week. we ve been going through this together. you ve probably watched the hearings as we have and we ve done our live reactions, but tonight a little later, i m going to walk through what i think is the most damning thing we learned this week. stay with us for that if you re interested, but there was an investigation about how the proud boys violence was more methodical. this is new from a new york times investigation out today. recruits are told to meet at the washington monument the morning of the 6th. many worked as teams. like this group in tactical gear. within two minutes of biggs arrival, they are all at that entrance. a fellow member tells the group to push inside the capitol. one of the leaders responds, we are trying. it s further evidence of their collective intent. at this point the proud boys have been critical players in five major advances. you can see from the aerial shot the blueprints they were apparently trying to use and plan. well, some of it work
the studio. thank you for jumping into the chair like the true professional that you are. we have a lot of serious news to get to. start with this. we know the gang member accused of murdering two california cops this week should have been behind bars. that deceased suspect was a freeman thankeds to george gascon s soft on crime policy. he had a previous strike conviction and was only sentenced to probation for felon in possession of firearm charge. ashley: if flores would have been prosecuted in february of 2021, he may have been sentenced for up to three years in prison. george gascon s office is standing by the light sentencing, his office saying the sentence he received in the firearm case was consistent for this type of offense. given his criminal history at the time the court sentenced him, mr. flores did not have a documented history of violence. george gascon office lost a top aid and the group working to recall him said they reached 650,000 signature to trigger a r
then be heard saying on capitol hill. the committee pointing out they were directly reacting to what they were hearing from the president. and even after the horrific violence, another late message to mike pence. the lawyer working with trump saying there was still time to do this, to not certify the election. jonathan karl standing by with the testimony. also at this hour, the severe storms we re watching in the east at we come on the air. a tornado watch now in effect for parts of pennsylvania to new york. severe thunderstorms from the carolinas all the way up into the northeast. damaging winds possible. rob marciano standing by to time this out. the war in ukraine. and tonight, it s now believed three americans fighting for ukraine are now missing. at least two of them feared captured by russia. james longman in ukraine with what we re now learning tonight. the top isis leader captured by the u.s. tonight, u.s. officials saying he planned attacks against u.s. forces
with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. in other words, msnbc audiences are going to get even more rachael tomorrow night. i m quoting myself right now. and you will once again be my lead in for tonight s tomorrow night 10:00 pm hour after i join you in the 8:00 pm for our earlier coverage. is it absolutely impossible for you to get your show prepped when we hold you on set until 9 pm? and then only give you that one hour? off here s the amazing thing, the time when we did that and everyone at the last word staff was amazed with us the show was completely done, before we started the 8 pm coverage. and it s never been done before 8 pm wow. there s something about deadlines, rachel. there s something about if, you put the deadline there, it works. do not tell the rachel maddow show staff because they are going to put me on a bit spit and roast me. you have no idea how late i get everything done every night. no one was more surprised than i was.
reject any electorate votes! i m telling you, if pence game, we re going to drag mother [ bleep ] through the streets. you [ bleep ] politicians are going to get drug through the streets. hang mike pence. hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! this was real. this is the evidence. this has nothing to do with partisanship or how one might feel about how vice president pence conducted himself in government, his view, his ideology. that sometimes gets lost partly because of right wing lies. this was about america. a threat to the vice president pushed and organized by the president, and we re learning new details that people need to understand for our society and future, how close these rioters and criminals and would-be indicted insurrectionists came to locate pence as they plotted his assassination during what you have to remember then, no one knew how it would end, how long it would go, how bad it would get. as they got that close to him during that insu