indictment of robert menendez monday night, only three united states senators took the position that senator menendez should resign and let the democratic governor of new jersey appoint his replacement. the next day, 19 more senators called on senator menendez to resign. and tonight, the total stands at 30 democratic senators who have called on their democratic colleague to resign. and, of course, not one republican senator wants menendez to resign. because republicans know the longer robert menendez tarnishes the position of senior senator from new jersey, it will be that much easier for republicans to win that new jersey senate seat in next year s election. it should never have come to this. after robert menendez got a hung jury in his first federal corruption trial, which means that some of the jurors voted guilty. and some of the jurors voted not guilty. the senate ethics committee completed its own investigation of robert menendez, in which the committee, in a unanimous
thanks to you for joining me at home at this hour. unless republicans in congress do something about it, this saturday night, at one minute past midnight, the federal government will shut down. and while the house freedom caucus making radical demands and treating this like a political stunt, that saturday night deadline very real in terms of the harm it can cause for hundreds of thousands of americans. i am old enough to remember the last time that the government shutdown because republicans wanted something ridiculous. it s right around christmas of 2018. the federal government shut down because president trump demanded funding for a border wall that he never ended up finishing. and on capitol hill, it was a but for 100,000 government workers, these antics and 35 days without a paycheck. that new life for ships enter in capitol heights its opening its doors to furloughed workers, providing donating food from grocery stores and church members. i m with the department o
11:00 here wednesday night. i ll see you then. that s going to do it for us for now. now, it s time for the last word with lawrence or donald. good evening rachel. i ll be going head to head with the republican debate at ten pm. so, there is the option. different audience, different world. for anyone who doesn t really hang on every world of the debate, they can watch this. but, rachel, i was hanging on every word of the interviewed cassidy hutchinson just now. i met her in the hallway on the way when she was on the way out to go do your show. i ve been reading the book and i am very impressed. it is very consistent. if you were impressed with her testimony to the january six committee and what you saw there, the poise and the strength it took to deliver that testimony to tell the truth about what she witnessed. the book is very consistent with that, as was just meeting her in the hallway just now. did you get to the part where you are in there? i only got to it whe
two nights from now, this is a second overall debate in the republican presidential primary. last, time there ll eight candidates, this time will be down to seven. arkansas governor didn t quite make the cut for this one. of course, one other major candidate is not going to be there, but no need to talk about that since you won t be there. we are going to bring you live analysis of that deba starting at 11 pm eastern on wednesday night. i will be here for that, joined by joy reid and nicole wallace and all our friends here at msnbc. special coverage right after the republican debate, 11:00 here wednesday night. i will see you then. that s going to do it for us for now, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening. now it s time good evening r. i ll be going head to head with the republican debate at ten pm. so, there is the option. different audience, different world. for anyone who doesn t really hang on every world of the debate, they can watch
just read it. thanks for being here tonight. that is our show for this evening. now it is time for the last word with my friend, lawrence o donnell. good evening. i just noticed that adam schiff is here as his role as a member of the crazy house judiciary committee meeting today, but he is also going to be the next senator from california. he is the democratic nominee and he will be joining us. andy cam will join us right after he won tonight in new jersey, the senate nomination for new jersey and jon tester is with us, who has the nomination in montana, running for reelection. so you could pass a law tonight. something close to a quorum. yes. there is a lot of possibility for your hour of television. i will be watching. thanks, alex. have a good show. thank you. my first thought this morning was the house republicans were behaving like children once again, but i realized how wrong i was when i saw a c-span video of an actual child in the house of representative