[laughter]. i kid the popping fresh king. i m going to miss him. how much? well, this much. and the press was so quiet on cnn you could hear his stomach growling. i can t control myself. just like bri stelter. anyone thinks boobs are more common in women than men have never seen brian jogging. cut brian slack. he s got a lot on his plate right now. what the hell am i going to do now? first chris cuomo. then jeffrey to be in. now stelter. i m running out of material. if cnn fires don lemon i might have to work for a living. what is stelter going to do next? he could work here. our on camera chemistry was undeniable. i want to play a game where i stay in my apartment and i don t pick up the phone and see if anybody will check on me. and no one pays the rent. the landlord game after 7 years to one victim. that really victim. you guys saw that. i wasn t just dreepg that. wow. moving on to the monologue. as we watch the news chase every trump related story like joy behar
undercuts the defense of a rally just getting out of hand, and this was revealed by furtive texts from trump s own aides. potus is going to have us march there/the capitol. potus is going to caller fit unexpectedly. it was planned, so it was expected. that text shows how donald trump was cooking up a lie to make it look spontaneous. that s also bad because it shows some of trump s intent by hiding it in advance and that the whole march was what trump turned to after a grave meet that was plotting a military role in a coup in the united states to take over your country, democracy and government. this is heavy stuff. this was also part of what was documented today, where some of trump s most extreme plotters pushed for him to abuse pow we are an illegal order to seize voting machines. his team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit. they proposed the immediate mass seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. it got to the point where the screaming wa
here on msnbc. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. but evening, rachel. and i m sure you know what my absolute favorite part of your show was tonight. show was tonight no, what was a? i went into the control room to watch the isolated cameron rachel, so that i wouldn t miss a single fraction of a second of rachael blushing while alex wagner was was raising her and thanking her for what she has created here at msnbc. and you think a lot of that shot at home was on alex, so a lot of people couldn t see your blush in part, as much as they deserved to see it. all i could do in that moment, while you are staring at, me because you know me well enough to do that, is like, could i have done this in such a way that i precluded this from happening? could i have spoken the beginning of this interview and this discussion in such a manner, but there s no way that alex could have maneuver this into talking about me? and i just was s
shot at home was on alex, so a lot of people couldn t see your blushing, as much as they deserved to see it. all i could do in that moment, while you are staring at me because you know me well enough to do that, is like, could i have done this in such a way that i precluded this from happening? could i have spoken the beginning of this interview and this discussion in such a manner, that there s no way that alex could maneuver this into talking about me? and i just was sitting there going, do it again, maddow, fix it, go back in time. meanwhile, you had me trapped in your gaze. well, she was in fact speaking for all of us it, since you know, before these this version of me on this network, i, for some years, had the pundit title of a senior political analyst, which i got, i think, because no one knew you could get titles. and i guess, can i get that, and they were like, yeah, sure. so i kind of predated you hanging around here. i was here before you arrived, and i c
in washington. many have tried to dissect the events of watergate. i lived them. this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines and newspaper articles, depositions, documents, everything related to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i had no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism, but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. we will never give up. we will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are 50 years later, and the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of