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going on. but tonight i actually showed up with something planned to say. oh, okay. and you ruined it. because i just listened again. rachel. bless our hearts and other parts. all right. but [ laughter ] i didn t know i could get you to say that again. i m regretting it immediately. okay. i m going to try to say the thing i planned to say. okay. and what i planned to say is wouldn t it be nice if it was just completely totally absolutely impossible to suspect that vladimir putin orchestrated what happened in syria this week so that his friend in the white house could have a big night with missiles and all of the praise he has picked up over the last 24 hours? wouldn t it be so nice if you couldn t even in your wildest dreams imagine a scenario like that? wouldn t it be great if we could go back to wag the dog being a sitcom plot, you know. exactly. and i don t know what it is. is it a 2% chance? is it a 50% chance? i don t know. but i don t think it s a ....
we re going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. i wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the wadirector comey former director comey found out about this, the new york times account of this is just stunning. he was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. in response, mr. comey laughed. he said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. and then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. comey that he should step into a nearby office. mr. comey stopped addressing the group. he proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to and he stepped into a side office where he confirmed that he had been fired. at that point, he had not heard from the white house. shortly after that, rachel, after all of that, it s been on television, a letter from the president was delivered to the fbi s headquarters just 7 blocks from ....
that they know bad things about him. good reason to keep really really really good files. you never no who will end up being president of the large western country. adam davidson, reporter for the new yorker. now time for last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening. good evening, rachel. boy am i glad i ve never done business in russia. doesn t that all sound obvious when you hear it that of course it would work that way. well and the fact the thing i have learned from adam davidson s reporting at the new yorker is you don t have to be perfect but you do have to look to see if you are really obviously doing dirty business with people who everybody knows are dirty. and it doesn t matter if that s okay in their country. it is not okay in the united states if you re an american company or american businessman doing that. just willful refusal to look and recognize dirt you are wallowing in, that s enough to get nailed in this country under our lawes. and it is absolu ....
we will not talk about numbers of troops. that is new for the american presidency. at no point tonight did the president clarify anything about what would actually change militarily for the united states in afghanistan. if this speech is meant to be interpreted as an increase in troop strength in afghanistan, it s the first time a president has announced an increase in troop strength without actually announcing an increase in troop strength. as commander in chief, i have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 u.s. troops to afghanistan. after 18 months, our troops will begin to come home. these are the resources that we need to seize the initiative while building the afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of our forces out of afghanistan. and here is how president george w. bush described the military surge that he ordered in iraq. so uch committed more than 20,000 additional american troops to iraq. the v ....
take a stand against 76% of what americans think is right. several republicans and democrats including my first guest tonight, california senator harris spent the weekend making statements and tweeting strong opposition to president trump ending daca. but in trump s mind, there was the looming headline that appears in breitbart today if the president did nothing about daca, and then, of course, there was the president himself. the candidate who campaigned on ending daca had only this to say when last asked about it on friday. should d.r.e.a.m.ers be worried? we love the dreamers. the president would delay a final big decision on daca for six months, an immigration hard liner told the new york times he s being pulled in a bunch of different directions and because he doesn t have any strong anchor or deep knowledge of the issue, he ends up sort of not knowing what to do. i think the fact that they did nothing to it suggests that they had no idea what to do. that was an a ....