That is going to do it for me tonight. Now, it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. If i seem a little off my game tonight, it is because i made a mistake last night. I started to read jen psakis book before going to sleep, which means i almost didnt ever get to sleep. It is the cant put it down for me for a bunch of reasons. For example, can you imagine a white house Chief Of Staff changing a diaper in the white house on a baby that is not his baby . Lets start there. That took a real twist at the end. I thought i knew where you were going but then its like somebody elses baby. Now you got me. Guess whose baby it was . And then, okay, jen psaki has worked for the last three democratic nominees for president. You want to guess which one she was terrified of . You are doing a very good job at john kerry, barack obama, joe biden, but one was she terrified of . Enter will be coming later when jen psaki joins us. Which one gave her a bear hug after the
a day that the manafort jury is going to start debating whether or not to convict manafort, a day where the questions of the n-word tape and a day after omarosa and why release it today do you think? you know, i think someone wants to muck up the news cycle, jake. look. i definitely i think this is ridiculous. this is nothing short of extraordinary and we should all be scared about the state of our democracy. the president sent his white house press secretary out there today to basically poop on the people from the press secretary podium. and not only threaten, like they didn t make a threat but a promise. they re snatching, john brennan s national security. he was in the situation room heroes took out bin laden. what is happening here? what is congress going to do? congress, as i like to remind people, a co-equal branch of government.
this morning president tweeting quote, james comey is a liar. everybody at washington thought he should be fired for the poor job he did. he leaked private information for which he should be prosecuted. he lied to congress under oath. he s a slum ball. his handing off the crooked hilhill hillary case and it was my great honor to fire james comey. and just last lawyer, sarah huckleby sanders responded from the book from the press secretary podium. this is nothing more than a poorly executed pr opportunity biko my and enrich his own bang kentucky that heading a book that longs in the bargain bin of the fixing session instead of being remembered as a dedicated service. like so many other colleagues of
ken starr. he did not put him in this category and this is one of the trump campaign s own attorneys. the special counsel bob mueller has kept a low profile. while his hires have become public knowledge, particularly those who work on financial crimes, he s otherwise stayed out of the news which makes people in the west wing somewhat nervous. what i m also hearing is that there was a plan earlier in the summer for the white house to be more aggressive in going after the special prosecutor. because of some of the tumult in the president s legal circles we ve never seen a coordinated effort. there s this tough talk behind the scenes but you really don t see this white house going all out at this moment, an as the president broods. one of the tools they are using, is the press secretary podium. what do you make of the increasingly aggressive posture that sarah huckabee sanders is taking from the podium against comey going so far as to suggest he might have committed crimes.
members, obviously, in the past week, keep hearing the same thing over and over again. they re demoralized, they re hearing bad things back home about how it s just a thankless job, and this is part of what worries them. part of what feeds that. and if you re a republican member of congress and you see some of your colleagues departing you re starting to wonder if the grass is greener, the bannon interview, the threats of primaries we ve seen coming not just from steve bannon but from the press secretary podium as well, all feeds into that. the reality is, though, is that if we elect more democrats, if we primary republicans it will help elect democrats, end any trump agenda that may exist, surely as the republican takeover in 2010 stopped the obama agenda. it doesn t make a logical sense. bacari, in the press briefing yesterday sarah sanders was asked about mcconnell and ryan and the leadership and the administration working with them. her response was, quote, we are, quote, committ