Everyone. Before 9 11 and, of course, before becoming trumps wing man, a man by the name of Rudy Giuliani made his name from putting mobsters behind bars. He did so, i might add, using the very same laws that are being used against him now. Two decades ago we he actually wrote in his book on leadership, and im quoting, here i dreamed up the tactic of using the federal racketeer influence and corruptions act to prosecute the mafia leadership. Unquote. Otherwise known as rico, for those following along. At the time, the law actually was relatively new. The giuliani, he popularized it making it the model for state and federal prosecutors for decades to come when it comes to large groups attempting a type of conspiracy, including, i might add, fani willis. The Fulton County d. A. Is now charging Rudy Giuliani with several crimes for his efforts to allegedly overturn the election, including racketeering. Now, the rico laws, something that he has, well, he has championed for years. The upper
represented delaware from 1973 to 2009. this, according to his lawyer bob hour. and some of the documents were from his tenure at the obama administration. now, doj also took some notes that biden had personally handwritten as vice president. this, again, according to his lawyer. neither the president nor the first lady were president during the search. the documents are part of a group of other classified documents previously discovered this month at biden s wilmington residents. also in november at a private office that he maintained out of washington d.c., after ending his tenure as vice president. the documents discovered before friday s search, by the doj, were all found by biden s lawyers according to the white house. we have a lot to break down, let s bring in our panel that will help us make sense of this. lisa rubin, legal analyst for the rachel maddow show. charles m. blow, and charles coleman. lisa, i will start with you. you have been following the in and outs of
that lasted more than 12 hours on friday. has found six more documents marked classified. this is according to a new statement from the presidents personal lawyer. some of the classified documents and surrounding materials dated from biden s tenure in the senate where he represented delaware from 1973 to 2009, this according to his lawyer bob bauer. some of the documents where from his tenure as vice president in the obama administration. they took notes that biden had personally written as vice president. this again according to his lawyer. neither the president nor the first lady were present during the search. the documents are part of a group of other classified government records, previously discovered in biden s private washington d.c. think tank after ending his tenure as vice president. the documents discovered before friday surge, by the doj, we are all found by biden s lawyers according to the white house. we have a lot to break down. we re gonna break down our pa
trump s feud a statement congratulating elon musk on twitter. he said his account will be back on monday. that does it for, as we will see you again tomorrow, now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. good evening alex, it is candidly night here at the last word. we have senator mark kelly from arizona, katie hobbs running for governor of arizona, governor kathy hochul of new york running in new york, beto o rourke running for governor in texas. they all have one thing in common. one very important thing in common. every one of them is running against an election denier. the republican candidate for governor in new york voted to overturn the presidential election as a republican member of the house representatives. that is how pervasive this is on the republican party. you cannot escape it. greg abbott, kari lake, these are important names to remember as you talk to the candidates that he will have tonight. lawrence, that is a great
faced before in this country. it is the most important election of our lives because the losers of this election might not just be candidates. we might actually lose democracy and this election. and then maybe you will be relieved of ever hearing again that this was the most important election of your life because the election will not matter in the future because america lost democracy in 2022. in the 2020 election, we did not know before we voted that democracy itself was at stake. there was some rumblings about republicans in some states thinking about how to deliver their electoral votes to donald trump even if he came in second in that state. but there were no legal mechanisms for them to do that. those scenarios were always legally impossible in 2020. but the republicans running for office now want to create legal processes for stealing elections. let me say that again. because that sentence has never been an element of american politics before in our history. republica