Lawrence: Speaker Johnson is trying to stop DOJ from charging Trump rioters

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Speaker Mike Johnson describes the “slow process” to blur January 6 riot videos before releasing them. Also, Sen. Tommy Tuberville ends his monthslong block of most military promotions. And Nelson Mandela’s grandson reflects on his legacy ten years later. Andrew Weissmann, Barbara McQuade, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Kweku Mandela join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	It is now time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening.
0:04.0	Good evening, Alex. It was exactly 10 years ago today that Nelson Mandela died and tonight at the end of this hour his grandson Quaiku Mandela is going to
0:17.2	join us from Rwanda. He's been traveling around Africa, spreading the Mandela spirit, and he will do that at the end of this hour.
0:26.3	We need more Mandela spirit in this building right now.
0:30.3	I will be really watching Lawrence.
0:32.3	Thanks Alex. Have a watching Lawrence. Thanks Alex.
0:33.0	Have a good show.
0:34.0	Thanks.
0:36.0	Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists, the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment is an accessory after the fact.
1:07.5	This is what an accessory after the fact looks like.
1:12.8	The breaking Republican criminal news of the day
1:15.2	is that the Republican Speaker of the House is now,
1:19.0	actively trying to prevent arrests for the federal crime of attacking the capital on January 6th.
1:26.7	The federal crime of accessory after the fact requires knowledge that a crime has been committed against the United States
1:36.1	and that a person with that knowledge then, quote, Those words in mind, when you listen now to what Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said he is doing to the thousands of hours of security video that were recorded at the Capitol on January 6th
2:07.0	before he makes all of that video publicly available.
2:12.0	We have to blur some of the... all of that video publicly available.
2:13.6	We have to blur some of the faces of persons who participated in the events of that day
2:19.8	because we don't want them to be retaliated against
2:21.8	and to be charged by the DOJ.
2:25.0	Big smile, we don't want them to be charged by the DOJ.
2:30.0	That is the first time in history that a speaker of the House has said that he doesn't want people
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