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on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidentia ....
see you frank. great to see you, thank you. that does it for us tonight, we will see you again tomorrow, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. awrence. good evening alex. we are gonna discuss franklin foer article it is hour, with harvard law professor laurence tribe, who was merrick garland s constitutional law professor, he agrees, he believes that this article is absolutely right on and this is it s a very good prediction of what merrick garland is going to do. also, we have john fetterman joining us tonight, senate candidate, john fetterman and alex i m going to ask him about the health issue, but i have to tell, you i don t get it. i really don t get it we have two current democratic senators, one a little older than him, one a little younger than him, both of whom have strokes this year in office! and no one said, you gotta quit, you can t be a senator if you have a health issue like. bernie sanders had a heart ....
All of it as this valentines Night Edition of the 11th hour gets under way. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,121 of the trump administration. That leaves 263 days to go until the 2020 election. Two other quick numbers here tonight. The president is at maralago for the 29th time as president. His 175th day there as president. Back home in washington, another fairly explosive day at the usually quiet Justice Department. And a second straight day of completely mixed signals including what appears to be a slowrolling campaign to seize increasing amounts of control over politically charged cases, and they are numerous. The New York Times was the first to report that trumps a. G. , bill barr, has tapped an outside prosecutor to, quote, scrutinize the criminal case against ....