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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

D.C. court fast-tracks Trump immunity claims appeal

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Versant, Government, Senate

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: The D.C. Appeals Court agrees to expedite the Trump immunity appeal as the Supreme Court considers Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for the Court to weigh in. Also, Senate Republicans block the Ukraine funding bill. And the Supreme Court will review a lower court ruling that would severely limit access to an abortion pill. Harry Litman, Glenn Kirschner, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Michele Goodwin and Sen. Tammy Baldwin join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with Ali Velshi who's in for Lawrence good evening

0:03.7

Ali you know Alex sometimes you and I talk about very serious things but once in a while we have to pull

0:07.5

the curtain back and people often say like what do you what do you talk to your

0:10.1

colleagues about you know when you're not on camera and you and I had a remarkable

0:14.0

conversation before the show the topic being hair which I don't think most people

0:18.8

would think you and I be talking about but yeah I mean listen just because you're not an

0:25.4

enthusiast of of you know the hair salon necessarily doesn't mean you don't have

0:29.7

really valid opinions we managed to fill a few minutes of conversation on it my friend

0:33.5

good to see you. And we filled some more conversation on live television

0:36.4

in front of an American audience.

0:37.6

On here, who did thunk it. Have a good weekend friends.

0:40.0

See you next week. All right. It's not the weekend. You see this is how I'm thinking about things. It's not the weekend. It's not the weekend.

0:43.0

You see, this is how I'm thinking about things.

0:44.2

It's Wednesday.

0:45.2

We are tracking a number of major developments tonight in the cases against

0:49.2

defendant Donald Trump, including a delay tactic by Trump forcing the hand of one federal judge overseeing

0:56.0

one of special counsel Jack Smith's cases.

0:58.0

You'll recall that last week

1:00.0

Donald Trump's criminal defense team filed an appeal of Judge Chutkins' ruling saying

1:04.9

that Trump is not protected by presidential immunity for his attempts to

1:09.0

overturn the 2020 presidential election leading up to and on January 6th.

1:14.8

Well today in response to that appeal,

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