Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening.

Good evening, Rachel. We have Sully Sullenberger joining us tonight, who I think a lot of people are eager to hear from after this disaster, this aviation disaster.

Also, later, Senator Mark Warner, who is here because he represents the state of Virginia where the crash technically occurred,

that airport is in Virginia, but also as the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee

in the Tulsi-Gabbard hearing today plays a key role in the committee.

And he, Rachel, has not, he's one of the Democrats who we actually don't know how he's going to vote.

We're going to find out if the hearing.

It's very common, by the way, for the chair that, you know, the ranking member to not announce before a hearing because they want the hearing to be more meaningful that they, and they're going to use it to make up their

minds. We see that in Bill Cassidy, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy. He's very plain about that with the

Kennedy nomination. But it's sometimes the hearing is what they need and it's possible we could

get a decision out of Senator Warner tonight. Fascinating. I'm looking forward to hearing it.

I found it to be a very unnerving hearing in lots of different levels. I'll be very interested

to hear what his take. Thank you, Rachel. Thank you. Thanks, Lawrence. Well, Tip O'Neill could have

blamed Ronald Reagan, but he didn't. According to political rules, the Democratic Speaker of the House

Thomas P. O'Neill could have blamed Republican President Ronald Reagan the last time. An airliner

crashed into the Potomac River. Tip O'Neill could have blamed Ronald Reagan, but he didn't

because the rules of common decency would not allow it. And Tip O'Neill's first impulse after the

crash was not blame. It was sympathy. And so Democrats did not blame Republican President Ronald Reagan, even though in the single stupidest tough guy move by a president in domestic policy in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan on August 5th, 1981, not quite six months into his presidency,

fired 11,345 air traffic controllers in the middle of a labor dispute. It was the single

biggest blow to the American aviation industry in its history to that point.

And five months after, President Reagan fired 11,345 air traffic controllers, a 737 crashed into the Potomac with 79 people aboard. I was thinking about that

crash in our live coverage at this hour last night, which became this network's first

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