Lawrence: Trump offers no defense of possible charges following Jan. 6 target letter

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: NBC News reports that Donald Trump was sent a target letter in the Justice Department’s January 6 probe. Also, Judge Cannon hears the first arguments in the classified documents case. And Trump fake electors in Michigan face election law and forgery felonies. Andrew Weissmann, Barbara McQuade, Professor Laurence Tribe, Adam Klasfeld, Bradley Moss and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now, it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:03.5	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:04.8	Good evening, Alex.
0:05.8	We have Andrew Weissman joining us tonight, and this show doesn't traffic in very many
0:11.8	predictions anymore, especially since I very confidently predicted in 2015 that Donald
0:20.6	Trump would not be the Republican nominee.
0:22.8	We really, really slowed down the prediction process here after that.
0:28.5	But Andrew Weissman's legal predictions in what is coming for Donald Trump have been
0:35.7	flawless.
0:36.7	And he has been telling us that Jack Smith is going to move on the January 6th indictment
0:44.1	front.
0:45.4	Now we have the target letter indicating that it is days away.
0:50.6	It's all on the schedule that Andrew Weissman predicted it would be on.
0:56.7	And so he's going to get a little triumphant turn here tonight.
1:01.9	You know his predictions have been so on point.
1:04.1	It's almost like he worked for the DOJ at one point, or new people on the inside.
1:09.9	It's like, he has experience and can look at a situation the way a meteorologist can
1:15.2	look at clouds forming somewhere out there in the Atlantic Ocean and tell you where the
1:20.7	hurricane is going to hit exactly at what point in Florida.
1:25.1	I would go so far as I say he can look at a butterfly flapping its wings and know that
1:30.7	that's going to bring a storm front in five to seven days time.
1:34.0	That's how good he is.
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