This is a reason to stop fishing and go to work. Our job tonight as a country sort of or what everybody in the country is going to be doing tonight is trying to figure out what it means that the report of special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally been submitted. Weve heard it said so many times that it was imminent, that it was done and maybe done and we didnt know about it. Finally its happened. In terms of what that means and what mueller found, we know only the smallest little bits. This is the start of something apparently, not the end of something. The logistics of today we know something about. At 4 30 p. M. Eastern time the staff of the House Judiciary Committee got a call somebody would be bringing a letter from the attorney general. Im sure they all immediately guessed what that letter was. A Justice Department staffer or messenger of some kind, all we know she was wearing a north face jacket, she brought, in fact, two letters to the committee in two separate manila env envel
At 4 30 p. M. Eastern time the staff of the House Judiciary Committee got a call somebody would be bringing a letter from the attorney general. Im sure they all immediately guessed what that letter was. A Justice Department staffer or messenger of some kind, all we know she was wearing a north face jacket, she brought, in fact, two letters to the committee in two separate manila envelopes because that was one letter for the democratic chairman and republican Ranking Member of the committee. The chairman of the Judiciary Committee was at his new york office, not in d. C. So the Committee Staff quickly made a digital copy and got the letter to him that way. We know those details thanks to a Judiciary Committee spokesperson laying out that process. We know that is how the House Judiciary Committee was notified special Counsel Robert Mueller completed his investigation. We are assuming that a similar process or at least a process with the same effect also unfolded at the senate Judiciary C
Just a remarkable time to be working in the news business. It is an honor to be here. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. And it is an honor to be here, even though both of us planned not to be here tonight. I know i heard on tv tonight that you were actually in a River Fishing when you got the word that yes. Got to get to work. I woke up in a boat thousands of miles southeast of miami. A couple of airplanes get me to miami tonight just in time for this. And this is the night that we really have to be here. I find the attorney generals letter is so fascinating because you really can analyze it paragraph by paragraph, almost word by word. Its just filled with possibility. Yes. And this is the reason it is worth for us both to have stopped doing what were doing and theres a reason god doesnt want us to go on sxrax were hearing those words, i get it, but the reason its worth doing Something Like this is this isnt somethings
Stones, this home. This is the preserved home of bill w. If youre in aa or know anybody who has ever been in aa, you know what will w. Means, including the fact its just the last initial. Bill wilson was the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous and his home is preserved in bedford, new york. It is a National Historic site. Not far from there is the massive Bedford Hills correctional facility, which is actually why i have been to bedford, new york. I used to work on Prison Reform issues in a previous life so i have been to that prison. Its the only maximum security womens prison in the new york state correctional system. Bedford, new york was briefly the focus of national and International Attention in 2009 when then libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi made plans to travel to the annual meeting of the u. N. General assembly. He sent a large advanced party to pitch him a tent on the grounds of an estate in bedford, new york. Literally they were going to pitch a tent on the lawn of that estate and