Edition of morning joe, weekend. Lets get right to some of the conversations you might have missed. Mr. President , im curious about what its like for you, your life. No one has gone through what youve gone through. No one in human history, i know you have supporters, friends, family. They say it is lonely at the top. Im curious, is it ever lonely for you . No one can fully relate to what youve been through and what you are going through. Are you ever lonely . I love history, a study history. I was always told that Andrew Jackson as a president was treated the worst. He was lambasted. I heard Abraham Lincoln with second but he was in a thing called The Civil War so you can understand that but Andrew Jackson was really, really treated badly. His wife died during the process. A lot of people say she died because of the way they were treated. She was heartbroken and broken in so many other ways. And i heard that for years. And, i look now, even last night i was saying this. I dont care, A
Levels, it tends to hurt the person, who is sort of more guilty in terms of proof. The psychology of that is fantastic. Now i wanted to ask you, now that youve had a little bit of a chance to chew on this. If you feel like if there is anything particularly problematic controversial, or anything that feels like an overreach in his indictment that might be vulnerable, in terms of people challenging the prosecution . No, right now it looks strong and we focused on the statement at the Press Conference about 19 defendants being tried together and i think that is controversial. And i dont think will happen but that is under the indictment itself. Really the issue is that there were 19 defendants. And the thing about 19 defendants is that there is a lot of opportunities for cooperation. And weve already talked about. Rudy giuliani being somebody who might flip. Indeed, the whole doctrine and the conspiracy doctrine is written to encourage people to flip. And when rico was enacted. 50 years a
russia wouldn t have the success that it s had if not for prigozhin and the wagner group. they re mercenaries, they re deadly, but they are actually effective. and now he s turned and gone back into the russia, he claims he s going to fix the situation because he claims that the russian military attacked his men. this has been a long simmering food between the russian defense minister and prigozhin, but prigozhin says he s doing something about it. we are unable to convert any of this, we have heard reports from ukrainians that they ve crossed into russia. that wagner group has crushed into russia. burgos russia is on high alert. moscow has tanks in the streets, they re calling it a coup attempt. he denies that s the case, it is all very confusing. but this guy is both volatile and dangerous. i will say on the american side, there is a concern. russia is a nuclear armed country, and having a whole bunch of people fighting about who s in charge of it is actually more serio
start, tomorrow in federal court in d.c., but we ve just learned that it s not gonna start tomorrow, instead that trial will be delayed for a, day and, won t start until wednesday, because one of the defense attorneys for the proud boys, just got his law license suspended. and so the judge in the proud boys cases decided to postpone the start of the trial by one day, to give the proud boys a chance to find a lawyer, with an active law license. little matters like, that gumming up the works in the most unexpected ways. opening statements expected now to be wednesday, the trial is expected to last at least a month, i keep you posted, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. that evening rachel, exactly one week ago, unite we re discussing damar hamlin, going down on that field, in that football game, in a way that we didn t know if he is gonna live. and today, he returned to buffalo, it has been an amazing week of recovery for him, and s
learned that it s not gonna start tomorrow, instead that trial will be delayed for a, day and, won t start until wednesday, because one of the defense attorneys for the proud boys, just got his law license suspended. and so the judge in the proud boys cases decided to postpone the start of the trial by one day, to give the proud boys a chance to find a lawyer, with an active law license. little matters like, that gumming up the works in the most unexpected ways. opening statements expected now to be wednesday, the trial is expected to last at least a month, i keep you posted, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. evening lawrence. evening lawrence. evening lawrence. evening lawrence. evening lawrence. and instantly burst into, tears as in the middle of a lunch rather, things but not planning on carbonate story tonight at all, but just been so overwhelmed having seen him collapse there and having thought the worse, like so many of us d