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father. if he could see what we are thing we have ever done. sowe ve got one of e of what that guest is just from your twitter and i m excited to see your interview, maybe you are tears, and i know my dad would be thrilled just at his hand over that we do every single night. he sure would. well, you know what i how i feel about your father. and i know how he feels about you, lawrence. thanks, alex. have a great show. thank you. andrew weissmann will join us in our first segment tonight to discuss the latest discovery of classified documents involving former vice president not named joe biden. so, far no republicans, exactly zero republicans, have called for a special prosecutor to investigate mike pence s possession of classified documents, discovered two years after he left office. but we begin tonight with future defendants. those were the key words spoken today in a georgia courtroom by fulton county district attorney fani willis. she was in the cou ....
as you watch this next hour, you are going to be wondering, how can two members of congress be sitting in the studio with that guy? and the answer is, i m in washington d. c. this week. and so, that is how the magic is going to happen. that s a good week of shows. knowing you, your experience in washington d. c. and what is happening in that town, there is a lot to discuss. it s going to be an important week here. i will be watching. thanks, alex. thanks, lawrence. tonight, the family of tyre nichols held a press conference at the mason temple church of god in christ in memphis, tennessee. that is the same place where, 55 years ago, the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. delivered his final speech, which, like all of his speeches, was really a sermon, to a standing room only crowd on the final night of his life, the night before he was assassinated. that night, dr. king said, like anybody, i would like to live a long life. long javits he has its place. but i ....
i am going to use a word tonight that i do not use lightly. i am not using it because it s my word. i m using it because it s mitch mcconnell s. after the first time republicans used there payment national bargaining trip, back in august of 2011. senate leader, mitch mcconnell, told the washington post exactly how he saw our nations stepmom it. quote, what we did learn is this. it is a hostage that s worth of rain summing. a hostage. that is how republicans view this. that is how we should to. here is what happened, five days after mcconnell s hostage statement. this was a dark day for the nation s finances, and for millions of americans with a financial stake in the market. the very same americans, who are still processing the fact that our country has lost its top credit rating. here is the damage from today. the dow, down 634 points. that is the sixth largest point drop in its history. the worst, since await. nasdaq, losing just about 7% of its total value. s&p 500 ....
that does it for us tonight, it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. speaking of george santos, i raised the debt ceiling once. actually twice, that is the george santos way of describing my involvement in raising the debt ceiling a couple of times when i was working in the senate. and the speaker of the house, i ll tell you when negotiations are ongoing. i m going to tell the story of me raising the debt ceiling all by myself, a little bit later in this hour. i will tone down the george santos exaggeration to try to get it somewhere closer to the strike zone of truth. it s always must see television, lawrence, have a great show. thank, you alex. we have breaking news at this hour from a lawsuit in florida, where the judge is now sanctioning donald trump and donald trump s lawyers to the tune of about 1 million dollars, $937,000. this is a lawsuit, the plaintive donald trump brought against hillary clinton in florida, and ....
house democrats will always put american values over autocracy. benevolence over bigotry, the constitution over the cult. democracy over demagogs. working families over the well connected. yes, we can over, you can t do it, and zealous representation over zero sum confrontation. house democratic leader hakeem jeffries makes it sound as easy as abc. but after 15 tries it s kevin holding the gavel. we re watching the house floor as republicans try to get organized and what kevin s struggles mean for our democracy. also tonight, the nexus of insurrection. steve bannon and the others who cheered on the january 6th attack on the capitol are now exporting that brand of anti-democratic violence to brazil. and that is where we begin tonight. with the notion of contagion. for most of the 20th century and into the 21st, the u.s. considered itself a leading if not the leading exporter of democracy around the world. and while that sometimes involved nefarious acts like overth ....