senator chris murphy and ben o rourke, the current candidate for texas governor. we have a lot to ask both of them, but first. one revelation that we got yesterday about donald trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election did not come from the big public hearing yesterday about the january 6th investigation. rather, it came from mother jones magazine, which contained leaked audio of this guy, steve bannon, former white house advisor, and double layered buttoned down shirt aficionados. the audio is from a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit, and remember with me. a couple months earlier, he had been arrested on charges that he had been milking unexpected donors out of their money by telling them that their nations would go towards building a wall on the southern border, when in fact the money was going into steve bannon s pockets! bannon was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut. it is a yacht belonging to an exiled chinese
they both have a breaking news story to deal with, which you just delivered. everything i know about it is when i just heard you say about it on tv. just give us the short recap of it again, the donald trump apparently reached out to a support staff are at the white house. we don t know the norm of they sport they ve been described is a support staff. or it appears that it is not something that he would ve had a normal relationship with. this person did happen to be in touch with the january 6th committee separately, and so that feels to some people, and again we ll have that conversation later, it feels to some people like potential witness tampering it is been handed over to the justice department to handle it. we will get professional reaction to it in this hour. thank you very much. i did something today that i did not want to do. i knew i had to do it. i watched all of the video released yesterday showing with the police were doing in the hallway of robb elementa
fields at the age of five, until she was ten when she started school. she was a bright student, it s going in scholarships, and she became a teacher. in a few years, she opened her own school for african american girls in daytona beach, florida. that institution would later become buffoon cook him in college, now called bethune copeman university. mary mcleod bethune was a civil rights activist. she spent most of her formative years in fields, and went on to accomplish all of that and more. it is fitting that there is a statue in our capital honoring her, with her famous words inscribed on its base. quote invest in the human soul. who knows? it might be a diamond in the rough. that does it for us tonight, we will see you again tomorrow. it is time now for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening. we have hardtner and neal katyal.