with lawrence o'donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening, alex, i was listening to your coverage about the possibility of donald trump testifying to the january six committee, even after he gets a subpoena. and of course, he will fight it all the way. and we'll pretend though at the same time, through strategic legs, oh yeah, he's thinking about it, maybe he'll do it. like he did with the mueller investigation for so long. there is no chance he was ever going to testify. >> it's all a routine. it's all a hoax! don't believe it! i mean, the idea that he'd been cooperative at the same time while he's throwing every bit of sand he can into the works is like, you know, come on, we know fully once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. we all know how the story ends. >> you know who's going to testify? his mascot, lindsey graham has been ordered by the federal appeals court to testify to the georgia grand jury that is investigating among other things lindsey graham's phone calls from the secretary of state about the presidential election along with donald trump's famous phone call. one of those striking things about the three judge panel -- 12 judges, appointed by donald trump. and of course, voted for by lindsey graham. >> the irony! the irony! the irony! >> lindsey grime has fought to do this with every out in his quiver. just this year, and he will testify. >> he will have to do it. thank you, alex. >> thanks lawrence. >> today, donald trump's lawyers have proved that they don't know why they asked for a special master to examine the documents seized by the fbi with a search warrant a donald trump's residence in florida. we finally have tonight specific legal claims about some of those documents being made by the trump lawyers in the appropriately titled case donald j trump versus the united states of america. those claims appear in a justice department filing with the special master tonight that justice department filing describes to the special master, renaming disputes regarding 15 documents. a filing includes a table listing every one of those documents and every dispute. for example, document number one shows a dispute about the categorization of the documents with donald trump calling it a personal record, and the justice department calling it a presidential record. there's also a dispute about the status of document number one with donald trump saying the document is subject to executive privilege, and the justice department saying there is no such thing as executive privilege against the executive branch. and so it goes. through the documents, the most absurd disputes involve the disputes for document number six and others, where donald trump says the document is a personal record and the justice department says it's a presidential record, and then donald trump also says that that personal record is subject to executive privilege which the justice department obviously says is utterly absurd. the trump lawyers do not make a single rational tingle claim about the documents because there is nothing rational or illegal about the request of a special master in the first place. the records that donald trump's lawyers called personal records, according to the justice department, quote, appear to have been created, or received, by plaintiffs trump in the course of activities which relate to, or have an effect upon, the carrying out of the constitutional statutory or other official or ceremonial -- the justice department points out that those documents include clemency requests and, quote, we immigration initiatives. and, quote, a printed email message from a person that one of the military academy's address to the president in his official capacity about the academy sports program and its relationship to martial spirit. the justice department points out there is nothing and law that suggests, quote, that otherwise, presidential records may be rendered personal by fiat. the justice department also tells the special master, raymond, dairy judge raymond dearie, what he already knows which is that it is very common for personal records to be seized along with other material, where search warrants are executed. personal records that are not government property are seized every day for but use and criminal investigations. and the fact that more than 100 documents bearing classification markings were comingled with unclassified and even personal records is important evidence in the government's investigation in this case. in the last line of their filing, the justice department says that all of donald trump's arguments about the documents, quote, would fail here because the government has a demonstrated specific need for this evidence and it's ongoing criminal investigation. donald trump's lawyers have lost every ground of the appeals in this case after the special master was brought into the case by the trump appointed judge, alien mercedes cannon. when you read the justice department filing for the special master tonight you are reading a final from lawyers who are confident, and who are winning every single time they make an argument to a judge or to the special master. donald trump and his lawyers have to know by now, if they didn't know about already that they are going to lose at every term procedurally what the special master in this case. and they are going to lose in the 11th circuit court of appeals if a judge cannot intervene in the case so again in such a way that the justice department cannot appeal to a decision, by, her -- procedurally, donald trump and his lawyers know that the special master process, it might create some delay, it's not going to stop the justice department criminal investigation, which now appears to include the wonder of testimony to a grand jury by the trump staffer kash patel, who was chosen by donald trump to replace former white house counsel pat cipollone as donald trump's official intermediary with the national archives about the donald documents donald trump was keeping in florida. cash patel was quoted in the fbi affidavit that was used to obtain the search warrant of trump's documents. saying it made that trump had declassified documents. he kept at his residence in florida. what did you say about that when he was asked about it in the grand jury in washington last week? cash patel might have taken the fifth amendment and refused to answer any questions undergrowth to that grand jury, or kash patel may have decided it was time to save himself and stop lying for donald trump. donald trump's lawyers have no idea what he told the grand jury. donald trump and his lawyers have no idea what cash patel told that granary. nothing prevents cash patel from telling them what he told the grand jury. but donald trump's problem is he is a pathological liar who has attracted into his employ other pathetic pathological liars, like kash patel. what so, when one of his pathological liars is now telling him what he said to a grand jury, how can donald trump believe that? how can donald trump's lawyers rely on that? such as the agonizing legal pressure that is building on donald trump every day with every new revelation about a new trump player, testifying to a grand jury we already knew that former white house counsel pat cipollone testified to the grand jury investigating the donald trump documents case and we now have reports that parts of polonia has testified under oath in georgia to the fulton county jury that is investigating donald trump's possible criminal interference in the georgia presidential election. >> all i want to do is this, i just want to find what 11,780 votes which is one more than what we have. >> donald trump's mascot, lindsey graham, lost his appeal in the 11th circuit court of appeals in which lindsey graham was attempting to avoid testifying to that very same grandeur in fulton county, georgia. the three judge panel in the certain court of appeals unanimously -- two of the three judges ordering lindsey graham to testify were appointed by donald trump with lindsey graham's vote for their confirmation. in the united states senate. leading off our discussion tonight is andrew weizmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of the criminal division in the eastern district of new york. he is a professor at practice at nyu law school and an msnbc legal. analysts also with us harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant deputy general. let me begin with, you andrew weissmann, what have we learned about the trump lawyers and the special master process based on what the justice department filing reveals to us about what they are calling the disputes over these documents? it seems to me this reveals the trump lawyers never had any kind of a hint of a strategy of what this special master process was supposed to do for them. >> that's totally right. and you also read from a footnote where the department of justice, when it talks about the fact that their personal documents that are seized every single day of the week, at the federal and state level, that's a footnote that very politely is saying, i don't know why judge cannon even cares about this category because we were allowed to seize, and we do seize every day, personal documents. you might want to put this in the category of personal document, but it's irrelevant because you still get to keep it. it's the very polite way of saying this is none of this makes any sense. my favorite of the sort of lunacy of the trump position is where he says that clemency petitions are personal documents and to me you don't have to be sigmund freud to understand what's going on here which is that for donald trump, that is exactly how you view the climate state. not as a government function but as something that was doled out to people like steve bannon and two other cronies like michael flynn. and it was done entirely on a personal basis. unfortunately for him, he decided he wanted a special master in is a real judge. it is going to take, we were in new york, it's going to take less than a new york minute for judge dearie to rule on these issues. they seem quite frivolous. >> it will be an interesting night when we discover whose name was in that clemency document that donald trump calls personal in this inventory of documents. harry, lippman what did you get from reading the justice department's reading of the -- disputes? >> since we're picking favorites, i would go six and seven with what donald trump says that a record is personal is somehow also an official record of the government. that is so clearly the null said. but there are two arguments here, and i agree with andrew that dairy should make quick work of them. then we will see what cannon does. but the 11th circuit, obviously, ought to be the backstop here. when is where he basically asserts, implicitly, that he can take a document that was government driven and related, wave his hand, and make it personal after his presidency. that should be a loser. even more importantly there are two documents where he says he has executive privilege and the doj gives it back of the hand and you would think jerry would as well because there are several reasons. the one you gave at the end was even if there were executive privilege, they would have to yield because it's important to an ongoing investigation. but you can't have executive privilege against the executive. and they put it in very sort of sudden reform in the table itself. i expect dearie, who's already said, where is the beef? you can't have your cake and eat it too. we will have some other cued slogan to dispense but that claim. that's really the big one because as andrew says, there was no need for special master in the first place. but the real misstep has always been the possibility that judge cannon would do something awry on executive privilege. i think jerry will give that back of the hand and the 11th circuit if it all comes to an end. >> just review, that andrew weissmann, the special master will make some rulings here. all of those rulings get submitted to judge can. and judge cannon can accept those rulings or not, by the special master. if the justice department doesn't like what judge cannon does, they can then appealed to the 11th circuit. judge cannon knows that the justice department has won with every single appeal point they have raised, now all the way up to including the u knighted state supreme court. and that she has been crushed by the process every time the justice department has made a move against her judgment in this so far and they have pending a full appeal of her judgment of even appointing a special master at all. that appeal might be won by the justice department in the middle of the special master process. immediately wiping it up. is it possible that judge cannon, and i guess as i found myself asking the question i realize how crazy it is, we are trying to predict the actions of a judge who has done the craziest things we've ever seen. what this judge dare to try to rule against this giant hierarchy of the judiciary that's already ruled against her? the >> unfortunately, i think the answer to that is yes. but as you noted, there is a pending appeal that could pull the plug on all of this. and i do think everyone should step back and think about what happened this week. to put it in blonde terms, the good guys mont because they had the facts and the law on their side. judge carter made an incredible decision with respect to the former president. john durham had a district judge dismissed one of his cases as being flat out so false it can go out to the jury and the jury acquitted on all of the other charges that john durham brought. you had the 11th circuit, as you noted, with two of the three judges create -- appointed by donald trump doing their job. and it's important to see and know to judge cannon is not emblematic to the judiciary. you really have the judiciary looking like they're upholding the rule of law. and whatever judge cannon does, whether she's bold enough to be untethered to the facts of the law, i don't think that is going to hold up in this situation. this is such a clear matter that the 11th circuit has signaled out into separate decisions that they are not going to have any of this. >> before you, go harry lippman, i would like to go back to the world of news coverage where it doesn't really cross our minds who appointed the federal judge when we are reporting on a federal judicial opinion. and we see that in the lindsey graham subpoena case where we have these two trump judges, the cc graham voted for, them saying, no senator graham, you absolutely must testify to the georgia grand jury. >> ditto with the 11th circuit who has reversed cannon to trump appointees, they are so beyond the pale that you expect most judges to do their duties. and most judges have. if you give an overall verdict of the trump era, they have, by and large, held the line. lindsey graham is in a bit of a tight spot it seems to me. other trump team folks, when the ruling has gone against them, they've gone and taking the fifth. sending senator who says i was just doing my legislative duty, i think there's a political cost to him that doesn't occurred to the john eastman's or the donald trump's of the world. so we will see how he handles it. >> harry lippman, andrew weizmann, thank you both very much for starting off our discussions tonight. thank you. coming up, we have breaking senate campaign news from georgia. senator raphael warnock today started running this ad about abortion and the trump chosen republican candidate, herschel walker. >> i'm rough hour not can i approve this message. >> for you, herschel walker was to ban abortion. >> i've no exception in my mind. >> it's not a national ban on abortion right now and, i think that's a problem. >> form? self >> herschel walker, paid friend abortion for his then girlfriend. >> she supported her claims with a 575 dollar receipt from the abortion clinic. >> even his own son is saying walker is lying. >> is that your signature on the check? >> yes, that's my -- >> ruffle warren ex campaign void avoided talking about racial war walker's personal story with abortion. that's over. now we will be joining with met the hassan to discuss -- discussing a ban on in vitro fertilization. that's right, you heard that right. that's next. that's next. imagine having to use the wrong tool at your job. 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>> we thanks for having me on. i want to particularly say that we at our video that you just played for the woman in south carolina, is extraordinarily -- i applaud her for coming forward and talking about what the consequences are for women here when there are so many people, including my opponent, who are running on the platform of banning abortion nationwide. doing away with ivf, as you pointed out, and saying women should rejoice at the overturning of roe v. wade. as my opponent has in fact said. now, what is happening in my raise is i'm running against one of the most extreme if not the most extreme nominees for's u.s. senate. that the new hampshire has ever seen. in addition to his willing to eviscerate women's fundamental freedom. he also wants to eliminate social security and among other things is a election denier. but he's got $26 million of mitch mcconnell's money. not only bolstering him but working actively to mislead people about how extreme he is. as well as attacking me. so when he suddenly says in a debate, oh, dobbs didn't overturn roe, which of course we know is just blatantly untrue, given the language of the dobbs decision which says it's overturning roe, what's really happening here is he is trying to hide how extreme his positions are because he knows he's out of step with new hampshire, one of the most pro-choice states in the country. but at the end of the day, he really doesn't think he needs to listen to granted status, especially the woman had gone to state. and wants to impose a extreme agenda of the people of our state and our country. and mitch mcconnell is -- to do just that. >> i want to go back to the social and medicare piece of this. he's quite an extremist of this and it comes from a long line -- he's on the extreme and of republicans who've always wanted to, at minimum, cut social security benefits and cut the benefits of his medicare. to those who want to eliminate the programs, and he has slipped around on this. where is he saying he is now on these issues? what >> he says, on the one hand, he would never do anything to harm seniors. and on the other hand, he has -- comments on video that says he wants to eliminate social security. one of his most recent comments was it's been around since 1935, it's time for change. people are very, very concerned about making ends meet about dealing with inflation. i've been talking to them about the efforts i'm making to help them lower their costs now while also addressing the long term drivers of inflation. meanwhile, bolduc wants to take away social security and will have voted against the legislation that will lower seniors prescription drug costs and overtime, everyone's prescription which job costs. and he would rather stay with miguel then lowering some's energy cost. he's someone who's extreme positions are out of step with my state. the problem we've got is polls are tightening, this is a close race. new hampshire's always. purple mitch mcconnell is spending $26 million in the last eight weeks of this race. that's how close republicans think this is. i hope people watching tonight will get involved in this race and see how they can make sure that donald bolduc, one of the most extreme candidates to ever run for u.s. senate in new hampshire, doesn't become a united states senator and jack peoples prices up and eviscerate their personal rights. people can get involved and maggie hassan.com. >> what i saw -- was senator maggie hassan, thank you very much for joining us. we really appreciate it. >> thanks lawrence. >> coming up our next guest has a warning for the news media covering elections in the trump era, journalist and editor morgan sullivan joins us next. sullivan joins us next. 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>> lawrence, thank you very much for talking about the subject which i think is so important. i feel as if we are at a hinge moment in american history. and it's so important for journalists to be at their best and to do the job that needs to be done for american cities. i think, when i was an intern at the buffalo news, in 1980, i would have been completely shocked at the -- at the sort of tone of the country, it's nothing i experienced in my career until the trump era and there was a stark change at that point and what i was seeing and hearing, and the response i was getting four meters. it was a sea change. >> i -- that i never used for politicians before, and that was the word lie. and it was in 2011, as soon as he started talking about barack obama's birth certificate. it was five years later that the new york times first used the word lie. it was about the birth certificate, but by this, time donald trump was the nominee for presidents of the republican party and he was finally stepping away from, not completely refuting, but stepping away from his claims about the obama birth certificate. what about that five-year learning period it took four peepers like the new york times to put that word why in their poverty? and when they did, it was page one and it was right there in the headline. >> there was so much hesitance to do that. the reason given for it i think was that, we don't really know if this is a lie. you have to know that it's intentional. ally is something that is done intentionally. we are not inside this person, donald trump, and this place. we are not inside his head. we don't know whether it's intentional or not. but you know what? we do know something is a life it's repeated and repeated, and it's corrected and corrected. and still repeated after that. i think you can judge some intention into that. it took too long, it's a good word, it's a word that means something. it's a word like racist which also means something. and that's also aware that the mainstream news media has tiptoed around and you hear words like racially phrases like racially tinge when something is straight-up racist. and i think we need to be very clear at this point, and not be pussyfooting around. >> margaret sullivan, i know you'll be teaching it to, but i'd like to ask you now to please come back and coaches through the campaign coverage, keep an eye on what we are doing right, what we are doing, wrong in the way we approach this because it is a challenge like this field has never had before >> thank you very much, lawrence. >> her book is newsroom confidential, you've got to have. it thank you for joining, us i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> coming up, president obama has called our next guests work iconic. we will be joined by pete susan who followed president obama around the white house and around the world to discuss pete susan's new book, the west wing and beyond. that's next. that's next. there's a different way to treat hiv. it's every-other-month, injectable cabenuva. for adults who are undetectable, cabenuva is the only complete, long-acting hiv treatment you can get every other month. cabenuva helps keep me undetectable. it's two injections, given by my healthcare provider, every other month. it's one less thing to think about while traveling. hiv pills aren't on my mind. a quick change in my plans is no big deal. don't receive cabenuva if you're allergic to its ingredients or taking certain medicines, which may interact with cabenuva. serious side effects include allergic reactions post-injection reactions, liver problems, and depression. if you have a rash and other allergic reaction symptoms, stop cabenuva and get medical help right away. tell your doctor if you have liver problems or mental health concerns, and if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or considering pregnancy. some of the most common side effects include injection-site reactions, fever, and tiredness. if you switch to cabenuva, attend all treatment appointments. every other month, and i'm good to go. ask your doctor about every-other-month cabenuva. bipolar depression. it made me feel trapped in a fog. this is art inspired by real stories of bipolar depression. i just couldn't find my way out of it. the lows of bipolar depression can take you to a dark place. latuda could make a real difference in your symptoms. latuda was proven to significantly reduce bipolar depression symptoms. and in clinical studies, had no substantial impact on weight. this is where i want to be. call your doctor about sudden behavior changes or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants can increase these in children and young adults. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. report fever, confusion, stiff or uncontrollable muscle movements, which may be life threatening or permanent. these aren't all the serious side effects. now i'm back where i belong. ask your doctor if latuda is right for you. pay as little as zero dollars for your first prescription. ♪limu emu & doug♪ it's nice to unwind after a long week of telling people how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. showtime. whoo! i'm on fire tonight. 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>> what's in that briefcase? the military aid, and that particular photograph, the coast guard military, aid -- he would always be there, he would always be a military aid with air force one, inside the elevator, inside the motorcade. it's a football in that case is essentially the nuclear codes. one and probably some other communication gear. >> you have the things that i love best of these sort of backstage photographs. i'll put, you know and a group of kennedy center honorees there, right there in that shot, just hanging out waiting for their moment of -- there's another one that i really like which is of a korean interpreter. here is someone who may have traveled with the korean delegation to the white house. just collapsed, sleeping wear a tv camera, in the white house, wherever that moment could be. that moment of sleep could be grabbed. well that's a kind of thing we don't get to see outside of your book. >> i was looking for things out of the corner of my eye. when the president was in what -- this is in the green room, this was in the east room at the time. they were just eating dinner. and i was walking around and i saw this interpreter taking a cat nap. >> and then there were of course these majestic, i, think pete souza shots of, for example, marine one. you have a helicopter shot where your background happens to be one behind the golden gate bridge. it's behind the rotors on the ground, containing the helicopter in the air, that's one of those moments where do you know you have it in a moment when you click at? >> this is one bryant dissipated it's happening and was trying to frame it below that rotor blade that was already up on the -- that was on the ground. this one something i was able to maneuver and have the composition just like this. >> you've also had shots inside marine one, the kinds of shots we've never seen inside secret service suvs for wow -- crowded it isn't here, one of them you've got a secret service gun juxtaposed with a camera, a photographers camera, in there. >> that was my view from sitting in the spare limousine, the spare beast, if you will, that's who sat across from me. was a secret service agent with a gun. what >> was your life. you had 16 years of. it ain't with the reagan administration, it with the obama administration. how do you go back to the real world, after the world of excitement every day? >> now that i have a granddaughter, that's why want to spend my time with. and when you are living it and recording it in the camera, -- and so you're able to capture your own personal memories with john kerry standing with the vice president at the time, joe biden. where is everyone else is flying through that building and kind of high-speed, trying to remember everything they are going through, but they don't have that advantage of being able to click whenever they see something. >> i think i had the best job in the white house, lawrence. being able to visually document things as they happen inside the presidential bubble. i think it was just an amazing experience. and -- >> sorry, go ahead, pete. finish your thought. >> no, you go ahead. >> what do you take of it, how the government was serving the country while you are there? >> while i was, there i saw decent people trying to do their best to help the american people. i mean it sounds corny, but really, that's what i saw. and it's not just the appointees, there are also hundreds of people who work at the white house who stay there from administration to administration. i'm talking the butlers, the groundskeepers, the chef, secret service. we didn't know whether political affiliation was. it didn't matter. they were there to serve the president, no matter who the president was. >> pete souza, you have done it again. here's the book, the west wing and beyond, i'm gonna hold it up here in front of the camera. my christmas shopping begins right now, tonight, with this. i'm buying a bunch of them. pete souza, thank you very much for joining us again tonight. >> thanks for having me on, lawrence. >> tonight's last word is next. ast word is next are you tired of clean clothes that just don't smell clean? what if your clothes could stay fresh for weeks? now they can. downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh waaaay longer than detergent alone. pour a cap of downy unstopables into your washing machine before each load. and enjoy fresher smelling laundry. if you want laundry to smell fresh for weeks make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. shop for downy unstopables online, including our lighter scent. moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it's one pill, once a day, that's effective without topical steroids. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. plus, they felt fast itch relief some as early as 2 days. that's rinvoq relief. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal, cancers including lymphoma and skin cancer, death, heart attack, stroke, and tears in the stomach or intestines occurred. people 50 and older with at least one heart disease risk factor have higher risks. don't take if allergic to rinvoq, as serious reactions can occur. tell your doctor if you are or may become pregnant. disrupt the itch and rash of eczema. talk to your doctor about rinvoq. learn how abbvie can help you save. peaceful state. full plate. wait, are you my blind date? 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