Lawrence: Fani Willis says she's aiming for 'top of the ladder' in GA Trump case

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis files for an emergency protective order after plea deal videos were leaked. Also, Special Counsel Jack Smith urges an appeals court to reinstate Donald Trump’s gag order. Plus, a Senate rule change could end GOP Sen. Tuberville’s military blockade. And NJ Democratic Rep. Andy Kim will primary embattled Sen. Bob Menendez who is defying calls for him to resign. Gwen Keyes, Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Andy Kim join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening,
0:03.7	Lawrence. Good evening, Alex, and we have Senator Amy Klobishar
0:08.0	joining us tonight. She is the chair of the usually obscure Senate Rules Committee.
0:15.0	I know where you're going with this one.
0:17.0	Well, it did the weirdest thing today.
0:20.0	The Senate Rules Committee voted to change a Senate rule.
0:25.0	And so we got to hear about that because they don't do that every day.
0:30.0	No, they sure don't.
0:31.0	It took a...
0:32.0	And it's a good tease, Lawrence.
0:34.4	It took the madness of Tuberville to provoke the Senate Rules Committee to actually vote to change a Senate rule.
0:44.0	The Madness of Tuberville could be a three-part BBC series,
0:48.0	but unfortunately it's an American drama playing out in real life right here.
0:53.0	It'll be a title of a limited series at some point, I'm sure.
0:56.8	I'm sure too.
0:57.8	Thanks, Alex.
0:58.8	Thank you.
0:59.8	Well today in response to leaks of prosecution video interviews in the case of Georgia
1:05.2	versus Donald Trump and multiple co-defendants, District Attorney Fawnee Willis did
1:09.8	exactly, and I mean exactly what Joyce Vance predicted she would do last night on this program.
1:19.4	There wasn't a formal protective order in place, but I think we'll see Fawny Willis make a request for
1:25.8	one and ask that there be no further leaks following this.
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