Thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. We are grateful. Beth beet with ari melber start rights now. We start with Breaking News a legal first for President Biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland Upending Washington today with an announcement, he is appointing a special counsel to hand it will probe of classified do you means found in joe bidens office at home. This is a significant legal development. No matter what happens from here. Its also the kind of twist that would have seemed like a movie plot even just a few months ago when former President Trump was clashing with the doj over his handling and alleged mishanding of classified material. Would have felt like a twist in the last couple weeks when bidens team was optimistic after the midterms and then the gops chaotic start to the congress. Garland did not preview plans at all. He announced he would deliver remarks today. Didnt deliver the topic and then said the words that tend to rattle
do it for us tonight i promise you alex wagner will be back in the chair next week when she is back from vacation thanks for having me here last night, and tonight i ll see you again for m regularly scheduled rachel maddow show on monday. it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence good evening, rachel, happy friday this is a show that doesn t, you know, in an officially recognize the aging process. about tomorrow, i m going to say happy saturday, just going to leave it at that. it s paul manafort birthday tomorrow! there you go. which, it s a big deal. yeah, so, rachel, i have baltimore story for you that i ve had for years and i v been struggling in the last 20 minutes to figure out how to say this publicly. so, here s - you know, in my memoirs, thi will be much more specific okay okay. no one involved really, except me, at this point, is still alive. so - [laughs] i went to the world series i baltimore years after former govern
4:00 in new york. today, monumental breakthrough in the sometimes frustrating pursuit and pace of accountability and justice. the aftermath of the deadly attack on the u.s. capitol. in the 785 days since the insurrection he incited, donald trump has managed to squirm his way through an impeachment, wiggle past the bipartisan congressional investigation, stretching presidential immunity to great effect so far. now the justice department says in a brand-new court filing, such immunity should not shield donald trump from multiple civil suits brought by police officers and members of congress. in that new filing, in the course of urging an appeals court to reject trump s immunity claim, the justice department was very careful to avoid taking a position on whether trump is actually liable for causing the riot. the new action does open new doors of potential accountability for him. doj s essentially telling the court it does not believe trump can use immunity to avoid civil litigat
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tech strategy and trump himsel posted fine messages, many aimed at the manhattan da. his former fixer and sta witness in this case has a different idea of what is goin on with his former boss. it goes way beyondscared. way beyond afraid. he is petrified. he could put on whatever big vibrato that he wants, knowing donald trump as we all do, who s not just forget about th fact that he is a germaphobe and so the fact that he is eve going to be in this area i going to sort of make a skin crawl. trump successor meanwhil taking a hands off approach to the news are you reacting to president trump former president trump s situation? no, i have nothing to say about. that i m not going to talk about. it i will talk about th white house no comment strateg and whether they can keep it going in the face of mor criminal cases but we are going to start with this deadly tornadoes that tor through the south and midwes for you. at least 18, as was mentioned, are now confirmed dead afte