Lawrence: Trump incriminated himself on Fox tonight

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump gives new testimony on the classified documents in a Fox interview. Also, The Washington Post reports that the FBI resisted opening a probe into Trump’s role in January 6 for over a year. Plus, a recent Gallup poll finds 61 percent of Americans think overturning Roe v. Wade was a “bad thing.” And Secretary Antony Blinken and President Xi Jinping pledge to stabilize U.S.-China relations. Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal, Bradley Moss, Joy Reid and David Rothkopf join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, the breaking news of the night is that federal criminal defendant,
0:04.4	Dalje Trump, testified in his own defense tonight on Fox.
0:09.7	We will show you that testimony in a moment.
0:12.5	It includes statements that can and will be held against him in court.
0:18.0	The defense Donald Trump offered tonight, which once again,
0:22.0	maybe more of a confession than a defense, comes one day after.
0:28.0	His last Secretary of Defense said that Donald Trump cannot be trusted with government secrets
0:34.3	ever again. And it comes one day after Donald Trump's last Senate confirmed attorney general
0:41.6	said this. This was a case that entirely of his own making. He had no right to those documents.
0:50.8	The government tried for over a year quietly and with respect to get them back,
0:56.8	which was essential that they do. And he jerked them around. And he had no legal basis for keeping
1:03.3	him. But beyond that, when he faced his subpoena, he didn't raise any legal arguments.
1:10.7	He engaged in a course of deceitful conduct according to the indictment that was a clear crime
1:17.8	if those allegations are true. And was outrageous.
1:22.2	A clear crime says Donald Trump's last attorney general. One of our first guests tonight,
1:29.0	Bradley Moss tweeted this question for Donald Trump today. If you gave the order to declassify
1:35.1	all the records and your orders have the force of law, even if only done in your own mind,
1:41.4	why would your lawyers need clearances to see the records in the indictment? Why aren't you
1:48.5	contesting that order? In his interview tonight, Donald Trump repeatedly said that all of the
1:55.6	documents that he took with him when he left the presidency were declassified, said that repeatedly.
2:02.2	We are now going to show some of defendant Trump's testimony tonight. But don't worry,
2:07.7	you won't have to watch it alone, journeying us now to watch and analyze Donald Trump's testimony
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