Start wholesale Firing People in the white house and in his administration. She is predicting that right after the election there is about to be a purge. Sleep tight, everyone. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. You know, you do a factbased show. You are a presenter of fact, a finder of fact. And i rarely get to hear your opinion in your show. And so i listened. I was hanging on every word. And i heard you say to Hillary Clinton, early in your hour, that you believe that the kavanagh nomination is, quote, hurtling toward the sun. You want to expand on that . You are my little eagle eyed friend, lawrence odonnell. Yes, i did say that. That is my take on it. And i am a terrible predictor and nobody should bank on anything that i predict ever, in politics or in anything. But given the way Christine Blasey ford is approaching this, given the corroboration that has alr
as the judiciary committee has recognized and done before. an fbi investigation of the incident should be the first step in addressing her allegations. and leading off our discussion now, bob schiff, former chief counsel to senator russ fine gold, who served on the senate judiciary committee, and lisa is back, codirector of document and she is the former chief counsel for nominations for the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee on the democratic side. she was the deputy assistant attorney general in the department of justice. and, lisa, i want to start with you. there s been a furious amount of material flying around now in the last hour about what s going on here and what is what there is precedent for, what there isn t. senator orrin hatch who has been a member of the committee for longer than any of us can remember and was there humiliating himself during the anita hill hearing, has issued a tweet tonight about an fbi
for her to testify at the same table as judge kavanagh in front of two dozen u.s. senators on national television to relive this traumatic and harrowing incident. the hearing was scheduled for six short days from today and would include interrogation by senators who appear to have made up their minds that she is mistaken and mixed up. while no sexual assault survivor should be subjected to such an ordeal, dr. ford wants to cooperate with the committee and with law enforcement officials as the judiciary committee has recognized and done before. an fbi investigation of the incident should be the first step in addressing her allegations. and leading off our discussion now, bob schiff, former chief counsel to senator russ fine gold, who served on the senate judiciary committee, and lisa is back, codirector of document and she is the former chief counsel for nominations for the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee on the democratic side. she was the deputy assistant attorney gen
their stories mattered. we are in a different place now in 2018 than we were in 2016 when it first came in. right. and to end on the same song we began with from liz, wait for the kicker. maybe we ll keep waiting for the kicker. thank you both. jess mcintosh and liz plank. coming up, donald trump is threatening the justice department directly with new calls for rod rosenstein to step aside. what s the gop doing about it? former senator russ fine gold joins me. also, will all of this lead to a mueller face to face? i am going to speak to two lawyers who have been on both sides of a president under oath. stakes don t get higher. what does donald trump do when he is cornered? does the way he fights dirty spreading across our nation. tony sha warts joins the beat live tonight exclusively. next.
breaking its own record of how many people have been turning out to the polls. you re talking close to 800,000 people have already cast their votes already. on top of that, this state, when you think about paul ryan, you think about scott walker, you think vote republican. this state hasn t voted for republican candidate since 1984. they are counting on that strength to carry them through. the senate race, russ fine gold is running against ron johnson who beat him several yooez years back. he was up by 15 points at one point and now that s in single digits. thousands of people are canvassing right now, knocking on doors to get out the last-minute vote. every place we ve been to this weekend, whether that has been a campaign event for either candidate, everyone is talking about grabbing their friends, family, neighbors, taking them out to vote on tuesday because early voting, of course, closed last week. this is a big conversation here. i can tell you the ads on tv, every 30 seconds it