Question, we heard joe bidens answer this week. We heard him try to thread the needle and to say i support the right to his will protest but that doesnt mean that it is a license for chaos. History is at our doorstep as always. Susan glasser, thank you for your time this friday evening. That is original for tonight. Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence Odonnell, special friday Night Edition. Friday Night Edition after a friday in the courthouse. I will be joined by my Courthouse Posse this week. Andrew weissman, adam klasfeld, lisa rubin, all in the courthouse with me this week. Did you guys break for lunch together . I have pictures of lunch together, which can only be shared privately. Alex, the heroes in that building or the Court Officers. They are running an amazing process to get people in, to get them out, to control the setting in a way that it has never had to be controlled before because of course of the secret Service Protection for a former president. No group of Court Officers has ever had to deal with a former president and a secret Service Detail with a criminal defendant. That has never happened. And, there are tensions created by that, which they handle beautifully. I just have to say. We have all been raving about it. The strange tensions between Lawrence Odonnell and donald trump in the courtroom. There was a little bit, yesterday, there was. Today, different story. I will tell that story. Stay tuned. I will be watching. Have a great show. To begin with that story, i guess because donald trump does apparently whatever i tell him to do, he did not glare at me again in the courtroom today after i described Donald Trumps weird and childish attempt to i guess intimidate me by throwing his angry glare at me when he was leaving the courtroom yesterday. I said right here on the program last night that it was a mistake for him to do that. I said that his apparently useless handyman, who hangs out in the first roe of the courtroom on the defense side, should have told donald trump not to make a big deal out of that Lawrence Odonnell die being in the courtroom today, meaning yesterday. Donald trump shouldnt have given me that pleasure. He shouldnt have done that in such a goofy and public way that Maggie Haberman at the New York Times felt compelled to write it right away on the live update of the trail. No one had seen donald trump to anything like that. After that item made a little bit of stir on social media yesterday, we have a right to assume that donald trump, as i know he has done many times in the past, tuned in to this show at 10 00 last night to see what i would say about that incident. And, unfortunately, he took my advice. The advice that boris should have given him yesterday. Today, even though i was sitting in an even more prominent position on the aisle in the middle of the courtroom where donald trump couldnt possibly miss me every time he walked past me in and out of the courtroom today, he did everything he could possibly do to not look at me. I know he knows where i was sitting because it was way too obvious and i was giving him my look straight up at him. I know i was within his peripheral vision because whenever his peripheral vision got close, he immediately twisted it away in the other direction. He made sure that his eyes never met my eyes. He just wasnt going to give me that gift again. Other reporters in the room, including reporters i dont know, noticed it. Noticed his conscious choice not to do that, especially after yesterday because it was so obvious that he made such an effort yesterday to look at me that todays effort not looking at me was just as obvious with me sitting there looking up at him exactly the same way that i did yesterday. To him, im sure it looked like i was gloating. Probably the way he interpreted it. A couple of reporters told me after todays session he was afraid to look at you today. I dont think he was afraid. I think he just got good advice. Right here at 10 00 p. M. Last night. Todays courtroom was a tale of two young women describing their work in government. One described her dedication to a difficult job done honorably under intense pressure to with highstakes, with the best of motivations and pursuit of an ideal and the other was hope hicks. Hope hicks was preceded on the Witness Stand by a young woman who appeared to be about the same age hope hicks was when she started working for residential candidate donald trump. I wish i could tell you the young womans name because it is a beautiful name that any parent or Fiction Writer would be proud to create. I wont tell you her name because homicidal Trump Supporters are all too eager to threaten the lives of all of us who they despise. They especially like to do that on social media. This young womans job in the District Attorneys Office is to study social media and prepare social medium for use as evidence in criminal trials. That job became the worst job in the District Attorneys Office when a year and a half ago, she was assigned to the investigation of donald trump and had to read as many as 10,000 Social Media Posts, mostly by donald trump but also by Michael Cohen and others involving this case. Imagine having to keep up with in real time, the poison Donald Trumps views on social media every day and having to reach back in time for trump weeks that are relevant to this criminal investigation, as far back as 2016 and beyond. She has saved about 1500 posts on instagram, twitter, truth social, and other sites for the District Attorneys trump evidence file. She testified that she has analyzed about 30 social media accounts in the process. Donald trumps Criminal Defense Lawyers tried to object to her testimony that laid the groundwork for introducing Social Media Posts by donald trump. Her testimony was so technically flawless and so convincing to judge juan merchan that the judge overruled every objection the Trump Lawyers raised to try to block her testimony and blogger introduction of the exhibits. She won. She beat the Trump Lawyers at the game of admitting evidence. She described the elaborate and exacting process she had to go through with each piece of social medium to fit the complex requirements of introducing even a single tweet as an exhibit in court and thanks to her painstaking adherence to those legal rules and requirements, the jury was shown this week by donald trump. I have never said i am a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that im not. I have said and done things i regret the words released today on this more than a decade old video or one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words dont reflect who i am. I said it, i was wrong, and i apologize. October 8, 2016. That was The One And Only time trump has ever apologized in his life. It was immediately after the access Hollywood Tape was released on october 2016 in the last weeks of Donald Trumps first president ial campaign. The thousands of hours of work done by that young Paralegal Assistant in the da office to allow the introduction of exhibits like that paid off today. Her dedication and professionalism was obvious to everyone in the courtroom, especially judge juan merchan. She is the lowest paid person who has spoken in that courtroom. She will never be applauded, never publicly thanked, she doesnt get to fly on private jets like hope hicks did when she started her campaign job or on air force one, like hope hicks did when she worked in the white house. This witness was one of the Unsung Heroes in the machinery of american justice. That is her job. Justice. That is one of the motivators for putting in those long hours. That is the ideal she gets to pursue in her work, justice. The da office does not pay her enough. Tops like that never paid enough. But, she gets to take home more than a paycheck. She gets to take home her pride. Pride. The thing hope hicks sold to donald trump. At 11 23 a. M. , an assistant District Attorney said the people call hope hicks. Dressed in a black suit, she walked past the Defense Table within arms reach of donald trump without ever looking at him and he did not look at her as she walked by. She began her testimony with a bit of biography, saying she was a 2010 graduate of Southern Methodist university, who then began working for the Trump Organization in 2014. She told her first flight about 10 minutes into her testimony. Now, some people will think a lie is too harsh a word for what im about to read to you. It does show what a casual relationship with the truth hope hicks lives by. She described donald trump under oath as a very good multitasker and a very hard worker. He is not and never has been a hard worker. Everyone knows that isnt true. Most of the press corps on the Campaign Trail and in the white house who covered hope hicks easily accepted those lies, lies of that size, from hope hicks all the time without any of those lies diminishing their view of her in any way. She was, on that Witness Stand, as she has always been, the picture of privilege. She laughed out loud in the courtroom at the very idea of donald trump offering her a job. She was unqualified to do. Press secretary for a president ial campaign. That is what privilege looks like. She had never been a Press Secretary for anything. She had no idea how to be a campaign president ial Campaign Press secretary. Like everyone on the Trump Campaign, no Serious Campaign would hire them to do anything. Hope hicks lives on the donald trump side of our politics, where people rant endlessly about attributing things like the failures of Boeing Manufacturing and maintenance of aircraft to some kind of liberal oriented hiring program that gives jobs to unworthy candidates. There has never been a more unworthy candidate for hope hicks job in the president ial campaign or in the white house than hope hicks. She didnt need either one of those jobs. She was born rich in connecticut. She could have tried to do something more worthy with her life, or at least do something that wasnt harmful. But, she chose to help donald trump become president of the United States. That is what she chose to do. That job came with a model. Deny, deny, deny. That is what she wrote in an email when the Trump Campaign team of incompetence was trying to respond to the brilliant reporting at the washington post, which revealed the access Hollywood Video in which donald trump is shown bragging about his favorite method of Sexual Assault. This rock to the Trump Campaign on october 7th, 2016 when he sent an email to hope hicks asking for a comment about the access Hollywood Video, which he came into possession of before the washington post, would publish it. David fahrenthold included a transcript of the video in the email but not the video itself. Did you read mr. Trump that email you received from David Fahrenthold . Answer i read him the email and i have a vague recollection of starting to read the transcript and then he finished reading it himself, i believe. Did you hand him the email for him to read . Yes. That is my recollection. Question, what if anything did he say . He said that that didnt sound like something he would say. And so, on the basis of that lie told to hope hicks by donald trump, that that didnt sound like something he would say, hope hicks told the team that the strategy was denied him a deny, deny. Meaning lie, lie, lie. Hope hicks did a lot of that. Lying, in her testimony. She quoted donald trump lighting to her. Anyone who knows donald trump knows that what he said on the access Hollywood Video does indeed sound like something he would say. Hours later, the video was out there and hope hicks could watch him say it herself. So, the jury Heard Hope Hicks described donald trump lighting directly to her. He said that that didnt sound like something he would say. That was a very harmful line of testimony about donald trump. Injuries are always wondering if this witness is telling the truth, would this person lie to us . Now they know that donald trump lied to hope hicks right there in that line about that video. When that video came out proving donald trump said every word that was in the transcript that was enough for john mccain. Senator mccain turned against donald trump then. That was enough for republican speaker of the house, paul ryan, who canceled a event with donald trump. Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz came on this program for The One And Only time in his life and retracted his endorsement of donald trump In The Name Of his daughters that very night. Republicans were rushing away from donald trump because of what they heard him say and do on that access Hollywood Video but not hope hicks. Not hope hicks. If you dont quit then, when do you quit . Hope hicks answer . Never. Hope hicks was there in washington on the white house Payroll On January 6th making no attempt at all to get donald trump to do the right thing during the attack on the capitol, to stop that attack. What did she do after january 6th . Nothing. She eventually did an interview with the January 6th Committee where she said as little as she possibly could and offered no significant help to the committee. Very little they could even use in their public revelation of their evidence. Compare that to cassidy hutchinson. They both took the same oath of office as white house employees to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. Hope hicks, who had direct access to donald trump whenever she wanted, didnt say a word to donald trump on january 6th. Didnt even try to. Cassidy hutchinson, who did not have direct access to donald trump, was desperately trying to get her boss, mark meadows, the white house chief of staff, to convince donald trump to stop the attack on the capitol. Cassidy hutchinson became the January 6th Committees most important witness. Cassidy hutchinson has been urging americans not to vote for donald trump. Nothing like that from hope hicks, nothing. I have never seen anyone in the white house treated the way the White House Press corps treated hope hicks. Talk about privilege. There is a video of white house reporters kissing her as they are greeting at White House Press briefings. That doesnt happen unless you are hope hicks. She cried. That is the big news of the day out of the courtroom. No one knows why she cried at the very beginning of cross examination. I heard three different theories from reporters on the way out of the courtroom today. You will hear some theories during this hour from people who were in the courtroom with me today and are more perceptive about that. I dont know why she cried. And, i dont care. I know she didnt cry for the 628 children who were held at the southern border in custody by donald trump, who was then unable to find their parents and reunite them. Hope hicks didnt cry for them. And we can be sure that hope hicks has never cried when her motto of deny took hold in the Supreme Court deciding to deny women the right they had for 50 years in this country, longer than hope hicks has been alive. Im sure she didnt cry for that 10yearold girl in ohio who had to leave the state after being raped to receive Abortion Services in indiana. Hope hicks kept working for donald trump to become the president of the United States after she knew that deny, deny, deny, was a lie. A lie she told. Hope hicks watched the access Hollywood Video and thought yes, yes, that is who i want to keep working for tonight. That is who i want to be president of the United States. Im going to continue to work as hard as i can to make that man on that Video Bragging about Sexual Assault become the next president of the United States. That is my mission. That is who hope hicks wanted to be reelected as president of the United States. After he recommended Injecting Bleach in