and to rachael's incredible stuff back in new york for keeping this show's dna intact during these turbulent times. but mostly, thank you to you, for allowing us to adopt a bit to give the beginning of this war the attention that it deserves. i am going to see you all back home in just a few days. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, my friend. word wit>> good evening, ali. you really did an extraordinary job of coverage there. coverage for all of us, and all of our programming on this network. you have not just been delivering for that hour, one hour a night, it has been invaluable to have you there. we really appreciate it. we have been relying on you in a way that we have never had to rely on you before. this is what war does. and you have risen to this force. we really, really appreciate it, ali. >> lawrence, thank you. and i look forward to being back with you in person pretty soon. >> thank you. we are going to be joined later tonight by ketanji brown

jackson's college roommates. all of her college roommates. all three of them. four girls got together in 1988 at harvard college, and went on to harvard law school together, and they have a story to tell that has now become a part of history. can tony brown jackson's college roommates will join us for early in the hour. here is what's the transition and ukraine looked like before it was attacked. thousands of people were at the train station, there it was before it was attacked. the images you are about to see now are painfully graphic, at least 50 people were killed, including five children, and nearly 100 people were wounded. the washington post reports both witnesses said that an initial explosion was followed by 45 blasts that they believed were caused by cluster bombs.

there were people everywhere, torn off limbs, flesh, bone, pieces of people everywhere. the washington post journalist found a large piece of the missile when they arrived and report that the russian words for for the children we're spray-painted on the missile. here is sky news correspondent john sparks at the scene today. >> explosives from that missile have dropped here. just remember, there will have been hundreds of people queuing up to get inside the train station. we have seen it. they will -- they would have been killed. a lot of them. the windows have been broken. there are shot no holes in the walls. a powerful, powerful about blast. it must have been absolutely terrifying. positions have been left, i can see fruit, apples, water, stuff

that people have broad for the journey. anybody would bring for a long journey. it is a long journey to lviv. >> president zelenskyy called the attack quote, another war crime, and an evil that has no limits. the president added, if it is not punished, it will never stop. president zelenskyy spoke today with cbs news. >> we are defending the right to live. i never thought this right was so costly. these are human values, so that russia does not choose what we should do, and how i am using my rights. that wright was given to me by god. and my parents. >> what did you see in bucha? >> the. death, just death. >> the washington post reports that minutes before the attack, quote, pro russian news telegram channels reported that the strike was aimed at ukraine

fighters or hardware, according to open source intelligence and data analysts. the posts were swiftly deleted when the horrific civilian toll became apparent. the pentagon says russia carried out the attack with a short range ballistic missile fired from inside ukraine. slovakia knows that it would send an s-300 missile defense system to ukraine, the kind of system that could protect against attacks like this. today, european commission president ursula traveled to bucha to see the atrocities there firsthand as investigators continue to search for evidence of war crimes. she met with president zelenskyy in kyiv, on a new video tonight, president zelenskyy called for tougher sanctions targeting russian oil and gas, saying quote, it is energy exports that provide the alliance share of russia's profits, and allow the russian leadership to believe in its impunity.

this allows russia to hope that the world will ignore the war crimes of its army. we will not allow this. everyone in the world who has the courage like ukrainians to resist tyranny, will not allow this. joining us now is nbc news correspondent ali arouzi in lviv. what is the situation there tonight? >> good evening, lawrence. another day, another stream of chaos, and violence unleashed on ukrainian civilians. this time, at a packed railway station. it was a scene of devastation, and carnage, as you mentioned. two missiles with the word for the children launched on people trying to get to safety there. at least 50 people killed amongst them, five were children. the hospital there was inundated with people, missing arms, legs, it was a scene of uttered devastation. the press officer describing

this horrific scene, let's take a listen to his account. >> there were many killed an injured here. the police, fire engines, the cars were burning nearby. it was a hell on earth. they all had injuries. because this is the type of shrapnel but pieces are scattered around here. people were wounded by those pieces. it was those fragments that killed them. >> and lawrence, these people were trying to get out of this area to get to safety because ukrainian authorities were telling them an all on assault was coming their way. and they would not -- they didn't need to get trapped in there like the people of mariupol. but of course, they did not get out of their. this all may have backfired for vladimir putin. the european commissioner visiting president zelenskyy today promising to try and do everything she can to fast-track ukraine's membership

to the european union. so vladimir putin's plans to isolate ukraine don't seem to have worked. >> ali arouzi, thank you very much for leading us off tonight, really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and joining us now from kyiv is more simon & schuster, reporting from time magazine, and also with us rebecca hamilton associate professor of law at washington college of law. she is also an executive editor of just security who recently wrote about investigating war crimes. simon, what is possible now in investigating war crimes and ukraine? what can they do given that it is a live word situation? >> well, just hearing in the suburbs of kyiv, in the city of bucha, that i think the world has been hearing a lot about, just a few in the past week or so, an initial wave of horrific

images from bucha emerged. bodies scattered on the street, i am sure a lot of your viewers have seen. on the investigation there is already starting. so today, there was an effort to exhumed the mass grave, and investigators are beginning the very long effort to gather evidence and identify victims, and identify how they were killed, the circumstances in which they were killed. it is going to be a very long process. i am planning to go there in the next couple of days to see how that is unfolding, and talk to some of the investigators. but plus presidents let's get his team have made a very clear that that is going to be a top priority for them. not only to continue to fight this war in the fund themselves, would make sure that they are preparing all of the evidence that they can for a potential war crime tribunal against the russian officers, and leadership that they accused of perpetrating these crimes. >> and rebecca hamilton, the

russian forces seem to be making it distressingly it investigate these things, and to prove them to be work himes. >> i would say that it is never actually easy, but you are right. the images that we are seeing certainly are pointing very strongly to the war crimes, to the intentional attacks on civilians. but it is one thing to see that, and it is another thing to be able to hold an individual criminally responsible. because this is not just about proving that these horrific acts have been happening, but showing exactly who was responsible, what's their orders were, what they knew, what's their intent was. and that is why it is so essential to have war crimes investigated on the scene doing evidence collection. >> and simon, what's about

weapons delivery at this point in ukraine? it is very hard to track with the gap is between what ukraine needs, wants, and what's the allies are actively trying to deliver. sometimes it seems like they may be moving more slowly than they should, but it is hard to tell. >> that is right. just today, yesterday my time, here in kyiv, i was at the presidential compound for the meeting between president zelenskyy and ursula von der leyen, the head of the european commission. president zelenskyy, there was a tough moment in that meeting when he said, he thanked her, gave a very held felt things for the health of the european union has provided, but that is not enough in terms of weapons delivery, in terms of sanctions against russia, in terms of the energy embargo that ukraine has been pushing for. and you know, i think this attack just in the last hours,

in the last day, shows that ukraine does not have the weapons that it needs to defend itself. it is hard to say whether there is a weapon system that could have prevented the kind of horrific attack, but there are weapons out there in the world that can shoot down the kinds of rockets that were used in that attack. so it is not least feasible not a weapons system in the right position in ukraine could have potentially knocked down that rocket. it is hard to say, it is really impossible to see at this point. but president zelenskyy was very clear that he was grateful for all the help that is coming, in but he needs much more. >> simon & schuster, and rebecca hamilton, thank you both very much for joining our discussion tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. coming up, the amazing sisterhood of our next supreme

court justice, ketanji brown jackson, there they are, her harvard college roommates, professor lisa fairfax, and professor antjuan at cochlear, and nina simmons. they all want to harvard law school together. we are going to have just a wonderful time talking about the next supreme court justice. i have been having chats with the roommates before the show tonight, and this is going to be fun. stay with us. stay with us ♪ we could walk forever ♪ ( ♪♪ ) ♪ walking on ♪ ♪ walking on the moon ♪ ♪ some ♪ ♪ may say ♪ ♪ i'm wishing my days away ♪ ♪ no way ♪ ♪ walking on the moon ♪ bipolar depression.

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you the next associate justice of the united states supreme court, the honorable ketanji brown. [applause] but >> thank you. thank you all. thank you all very much. thank you. thank you so much, mister president. >> ketanji brown jackson spent the rest of her speech thanking people, from the president to the vice president white house staff, including ron mcclain, she even thanked the 100 senators who discharged their constitutional duty by voting on her confirmation. that includes the 47 who voted against her. she thanked her parents, johnny and a larry brown.

she thanked her daughters, her husband, patrick jackson, a surgeon whom she met and college. she thanked many people whom she has worked with, including judges and law clerks. her thanks went all the way back to her years and miami palmetto senior high school, with special thanks to the debate team. she thanked her predecessors in history, dr. martin luther king junior, supreme court justice through a good marker, and the woman she calls her personal heroin, constance baker motley, the first woman who served as a federal judge, and she thanked our next guests. the women she calls her sisters, when she met when they were all freshman at harvard college in 1988. >> from may days at harvard college, where i met my indefatigable roommates, lisa fairfax, nina simmons and antoinette coakley. they are truly my sisters. >> one of the sisters, law

professor lisa fairfax, spoke at judge ketanji brown jackson's confirmation hearing before the judge did. professor fairfax had the ceremonial honor of introducing the nominee to the senate judiciary committee. >> i was a roommate in and a very dear friend at harvard college and harvard law school of judge ketanji brown jackson, who i am so very honored to introduce to you today, and to the american people are. ketanji and i met during our first days of college nearly 35 years ago. those first moments, when you wonder if you belong, she is the friend that made sure we all did. our other college roommate, antoinette coakley, a distinguished business law professor, has described ketanji as a coalition builder. we knew early on that she could be anything she chose to be, but also the two seemed destined to be a judge. >> and joining us now, the amazing sisterhood that was

born at harvard college and his surrounded ketanji brown jackson for 35 years, ketanji brown jackson's college roommates, lisa fairfax, presidential professor and co director of the institute for law and economics at the university of pennsylvania, antoinette coakley antoinette, professor northam eastern law school and nina simmons, senior counsel of the new york law firm of washington and ghetto. thank you all very much for joining us friday night party that we have been having, actually, before the show, and i revere the title of professor and i always use the title of professor on this program. i might slip tonight because we have have been having a little bit too much fun, and before the show, talking about all of this. let me begin with professor cochlear, because, you are the one that was the least surprised by all of this, because, although professor lisa fairfax told the committee you predicted should be a judge,

in fact the prediction was a little more specific. when did you make the prediction, and what was it? >> back in our college days, our sophomore year in college when we rooming together, i predicted that she would be the first black woman justice on the u.s. supreme court. and that prophesy has come to pass. >> did you get much agreement with that prediction of the time? >> from ketanji, she was humble. she was very humble about it. she just accepted it in stride and graciously nodded and laughed, i think. i don't think that she had considered that at that point. >> nina simmons, where were you at the moment that you heard the news that your college roommate was going to be the next supreme court justice, and what was your reaction? >> i was sitting in my home office, because i'm still in covid office. my dog was barking, my grandson was screaming, and i just saw

the vote, watching the vote, watching the countdown, and getting tests from all my friends, and it was just overwhelming. it's so very surreal, at this point. it still is. there was this relief, but it still doesn't feel real, i think, until i see her in person, i don't think it's going to feel real. it's so important. my grandson, my daughters, that they see this, that they saw this during my lifetime, their lifetime. who knew? in that we are so close to that historical person now is amazing. i'm just so happy. so overwhelmed. >> there are, i think, several stages to news like this. first is the moment to hear the word, which may have been from ketanji for some of you. i want pry into that confidence. but then there's the news. there is the moment where they

are saying it on tv or they are saying it on the radio and that's a whole other level of reality. professor lisa fairfax where were you when the first time you heard? was it a car radio, a tv, that it's real, that is out there? >> it was a car radio. and you are right, that there was a difference between, because we knew they were going to announce that president biden was going to, she was going to be the one that he was going to nominate. i actually knew it was going to come, so i had a just dropped my daughter off at school, and i said i think we're going to hear something word aunt k. then i heard it and i realized i couldn't see because there were just tears pouring down my eyes. i had to pull over. i was shaking. i was so emotional. i thought, this is real. i just, i was like, oh my god,

k, oh my god. we are so excited. this is really happening. you're right, when you hear it on the radio, when you hear and from lawrence o'donnell's mouth, you know it's real. >> at harvard college they take the freshman and kind of randomly put them together with roommates. but when you're a sophomore you get to choose. so you've got to choose. and suddenly there is this team of four that gets chosen. and then, this is something i have never heard of, i went to that college, i know exactly one guy who got into harvard law school. i didn't know anybody else. i know little on people got rejected. all four people in this room, i'll get admitted in this one roommate group to harvard college? what was the trick? >> the trick was sisterhood. we worked together. we supported each other. we encouraged each other. we studied together. we held each other accountable for studying and for staying on

course. ketanji was a big part of that. she was a convenor of the study groups. she was our leader of sorts, and we were determined, and she was determined, that she was not going to get there alone. that we were all going to get there together, that we would all be successful together. that was our sisterhood that created that ability for us to get to that level. >> you told me a secret before the show, which i had never heard of and didn't even know is legal, which is, you studied before the parties, then you came home from the parties and studied some more. now, i didn't think anyone was doing that. studying after the parties. >> they weren't part of our roommate group. >> you were having our doubts in that first freshman year. a shaky time, an imposing economic institution. you're coming from california, never been to a place like this.

you are powell ketanji is coming from florida, and she helped you in that first year, didn't she? >> she did, absolutely. she was always the one that was, like we belong here. we can do this. we can do this, we can do this together. what do you need? most of the time what we needed was a word of encouragement. okay, you're right, we can do it. let's go. even when it's think about the classes we're gonna take. she was always, like looking through the course book, let's take this, one let's go, we can do this. and those words of encouragement, especially in the beginning, and that you belong here, we are belong here, that was really all we needed. >> and nina, you also seemed to have decided that you all belong in each other's lives. you have been to each other's weddings. you know each other's kids. it has been an unshakable bond. >> absolutely. right now we are trying to plan

our next get together, and because we have just missed each other. because of covid we haven't seen each other, we've done zoom, conference calls, but we need to be with each other, i think. we need to give those big hugs, especially ketanji. i just want to hug her and just say, we are watching, we are there with you. we felt your pain, and we are here for you now. you've got this. we had you than, we have you now. we have you forever. and that's the strength of sisterhood. i just can't wait to we can get to hang out again. >> we're gonna squeeze it a commercial break right here, and we're gonna be right back with ketanji brown jackson's college roommates. for kids at harvard who are wondering which place, it was cabot. and remember, they studied after the parties, as well. parties, as well

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we've made it, all of us, all of us. >> and then, on the vast lawn of a house that was built by slaves, the next member of the united states supreme court said this. >> the poetic words of dr. my ingenue. i do so now while bringing the gifts my ancestors gave. i -- i am the dream and the hope of the slave. [applause]. so, so as i take on this new

role, i strongly believe that this is a moment in which all americans can take great pride. we have come a long way toward perfecting our union, in my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the supreme court of the united states. [applause]. >> antoinette coakley, did you talk about that one generation jump while you were in college, that your parents had lived in another world than what was possible for you? >> we talked about the fact that we were honored and humbled, and privileged to have an opportunity to be in those spaces, knowing that our

parents did not have those opportunities. we knew that we stood on the soldiers of others that sacrifice for us to be there, and our own families, and our community. we knew that this was an opportunity of a lifetime. and we were charged with taking full advantage of that. so that we could make our people proud, make our families proud, make our communities proud. so that we could give back, and help those that were coming along behind us. we knew we were part of something much bigger than just ourselves. >> nina, one day named patrick jackson comes around the dorm. this is a student, was there one moment where patrick jackson comes into the storm and you are all checking him out at the same time? >> absolutely, yes. >> you remember that moment?

>> i remember that moment. we all kind of, you know what i am saying? and we are sitting there, and all of a sudden, he walked in there with his backpack and we were like, oh, okay. then when he left, we were like okay, we are just friends. okay. but i tell the story because patrick was from day one all in. so supportive. what you saw on tv is who he is. so supportive, so loving. wanting to know about our culture. wanting to know about black history. our issues, he was in here studying. and that is not just because he wanted to meet people, it is because he cared, and he wanted to understand. he became a very long history of harvard and his family. it was in his veins. so it was very important for him to understand the broader world. and because of that, we have a

brother now as well. doctor patrick jackson is amazing. he is a great dad, and he is just -- he has got her back, our backs, he is always there for us, he helped my mom when she was sick recently, found her a doctor. it turns out that doctor, he trained at georgetown. so from then on, we got very -- she got treated very well. but he would do that for anyone, anywhere. because that is the kind of person he is. and so very quickly i would say he was brought into our sisterhood fold, and we are just so happy he is here, and he is with her, and he is just loving her up, giving her love. >> lisa, i have two names for you, johnny brown and celery brown. it sounds like they were the

parental voice into this dorm room coming in through ketanji. you are all getting parental advice. >> we were. absolutely, from both of them. i will tell you, half of the stuff, we went to more than half it is because she said my dad said we have to go to this. my dad said we have to go to this, we have to. this was before the internet. i am not sure he found out what was going on. but he was directing our lives from that. and her mom, they are just so supportive of everything we did. and they were there. i mean, anytime she did anything, they were there. and they took us in. and when we went on spring break, they were there, they have always just been their, putting their arms around us, loving us, and ketanji would give us tidbits of what they would say to her, right? well, my mom would say, and it would lift us up. mrs. brown said --

>> don't go out looking like that. you cannot go out like that. >> let's listen to something that president biden said today about the confirmation process. he said he knew it was going to be difficult, but let's listen to what else he said. >> i knew the person i nominated would be put through a painful, and difficult confirmation process. but i have to tell you, what judge jackson was put through was well beyond that. it was verbal abuse. the anger, the constant interruptions, the most vile basis assertions and i accusations. >> what was your reaction to all of that? >> i was glad i was not in the room during those hearings. i think it was purposeful. we came the first day, because i don't think -- i definitely don't have the demeanor of ketanji, because i would have been so angry. it is heartbreaking.

but it is not unlike, i think, what's black women have to deal with in the professional, or corporate settings, or any place. it was so personal. it felt like an attack on her, but an attack also on all of us. and that pain was so palpable, i saw the moment that she had had enough. and everyone such was so strong, but i looked in her eyes, she has had enough. and that is when senator booker lifted her up, and she was okay. but it was so painful to look at. so unnecessary, so unrelated to the proceedings. at one point, i was like, what are the even -- they're not even talking to her, they're not asking her questions, they're not allowing her to respond. so it was just a show.

and it was for no one's benefit, in my eyes. >> lisa? >> yeah. i mean, it was painful. and you know, nina said it best, it was that she is the best, and the brightest. she is so brilliant. and if they would attack her, that is what we were watching, if they would attack someone as brilliant as her, what does that mean for where we are today? it was actually, to me, a very sad moment. painful, and said. we have come so far, and yet not. and nina is right, for many of us it was painful. for us it was painful, because that is our sister. but i think for many black women in particular watching, it was painful.

as a reminder of really what you go through on a daily basis. sometimes, they are not saying it, but you know they are thinking it. and yet you still have to be ketanji brown jackson. so calm, so thoughtful, so respectful, so civil, as people are treating you as if you don't belong. and with her brilliance, her temperament, her a dress, she absolutely belongs. it was painful. >> and antoinette, there has never been a more qualified nominee before that committee. no one more qualified and history. what did it feel like for you watching that part of the hearing? >> absolutely. i go with what lisa and may not have both said. that felt like an attack on all of us as black women who have had to overcome so many obstacles, and challenges time and time again.

who have done all that we possibly can to prove ourselves, and yet, and still, enough never seems to be enough, despite ketanji's impeccable credentials, impeccable qualifications. they still attacked her as if she were not fit for that role. that is something that black women are constantly dealing with. attack on your ability, attack on your competence, attack on who you are as a person fundamentally, right? that you don't belong. we all felt that. i think we all felt that, definitely in our sister group, i think we felt that across the community of black women around the world. we all felt that same attack. and it is just unnecessary. and you do get tired of it. and you want to be able to scream, and yell, and fight back. but you have to suck it up. you have to hold yourself

together. you have to go higher. you have to engage in a polite way, and a respectful way, and a dignified way, regardless of what is thrown your way. and that is exactly what ketanji did. and so when she carried herself with such poise, and confidence, and dignified bearing in the midst of that attack, we all cheered. we cried, but we all cheered because we said that is exactly what we need to do. she showed them through her demeanor, through her excellence, that they were wrong. that she was right. she rose above. and that was a victory for her, but it was also a victory for all black women around the world watching that. because we know what that feels like. >> you can't hear it, but i guarantee you, there is a couple million people cheering for you all right now. i can never thank you enough for bringing this discussion to this table tonight. this has really been an honor to have the sisterhood here.

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sent two days after the presidential election and two days before this network and others called the election for joe biden. according to the new york times donald trump jr. texted mark meadows on november 5th, when votes were still being counted. it's very simple. we have multiple paths. we control them all. donald trump juniors techs to mark meadows was first reported by cnn. cnn reports don't trump junior also texted mark meadows, quote, republicans control wisconsin, north carolina, etc. we get trump electors. donald trump junior's text goes on to say that if republicans don't deliver enough trump electors to the electoral college, then the plan was for congress, quote, to vote to reinstall trump as president on january 6th. we have operational control,

total leverage, the text says. potus must start second term now. and joining us now is glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor. he is an msnbc legal analyst analyst, and glenn, this is one of those things that you see evidence, when you're a prosecutor, and your handed evidence like this, these have to be the moments when you say, wait a minute, it can't be this clear. >> it's like prosecutorial manna from heaven. when i was reading the reporting about these text messages and i saw don jr. saying things like, we have control of all of the paths, obviously of reinstalling his father for second term. we have total leverage. and potus's second term must start now. two days before the vote count was even complete, that is breathtaking in its treasonous bravado and it's casual

disregard for the voters of america. the vote count didn't matter to don jr.. he was saying, my father's second term must start today, before a winner has even been declared, and what that has echoes of, lawrence, is what a federal judge, david carter said just days ago, that what donald trump and john eastman we're doing, and i think we can now add don jr. in the mix, they were involved in a coup in search of a legal theory. don jr. doesn't even make the pretense of looking for a legal theory. he says the voters are elect irrelevant. my father must be installed for a second term now, even before the vote tallies are complete. i mean, please, let our prosecutor take that into a courtroom and presented to 12 people in the box. >> you know, glenn, one of the things i am taking from this also is that i knew at that time, two days after the

election, and that biden had won this thing. fox called arizona for a biden on election night and all of the information, and all of the data we were getting, were supporting a biden win all week. it was never ever trending toward trump. the people who called these things and their networks have been incredibly careful about it. and waited until november 7th it. could've been called earlier, but they didn't most conservative way, so what this says to me is they knew in the white house, they knew in the trump family, two days after the election, the donald trump had lost. he's not going to win the votes. forget about counting votes this week. we have to go another way. >> yes. that's why donald trump, even in the run up to the election, was announcing that if he lost it would be rigged. this really was a coup from day one. i think it arguably continues to this day. what i think don jr. has now distinguished himself as is yet

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