We will see you again tomorrow. Now it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. If you are looking to me for some senate insight as to why Chuck Schumer did that, im sorry. Hes going to have to come on your show or my show and explain it. There is 15 nominees free for nothing. We dont want to take up any time. We want to make sure there is nothing on the calendar, nothing taking up anybodys time so that we can therefore ask for a delay for Brett Kavanaugh. Taking up time and running out the clock is the major tool that the minority in the senate has used for generations now. Only tool, yes. So dont ask me. Rachel, i loved your coverage of andrew gillu ms win last night in florida. He is going to join us here in this hour and tell us how he did it and tell us what he think it is strategy is for going all the way. But we will also cover impeachment and last week really became the week where everyone was talking about impeachment. The president was talking about impeachment, if i
dean. and then cox was appointed in may. but he replaced the person, and there was a full staff. and so there was no problem with that. but his timing here seems to be something that mcgahn maybe is thinking was a setup that some of his enemies, his mcgahn s enemies leaked a story and that that s what led to trump calling the bluff and saying, okay, you have been talking about resigning in the fall. now you resigned. i m telling you you are out in the fall. so it sounds like he was pushed out in that way, even though he intended to leave. ron, there is a report also within that washington post story tonight about the president being very jealous of jared kushner s lawyer, abbie lowell. he is maybe the single most
fired special prosecutor cox ended up not being appointed to the supreme court or being not confirmed because in large part he had fired cox. and ron, in the president s tweet just parenthetically he refers to trying to get a supreme court justice confirmed as if that s not as important as firing his white house counsel. that s the important thing. and what does this do to the point man trying to run the confirmation process? this is a job you have had. yeah. in other administrations, democratic administrations. the point man gets publically humiliated by the president on twitter today. yet, he has to try to keep the supreme court confirmation process going. yeah. i don t know what it s like to be fired on twitter because that s never happened to me, but i doubt it is a big moral booster. i doubt this really sends john mcgahn back to work tomorrow for attacking this problem.
experienced or one of certainly the most experienced lawyers in washington for handling a situation like this. he actually represented the democrats position in the house of representatives in the impeachment action against president clinton. he was in effect defending president clinton within the house of representatives. and of course jared kushner had no trouble going out and hiring the most professional, most competent lawyer available in washington. donald trump is now looking at abbie lowell wishing he had her. he is quoted in the washington post as saying, another leaker, another trump adviser said trump remark this year, i need a lawyer like abbie. ron, he certainly does. well, he does. i mean, he needs to stop hiring his lawyers out of the ranks of fox news commentators, which is not really a good source for quality legal representation. the latest episode of white house apprentice is ending like every other episode ended so far.
there was little surprise that the donald trump endorsed republican won in the state where donald trump won. but president barack obama also won the state of florida twice. here is why some florida voters turned out for andrew gillum yesterday. he seems to be caring about the people, instead of himself and the money they re putting in their pockets. he was backed by bernie sanders and i m a really big bernie sanders voter. i vote everything against what trump is doing with the immigrants and with the poor people that got separated from their families. i voted for a people a little more moderate in the past. but now i think we need to go progressive and get rid of some of these old ideas. opinion writer for the washington post and msnbc contributor and ron is back with us.