Left his golf estate in bedminster new jersey, he got on his trump plane at Newark International airport and flew back to washington, d. C. And when trump arrived there today, it was just showing up for courts. He was returning to the scene of the alleged crime. The federal courthouse where, trump was arraigned today, sits near both the ellipse, where trump riled up the crowd on january 6th, and the capital plaza, where rioters stormed the barricade and tried to stop the peaceful transition of power. The court room that trump was in todays the very same room where numerous january 6th cases have been heard. The judge overseeing trumps arraignment has also overseen the cases of people including dominick box, a Qanon Activist Who Livestreamed the storming of the capitol and jarred wise, a former fbi agent whos charged with assaulting a Police Officer on january 6th. So this was all very much a Trip Down Memory Lane for mr. Trump. Now there were no Courtroom Cameras today. But thanks to C
Thanks alex. The Breaking News at this hour tonight is the astonishing news that Donald Trumps Criminal Defense Lawyer, john lauro, who did a very solid and serious job in the courtroom today during Donald Trumps third criminal arraignment of the year, where donald trump once again pleaded not guilty, that lawyer then went On Television and any fact pleaded donald trump guilty to the charge of attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Everyone except donald trump knows the criminal defendants should not speak publicly about their cases. The same is almost always true for Criminal Defense Lawyers. The most common response from Criminal Defense Lawyers to requests for interviews about their pending cases is one word, no. Most successful Criminal Defense Lawyers never grant television interviews, never. Too many of Donald Trumps lawyers are too eager to talk on trump supporting television about their client. And so tonight trump Criminal De
Television and any fact pleaded donald trump guilty to the charge of attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Everyone except donald trump no is that criminal defendants should not speak publicly about their cases. The same is almost always true for Criminal Defense Lawyers. The most common response from Criminal Defense Lawyers to requests for interviews about their pending cases is one word, no. Most successful Criminal Defense Lawyers never grant Television Interviews, never. Too many of Donald Trumps lawyers are too eager to talk on trump supporting television about their client. And so tonight trump Criminal Defense Lawyer john lauro, in his first interview after donald trump pleaded not guilty to conspiring to trying to get Vice President mike pence to break the law, Donald Trumps Criminal Defense Lawyer actually said this. Professor eastman laid out a series of options that we were discussed with Vice President pence. Vice presid
January 6th, and the capital plaza, where rioters stormed the barricade to stop the peaceful transition of power. The court room that trump was in todays the very same room where numerous january 6th cases have been heard. The judge overseeing trumps arraignment has also overseen the cases of people including dominick box, a Qanon Activist Who Livestreamed the storming of the capital and jarred wise, a former fbi agent whos charged with assaulting a Police Officer on january 6th. So this was all very much a Trip Down Memory Lane for mr. Trump. Now that were no Courtroom Cameras today. But thanks to Courtroom Sketch bill hennessy, we know what it looked like when a former president of the United States appear in court to be formally and federally charged for trying to subvert american democracy. It was more than 110 people in the courtroom to hear this arraignment, including several of the federal judges who have been presiding over other january 6th cases. Judges who showed up today in
indictments intersect with one another and overlap. greg bluestein from the atlanta journal-constitution, witness to the fake electors meeting on december 14th of 2020, a man with much knowledge. thank you for your time, sir. thank you. that is our show for this evening. now it is time for the last word, with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. , with good evening, alex, ann this extraordinary day and night, andrew weissmann is going to join me and he s going to join me for the full hour. he has been granted taking naps during commercial breaks. so the commercial breaks, i just want to say this to the audience, if the commercial breaks feel longer than usual, it s because we re trying to wake andrew weissmann up. he got an absolute into his contract. i haven t gotten that yet. i think i have to be on air for another year before they will give me that. you ve gotta start a a lot earlier, like andrew did. i ll be watching and waiting in the nap break.