husky voice, which comes from being in the second week of the stupid cold. i promise next week i will be better. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, lawrence. we have andrew weissmann and faith gay joining us to go over the legal aspects of this case. and lisa birnbach is going to join us, who as you know, is the person who e. jean carroll called on the day donald trump did that to her here in manhattan. and we are going to get that dimension of the story told here. but i just want to thank you for that hour, that 40 minutes with e. jean and this amazing legal team. because roberta kaplan, sean crowley, when you get into reading the transcript of this case, as you know, they re even better than you think. it s like, this is going well, oh no, it s going much, much better, because they re so sharp in every twist and turn in those transcripts all the way through. and it s just an amazing legal team. so i m glad they r
good evening, lawrence. good evening, law alex. lawrence i just got my hands on this filing while you ve been working here. we ll very much on the fly going into live coverage of it. you will not be surprised to know that on the first page of this filing the second paragraph mentions the historic landslide victory in the iowa caucuses yesterday. that is considered a of legal import in this case by the trump lawyers in their filing tonight. i wonder if there s something about his inauguration crowd size on page 67. we ll see. i haven t read the whole thing, but so far i have not found that. your crackerjack team of producers is on it. thank you, alex. we are about to be joined by andrew weizmann and bradley moss, who have this document that joyce vance has just been discussing with alex wagner and it is a filing clearly to delay this case. it makes the argument that house no foundation in law, that there is a bias in the prosecution, and because there is a bias i
i wanted to do a few minutes on how your father invented the iowa caucus. and i wanted to hear all the bedtime stories he told you about going out to iowa in 1972 for george mcgovern, the first time any presidential candidate played attention to the iowa caucuses, and winning it and how he created political history with everyone wanted to follow in karl wagner s footsteps, managing a winning presidential the monster he helped create, in other words. [laughter] we were working monday night because of coral. he did that to us. he was looking down on us with a smile on his face, and also probably a frown. [laughter] brilliant, it was a brilliant move when he did it. and i m just sorry it has become an enduring phenomenon of this absurd thing. because all i knew was that carl was, hey, no one is paying attention to this thing. we can go out there and win it, and and then you re off to the races. only a son of eye what would come up with a plot like that. thank you c
it s always good to see you. happy new year, by the way, it s not too light to say happy new year. it is not, the whole month of january, as far as i am concerned. the whole 2024 will be, you can see it, but my fingers are crossed. from your mouth to my ears, have a good show. and tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump s immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump s lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jack smith s team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it s on
know that on the first page of this filing the second paragraph mentions the historic landslide victory in the iowa caucuses yesterday. that is considered of legal import in this case by the trump lawyers in their filing tonight. i wonder if there s something about his inauguration crowd size on page 67. we ll see. i haven t read the whole thing, but so far i have not found that. your crackerjack team of producers is on it. thank you, alex. we are about to be joined by andrew weissmann and bradley moss, who have this document that joyce vance has just been discussing with alex wagner and it is a filing clearly to delay this case. it makes the argument that house no foundation in law, that there is a bias in the prosecution, and because there is a bias in the prosecution, a political bias, that there for the crime wasn t committed, in effect. the outline of this bias comes in the middle of this filing on page 42, no, 45, under the heading, special counsel coordination