Thank, you alex. I want to begin tonight with a special word to and about don trumps criminal defenders, all of whom are offered a Standing Invitation to appear on this program at anytime. All of Donald TrumpsDefense Lawyers have failed more spectacularly in the representation of donald trump than anything they have ever done in their professional lives because they have all failed at the most basic task, the first task, of a Criminal Defense Lawyer, which is to control your client. Donald trump is Out Of Control, spewing poisonous hateful, racist, sexist lies about the prosecutors and judges who are involved in the cases, the criminal cases against him. Or, as in fani williss case, still investigating him. And every one of Donald Trumps criminal Defense Lawyers knows that every poisoned, filthy word donald trump has said about the prosecutors, every one of those words is a pathological lie. And not one of those criminal Defense Lawyers has the professional dignity or Human Decency to disassociate himself from Donald Trumps vicious, hateful lies about prosecutors who those criminal Defense Lawyers know have all conducted themselves perfectly honorably. Donald trumps criminal Defense Lawyers live in abject fear of donald trump, abject fear, and you can see that fear on their faces when they are confronted with Donald Trumps poison. Deranged jack smith. Hes a deranged human being. Look at that face. You say that guy is a sick man. Theres something wrong with him. Do you believe hes deranged . President biden, in april 2022, said he wanted President Trump prosecuted and he wanted him out of the race. He repeated that in november of 2022. You could see the fear on that face when he was trying to think up what to say other than the simple wordno. it was a simple question. Do you believe hes arranged . The simple answer is no. John lauro does not believe jack smith is deranged. He knows that jack smith is one of the most honorable dedicated prosecutors in the history of the Justice Department, the department where john laurel used to work. John laurel could have just said no. As most lawyers would, to that question. In a situation like that, if a defendant publicly insulted a prosecutor, any decent Criminal Defense Lawyer would simply say no to that question, and the interview would move on. It doesnt harm the clients position in any way. But john was afraid. Terrified of the word no. And you could see that on his face. As he tried to struggle to think of an answer. He gave no answer. He just rambled. You could see, in those seconds, the terror of the possibility of him publicly daring to disagree with a Pathological Liar who he defends, and so john went off into a lying ramble instead of having this simple professional decency to disassociate himself from his clients lies about the prosecutor. When you defend a Pathological Liar, the filth of the pathological lies is going to get all over you. It is going to cover you. You will not be the same after defending every word a Pathological Liar says. And so the only things donald trump criminal Defense Lawyers have demonstrated so fires are complete failure to control their client, fear of their client, and absolutely no shame whatsoever. Associating themselves with the lies Donald Trump Tells about prosecutors and judges. Yesterday in New Hampshire don trump went after Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis it is most vial way yet. He has already gone full racist on fani willis because she is a black woman. John lauro chose to join trumps criminal defense team after donald trump repeatedly, publicly expressed his racism against fani willis, john lauro is the newest member of don trumps criminal defense team, and he joined that team after watching donald trump spew his racism against a black prosecutor in manhattan and a black prosecutor in atlanta. Im gonna show you now just a bit. I cant show you all of it because its too vulgar, too pornographic. Just a bit of what donald trump said yesterday about fani willis. They say theres a young woman, a young racist in atlanta, i say racist, and they say, i guess, they say that im not gonna show you the rest of the pornographic poison that donald trump spewed, but the full support with the full support of his lawyers. He seems to be referring to fani williss work as a Criminal Defense Attorney and a defendant she everything he said about fani willis came from the deeply Perverted Cesspool of Donald Trumps sick imagination. And he happily and perversely lied about District Attorney fani williss relationship with a former client. Donald trump has very boastfully had sexual relationships with many more people than his three wives, including during all of his marriages, and so a deeply twisted decaying mind filled with a lifetime of memories of adultery reaches into the mud of his own lived experience and throws it at other people. And not one of Donald Trumps criminal Defense Lawyers has any problem being associated with Donald Trumps lying about District Attorney fani willis. Not one of them. There is another option. I quit. Any of don trumps criminal Defense Lawyers can say that any day, and some of them have, but none of them have ever quit because hes racist. They can say that i can ever explain to my grandchildren or to history why i remain associated with an Out Of Control sick perverted racist. As of tonight, every one of Donald Trumps criminal Defense Lawyers is too cowardly to quit. And much too cowardly to tell donald trump to shut up. And a cowardly Criminal Defense Lawyer is a failure as a Criminal Defense Lawyer. It takes a beautiful shimmering audacity to be a great and noble Criminal Defense Lawyer. When they announced the sides in a federal criminal trial, the United States of america versus john doe, the person representing john doe against all the prosecutorial might of United States of america better to be strong, better to be brave, brave enough to stand up against the prosecutorial strength of the United States of america and brave enough to stand up to a cowardly Pathological Liar like donald trump. When we will have more about District Attorney fani willis is possible prosecution of donald trump later in this hour when her friend, former prosecutor glenn, will join us. Including fani williss response to Donald Trumps new lying attack against her. She sent an email to her staff, guiding her staff about how not to respond to anything. Less later this, hour we were dealing with the breaking news in the newest prosecution of donald trump and washington, d. C. , that was about howard law professor Laurence Tribe reveal last night, special Prosecutor Jack Smith has obtained a december six 2020 memo that the january Six Committee did not discover. That socalled legal memo, written by a former student of Professor Tribes, now appears to be one of a sequence of memos that contained the origin of what jack smith is calling a criminal conspiracy to defraud, United States in a conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. 23 years ago, Professor Tribe worked as an appeals lawyer for Vice President al gore in the Historic Supreme Court case of bush versus gore, which ended up deciding the president ial election of the year 2000. Kenneth chesebro was one of the Research Assistants at Harvard Law School helping Professor Tribe prepare the case. In a series of moments written by chesebro beginning on november 18th, he advocated what was now seen as the fake electors scheme identified by jack smith indictment of donald trump. In the first version of the memo, chesebro advocated creating republican electors in states won by joe biden just in case donald trump was somehow miraculously successful in lawsuits in those states and managed to get Court Rulings that would somehow magically reverse the outcome of the election. Mr. Chesebros argument was that the Trump Campaign had better be ready with named republican electors whose votes could be counted on january six, if donald trump managed to win his legal challenges mounted in court in those states. But the newlyrevealed december six memo shows that mr. Chesebro changed his strategy to simply try to obstruct the account of the electoral votes on january he quoted Professor Tribe to support the legitimacy of his argument. In december six, 2020 memo, mr. Chesebro writes, i believe what can be achieved on january six is not simply to keep biden below 270 electoral votes, it seems feasible that the vote count can be conducted so that at no point will trump be behind in the electoral vote count unless and until biden can obtain a favorable decision from the Supreme Court upholding the electoral count act as constitutional or otherwise recognizing the power of congress or not the president of the senate to count the votes. Thats a memo said it was all up to mike pence, quote, Vice President pence presiding over the joint session takes the position that it is his constitutional power duty alone as president of the senate to both open and count the votes and that anything in the electoral count act to the contrary is unconstitutional. Chesebro admits that what he calls a bold controversial strategy would not be supported by the Supreme Court. But he says it would, quote, by the Trump Campaign more time to win litigation that would deprive biden of electoral votes and or add to trumps in the memo chesebro cites his former Professor Tribe is having once written that the only real deadline for a state to complete, any state to complete the count of electoral votes of a president ial election is, quote, before congresss parents to count the votes on january 6th. As Professor Tribe explained here, last night, in our Breaking News Environment, he did, in a Harvard Law Review, point out of the state of florida, specifically that one state of florida, does not have a lot of it specifies when the electoral votes must be counted in florida. In a Harvard Law Review article that mr. Chesebro mischaracterized, Professor Tribe wrote, you can read the florida statutes, which deal with president ial and gubernatorial elections in the same set of provisions, backwards and forwards, without finding even the slightest clue and State Legislature ever decided that all recounts in a contested president ial election must start by December 12th or for that matter at anytime before the electors meet to give their votes on December 18th or even before Congress Starts to count the votes on january 6th. Leading off our discussion tonight, professor Laurence Tribe, who has taught Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School for five decades. Professor tribe, thank you very much for joining us tonight. This story continued to gain its steam today and when since we dealt with it in the Breaking News Environment i want to make sure your fully understood and heard on this, because this is gonna be ongoing evidence on his case. It might provide testimony at the trial about these very memos that quote you. What should the audience understand about this to have a full grasp of it . I think the audience should understand that ken chesebro was part of the team helping me argue in florida and in the u. S. Supreme court back in 2020 that there was no justification for throwing away the ballots that hadnt been recounted yet on dec 12 because under the peculiar laws of florida the count could go on. The whole point was that every vote must be counted, must be counted accurately, and if there is a recount you cant simply toss votes away. That had nothing to do with the idea that you can violate the electoral count act or its deadlines or that you can have fake electoral slates. None of the crazy intellectual acrobatics that ken chesebros series of memos and emails advocated bears any resemblance to anything i have ever said or thought in my life. Its an example, just like your example of lawyers who are willing to sit by while their client spews hateful, dangerous, racist messages and say nothing. This is another form of evil lawyering, where you take your legal talents and you put them to work to create a blueprint to steal an election from the american people. Thats not a decent use of legal talent. And it is really a shame that ken chesebro, who was a Research Assistant of mine, as part of the same team at one point, in 1986, as really good people like elana kagan and barack obama. But somehow he managed to cross over to the dark side. He became pretty clear, as one reads the more elaborate memorandum of december 6th that was recently unveiled, that this guy is supersmart. I have always known that. But he doesnt have a conscience. It became clear that he was playing a four dimensional game, all kinds of blueprints, alternatives, ways of posturing things so that Justice Thomas, and he singled him out, Justice Thomas would have an opportunity as Circuit Justice for the circuit that includes the state of georgia, would have an opportunity to throw a Monkey Wrench into the works, to create a moment when the Vice President , whom he still hoped, Chesebro Still Hope that the Vice President would cave to the pressure of the president , he would then be able to take a clearly illegal move and tossed matters back to State Legislatures, which would then be able to, apparently, rip up the votes of their own voters and substitute electoral slates of their own. And in case they didnt do it on time, we would have counterfeit slates, ready and waiting. The whole thing is an extraordinary abuse of the lawyers function. Thats why mr. Chesebro is being investigated by various Bar Committees for possible disbarment. Thats why i imagine its likely that he will be indicted, probably by fani willis because georgia was gonna be one of the victims of the scheme that really he, even more than john eastman, engineered. Thats why he may well be separately indicted by jack smith, not necessarily the superseding indictment but a separate indictment of one or more of the coconspirators. Good example of what lawyers shouldnt ever do what we seee now that we ha the point youve ma t these story of the we had all been con on eastman, the attention, but starts with che what did it feel like for you when you finally saw this memo in which he surgically removes the last few words of a sentence you wrote there is about the state of florida and only about the state of florida. He surgically removes those words and applies them, in effect, by implication, to all 50 states. This obviously is not Harvard Law School practice. Youd be in big trouble doing that kind of thing on an exam or a paper. But how did you feel personally . This is someone who you taught and worked with, and you see thi