7:00 eastern. for the january six hearing. but, now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. i ll be joining you thursday night in that coverage, and i have no predictions about that hearing, and i m just gonna sit back and experience it. it feels like it s gonna be a big deal. the fact that they booked it for primetime is a really hard ask of all the tv networks to get them to give you that time. it implies that they think they ve got something that they really expect and want millions of americans to watch. and so, i think you can have those expectations, but in terms of what we are gonna learn, we are going to lay out, or what they might sum up from what we ve previously learned from them, i m with you. i just want to see it happen. you know, the best we have is a little suggestion from adam kinzinger, about what to expect. and i will show that tonight, just like everyone else has. that s all we got. and they ve been pretty reliable
very good week for president biden with some major victories in congress while republicans were doing the usual, like voting against veterans and american technology. plus, the republican embrace of christian nationalism proves they do not know their history. we ve seen this story before and it doesn t end well. and trump is playing host to the big saudi golf tournament this weekend insulting 9/11 families in the process. trump actually defended the saudis saying, quote, nobody s gotten to the bottom of 9/11. seriously. we begin tonight with a major development in the duelling january 6th investigations. the house select committee has agreed to a formal path to share evidence and witness transcripts with the justice department as it escalates its own investigation. first reported by politico chairman bennie thompson confirmed the agreement on a template for evidence and witness transcript sharing. it is a major step at the extent of the justice department s investigation
welcome to the show. i m mehdi hassan. last year, a texas woman neymar lionel suffered a miscarriage. nine and a half weeks into her pregnancy. she and her doctor and asked for a standard procedure to remove the fetus so there would be no infection, or other long term properties. here s what the doctor told her. because of the new law that is passed here, you have to schedule another ultrasound to verify the pregnancy isn t valid before we give you a medical intervention. the new law, that new law. texas s six-week abortion ban take effect in 2021. they called it a heartbeat bill because it bans abortion once they can protect cardiac activity. she says she had to carry a dead fetus for two weeks. and sit through three ultrasounds before she could find someone to do the procedure she had been denied. and i shouldn t have to beg to get a medical interaction to make sure that i can t get an infection to be here for my doctor that i do have. it is after up. she sa
charges of smuggling cannabis. it was nearly the maximum sentence for bringing less than one gram of cannabis oil into the country. britney griner pleaded guilty last month to cartridges in her possession, which arrived i airport in february. but she told the court that bringing them into russia was an honest mistake after she packed in a hurry. before the sentencing today, unemotional britney griner apologized, saying she never intended to break any laws in a final plea for leniency. i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to put in jeopardy the russian population. i never meant to break any laws here. i made an honest mistake. and i hope that, in your ruling, that it doesn t lose [inaudible] my life here. i know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics. but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. but the judge didn t grant her any leniency. the lawyers called the verdict absolutely unreasonable and plan to appeal, saying the court ignore
cannabis. it was nearly the maximum sentence for bringing less than one gram of cannabis oil into the country. when she arrived in moscow s airport in february. she told the court that bringing them into russia was an honest mistake after she packed in a hurry. before the sentencing today, on emotional brittney griner apologized, saying she never intended to break any laws in a final plea for leniency. i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to put in jeopardy the russian population. i never meant to break any laws here. i made an honest mistake. and i hope that, in your willing, that it doesn t end my life here. i know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics. but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. but the judge didn t grant her any leniency. the lawyers called the verdict absolutely unreasonable and plan to appeal, saying the court ignored the defense is defenses evidence. she was very upset. very upset, very stressed. and she can har