now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. ll good evening, alex. we are of course going to discuss the pennsylvania senate debate tonight. we are also going to consider a local race in pennsylvania, a state in legislature race, as an example of how important all of those other offices are on those big long ballots that we are all going to fill out that we have governor and senator and all of that. but we have to keep going down and concentrate on all the rest of them. and at the end of this hour, we are going to be joined by a guest i have been trying to get for a full three years now. the three year campaign to get jen o malley dillon succeeded. succeeded she was, of course, joe biden s presidential campaign manager. i will never forget that it was jen o malley dillon who gave press briefings the day after election night, saying, joe biden has this won, which i then communicated to everyone any with complete confidence. and then on
federal prosecutors, they have now filed three felony charges ,six misdemeanor counts against the president s 53-year-old son, hunter biden. all of this related to the alleged scheme to evade taxes on a massive of income these years between 2016 and 2019. quote, rather than pay his taxes, the defendants spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle. well, remember, hunter was previously indicted on federal gun charges in delaware. now, of course, the doj s original plan. let s take you back in time was to not charge hunter at all with nothing. they wanted to sweep all of all of hunter s misdeeds, if you will, under the rug, the biden family, misdeeds under the rug. and for a while, it was all going according to plan. remember, federal prosecutor david weiss? he d been investigating this for years. he dragged on what appeared to be a fake investigation, allowing the statute of limitations. this is very important tonight as we go through all of this, to actually r
korean dictatorship. murders here s just one examplen you told him about president bush s attitude toward kim. let s listen to this. president bush once told me about kim s father kim jong-il. he said, i loathe kim jong-il because of what he s doing for his people. and for and you know what? that attitude got him nothing. he would not even let you finish with that thought. he absolutely at no point cares at all what this murderous dictator is doing to his people. yes. that is what is so that is the ugly dimension of this, the idea of, as he says in these interviews to me about kim jong-un, oh, he likes me.
us, the media? absolutely. they bear a lot of responsibility for that. a lot of this goes back to a historic obsession with hillary clinton, the false assumption hillary clinton was bound to win the election to spend time on frivolous matters like e-mailgate, whereas all of this time the russians were working actively with the trump campaign. also there were a lot of financial impropriety is happening within the trump campaign that went under examplen, but that story dominated. it doesn t take a genius to sort of know the media will bite on any kind of anti-hillary clinton story. of course the kremlin would peddle it in that way. appeals to disillusioned bernie voters, to republicans, a lot of the american public in general. a smart move on their part but the media should have paid more attention and done a better job. lastly, is this the most successful intelligence operation in at least modern