he made that decision, and, rachel, when i was there, i spoke with generals and i spoke with troops. there was an active conversation happening around negotiating what should be the future of afghanistan. and then out of nowhere the president makes his decision. it was irresponsible. senator harris, i am excited to see the effect that you have on the primary process. i think that you are going to be a formidable contender. i will just say honestly, i think there is a good chance that you are going to win the nomination. you in a general election fight against donald trump would be the funnest thing in the world to cover. but as you start this process, i hope you will keep us apprised and i hope you will come back. i will. i appreciate that. thank you senator. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. it s time for the lard word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. i m tweeting this now, rachel maddow predicts. not a prediction.
if you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures. what s around the corner could be surprising. ask your doctor about eliquis. here is senator kamala harris in her first appearance on msnbc as a presidential candidate with rachel maddow tonight, when rachel asked her a commander in chief question about keeping troops in afghanistan. do you think that we should keep troops in afghanistan? the president seems to want to withdraw a large number of them
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as i was discussing with rachel tonight, we re one day out from congress leaking james comey s memos which republicans demanded from the doj, which is a lot like the leak that trump allies typically complain about it. how is it playing? some accounts, the leak is blowing up in trump s face. at fox news it s not what the memos are about, investigative findings on collusion, more so than what they were about. this is a big, big beginning to the end of what has been a witch hunt from pretty much day one. there s not a piece of information from james comey that suggests there was any russian collusion. there is absolutely no evidence here of any obstruction of justice. he told the president i don t leak. what did he tell george stephanopolous? good question. he leaked.
everybody decided, we know how this is going to end up. we know that the politicians are going to say thoughts and prayers. they re going to say those words and that s all they re going to do. that s not what we want to happen this time around. we want this to stop. we ve seen this before. it s time to break the pattern. the definition of insanity is is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. that was emma gonzalez, a survivor of last month s shooting in parkland, florida. she appeared with rachel tonight. this weekend, survivors of parkland shooting will take their fight to washington where they have, like we said, a lot of help coming into town. there is no way to know how many people will descend on d.c. on saturday, but the estimate we hear most often starts at about half a million. that s what the city is preparing for certainly. the anti-gun violence demonstration is being billed as the march for our lives. rally was organized by the students.