garland, has, quote, an obligation to clean house, to understand what the justice department was doing the last four years to make sure there is accountability. that s going to do it for us for now. i ll see you again tomorrow night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. your message about adam schiff is what we needed before we broke tonight. on one hand it s to intervene to help his friends and try to investigate his enemies. we had learned about the way they were going after reporter sources in ways that appeared to directly violate policy, and now revelations they were going after sitting members of congress, including those who were investigating him and using a gag order to keep it secret from congress as a whole and from those members. it is unprecedented, and the branches of government aren t supposed to be able to do this to each other. and i don t know what the consequences are here, but the merrick garland justice
clean house, to understand what the justice department was doing the last four years, to make sure there is accountability. that s going to do it for us here, for now, i will see you tomorrow night. it s time for the last word with lawrence or donald. an obligation to clean house. invader interview with adam schiff was exactly what we needed when this news broke tonight. this is one of these stories that on the one hand it s a little bit like the boiling frog, we had learned about the justice department having intervened at the presidents insistence to help his friends, and investigate his enemies, we learned the way they were going after reporters sources in ways that appear to directly by the justice department policy, some of those revelations quite recent, and now revelations they were going after sitting members of congress, including those who are investigating him, and using a gag order to keep it secret from congress as a whole and from those members. it s unprece
hey, have a good rest of the day. outnumbered starts right now. let s begin with a fox news alert, the stakes are high today as voters are headed to the polls for primaries in several states. ohio s special election is getting some special attention. the house race for a seat the gop has held for decades is viewed as a big test for president trump s kingmaking abilities. or queenmaking. and may give us a preview of how the mid-term elections will shape up. you re watching outnumbered on a tuesday. i m harris faulkner, melissa francis, senior fellow for the independent women s voice, syndicated radio talk show host and fox news contributor and opinionist, leslie markel. joining us, fox & friends weekend co-host pete hegseth
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In russia by vladimir putin, what he said to me is look, i ve been making this argument that in a democracy the better person can get to the top, and now at the top there is someone corrupt, he s talking about trump obviously. that is the stain on america and our reputation. and to cleanse that staying, we need to show that we understand just how severe this is. what do you say to an administration that wants to move forward with its new agenda and doesn t want to look backward at these things? or if it doesn t want to look backwards? the law obviously make these determinations. but i would say is that these things are all related. joe biden very appropriately, is out there on the world stage, clearly welcomed by foreign leaders saying that we re back here to defend democratic values. we re back here to be the backbone of the free world, again. because right now it s under siege from china and russia and others. to do that we need to show that we are getting our
Prosecutor in, that tells you something is wrong. it doesn t take a genius to put two and two together to get four. donald trump said we wanted the doj to investigate, and they investigated. when that came up with nothing, bill barr doubled down, brought a new prosecutor and to go after it again. it looks like abuse of power and it s hard to see it as anything but that. nancy pelosi issued a statement tonight, a response to this breaking, news she said recently it has become public the trump administration sought account metadata of house intelligence committee members and staff and their families. the news about the politicization of the trump administration justice department is harrowing. these actions appear to be yet another egregious assault on our democracy waged by the former president. i support intelligence committee chairman adam schiff s call for an investigation into the situation and other acts of the weaponization of law enforcement by the former president. transparen