begins in new york city, premiers sunday at 2:10 pm eastern on msnbc and wil stream on peacock. but tomorrow john will join me here in conversation right her in - premiere of this series. we ll have that show for you tomorrow you will not want to visit that is us for tonight i will see you again tomorrow. now it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence o donnell. - at 9 pm. he sure is. he s my favorite, he s my favorite this and i ll be watching. yes, as well. i thank you, alex wagner. thank you. we begin this hour wit breaking news about supreme sheldon whitehouse a member of the senate judiciary committee committee is calling for a investigation of justice thoma tonight by attorney genera merrick garland. quote, for potential violation of the ethics of government ac under chapter five of th united states code, section 13 106. senator whitehouse will be our first guest tonight in thi breaking news coverage of first in american histo
yes, as well. thank you, alex wagner. thank you. we begin this hour wit breaking news about supreme clare justice clarence thomas. sheldon whitehouse a member of the senate judiciary committee committee is calling for a investigation of justice thoma tonight by attorney genera merrick garland. quote, for potential violation of the ethics of government ac under chapter five of th united states code, section 13 106. senator whitehouse will be our first guest tonight in thi breaking news coverage of first in american history. and the 234 year history of th united states supreme court, n member of the united state supreme court has ever appeare clearly to break the law until now. clarence thomas absolutely violated the federal law cited by senator whitehouse in his demand florida investigation o the by the attorney general. the law could not be more clea or more simple it requires supreme cour justices and other federal employees to report any real estate transaction, quo
have to be unanimous.t you can become theju leader of . free world with less than 2% ofa dethe vote but you cannot be convicted, even of jaywalking without a full agreement of your fellow citizens.w pendants critique lawyers. testimony on the witness stand and judge with newman sne evidentiary readings, i thought judge newman did an outstanding job under very difficult circumstances. the lawyers on botich sideuls ey good reputation but cases are rarely won or lost because of judges or lawyers. it s the evidence juries focus on. weeks ago i said i d rather have a false exculpatory statement minute confession. now you see why. e wi improve fate quicker than any other type of evidence. it was alex myrna live not being present at the murder scene that didn t lament for the forensics and ballistics and gunshot residue, blood spatter, cell phone information, navigation data, a life that exposed him as the killer. trials are really two trials in one, the prosecution tells usth what
generic checklist disaster, these are the chemicals most common, let s check him off the list, what is way more complicated than that. i heard heart-wrenching pain from actual people, to your point carey, who have been going through something that they never imagined. and then the trauma of not knowing whether your water is actually safe to drink. not knowing whether air is actually safe to breathe. despite what the government, whether at the state level or the federal level, is telling you. because you see all these animals dying. not only that, i heard other symptoms tonight. i heard them describe, they still vomiting, some of the people in town are still vomiting. a lot of them are getting bloody noses. i hadn t heard that symptom. they re going to the hospital cause there s such strong bloody noses. i do know those still happening until tonight. i will just stay, i think it would ve been yet another scandal for the ceo not to have shown up to something that cnn