hey, lawrence. >> lawrence: thank you so much, bret. good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime," i'm lawrence jones. a big show ahead and today is january 6th. to most americans it's no different than january 5th. but for democrats it's a national day of prayer and mourning. >> certain days echo throughout history. dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars but a place in our collective memory. december 7th, 1941, september 11th, 2001, and january 6th, 2021. >> lawrence: so no one takes her seriously. let's see what the other guy has to say. >> right now, in state after state, new laws are being written, not to protect the vote but to deny it. not only to suppress the vote, but to subvert it, not to strengthen and protect our democracy, former president and supporters have decided the only way for them to win is to suppress your vote and subvert our elections. it's wrong. it's undemocratic. and, frankly, it's unamerican. >> lawrence: so you have to ask yourself what's the real reason for all of this? well, the democratic

hey, lawrence. >> lawrence: hey, bret. thank you my friend. good evening and it welcome to "fox news primetime." i'm lawrence jones. the teachers unions are back stuck on stupid. chicago 73% of the union members voted to pull the plug on in person learning, again. what? >> we have been failed by the public health office and staff only thing we can scroll whether we go into the building. and we want to teach and we want to do what's right for our student and we are prepared to do that remotely starting today. >> lawrence: they claim they want to teach, but they really don't. they are shutting down the classroom again until their demands are met. now, you heard that right. the teachers union, who extorted billions of dollars from the american taxpayers have more demands. >> the city has failed to deliver a whole gunsch of basic demands we need in the school. failed to provide adequate staffing, adequate cleaning in the schools. failed to provide adequate testing. has failed to address our concerns as people go into the schools. >> lawrence: so b

i'm marianne rafferty now back to lawrence jones cross country. ♪ ♪ lawrence: welcome back to lawrence jones cross country on this show you take you to front line the biggest challenges that includes crime wave across this nation and i traveled to houston, texas to talk to anna 16-year-old daughter diamond shot 22 times and tragically died in her mother's arms. the killer he's now back on the streets. >> thanks so much for talking with me. tell me about diamond. >> i always told her she was special. i didn't know, no reason but special. very smart, very, very smart. loved dancing, singing, she loved school. and she was very excited about cosmotology so that was her succeed year. lawrence: take me back to the day where peanut comes home. >> he asked me i was talking a show she asked me if she could walk peanut. i asked the time and she said 8. and i said -- i said okay. but hurry up. i said 20 minutes. walk him and come back. which it was -- right it is not far from here. and just come back. i got out the shower, maybe 10 minutes, 15 minutes later. my brother came in and said, i heard a

lawrence: recall happened. and the voters say they need someone that they trust that has a proven track record of fighting for the victims and not the criminals would you accept that call? >> i certainly hope to be in position to accept that call if that happens. lawrence: you're going watch this interview -- i know he does because his wife saw other interviews they often release a statement so with him watching right now, since duct take meetings with anything, and you speak for victims. you speak for a lot of your colleagues that feel look they don't have the necessary support. d.a. watching right now what would you tell him? >> what i would tell him is -- sit down and let's have a conversation. first and foremost, as district attorney, why aren't you mitted to following the law? will you follow the law? where do you find the authority to ignore the law? because district attorney gascÓn were following the law if he were doing everything under the law that he could to make fuss safe, he would be in a much bet

"fox news primetime" hosted by lawrence jones. >> lawrence: good evening. i'm lawrence jones and welcome to 2022. it might be a new year but the same covid problems are still crippling our country. by now it has become painfully obvious the white house has no plan on how to handle this crisis. even know joe promised us over a year ago he had everything under control. watch. >> i'm going to shut down the virus. >> i'm not going to shut down the economy. i'm going to shut down the virus. >> i have said before, i'm not going to shut down the economy. i'm going to shut down the virus. >> lawrence: good job with that one, joe. nearly a full year into new administration and things are only getting worse. under biden's daily covid cases are surged among their highest levels in the pandemic with nearly 500,000 cases a day. so, what is the administration plan to combat the surge? to push more of the same failed policies? more masks? more mandates? how about more vaccines? the biden team is already floating the idea of a fourth shot saying quote it is conceivable in

lawrence? >> lawrence: thank you so much, robert. so probably not a surprise to you i don't use the phrase lat latinx you know who also doesn't say it? actual latinos. according to recent polling only 2% of latin knows describe themselves as latinx. who are the races calling people latinxagainst their wishes a. >> october 15th, the last day of latinx heritage month. no matter where i connect with latin-x communities one thing is certain latin-x communities are feeling squeezed to the breaking point. >> lawrence: tide seems to be shifting back towards some sanity. elected officials are speaking out against the term and calling for an end of it arizona congressman reuben to be clear my office is not allowed to use latinx in communications when they use the term it is to appease white rich progressives who think the term we use vicious circle of confirmation bias. joining me now is rachel campos-duffy author and fox news contributor. rachel, this seems a little absurd that it took this long for people to denounce this nonsense. what do

"fox news primetime" loised by lawrence jones. >> lawrence: we will be watching. good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime," i'm lawrence jones. if this week has shown us anything is that the biden administration has no idea what they are doing when it comes to covid. the plan to shut down the virus has completely failed. and even his former health advisers are admitting that there needs to be a new strategy. in my opinion, joe biden and the democrats just don't care. after yesterday's carefully orchestrated production it's clear that january 6th has been their top priority all along. but the pandemic, destroying the nation, just look at what's happening? vaccinated people are getting sick, schools are being closed again. and we don't have enough tests. the american people are angry and want answers. so, today joe biden attempted to give us some. and as usual, he put us foot in his mouth. >> live covid forever, sir? mr. president, should americans prepare to live with covid forever, sir? mr. president, should americans be prepared to live with covid forever.

lawrence: totally right, lawrence. that pettiness is product of official policy which is absolutely not, we will never fortify the border. we don't want to. therefore the republic of texas has to do it for the rest of us americans. that number, 1.7 million, probably a little bit low. if you add all the "gotaways" to that too, 500,000 that is 2.2 million illegal encounters, that is the city of houston, texas. if you've been to houston, texas that gives you the visualization the amount of people counting on the southern border. here is resolution, for the biden administration, stop doing illegal things and they are not going to do it. this is why it is so dangerous, you guys talk about this, you both know it very well. this is not just a border issue, rachel. this up to every community in our country, in some really devastating ways. lawrence: that's true. rachel: that's right. air tone attorney general mark brnovich, says fentanyl, is just pouring over the border. it is destroying cities, towns, family across america. h

lawrence? lawrence lawrence i keep telling people about this the view of the new democratic machine no one should be locked up. they want to enmity prisons. they don't care what crime you submit committed. again we can hope for the new mayor if you want. if you don't have d.a.s and don't have judges and police chiefs that are all on one accord, when it documents public safety, then none of it matters. jewels having someone that is inspirational and says that he is just going to back the cops and get the criminals off the street what good is it. are just going to put them back on the street it, makes absolutely no sense, brian. >> brian: the cops aren't going to do anything. they know these men and women that they arrest are going to be back on the street. never not going to waste their dime and lives to arrest someone. before they are done with the paperwork they will be out. we have already seen this drill in san francisco and philadelphia leading the world in homicides. i looked at what eric

so, lawrence, thanks for having me tonight. it's a very sad turn of events that we are where we are, but i believe it is where we need to be, where we need to be talking to these media giants, where we need to be talking about the extraordinary charges of seditious conspiracy against our government. that's what's so struggling to me. but i lived through january 6, we all did, and so i want every person, every media giant who is involved to make sure that they come forward and tell us exactly what they know, exactly what they participated in and exactly what we need to know so that this never happens again. >> yeah, i mean, here you have the justice department charging seditious conspiracy while these social media companies have been withholding cooperation from a congressional committee investigating what this seditious conspiracy was about, what it was trying to achieve, and so it is very likely that they could also face these companies, subpoenas from the justice department in criminal cases which, of course, they will respon

right, lawrence? >> lawrence: good morning, family. happy mlk to you. third ward people were shot and killed over the weekend and there has been 24 people that have been shot around chicago. so, this is where the tragedy is. pastor corey brooks has been the man at the center of this, on top of one of the roofs here. but the i want you had guys to actually meet pastor brooks and see one of these tents in the area. pastor, show us how the life is in the tent? >> come on, in okay? >> lawrence: pastor, you say that this area right here is a lot of ceos, people that donate to the cause. they come out here, right? >> yeah. so it's a ceo challenge we have ceos across america that have been coming like steve murray and others. they come and stay here in the tent and help us to raise funds for great cause. >> it's not just you, although you are here all the time and you are doing this for 100 days. >> yeah. >> other people decided they want to give back. they want a chance of the experience as well? >> absolutely. i'm here for 100 days. i don't go down at all. n

thanks lawrence. thank you rachel >> today was not a good day for the defendant donald trump, possibly criminal defendant, but definitely already a civil defendant. tonight, we have the breaking news that rachel just reported. the attorneys, criminal defense attorneys for donald trump, have now met in person with the fulton county district attorney's office, in georgia, which is conducting a criminal investigation of donald trump's possibly criminal interference in the georgia presidential election last year. they announced the investigation is focused on potential violations in georgia law prohibiting the solicitation of election fraud, the making of false statements to state and local government bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office. and any involvement in violence or threats related to the elections administration. the associated press is reporting today, that district attorney willis, will be making a decision, in the case. in the first half of this year. in an interview wi

. >> lawrence: i'm from texas. it annoys me when people come back to my state and they say, look, we enjoy at the local taxes. we enjoy the food. all this other great stuff. but can y'all put away your guns? you don't love us. you don't like us. which is cool. just stay where you're at. i really loathe to that. you see it in a lot of the inner cities, starting to change. people really don't like texas. they just like the benefits of texas. >> right here like a lot of those democratic elected officials that we have seen vacationing in florida. availing themselves of the environment peered the freedom in that environment. then having to go back to their place. all right. we have to go. more outnumbered, in just a minute. ♪ working day is done, oh, girls just want to have fun ♪ >> oh, take me back to my m.t.v. days, i'll let kennedy have the last word of today's show. >> it has been an absolute pleasure being with all of you, the first week of the new year, excited with the level of intelligence and optimism, than

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and you know -- >> -- rumor. you didn't have to deny the rumor that wasn't there -- >> it's just weird to have two people who look like they're in the same weird place in split screen. like it looked like it was a fake thing. it's not a fake thing. it's a real thing. >> i believe you. we've got a live situation on the senate floor now, rachel, that we might be cutting to during our hour. i have one ear on the senate floor during your hour, and you missed because you were working and i recommend it to you, the speech of jeff merkley's lifetime. and he's not, you know, stylistically the most compelling speaker on the senate floor. but he delivered the single most thorough historical analysis of the 60-vote threshold rule, the cloture vote so-called, in the senate that has ever been delivered on that floor. and there were some great speeches today with a lot of important historical references including from angus king pointing out that ham

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening. >> it's okay, i'm just getting my papers straightened out. if we had a 20 seconds more that would've been helpful. >> i am sure you do. yes that news about senator schumer, they actually kind of had to delay this until next week because of the snow in washington and one of the democrats is out now with covid. that's a vote that senator schumer would like to have. she hopes she can get that on tuesday of next week. we'll be watching the rest of the voter rights trauma play out on tuesday. >> and lawrence, this is hypothetical, but i know that you know. but there is a proxies service in the house that they can give a proxy vote in the house. but there's no proxy vote in the senate. so with this man being out. there is no way that he can cast the vote. >> yes, there's absolutely no notice of the pandemic. big surprise. trying to get them to make the slight adjustment into how things work there, obviously, is kind of difficult. and they've introduced of kind of a reasonable

good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. your breaking news tonight about donald trump's lawyering being engaged with the district attorney's office in georgia is important stuff, to put it mildly. i mean, that means they're in there making their arguments about why he should not be criminally charged. >> yeah. there is nothing that we can read. there is nothing that we can extrapolate directly. we can't say this definitely means the investigation is at this point, or that this is going to happen in the investigation or this is not. but to the extent that the president's lawyers i mean have a lot to deal with right now given nine pending civil suits against him for january 6, plus all the legal stuff that's happening with his business, all of this stuff, for them to be taking in-person meetings with this prosecutor's office in december, which is when we know these one of these meetings happened, that is news, and it means it might be a more concrete worry to them than we had previously understood. >> we're going to have neal

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gana la pelota johnson , perseguido lawrence por antuna, jamaica salió con una actitud que no pensábamos que iba a entrar. veremos cómo el juega con el uno a cero arriba jamaica sigue intentando generar peligro. aquí viene jamaicabusca el desconcierto de méxico, cuidado esta creo que 1 segundo cambio compañeros , esta el cuatro en la cancha o el cuatro estaba discúlpenme cambio posicional lo subieron y ahí está plancha. >> el zapato va al palo. >> alexis vega tiro libre >> lo que hay que tener es ser muy inteligente no perder el orden y buscar llegar como lo había hecho en el primer tiempo, seguir tocando la pelota a seguir moviendo el balón de un lado al otro es lo que necesita méxico y cuando esté dentro del área ser preciso. >> alexis vega para cruzar esta pelota al área y después nos vamos a san pedro porque hay novedades. alexis vega le gusta el arco, alexis vega le va a pegar, vino vega. no hubo una mano ahí? le pega a antuna en la espalda era para gol >> yo le dije que si me gustaba y miren. >> de veras le pega en la espalda. miren como le pega ahí el espalda >> no

thanks for sharing her progress, lawrence, and thank your holidays. and he tweeted, i bought a double decks for my daughter's christmas gift. she is a teacher and was really happy that our gift went to the girls in malawi. the kind fund, kids needs of desk is working. because you have made it your own. i always remind you about the k.i.n.d fund during the holiday season because you make a donation in the name of anyone for your holiday gift wish. and sentiment acknowledging of your give. but many of you would still be contributing even if i said nothing about it. during this holiday season you contributed a total of $2, 377, 711, leah tweeted that we have added desk giving to our christmas list for the past five or six years. you can contribute that to any at the website on the screen. you can also contributed at any time of the year. i can never thank you enough for your kindness and generosity. i wish that you could all have the experience of being in a malawi classroom when students take their seats at desk for the very first time in their lives an

but here is the good news, lawrence. there is $100 million just in georgia alone that is going out over the next 13 weeks to put hospital workers and others into this crisis to support -- that would not have happened if georgia voters had not elected jon ossoff raphael warnock. brian kemp gets to give out that money but brian kemp would not have money to give out without those democrats successes. and governors have tools for this huge, massive wave that they are able to do. brian kemp and many others are not doing what they need to do and could do much more and our allowing hospitals to close during a pandemic. but i want folks, as we get into next week and the coming months, to really think about the hope that we have here in georgia and around the country, that we can see victories even with these insurmountable challenges, seemingly insurmountable challenges. >> raphael warnock has become the conscience of the senate. voting rights and voting rights legislation. we now know senator schumer has not been public about i

lawrence, what you got? >> maybe an update on the scavenger heart. >> what's up, family, we are having a good time here in times square, i know you guys are having a good time. look at all the people here! these are the people who said they were going to come out -- i met some friends. with got frank and christina, and frank, i think you have something that you've got to take care of tonight. >> i want to tell this beautiful woman right here, the love of my life, christine, will you be with me for the rest of my life? because i love you. >> yes! yes! [cheers and applause] >> she said yes! she said yes! all right, guys! we got our first wedding proposal! >> that's one. that's one, lawrence! >> that's one item on the scavenger hunt list. >> that's pretty good. the scavenger hunt says newlyweds. >> that counts. >> that counts? >> and that was not made in china. that was made in america. >> that's a 2- e.r.a. we will be the judge. there's no real criteria, it's like fox and friends. >> you will give it to the ne

right now lawrence, 750 people have been charged. but most americans have never heard of any of them. and that is what has gotten people frustrated. >> to that point, daniel goldman, the attorney general is going to make a speech tomorrow giving some kind of assessment about where the justice department is. its investigation of what happened at the capitol. what should we expect from that? what might we actually hear from that? >> i think that this is very clearly a targeted stage by the attorney general met to address what is going on with the investigation. not just of january six but of the lead up to january six. there are really three kinds of separate and overlapping investigations here. there is the ongoing investigation that clear referenced for the people being charged on invading the capitol on january six. the vast majority of those charges are really misdemeanor charges related to, you know, essentially walking into the capital with authority. then there is an investigation about obstructing the official proceeding in con

lawrence, try to match that. >> lawrence: i will try, thanks, brian. so a tough lesson in truth. justice in american way after new woke superman fails, the fly with readers. this issue not breaking the top 50 comic books sold last month. this is the pro cup thin blue in is reportedly unwelcome on facebook and the largest comic book sub read it. the comic book writer and author of "thin blue line mc" mike barrett, mike to get into the reddit, but the folks inside of that form are the ones taking a step down. >> i don't know how it works, but i signed up for reddit in in and the first thing i did was say read my pfeiffer novels with motorcycle hoodlum who went to prison and found god. that was it. and instantly my post was removed. i haven't been able to post anything there since. when we put up "thin blue line mc book nobody saw it and by the standards of racism and hate speech. >> lawrence: what is hate speech about your book? >> nothing. 20 years ago a story like this would have raised an eyebrow, but into dies hyper politicized environment, many people find support for the poli

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here's the good news, lawrence. that wouldn't have happened if georgia voters didn't elect warnock and ossoff to the u.s. senate so those funds would be available. so brian kemp gets to give out that money. brian kemp would have no money to give out without those democratic successes. and across the country democratic and republican governors have some tools for this huge massive wave. brian kemp and others aren't doing what they need to do and could do much more, but i want folks as we get into the next week and coming months to really think about the hope we have here in georgia and around the country that we can see victories even with these insurmountable challenges -- seemingly insurmountable challenges. >> raphael warnock has become the conscience of the senate on voting rights and voting rights legislation. we now know senator schumer has now been public about it. he was public about it with rachel maddow tonight. he as of tonight only has 48 votes in the senate for the possible rules change that would be nec

now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. st wor >> good evening, lawrence. i watched tentatively your report on the irish fishermen who are now telling the russian navy, vladimir putin's navy to go play their games somewhere else. and the man quoted as saying, we are not moving. he's the head of the court fisherman's association. his name is patrick murphy. i don't think vladimir putin knows enough murphy's and i don't think he does. i grew up with a whole gang of murphy's and rachel, in my experience, when murphy's say we are not moving, murphy's do not move. they do not move. >> i will tell you that we have been covering this story for a few days. on the show and we didn't do it on the show yesterday because of all the breaking news about the supreme court and everything. we've had other stuff to do. we worked on producing a segment for the show and last night it didn't happen. i think about half of the production staff of the rachel maddow show is about ready to volunteer to go to cork to make sure the fisherman can get t

good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and i am still patiently waiting, i have been waiting over ten years now for donald trump to apologize to me for what he has called me, including at one point the dumbest man on television. i think that was about ten years ago when i was saying here that he was lying about president obama's birth certificate. joe biden says someone is dumb, says a reporter is dumb, and in a couple of hours or less he's on the phone, in a personal phone call, apologizing. >> right. and decent, and adult, and mature. i mean, even if he meant it. if you meant it and you said it to somebody's face, you do not have to apologize to them unless you know, is for some of the reason it's inappropriate. but if you meant it and you sensitive out somebody and not to them, you have to apologize. because you're talking smack. and in this case, the president did the adult thing and said i'm sorry, and that's what adults should do. >> so, i was driving this afternoon and kind of out of the news bubble for a bit. and a

good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and i am still patiently waiting i, have been waiting over ten years now for donald trump to apologize to me for what he has called me including at one point the dumbest man on television. i think that was about ten years ago when i was saying here that he was lying about president obama's birth certificate. joe biden says someone is dumb, says a reporters dumb, and in a couple of hours or less he's on the phone in a personal phone call apologizing. >> right. and decent, and adult, and mature. i mean, even if he meant it. if you meant it and you said it to somebody's face, you do not have to apologize to them unless you know, is for some of the reason it's inappropriate. but if you meant it and you sensitive out somebody and not to them, you have to apologize. because you're talking smack. and in this case, the president did the adult thing and said i'm sorry, and that's what adults should do. >> so, i was driving this afternoon and kind of out of the news bubble for a bit. and as soo

hey, lawrence. >> lawrence: hey, bret. thank you my friend. good evening and it welcome to "fox news primetime." i'm lawrence jones. the teachers unions are back stuck on stupid. chicago 73% of the union members voted to pull the plug on in person learning, again. what? >> we have been failed by the public health office and staff only thing we can scroll whether we go into the building. and we want to teach and we want to do what's right for our student and we are prepared to do that remotely starting today. >> lawrence: they claim they want to teach, but they really don't. ey

>> i do not, lawrence. i would hope they would come forward and tell us everything they know if they're proud of the activities they engaged in and should want to come in and tell the committee everything they did. the subpoenas that have been sent forward. we expect them to compile. certainly the documents must be sent in. there is no fifth amendment privilege in the documents unless producing them them shelves would be a crime and we hope they'll come in and answer questions. we have a lot of questions. >> there is obviously with rudy giuliani just to start with him, there is obviously a zone of fifth' mendment protection that he would want in facing these questions. he's already known to be the subject of a federal criminal investigation. he has already been temporarily disbarred for some of the conduct that you want to talk to him about. and so i assume the committee in your discussions have anticipated the possibility that a witness like mr. giuliani might show up and take the fifth amendment for virtu

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lawrence, this isn't a partisan issue. when you suppress the vote, you are suppressing it for everyone. has a great impact on communities of color, new voters and younger voters. but this is not a partisan issue. when you look at the john lewis voting rights act, which is the voting rights act that has been reauthorized president after president after president. even republican president. the last time it was reauthorized was under george w. bush, a republican president. and it passed the senate 98 zero. so this is not a partisan fight. donald trump and his team wants you to think that it is. but it is something we have to stand up for our country. we have to stand up for democracy. and we need people to decide what side they are going to. beyond this is our civil rights movement and we have work to do to get this across the finish line. >> kate williams, thank you so much for joining us on this important day, really appreciated. >> thank you lawrence. >> joining us now is david thomas, he is president of morehouse college

lawrence. yeah, pretty a big storm rolling through a 10 inches of snow coming down. >> and then the problem was you can i-ninety-five there just north of richmond. and the problem was that some of that snow started to melt during the day and then reef roles. so that became. >> almost like a ice skating rink. and so all those cars that got stuck. it was hard to move around. but boy, there catch some clearing conditions now. but the cold temperatures there remain. and so that is an issue being stuck out there that long and freezing temperatures you run out of gas in your car and that could be a life threatening situation for some people. looks like the big storm, though, has gone through now it will continue to stay cold there. so hopefully they start to get the rest the people out of their meantime, though we are seeing some showers in far northern california. looks like things are going to change a bit coming our way today. it was no full today. but we did have few scattereu sprinkles continuin

lawrence tribe tweeted your article today with great praise. tell us what you think that people are missing when they approach this discussion about the challenges to democracy as it is purely a present tense phenomena. >> thank you for having me. a lot of people said we can understand january 6th primarily as an attack on our institutions. there was a rejection of a legitimate election, the citadel of theions are partially responsible for what we saw last year. donald trump was the president in the first place because of 2016, the electoral college system put him in the white house over the will of the american electorate. our institutions fostered a sense within america's conservative minority of political entitlement. if you don't pay attention to the design of the system, you look at the outcomes we experienced, the bush and trump administrations, the fact that at this time republicans have such a grip on the senate, when the same person evaluates all of that, america is ats it heart a conservative country and the bulk of the american elect

thank you, lawrence. meanwhile, the second largest railroad company in the u.s., union pacific is begging l.a.'s radical district attorney george gascon the guy that lawrence was just talking about, that type of viewpoint. to rethink his no bail policy. stats from the union pacific show train container thefts have skyrocketed 160% from 2020 to 2021 in los angeles county. resulting in -- this is almost unbelievable stat. more than 90 containers being broken into daily. 90 train cars broken into daily. in a letter to gascon's office. union pacific writes and i quote: these individuals are generally caught and released back onto the streets in less than 24 hours. in fact, criminals boast to our officers that charges will be pled down to simple trespassing. which bears no serious consequence. here now victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institute. victor, always love talking to you. these things happen for a reason. why are we seeing what we are seeing in this particular instance with train cars

now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, lawrence. >> i watched attentively your report on the irish fishermen who are now telling the russian navy, vladimir putin's navy to go play their games somewhere else. and the man quoted as saying, we are not moving. he's the head of the court fisherman's association. his name is patrick murphy. i don't think vladimir putin knows enough murphy's and i don't think he does. i grew up with a whole gang of murphy's and rachel, in my experience, when murphy's say we are not moving, murphy's do not move. they do not move. >> i will tell you that we have been covering this story for a few days. on the show and we didn't do it on the show yesterday because of all the breaking news about the supreme court and everything. we've had other stuff to do. we worked on producing a segment for the show and last night it didn't happen. i think about half of the production staff of the rachel maddow show is about ready to volunteer to go to cork to make sure the fisherman can get the word out about what they're doing and also because ev

good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and the brilliant executive producer of this program, the boss of me, melissa reyerson, in her first text me this morning, said, it is a slow news day. and explaining the early outline of this hour, slow news day said melissa reyerson. and here we are with a supreme court vacancy coming up. and we have jim climber and joining us and so, thank you rachel very much for that dramatic reading of backstage events at that south carolina debate when jim clyburn convinced joe biden, as a candidate, to pledge that moment that he would appoint a black woman to the supreme court. >> and we just got confirmation from simone sanders that, indeed, she and other biden advisers told him that day, during debate prep, no, don't do it. there is congressman -- and other members of the black caucus -- debate prep day, simone sanders and others were telling biden, no, don't do it. and then, at the debate, congressman clyburn goes to him at the commercial the -- and says you have to do it. and now we are li

is here. >> we look at lawrence. yeah. days get longer here, guys. still a few clouds in our skies tonight. you see him out here over the city of san francisco around parts of the bay area right now. some. >> partly cloudy skies at this hour. likely see some patchy fog again overnight tonight. temperatures right? the average in san francisco at 57 degrees. oakland a little bit below the average of 55 san jose. 59 degrees. 60 in little more. 59 degrees in concord and 54. cool in santa rosa overnight tonight. you've got the high clouds up above. unfortunately, not squeeze known. raindrops. love to see that rain to go right now. it's going to be a while here. so before we start talking about some significant rainfall, temperatures around the bay area in the 50's, that looks pretty good compared other parts of the country. but high pressure we'll build in overhead again. here we go. sending all those storm systems well to the north of the bay area. keeping us dry and that wind is going to be a northerly wind. that means

and i think this is a really important one, lawrence. this is not a change that people make easily just because now we've got the power, we want to rule over the senate. it was a long and painful change, based on experience. based on reality that this is not the senate that needs to operate. it was a filibuster used as a weapon of mass obstruction. it is -- and change expects really, he believes that we are experiencing an event as exam chills that threat to our democracy. it is unusual. it was another part of the disingenuity that we see out of a minority leader. >> this speech was not a careful speech. he was using a lot of the material that he was using before. it was almost as if this speech had nothing to do with the vote that was gonna happen with this role. he said, we're debating a fundamental change in the senate rules that will forever after function in the way that things function for essentially one vote. the minute after that the body would go back to its previous functions. joe manchin said also without rules there would be

now it's time for the last word with, lawrence o'donnell. >> thank you, rachel. there's been some breaking news from liz cheney who, said that the committee is looking possibilities that donald trump's conduct was criminal, on january 6th. she said, they're not sure whether constitutes a crime or -- which is not criminal but they are death we focus on the possibility of donald trump committing a crime on january 6th. >> you know, it's an interesting -- liz cheney's role in the january 6th commission, which itself is shakespeare, which itself is a novel. the investigation is aggressive isn't the right word, but comprehensive in energetic. that alone is restoring a lot of people's faith in what congress can do, when they put their mind to. at the professionals that they hired, the energy, the diligence, the persistence that they're approaching it with. i don't know the resolution will, be with all these historians and all these people i'm talking to, people really looking to them to get it right. to get this moment right. to get that remit correct. they are inspiri

guys, back to you, lawrence. thank you. another story of concern developing now in the north bay pg and e says more than 2000 customers are without power in sonoma county. >> you can see the affected area here on the pga. any outage map that is the orange area and it stretches from boise, hot springs up to the area around trinity road pg and e is investigating what caused this outage and has not said when it expects he restored. however, as lawrence mentioned, with all of the strong winds around the bay area, there may be outages related to high winds over the next few hours. a big development in the oakland unified school district. the teachers union and district officials say they have not reached an agreement on covid safety protocols. so the union is >> still threatening to go on strike if the demands are not met by midnight. the demands include weekly covid testing more high quality masks and more action by the district. 2 address staffing shortages. the district says it has address those problems by supplying tasks. t

and jennifer lawrence takes the colbert questionert. plus, stephen welcomes: ralph macchio and musical guest nell and flaming lips. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ♪ ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) thp ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: yeah, yeah! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome. how delightful. how nice. please have a seat, everybody. welcome to "the late show." i'm stephen colbert. how's everybody doing tonight ( cheers and applause )e ) are you sure? have you been tested? reported n covid cases. ( as game show host ) that's right, america hit one new record. tell 'em what they've won, johnny! >> a week in your house, eating pop tarts for dinner on your broyhill dinette set! and a gorgeous set of lee press-on nails: you're going crazy at home-- put 'em on the cat! >> meow! >> back to you, steve! >> stephen: before you all freak out, the number is that large because of delayed reporting over the holiday weekend. see? it's not so

all right, lawrence and historic moment for the u.s. navy as a female captain. >> is in charge now of a nuclear powered aircraft carrier on deployment for the first time ever, the uss abraham lincoln set sail from san diego yesterday under the command of captain amy bauer it for the for a routine mission rather in the western pacific. the deployment marks the culmination of 9 months of training and were cups bauer and schmidt had taken command of the ship back in august and shared some words of advice before setting sail. >> never pass up. an opportunity. >> now your job do your job. get after sometimes it's ok to not know exactly what she wanted working hard happening again. >> that arrangement graduated from the naval academy in 1994 the first graduating class in which women we're allowed to serve aboard combat ships and aircraft. coming up, the price of used cars continuing to soar. when we come back, we'll tell you why. ♪♪ my name is austin james. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's w

it looks more like a southern california horizon with the air pollution out there, lawrence. yeah. kind of feeling that way to as high pressure sits over head. it is dry out there right now. looking from the east bay hills. the sun has set 5.27 the official sunset time now. and yeah, the days grow longer. but now no rain right now inside. look at the numbers so far this where we stand so far as we've seen santa rosa at 126% of normal downtown san francisco. 16% all you get the idea we're looking at a good rainfall totals considering the fact that has rain really since first week in january. lori forecast look a lot more impressive yesterday today. not so as we're seeing the clouds sim may be coming our way, but they kind of fall apart. they run that ridge of high pressure. the storm system looks like it might be impressive. there it goes. yesterday was painting some rain coming into the bay area. now he's backed off into dry. in fact, maybe just bring a slight chance of some sprinkles in the north bay. i think as we head in monday, but that is about it behind that high pressure beg

lawrence: not a chance. rachel: lawrence jones new york city mayor. lawrence: thanks. will: take care. joey: see you. rachel: well, to more craziness in california, we all know that covid policies have probably been the worst in california and they have been hurting kids terribly. finally, many liberals, including a brave liberal bari weiss is stepping out to say hey, what we have done to our children with covid policies that don't really affect them -- a virus that doesn't really affect them and the way we have impacted their lives, she says and i agree with her, it's a moral crisis. this is what she said to bill maher on realtime. listen. >> we were told you get the vaccine, you get the vaccine, and you get back to normal. and we haven't gotten back to normal. and it's ridiculous at this point. i know that so many of my liberal and progressive friends are with me on this. and they do not want to say it out loud because they are scared to be called anti-vax or to be called science denial or to be, you know, smeared as a trumper. you will realize most importantly this

i'm >> thanks lawrence. >> thank you rachel. well donald trump's friend and mad men, alex jones, told his online audience today that he testified to the january six committee yesterday and that he took the fifth amendments, quote, nearly 100 times. alex jones also told his audience that he didn't know the answer to half of the questions. for which he took the fifth amendment. that means, there were about 50 questions where alex jones did know the answer but he took the fifth amendment because he believed his answer could lead to him being charged with crimes. alex jones also told his audience that he took the fifth amendment because he was afraid of being charged with perjury if he answered a question under oath. alex jones said that the january six committee already has, quote, everything that's already on my phones and things seem. they have, everything. donald trump actually befriended alex jones after, after alex jones repeatedly told the despicable lie that the mass murder of kindergarten students and first graders along wi

and lawrence is with us looking far in the distance, we've been enjoying the nice weather, lawrence, but it's about time for some rain. yeah, it sure is. you know, we've been looking down the line for quite a while now. haven't able crank up any rain just yet, then maybe get the chance is still up for a bit. and we may close out much of january here, not talking about much rain since the very first week. so out there you've got a nice night out there. the winds they're going to be whipping around the bay area. no getting around that. we're going to see some gusty winds developing wind advisories big posted by the national weather service starting at 07:00am by tomorrow morning. but that will already be within by then you're talking 40 50 mile an hour gusts over the mountain tops long-range forecast. you get the idea where that ridge of high pressure is. you see that big dome up overhead and then it kind of just sits there over the weekend. flattens out a little bit. so temperatures may come down just a tad, but staying dry as that rain track still well to the north of the bay area. c

i'm lawrence olick. any no doubt did not expect a tip at la x this morning. a big sendoff for team usa as they boarded a flight to the olympic winter games in beijing. the athletes were aboard delta airlines first-ever charter flight that. >> carried only team usa athletes. delta gave them a royal treatment with the red carpet in a private hangar just for them. the games get under way a week from tomorrow. that's followed by the paralympic games that start on february. 25th. this is the 8th year in a row. the delta has served as team usa is official airline. >> and now kron 4 sports. >> championship week, preparations continued and santa clara today. >> but now the buzz is palpable and it's impossible for the players to tune everything out, but they still have a job to do and they have to be laser-focused n. >> the work this week is pretty straightforward. not only had this team in 4 formed and identity and no, they're good at but they know their opponent inside out as well. and we've spoken at nauseum this week on the relationship between the 2 head coaches,