that does it for a special coverage primetime special coverage this evening but we have much more ahead and now it s time for the last word with a great lawrence o donnell. we have breaking e. jean carroll knows which away began on your show with your interview with e. jean carroll and her lawyer, and that is in the lawsuit, she has another lawsuit against donald trump for all the comments he made about her, and today a federal judge, luis kaplan, granted e. jean carroll s request to revise the defamation lawsuit that she filed against donald trump to include the similar comments that he made recently on cnn, that he made last month on cnn. you had a chance to ask them if that is what their plan was. and it certainly sounded like it was. i said, i mean, you just got this huge judgments against him for saying these terrible things about you that were untrue, and then as soon as the judge came back he said again, what can you do about? that and e. jean carroll s lawyer said
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political track. he s doing really lousy draw job of dealing with an illegal track. i think it s worth noting that in the courtroom, and insert a pretrial motions, the defense counsel can still make all sorts of arguments. the problem for them is the kinds of things that we ve just been talking about, the statements that he is making. these will be used, if at all harmful to him will be used by the government. in the same way that you started by talking about e. jean carroll. her counsel made incredibly effective use of donald trump s ill advised statements during a deposition, in his statements and the whole case was there because of his slander. and the reason for luis kaplan by the way an extremely respected judge in the southern district say you can still go forward with this additional case, additional count, is because of donald trump s own words after the verdict.
absolutely empty as a legal matter, feels very likely to give him not just the time of day but an enormous amount of time to drag this out so that the scenario in which we have a meaningful verdict before the presidential election is very unrealistic. so we have to do all we can to get the judge who not only is impartial, but whose impartiality cannot reasonably be questioned. failing that we have to make this as transparent proceeding as possible so that among other things that will deter judge cannon from doing things that the whole nation will see our lawless and biased. and if she is not deterred, at least the country will see why it is that these empty defenses
stockpiling of essentially treasonous possibility on the part of the president, the victims are all of us, 300 million americans. very few of us can fit into that courtroom. allowing the press to sit there and then simply report after the fact is no substitute for at least a live audio feed if this judge is not removed but enrichment newspapers i guess virginia, the case i m referring to, the supreme court said that you have to have a neutral adjudicator. you have to have public access, even if the government doesn t want. it so we don t depend on the department of justice here to ask, why doesn t msnbc, why don t the networks affirmatively ask that this be covered? from beginning to end?
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