Lawrence: Trump co-defendant could save himself by telling Jack Smith about that 24 minute phone call

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: “Trump employee 4” reportedly spoke to investigators after Donald Trump and Walt Nauta were charged by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Also, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis says she’s “ready to go” on the Trump Georgia election case. And the U.S. will serve as President of the UN Security Council for the month of August. Andrew Weissmann, Bradley Moss, Neal Katyal, Gwen Keyes Fleming and Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, the pressure is working.
0:02.6	The pressure from Special Prosecutor Jack Smith on Donald Trump's associates and co-defendants
0:06.8	and possible co-conspirators is working exactly as intended, which is very, very bad news
0:16.3	for Donald Trump tonight.
0:18.0	The star witness against Donald Trump, who we identified on this program Thursday night,
0:23.0	as Trump employee for, apparently flipped and decided to testify against
0:29.9	Donald Trump after receiving a target letter from Special Prosecutor Jack Smith.
0:39.2	Donald Trump has to be worried more than ever tonight that his associates will flip and
0:46.2	start cooperating with Jack Smith as soon as they receive target letters from Jack Smith.
0:53.1	Donald employee for could start a stampede of Trump witnesses against Donald Trump in
1:00.4	all of the criminal cases Donald Trump will be facing.
1:05.2	CNN reported that the Trump employee for Yusil Tveris received a target letter from Special
1:12.6	Prosecutor Jack Smith after Donald Trump and Walt Nauda were indicted by Jack Smith
1:20.9	in an espionage and obstruction of justice indictment.
1:24.2	Now imagine working at Mar-a-Lago and receiving a target letter from Jack Smith after you
1:31.2	have watched your co-worker, Walt Nauda, marched into a federal courthouse in Miami as a criminal
1:39.8	defendant with Donald Trump.
1:42.8	As a Trump employee working at Mar-a-Lago, no matter how much you worshiped or feared
1:48.4	Donald Trump, when you watched him get arrested that day by Jack Smith, something should have
1:55.8	happened to your confidence in Donald Trump's ability to protect you.
2:02.2	The superseding indictment that Jack Smith filed on Thursday adding more criminal charges
2:06.6	against Donald Trump for his attempts to destroy evidence in the case tells the story of
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