Fires, shifting materials, Twisted Steel and water up to their waist at some points. Yeah, theyre searching for people in there. Theyre searching for mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, children. Officials say they have heard sounds from underneath the debris. They are not confirming exactly what those sounds are. They said it is very possible the debris moving, metal, concrete, et cetera. But, with that news, Family Members are doing their best to hold on to hope. There is hope. Its just dwindling by the minute. There is a certain hope in the air but it is a very strange kind of a feeling. Ive rarely had this feeling except in the war zone. Were dealing day by day, theyre now finding more and more people and i hope and pray theyre found soon and everything is good. Those poor, poor people. Officials say that President Biden has been receiving updates on this. Hes expected to address the tragedy there later today at the white house. We dont know yet if he will then go on to v
Well see you again on monday provided i still have a job. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. And who needs commercials . Come on. The audience is very grateful for that move. Rachel, i listened to your interview with Attorney General Keith Ellison who managed the prosecution of Derek Chauvin, so fascinating to hear his perspective on it. He of course, among many other things, really great moves, hired the dream team of special prosecutors. He brought two attorneys out of private practice to prosecute this case, the lead prosecutors. Theyll join us in this hour. They wouldnt have been there, they wouldnt have been in that courtroom without Keith Ellison calling the plays and putting them in that courtroom. And to have had not only the conviction but to have had this landmark sentence today, i mean, that number is going to mean Something Different to everybody who is looking at it, but to have the judge conclude that on a
Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why you might be a little bit upset by what i said in that press conference. But to democrats, rest assured, i am still going to pursue the traditional infrastructure bipartisan package. While also wanting reconciliation process, the one that doesnt require republicans, which democrats had already started down the road a couple of weeks ago. So, he is saying, to the two parties, this was not meant as a
Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why you might be a little bit upset by what i said in that press conference. But to democrats, rest assured, i am still going to pursue the traditional infrastructure bipartisan package. While also wanting reconciliation process, the one that doesnt require republicans, which democrats had already started down the road a couple of weeks ago. So, he is saying, to the two parties, this was not meant as a
Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s own voice with a commitment saying, essentially, to the two parties, i understand, to the gop, why you might be a little bit upset by what i said in that press conference. But to democrats, rest assured, i am still going to pursue the traditional infrastructure bipartisan package. While also wanting reconciliation process, the one that doesnt require republicans, which democrats had already started down the road a couple of weeks ago. So, he is saying, to the two parties, this was not meant as a