7:00 eastern. for the january six hearing. but, now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. i ll be joining you thursday night in that coverage, and i have no predictions about that hearing, and i m just gonna sit back and experience it. it feels like it s gonna be a big deal. the fact that they booked it for primetime is a really hard ask of all the tv networks to get them to give you that time. it implies that they think they ve got something that they really expect and want millions of americans to watch. and so, i think you can have those expectations, but in terms of what we are gonna learn, we are going to lay out, or what they might sum up from what we ve previously learned from them, i m with you. i just want to see it happen. you know, the best we have is a little suggestion from adam kinzinger, about what to expect. and i will show that tonight, just like everyone else has. that s all we got. and they ve been pretty reliable
not have his raido in the hallway, telling the texas tribune he was unaware of the dispatch report. six minutes later, he s seen trying keys to open an adjacent door. none of which appeared to work. minutes later, more gunfire. but the police posture is again to hunker down, as arredondo attempts to speak to the gunman. sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir. we don t want anyone else hurt. the videos released by the uvalde mayor just as the texas house committee released its damning interim report sunday on the law enforcement response, calling it chaotic, lackadaisical without any person obviously in charge. in that report, arredondo offers this as part of an explanation to the committee. when there s a threat, you have to visibly be able to see the threat. you have to have a target before you engage your firearm. getting fired at through the wall, coming from a blind wall, i had no idea what was on the other side of that wall. i never got to physicall
witness known to have testified so far. and we ll talk more about what that might say about the justice department s criminal investigation, and how far it can go. also late today, president biden weighed in on the central figure in thursday s january 6 hearings. we saw what happened. the capitol police, the dc metropolitan police, other law enforcement agencies were attacked and assaulted before our very eyes, speared, sprayed, stomped on, brutalized. and lives were lost. and for three hours, the defeated former president of the united states watched it all happen, as he sat in the comfort of the private dining room next to the oval office. as for the committee, it apparently is not waiting for september either. today, a member virginia democratic congresswoman elaine lauria released a new video clip that shows the former president s unwillingness to include language that held the mob he invited, incited, and wanted to join accountable. do you recognize what this is?
footage the statesman writes, arrendondo is trying to find keys to open the classroom doors even though officials say they do not believe officers tried to open either door. the texas tribune reports, officers held their positions outside adjoining classrooms as the gunman fired aft least three more times. the tribune released a surveillance picture, 12:04 p.m., that shows multiple officers with at least two ballistic shields. police would not enter the classroom for another 46 minutes. in transcripts reviewed by the tribune, officers were growing impatient. one agent asks, are there still kids in the classroom? to which another agent answers, it is unknown at this time. the agent replies, you all don t know if there s kids in there? if there s kids in there, we need to go in there. the other agent responds, whoever is in charge will determine that. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, even the ones that didn t hav
of james, mccord. he is one of five persons surprised and arrested yesterday inside the headquarters of the democratic national committee in washington. mccord is a former cia employee. now he runs his own private security service. and guess what else he is? a consultant to president richard nixon s re-election campaign committee. nixon s watergate scandal began 50 years ago today. like trump, his presidency ended in crime and chaos, but there were major differences in the methods the two presidents used to cling to power. also tonight, the unholy alliance between ginni thomas and the people plotting to overturn the presidential election. a member of congress who is now calling for her husband, justice clarence thomas, to resign joins me. we begin tonight with june 17, 1972, the day five bungling burglars broke not offices of the democratic national committee located in the watergate complex in washington, d.c. two years later president nixon resigned. the 50th anniversar