before 4:00 eastern, and we ll see you there. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. now it s time for the las word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. your breaking news tonight about donald trump s lawyering being engaged with the district attorney s office in georgia is important stuff, to put it mildly. i mean, that means they re in there making their arguments about why he should not be criminally charged. yeah. there is nothing that we can read. there is nothing that we can extrapolate directly. we can t say this definitely means the investigation is at this point, or that this is going to happen in the investigation or this is not. but to the extent that the president s lawyers i mean have a lot to deal with right now given nine pending civil suits against him for january 6, plus all the legal stuff that s happening with his business, all of this stuff, for them to be taking in-person meetings with this prose
increasingly dilutioned with the idea of voluntarily cooperation. he told aides that the committee has taken a sharp partisan turn by openly considering the potential for criminal referrals to the justice department about mr. trump and others. the times adds he is annoyed that they have secured a greater degree of cooperation from his top aides than it actually has. something he sees as part of the pattern of democrats trying to turn him against former president trump. here is what one member of the committee said about that very report just a few hours ago. we would just like him to share with us what he knows. he knows what s right for the country. he knows what happened in the election. he knows the pressure campaign he was under. and he knows he could do a service to the country by talking about it, but he also knows that there is a political cost that will come with that. i hope he makes the right decision. the vice president has very material testimony and we hope he