Week but theres no question overall two big things stuck out to me. First of all this week was an extraordinarily reminder of just how much legal trouble the legal president is in. Its really something to have all eyes glued on the courthouse in washington, d. C. Watching what jack smith is going to do, waiting for an indictment in the investigation and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, only to have a new separate Superseding Indictment Draft in the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents. All happening within the span of hours. You really cant make this stuff up sometimes. And put 1 figure on this mountain of legal trouble, just last night the Washington Post came out with a new piece detailing the more than 40 million trumps Political Group is spent on legal costs to defend not just trump, but his advisers and others in the first half of this year alone. The first half of this year alone, at 40 million from Trump Supporters all across the country footing l
Several individuals photographing and recording their work. Some of those videos have been uploaded online. The intelligence briefing also noted reports of unknown individuals accessing camera footage of secured areas where Public Access to prohibited. Again, that news just breaking tonight in the Washington Post. About new security warnings from the fbi. Not good. All right. That is going to do it for us for now. Ill see you again tomorrow night. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Lawrence, im sorry i took up too much time with this breaking news from the post. Im so glad that you did, rachel, because i was going to read it if you didnt. The good news in it is the fbi knows everything these people are up to at the moment. And seems to have a good eye on them. I think their possible success at their schemes is probably close to zero at this point with the amount of attention they already have from the fbi. Yeah, i was also interested to see, and this is a rare thing
In your hour, and somehow read it while you were talking to dr. Fauci. I dont know how you did that, but the magic of how you do it will be your secret. But it is a stunning story, rachel. We have katie benner, the New York Times reporter. Oh, good. Who has delivered yes. So we will be ask things like, what was in that letter . You know, every paragraph in this story has things you want to expand on, and so shes going to join us. She will be our first guest. Andrew weissmann is going to join us. He says what he is reading here is Election Fraud, so Andrew Weissmann believes this is an additional description of criminal activity by the president. This is this thing, it is impossible, i think, at this stage to exaggerate the importance of this story. Yeah. You know, lawrence, it puts a spotlight on something that had sort of stuck out for me when the house brought its article of impeachment against the president , because it was a very straightforward thing, incitement of insurrection. T
Preparations for the inauguration, National Guard soldiers, according to the report, have reported seeing several individuals photographing and recording their work. Some of those videos have been uploaded online. The intelligence briefing also noted reports of unknown individuals accessing camera footage of secured areas where Public Access to prohibited. Again, that news just breaking tonight in the Washington Post. About new security warnings from the fbi. Not good. All right. That is going to do it for us for now. Ill see you again tomorrow night. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Lawrence, im sorry i took up too much time with this breaking news from the post. Im so glad that you did, rachel, because i was going to read it if you didnt. The good news in it is the fbi knows everything these people are up to at the moment. And seems to have a good eye on them. I think their possible success at their schemes is probably close to zero at this point with the amount
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