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That's going to do it for us for tonight. tomorrow night it's going to be a little weird. we're expecting at 7:00 eastern the judiciary committee to be starting markup essentially of the articles of impeachment against the president. that'll be tomorrow night into the wee hours and then they'll pick up again thursday morning. it's going to be a hurly-burly next few days. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and you know it's december because in december they start markups at 7:00 p.m. because they're watching the calendar t...

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 they're 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 don't know how long they're going to go tomorrow night, but there might not be all that much time between those two meetings. >> and it's kind of unlimited time when you get into this markup mode normally, and everyone involved sort of has an incentive t...

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. you'll 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 we're comparing them to the nixon and clinton impeachment hearings. you wrote a piece for cnn.com about trump's prospects in 2020 after possible impeachment. and you looked back at those two examples. what did you find? >> obvious...

Democracy are under attack. that's what they're 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 a president. by beating him in an election. that's always the way we did it here in america. not a...

You don't 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 clinton's impeachment hearing. arguing in that case impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office, not exactly a legal issue. 20 years...