charges brought by special counsel jack smith in the classified documents case. filed multiple motions last night, seven in total. one of them argues that the appointment of jack smith was unconstitutional. another one says that trump had the right to claim that the documents were personal, and therefore, they no longer belonged to the government. worth remembering that the documents we re talking about contain some of the most sensitive national security secrets imaginable. trump kept them in a bathroom, in a basement, in a ballroom even. but arguably, the most brazen of the arguments the ex-president is making and trying to dismiss the classified documents case is this. attorneys claim that donald trump is immune from prosecution because he moved the documents from the white house to mar-a-lago while he was president. they say, president trump s decision to designate records as personal and cause them to be removed from the white house plainly constitutes an official act w
just a little note for your calendar before we go, the this thursday, 10 am eastern, the supreme court is gonna live stream the oral arguments on whether donald trump is disqualified from holding federal court in the united states. here at msnbc, we will have that audio alive and in full from one of the arguments start live at ten 8 am eastern thursday morning, thursday night starting at eight pm eastern all be here with all my beloved colleagues. we will have a primetime recap of all those oral arguments, we will see you then. that does it for us tonight, now it s time for the last word with the great lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening, rachel. i will join you at eight pm thursday night and at some point don t look, i will sneak out to the side. the cause i will have to prepare for the ten pm hour where i will be a anchoring here as usual after your two hour session. i realized today in a fifth of panic that i had planned to do other things on thur
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 cal
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 qu
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