works extensively in this conversation. jaime harrison, chair of the dnc, thanks for joining me tonight. that is social for tonight. is now time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. with good evening, alex. it was exactly ten years ago today the nelson mandela died, and tonight at the end of this hour, his grandson, quaker mandela, is going to join us from rwanda. he has been traveling around africa spreading the mandela spirit, and he will do that at the end of this hour. we need amanda moore mandela spirit in this building right now. i will be watching, lawrence. thanks. whoever, knowing veteran offense against the united states has been committed, receives, relieves, comfort, or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent he apprehension, trial, or punishment, is an accessory after the fact. this is what an accessory after the fact looks like. the breaking republican criminal news of the day is that the republican speaker of the
freedom for women. we know where joe biden and kamala harris. are they have been protecting, as much as they can, with the executives already they have, to protect those rights for women. one more for you. reed hoffman, a sort of top democratic donor. and a friend. gave $250,000 today, for this week, to super pac supporting nikki haley. should democratic donors be supporting nikki haley s candidacy in the hope that the worst-case scenario here is a biden haley matchup? the maga apples on the other side, disobey give maga apples, and they re all rotten, including nikki haley. i know nikki haley probably better than most because i was the party chair in south carolina when she was governor. this is a person who allowed their own home hospital to close. this is a person who wants to get social security and medicare. this is a person who does not believe in a women s right to choose. she may try to moderate what he she is saying now, but look at our track record. my advic
that s going to do it for us tonight. it is time for the last word with lawrence for donald. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. you did make it look like it was the easiest thing in the world to sit down with you for an hour. i think a lot of people would want to do it, but i m sure liz cheney is very glad she got the chance to do that. that point she just made about not the lesser of two evils is such an important point to double underline from everything she s written in her book, everything we ve learned from the january 6th committee. i know plenty of times over the years, i ve heard people refer to their vote choice as the lesser of two evils. that is not where we are anymore. now. lawrence, one of the things i didn t expect before reading the book, and i probably should have one i started to see republican reaction to it, a lot of the republican issue with liz cheney is she is not shy about saying what people are doing wrong. she doesn t try to make peo
lot easier for you too. why did you take that decision? i don t think it would ve made it easier because at the end of the day at the end of the day, the question really is, you know, what s more important here. and to me, there was no world in which you would say maintaining this house seat matters more than standing up for truth. and it became clear that in order to stay in leadership, i was gonna have to tell donald trump s lies. and i was willing to do. that it wasn t a choice for me, and frankly, i don t think it was a choice for any american now given the stakes and given how significant this trend is. the book is called oath and honor: a memoir and a warning . liz cheney, what a remarkable what the world [laughter] and i know, despite everything, it s not the easiest thing in the world to sit down with me for an hour. but i really appreciate it. thank you, i appreciate it. let s keep the conversation going. that s going to do it for us tonight. it is
friend. such essential reporting. paola ramos, please come back. that s our show for this evening. it s now time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening alex, and before andrew weismann and glenn kirschner, i have an observation and a request. it s a question. my observation is my favorite thing on television last night had nothing to do with lighted christmas trees, it was chris hayes doing the farm report on your program, and the request is, could you please bring farmer hayes back at least once a month to keep us up to date on the price of eggs and everything else that you guys covered, because i m telling you, it could have been the whole hour. i couldn t stop watching. he is so passionate about the price of eggs, for good reason. he is like the farmer of good news. he s there to tell you that turkey prices are down from where they were in 2019, and that eggs are cheap, so yeah. in the season of glad tidings, farmer chris hayes i