Lawrence: Jack Smith just legally cornered Trump's favorite judge

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Justice Department spars with the Trump-appointed judge in the classified documents case. Also, Simon Rosenberg says Democrats can win in 2024. Plus, President Biden plans to meet with the families of the Baltimore bridge collapse victims Friday. And the White House reports Biden made it clear to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is needed. Laurence Tribe, Neal Katyal, Simon Rosenberg, Tom Perez, and Peter Beinart join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence.
0:02.6	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:03.5	Good evening, Alex.
0:04.5	We have Lawrence Tribe and Neil Kattiel here, so I'm going to, as quickly as I can, get out of
0:09.9	the way and let them talk.
0:11.1	But I did want to say one thing about what we just heard
0:14.5	Donald Trump say calling people animals. The Christians in Donald Trump's
0:21.7	rallies, there are many many Christians in Donald Trump's rallies, there are many, many Christians in those audiences,
0:26.0	they cheer every single time Donald Trump does that.
0:30.6	And what they are doing is cheering for a teaching by Donald Trump that is exactly the opposite of the teaching of Jesus Christ.
0:41.6	I'm going to have something to say about that at the end of this
0:44.6	program using a similar audio from Donald Trump and it is beyond the most poisonous stuff we've ever heard from a presidential candidate.
0:56.4	Yeah, dehumanizing children and women and men is the most unholy thing you can do.
1:00.9	It is.
1:01.9	It is. Have a good show. Thank you Alex. Thank you. Well
1:05.4	Donald Trump's favorite judge who was appointed by Donald Trump, Judge
1:09.5	Aileen Mercedes Cannon made legal history today. She became the very first judge ever to
1:17.1	deny a Trump motion to dismiss criminal charges against Donald Trump and not then be attacked by Donald Trump.
1:30.0	Donald Trump did not attack Judge Cannon. Donald Trump did not attack Judge Cannon.
1:33.3	Donald Trump did not do a social media post with pictures of Judge Cannon's children,
1:39.5	attacking her and her children.
1:42.9	Donald Trump did not attack the judge's spouse.
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