we will see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good, evening lawrence. good evening, alex. imagine you have a ticket they don t actually have tickets. but imagine you have that to get to that brooklyn courtroom courtroom today, where draymond dearly held his first special master session in the case of donald j trump versus united states of america. what would you do with your one seat for that courtroom? i d scalp. it no, i wouldn t. i would eagerly use it, because what an extraordinary hearing, elsewhere return to normalcy, to hear adjudged say, no, no. this case, you guys have not been arguing very well. that s a subtext, right? it can be classified campy declassified if you are not obviously classified. i just got so many aspects of what transparent in that courtroom where they ve analysis and discussion, because there was a lot packed in there, and we re getting great indication of where the special master may be headin
coming out this wednesday. my guest will beat stephen for all of us watching this around the world, and many in britain, this week has been a reminder that grieving and loss of something that we all go through. it is a bond that we all share. certainly something i ve experienced and begun to explore and a very personal way and a new podcast. it s called oliver s. listen, you can put your cell phone now to the qr code on your tv screen for a link to it. or, you can find the podcast on apple podcasts, or wherever you might listen to podcasts. next episode is coming out this wednesday. my guest will beat stephen i m so glad you mentioned that. i don t know if it was appropriate to talk about it, but i think it s important as we watch this family grieving so publicly this week, and how tough it is for everyone. things we don t really share. and i know you lost a brother, you lost your mom. i lost my sister, i lost my dad and my grandmother and my stepdad. and it s things
special master raymond dearie thought the trump lawyers could do in a day, last week, they still have not done. judge dearie s order says, in light of delays in retaining a vendor to digitize the seized materials, plaintive trump deadline for submitting a declaration affidavit in response to the governments revised inventory is extended to october 7th, 2022. that appears to mean that the trump lawyers incompetence in trying to hire a company that would digitize and organize the 11,000 documents seized by the fbi has brought them, bought them in effect, one week extension or so, of the deadline when the trump lawyers will then have to respond to the justice department s filing and updated inventory of what was seized. but it is actually worse than that. worse than just lawyer incompetence. what judge dearie s order did not review about the delay in hiring evander, was revealed tonight in a late filing in the case by the justice department, which says, quote, plaintive trump in
of power to subvert the will of the american people. our democracy is being tested and strained time and time again, so i m sure doesn t shock you to hear that according to a new nbc news poll, voters actually ranked threats to democracy as the most important issue facing the country today. and while that fear is warranted, democracy and justice have racked up some notable winds lately. in defiance of his long held nickname, teflon don, donald trump has found himself backed into a legal corner in recent weeks, facing mounting re-legal peril on three important france. in new york, the states attorney general has filed a civil lawsuit, accusing trump and trump of massive fraud. in georgia, the district county seems to be closing in on trump and his efforts to subvert the 2020 election there. and the department of justice investigation into classified documents, stored at mar-a-lago, secured a major win this week and a federal appeals court granted their request to resume re
defend his department. there is a lot of speculation about what the justice department is doing, what it is not doing, what are theories are. what are theories aren t. and they will continue to be that speculation. this is the most wide ranging investigation and the most important investigation that the justice department has ever done. and we have done so because this [inaudible] effort to upend and general election transfer of power from one administration to the other, concept of the fundamental of american democracy. we have to get this right. garland was not wrong, this is the most important investigation that the justice department has ever entered into. no president has ever been criminally charged in the history of the united states of america. and that means that merrick garland holds one of the most difficult jobs in the entire country. he is now not only at the helm of one, but two sweet being justice department investigations into a former president, donald tr