sure want to watch lawrence tonight. for sure. there are three democrats in congress that republicans are going to try to block from serving on committees. in this next hour, lawrence are going to have three of of those democrats on live. reuben diego, congressman, combat veteran marine, progressive democrat, diego and ends today that he is going to challenge incumbent kyrsten sinema for her seat in the senate now that she s dropped out of the democratic party which is should be a battle royal. lawrence has those three democrats that the republicans are threatening and reuben calle go, it is all just ahead on the watch word with lawrence o donnell. now it is time for him. good evening, lawrence. good. evening we have a situation. here sunday because you didn t mention him here. it is actually in ukraine when the supreme court released their investigation of itself last week, and then they had to amend that. it s gonna join us tonight to talk about is meeting with presiden
hello and welcome to the programme. we start with the political crisis in brazil where security forces have detained 1,500 people after supporters of the far right former president jair bolsonaro stormed government buildings in the capital brasilia. leaders around the world have condemned the riots as an attack on democracy. mr bolsonaro came to power in 2019 he s popular amongst his supporters someone they see as a champion of traditional values. but his administration was marked by controversy many saw his policies as harmful to the amazon rain forest, while others questioned his response to covid when he downplayed the effects of the pandemic. the new president left wing luiz inacio lula da silva was voted in last october. he has been president before and had served a prison sentence for corruption, a conviction that was later anulled. the close result in last october s election just 51% to 49% - highligted a divided country. from brasilia, our corresponden
said this: the democratic party, they have a majority. they can stop this crime today. some people say, well, they are soft on crime. no, they are not soft on crime. they are pro crime! they want crime! and they want crime because they want to take over what you got! they want to control what you have! they want reparations because they think that people who do the crimes are owed that! bullshit! they are not owed that. you ll note that he stopped short of identifying juiced who these criminals are, just who it is the democrats want preparative justice for. but then for his audience, identification is unnecessary. because whether it s a campaign ad or a trump rally, gop candidates in swing states have weaponized crime as the cudgel against democrats. with that, they ve embraced a time honored tradition on the right. when all else fails, blame black people. even in states they barely live in. across, the irony of insurrection apologies, making statements while criticizin
first later at westminster abby. i want to head now to matt who s in london for us. and covering the lead up to september 19th. matt, talk to us. we know, as i mentioned, the queen s coffin arrived in edinburgh today. take us through the six hour journey and what we can expect in the days leading up to her funeral. it really was quite emotional, yasmin. it lasted for six hours and princess and was there the entire. time you saw as the people of scotland and tourists and others who are gathered around the root of their coffin, it was traversing through the scottish highlands, we had a glimpse of some of the fantastic country sides up there. it did not go direct from balmoral to edinburgh. it went up to inverness, the highest was from the most northern of all of the cities in scotland. the only city in the scottish highlands. and then attacked south to where it went to autumn barrow, to hollywood house, that is the only real state residents. of course, the queen died in balmo
ballot, and we ll place judges on the bench who will do it justly. we do not seek to judge people by the color of their skin but rather the content of their character. everybody s quoting dr. king. for what purpose? for those on the right, it s usually to lie about the meaning of his words. such as that anything that helps non-white people or gives them a fighting chance against systemic racism is itself racist. also tonight, george santos claimed that not only was he a collegiate volleyball star, he said he had to get both knees replaced as a result. those are the silly lies. but there are also serious new questions about alleged links to a sanctioned russian oligarch, and a company accused of fraud. plus, the obama and trump administrations ended very differently, which goes a long way to explain why the trump and biden classified document investigations are so very different. first, happy martin luther king jr. day from new orleans, one of my all-time favorite citi