Now, it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell on a Friday night, America, good evening, Lawrence.

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You know.

It's enthusiasm.

It is not to rise.

It is just excitement for Lawrence O'Donnell on a Friday night at 10.

It is a five-day work week around here for once.

For you.

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Well, in a motion filed under seal weeks ago and released publicly today by the judge in the case of the United States of America versus Donald J. Trump's special prosecutor, Jack Smith, asked the judge to issue two separate orders, one of which was to shut up.

Donald Trump's lawyers opposed everything that Jack Smith asked the judge to do.

Jack Smith asked the judge to impose four rules on any polling of the Washington, D.C. jury pool that Donald Trump's defense lawyers might want to do.

The proposed rules would require any polling questions to be submitted to the judge for approval and for all polling to be completed 30 days before jury selection would begin.

Jack Smith requested those rules in a brief passage at the end of a 19-page motion.

The first 17 pages of which ask the judge to tell Donald Trump finally to shut up.

The motion asks Judge Chetkin to use a method that Donald Trump is using a method that he tried to use to overturn the presidential election.

The same method he is now using in this case, quote, to undermine confidence in the criminal justice system and prejudice the jury pool.

Jack Smith's motion says, after Election Day in 2020, the defendant launched a disinformation campaign in which he publicly and widely broadcasts knowingly false claims that there had been outcome determinative fraud in the presidential election and that he had actually won.

In service of his criminal conspiracies through false public statements, the defendant sought to erode public faith in the administration of the election and intimidate individuals who refuted his lies.

The defendant is now attempting to do the same thing in this criminal case to undermine confidence in the criminal justice system and prejudice the jury pool through disparaging and inflammatory attacks on the citizens of this district, the court, prosecutors and prospective witnesses.

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