Lawrence: Trump co-defendant Eastman lied on television about GA indictment

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Trump co-defendant John Eastman comments on the Georgia case. Also, Special Counsel Jack Smith raises concerns over the legal representation of Trump’s co-defendants. And Tennessee GOP lawmakers vote to “silence” State Rep. Justin Jones. Barbara McQuade, Glenn Kirschner, Georgia State Rep. Tanya Miller, Bradley Moss and Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	It's time now for the last word with my friend Lauren Sodonal.
0:03.1	Good evening.
0:04.1	Good evening, Ellie.
0:05.1	And thank you for that reporting on this weather situation.
0:08.7	It's really unlike anything we've ever seen.
0:10.5	It is difficult and there'll be much more of it to come.
0:12.5	Have a good show, right?
0:13.5	Thank you, Ellie.
0:14.5	Thank you.
0:15.5	Well, two former law clerks of the disgraced Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas got
0:20.8	together tonight on the TV show hosted by one of them to discuss the status of the other
0:29.0	hasn't accused co-conspirator with Donald Trump in two criminal cases in Washington and
0:34.7	Georgia.
0:35.7	We will bring you the breaking news of Trump co-defendant John Eastman's TV testimony
0:41.5	tonight, which will get him in serious trouble in court if he tries the same thing on the
0:47.9	witness stand.
0:49.4	And we will bring you the rest of the major legal developments of the day, including
0:53.2	a federal judge's official finding that Rudolph Giuliani did indeed lie about two election
0:57.9	workers in Georgia, an innocent mother and daughter, who were publicly attacked, not
1:03.8	just by Rudolph Giuliani, but by the then president of the United States, Donald Trump.
1:08.9	And there is more we have to get to tonight because it happened again in Tennessee.
1:15.8	You would think that the Republican legislature learned their lesson when they suffered worldwide
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