tonight on msnbc for the bes possible reason. it s because she was on route, traveling to texas o assignment joy is in texas tonight. she will be there tomorrow for a roundtable with vice president harris it happens tomorrow night at seven pm right here on msnbc one year post roe, a readout special with vice presiden harris joy can tell you more about it herself in the next hour whe she joins the last word with lawrence o donnell that will be it for me for now but now it is time for the las word with lawrence o donnell a that is correct, joy is going to join us in this hour. and rachel, am i the only on who is untroubled by the washington post reporting toda about how long it took for the justice department to get wher it is now on the jack smit investigation of january 6th it s slow, i think they will claim it was deliberate in the best sense it was careful and they ve ended up where man people, including many of ou guests tonight were urging the to end up. and a year, i
going to be there tomorrow for our roundtable with vice president harris it happens tomorrow night at seven pm, right here on msnbc. one year post roe, a readout special with vice presiden harris joe i can tell you more abou it herself next hour, righ here when she joins the last word with lawrence o donnell that s going to do it for me for now, now it s time for the last word with lawrenc o donnell, who will get that straight note from joy, good evening lawrence that s correct, joy is goin to join us this hour and rachel, am i the only on who is on troubled by th washington post reporting toda about how long it took for the justice department to get wher it is now on the jack smit investigation of january 6th you know, it s slow i think they will claim it was deliberate in the best sense it was careful and they have ended up where many people, including our guests tonight were urging the to end up. and a year, if we can call i that, of delay at the justic department when
so in a very short time the poverty rate in venezuela doubled by nineteen ninety five . 66% of all venezuelans werehe impoverished. getting poorer tends to make voters radical. so inevitably venezuela gotbl radical politics. what happened next ? venezuela is now rated one of the most miserable places on planet earth. a few years ago, citizens in caracas were reduced toos eating zoo animals. there was no n food and for that matter there was no electricity. so in just half a lifetime an advance of society had reverted to the stone age. the states is not in danger of becoming venezuela next week, but we are moving closer to it . inflation is a big part of the reason of all a the economic crises a country can face. inflation isla the most dangeros inflation doesn t just make people poor. it totally destroysn their confidence in their leaders. the authorities who issued the now worthless currency they re using for toilet paper u inflation is not an act of god like a droughtin or a
covering up for the presiden and was eventually convicted o crimes himself the first attorney general i history to be convicted of crimes in office and in the end, despite all of that, to borrow a phrase fro the title of jimmy breslin s brilliant book about watergate the good guys finally won. back with us, andrew weissmann and neil katyal. andrew, go ahead i want to hea from both of you from inside the justice department, your experience, your reading o this article so, it reall it s not something i am lookin forward to saying. i worked in the justic department for over 20 years and it s never fun to criticiz a place where you have dee ties, and real love for th institution. but i actually thought this wa a mayday seeing reporting by the washington post, and i don t think that the answer is to say well, we are where we
and neil katyal. andrew, go ahead i want to hea from both of you from inside the justice department, your experience, your reading o this article so, it reall it s not something i am lookin forward to saying. i worked in the justic department for over 20 years and it s never fun to criticiz a place where you have dee ties, and real love for th institution. but i actually thought this wa a mayday seeing reporting by the washington post, and i don t think that the answer is to say well, we are where we would have been because i don think that s necessarily true. i think of the justice department had done its job an look at the evidence clearly when it was presented before them as outlined in th washington post we could v been a very differen situation. so we are very much in a situation where we are racin