lawrence. good evening, ali. good moving, alex, thank you, and we should talk next week, have a good weekend. sure. well ek have a a washington d.c. appes court issued a stay on a gag order placed on donald trump in the 2020 election case brought by special counsel jack smith. a three judge panel made up of two trump appointees and a biden appointee scheduled oral arguments on a gag order on november 20th. until then, trump remains free to her verbal attacks against the special counsel and a. federal judge tanya chutkan found that the gag order is necessary because trump s verbal attack on witnesses and others could inspire violence from his supporters, which is exactly what happened on january six. we are so accustomed to following the day-to-day legal action in trump s constant unhinged social media grants about being persecuted by the justice system and biden administration, that we have become numb to just how abnormal this really is. ranting by fringe characters is
maga extremism versus mainstream, or just a record that president biden brought, grew the economy of covid, being strong in the world, and bringing decency back. at the end of the day, it will be a head to head contest, and we need to inspire young people, gen z and millennials, bringing them up to the levels that they re at in 22 and 20, and when. confidence begets confidence. pessimism but has pessimism. we had a big sure that we are the right side of this. congressman eric swalwell, the optimism for the end of the week. thank you, sir. that is our show for tonight. now it s time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence. good evening, ali. good moving, alex, thank you, and we should talk next week, have a good weekend. sure. well a washington d. c. appeals court issued a stay on a gag order placed on donald trump in the 2020 election case brought by special counsel jack smith. a three judge panel made up of two trump appointees and a biden appointee schedul
a very important friday. we will reconvene the courthouse gang for this hour to go over what we have all been through and, alex, just a word about a banana republic. i despise the term and have despised it for so long now because it carries the assumption that countries that grow bananas, and we know where they are, somehow inherently have inferior governments to ours. which we have proven many times before is not true and nothing proves that better than the trump years and, oh, by the way, we grow bananas in hawaii. agriculturally and ethically, great points, lawrence, as always. thanks, alex. have a great show. thanks. well, it was a one word sentence that changed donald trump s life. he wasn t expecting to hear that word yesterday. at 4:15 p.m., judge merchan told defendant donald trump and his lawyers, the prosecutors in the courtroom, quote, i m going to excuse the jury about 4:30. we will give them a few more minutes and then we will excuse them. donald trum
the extreme outside chance that somebody like haley could make a comeback. we will be talking about issues till september. tim miller, thank you for your time tonight my friend. that is our show for this evening, it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. welcome to the black tie edition of the last word. our first guest tonight andrew weissmann and i were both at the same black tie event, he as the audience is about to see dressed so much more elegantly than i was. lawrence, lawrence, do not sell yourself short. you look very i wore one of these, the black tie and threw away the tuxedo jacket and put on this, i m getting away with it sort of. i like the full black tie for the friday, not the friday night show for the next week show, i think we deserve it in these trying times, i think we deserve lawrence o donnell wait to see my first guess, you will demand in the future when andrew comes to the studio that he only show up and black tie, when you s
, the better it is for the defense and so, donald trump and todd blanche were nearly giddy that the jury was going to go home for a second day. without reaching a verdict. donald trump that he was going home without a verdict today. he just had about 15 minutes to kill, and what we saw was a donald trump at that defense table we ve never seen before. he was joking, laughing, smiling with todd blanche. they were chatting and laughing almost incessantly. todd blanche laughing so hard at one point doubling over so that his four head almost touch the table in front of him. they thought they were going home today without a verdict. it was almost a jubilant, giddy donald trump but that changed very quickly when the judge merchan came back to inform the parties that the jury had reached verdict. the jury had a verdict after only nine hours of deliberation, which is not a long deliberation for a 34 count indictment and so donald trump watched his jury under the courtroom for what