The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell, who's back, starts right now. Hey, Lawrence, welcome back.

Hey, John. Thank you. You know, I will never forget the day, and I'm sure Aaron Sorkin will never forget the day in season one of the West Wing, when White House press secretary, D.D. Myers, told us that in the White House, they call Friday, take out the trash day.

Because that's the day late Friday afternoon.

That's the day when you dump out stories in the White House that you're hoping get very

little attention or try to suppress the attention by releasing them on Friday.

And they just get lost in the weekend media.

And of course, as soon as Aaron Sorkin heard the phrase, take out the trash day, that became the

title of episode 13 in season one, brilliantly written by Aaron with Dede Meyer's brilliant input

that you could only get from a White House press secretary

invaluable perspective on on how it all works.

And so it was no surprise to me that when Donald Trump decided that it was time to release

the very, very, very friendly discussion that his former criminal defense lawyer,

Todd Blanche had with Galane Maxwell, that it would be a Friday afternoon.

Of course, it would be a Friday afternoon.

And that's when they released that, and it got the news treatment that it did.

And then, of course, it got pushed around by a lot of other things that have come after that.

But the Epstein files are very much back at the center of things in Washington.

And we'll be tomorrow.

Our first guests tonight will be in Washington tomorrow telling the story of what Jeffrey

Epstein actually did to the real victims who Galane Maxwell completely

ignored and lied about in her interview, so-called interview, with Todd Blanche.

I can't wait to watch. And Galane Maxwell deserves all of the criticism and critique.

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