they re making these decisions. it seems like the judiciary committee won t swear mr. zebley in. they ll allow him to advise mr. mueller but not answer his own questions. the intelligence committee will handle it different. obviously it s a little unusual to have a second witness at the last moment. yeah, look, it s unusual. we re all guessing as to what s going on but i think fundamentally it s not going to kay very much. we expect mueller to go in tomorrow and do what he said, which is he s going to stick to the four corners of his report. the question is are the democrats going to grandstand in the house or are they going to actually get at the heart of this and say to mueller, tell us what your report actually says. because i think if the american people hear what the report actually says as opposed to the spin around it, it s going to be a devastating day for the president. this is a bit of a sensitive question. and you can brush me back either of you if you think it s inappro
mueller. it should be a fascinating dynamic. i honestly wouldn t be surprised if over the course of this evening the judiciary committee didn t decide to sort of follow the same path that the intelligence is doing and just swear zebley in. why have him sitting there and not able to answer your questions? we ll see. still evolving. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. you know, i think to that question that the judiciary committee has some slightly different rules on what it means once someone who is sworn in as a witness, but we have a judiciary committee member here with us who is going to answer all of that. i now believe that the intelligence committee hearing now might turn out to be the better of the two hearings because i think aaron zebley s contribution could be really invaluable tomorrow. i suspect he will be less tight and constricted in the way he talks about this. he s certainly in a position to know ever
prosecutor and was one of the most important witnesses in our presentation of the 9/11 case. so big case experience. diligent, humble, smart and earnest. knows the case backwards and forwards and will help tell the story. neal, what do you make about the sort of churn around this decision today? obviously these two committees, i m not sure about what the timing was in terms of when this was first broached and how they re making these decisions. it seems like the judiciary committee won t swear mr. zebley in. they ll allow him to advise mr. mueller but not answer his own questions. the intelligence committee will handle it a little bit different. obviously it s unusual to have a second witness at the last moment. yeah, look, it s unusual. we re all guessing as to what s going on, but fundamentally i don t think it s going to change very much. we expect mueller to go in tomorrow and do what he said, which he said he s going to stick to the four corners of his report. the question is