Lawrence: Trump's lawyers are too cowardly to quit or to tell Trump to shut up

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: A secret memo with the plan to overturn the 2020 election is made public. Also, special counsel Jack Smith obtains a warrant to search Donald Trump’s Twitter account. Plus, Trump attacks District Attorney Fani Willis ahead of a potential fourth indictment. And David Hogg launches a PAC to guide a new generation into politics. Professor Laurence Tribe, Harry Litman, Andrew Weissmann, Gwen Keyes Fleming and David Hogg join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now, it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:03.0	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:04.0	Good evening, Alex.
0:05.0	We have Professor Lawrence Tribe joining us tonight.
0:07.2	He was with us last night in the middle of what turned out to be breaking news about
0:11.0	him since that memo refers to him, that Trump lawyer memo, Andrew Weissman, Harry
0:16.9	Lippman, also joining us on the latest defendant Trump news.
0:20.3	And as you know, Donald Trump's vile attacks on just returning funny willists have reached
0:27.4	a new level.
0:29.3	And Gwen Keeze Fleming, her friend, is going to join us tonight.
0:34.5	She used to be the district attorney of the neighboring county.
0:37.7	I want to get her reaction to this, this is something we've never seen before with it
0:42.7	in the history of American prosecutions.
0:45.0	And George has never seen it, and I just want to get her feeling about what the impact
0:50.0	of it is.
0:51.0	Yeah, I mean, funny willists has not issued an indictment against Donald Trump.
0:54.8	And he's already using everything in his disposal to undermine her and threaten her.
0:59.1	So this is absolutely terror in Cognito and should not go unnoticed and under-discussed.
1:03.8	So I will be watching.
1:04.8	Thank you, Alex.
1:05.8	Thank you.
1:06.8	Happy show.
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