Importantly, tonight we have Speaker Nancy Pelosi joining us, and im not sure where this story would be if she had not appointed that january Six Committee. So true. This begins with that very difficult and somewhat controversial decision to move forward without the candidates that Kevin Mccarthy wanted on that committee, and the work that they did, maybe the foundation of where we are today. Im really eager to hear how she did it and how she made it work so well. Gonna be a great show. Thanks, alex. Well, yesterday, as i began reading the newest indictment of donald trump, i wondered if this indictment would exist without nancy pelosi. The roadmap for the conspiracies described in this indictment was provided to the Justice Department by nancy pelosi through the work of the january Six Committee that she created. On the darkest day of the history of american president ial transitions of power, january six, 2021, america was lucky. But nancy pelosi was Speaker Of The House. As long tru
Here tonight. Thanks for being here. Its gonna do it for me for now. But now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. But evening, lawrence. With evening, rachel. After we get through Andrew Weissmann and neal katyal talking about the case against donald trump, where it stands tonight. We are gonna get to the United Nations, which we dont do often enough here, to speak with our United Nations ambassador, because the United States becomes the head of the Security Council tomorrow. It is our term for the ambassadors term, i should say Linda Thomasgreenfield, u. N. Ambassador, fantastic. I was just talking about the u. S. Having this confounding, sort of dilemma, or decisionmaker, deciding whether or not its gonna keep its word on being really mad at uganda for their killed against law while simultaneously planning to go ahead with this hundreds of millions of dollars in funding that would we give them for anti age this year. With Linda Thomasgreenfield, which were gonna talk ab
they re not gonna do him like. that it looks pretty and wrinkles. i m going to tell you, a close-up, there may have been lent. there is no crushing. hats off to you. it looks great. it looks great, he sounds great. have a good show. thank you. the breaking news of the night is that the very first significant filing in the case of the united states of america versus donald j trump and not a, the criminal defense lawyers case lied and there has been much suspense surrounding the first filings in that case. much of that spent has centered on judge aileen mercedes cannon, who was appointed by defendants trump to the federal court after joining the republican investigation. the society that grooms right-wing republican lawyers to become federal judges. judge cannon s ruling on the current dispute before her, which is when to set a trial date in the case, might tell us whether she is going to be as blindly devoted to donald trump s defense as she was when donald trump s cri
i get it. rachel, before you go, i don t think you can guess the one thing that clarence thomas and i have in common. and i will give you a hand, it is a career ambition that neither one of us realized. is it related to bribery? it is the last thing you would guess ever went through my mind. but clarence thomas, at least, partially gets to dress as one of these and that is a catholic priest. [laughter] clarence thomas actually was in the seminary studying to be a priest before going off into law. and when i was a ten year old altar boy, and by far, the most solemn altar boy you have ever seen. it went through my mind, more as a performance thing because you are up there on the stage, i mean alter, and you are in a supporting role and you think maybe should i move up to the big role? lawrence, i feel like this is one of those things that could get real deep real fast, but i should probably leave it right there. it is going to get deeper in this show right before we b
just a little note for your calendar before we go, the this thursday, 10 am eastern, the supreme court is gonna live stream the oral arguments on whether donald trump is disqualified from holding federal court in the united states. here at msnbc, we will have that audio alive and in full from one of the arguments start live at ten 8 am eastern thursday morning, thursday night starting at eight pm eastern all be here with all my beloved colleagues. we will have a primetime recap of all those oral arguments, we will see you then. that does it for us tonight, now it s time for the last word with the great lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening, rachel. i will join you at eight pm thursday night and at some point don t look, i will sneak out to the side. the cause i will have to prepare for the ten pm hour where i will be a anchoring here as usual after your two hour session. i realized today in a fifth of panic that i had planned to do other things on thur