do it for us tonight i promise you alex wagner will be back in the chair next week when she is back from vacation thanks for having me here last night, and tonight i ll see you again for m regularly scheduled rachel maddow show on monday. it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence good evening, rachel, happy friday this is a show that doesn t, you know, in an officially recognize the aging process. about tomorrow, i m going to say happy saturday, just going to leave it at that. it s paul manafort birthday tomorrow! there you go. which, it s a big deal. yeah, so, rachel, i have baltimore story for you that i ve had for years and i v been struggling in the last 20 minutes to figure out how to say this publicly. so, here s - you know, in my memoirs, thi will be much more specific okay okay. no one involved really, except me, at this point, is still alive. so - [laughs] i went to the world series i baltimore years after former govern
you don t officially recognize the aging process. tomorrow, i m going to say happy saturday gonna leave it at that it s paul metaphors birthda tomorrow there you go. a big deal so, rachel. i have baltimore a new story that we ve had four years. i ve just been struggling in the last tournaments to figure out how to say this publicly in my memoirs, this will b much more specific okay. no one involved really is still alive, except me i went to the world series i baltimore. years after former governor of maryland, as you pointed out the vice president was force to resign because of the crime he committed in baltimore. and maryland, when he was governor so, i met at the world series, as can happen, depending on wh you re with, someone i wil call very, very highly placed, at the very top level of wha they used to call organize crime in baltimore and found myself that night at the best italian restaurant in baltimore, whereupon back gu who was incredibly charming an was ju
how much does it cost to lie t the american people? well, this week, fox settled the dominion voting system defamation lawsuit, agreeing t pay a staggering seven point 8 excuse me, 787 point $5 millio in settlements it is one of the largest settlements in defamatio history in this country, and i shows that fox was at leas somewhat afraid that the jur might sign against them. that, it s, clear was th financial cost of lying to the american people. but the other cost, th reputational costs, that is little bit harder to explain after the settlement was announced, fox released this statement, which read, in part we acknowledge the court rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false this settlement reflects foxes continued commitment to th highest journalistic standards we are hopeful that ou decision to settle this disput with dominion amicably, instea of the acrimony of a divisiv trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues now, did you notice a word
lawsuits i think it s we cannot jus depend on fox news we really need to be getting this message out there, and we don t need to let up on it we need to be reminding people all the time about what wa said between sean hannity an these producers. what was being said in private what is coming out, and i thin more will come out, as the cas may be i would love to see senate hearings on this and the federal communicatio commission, the public hearing on this, because what happened was absolutely, totally agains what the media is supposed t be doing and i think it is going to b up to us, i think, as we g forward, to keep the story alive. that is a really good idea, let me just follow up on tha really quickly, senator. do you think democrats, here a we get to 2024, with the rac heating up, should they be doing more to associate fo with what they did, with pushing this big lie about the election being stolen, more so with the republican party. i think sometimes the democrat
that forget about everything that leslie dubeck said, all true these are highly experienced prosecutors, who brought sophisticated cases and wo these cases many time. thought number one the number two, this is a case which is built on layers o evidence and that is what lanny was explaining this is not just one witness as andrew said this is layers upon layers upo layers, brought by a highl experienced team of prosecutors. so, i leave you with those two thoughts, lawrence andrew weissmann, as we g forward, by tuesday, night wer going to be having a ver detailed discussion here about what we know and we will be out of this stage of speculation but we want to speculate about but when you listen to lanny davis tonight, one of th questions i did not get to i