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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with footage that shows that Mitch McConnell knew, back in 2021, that Trump can face criminal charges. Now, Trump's lawyer is making the absurd argument that a president can commit all kinds of heinous crimes, and remain immune from prosecution forever, unless he's impeached and convicted. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) joins Joy Reid with his analysis. Also in this episode, Trump's rhetoric is having dangerous consequences, as both special counsel Jack Smith and Judge Tanya Chutkan are targets of "swatting." Next, Trump's big hope for 2024? He says he hopes the U.S. economy crashes sometime soon, which, of course, would likely leave huge numbers of his supporters broke. All this and more in this edition of The Reidout on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on the readout.
0:05.0	President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office.
0:10.0	Didn't get away with anything yet.
0:12.0	We have a criminal justice system in this country.
0:15.8	We have civil litigation.
0:18.2	And former presidents are not immune from being
0:20.4	accountable by either one.
0:24.0	Even Mitch McConnell knew back in 2021
0:27.7	that Trump can face criminal charges.
0:31.2	Well, now Trump's lawyer is making the absurd argument that a president can
0:35.5	commit all kinds of heinous crimes and remain immune from prosecution forever
0:40.6	unless he's impeached and convicted.
0:45.0	Also tonight, Trump's rhetoric is having dangerous consequences
0:49.0	as both Special Counsel Jack Smith and Judge Tanya Chutkin are targets of swatting.
0:56.2	And Trump's big hope for 2024, he says he hopes the US economy crashes sometime soon,
1:02.3	which of course would leave huge numbers of his MAGA supporters, jobless, and broke.
1:08.7	But we begin tonight with a hypothetical question.
1:15.0	Could a sitting president sell pardons or military secrets or order the Navy SEALs to assassinate a political rival
1:24.4	and never face any accountability
1:27.1	for what is clearly a criminal act.
1:29.9	It seems like an absurd question, right?
1:32.0	Well, not if you're Donald Trump's lawyers
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