weissmann, professor laurence tribe from harvard law school, glenn kirschner, who so valuable eat was in the room today during this argument, during which, i think even donald trump knows, the whole thing collapsed. the defense that could save him, the immunity defense collapsed before his eyes. when you re arguing about navy seal commandoes being able to assassinate your political rivals, i think you are not winning. i m a lay person, i can t wait to talk some more in your hour, but my layman s opinion is that that s not a winning strategy. you re halfway through law school, based on what you ve just said. i m learning from the best professors there. i will be watching tonight. have a good show. ight have donald trump endured the worst day of his life as a criminal defendant today. was donald trump s first time in a courtroom as a criminal defendants for anything other than his arrangements. donald trump was not allowed to speak, and we can only imagine the intensit
americans who are worried about these issues. it is important read. it s a book that everyone needs to read as we talk about all the others. this is the thing that matters. it s very yellow. josh green, congratulations on publication day, my friend. thank you for the book. that is our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word, with lawrence o donnell. good evening, my friend lawrence. good evening, alex. we have professor andrew weissmann we have professor laurence tribe from , we have glenn kirschner who so valuable was in the room today. during this argument during which i think even donald trump knows the whole thing collapsed. the defense that could save him, the immunity defense, collapsed before his eyes. when you are arguing about navy seal commandoes being able to assassinate your political rivals, i think you are not winning. i am a lame person, i only went to tv law school, i can t wait to be taught somewhere in your hour, but by layman s opinion
the political dimension, not just the legal dimension. for example, what we already know, it s already happened, we know from polling, when people are asked if he is committed crimes, when the change or vote? he loses substantial support in every poll that has been taken and start to ask these questions. look what he is already done. let s get into the reality of where we already are. the court is already determined that he committed insurrection against the united states. the court has determined that he committed sexual assault against a woman in a dressing room in a department store. the court has already determined that he committed massive fraud. these things are already known. i think that when you look at all the terrible zone the awful zone you start introducing them to voters, this guy is going to have a very hard time winning the election in november. as we go forward through the primary season where there is no real action on the democratic side of the primary, that means
and i think they lost this argument from jump. andrew, one of the things i was struck by, is appeals court lawyers in these situations just never want to stop talking. it s why they talk so fast when they get the chance, if they feel like they must. trump s lawyer three times volunteered to stop talking to this court, three times said, if you have no more questions, i would like to just sit down now, in effect. and they kept going with him. i ve never seen an appeals court lawyer voluntarily offere to walk off the stage and let the other guy speak. because i ve run out of material. i think that is a sign of exactly what glenn said, this was really judge pan
at what donald trump is accused of, it s all campaign related. it s all illegal campaign activity. in fact, you could analogize breaking into watergate in the same way they were sways of breaking into the georgia election machines. so that concession that it s okay for president nixon to have been investigated, he could be prosecuted, to me was a really poor handling of that issue by mr. sauer. and not entirely true. which james peters, who said it s comments, let s just remember the richard nixon ordered the cia to interfere with an fbi investigation. those are official acts. he was going to be prosecuted for those official glatt acts. glenn kirschner, fake you for reporting from the court today, and andrew weissmann thank you for joining us and starting us off tonight. coming up, harvard constitutional law professor laurence tribe will give us his ruling on today s appeals court argument that did not appear to