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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The election case protective order hearing is set for Friday. Also, The New York Times reports that a secret memo laid out a strategy for Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s win. Plus, the Trump classified documents judge questions the Justice Department’s use of two grand juries. And voters reject the GOP effort to change Ohio’s constitutional amendment which would have had big consequences on an abortion rights vote in November. Neal Katyal, Bradley Moss, Gwen Keyes Fleming, Professor Laurence Tribe and Rep. Shontel Brown join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Laurence O'Donnell.
0:02.5	Good evening, Laurence.
0:03.5	Good evening, Alex.
0:04.5	I am speed reading this Near Times report about the memo that is crucial evidence in
0:11.1	Jack Smith's latest indictment of Donald Trump.
0:14.6	And you're the pronunciation expert for Kenneth.
0:18.3	Kenneth?
0:19.3	I'm not.
0:20.3	Actually, can I just take the moment to apologize to America?
0:22.9	I had it on good authority that it was Chesboro.
0:25.9	And then it's apparently Cheeseboro.
0:27.6	You'd think they'd take it.
0:29.2	We were giving him the Ches, but they want the cheese.
0:32.5	So the audience now, it is spelled C-H-E-S-E-B-R-O.
0:38.0	So there aren't the two E's together like in Cheese, but okay.
0:41.6	So Kenneth Cheeseboro's memo that the prosecution now has and that the January 6th committee did
0:47.7	not find in their investigation, he cites Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe to support
0:54.5	his theory about the fake electors.
0:57.9	What's Tribe is going to join us tonight?
1:00.0	This was one of those lucky bookings that pre-existed this story, but he is going to respond
1:06.2	to someone who's listed now as a co-conspirator in the case of the January 6th case, who was
1:16.6	in his memo anyway, apparently trying to lean on Professor Tribe.
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