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Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. One quick note before we get started tonight. Right now, it is monday night, which is when you are used to seeing me here on the tv machine. Your eyes are not deceiving you, here it is. But this week, i will also be here on friday. We re doing a special edition of the rachel maddow show at the end of this week on friday at 8:00 p. M. Eastern. And then at 9:00 p. M. Eastern, on friday, right after, right after the rachel maddow show, we re going to be showing my new movie. My new documentary which is called from russia with lev. It s utthe first trump impeachment and what was both so terrible and equally so stupid about that entire scandal. So in case you want to pop it in your calendar or set it in the dvr, i m here tonight as normal but you get a second show at 8:00 p. M. Eastern on friday, and right after that special rachel maddow show, you can see my new movie, from russia with lev. But we start tonight ....
And then right after that at 9:00 p. M. Eastern we will premiere my new movie and its first documentary for my new production company a movie called from russia with lev with the absurd story of trump s first impeachment and a lot of stuff you didn t know about. Very excited for you to see about it and now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. We have senator whitehouse joining us tonight after the black buster blockbuster reporting on what is going on inside the supreme court with the chief justices and this is reporting like we have never seen before about how they arrived at that immunity decision. That reporting was based on source documents that don t exist in journalism. I know they exist in the real world, but you never ever see any of the journalism that says based on these documents we obtained from inside the supreme court, it doesn t happen and that is a unicorn. It is really striking to hold that in my hands reading it to think the supreme court is cracking i ....
Whether it is any harder these days to get up for all of the rehearsing, all of the preparation, all of the gruelling physical endurance you have to have for a daily play? everybody works, you know. Even the prime minister works, the president works. Everybody works, or plays either one and then sleeps. So that s all, that s all we do. And it s not hard to go to work with this play. It s really such a pleasure doing it, and with vanessa redgrave and boyd gaines especially. I just wonder if this play particularly resonates with you, because it s set in atlanta, in the south, during the era of segregation. And, of course, you were born and raised in your very earliest years in mississippi during the era of segregation. Does this particularly have meaning for you? mm hm. Yeah, i. . . I can say, honestly, i know a lot about it, and i wish others knew about it and that s partly why it s important to do plays like this. And, luckily, we have a play here. . . . . Which is not about polemi ....