Lawrence: Jack Smith uses Trump lawyer's TV appearances against Trump

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Special Counsel Jack Smith responds to the Trump protective order motion. Also, The New York Times reports Justice Clarence Thomas’s $267K RV is financed by a wealthy health care executive. And a Tennessee Democrat who was expelled after participating in a gun protest wins back his seat. Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal, Harry Litman, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and TN State Rep. Justin J. Pearson join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, we've had a flurry of motions filed tonight by Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyers
0:04.9	and by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith in the newest criminal prosecution of Donald Trump
0:09.2	in Washington, D.C., and we have a lot of new TV statements from Donald Trump's criminal
0:14.0	defense lawyer John Loro, who has declined our standing invitation to appear on this program,
0:20.1	but decided to do several political chat shows this weekend. Our legal team of
0:25.6	under Weissman, Neil Katyal and Harry Lippman are here to see if they can do what I couldn't do,
0:31.8	which is find anything in what John Loro said on television that sounds like it could be an
0:38.5	effective legal defense in the courtroom against the charges Special Prosecutor Jack Smith has brought
0:45.2	against Donald Trump for conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an
0:49.8	official proceeding, obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. Before we get to
0:54.8	the video of John Loro's weekend TV loyering, the breaking news of the night is the exchange
1:00.4	of motions in federal court in Washington, D.C. tonight with Special Prosecutor Jack Smith
1:05.8	filing his response motion tonight. A few hours after Trump criminal defense lawyer John Loro met
1:13.4	the 5PN deadline for his team's legal filing. The argument in these motions is about what evidence
1:22.4	in the case, Ken Donald Trump and his defense lawyers make public. Special Prosecutor Jack Smith
1:29.8	is asking for protective order on basically all of the evidence that the prosecution hands over
1:35.2	to the defense and the discovery process and the Trump defense is asking the judge to quote,
1:40.5	shield only genuinely sensitive materials from public view. The Trump defense team response
1:46.1	acknowledges that grand jury testimony would have to remain secret and then makes suggested changes
1:53.6	to Jack Smith's proposed protective order that might seem like small changes. Here's an example
2:00.1	of the changes, the way they look on paper. John Loro and his team recommending to the judge
2:06.3	their their their changes are in red and as you can see most of what Jack Smith is asking for
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