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here on msnbc. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> but evening, rachel. and i'm sure you know what my absolute favorite part of your show was tonight. show was tonight >> no, what was a? >> i went into the control room to watch the isolated cameron rachel, so that i wouldn't miss a single fraction of a second of rachael blushing while alex wagner was -- was raising her and thanking her for what she has created here at msnbc. and you think a lot of that shot at home was on alex, so a lot of people couldn't see -- your blush in part, as m...

shot at home was on alex, so a lot of people couldn't see -- your blushing, as much as they deserved to see it. >> all i could do in that moment, while you are staring at me because you know me well enough to do that, is like, could i have done this in such a way that i precluded this from happening? could i have spoken the beginning of this interview and this discussion in such a manner, that there's no way that alex could maneuver this into talking about me? and i just was sitting there going, do it again, maddow, fix it, go back in time. meanwhile, you had me trapped in your gaze....

Actually written in federal statute, and how much of it is tradition, how much of it is a set of assumptions and rules? we are discovering so many other areas of government, that what we thought was rock solid turns out to, a great extent, gentleman's agreements, and things that are not written in law as solidly as we thought they were. what do we need to know about what is written in law about the presidents authority on classification, and in this case, instant declassification? >> well, you know, since the time of president truman, we have had a detailed procedure in place for protecting ou...