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    Rare non-scoundrel witness, Hope Hicks, obliterates Trump's defense with credible testimony

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  • Lawrence: ‘You get monsters like Donald Trump thanks to people like Hope Hicks’

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  • ‘Full scale meltdown’: Ex-Trump aide testifies on 2016 campaign chaos as sex scandals poured in

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  • Joy to Trump: Please testify, we’re begging you!

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  • Hope Hicks ‘drops a bomb’ during Trump trial: ‘Nail in the coffin moment’

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  • ‘Deny, Deny, Deny’: Team Trump’s press strategy comes into focus in Hope Hicks testimony

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  • ‘They thought it was over’: Hope Hicks reveals the panic in the campaign after Access Hollywood tape

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  • FMR Advisor to VP Mike Pence: Trump campaign needs to 'mitigate the chaos'

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  • A crucial Trump witness testifies in hush money trial

    06:03
  • Former Trump aide Hope Hicks testifies in hush money trial

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  • ‘Melania’s not coming, but Stormy is’: Trump’s inner circle absent at criminal trial

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  • 'A real smoking gun': How Trump reacted as secret Cohen recording played in court

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  • Paralegal from Manhattan DA's office testifies in Trump hush money trial

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  • Judge tells Trump gag order does not prevent him from testifying

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  • Trump trial casts light on dirty side of celebrity tabloids

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  • Hush money bombshell: Cohen complained Trump ‘won’t even pay me back’ after financing payment

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  • 'Hook, line, and sinker': Trump's lie about taking the witness stand exposed

    10:22
  • Lawrence: I went to Trump's trial and found him in a jail of his own making

    20:05
  • ‘Conspiracy’ confirmed: Trump hush money trial witnesses ‘all say they did it’

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  • Trump 'hates the fact that we did it,' Michael Cohen claims in recording played at trial

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Key twist in Trump's 'catch and kill' scheme will be hard for him to explain away

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Rachel Maddow reviews the elements of the "catch and kill" scheme that Donald Trump enacted with the help of the National Enquirer against people making claims about his sexual dalliances, and points out the key feature that changes the character of the scheme and puts Trump's defense in an awkward position. Lawrence O'Donnell joins to describe how he expected Trump's defense strategy to play out.