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Reckless enough to talk about on television. some criminal defense lawyers have significant experience talking on television. john lauro was not one of them. he began his national television exposure this week. after his client was indicted. he offered easily dismissed lame defenses of donald trump saying don trump had a first amendment right to advocate committing crimes and that when donald trump was saying those things he was saying them on the advice of his lawyer, john eastman, another easily dismissal defense. john eastman being a coconspirator in the conspiracy. but it sounded like the ...

D.c., in the full throes of the excitement of the day, john laurel decided to do one more tv interview. and in that interview with a friendly network he made the single biggest public mistake a criminal offense lawyer can possibly make. he offered a quoted version of his client speaking in a conversation already labeled criminal in the indictment that his client was facing, and he thought that he was clever enough to quote donald trump saying something that was going to get donald trump off the hook. instead john lauro hooked donald trump in the same way the jack smith's indictment does. i hav...

And i'm holding out hope here that there is still going to be a superseding indictment, maybe more charges against the former president as they continue to get more information. maybe that next tier is going to be indicted, the unindicted co co-conspirators. but regardless of what happens, this is important that the former president's being held accountable to this level. >> trump attorney john laurel is previewing how he and the trump legal team intend to defend him in this case. take a listen. >> our defense is focusing on that we have a administration that has criminalized the free speech a...

Puzzles together, you get the documents, and then you get the witnesses and you put them in one after another because you've interviewed them and you put together your case based on factual support for the elements of these three crimes, alleged crimes. don trump got this target letter. nine times out of ten he's getting indicted in the next week or so. there's enough evidence. you don't send out a target letter to anyone, at least as a prosecutor. you have enough evidence to indict someone. all my years as a white-collar criminal defense lawyer, i've never beat a target letter. they got indic...

These core or at least deal with these core issues. at the same time, he has rallies and is going to key battleground states in the early primary contests. now, that has not affected him so far. but it is going to be a really interesting situation. we have not ever seen any presidential contest before. now >> lisa, trump has a new attorney, john laurel what do we know about john laura? >> john lowe has a really interesting background, alicia, because like some of the -- he is a former federal prosecutor. he was an assistant u.s. attorney and in the eastern district attorney, where our friend a...