Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. House and some speculations as to whether or not or how much the president knew that these individuals were fact making these specific statements. How much would he have been known of the exact wording that came out of these officials . Well, the Administration Says it was the president s idea. He very much wanted them to come out but it is unprecedenteunpre. We never seen anything like it. It was clearly aimed sending a message to the people that they are taking this problem seriously. Critics point to that, we are less than 100 days before the midterm, why did this briefing happened several months ago or a year ago. Kristen welker is live with us at the white house. Thank you. Lets bring in Jonathan Allen and former senior director Cyber Security at the white house and john mclaughlin, it is great to have all of you. Jonathan and allan, let me begin with you. I want to read from your piece
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cult. the sea in rnc doesn t staffer committee, it stands for cult. it s not the republican national committee. it s the republican national cult. that is the only way you can explain the how the grand old party can come to the conclusion that people who are engaged in rampant mob violence urinated, dedicated, desecrated the capitol, brutally beat up police officers. seriously injured more than 140. police officers lost their lives as a result of the events of january 6th, and the cult says it is legitimate political discourse. it is a cult, nothing else explains the republican cult. unanimous decision to call on a
nomination process before the recess, and that a nomination for president biden soon would make that process a lot easier. two big meetings for democrats tomorrow, let s see how they pan out. does it for us tonight, we will see you again tomorrow, it is time now for the last word with lawrence o donnell. lawrence, good evening to you. good evening, we have dr. lance joining us again tonight. he joined us early in the trump administration, he was one of the psychiatrists who coauthored the book dangerous case of donald trump. he considered it his duty to warn, as he put, it about the mental health of donald trump. he is going to join us tonight on the question of cold. we heard hakeem jeffries yesterday say it really should be called the republican national cult, speaker pelosi today used that word called referring to a republican counterpart in the house. we are going to ask him what he thinks. what are we looking at, is this cult
be called the republican national cult, speaker pelosi today used that word called referring to a republican counterpart in the house. we are going to ask him what he thinks. what are we looking at, is this cold behavior, what is this? this has moved beyond the political question. we now have to go psychiatric. i am intrigued to listen to. that you are right it takes two parts for a cult. it s a leader in the followers. we need to figure this one out before the next election. we re gonna do that in the next hour. to the extent that we can . all right. good watching. it by. lawrence thank. you think. you the new breaking news tonight comes for the breaking news reporting then 15 boxes of presidential records that donald trump illegally removed from the white house and brought to florida s some classified material. the times reports that the national archives and records administration discovered what it believed was classified information in documents donald j trump had taken with
i think, fundamentally, i disagree. this is a very serious law. it s past for the most important of reasons. even when i was a white house intern, the first days of the clinton administration, we were warned about the presidential records act. everyone took it seriously. presidents of both parties have for years. and it serves a very important purpose. and i think, lawrence, one other, thank you started the show with representative jeffrey as quote, the rnc standing for a republican national cult. but at this point, i would say, rnc stands for republican national conspiracy. it s not just the planning of january six, it s not just january 6th itself, but it s the cover-up afterwards. so donald trump is part of that, first by tearing up these documents like a toddler, he did that incompetently so they re able to piece these documents back together at the national archives. so there is no presidential he lost that. what s he doing? he is trying to prevent anyone from coming in and ta