The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Also joining us, Andrew Weissman, former FBI general counsel and former chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of New York. And Melissa Murray is joining us. She is also an NYU law professor, as is Andrew. They are the co-authors of The New York Times bestselling book, which I used tonight, The Trump Indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary.

And I just want to read from page 52 of this book, The Trump Indictments by Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissman.

Andrew Weissman, former FBI general counsel and former chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of New York. He's an MSNBC legal analyst and co-author of The New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments.

He is an MSNBC legal analyst and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments.

He is co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments.

He's an MSNBC legal analyst and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments.

He's an MSNBC legal analyst and the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments.

He's an MSNBC legal analyst and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments.

He's an MSNBC legal analyst and co-author of The New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments.

He's an MSNBC legal analyst and he's co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments.

He's an MSNBC legal analyst and coauthor of the New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments.

He's an MSNBC legal analyst and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, "The Trump Indictments."

He's an MSNBC legal analyst and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments.

He's an MSNBC legal analyst, co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary.

former chief of the criminal division in the eastern district of New York he's co-author of the New York Times best-selling book The Trump Indictance the historic charging documents with commentary and Neil Cotillal is joining us

He's an MSNBC legal analyst and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Trump Indictments, the Historic Charging Documents with commentary.

He's an MSNBC legal analyst and co author of the New York Times best selling book, The Trump Indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary and Adam just fill in a blank here on that juror, a juror number four now who said he's fascinated by Donald Trump. What else did he say?

The Trump Indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary.

I had the book at home and I had to flip open to the Ronald McDaniel section of your book to make sure I understood exactly where she was in the thick of all of this.

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book The Trump Indictments.

Andrew Weissman and Melissa Murray will be hosting a special tomorrow night at this hour The Trump Indictments that's at 10 pm right here on MSNBC that's based on their new bestselling book.

The whole reason why we wrote this book is because one, these documents are available. We understand that Americans are interested in them, but not everyone necessarily has a law degree or they're lawyers who don't practice in criminal law or constitutional law who might wonder what is this actually about.

So we collected all of them so you can have them in one place and we do what we do as law professors. We then go through and explain it. So it's very heavily annotated. We have long and lengthy introductions that explain and contextualize what's going on here and put these historic events, these historic documents, the unprecedented charging of a former president with criminal liability in context so that the American people can follow along and participate in what is an extraordinary event in our country.

We explain that these are speaking indictments as opposed to a lot of times they are much more opaque. But even with that, there is a lot of material that I think if you're not a lawyer, it would be hard to understand.

We were really trying to, as Melissa said, make sure that the public will understand what is about to happen in New York on March 25th.

It is so important that this not be something that people just get only filtered through newspapers or this show to be frank. You want people to be able to actually understand the charges, understand the decisions that were made, understand some of the language that's used, and then, as Melissa said, we really tried to put it in context both in terms of other charges and also globally, because we are not the first country that is doing this.

The Trump Indictments, the Historic Charging Documents with Commentary, which will be released February 27th.

He's the co-author of the new book, The Trump Indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary available on February 27th.

She's co-author of the book The Trump Indictments.

Stewart Stevens, veteran of five Republican presidential campaigns, senior advisor at the Lincoln Project, author of The Conspiracy to End America Five Ways My Old Party is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy.

Stuart Stevens, a veteran of five Republican presidential campaigns and a senior adviser at the Lincoln Project. He's also the author of The Conspiracy to End America Five Ways My Old Party is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy.

Also with us, Stuart Stevens, a veteran of five Republican presidential campaigns. He ran the last sane Republican presidential campaign in 2012. He's a senior advisor at the Lincoln Project.

And Stuart is the author of The Conspiracy to End America. Five ways my old party is driving our democracy to autocracy.

He is also the author of The Scheme, How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court.

He's also the author of The Scheme, how the right wing used dark money to capture the Supreme Court.

He is also the author of The Scheme, how the right wing used dark money to capture the Supreme Court.

And joining us now is Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. He's a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and he's the author of 'The Scheme', how the right wing used dark money to capture the Supreme Court and today Senator Whitehouse announced he is running for reelection this year to the United States Senate in Rhode Island.

Join me Monday at 7 p.m. Eastern at the Wellington event venue next to Indigo Books. I'll be with the legendary CBC journalist and broadcaster Peter Mansbridge for a discussion of my new book, Small Acts of Courage. The event is presented by Indigo Books. You'll need to get a ticket in advance. So head to TicketScene.ca and search for Velshi. I hope to see you there.

And my new book, Small Acts of Courage for tickets go to Chicago Humanities dot org.

I left my book in San Francisco, or at least I will next week. I'm going to be in San Francisco to discuss my new book, Small Acts of Courage, this coming Tuesday, May 14th at noon Pacific time at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.

From the time they fled South Africa for Kenya in 1961 and then left Kenya once again for Toronto nine years later, my parents agreed to go to the U.S. Nine years later, my parents' existence sat halfway between that of immigrants and that of refugees.

Technically speaking, they were immigrants. They were never forced out of anywhere. They always left willingly and were always free to return.

On both occasions, my parents' voluntary departures were made with a deep sense of foreboding. Like the Jews who looked around Germany in 1933 and thought, this isn't going to end well.

My parents packed their bags with the belief that it was better to leave as an immigrant while they still could than risk being forced out as a refugee later.

to the remarkable women who have shaped my journey in life.

Attack from Within, How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.

We heard Republican voters in Michigan's Barbara McQuaid, writes in her new book, Attack from Within,

Joining us now is ruth ben ghiatt history professor at new york university author of strongman musselini to the president ruth

ruth ben ghiott is a history professor at new york university and the author of Strongmen from musselini to the president coming up this week we got an even better look at how big and real the fake electors plot was in donald trump's efforts to subvert the 2020 election with another indictment this time it was in arizona i'll discuss that with nbc news justice reporter ryan j riley after this

Trump himself has said in his books he prized loyalty.

Tim O'Brien, who literally wrote the book about Trump businesses and record keeping and all that sort of stuff and lying about his wealth level, which got you sued by Donald Trump, a lawsuit that he lost, you won.

She is the author of The End of White Politics, How to Heal Our Liberal Divide.

He is the author of It Was All a Lie, How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.

I wrote It Was All a Lie because I don't know any other conclusion you can come to.

You know, people don't abandon deeply held beliefs in a few years. And this party, this was the character counts party.

You know, Peggy Noonan wrote a book when character was king and they're up there voluntarily dressed like some sort of aging boy band reunion and talking about the president, a guy that wants to be president United States who had accused of having sex with a porn star 10 days or so after his son, youngest son was born, who paid her off.

And it's worth noting in 1968, which you can read all about in my book about that presidential campaign called Playing with Fire, Hubert Humphrey lost that election to Republican Richard Nixon by less than 1% of the vote in the Humphrey campaign.

which is now in paperback.

It's wicked timely with the Democratic National Convention approaching in Chicago because it's about the 1968 presidential campaign when the Democratic National Convention was in Chicago.

and it was an absolute disaster in every way, a dramatic and violent disaster which has shaped the workings of the Democratic Party ever since.

You'll be hearing a lot of references to the 1968 Chicago Convention during the upcoming coverage of the Chicago Convention. And this book, Playing With Fire, tells you everything you need to know about what happened in Chicago in 1968, including the fistfights that broke out inside the convention hall with Dan Rather being thrown to the floor while Chicago police were viciously beating protesters outside in what an investigative commission later called a police riot.

The book is Playing With Fire, available in paperback and audiobook, which is great for any of you who actually want to listen to my voice for more than an hour.

He is an MSNBC political analyst and he is the author of Information Wars, how we lost the global battle against disinformation and what we can do about it.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book Original Meanings, politics and ideas in the making of the Constitution.

The debate last night was so affirming for those of us who've been in this fight for years now.

And I think when Vice President Harris made those comments about Donald's rallies, she inflicted a narcissistic wound from which he will never recover.

It literally is going to determine how he handles the next 50 days or however many days there are until the election. He's going to be reacting to that from now on.

She went after his weaknesses as a leader, his failures as a human being and probably next to the rally sizes. The most important thing to him, his complete failures as a trust fund baby. And she was absolutely accurate.

A plus. Seriously, I listened to every word I've since rewatched many of the clips. I'm not saying this is a partisan. I'm saying this as somebody who understands Donald Trump in a fairly deep way and is somebody who knows what makes him tick.

He is like he's looking in a mirror every time he opens his mouth now.

We've long known that Donald uses very frequently a defense mechanism known as projection in which he takes things that he unconsciously knows about himself but can't bear and projects them onto other people.

It's because she pushes his buttons in a way very few people ever have.

nobody liked Donald when he was growing up, not even his parents. As he got older, those personality traits hardened, the hostile indifference and aggressive disrespect that he developed as a toddler to help him withstand the neglect he suffered at his parents' hands.

Donald was one of five children. My grandparents had five children and every single one of them, including Donald, is and was a destroyed human being.

the single most irresponsible thing I have ever heard of a prosecutor or special prosecutor ever doing

He is author of Fluke Chance: Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters.

That story is told in Anthony Fauci's powerful, hugely informative and deeply emotional new book On Call, A Doctor's Journey in Public Service.

It was so gratifying.

If you're in high school and you're thinking about a career in medicine, if you're in college, if you are in medical school, this is absolutely mandatory reading.

On Call, A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Dr. Anthony Fauci.

or efforts to vilify and block Nicole Hannah Jones's book, The 1619 Project that tells American history through slavery

Americans currently find themselves, and there is no reasonable way to deny this, in a moment of profound crisis.

The country is changing, and the substance of that transformation is not clear.

Americans are divided, and those divisions go well beyond ideological differences.

The answer to the troubles in this country rests, as it always has, with the willingness of everyday people to fight for democracy, not with the outsourcing of that struggle to so-called prophets and heroes, but with the realization that the salvation of democracy itself requires, in part, the creation of personal attitudes and individual human beings that affirm the dignity and standing of all people.

We must be the kinds of people democracies require.