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
Had caught andrew weissmann s eyes widening at what he just heard here. that is a trump criminal defense lawyer quoting donald trump committing a crime. don trump s criminal defense lawyer tonight added information to special prosecutor jack smith s 42-page description of donald trump s crimes. the conversation that john laurel first described appears on pace 34 of the indictment against his client client. the diamond describes that conversation is a con criminal conspiracy. the version of that conversation that donald trump s criminal defense lawyer delivered tonight is every bit as criminal as the version that appears in the indictment. on page 34 of the indictment it says, on january 4th, the defendant, don trump held a meeting with coconspirator john eastman. the vice president chief of staff, and the vice president s counsel for the purpose of
Reckless enough to talk about on television. some criminal defense lawyers have significant experience talking on television. john lauro was not one of them. he began his national television exposure this week. after his client was indicted. he offered easily dismissed lame defenses of donald trump saying don trump had a first amendment right to advocate committing crimes and that when donald trump was saying those things he was saying them on the advice of his lawyer, john eastman, another easily dismissal defense. john eastman being a coconspirator in the conspiracy. but it sounded like the only saying that john lauro could say if he was gonna do television interviews. the wisest course for john laurel was to say nothing and to leave the public relations to donald trump. but today on the single most important day of his life as a lawyer, as he stood next to a former president of the united states being arraigned for federal crimes in washington,
Television and replied to what he was hearing from other people on tv today? it s really hard to tell lawrence what he knows and what he s paying attention to. what actually happened was that we learn from people that were in the room when that happened, marc short and craig jacob that john eastman sensing that mike pence was reluctant to throw the electors out and accept the fake electors, proposed this pause. the vice president was also very resistant to that, so they went back to the original plan, just throw them out. it was a casting about of, what about this, what about that? and the vice president said i don t have the authority to do any that. and so all of, that john eastman conceded that as you have indicated as the indictment indicates and writing and then in conversation with greg jacob. and then even in a meeting on january 4th as well. so none of it matters, the