those years before they did the right thing, that s actually the relevant history for where we are right now. and so, anyway, i m obsessed with the stuff, as you know. rachel, jeffrey berman is gonna join me tomorrow night to follow up the discussion you had with him tonight. and that breaking news you revealed tonight about an individual one complaint in the michael cohen case, turns out it was twice as long in the original drafts, and the bill barr people at the justice department got it cut in half. it s still was hugely condemning of individual one. and the thing i ve been wondering about, not since that time but since the new administration came in is, why hasn t donald trump been prosecuted as individual one in that case we understand the while he was president, william barr was gonna say that you can t prosecutor sitting
about them as abstractions. if the democrats add two senators to their count, get up to 52 senators in the senate, will they be able to expand the courts? i don t think so. i do not believe that there will be enough votes to do that, but i do think that there is an opportunity to talk about all of the ethics reform term limits, and maybe age limits since the lifelong appointment has really gone out of fashion, especially for this supreme court. thank you both very much for joining our discussion tonight. you bet. thank you. coming up, donald trump cannot yet find a negative word to say about putin, but now some russian government officials are saying that putin should be removed from office, and russian state tv pendants are questioning putin s war with ukraine. that is next.
a very excited to see that. that s gonna do it for us. alex wagner will be here tomorrow, now is the time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. is it okay if i have david corn on two, to talk about american psychosis? the title of his new, i think as of now, his by sign because of the five minutes you spent on it. listen, i love david cohen. personal disclosure, he s a friend, i think is a great journalist, i love the way he thinks and rights. i am so glad that he s done a super readable modern history the right, we keep talking about these things that they haven t happened before and not exactly right, and we just need smart digestible history about this, particularly as we head into the midterms. this is just perfectly timed. we ve all been thinking about it. i remember thinking about it when donald trump got the nomination in 2016, i kind of work my way back to sarah palin,
unauthorized possession of classified information, probably are little bit upset by that legal argument, where they want to their lawyers from malpractice, for not having raised it as part of their defence. a lot of the brief they filed today also talked about things that quite frankly are just completely irrelevant. and not really subject any dispute that the government we care about. the former president has an unfettered right to access presidential records. yeah, that s fine, if president trump, former president trump or s desk knee wanted to go to the national archives and access his presidential records, not a problem. that has nothing to do with what is going on now, and they continue, or started to make this argument about that the president has the power to the classified documents. again, not in dispute. not an unfettered right, because there are limitations on a presidential power to declassify, particularly under