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

Good evening, Rachel. I just wanted to add to what you were just discussing with Lisa Rubin,

that the abuse that has been described in that second marriage to Samantha Hegset.

This is from Pete Hegset's mother. This is her email to him at the time, where she says to him, you are an abuser of women,

and a man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power

and ego.

No accusation of physical abuse there.

She then goes on to list the abuse as, your abuse over the years to women,

dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling, needs to be called out. And what's so important

about this is, Republican senators are saying, they're defending him by saying there was no physical

abuse. And his second wife, Samantha, says there was no physical abuse.

That's correct.

She does say that.

Pete Hanks' mother describes what the abuse, the non-physical abuse, actually was that they're talking about, right there.

And with Lisa Rubin's new reporting tonight, we see this non-disparagement

agreement as part of the divorce papers, which does seem to open a whole new window into

what details we have heard, what corroboration we have or have not heard, what the Pete Hegseth's ex-wives may feel legally

constrained from talking about despite allegations named non-anonymous allegations from other people.

And it just feels quite materially relevant to the very serious questions raised about Mr. Hegeseth

that he has been deflecting and deflecting and deflecting.

And now we may know why we don't have some of those answers.

It just seems like a rush to me to hold his confirmation vote tomorrow while this whole new window has just been opened on the process.

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