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lots and lots. i will be watching. thank, you alex. we now have the first mugshot ever taken of a former president of the united states. here s donald trump s mugshot, which will instantly become the most famous mugshot in the history of photography. the mugshot of the 45th president in the united states will go from tomorrow s newspapers into our history books, where the only presidential mugshot will live for ever. american high school history students will be looking at that photograph for hundreds of years. that mugshot will define the low point in the history of the american presidency. that mugshot will soon be everywhere in our lives. it will be on t-shirts, coffee mugs, napkins, toilet paper. this christmas, you will see people give and receive gifts with that mugshot on them. artists will create their own andy warhol like renditions of that mugshot. we are still publishing biographies of abraham lincoln, 158 years after he was assassinated. we will still be ....
out. there s a lot more to come. thank you for your time tonight. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. thank you. we re going to cover all the legal news of the day of which there was a lot in addition to what happened to donald trump. lots and lots. i ll be watching. thank you, alex. we now have the first mug shot ever taken of a former president of the united states. here s donald trump s mug shot, which will instantly become the most famous mug shot in the history of photography. the mug shot of the 45th president of the united states will go from tomorrow s newspapers into our history books where the only presidential mug shot will live forever. american high school history students will be looking at that photograph for hundreds of years. that mug shot will define the low point in the history of the american presidency. that mug shot will soon be everywhere in our lives. it will be on t-shirt ....
defendants up to and including violent crimes where stabbings are frequent. actually three people have lost their lives over the last month. that jail is where the disgraced ex-president of these united states is heading right now. just let me get one, two, three, four times in four months that the ex-president of the united states will walk in and out of a jail house to begin the process of answering for his alleged crimes. this one is a little different for a few reasons including nis. we are very likely to see a mug shot of donald trump sometime today or tomorrow. mere hours ago he replaced the lawyer that previously led the defense in georgia. you can make up your own mind whether that s a good or bad defense for him. and what about the chief of staff. mark meadows surrendered himself to authorities in fulton county a short time ago. remember as meadows is still seeking to bump this trial up to the federal level to take it out of district attorney fani willis hands ....
of me, like people won t recognize me. so, here is that mugshot. this is what giuliani was so incensed about, being photographed at a county jail and paraded in front of the press like a criminal. which is ironic part of what made rudy giuliani a national figure in the first place was his practice of parading people in front of the press like they were criminals. when giuliani was the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york in the 1980s, he re-popularized the concept of the perp walk. giuliani did not invent the practice of allowing the press to photograph interest, but, as a criminal law professor from loyola marymount university put it, mr. giuliani took that practice and made an art form out of it. and giuliani did not always make sure he had his facts right before doing so. wall street isn t used to the site of its best and brightest in handcuffs, being arrested or charged with insider trading. people like robert freeman, a partner at goldman sachs ....
the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who got that notorious phone call from trump to find more votes, released a statement saying quote, the most basic principles of a strong democracy are accountability and respect for the constitution and rule of law. you either have it or you don t. nbc s blaine alexander is following all of the developments out of atlanta. laura jarrett is here along with andrew weissman, former fbi general counsel and former senior member of robert mueller s special counsel. also an msnbc legal analyst. blaine, i want to ask you about the judge in this case. what do we know about him? reporter: yeah. a couple of things, one, this came as a surprise to those of us who have been watching and following this case for quite some time because there has been a single judge who all along had been handling all of the developments from top to bottom. he was the one who was on the bench last night when the indictment was unsealed. that judge is not ....