Trump Georgia co-defendant plea deal videos leak
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have breaking news tonight about Donald Trump's criminal co-defendants in Georgia who have already pleaded guilty in that case. |
| 0:07.0 | Video recorded statements to prosecutors by those defendants right before they pleaded guilty have leaked and |
| 0:16.6 | become public tonight first in reporting by ABC News and then more |
| 0:21.6 | extensively by the Washington Post. |
| 0:24.4 | ABC News obtained video of two of the defendants statements, |
| 0:30.1 | some of the defendants statements, two prosecutors prior to them pleading guilty. |
| 0:34.8 | And then the Washington Post is reporting on the video statements of all four of |
| 0:40.3 | Donald Trump's criminal code defendants who have already pleaded guilty in Georgia. |
| 0:44.8 | Now, before we get to the actual substance of what those defendants pleading guilty |
| 0:50.4 | said to prosecutors in this leaked video, we're going to go straight to the question |
| 0:56.3 | of how material like this could possibly be leaked to the media at this stage of the case. |
| 1:04.0 | Leading off our discussion tonight, |
| 1:05.4 | Neil Kettial, former acting US Solicitor General |
| 1:08.0 | and a professor at Georgetown Law. |
| 1:10.3 | Also with us, Joyce Vance, former US attorney and professor at the University of |
| 1:15.2 | Alabama School of Law and Gwen Keys former district attorney of |
| 1:19.6 | decab County Georgia. Gwen let me just begin with you as an expert on this procedure in Georgia. |
| 1:27.8 | Who at this stage would be in possession of this video? Obviously the prosecutors have this video. But what |
| 1:35.8 | about defense counsel? Would the Trump defense lawyers have this video through |
| 1:41.6 | the discovery process already. |
| 1:44.0 | I would presume so. |
| 1:46.0 | Again, prosecutors have an ongoing obligation to provide defendants discovery |
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