With us again on this unusual and special time on the beat that does it for us. You can find me on line. The last word with Lawrence Odonell is up next. At 10 11 a. M. Today, Donald Trumps lead lawyer stood and said, your honor, the defense rests. The truth was, there was no defense. The team of highpriced Trump Defense lawyers are actually paid by the deluded people who send in contributions in response to Donald Trumps relentless begging for money from people he promised he would never ask for money. When he began his first president ial Campaign Major Selling Point was he was so rich he could pay for his own campaign and he was incorruptible and would never ask him or anyone else money and then he proceeded to never spend not a single penny. He loaned his campaign some money at the beginning but the Campaign Paid him back through the donations of those poor deluded people who sent the money to the liar who promised he would never ask for money. And now their money has gone to a high
Minds around that we would like to project on israel the kind of government we would like there to be in israel. We have the government that there is. Netanyahu is beholden to the most far right elements ever in a coalition and that is the reality staring us in the face. Ben rhodes, thank you for your time. That is our show for this evening. Now it is time for last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, alex. It was a shorter day in the courtroom, but an important day in the courtroom. Everyone at the table was in the courtroom today. The regular gang, lisa rubin, andrew weissmann. We are done now. The evidence is in. We can make evaluations about where the evidence stands in a more important way tonight than before. And important questions i am sure they will have thoughts on that the judge will have to answer in the coming days. Have a good show. Well, at 10 11 a. M. Today Donald Trumps lead criminal Defense Lawyer todd blanche stood and said, your honor, the defense rests. The t
you said, during the trial, ellis intervened regularly, and mainly against one side, the prosecution. the judge s interruptions occurred in the presence of the jury and on matters of substance, not courtroom conduct. he disparaged the evidence, misstated the legal theories, and implied to prosecutors disobeyed his orders when they had not. how unusual is this behavior in court? is the prosecution saying anything about it, complaining about it? do they have any repercussions? well, it is very, very unusual. most of the time, we re all admonished to be fair, to be impartial. if you have something to say to one side or the other, you excuse the jury. you know, most of what you have to say during the course of a trial is, move the case along. you know, this is you re repetitive. you re not saying, i don t believe in your legal theories. you re not saying, you re asking the wrong questions. you re not saying, you disobeyed orders of the court, when they didn t.
some jail time. it sends a message to the court but also sends a message to each person down the road that s yet to be interviewed by the office. nancy, let s turn to the manafort trial. in your piece for the washington post you write this about judge t.s. ellis. you said, during the trial ellis intervened regularly, and mainly against one side, the prosecution. the judge s interruptions occurred in the presence of the jury and on matters of substance, not courtroom conduct. he disparaged the prosecution s evidence, misstated its legal theories, even implied that prosecutors had disobeyed his orders when they had not. how unusual is this kind of behavior in court? and is the prosecution saying anything about it, complaining about it? do they have any repercussions? well, it s very, very unusual. most of the time, we re all admonished to be fair, to be impartial. if you have something to say to one side or the other, you excuse the jury.