the right thing to say. so i might get with my needle and thread posse and make a pillow out of its. that s the one. america should hear this again. elections have consequences, even if impeachments don t. [laughs] coming soon to a t-shirt near you. [laughs] thank you rachel. thank you lawrence. president biden left a marker for history today, he delivered the most accurate and most honest speech by an american president about afghanistan. the bar could not be lower for honest and accurate presidential speeches on afghanistan, especially considering the woefully inarticulate presidential speech that started the war in afghanistan, with george w. bush making promises that were filled with absurdity by the time his presidency came to an end. in fact, by the time his first term ended. promises such as, we will win this conflict by the patient accumulation of successes, we will not fail. peace and freedom will prevail. to deliver the best presidential speech in history
all right that will do it for us for now, see you again tomorrow night. now it s time for the last word lawrence o donnell. good evening rachel. we don t know exactly what kind of news environment we will be into, nights that we are going to be covering live and this historic speech by the president tomorrow night but we will have to handle both tomorrow night, that s for sure. exactly. exactly. thanks lawrence. thank you rachel. over one hour away from tonight s curfew in brooklyn center minnesota, last night protesters on the streets there for hours after the 7 pm curfew. they are already on the streets tonight. 40 people were arrested last night. tonight, 2000 national guard troops are in brooklyn center minnesota supporting the small brooklyn center police department, which now has only 47 members after the police chief resigned today and officer kim potter submitted her resignation today two days after she fired one bullet into the chest of 20 year old dante wright w
directly to his that or he doesn t have his stats number? i don t buy mean to no family psychology but even that makes me sad. you don t have to be a techy to know that donald trump s telephone has color i.d.. so there is that hurdle that you have to get over. i said it s potential spam. my name is p dot spam. the big news maker tonight, benny thompson is going to lead us off as our first guest. you know, there were some grumblings at the end of last week. primarily from eugene robinson. about how this committee is in making news on tv. instead of making news in print by the print documents that they were releasing. well tonight was the real live tv news making night, tonight. absolutely. and it s not like they re not making it in print. but the contempt report that they put out on the weekend is full of news. but when they made those remarks tonight at the committee hearing, the televised hearing at 7 pm, it just blew me away. intense. i just want to get out of here
that will pass the house and the senate. she concludes with, thank you all with your constant and informative, and occasionally humorous message. and always, for your leader. for the people. discussions continue, i think is the money quote there. but we are still waiting to see what is going to happen tonight. that is going to do it tonight for us tonight, we will see you again some other time, now it s time for the last world with lawrence o donnell. good evening rachel i m just flipping through a script i wrote about an hour ago, to see if i want to use any of the. in this few minutes. so the pelosi letter is interesting because it doesn t say anything as these letters normally do, and so here is what we are going to do, and you can go home now and sleep in a real bed, or you can fall asleep in your office, and come back at 2 am. so luckily we have the house budget committee john yarmouth, and he knows as much as any general does what is going to happen as anyone will. we
option he has to satisfy a split caucus in some regards, but a caucus that has voted 43, 42 times to defund obamacare. i think that this is a serious generational move for the republican party. and they re going to have to make a decision tonight as to whether they as to whether they want to continue to fund this government or not. let s go to martin, i want to ask you. the options of the president right now. if he ever had had an opportunity to be determined, this would be the moment. i think it is, ed. but i think also, it s worth remembering that this reform of health care is not just something that he saw as a policy and philosophically. it comes from his personal life. because of what happened within his own family. and here is the president. and the president, i believe. responsibilities of the constitution endows to congress, two should be fairly simple. pass a budget, and pay america s bills. but if the united states congress does not fulfill its responsib