One year ago tonight, the Trump White House started shedding its first highranking officials, just 24 days into the new administration. One year ago tonight, the departure of michael flynn, who has since fled plead guilty to lying to the fbi has has become a cooperating witness into the special counsel investigation into the russia attack. Tonight one year on we bookend that achievement with the news in the New York Times that the president s personal lawyer says when it came time to pay a porn star right before the election to say that she didnt have an affair with donald trump, he found 130,000 in his own pocket and he swears it didnt come out of the campaign or out of the Trump Organization. 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. We have just stepped into john edwards territory. This is a third party making an expenditure for the benefit of the campaign to keep a w
and, you know, that s a little bit frightening that we have all these people running around the white house, running the country who can t get security clearances. so i think there needs to be a large scale accounting as to what s happening. but it does seem that john kelly has sufficiently damaged his credibility, his integrity inside the white house that his departure may be a necessary step. matt miller, would that end it? john kelly leaving? no, i don t think it would. because i think john kelly, whatever he did know is probably not the only one. he almost certainly wasn t the only one. obviously don mcgahn is right at the white hot center of this controversy. yeah. you have to think that the deputy chief of staff, joe hagan who is the person don mcgahn typically would come to with information like this, he is in charge of personnel matters. you would think he would know about it. you really have to have a full-scale accounting. it may be that removing john kelly gets a lit
clearances. so i think there needs to be a large scale accounting as to what s happening. but it does seem that john kelly has sufficiently damaged his credibility, his integrity inside the white house that his departure may be a necessary step. matt miller, would that end it? john kelly leaving? no, i don t think it would. because i think john kelly, whatever he did know is probably not the only one. he almost certainly wasn t the only one. obviously don mcgahn is right at the white hot center of this kwv. yeah. you have to think that the deputy chief of staff, joe hagan who is the person don mcgahn typically would come to with information like this, he is in charge of personnel matters. you would think he would know about it. you really have to have a full-scale accounting. it may be that removing john kelly gets a little attention off for a few days. but i think until you have everything aired, you re going to continue to see leaks out of the white house. you re going to see