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we re looking forward to that the beat, 6:00 p.m. eastern week nights. but more importantly the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, ari. thanks. much appreciated. thanks for joining us at home. it is friday. so that means the news has again a little nuts again. i feel like there is nothing predictable about american news cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. that s one thing you can count on. it s friday. things are nuts. tonight is no exception. tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. and over the course of this hour, actually, we re waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. i ll just tell you flat-out, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. as i speak right now, it s 9:00 p.m. eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. republicans ....
closer to having this issue be resolved, and judiciary chairman chuck grassley had hoped to hold a confirmation vote at one point as soon as monday. but sources telling manu raju and ariane de vogue that they did reach a tentative agreement to do a hearing on thursday, that news emerging minutes after the white house releasing the statement saying the judiciary committee appeared no closer to a hearing. it is dragging it out, from the white house s perspective, but it s granting ford s request for more time to prepare before she appears before the judiciary committee. again, a tentative date set for thursday, knowing there s more details to be hammered out, which is expected to happen tomorrow. ariane and sarah, thank you both. joining us now, former democratic senator barbara boxer, host of the podcast fight back, and back in 1991, she was part of a group of female lawmakers who marched thursday. so the date is set. but we re not sure yet or for sure if it will be publi ....
with all of that. anderson, one thing we should also note, and it s something you just mentioned a short while ago, that is that one of the reasons why christine blasey ford s legal team is canceling some of these interviews that they had set up is that they wanted to show some good faith to the other side and according to this source that was a welcome sign. it signaled to them that there s sort of a commitment there to get this done. and according to this source, in the words of this source, we want to work this out. anderson, one other interesting prospect in all of this that i think really needs to be underlined and highlighted, and that is that the conversations are continuing inside the senate judiciary committee to have a female attorney, a prosecutor or litigant of some kind to represent the all-male gop side of the senate judiciary committee. i was talking with a source earlier this evening who said essentially they don t want to have the image out there to the american ....
start wholesale firing people in the white house and in his administration. she is predicting that right after the election there is about to be a purge. sleep tight, everyone. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. you know, you do a fact-based show. you are a presenter of fact, a finder of fact. and i rarely get to hear your opinion in your show. and so i listened. i was hanging on every word. and i heard you say to hillary clinton, early in your hour, that you believe that the kavanagh nomination is, quote, hurtling toward the sun. you want to expand on that? you are my little eagle eyed friend, lawrence o donnell. yes, i did say that. that is my take on it. and i am a terrible predictor and nobody should bank on anything that i predict ever, in politics or in anything. but given the way christine blasey ford is approaching this, given the corrobora ....
or your 10th draft. you get to create the room where it happens. just don t think you have to do it alone. the powerful backing of american express. don t live life without it. welcome to politics nation. this morning we re following two developing stories, both with no clear sign of where or how they will end. first a bombshell report by the new york times claims that the number two official at the justice department suggested wearing a wire to take the president of the united states. and the president is now political reporter at axios. let me start with you, darren. the whole question of the new york times report that rosenstein had said in a meeting at the justice department that maybe he should wear a wire and meet with the president of the united states or maybe others should, and even brought up about imposing the 25th amendment which says the president is incapable of his duties. and one person said he was being sarcastic, others are saying he was v ....