For now the schedule is procedural vote until tomorrow morning. If they do get 50 final vote by late saturday. Its hard to imagine republican senators relish holding this open any longer than they absolutely have to. But every day something new comes up, and whatever happens well all be here covering it tonight. Now its time for last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. And theres this thing weve seen many times in the senate where some people will stand up there and say im voting for closure, meaning i am voting to end the debate, but it does not mean i am going to vote positively at the next stage. That pretty much never happens in confirmations, but weve seen a lot of firsts in this one so far. Could you imagine any senators im trying to imagine the argument that would lead a senator to do that. The argument is the belief that the nominee or the bill in some cases deserves an actual up and down vote. And i am willing to proceed it to a nonvote. In fact, a lot of senato
Own recordkeeping to make sure those reports lived on outside the federal government. Her whistleblower claim may be the most intriguing part of this arrest today, but we dont yet know exactly what it means. That does it for us tonight. See you again tomorrow. Now its time for last word with lawrence odonnell. Hes back. You sure you dont want to keep going, because i still have a bit of a cold that kept me out for the last couple of nights. And if you have energy to keep going, im fine with that. This is one of those nights i sat down to go to the makeal room and cory my executive producer came down and said, okay, were about 35 minutes heavy for the show. As a one hour show thats a bit catastrophic. You guys should have consulted with me on that. 35 minutes sounds great to me tonight. It really does. Are you feeling better . Im sort of back. Well see if the cold pill works for the whole hour. Well see how this works. Well, you look great and we missed you. Thank you, rachel. A new rep
Friendship and trust. And that deal was undone by citizenship. Citizenship lived to its fullest today by the people who took their demands to the halls of the senate and made their voices heard and moved the unmovable mountain that is the United States senate. They forced the president of the United States to do something he was never going to do, order a new fbi investigation of Brett Kavanaugh. The deal on the kavanaugh nomination was done, all done this morning when jeff flake became the final republican on the Judiciary Committee to publicly announce his decision to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. Senator flakes office announced that decision in a press release at 9 25 a. M. That announcemen d ended all hope that the Brett Kavanaugh nomination could be stopped or even slowed down. That announcement came as a blow to flakes closest friend on the Judiciary Committee who learned it from a news reporter. Saying that reporters broke the news to senato
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Striking through the hours of after hour election morning grogginess to put his own man as attorney general, where he can crush the his torbic probe that threatens trumps family, his presidency. And the new a. G. Has declared his personal hostility to the mueller investigation. And that closer to trumps heart the new a. G. Has declared the notorious june 2016 meeting at trump tower in which donald trump, jr. Met with russian agents offering dirt on Hillary Clinton was normal political business and no basis for a prosecution. Pushing out Jeff Sessions and bringing in the obliging mat mi whittaker. It gives him an a. G. Whose views of president ial power comports with those of the new smoupreme Court Justice brett kavanaugh. And trump now moves to utilize his broad notion of executive power to crush mueller before mueller streaks at trumps family, a step he has reason to fear is imminent. The president delivered the news today by tweet saying, matthew whittaker, chief of staff to attorne