Lawrence on immunity rejection: Trump fears Chutkan presiding at his trial
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, |
| 0:04.0 | Alex. It's it's law school night here for this next hour. We have Andrew |
| 0:09.2 | We've Andrew Weisman, Neil Kattial, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe, and Stanford historian, |
| 0:15.1 | Polin Surprise running historian Jack Rakoff, who's an expert on the impeachment |
| 0:19.2 | clause, all of their previous statements about this case on this program have been vindicated today |
| 0:27.4 | by the appeals court and so each guest will get a victory lap is how it's going to work. |
| 0:33.0 | Quite a ruling it is, quite a vindication it is, |
| 0:37.0 | Lawrence, I will be watching. |
| 0:38.0 | Thanks, Alex. |
| 0:39.0 | Have a good show. |
| 0:40.0 | Well, Donald Trump has many bad days ahead of him as criminal defendant Trump. |
| 0:46.1 | None will be more painful than the days he spends in Winston-Chutkin's daughter's courtroom. |
| 0:55.0 | Winston-Chutkin told the New York Times |
| 0:58.0 | that when he won a scholarship to go to high school in Jamaica, quote, I wore shoes and experienced indoor plumbing for the first time in my life. |
| 1:10.0 | Winston Chutkin worked very hard, did very well in high school. |
| 1:14.0 | He went on to become an orthopedic surgeon, one of Jamaica's most prominent physicians. |
| 1:19.0 | When his daughter Tanya arrived in Washington from Jamaica at age 17 to attend George Washington University |
| 1:24.9 | she fell in love with the city and has lived there ever since except for her |
| 1:29.2 | three years as a distinguished student at the University of Pennsylvania Law school where she was an editor of the law review. |
| 1:35.9 | Tanya's younger sister and brother both followed in their father's footsteps and became physicians. |
| 1:42.0 | Tanya Chutkin served as a public defender in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:45.8 | where she married another public defender and had two children. |
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