New reporting on alleged nexus of Brett Kavanaugh and dark money millionaires in Alabama legislative maps controversy
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on The Readout, you're entitled to believe and trust advice of counsel. |
| 0:11.9 | You have one of the leading constitutional scholars in the United States, John Eastman, |
| 0:15.6 | say to President Trump, this is a protocol that you can follow, it's legal. |
| 0:20.2 | That eliminates criminal intent. |
| 0:22.8 | Trump's attorney just last month saying that Trump cannot be held responsible for his |
| 0:26.3 | alleged crimes because he was only listening to the advice of lawyers and learning |
| 0:29.9 | its constitutional scholars. |
| 0:32.0 | This weekend, Trump himself blew that argument out of the water, saying it was all his idea. |
| 0:37.6 | Also tonight, new reporting on the alleged annexes of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and dark money |
| 0:42.6 | millionaires in Alabama's open defiance of court rulings on unfairly drawn legislative |
| 0:48.5 | maps. |
| 0:49.5 | Plus, have Republicans no shame? |
| 0:52.4 | Lauren Boebert's public growth being is just the latest in a string of bad behavior by |
| 0:57.0 | the party that pretends to care about family values. |
| 1:04.5 | But we begin tonight with what appears to be one of the hardest jobs in America, being |
| 1:08.3 | one of Donald Trump's lawyers. |
| 1:09.5 | First, you have to worry about whether you will ever be paid by the man notoriously |
| 1:13.0 | known to skip out on paying his bills, including to his very own lawyers, just ask Rudy Giuliani. |
| 1:18.8 | And speaking of Giuliani, there is the second worry, which is that working for Trump could |
| 1:23.4 | put you in legal and professional jeopardy, or at a minimum could make you a witness, |
| 1:28.3 | like another Trump lawyer, Evan Corcoran. |
| 1:31.0 | And then there was the third worry, how to mount a winning defense for the twice impeached, |
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