Minnesota sues DHS to preserve evidence in Pretti killing
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Donald Trump is running stared tonight because we are all witnesses now. |
| 0:07.7 | Donald Trump is posting on social media today and tonight that he had a good phone call |
| 0:11.6 | with the governor of Minnesota who Donald Trump has been demonizing until today. |
| 0:18.6 | And he's not demonizing him anymore because we are all witnesses now. |
| 0:23.9 | Tonight, Donald Trump posted that he had a good phone call with the mayor of Minneapolis, |
| 0:28.0 | who Donald Trump has been calling a communist and attacking in the most unhinged Trumpian ways. |
| 0:32.6 | But Donald Trump is making conciliatory public statements tonight about wanting to cooperate now with the |
| 0:39.6 | governor of Minnesota and wanting to cooperate now with the mayor of Minneapolis because |
| 0:44.8 | Donald Trump is running scared tonight. Donald Trump is in retreat tonight. And Donald Trump is |
| 0:52.6 | running scared because we are all witnesses now. When we see the |
| 0:58.5 | video, we become eyewitnesses. And if we watch all of the videos of what Donald Trump and his |
| 1:05.7 | Border Patrol agents did to Alex Preddy, we then become better eyewitnesses than the people who would be allowed |
| 1:14.2 | to testify at a murder trial as eyewitnesses because they were there on the scene. Some of those |
| 1:20.6 | eyewitnesses were recording video at the same time, which actually distracts from what they |
| 1:25.2 | can take in as eyewitnesses in that moment because they are also |
| 1:29.3 | camera operators as well as eyewitnesses. Contrary to popular opinion and Hollywood portrayals, |
| 1:35.2 | eyewitness testimony is not as reliable as factual circumstantial evidences like ballistics reports |
| 1:43.2 | and autopsies, which are often the most |
| 1:46.1 | solid evidence in any murder case. Professor Elizabeth Loftus' groundbreaking work on eyewitness |
| 1:53.3 | testimony, including the books she written about eyewitness testimony, have shown all of the |
| 1:58.1 | human weaknesses that come with standard eyewitness testimony. |
| 2:02.2 | An eyewitness might honestly believe someone was shot in the back, |
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