congressman cheney is standing up to donald trump for the sake of the institutional vitality and, indeed, survival of the republican party itself. i think here was the beginning of something much larger than being one of 435 members of the house, one of 535 members of congress. the language was remarkable. and to have celebrate sated herself elevated herself to this point where not just people in her own party, but people in the democratic party listen to her, consider her a leader howard: this is a total flip prosecute cays that days that many dismissed her as a warmonger in the hold of her father, the former vice president. and liberals were happy to remind us of liz s past record. the president is operating outside the bounds of the constitution. he thinks he s above the law, and if the republicans, conservatives don t stand up and night against it, as i said, we re going to lose fundamental values and freedoms. howard: talking there about barack obama, and m
patel, an msnbc medical contributor. maura, what s the latest? what do we know? reporter: according to the first lady s communication director, she confirmed the first lady tested positive via pcr test. she developed mild symptoms yesterday evening, monday evening despite testing negative on monday morning, during one of her covid testing cadences that the president and first lady do. when she started feeling the symptoms, she tested negative on an antigen test but then positive via pcr test. she s on vacation with the president and some family members. we know hunter and his wife have been here in south carolina. the first lady will stay here until she receives two negative covid tests. we haven t gotten updates on her symptoms this morning. we know she s been prescribed a round of paxlovid just like we saw the president had been when he initially tested positive. the first lady is 71 years old. we ll obviously be in touch with her office as the days go on to make sure we
And it is pretty clear those options are as i just outlined it. Does that mean he couldnt find trump in violation of some other statute that has not been briefed before him . Nobody has also said im not going to summarily find contempt. These are things you have to bring before me. He has made it very clear. These are not summary proceedings. Unless he actually does it in front of me, im not going to do it on my own volition. We could keep going. , we shouldnt. That will do it for us for now. Now it is time for the last word with our good friend lawrence odonnell. Good evening. Good evening, rachel. We have convened our own version of the last word Supreme Court. In it, including Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, Andrew Weissman is here with us. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has a few things to say about it too and he will be joining us. Looking forward to it, lawrence. We learned today the United States Supreme Court has two different kinds of justices. Justices who are trying to pro
that s going to do it for us tonight. it is time for the last word with lawrence for donald. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. you did make it look like it was the easiest thing in the world to sit down with you for an hour. i think a lot of people would want to do it, but i m sure liz cheney is very glad she got the chance to do that. that point she just made about not the lesser of two evils is such an important point to double underline from everything she s written in her book, everything we ve learned from the january 6th committee. i know plenty of times over the years, i ve heard people refer to their vote choice as the lesser of two evils. that is not where we are anymore. now. lawrence, one of the things i didn t expect before reading the book, and i probably should have one i started to see republican reaction to it, a lot of the republican issue with liz cheney is she is not shy about saying what people are doing wrong. she doesn t try to make peo
lot easier for you too. why did you take that decision? i don t think it would ve made it easier because at the end of the day at the end of the day, the question really is, you know, what s more important here. and to me, there was no world in which you would say maintaining this house seat matters more than standing up for truth. and it became clear that in order to stay in leadership, i was gonna have to tell donald trump s lies. and i was willing to do. that it wasn t a choice for me, and frankly, i don t think it was a choice for any american now given the stakes and given how significant this trend is. the book is called oath and honor: a memoir and a warning . liz cheney, what a remarkable what the world [laughter] and i know, despite everything, it s not the easiest thing in the world to sit down with me for an hour. but i really appreciate it. thank you, i appreciate it. let s keep the conversation going. that s going to do it for us tonight. it is