friday agreement was signed, t bring if not an end, at leas some long overdue respite from the decades of fighting an violence and terrorism i northern ireland it leaves tomorrow t commemorate the good frida agreement. it will be back on friday. now it is time the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening rachel it is on msnbc you just had reinstate representative justin jone from tennessee i am going to have the not yet reinstated representativ justin pierson join us as ou first guest tonight. and so it is remarkable to see how fast this story has move and to see that reinstatemen tonight was just really, reall exciting as a video. i am glad you relayed it the way you did during our hour. that document you gave us. well, i have to say, seeing people on the lawn of the fron of a tennessee capital today saying no justin s no piece, n justin s, no peace, i though that was pretty irresistible but yeah, and looking forwar to seeing that - thank you rachel. thank you
Are going to have to put an en to this business of having - be the only people in th entire united states governmen who are subject to no review o their compliance with th ethics code. senator, i know that if th united states senators knew in the job and wants to know what exactly are the ethics rules o gifts and what do i have t disclose, you can just open up that rulebook very clearly written but what exactly you can except, what you can t accept, what yo must declare on a document disclosing your gifts and yet you hear supreme court justices say, oh well, i jus asked around the building. i didn t read anything i didn t look at any documen to guide me. on what i can do and there actually ar committees within the judiciary, then the administrativ conference that look into thes
This time, it s training, but while the enemy has retreated to the east, the danger still looms. vlad was a phd law student until the russians tried and failed to seize his city. do you think it is possible that they could come back? let s say we lose our positions on donbas or luhansk region, and then they see that we don t have enough troops and resources to protect kyiv, they would come back for their initial aim to take over our capital and take over our government. in the forests of kyiv we can t disclose where the isist battalion is dug in, a crucial line of defence for the capital. how many kilometres of the trenches? i don t know. ten kilometres, 20 kilometres, i don t know.
Exchanges. it was with vermont democrat patrick leahy. okay. have you discussed with him any policies or positions of the campaign or trump presidency? i m not sure about that. i met with the russian ambassador after i gave a speech at the republican convention. he was right in front of the speaker phone and we had a few we had an encounter there. i don t think there is any discussion about the details of the campaign other than it could have been that in that meeting in my office or at the convention that some comment was made about what trump s positions were. i think that s possible. explain the reason, aysha, that he says he can t disclose. so, the lack of disclosure he s essentially preemptively
Involving partners both here in the u.s. and abroad whose names he won t disclose. that s probably the most troubling issue here is that we still have no idea who jared kushner s partners are. sean spicer said jared kushner will have nothing to do with specifically this eb-5 visa program. how is that that different from ivanka trump not being directly involved in her company requesting trademarks in china? jared kushner, in his portfolio of responsibilities in the white house has in there, relations with china. yeah. that s one of the other complications here is that, you know, the conflicts of interest laws which cover all federal officials are generally covering officials that have relatively defined areas of responsibility, right? so if you are the secretary of health and human services, well, then try to avoid having business interests in the health industry. the problem here is that jared kushner s portfolio is so broad, and really nebulous. we don t really know what he is res