Outbreaks. And in the nation s capitol, officials confirm that both a white house staffer and senior communications aide to speaker pelosi have also tested positive despite being fully vaccinated. Pelosi s aide was diagnosed after coming in contact with members of the texas legislature last week. Six of those members now with positive tests. Later this hour, we ll talk to a member of that texas delegation about how the virus is impacting their stay in d. C. And we ll ask about the meeting with white house democratic meeting whip jim clyburn. And what now? after kevin mccarthy announces his picks for the january 6th committee, we ll talk to democratic senator alex poe dea about that and where the infrastructure talks stand. And the blue origin crew completing a historic space launch with aviation legend wally funk becoming the oldest person ever to travel to space. We had a great time. It was wonderful. I want to go again fast. So a lot to get to. We ll begin with that breaking news out
Going to join lawrence, this next hour, right now. Here on msnbc so i am going to get out of the way. I will see you again tomorrow night. Now, it is a time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. Good evening, lawrence. Rachel, i think you isolated what could be the most important question about this indictment today because it refers to other people, other executives in the trump operation. Are how many of those possible other executives involved in the commission of these crimes are named trump? how many of those are children of donald trump? and if it was a systematic scheme, by the company, to including its most highly compensated executives to pay them in ways that were that were designed to evade taxes. Which is the way it s described in the in the indictment. Allen weisselberg was getting paid a million dollars a year, and they said he was one of the highestpaid beneficiaries of that scheme. There aren t many people at the company who are more highly paid than him, and i don
Jaime harrison is going to join lawrence here on msnbc, i m gonna get out of the way i will see you tomorrow night. Now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. Good evening, rachel. I think you isolated what could be the most important question of this indictment today because it refers to other people, other executives in the trump operation. How many are those possible other executives involved in the commission of these crimes are named trump? how many of those are children of donald trump? and if it was a systematic, scheme by the company to, including its most highly compensated executive to pay them in ways that were designed to evade taxes which is the way it s described in the indictment. Allen why celebrities getting paid 1 million dollars of weir and they said that he was one of the highest paid benefits year of that scheme but they did not describe him as the most highly paid. There aren t that many people of the company who are more hardly pay than him and i do
Case legally as of tomorrow night. That s gonna be a very, very important stage of this. And that question of what comes after this, as you were addressing with your guests earlier, is where there will be a lot of focus tomorrow night. The question is what clues will we have in those indictments? will there be clues that are experts can point to something else in the future. And how serious the jeopardy is for the trump organization. The prospect that the president s business might face a very serious charges. That those charges might be enough to effectively, or directly, drive the company out of business. I mean, that is an existential challenging prospect for the former president. That of course happens well potential superseding indictments are looming, in this case as you are just describing. There s also an ongoing criminal investigation of which he is the center, in georgia. I mean, this, tomorrow is a sort of day one of a whole new saga in his life. That i think is going to mak
And 145 still missing. Promising state and local leaders the federal government will provide whatever they need in the days and weeks ahead for the rescue efforts and the individuals struggling through this tragedy. There could be a lot of pain and anxiety, suffering and the need for psychological help in the days and the months that follow, and so we re not going anywhere. Thank you, mr. President. For real. In new york city, trump organization chief financial officer and longtime confidant alan weisselberg surrendering in lower manhattan this morning following indictments handed out by a grand jury wednesday in cases brought by the manhattan district attorney and the attorney general. The court will unseal those charges against weisselberg and the trump organization this afternoon. While on capitol hill, speaker pelosi has chosen wyoming republican congresswoman liz cheney as one of her eight selections on the 13person select committee to investigate the january 6th insurrection. Wit