A really busy week. Lets get right to the conversations you might have missed. You were obviously white house spokesperson. This is an issue that is going to follow joe biden around in this campaign. This campaign. Especially because donald trump, or the people that want donald trump to win will continue to make this an issue. What should the Biden Administration do . I know you are uncomfortable doing this, telling people i was about to ask you, what should President Biden do . Inquiring minds want to know. Any thoughts on just the white house, democrats generally when asked about this . Look, i think there is a couple of issues at play here, clearly one is, what is going on at colleges and universities. These are not monolithic protests across the country and they are not even monolithic at individual campuses. So yes, we need to get to a point where students are graduating and there is maybe some relief during the summer. What are they figuring out over the next couple of months abo
Question, we heard joe bidens answer this week. We heard him try to thread the needle and to say i support the right to his will protest but that doesnt mean that it is a license for chaos. History is at our doorstep as always. Susan glasser, thank you for your time this friday evening. That is original for tonight. Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence Odonnell, special friday Night Edition. Friday Night Edition after a friday in the courthouse. I will be joined by my Courthouse Posse this week. Andrew weissman, adam klasfeld, lisa rubin, all in the courthouse with me this week. Did you guys break for lunch together . I have pictures of lunch together, which can only be shared privately. Alex, the heroes in that building or the Court Officers. They are running an amazing process to get people in, to get them out, to control the setting in a way that it has never had to be controlled before because of course of the secret Service Protection for a former president. No group of
Hello and welcome to our special, new york versus donald trump. We have breakdowns on this entire riveting week of testimony including fridays emotional moment for longtime trump aid, hope hicks on the stand. This is one of those weeks that showed how prosecutors are proving on this case, putting forward Stormy Daniels. Called to confirm a very damning story that we have heard will come from Michael Cohen. They have done it this way to confirm it from the jury. Then, corroborating all that is what we told you about, the receipt of checks, the contract send then, ending this week with a rearview inside Donald Trumps uppermost senior aide and brain trust, longtime trump eight Hope Hicks Taking The Stand Friday and taking jurors and the rest of us into the secret meeting discussions as the access Hollywood Tape broke as trump and the aides assessed its damage. Hope hicks, you see there with donald trump. That is a coveted post in any campaign, especially in his, someone who is up on this
I give amazing spongebaths. Can i get a room . [ chuckling ] chefs kiss. Im ari melber signing off from this special hour. Keep right here on msnbc. I guess because donald trump does apparently whatever i tell him to do, he did not glare at me again in the courtroom today after i described Donald Trumps weird and childish and trumpian attempt to, i guess, intimidate me by throwing his angry glare at me when he was leaving the courtroom yesterday, i said right here on the program last night that it was a mistake for him to do that. I said that his apparently useless handyman who hangs out in the front row of the courtroom Boris Epshteyn should have told trump not to make a big deal out of that odonnell guy being in the courtroom yesterday. Donald trump shouldnt have given me that pleasure. He shouldnt have done that in such a goofy and public way that the New York Times felt to report it right away on the live update of the trial. No one in the courtroom had seen donald trump do anythin
Smerconish is up next is it, 1968 . The sequel Michael Smerconish in philadelphia this week in a deja vu of the vietnam era, Police Officers in riot gear across the country were called in to disperse antiwar protesters from College Campuses when they cleared out columbia universitys hamilton hall, it was on the 56th Anniversary of police arrests, ending a Student Takeover about the Vietnam Conflict in the exact same building and this august even more deja vu, the Democratic National convention will take place in chicago the same city which hosted the 1968 dnc, which was famously disrupted by both chaotic radical antiwar protests and the violent response of the police a bit of history, 1968 included lbj deciding not to seek reelection because of vietnam. Four days later, the assassination of Martin Luther king junior race riots, then the assassination of democratic frontrunner robert f. Kennedy, the republican challenger, Richard Nixon, who had lost to jfk in 1960, was promising to end