should have refused to count the electoral votes. and he should thereby have thrown out the results of the presidential election on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. that, i mean, bottom line that s why trump called for a rally in washington d.c. on january 6th. a rally he said would be wild. that s why he then told the people who showed up, when he called them to d.c., that today, that they should march down to the capitol. what was happening at the capitol at that moment? trump hoped, trump was trying to engineer, that mike pence would reject the votes of the electoral college and thereby throw the election results out, through the united states government in the chaos, thus allowing for the overthrow of the u.s. government and for trump to stay in power, even though he had been voted out. the vice chair of the january 6th investigation, liz cheney, put out a statement last night, which we covered here on last night show, in which he said, president trump was told that any
we will be here, doing a primetime recap of tomorrow s january 6th hearing, starting at 8 pm eastern. so if you are used to seeing me or msnbc prime, tune in an hour early tomorrow for that primetime recap of the next january 6th hearing. i wish you a pm eastern tomorrow night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. in other words, msnbc audiences are going to get even more rachael tomorrow night. i m quoting myself right now. and you will once again be my lead in for tomorrow nights 10 pm hour after i join you in the 8 pm for our earlier coverage. is it absolutely impossible for you to get your show prepped when we hold you onset for 9 pm? and then here s the amazing thing, the time when we did that and everyone at the last word staff was amazed with us the show was completely done, before we started the 8 pm coverage. and it s never been done before 8 pm wow. there s something about deadlines, rachel. there s s
presidential election on january 6th at the u.s. capitol. that, i mean, bottom line that s why trump called for a rally in washington d. c. on january 6th. a rally he said would be wild. that s why he then told the people who showed up, when he called them to d. c., that today, that they should march down to the capitol. what was happening at the capitol at that moment? trump hoped, trump was trying to engineer, that mike pence would reject the votes of the electoral college and thereby throw the election results out, throw the united states government in the chaos, thus allowing for the overthrow of the u.s. government and for trump to stay in power, even though he had been voted out. the vice chair of the january 6th investigation, liz cheney, put out a statement last night, which we covered here on last night show, in which he said, president trump was told that any such effort to get pence to do that would be illegal. he was told it was illegal, but he did it anyway. we
with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. in other words, msnbc audiences are going to get even more rachael tomorrow night. i m quoting myself right now. and you will once again be my lead in for tonight s tomorrow night 10:00 pm hour after i join you in the 8:00 pm for our earlier coverage. is it absolutely impossible for you to get your show prepped when we hold you on set until 9 pm? and then only give you that one hour? off here s the amazing thing, the time when we did that and everyone at the last word staff was amazed with us the show was completely done, before we started the 8 pm coverage. and it s never been done before 8 pm wow. there s something about deadlines, rachel. there s something about if, you put the deadline there, it works. do not tell the rachel maddow show staff because they are going to put me on a bit spit and roast me. you have no idea how late i get everything done every night. no one was more surprised than i was.
we got an answer about the mob that day looking for individual members of congress, hunting down individual lawmakers they wanted to target. the answers we got today were the worst possible answers. we have been looking at this. we ve been asking questions about this for a long time, since right after the attack, including multiple segments here on this show talking about it. now, as of today, the whole country looks like we finally know. it started, for us, we first got word of this worst-possible scenario, as i say, right after the january 6th attack. it was a week after january 6th, 2021. congresswoman mikie sherrill, who was a navy veteran, former federal prosecutor, she made a just hair-curling public allegation about other members of congress, republican members of congress. it was very, very worrying, again, one week after january 6th. not only do i intend to see that the president is removed and never runs for office again and doesn t have access to classified ma