Rachel Maddow

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Good evening, and thank you so much for being with us tonight.

I'm Rachel Maddow here at the MSNOW Mothership in New York, along with some of my very favorite people in the world.

Lawrence O'Donnell is here.

Chris Hayes is here.

Ari Melber is here.

And you wouldn't know it from the cold open.

It's like my childhood.

But Nicole Wallace is here.

Even though you inexplicably did not get mentioned in the cold open.

You get to be here double, triple time.

You get extra passes to be here whenever you want because you were randomly left out of that.

We are going to be joined in the course of this special coverage tonight by additional colleagues, Jen Psaki, Stephanie Ruhl, Moore.

The gang's all here, especially Nicole.

But the reason we are all here tonight together is for a special primetime recap of the historic hearing that took place in Washington today with Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought 44 felony charges against the man who is now the sitting president of the United States.

As special counsel, Jack Smith operated independently within the U.S.

Department of Justice.