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Lies in the Courtroom

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Mary Mccord, Legal, Andrew Weissmann, Msnbc, Politics, District Attorney, Trump, Trump Legal, President, Trump Indictment, News, Manhattan D.a., Trump Indicted, Trump Charged, Indictment, Alvin Bragg, Charges

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC legal analysts Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord review the tumultuous closing arguments in Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case and analyze how the former President is using the legal system for his own political advantage.

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome back to another episode of prosecuting Donald Trump.

0:12.1

It's Tuesday morning, January another episode of prosecuting Donald Trump.

0:12.9

It's Tuesday morning, January 16th.

0:16.4

I'm Andrew Weissman, and I'm here with Mary McCord.

0:20.0

Hi Mary.

0:21.1

Morning, Andrew.

0:22.0

So once again, there's a lot going on and we were just chatting about the theme for today.

0:29.8

And obviously, this is against the backdrop of the political world.

0:34.1

You know, we all watched the beginning of the real political season

0:38.2

with Iowa and I was struck by the number of people who said they believed that Joe Biden wasn't in fact properly elected.

0:48.0

So what we're going to talk about, since we're not political pundits is lies in the courtroom in other words that the

0:56.9

courtroom is a place where facts and law at least so far still matters and so we're going to talk about some of the things

1:04.3

that are going on in the courtroom.

1:06.9

In fact, there's so much going on,

1:09.5

but we're going to talk first about something

1:11.6

we just briefly alluded to last week, which was the civil fraud trial against Donald Trump and his sons and some other people who worked in the Trump organization.

1:23.6

That is the case brought by Letitia James,

1:26.6

the New York Attorney General,

1:28.6

and that's a case that is now fully completed

1:31.3

in terms of evidence, and we're waiting for

1:33.8

judging Goron to issue his decision which he

1:37.0

aspirationally said would be by the end of January and then of course Mary

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