caution it s. ron klain having work to the judiciary committee with joe biden when he was chairman and the business of confirming those judges. ron klein told me about is last week of working for the white house that he s their underway fulfilling every vacancy in the federal courts. they might get to a point this year where they re sitting there with no vacancies. wow! that s just an astonishing accomplishment. at a time when it is abundantly clear how very important the judiciary is to be functioning democracy. exactly. we are joined tonight by harvard law officer professor laurence tribe to consider of among other things mike pence s novel to put it kindly, novel notion about why he should testify before a grand jury. novel is one way putting it or, it s account wait to see. it thanks. alex thank you. well the breaking news of the night is that special prosecutor jeff jack smith has invoked the crime fraud exception in a motion to force one of donald trump
i love when you say the destruction of the semantic train right is that what you re saying? i wrote it down. that is. i love it! i love it! happy valentine s day buddy! to you to. thank you for joining us at home. happy valentine s day to you at home. it is not been a quiet one. we have lots of news this evening regarding the special counsel s investigations into both trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and to whether trump unlawfully retain classified documents and obstructed efforts to recover them. first of breaking news in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. it concerns trump lawyer evan corcoran who s been representing the former president in his negotiations with the justice department over classified documents found at mar-a-lago. corcoran s already can appeared before the grand jury but tonight nbc news confirms it special jackson jack smith is invoking the crime fraud exception and seeking more of corcoran s testimony. in a sealed filing before a ju
to the chief justice of puerto rico supreme court who herself is the first openly lgbtq judge to service chief justice in that court. here is what judge mendes rural had to say about her partner in a confirmation hearing in july. her integrity and encouragement inspired me and gives me fortitude we are the parents to four-year-old twins a boy and a girl who we hoped can one day understand the passion for the law and justice our commitment to public service and our belief in a judicial system that safeguards the rights of all. props to the u.s. senate for making her new job official today of all days. happy valentine s day. that is it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening. lawrence good evening alex in those hundred judges who are really big joe biden and ron klain a
tried to force pence into basically stealing the presidency that he had lost for the former president. and incidentally, getting power for himself. and part of the reason for the ploy is that he wants to be president of the united states. it s not only the text that helpfully read to your viewers that makes clear that mike pence is not entitled to invoke the shield of the speech and debate clause, it s what he said himself on the morning of january 6th having got advice from a very distinguished former federal judge michael luttig. he confirmed that he is not going to play senatorial or congressional rule, or even much of a role at all he said he was simply going to play a ceremonial role, the role given
think with the trump base. so what else is new? it s simply another performance art and not very good artist. that we saw a remarkably fast appeals process truly expedited in every sense of the word in the documents case involving donald trump in which donald trump lost in every forum that he went through after the district court. but i, on the other hand on the donald trump tax returns, they were basically bottled up by a district court judge in washington, d.c. was appointed by donald trump who ran out almost a couple of years of the clock all by himself by just sitting there for many months at a time not issuing rulings on the case. what do you expect to be the timetable of the situation like this which clearly will be appealed? . it will be much faster. this is not going to get stuck with any one judge who wants to