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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Revealed: The Emperor Has No Clothes

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki is joined by longtime Democratic strategist to discuss how the massive judgement against Donald Trump in the E. Jean Carroll case reveals Trump for what he is – and why the 2024 election is anything but normal. Legal analysts George Conway and Lisa Rubin also talk about whether Trump can afford to pay the damages he now owes his victim. Later, Senator Brian Schatz joins Jen to discuss the drone attack in Jordan that killed 3 American service members as well as the border deal that Republicans asked for, but now oppose. Finally, Jen roasts the Republicans behind a new harebrained conspiracy theory claiming that pop star Taylor Swift is part of an elaborate government scheme to elect Joe Biden.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everything is on the table.

0:11.2

That's what E. Jean Carroll's lawyer, Robbie Kaplan, said today about the potential

0:14.6

for more legal action against Donald Trump, if and when he defames her client again.

0:20.5

We're going to spend a lot of time talking about that case tonight.

0:23.2

Conservative attorney George Conway is standing by here in Washington.

0:26.7

He's the person who introduced Carolyn Kaplan, and he's got the email to prove it.

0:31.4

Plus, legendary Democratic strategist James Carville is coming up in just a minute to talk

0:35.6

about how the looming general election is anything but normal,

0:39.5

and the danger associated with talking about it in normal terms.

0:43.2

But I do want to start tonight with something that E. Jean Carroll said, just this morning, that really stuck with me all day.

0:50.8

What was it like being in the courtroom with Donald Trump?

0:58.0

Well, it was terrifying until I got there. The weeks leading up to it, no sleep, you know, couldn't eat, couldn't do it.

1:03.0

And then I sat down, Robbie said, good morning, Miss Curl, can you please spell your name for the court?

1:08.0

I spelled my name, I looked down, there he was. And it was like he was like nothing.

1:14.7

Like an emperor without clothes.

1:17.9

All my terror leading up to the, and there he's just something in a suit.

1:24.1

He was like nothing, as she just said, like an emperor with no clothes.

1:29.1

She was scared.

1:29.9

She admitted that.

1:30.9

But when she saw him in that courtroom, she realized he was nothing.

1:35.4

Agent Carroll is not a political strategist.

1:37.4

Don't go down that road.

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