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Thats going to do it for us for tonight. tomorrow night its going to be a little weird. were expecting at 7:00 eastern the judiciary committee to be starting markup essentially of the articles of impeachment against the president. thatll be tomorrow night into the wee hours and then theyll pick up again thursday morning. its going to be a hurly-burly next few days. now its time for "the last word" with lawrence odonnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and you know its december ...

It turns out in this case impeachment, they start processes at 7:00 p.m. and in the normal section of the calendar they just start in the next day at 10:00 a.m. but theyre getting a head start on what will become their work on thursday. >> exactly. they set their meeting dates for 7:00 tomorrow night and then 9:00 a.m. the next morning. now i dont know how long theyre going to go tomorrow night, but there might not be all that much time between those two meetings. >> and its kind of unlimited ti...

This should be behind closed doors. i think trump will decide that they should not -- it will be completely hypocrite cal. but i think the move is to not lend any kreendens. it should look like a partsan affair. youll see it change. everyone will forget what we heard last week. there will be a new message this week. >> as we move forward in these hearings, of course were comparing them to the nixon and clinton impeachment hearings. you wrote a piece for cnn.com about trumps prospects in 2020 aft...

Democracy are under attack. thats what theyre telling you. so what exactly are the basic rules of our democracy? well, the most basic rule of all is that the people rule. in a democracy, the big decisions are made by voters in elections. they are not made by left wing talk show hosts or by "the washington post" or even by high level cia employees acting anonymously as whistleblowers. no. in a democracy, the main decisions are made by citizens casting ballots. that for example is, how you remove ...

You dont even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic. yet this body determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role. impeachment is not about punishment. impeachment is about cleansing the office. impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office. >> that was former south carolina u.s. congressman lindsey graham back in 1999 during president bill clintons impeachment hearing. arguing in that case imp...

President trumps m-o. but there are a lot of parallels, just as impeachment was appropriate therep john dean is laying the case impeachment might appropriate here as well. >> it was interesting. you said john dean a couple times, this in some way has become an unnecessary political proxy debate over john dean, himself, i dont know if you ever watched the "a team." >> i did. >> there were times when mr. t would say you brought this on yourself. and this is now a part of the politics of it today. ...

To waive this opinion and have the president be indicted. >> for those democrats calling for impeachment proceedings how would this indictment, how would that potentially complicate ongoing or future impeachment proceeding? >> in short not at all. only because from a level perspective indictment and impeachment are two parallel universes. they are not jeopardy events. in other words they are not like two successive federal indictments where jeopardy would attach and then the second prosecution w...

>> experts say based on the evidence made public so far its very unlikely mr. trump will be prosecuted while in office. he may be exempt from charges stemming from his acts as president while hes serving but thats not the only way to try the president for obstruction. congress could attempt to impeach him. the house would have to investigate, draw up charges and vote on argument of impeachment. >> the house serve the function of a grand jury, its their job to identify the charges, prep the charg...