Full Trump jury seated, opening statements on Monday

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Prosecutors choose to not reveal the full witness list in Donald Trump’s criminal trial. Also, President Biden hits the campaign trail while Trump stands trial. Plus, House Democrats help advance a critical foreign aid package. And reproductive rights are expected on the ballot on Florida, Arizona, and Nevada. Joyce Vance, Adam Klasfeld, Jennifer Rubin, Michael Beschloss, Timothy Snyder, and Mini Timmaraju join Jonathan Capehart.

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0:00.0	Time now for the last word with Jonathan K
0:03.0	part in for Lawrence. Good evening my friend.
0:05.0	Hey, good evening, Ali. I'm so glad you're going to be talking to
0:08.0	Malik Poncholi about what happened to him or the cancellation of his of his book reading I saw his
0:17.0	Instagram story about that and wanted to get him on my show but you got him first so
0:22.2	that means I get to watch him early. The thing about
0:24.7	Malik is he's truly the sweetest man anybody's ever met. Like you cannot
0:28.6	imagine this guy getting banned from a speech about bullying. It's like the
0:32.3	world's upside down man when you're
0:33.6	when you're when you don't want this kid talking to your kids the world's
0:37.0	upside down. Yeah upside down and inside out. Ali thank you very much.
0:41.3	Have a good show.
0:43.8	This trial is starting.
0:46.4	That was Judge Juan Mertan's parting thought
0:48.9	to the courtroom in the case of the people of the state
0:52.3	of New York versus Donald J Trump.
0:55.0	Today, on day four of the trial, the full panel of 12 jurors and six alternates
1:00.7	were shown in to consider Donald Trump's fate in the historic first
1:05.5	criminal trial of a former US president. Judge Merrachon told the court that
1:10.5	opening statements would begin on Monday.
1:13.7	That didn't stop Donald Trump's lawyers from spending part of their day trying to delay the case.
1:19.6	The New York Appeals Court denied a motion by Trump lawyers to move the trial to a different
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