That is going to do it for me tonight. Now, it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. If i seem a little off my game tonight, it is because i made a mistake last night. I started to read jen psakis book before going to sleep, which means i almost didnt ever get to sleep. It is the cant put it down for me for a bunch of reasons. For example, can you imagine a white house Chief Of Staff changing a diaper in the white house on a baby that is not his baby . Lets start there. That took a real twist at the end. I thought i knew where you were going but then its like somebody elses baby. Now you got me. Guess whose baby it was . And then, okay, jen psaki has worked for the last three democratic nominees for president. You want to guess which one she was terrified of . You are doing a very good job at john kerry, barack obama, joe biden, but one was she terrified of . Enter will be coming later when jen psaki joins us. Which one gave her a bear hug after the
Thats going to do it for me tonight but now, it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, rachel. You know, if i seem a little off my game tonight it is because i made a mistake last night. I started to read jen psakis book before going to sleep. Which means i almost didnt get to sleep. For example, can you imagine a white house Chief Of Staff changing a diaper in the white house . On a baby that is not his baby . Lets start there, okay . Wow. That took a twist at the end. I thought i knew where you were going but then it was like someone elses baby. Okay and guess whose baby it was okay and jen psaki has worked for the last three democratic nominees for president. Do you want to guess which one she was terrified of . John kerry, barack obama, joe biden, the answer will be coming later when jen psaki joins us. Which one gave her a bear hug after the Job Interview . Which one actually did not hire her for the job she interviewed for. It is every one of these things
So many ways to look at this. Because you asked about sean, thats one way. Another way is also what this says, maybe much more importantly, about the president of the United States, and how he has learned from the First Six Months about the way he wants to craft his white house with people who are loyal to him. People who know him, who are new yorkers. And are much more fluent in the language of trump than in the ways of washington. Were going to talk much more about that. Jen palmieri, white house comes director for President Obama and of course, you will know her from the Hillary Clinton campaign where she also served chief of communications there. Jen, thanks for joining us. Give us your reaction to this. All right. Can jen . Can you hear me . All right. Were going to try to work out the connection with jen palmieri, well bring her in soon as we have her. Going to scaramucci, and im sure sean believes that hes not the right guy for the job. And hed been we were seeing him sidelined
it s interesting. when your boss s approval rating is 28 to 40% in 11 months it is like being on the new york jets political team. sim on sanders we saw a lot but how often in 2021 since harris took office. she has been practically invisible save for a friendly interview every blue moon. when your boss is hidden there is not much of a spokesperson job to perform. white house official expressed gratitude that sanders will be working through the end of the year and we re waiting to hear what she has in store for what s coming up next. dana: thank you. breaking news from capitol hill. democrats on a house panel reached a tentative agreement to fund the government through february 18th. the potential shutdown still looming we find aishah hosni on capitol hill. hi. good morning. this is just developing in the last hour but i would definitely caution everyone out there, there is still a risk of a government shutdown because
harris, the vice president herself has been practically invisible save a friendly interview every. moon but when your boss is hidden there is not much of a spokesperson job to perform. resignations are all the rage on the democratic side in general so the choice appears to be for many in 2022, resign or lose. from 40 to 60 house seats. giving republicans a sizable majority. look like folks are jumping ship at this point and finding sunnier shores. todd: the harris approval rating, 20% approve, 51 disapprove. you heard it said vp is such an easy figurehead job, why is harris botching it so badly that her top people are jumping ship? look at the job she was given, the border crisis, us southern border, this is a vice president and paired ice to the kkk, said legal migrant crossings should be made legal.