Commercial for the Sherrod Brown campaign, admits he has kind of a gravelly voice. We are going to show that later in this hour, for anyone who has been wondering why does he sound like that . You had me so worried that there was something terribly wrong. I was like no, its just he has an adorable voice. He does. I like it. Andrew weissman is back. Donald trump is 71 days away from discovering whether he will spend the rest of his life as criminal and civil defendant donald trump in trials and Appeals Courts or whether he gets to wipe away most of that if he becomes president. But, they are ready to take a look for us. If the harris momentum continues, what it means for Defendant Trump Next year. Ever since i saw, today, unexpectedly that jack smith filed an appeal with the 11th circuit, i did not expect that to happen today. They found the appeal on whether or not judge aileen canon is going to be allowed to have the last word informing out of the classified documents case. Ever since
lot coming at him. and i think of all of it, that laetitia james stuff might be the stuff that most greatly concerns and disturbs him. well, it was, until the appeals court rules tonight. and then, and then, he s sitting down there, trying to figure out which is worse, losing all my money, or being convicted of federal crimes. which the federal appeals court is really paving the way for now. they are making it very clear that there is just going to be no more roadblocks between donald trump and what will ultimately be merrick garland s decision to indict him or not over those documents at his home. and betting on trump appointed judges was not the right bet, as we found out. see the 11th circuit ruling. all right lawrence, all be watching. thank you, alex. well, the two worst nights of donald trump so far are election night 2020, and tonight. on election night, when fox called the election for joe biden, he knew then he was going to lose access to the white house an
is really paving the way for now. they are making it very clear that there is just going to be no more roadblocks between donald trump and what will ultimately be merrick garland s decision to indict him or not over those documents at his home. and betting on trump appointed judges was not the right bet, as we found out. see the 11th circuit ruling. all right lawrence, all be watching. thank you, alex. well, the two worst nights of donald trump so far are election night 2020, and tonight. on election night, when fox called the election for joe biden, he knew then he was going to lose access to the white house and to air force one. and that s all the presidency was to him. but tonight, donald trump is staring at the possibility of losing everything. losing everything, including his freedom. donald trump began his day by getting hit with the most massive lawsuit he s ever faced, a lawsuit that could wipe him out, and bankrupt his adult children. and donald trump ended h
that special prosecutor jack smith will obtain in his investigation of donald trump s possession of classified documents, which don trump has claimed, publicly and falsely, belonged to him. leading off our discussion tonight is neal katyal, former acting u.s. solicitor general, and andrew weissmann, former chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york. he is a professor in practice at nyu law school. they are both msnbc legal analysts. and neal, i want to begin with you as our appeals expert because i saw your tweet last night remarking on these deadlines measured in hours. which i, for one, have never seen in the appeals process in a situation like that. yeah, i have never seen, it either, and i thought you re peace at the beginning really describes this well, lawrence. so basically you have judge
are, which is going to be holding trump accountable, that vigilance is going to be really called for. neal katyal, as our appeals expert, i want to get your reaction to not just the content of this opinion, which is so clear and so powerful, but the speed, the speed other spots, the speed of the action taken by this appeals court, what does that tell you about their attitude? so, i want to answer that. but before i do so, lawrence, i just want to pick up where andrew started. because i think it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. because over the past months, you and i have been talking so much about trump s legal troubles. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted, never been sued, you know, by a state and the or anything like that. but today, things looked different. we re seeing the former president himself personally facing a major