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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Donald Trump now facing 40 charges in classified documents case

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: A third defendant is added in the Trump classified documents case. Plus, President Biden touts manufacturing jobs created by Bidenomics. Also, African leaders meet with Putin, urging peace talks with Ukraine. And Florida approves the use of right-wing content in classrooms. Harry Litman, Peter Strzok, Betsey Stevenson, Terrell Jermaine Starr, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and Becky Pringle join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

Now, it's time for the last word with Ali Belchi, who's in for Lawrence.

0:04.1

Good evening, Ali.

0:05.1

It's good to see you, and you have yourself a great weekend.

0:07.3

We'll see you next week.

0:08.3

Thank you, my friend.

0:09.3

All right.

0:10.3

Well, it's Friday night at 10 p.m., and the indictment watch continues.

0:13.3

We are actually still on the lookout for a possible indictment in connection with special

0:17.8

counsel Jack Smith's January 6th investigation.

0:21.6

After Donald Trump posted this about a meeting between his lawyers and justice department

0:25.8

officials.

0:26.8

I expect nothing from the meeting with my lawyers and the lunatics in the DOJ regarding

0:34.0

January 6th.

0:35.4

And, quote, we didn't know about a meeting, so we don't know whether there is a meeting

0:39.8

or not.

0:40.8

Now, you may think that we'd hear about any potential indictments from the justice department

0:44.6

first, but that might not actually be the case.

0:46.7

Remember, it was Donald Trump himself who first tipped us off that he'd been indicted

0:51.9

in the Mar-a-Lago documents case last month.

0:54.6

So there's precedent for him being the person to break the news all week long.

1:00.1

We've been watching for a possible indictment vote from the federal grand jury investigating

1:04.7

Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election leading up to and on

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