distinguished supreme court practitioner, laurence tribe. harvard historian, yell historian, and of course on this important night we are fortunate to hear from to law professors who are also practitioners, andrew weissmann, and neal katyal. neil katyal is of course a distinguished supreme court practitioner, having argued 50 cases before the court, and andrew weissmann is a former federal prosecutor and justice department official. my mission therefore in this hour is to get out of the way so that you can hear from them and not me. but i, want to take a minute to begin with two things that may reside more in the category of pet peeves than scholarly discussion that you are about to hear from our guests. one is that clarence thomas should ve recused himself from this case because everyone on that bench today knew, clarence thomas s wife was there. she was there, she was present when donald trump incited engaged in insurrection. the essence of our case is president trump s o
welcome back to the weekend, everyone. we are beginning this hour with a late night court filing from donald trump s legal team. the filing argues that trump shouldn t be charged in the classified documents case because president biden was in charge and his case. this is true. i m going to quote from it. president biden will not be charged. president trump should not have been either. now, never mind that the special counsel made clear in his report that the two cases were wildly different. joining us now, january six investigator , also joining, former fbi general concert, andrew weizmann. he is the host of the msnbc podcast, prosecuting donald trump. greetings, everyone. you and i were on set to get there when the report broke. i do wonder if it was always inevitable that donald trump s lawyers were voting to cite this report as soon as it came out. also, talking about this specifically is a motion to compel discovery. i m curious why this becomes relevant and that ty
just a little note for your calendar before we go, the this thursday, 10 am eastern, the supreme court is gonna live stream the oral arguments on whether donald trump is disqualified from holding federal court in the united states. here at msnbc, we will have that audio alive and in full from one of the arguments start live at ten 8 am eastern thursday morning, thursday night starting at eight pm eastern all be here with all my beloved colleagues. we will have a primetime recap of all those oral arguments, we will see you then. that does it for us tonight, now it s time for the last word with the great lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening, rachel. i will join you at eight pm thursday night and at some point don t look, i will sneak out to the side. the cause i will have to prepare for the ten pm hour where i will be a anchoring here as usual after your two hour session. i realized today in a fifth of panic that i had planned to do other things on thur
because senator but you, know just between us. just between you and me. thank you, buddy it is always good to see. thank you for a great show and thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. a match and there were 50 50 odds that you had just been chosen as one of the people who would decide whether or not to criminally indict donald trump. that may very well be the case for the grand jurors who were just seated in fulton county, georgia. today, about 100 georgians showed up at the superior court of fulton county in atlanta. and for the sake of the privacy, we are not going to show you any of them by you can see, fulton county district attorney fani willis was and there. out there she is right there. now the judge sent about half of the potential jurors home. the other half he directed to one side of the room, towards the other. they were split into grand jury and grand jury be. h one was made up of 20 theaters plus alternates. now other than a $25 a day these grand jurors w
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