The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, 4/6/22

MSNBC`s continuing coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The House of Representatives today voted to refer White House staffers Peter Navarro and Daniel Scavino to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution, for contempt of Congress, for their refusal to testify to the January 6 committee. Justice Clarence Thomas was the only Supreme Court Justice who voted to block delivery of Trump White House evidence and communications to the January 6th Committee. Ukrainian forces have retaken large areas around Kyiv this week after Russian troops abandoned their assault on the Capitol and withdrew.

LAWRENCE O`DONNELL, MSNBC HOST: Good evening, Ali. And we have a bit of breaking news at this hour. Chuck Schumer has locked in a scheduled vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the next Supreme Court justice. At about 1:45 p.m. tomorrow on the Senate floor, they expect the roll call to begin, and history to be made. ALI VELSHI, MSNBC HOST: It will be a moment to watch. We are all going to stop which we are doing at that point and just take a moment and breathe it in and say, for all of the wrong that is going on in the world, something good is about to happen. O`DONNELL: Yeah. And that`s where it is going to happen. That`s true. Thank you, Ali. VELSHI: Good night. O`DONNELL: Thank you. Well, it has been a nice life, an easy life, being the daughter of Vladimir Putin, until today. Vladimir Putin got his daughters sanctioned today. That is what dad did for them today. Worst things have happened to the children of Russian heads of state. Peter the Great is Vladimir Putin`s idol, he was the last Russian head of state to get divorced, in 1698. For over 300 years after that, no Russian head of state dared to get divorced. Until Vladimir Putin, thinking perhaps he had become Peter the Great. He got divorced in 2013. Like Peter the Great, Vladimir Putin is a paranoid sociopath, thinking that his oldest son, Alexei, was plotting against him, Peter the Great had his son tortured to death. So, when your dad idolizes Peter the Great, if the worst happens to you is that you get sanctioned, you should feel very lucky. If history is to give Vladimir Putin an appellation following the form of Peter the Great, his inappropriate title, it should be the name Joe Biden gave him, Putin the war criminal. We don`t know exactly how many daughters, and possibly even sons Putin the war criminal actually has. He definitely had two daughters in his marriage to the Russian flight attendant that began when he was a KGB agent in the 1980s, and it ended in divorce in 2013 was he was president of Russia for life. The names of those daughters are Maria and Katerina. They are in their mid- thirties. In Russia, no one is allowed to use their last names when referring to them. Vladimir Putin refuses to discuss his family life in any way for what he calls security reasons. A BBC reporter once asked Vladimir Putin about the two daughters, born during his marriage. The two daughters that we know for sure that exist. The reporter said, tell me please, when will you admit that they are your children, and when will they open themselves to…