would help you get this business deal, but also because you want to keep russia happy because if russia ever turns on you, they could expose you for what they know that you ve been trying to that you ve been trying to cover up. i mean, you only have to read like third grade level spy novels in order to know that this is how compromise works. but it seems like that may have been the operative tendency of russia toward the president and toward multiple other members of the administration. rachel, when these documents hit here at 8:30, 30 minutes before you had to begin your show, i thought, okay, here we are. here s the big test of rachel s super powers, and you rose to that test beautifully. it s amazing how you managed to deliver everything that s in these documents in this last hour. you are very kind, my friend. thank you, lawrence. thank you, rachel. as i say, just 90 minutes ago, 90 minutes ago, about 8:30 p.m. eastern time, the federal district court in washington, d. wa
the campaign, it seems like that might be right on time. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel e. one of the things that s left as a mystery tonight is why, the motivation from mike flynn to have lied to the fbi. the lying is described and the sequence of the lying, and the range of the lying is described. but at no point does the special prosecutor say this is why he lied. he lied, and we know that there were other senior members of the transition. tom bossert, k.t. mcfarland, reince priebus, sean spicer, a lot of other people who were fully read in on the fact that mike flynn was talking to the russians about sanctions. they were c.c. d on e-mails and they discussed the fact he was doing it. why did they all lie about the conversations as well? flynn was lying about it publicly, lying to other members of the trump administration apparently about it, lying t