we catch you again tomorrow, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex, and i know i have to submit my washington, d.c. diary to you. i ve been spending the week here. as you know, on wednesday it is a pretty big day at the white house. i was there pretty much the whole day. today, house of representatives, the senate, wandering the halls a little bit. talking to some people i know there. but the most indescribably, most exciting event of this entire week was it 5 pm, when i went to a middle school girls basketball game, which was the best basketball game of its kind that i ve ever seen. takes its place among soft six championship games that i ve watched as a young man. i mean, alex, why don t you tell me what middle school? is a public school over there. i don t want any goal to fall upon the school. but why did you tell me that the thing about washington is the girls basketball. go to the girls basketball g
a little bit. talking to some people i know there. but the most indescribably, most exciting event of this entire week was it 5 pm, when i went to a middle school girls basketball game, which was the best basketball game of its kind that i ve ever seen. takes its place among soft six championship games that i ve watched as a young man. i mean, alex, why don t you tell me what middle school? is a public school over there. i don t want any goal to fall upon the school. but why did you tell me that the thing about washington is the girls basketball. go to the girls basketball games. i ll tell, you because i grew up in washington, d. c., and went to public schools in washington, d. c.. i was never get enough to play on the girls basketball team. it is a bit of a sore spot i would say, although i know the quality and class of those players. i was the least valuable player in my high school basketball team. i could never make one of these teams here, it s just amazing.
normal world, she would be the lead guest for the first half hour of the show. it s a very big deal having the un ambassador here, but we also have a ron kaine we may have heard of, white house chief of staff. and the man of the hour, the day, the week and possibly some weeks to come, geoffrey berman is going to lead us off. murders, right nays in. guest is one of those. nights it s one of those, nights have a great show lawrence. thank you alex thank you. it was just about two years and two months ago on a monday night that i will never forget, after a weekend and i will never forget, when rachel maddow and i were here marveling and i mean just marveling at a weekend of breaking news like we had never seen before involving the united states department of justice, attorney general william barr tried to fire the manhattan district attorney geoffrey berman and this is the part that was so stunning. geoffrey berman fought back in a way that we did not know is even possib
, right next guest. is one of those nights. it s one of those, nights have a great show lawrence. thank you alex thank you. it was just about two years and two months ago on a monday night that i will never forget, after a weekend and i will never forget, when rachel maddow and i were here marveling and i mean just marveling at a weekend of breaking news like we had never seen before involving the united states department of justice, attorney general william barr tried to fire the manhattan district attorney geoffrey berman and this is the part that was so stunning. geoffrey berman fought back in a way that we did not know is even possible. just when you think you can t be shocked, the friday night attempted firing of the u.s. attorney general the southern district of new york was starting and then geoffrey berman come back, you can t fire me was even more stunning, and ultimately jeffrey berman s in that hour you described it just kind of indescribably important. wh
one of the greatestjockey s of all time lester piggott, who won the derby 9 times, has died at the age of 86. hello, welcome to the programme. i want to take us live to the us. these are live pictures from texas, where president biden and the first lady are just arriving from delaware. this is the town, of course, that has witnessed the school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. president biden is visiting today. he will meet with the families, and of course, this is something deeply unpleasant, and unfortunate ritual biden is used to playing. of course himself his family has lost family members, he is all too familiar with the grieving process and he hopes that his visit there will show some kind of strength and solidarity to so many families affected there. the difficult balance he will have to strike, though, is this is an area of the us where guns are integral to so many people. so many people have guns there. so talk of gun control at a time like this is f