killer tornados continues. we start tonight with that developing news from capitol hill. just a few hours ago, the january 6th committee unanimously voted to refer trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows to the full house for criminal contempt. the vote comes on the heels of the new bomb shell revelations found in the very e-mails and text messages meadows himself exchanged before and on january 6th. committee members were taking pains tonight to point out the pivotal role meadows played. mr. meadows put himself in this situation. he must now accept the consequences. it certainly appears that mr. meadows played a key role in events that culminated in the violent attack on the capitol and on our democracy. mark meadows has committed a crime. in this case, a premeditated one. no one is above the law. not even a former president s chief of staff. i expect the justice department to move as swiftly in dealing with mr. meadows as it did with mr. bannon, and prosecute hi
not even a former presidents chief of staff. i expect the justice department to move swiftly ideally with mr. meadows. as he did with mr. bannon and prosecute him for violating the law. and his duty as a citizen. the new information was detailed in documents that meadow had already handed over before he decided to stop cooperating with the investigation. claiming executive privilege. among the revelations, we learned that mr. meadows participated in meetings and calls during which the participants reportedly discussed the need to fight back against mounting evidence of purported voter fraud. meadows also sent an email to an unnamed person saying that the national guard would be president to protect pro trump people. committee members, tonight, show text messages that former colleagues were sending from inside of the capital building. pleading with the white house to intervene. pleads that went ignored. the 187 minutes, president trump refused to act. when actions by o
the launch is scheduled to begin at 1:20 a.m. tonight. nasa says their live stream starts at half hour past midnight. okay. that does it for us now. we ll see you tomorrow, depending on what happens to the asteroid. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. you have our attention on that. can we steer them or not? i know how much you love local tv. i know. you just cannot take your eyes ooff it. attend of the hour tonight, we re going to have a local tv segment, and it s montana local tv. okay. and it is starring a guy named jon tester. and we see senator jon tester. he comes on your show. he comes on my show. montana jon tester, when he is doing local tv in montana, it s a whole other thing. and we re going to we re going bring that to america, to all 50 states and beyond at the end of this hour. a little piece of local tv. does it or does it not involve, a, a tractor, or b, a live animal? i d say the big difference is t
good evening rachel, you ve got us in suspense on that one, that s for sure we. can we scare them or not? i know how much you love local tv. i know, you just cannot take your eyes off it. at the end of the hour tonight, we are going to have a local tv segment, and it s a montana local tv. we okay. no and it is starring a guy named jon tester. and we siege senator jon tester, he comes on your show, he comes on my show. montana jon tester, when he s doing local tv in montana, it s a whole other thing. and we re going to bring that to america, to all 50 states and beyond, at the end of this hour. a little piece of we does it or does it not involve, a tractor, or be a live animal. the big difference is the wardrobe. the big difference is the dress code, a local montana tv versus the senate office building. rachel, before you go, i hope you can help me with something we. we are dealing with a very serious case of what s senator daniel patrick, former harvard professo
system what ails america and harbinger of things to come. the last time we ran into a group of states calling themselves a pact warsaw pact. rhymes the western states pact was a group of hard left autocracies seeking to impose their wilpon the united states. left coast dystopias led by california, oregon and washington state coalesced in april 2020 to look something like a real national government. and briefly attempted to relate to the federal government on a pier to pier basis. now, i don t want to take the warsaw pact analogy too far. after all in communist warsaw you could still get a crowd of hundreds of thousands chanting we want god. you won t be seeing that in san francisco or portland any time soon. april of 2020, the pact excepted two new member states colorado and nevada. and in may 202024 pact sent congress a letter demanding $1 trillion for themselves. the letter even had nice minimalist letterhead emblazened upon it a design touch easy to miss if you know califo