thanks, rachel. all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldn t believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinion, and then, getting it today was also shocking because the stuff that we and others pointed out in it, that could easily have been cut, was still in there. the quoting, you know, these guys from the 16 hundreds in england, who thought witches should be tried and executed. the witch trial moral authorities are still in this opinion. they are still being quoted as guidance for samuel alito. yeah, justice alito, and the majority, they were not taking pains to make sure that this would be broadly
gretchen whitmer, london lamar, and senator elizabeth warren all join me live. all in starts right now. good evening from los angeles. i am chris hayes. it is a brutal day for american democracy, for american women, specifically, for all americans could become pregnant. for all americans, really. it right enshrined in the constitution as intimate as any right one could imagine. it has been discarded and destroyed by five unelected justices. three of whom were appointed, of course, by the last president, who got about 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. in american democracy, it is truly rare to see rights taken away in this fashion. the proverbial moral arc of the universe, justice, striving for a more perfect union, to watch these things born backwards towards a reactionary pass, as starkly as this, and one moment to the next, it makes you feel physically nauseous. speaking only for myself, as a person who can become pregnant, a man, it s not even a tiny sliver
we begin with sunlen who is outside the supreme court. what are you seeing? reporter: jim, it certainly is a very tense moment right here on the steps of the supreme court. i want to show you the scene playing out now at this moment. i ll take you to the crowd here in the last few minutes we ve seen really this conversation between both sides break out. the police have moved in some barricades, some police fences and they have separated the two sides. over here you have a side who is not in support of friday s supreme court decision and over here pro-life and we have seen them yelling back and forth. i want to just give you a flavor of the crowd at the moment out here on the steps of the supreme court. abort the court. abort the court. reporter: although they are vocal and loud and are certainly taking issue with each other we have seen these protests remain largely peaceful throughout the day, jim. we are seeing this crowd swell in size a couple hundred out here tod
committee, three top officials who led the justice department in the final days of the trump administration including the former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen will make clear the doj saw no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to overturn the election and will detail how he and others resisted trump s pressure to back the baseless claims. a preview of newly obtained footage from the documentary film crew that followed former president trump and his team for six months before and after january 6th. it was just released by discovery plus, which, of course, is cnn s parent company. watch. okay. my father, he s very honest and he is who he is. he believes everything he s doing is right. i think i treat people well, unless they don t treat me well, and then we go to war. can we talk about january 6th? yeah. obviously people want to hear what he had to say there. so that documentary filmmaker alex holder has said that he will be deposed today after receiv
the public. reporter: they talked to ivanka trump, whose comments seemed to contradict what she told the committee under oath about whether she believed the election was stolen. plus, easing the sting of gas prices. at the white house next hour president biden will call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months. but is this proposal likely to hit a dead end in congress? speaker pelosi called it good pr just a few months ago. also on capitol hill, a major breakthrough in gun legislation with a senate vote coming as soon as friday. this is the most significant anti-gun violence bill that congress has voted on in 30 years. the senate action comes as new details about the uvalde school shooting massacre sparked new outrage. new testimony that the shooter could have been taken down in a matter of minutes, just adding to the devastation of victims families. i just don t get how you can hear these kids, you know, crying and asking for help, but you re