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
to vote after florida voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment to restore the voting rights of convicted felons in 2018. the amended, however, made exceptions for those convicted of murder or felony sex offense is. but for those who arrested. their intelligibility was not being clear to them. even more chilling. the video published today shows heavily armed officers arresting two men. you can see, in this video here, when was forced out of his home only in his underwear. he walked out of the front door to face officers on the scene holding semiautomatic weapons and handguns. another man was handcuffed in his underwear by armed officers after being who woken from sleep. the two men in these videos, ronald miller, and robert wood had their cases dismissed last year has was the third last month. but state prosecutors plan to appeal those rulings. because of what the dozen cases would ultimately stick governor desantis got what he wanted out the situation. in the confusion a