of us. i ll see you again tomorrow night. it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. i want to ask you and the audience for forgiveness for something i m going to do. haven t done it yet. i m going to do it. possibly as early as next week, and that is the last line of this show every night, which is a line i wrote myself, is the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. brian s not going to be doing it as of next week. i m going to say brian williams. i mean, someone else is going to be hosting. that name, i ll have them put the person s name in the teleprompter, i will memorize, ally velshi, whoever it is that s doing it, i m going to slip. you re going to tell you the mistake you re going to make. i just know how the brain is going to miss that every once in a while. the habit is so deep, so many years of saying it. i m going to miss him so much. yeah. that i kind of don t want it to be true. it will be a wishful state. and it s brian at 11. a wishful
i didn t really understand before now, which is they can be defied, and they can be defied over time successfully if your game is just delay. and the reason why people like hillary clinton went and testified to a hostile republican-controlled congress is secretary clinton believed she had an obligation to, and she believed politically it s better for her to get out there and answer every single question about this. so she answered for hours and hours and hours on end. these people don t think there is any reason to answer any question about anything. no. and now we got this new strategy of them all pleading the fifth, including roger stone pleading the fifth, john eastman pleading the fifth, jeff clark pleading the fifth, presumably a lot of them will do that now. i mean, doesn t half of you think they re going to plead the fifth hoping to stretch this out long enough that this ends up getting to 2024 and then maybe trump gets back in and he pardons them? oh, sure, yeah.
information with the public on the progress of the investigation. a significant amount of very telling evidence has been accumulated. it is a significant case that is developing, and the staff is working overtime, pulling all the pieces together and connecting the dots. this comes amid the less than surprising news that one of the committee s bigger fish, mark meadows, a former congressman himself and of course trump s former chief of staff, has decided to skip out on his deposition tomorrow. that reverses a deal he made with the committee. today meadows explained why he just can t cooperate. the committee was fully intending to continue to press forward asking about executive privilege items, things that are protected by that. in addition, we found that in spite of the our cooperation and sharing documents with them, they had issued unbeknownst to us and without a courtesy call, issued a subpoena to a third-party carrierer trying to get information. so we feel it s bes
hillary clinton went and testified to a hostile republican controlled congress is secretary clinton believed that she had an obligation to. and she believed politically it s better for her to get out there and answer every, single question about this. so she answered for hours and hours and hours on end. these people don t think there is any reason to answer any questions about anything. yes. and now we ve got this new strategy of them all pleading the fifth, including roger stone pleading the fifth, john eastman pleading the fifth. jeff clark pleading the fifth. presumably a lot of them will do that now. it doesn t half of you think they re going to plead the fifth hoping to stretch this out long enough that this ends up getting to 2024 and maybe trump gets back in and he pardons them? oh, sure. the thing we have learned is that they can delay this as long as they can. that s the way trump has defeated litigation his entire life. they are hoping for trump to be able to
relationship and all the high stakes it means. watch for that tomorrow. that s it for us for now. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. i wonder if you can remember who was the first person whose name you knew but who you didn t know, you know, when you were tiny and maybe it was mr. rogers, you know, someone captain kangaroo. wow. for sure. how old were you when you could first say captain kangaroo? because that is a lot. a mouthful. like zero. my first word was donut. my aunt came over. she used to come over every sunday after church and she would always stop and bring us donuts. she walked in the door one day when i was like zero. i mean, i was like a lump of cells. she walked in the door and i pointed at her and went donut. that was my first word. and i think fairly soon after that it was captain kangaroo. my parents were very disappointed in my early language. so my daughter was born in 1