that s coming up. also, i have a break you how, with everything we have been through and everything we ve learned should deal with a proven liar and now someone liable for defamation and sexual abuse, donald trump. how do we deal with him? how do we cover interviews and town halls? we re not against interviews. i have a breakdown on that later. what donald trump said on his live and lengthy appearance on cnn last night is our top story. we ll get to that later. the top story tonight is the tapes. george santos back in washington voting on an unemployment fraud bill, which is wild considering that is part of what he s been indicted for. santos arraigned on 13 separate federal charges wire fraud, money laundering, abusing public funds. doj claiming santos spent money he claimed was for his campaign but he basically grifted, pocketing it according to the filing for personal expenses, luxury designer clothing, credit card payments for his own personal use. these charges come
these extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. this is one of those nights. we are tracking several developments, including a brand-new hearing over evidence in a case alleging unlawful lies by fox news. if you re thinking, wait, is this a rerun? did i dvr this? no, this is a different multibillion dollar case that the network is dealing with while reeling from the other original record defamation settlement in the defamation case. that is big. we re going to get to that. also, more tom hanks. we have new material from our interview that s airing tonight for the first time. it will be new, and i m excited to share it with you. we begin with cascading set backs and a political request that s backfiring in public with house republicans pushing on on their deep state in that nothing burger report from trump and bill barr s hand picked attorney general. you can make up your own mind about the evidence, because these kind of things involve eviden
our country. maybe if you just oppose the republican party and you never want it to win another election, you are cool with that. but we will go deeper. that s coming up later tonight. i will explain more. i wanted to tell you off top, it s special. i hope you will stick around for it. the top story right now, it relates to the accountability crisis on the far right and another chunk of the gop as long as it s tied to donald trump. it involves, of course, all the different ways that there are boundaries in american life. others may wish they weren t held accountable this way. it is the lies that hurt donald trump and the lies that caused the insurrection and the lies that george santos was peddling that are getting smacked down in court. today, congressman santos dodging criminal prosecution in brazil after surrendering to authorities this week in new york. he pled not guilty on those 13 counts. he is claiming it s a witch hunt. that was new york on wednesday. now he confesse
believe in you. that does it for us tonight, now it is time for the last word with amy mohyeldin sitting in for lawrence o donnell. good evening, amen. good evening, alex. i wonder how long it s gonna be before we see republicans actually want to ban electricity to take us back to the arab candles because you know when it cooking over candles and stone bowls. they re going to keep the gas stoves. they re not gonna let anyone touch the gas. that s right! cooking over gas stoves. as the air. great to see you as always, my friend. enjoy the rest of your evening. have a good weekend. joy th it is now a matter of public record that fox hosts knew they were lying when they repeated donald trump s big lie about the presidential election that he lost in november. look, this program reported last night on the lawsuit from dominion voting system that included text messages that proves that fox primetime hosts and you that trump and his allies were lying about the elec
the presidential election that he lost in november. look, this program reported last night on the lawsuit from dominion voting system that included text messages that proves that fox primetime hosts new trump and his allies were lying about the election even though they were allowing promoters of those big lies people like rudy giuliani and sidney powell to push them on their shows unchecked. but it is now, it is new tonight that despite the lawsuit, at least one fox host is totally unrepentant and still pushing the big lie about the election. you may be wondering what is going on in our country. there are so many unanswered questions. some of them lingering. how, for example, did senile hermit joe biden get 15 million more votes than his former boss, rock star crowd surfer barack obama? things like that seem to defy the laws of visits and qualify as. a miracle, was a 2020 election a miracle? honestly we don t know. we don t expect to get an answer to it tonight. that s n