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
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 and roast meat. you have no idea how late i get everything done every night. no one was more surprised than i was. rachel, we have jamie raskin joining us tonight, as our first guest tonight. a member of the january 6th committee. i want to present to him a question the senator sheldon whitehouse has, who is going to be joining us later in the hour. sheldon whitehouse wants to know, where did that john eastman little ridley come from? the john eastman right it? did someone rite aid for him? or did the person who gave it to john eastman gave it where did it begin? it s a great question. and it s one that i ve overlooked until senator whitehouse focused on it. so, we will try to get some headway on. that yeah, the one member of the investigation you would like to ask about th
votes on january 6th, during congress s official count of the electoral votes, judge carter said that because the attorney client privilege does not cover possible planning to commit crimes, the documents that the committee obtained from eastman could not be protected by the attorney client privilege. clarence thomas is the only supreme court justice who voted to block documents from trump white house chief of staff mark meadows being delivered from to the january six committee at the time that clarence thomas try to block those documents from being transmitted it was not publicly known that his wife was in frequent communication with mark meadows and that her communications could be included in the documents that justice thomas was trying to hide from the committee. that episode alone makes clarence thomas the most corrupted supreme court to
the same legal vote that may now be a sinking ship, the same one as john eastman and in need of the same kind of criminal defense lawyer. the washington post reports that the committees members and staffers are now discussing whether to spend time during the public hearings, exploring ginni thomas s role in the attempts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election. john eastman once served as a supreme court clerk for clarence thomas. and virginia thomas is known to have stayed close in close contact with the former thomas clerks. federal judge carter ordered john eastman to release documents that the january six committee, even though eastman claimed attorney client privilege protect those documents. the judge ordered them release because, he says, that although he was acting as donald trump s lawyer when he was advising donald trump, that vice president mike pence could simply disregard electoral