Lawrence: Fani Willis points out key flaw in GA co-defendants asking to move cases to federal court

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump waives his right to a speedy trial in exchange for severing his case from his co-defendants. Also, the discovery phase begins in the Trump classified documents trial. Plus, most Republicans remain silent after Vladimir Putin condemns U.S. democracy. And Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin meet in eastern Russia. Barbara McQuade, Harry Litman, Gwen Keyes, Bradley Moss and Timothy Snyder join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence of Donald.
0:03.2	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:04.6	Good evening, Alex.
0:05.6	We're going to have Yale Professor Timothy Snyder join us in the second half of the program
0:10.4	tonight to talk in another frame about Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, as it turns out,
0:17.5	Professor Snyder is just back from Ukraine, he has much to say.
0:20.6	He is such an eloquent and very wise thinker on all these things, so I am excited to
0:27.6	see that one.
0:28.6	And it's one of those things where it took the war in Ukraine for me to discover him
0:35.8	as someone who belongs in the dialogue on this show and for that I am eternally embarrassed
0:42.0	but glad that we do now have him on this show.
0:45.6	Yes, no need to be embarrassed, you have him on the show and that is a gift to all of
0:48.9	us.
0:49.9	So thank you, Lawrence.
0:50.9	Thanks, Alex.
0:51.9	Thank you.
0:52.9	Good show.
0:54.4	Well, tonight we have news in the fastest moving case against Donald Trump in Georgia and
1:00.0	in the slowest moving federal case against Donald Trump in Florida where Donald Trump's
1:07.0	favorite federal judge who he appointed took a full month to issue a standard order that
1:14.1	could have taken another judge less than a day, prompting Andrew Weisman today to tweet
1:20.6	unbelievable how long this has taken.
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