The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey Lawrence. Hey, Jen. And I say this for you

and the control room. As I was just listening to you, your volume was going up and down on my end of it.

So I'm hoping that we are going to fix that. But it's not going to be a problem at all for the beginning of this program

because... Because you're going to talk loud? Well, no, because Lisa Rubin is joining me in the studio

so I can hear her with my actual in-the-room ears instead of the... Through the wires ears. And so it's all

going to work. It's all going to be fine. Good. That's the thing with technology. It's not always perfect. We do the best we can, right? And it's working right now.

So I should get to it while it's working. Get to it. Thanks, Jen. Thank you. Well, the dinner meeting

scheduled for Vice President's residence last night about the Epstein

situation didn't happen at the Vice President's residence, thanks to a leak from inside

the Trump White House, the Trump administration that indicated Vice President Vance planned

a dinner meeting at his residence last night with White House

Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, the Trump FBI director, the Trump Attorney General, and the Trump

Deputy Attorney General, who was Donald Trump's personal criminal defense lawyer, Todd Blanche,

who is the only criminal defense lawyer in history to represent a president of the

United States in a trial where that person was convicted of crimes by a jury of his peers.

NBC News is reporting that no gathering occurred last night at the Vice President's residence,

which was the worst possible choice of venue for such a meeting because it is so easy

for the press to just stake out the driveway there to monitor the entrance of the Vice President's

residents to see who's coming to dinner. NBC News is reporting

that a group did meet to discuss the Epstein situation at the White House last night, which is the

way that meeting should have been planned in the first place. But it's important to note that

even then, even when they kept it indoors at the White House with

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