debut on the show, by sacha baron cohen. do i have to explain who that is, rachel? he is kind of a movie thing. it s not a news i know. and he is going to be joined, actually, by aaron sorkin, who might have, you know, written some words for sacha to say tonight. not that he needs any help. and i am not going to tell you why they are here, okay? because it s actually kind of a movie thing that crosses over into our news. but, you know, that s coming up. you have sacha barron cohen and aaron sorkin? yes and in my case aaron is easier to get because i ve worked with him before. but sacha baron cohen, yeah, i m wicked excited about that. wow. that s incredible. i am going to go because i want to watch your show. you have a reason to watch this time. thank you, rachel. we have a breaking news report which we will get to in a moment from politico tonight reporting that the first trump aide, the first trump appointee has been arrested in connection with the invasion o
last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening rachel and i know you reported on this lawsuit that donald trump has filed today, i guess mary trump in the new york times. i m just looking at mary trump s comment, because the article reporting it says the times did not immediate response for comment, and right above it is mary trump s comment. and i can say it on tv. yet you can t say it on tv, there s part of it you can t say it on tv. i think he is an f and you lose or, he probably wants to say loser, i don t know, it won t be exactly the same words. lawrence can i just tell you one line i literally was just handed a lawsuit, i saw the daily beast report in, we reported on that, and i just got the lawsuit during the commercial break, but on page one, it says is offended s action were motivated by personal vendetta and their desire to gained fame notoriety and a claim and a financial windfall. and we re further intended to advance their political agenda. and it say
i know it looked like we were in adjoining cabins. it just happens to be a similar aesthetic, and that was weird. so, enough. that s going to do it for me for now. i will see you again tomorrow with what will probably look like a more normal backdrop. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. and you know rumor. you didn t have to deny the rumor that wasn t there it s just weird to have two people who look like they re in the same weird place in split screen. like it looked like it was a fake thing. it s not a fake thing. it s a real thing. i believe you. we ve got a live situation on the senate floor now, rachel, that we might be cutting to during our hour. i have one ear on the senate floor during your hour, and you missed because you were working and i recommend it to you, the speech of jeff merkley s lifetime. and he s not, you know, stylistically the most compelling speaker on the senate floor.
territory, so i will give it to him. lawrence, sorry. if you had given me another 20 seconds, that would have been helpful. rachel, you just broke that news about senator schumer. they actually kind of had to delay this until next week because of snow in washington, and one of the democrats is out now with covid, and that s a vote that senator schumer would like to have, which he hopes he can get on tuesday of next week. so we ll be watching the rest of the voting rights drama play out on tuesday. lawrence this is a technical matter, but i know you know. there is, because of covid, there is a proxy voting system in the house, so if somebody can t be present for a vote, they can give somebody their proxy and they can vote for them in the house. but there is no proxy voting in the senate, right? so senator shotz being out for covid, there is no proxy system for him to do so. right, the united states has taken no recognition of the pandemic. getting them to work things o
his sweeping social spending bill. many in the party are blaming joe manchin for the holdup, but he isn t budging, so why do they think this will pass in the new year? i want to get straight, though, to cnn s nick watt for the very latest on the surge of covid cases and hospitalizations. reporter: covid-19 cases and hospitalizations climbed around 40% this past month. deaths, says the cdc, forecast to rise in the month ahead. the delta variant still rampant, omicron on the rise. it s here now, and it s spreading, and it s going to increase. for unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for unvaccinated. for themselves, their families, and the hospitals, they ll soon overwhelm. very soon, it s going to be the dominant variant. we ve seen that in south africa. we re seeing it in the uk, and i m absolutely certain that s what we re going to be seeing here relatively soon. reporter: for the vaccines, this variant is now the most complete escapee