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
implicitly and explicitly go at the stirrers and say it was never fair and he never had a chance, your lawyer chose them, spoke to them personally. this was not the judge. at the end of the day, you picked the jurors, you did not object, and we got the outcome that we have. thank you both, that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts now. you are not going to have kokomo played well for the weekend? how good was that clip? i got to say, i was laughing. maybe that s what needs to happen. shout out to our beloved and arranged senior producer who watches that show every morning. listen, i would take the beach boys kokomo live at fox square, whatever that was, over tearing down the rule of law. bring the beach boys back. whatever you got to do. thank you, my friend, have a great weekend. so, it really happened. donald trump is been convicted on 34 felony counts in the state of new york. and there is been a lot of reaction to that news, including and espe
notable exception, russia. russian president vladimir putin s spokesman echoed republicans and accused president biden of weaponize in the justice system against his political enemy. here is how our secretary of state, antony blinken, responded. the kremlin put out a statement saying the trial shows that the white house is eliminating its political rivals. you know, they are trying to use this as a way to besmirch the american legal system. how do you respond to that? i would say that is a classic case of projection. that is our show tonight and as a reminder you can listen to every episode as a podcast, for free. scan the qr code on your screen or search for alex wagner tonight wherever you get your podcasts. now it is time for the last word with my friend, lawrence o donnell, on a friday. what an evening.
it is not just that one moments. it is the call and response and there was an air of, i would call it surreality. it is a moment where it was relatively more quiet at that moment than it was when we knew that was happening and because, as you said in that very thoughtful opening, did we hear that right? can we believe our own ears? and hearing that call and response for 34 times and knowing for certain that american history had forever changed at that moment. we are going to squeeze in our first break here. we will be back with what president biden said about this today. we will be right back. k.