lawn of the fron of a tennessee capital today saying no justin s no piece, n justin s, no peace, i though that was pretty irresistible
come out, things that tucker carlson has said, done, with receipts that could complicate hi future plans, particularly i they happen to be political, considerably all right, jen psaki, michael steele, thank you both so much. we greatly appreciated we ll see you tomorrow and up ahead, the story of the good friday agreement, and how peace in northern irelan dramatically came down to th last moment. when i got to norther island, there was, there was n agreement. listen to the conversations about the peace deal tha almost wasn t from the peopl who were there plus, bill maher later on th show we re gonna show you a cli from this past week that may explain one of the reasons tucker carlson is out.
about this in less you can see clearly in the context of th british colonization o ireland. people were denied basic rights part of the agreement was to get these rights the rights were the destination, the agreement was a journey on the destination. [inaudible we didn t have that mechanis until the good frida agreement. it s much better to think, it much better than it was before we had the agreement today british troops in northern ireland are being attacked more often by the irish republican army. this is happening because th british soldiers have been beating the i. r. a. badly i cities and towns out into the countryside nea their hideout in souther island
clinton who had both the intelligence to understand the issue and the application to work at it and yet, with everybody working together, you describe how this came together at th last second. it was crazy. we were literally locked up in a not very nice building for days george mitchell was smart o that one i ve heard about this building, jerry adams actually said it was not a very goo place to negotiate it was a horrible place t negotiate. they weren t proper facilities the building was not conducive at all as the days went on, because originally i was supposed to come for the agreement when i got to northern ireland the whole thing had collapsed. there was no agreement so we had to do a lot of re-drafting, i had must of had six hours sleep in three days. as the thing went on it became it became pressure on everyone you cannot go out afterwards there was a huge pressure on