it for us tonight. it s been great to have you here. now, it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening. good evening, rachel. and, you know, when i see what betty suu and james did onstage, it makes me think we could do that some night. we could like, you could wear my black jacket, and i could where we d be changing shirts. other than that, we can each keep our hair cuts, jackets, and everything else. you want me to select the tie for you all those neckties are just my, right outside the door of your office right now. you, know that i could not a back thing. do you want this kind of neck, or do you want a scoop neck. i was thinking turtleneck, maybe. i don t wear a turtleneck yeah, all right, well, i m thinking a nice scoop neck, it would go nice with with your jawline. maybe this is not a great idea. listen, if we re gonna do a show in tennessee, then that s the case listen, if or we go, constitutional breaking news la
thank you, this week begins with the gun safety conversation after another mass shooting. the crisis is important. it grinds on. we will continue to cover it. we have more on that important story later this hour with some special guests. or top story is what a season of accountability. you can kind of feel it in the air if you follow the news and see how many different issues have hit the court. closing arguments today, time where lawyers for e. jean carroll replayed some of that damning video testimony from trump himself, as well as him watching his solemn and the under-oath admissions. it may be one that they presented him as the evidence, that trump is their case, telling jurors this is who he is, this is his modus operandi, his m.o., the contact they want has been shown through their evidence on more than one occasion, shows, quote, he knows what he did. they also showed the jury trump s reaction of his own admission from the access hollywood segment. they tried t
our country. maybe if you just oppose the republican party and you never want it to win another election, you are cool with that. but we will go deeper. that s coming up later tonight. i will explain more. i wanted to tell you off top, it s special. i hope you will stick around for it. the top story right now, it relates to the accountability crisis on the far right and another chunk of the gop as long as it s tied to donald trump. it involves, of course, all the different ways that there are boundaries in american life. others may wish they weren t held accountable this way. it is the lies that hurt donald trump and the lies that caused the insurrection and the lies that george santos was peddling that are getting smacked down in court. today, congressman santos dodging criminal prosecution in brazil after surrendering to authorities this week in new york. he pled not guilty on those 13 counts. he is claiming it s a witch hunt. that was new york on wednesday. now he confesse
place. someone says white supremacy is a whole hoax. a brand-new answer to that question. waging war on white supremacists, can someone tell us what awaits pharmacist is? tonight new reporting on the text messages at the center of iclusig him to fire tucker. the idea that this could become public was very frightening for the company. then, another twist in the trump trial. where are you here instead of new york where you have a civil case? why trump s attorneys say they will present no defense. plus, how should america news media appropriately cover a twice impeached criminally indicted front runner who s credibly accused of rape? and former attorney general on the anti-democratic outbreak in state houses from ohio to north carolina beyond. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. and chris hayes. as we dive into the third consecutive presidential election cycle with donald trump as a candidate, i think it s been an undeniable change in our pol
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we have new tapes. in a beat exclusive we have new audio tapes of congressman george santos, arraigned today for that indictment. they are the santos tapes and they re coming up shortly. later i want to tell you we also have my special report on clarence thomas problem with law and precedent. we ll get to that breakdown and these tapes. our top story right now is the santos indictment itself. this is the most controversial new lawmaker in congress, now indicted for breaking laws. prosecutors say his lies became crimes, to put it simply, and today, for his part, the congressman vowing to fight the case while echoing a maga witch-hunt defense. now, i m going to have to go and fight to defend myself. the reality is is it s a witch-hunt. i m going to fight my battle. i m going to deliver. i m going to fight the witch-hunt. i m going take care of clearing my name. i will prove myself innocent. he pled not guilty and is now out on bon