Weekend. Here the weeks top stories. Standing before congress and from of the same people who aided and abetted donald trump in trying to overturn the 2020 election the very Scene Of The Crime that is the january 6th insurrection, President Biden on thursday night, painted a picture of a Republican Party that has fallen so far that it no longer respects or adheres to the very basic norms of our democracy. Many of you are here on the darkest of days, we all saw with their own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots, they have come to stop the peaceful transfer of st power. January 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election pose the greatest threat to you as democracy since the civil war. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6th. I will not do that. This is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. Heres the simple truth. You cant love your country only when you win. Remember your oath of office, re defending to al
Franklin, its great to see you. Thanks for your time tonight. Thank you. That is our show for this evening. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. We have what we call a quorum here at the last word. We have three senators joining us tonight. Well, okay, wait. Adam schiff, who is one Election Night away from becoming the next senator in california. Hes going to win. Because republicans cannot win statewide there. Hes going to join us. Sherry brown, who actually is currently a Senator Running for reelection is joining us. And the big, Big Winner In Texas Last Night on his way to the general election in november. Senator cruise. Cruz only one by three points last time. This could be the time. Its senate night here. You might be able to hash out a plan for Immigration Reform in an hour. And later, actually, Andrew Weissman and Melissa Murray are going to join me and we did something unusual for tonights segment, alex. We rehearsed it. We rehearsed for an hour in from a Liv
including at the end of this hour, the kind of story that everybody in washington is dreaming about this summer. as you know, the town fills up with insurance in the summer. we are going to have a senate candidate joining us at the end of the hour, who began her career as an intern in the senator s office. the senator who she is trying to replace, that senator is going to be leaving the senate and she is going to maybe be the next senator, and that s the dream in washington. to go to senator. as someone who started his career as an intern in washington, i m looking forward to that. you have a great show my friend. it s a great story. thank you. we have breaking news tonight in jack smith s investigation, special prosecutor s investigation of donald trump s possible illegal possession of government documents. the department of justice has made its first discovery delivery of information to the trump team. and that discovery that has been delivered to the trump defense team
more. including at the end of this hour, the kind of story that every intern in washington s dreaming about this summer. as you know, the town fills up with insurance in the summer. we are going to have a senate candidate joining us at the end of the hour, who began her career as an intern in the senator s office. the senator who she is trying to replace, that senator is going to be leaving the senate and she is going to maybe be the next senator, and that s the dream in washington. to go to senator. as someone who started his career as an intern in washington, i m looking forward to that. you have a great show my friend. it s a great story. thank you. we have breaking news tonight in jack smith s investigation, special prosecutor s investigation of donald trump s possible illegal possession of government documents. the department of justice has made its first discovery delivery of information to the trump team. and that discovery that has been delivered to the trump defe
joining us this evening. remember back in august last year, when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president has knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and publicly about that. he also fund-raise off it and took every opportunity to put out what a victim he was of a deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, first real justification for why he kept all of the documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing order that documents remained from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. the idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all these documents, whatever a sta