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    'Like a deck of delay cards': Theme emerges in Trump legal tactics: drag it out

    05:26
  • Lawrence: Judge Chutkan denies Trump’s request to remove her from Jack Smith’s 2020 election case

    05:38
  • ‘Denied’: Trump loses bid to remove judge in federal coup trial

    05:29
  • Trump's lawyers dispute proposed gag order in election interference case

    01:37
  • 'Reckless and careless': former Trump White House aide describes mishandling of documents

    07:03
  • Lawrence & legal panel react to Trump admitting election subversion was his decision

    11:01
  • ‘Prosecutors will hang him with his own words’: Expert baffled by Trump contradicting legal team

    10:36
  • As Trump keeps running his mouth, Jack Smith asks court to crack down

    06:18
  • Rep. Lieu: Jan. 6 jury pool must not be intimidated by Trump’s ‘violent rhetoric

    06:00
  • Lawrence: Jack Smith asks Jan. 6 case judge to tell Trump to shut up about witnesses, prosecutors, and the judge

    07:18
  • ‘He'll be in something of a straight jacket’: Expert on Jack Smith seeking 'narrow' Trump gag order

    11:58
  • Weissmann: Trump bid for new judge in Jan. 6 case is for ‘MAGA base’

    06:47
  • 'A new avenue of investigation': Jack Smith's grand jury that indicted Trump reconvenes 

    09:01
  • Trump on edge as coup “sweep” plotter Navarro is convicted in same court where Trump awaits trial

    01:34
  • Georgia judge skeptical about prosecutor’s Trump trial timeline

    10:24
  • 'I'm totally covered under the law': Trump says he'd 'absolutely' testify at his criminal trial

    03:03
  • Lawrence: If Jan. 6 leader of 'Trump's army' gets 22 years, what about Trump?

    07:10
  • Legal expert: Proud Boys got lower sentences due to ‘seeming inability to see ourselves as threats’

    11:50
  • Could Trump be found 'willfully blind'?

    07:20

Trump bid to put off federal trial for years falls flat; Judges consult on speedy trial schedule

05:43

Rachel Maddow performs transcript theater from the transcript of today's hearing in the federal Donald Trump election subversion case in which Trump's lawyers tried to argue for a delay of the trial until 2026 and the judge in the case revealed some behind-the-scenes communication between judges to try to fit all of Trump's cases on the calendar.