support donald trump. >> you are handing the election to trump. >> here is the reality, whether we like it, whether we agree with it. acting as though this conversation isn't taking place being mad about it or in denial without addressing the reasons why will lead to failure so we have to come to grips about whether we like it or not. whether it is factually based or founded in reality is not the issue. the issue is that this sentiment is very real among the people who you need to turn out and you have to figure out a way to address it. >> people who feel unseen should not be scapegoated. they need to be spoken to. charles, it is great to see you onset. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o con dell. >> we will hear at the end of the hour tonight.

from a really great campaigner, a vice presidential campaigner, joe biden. the very first guest on this program when he was vice president 13 years ago. i will show a clip of that. because it is really a model of how he would be campaigning and should be campaigning right now. now this of course involves a second or two of me on the screen. i look like i'm in high school. i don't look old enough to do this job 13 years ago. it's shocking. >> like a fine wine lawrence. like a fine, fine wine. >> something happened here. >> i recognize joe biden, but i don't recognize me in this. >> i'll be watchingful i'll be the judge of that. have a great show. >> thanks alex. >> bye. imagine you are one of the hundreds of people in new york

and manhattan who got your jury duty notice and are asked to assemble monday morning at 10:00 a.m. on a courtroom where the jury and the case of the people versus trump will be tried. after you take your seat in the jury pool, judge juan merchan will describe the case summary. in exactly these words. the defendant donald trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. the allegations are in substance, that donald trump falsified business records to conceal an agreement with others to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election, specifically, it is alleged that donald trump made or caused false business records to hide the true nature of payments made to michael cohen by characterizing them as payment for legal services

rendered pursuant to a legal retainer. it is alleged the payments were intended to reimburse michael cohen for payment he paid to stephanie clifford also known as stormy daniels in the weeks before the presidential election to prevent her from publicly revealing details about a past sexual encounter with donald trump. and while you are sitting there in the jury pool, listening to the judge drayage this case to you, donald trump isn't sitting at the defense table looking like this. let's take that back down to a half screen of donald trump. now, we normally don't allow donald trump to occupy your full television screen during this program. but for this one time, as you

consider yourself sitting there on monday in the position of a juror looking at him, let's look at what they will actually see without hearing a word from donald trump. and for that, we will go back to the full screen so you can take in what this man actually looks like now. donald trump is likely to be sitting there as he is in this recent campaign video, that's a picture of him. when he is trying to look his absolute best. in his campaign video. which in his mind includes a face partially covered in some form of homemade bronzer in which he always forgets the ears. he always forgets his ears are visible, showing the real color of donald trump. in contrast to the mud brown

that he has decided makes him look his best. and to some eyes, actually makes him look like a horror movie character. that is not a face you want to present to a criminal jury whose job it is to concentrate on the evidence in the case. those jurors will be listening to judge merchan's questions will having to fight the urge to steal another peek at that profoundly strange looking man sitting at the defense table whose voice they will probably never hear in court. because it is impossible, as donald trump and his lawyers know for donald trump to testify under oath without committing perjury. perjury that he will not get away with. and donald trump will not be able to testify under oath and get away with trying to lie

about what actually happened when he was alone in his hotel room with stormy daniels who will testify under oath about what happened in that room. donald trump will not be able to get on the witness stand and successfully lie about his communications and conversations with michael cohen about paying off stormy daniels. so that his presidential campaign could survive and michael cohen will testify about that. so with donald trump unable to testify in his own defense, the only thing he brings to his defense is that silent discolored face. a face that lies to you without donald trump saying a word. a face that claim to be a color of brown that is betrayed by his 77-year-old pink ears. a face that is topped by hair.

that is lying to you about exactly where donald trump's hairline might actually be. every day that the jurors spend in that courtroom with defendant trump, they will be wondering how he can be so deeply oblivious to the truth. the truth of what he looks like with that stuff that he slaps on his face. some of them will be thinking correctly, he could afford the best professional makeup. but this, this is what he chooses. they will be wondering about what truths beside himself is donald trump unable to admit? why he cannot look at himself in a mirror. that silent face will be the

only way that donald trump in effect testifies to his first criminal jury. and what those jurors will see on that face every day. in that courtroom is a lie. no matter how many days those jurors spend in that room with donald trump, they will never come to understand why he chooses to look like that. but they will easily be able to figure out why he paid stormy daniels. the evidence will show he paid stormy daniels in order to be elected president. many of the people in the jury pool will no doubt be afraid of donald trump because they have seen what his followers are willing to do for him on january 6th. in court, the jury selection process is referred to as a voir dire. the court sees the potential

jurors and hears what they say. when the potential jurors are asked simple questions like what do you do for a living and who is your current employer or do you have any children, they could easily be reluctant to let donald trump hear the answers to those questions. the perspective jurors will all be asked what cable news networks they watch or read. the defense will look favorably on potential jurors who watched the so-called fox news channel. do you work for any organization for anyone who has worked for trump. have you or a relative or a

close friend worked or volunteers for trump or a presidential campaign. the trump presidential administration affiliated with m. trump. question 29b, have you ever attended a rally. that is redundant there. 29c, are you signed up for or have you ever been signed up for, subscribed to or followed any newsletter or email run by on behalf of mr. trump or the trump organization? question 29d. do you current follow donald trump on any social media site or have you done so in the past? question 29e. have you a relative or a close friend ever worked or volunteers for any anti-trump group organizations. have you ever attended a rally or campaign event for any anti- trump group or organization. are you signed up for or have you ever been signed up for

subscribed to or followed any newsletter or email lists run by or on behalf of any anti- trump group. organization 29h, do you currently follow any anti-trump group or organization on any social media site or have you done so in the past, question 30, have you considered yourself a supporter of or belonged to any of the following. the qanon movement, proud boys, oath keepers, 3%ers, boogaloo boys or antifa. and question 31, do you have any strong opinions or firmly held beliefs about whether a former president might be criminally charged in state court? the final question, each perspective juror will be asked to answer honestly, is there any reason whether it be a bias or something else that would prevent you from being fair and impartial if you are selected

as a juror in this case? leading off our discussion tonight is barbara mcquaid. she is a cohost of the podcast hash tag sisters and laws. as we approach jury selection day, we can begin to imagine what it will be like for those people sitting there. the judge has said if people declare themselves at the outset to be unfair about it. they decided they would not be able to be fair about it, he say theres is no point if actually trying to pursue them beyond that. where in some, they will do that. they won't let you get out that easy just by declaring yourself to be biased. >> yes, i think in a case like this, if somebody proclaims themselves to be biased, we probably ought to believe them when they tell us who they are.

so i think the judge will be very quick to dismiss people who admit to some bias. this is a little different from other cases. i think in many cases they are trying to get out of jury service. there are some people trying to get onto jury service. and the people too eager might be the ones you want to dismiss the most. what i wouldn't want as a prosecutor who is someone who wants to get on this jury because they want to write a book about it or do some sort of tell all television interview. i want people who want to come in to do the job because they care about getting it right. not because they have some self- interest. it will be very interesting because they will have plenty of jurors to choose from i think. even if they strike those who claim they cannot be fair. >> what will you be looking for in jury selection monday? >> i have always said that you can't win a case in jury selection but you can sure lose

it. if you ask 100 prosecutors and 100 defense attorneys about their sort of juror preferences, they would probably spend a lot of time telling you what they don't want in a juror rather than what they do want. at the end of the day, prosecutors, and i don't want to speak for defense attorneys but we want somebody who can be fair, who can be impartial. not somebody who doesn't have strong beliefs or preferences or ideologies but people who can assure us under oath during jury selection that they can set aside their preferences. their aversions, their ideologies. and decide the case based only on the evidence they see during the course of the trial. i think jury selection will be a challenge because so many people will have such strong feelings, but, like barb, i believe at the end of the day, they will be able to empanel a fair and impartial jury. and i think the defendant and the people are going to get a

fair trial. >> barbara, when a juror answers a question that seems to create an issue, how, then, do the lawyers discuss that issue? is it done while the juror is listening? is it done by more questions to the juror? how do they probe a little bit beyond the questions? >> yeah, so typically the judge will do the first round of questions and ask the basic questions. and then allow the lawyers to do follow-up questions. but to the extent they want to confer with each other, for example, it is possible to strike jurors for cause. that means there is a good reason this person should not sit on this particular case. there is a bias. a conflict of interest. they know somebodiment one of the questions you just mentioned they have worked for one of the trump organizations. typically, they would approach at side bar to discuss that. so they are not talking about the juror in front of them.

it could very well be they end up on the jury. so, to prevent that sort of discussion about people right in front of their faces, typically, those conversations will occur at the side bar. >> and glenn, what is it like for jurors in a case like this, with this level of visibility? you know, there is this three different possibilities of people who on this thing of wanting to be on the jury. i want to be on the jury because i want to convict donald trump or i want to be on the jury because i want to acquit donald trump. i want to be on the jury because it is a historic jury. the first criminal jury of a former president. there is a variety of ways in which people have an incentive to want to be on the jury. >> the parties, the prosecutors, the defense attorney and the judge are going to want to sniff out any moles. anybody who they think might be trying to creep onto the jury

for nefarious reasons. and i will say, i picked a lot of juries. once they are placed under oath and they are asked some very pointed and personal questions, by the judge, follow-up questions by the prosecution, by the defense attorneys, you can usually get a pretty good read. a pretty good sense with respect to there being straight or whether they seem to have an agenda. then it will be up to the parties to decide, okay, do we want to challenge this person for cause because there is something not quite right in the answers they are giving or their demeanor when they are giving the answers or does it not rise to a challenge for cause, so maybe we'll want to use one of our ten strikes, you can strike a juror for any reason at all. except race, ethnicity, or gender. any other reason you have a bad feeling about the juror. that is where you will exercise your ten strikes to try to get rid of jurors you think will

not give your side a fair shake. >> quickly before we go, so you can't strike a juror because of race or because of gender. how does the judge know that is why you are doing it? >> there is a case on this lawrence and there is a whole process for this. so if one party perceives that is other is basing strikes on a prohibited basis like race, they can challenge that person. they have to show there has been a pattern of striking people based on race. then it is up to the prosecutor to provide the reason that they are striking these jurors. and then the judge makes a decision whether they believe it. i have seen instances where prosecutors strike jurors and maybe have stricken jurors. but because they are sleeping or some other thing like that. it is up to the judge to decide how they are using them. >> thank you very much for

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what they did. george w. bush lives his life behind a wall in texas where no one asks him any questions about how he feels about the justices he appointed, chief justice john roberts and justice samuel alito who wrote the opinion overturning roe v. wade. without those bush judges on the supreme court, it could not have happened. george bush's father appointed justice thomas where he waited patiently for 30 years to overturn roe v. wade. it is the work of the last three republican presidents and everyone who helped their campaigns that has sent the state of arizona back to life in 1864 when they had no running water, no electricity or toilets and republicans in the legislature decided to keep that state living in 1864. when they blocked an attempt by

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protect access to contraception. the republican governor of the state glen youngkin did not sign or veto the bill. he rewrote it and sent it back. the democrats in the legislature said he chose to gut it deleting protections for people to use iuds , condoms, birth control pills and emergency contraceptives and erasing the mechanism for virginians who ensure our rights are enforced. thank you very much for joining us tonight. is governor youngkin trying to preserve his possibility of being chosen as donald trump's vice presidential running mate? >> i don't know what it is he

is doing, but i know it is out of step with what the people of virginia want. this was important legislation that they wrote thoughtfully and purposefully to ensure that in virginia, we would have the right to contraception which is detailed and outlined and named the right to iuds and emergency contraception and he said he would not sign this bill because he said it went too far. and the reality is in the wake of the dobbs decision, we knew it was not just about abortion. that the restrictions would go further. and when thoughtful legislators like senator hashme and delegate price tried to move forward to protect the access to contraception that is our right, to have the governor say it goes too far is just

outrageous. >> and justice clarence thomas has said that the court, the supreme court should absolutely revisit any constitutional protections they have provided for contra september under certain privacy doctrines and clarence thomas wants to get rid of them so states would need that protection if clarence thomas gets his way . >> it was clearly written in his opinion supporting the dobbs decision. absolutely. and, that's why this is so unbelievable. when the dobbs decision was put forth and we expressed at a federal level as a member of congress, we voted to protect access to contraception because we knew these threats would be coming. and we have seen threats to ivf in alabama. we have seen lack of access to

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today, vice president harris made this announcement. >> hi everybody, so as the head of the white house office of gun violence prevention, we are

closing the gun show loophole. we are basically requiring anyone who sells guns as a dealer has to do background checks. and, we know this will save lives. >> and here is the trump position on gun safety. >> during my four years, nothing happened and there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. when i'm back in the oval office, no one will lay a finger on your firearms. it's not going to happen. >> another pressing issue for which donald trump has promised to do absolutely nothing is student debt. >> my administration will propose a new rule to cancel up to $20,000 in run away interest for any borrower that owes more now than when they started paying the loan. it's a big difference. for low and middle class

families enrolled in my save family, we'll cancel all of your interest, all of your interest. and second, we plan to cancel student debts for borrowers who owe even though they started paying them two decades ago. we plan to cancel debt for borrowers eligible for debt forgiveness through the save program. but are not enrolled in these programs. joining us now is democratic congressman james kleibern of south carolina. the cochair of the biden harris presidential campaign. thank you very much for joining us. it is striking to compare the biden actions on both policies to donald trump's absolute promise to do absolutely nothing.

>> well thank you very much for having me lawrence. both of these are so fundamental to american families and american communities. and they do a whole lot for americans as individuals. when i think about the so- called safer communities act which i thought was a really good effort and i see what the president is now doing to implement that act. i think about that day when i got the message in charleston. when those nine poor souls were murdered all because of their lack of a background check. if that young man had been allowed to complete his background check, he would not have been able to purchase that gun because he was not eligible to have a gun. what the president is doing here and thanks to the vice

president's oversight of this, we are going to close the loopholes. especially the loopholes dealing with gun sales and gun shows. people not being subjected to the licenses they were going to need. this law will bring all that into line and that is one of the best things that the president could do to implement the safer community's act. this is the first time in 30 years that anything like that has been done. so the former president is correct. he did nothing. but the american people wanted something to be done. almost every other day, there is an anniversary of some egregious act involving guns and we need to get all of that in check. and when it comes to student

loans, the president has announced a new program to confront or get around what the supreme court did for this first it ration. build $146 billion he has already forgiven, for four million people. this bill has the chance of reaching another 23 million people to bring the total to 30 million people who will be getting their student loans, the balance of their student loans eliminated. now lawrence, i want to emphasize one thing. a lot of people who criticize this program fail to realize is that he is eliminating interest. most of these people have paid

back more than they ever borrowed and still owe more than the original loan was for. i have a constituent who borrowed $60,000. paid back that loan for more than 20 years. and when last october, he still owed $119,000. the original loan was 60. he paid it for 20 years. now, almost 119 being forgiven. so the president, i congratulate him. it is a great effort. >> congressman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you. coming up, a flash back to our very first guest on this program 13 years ago. then vice president joe biden who has a perfect lesson for how president joe biden should campaign for reelection. joe biden is next. mpaign for r. joe biden is next.

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senate. 60 votes. but what the president has been able to do has been remarkable with the help of a democratic congress. so those who don't, who didn't get everything they wanted, it is time to just buck up here, understand that we can make things better, continue to move forward, and not yield the playing field to those folks that are against everything we stand for in terms of the initiatives we put forward. >> you know, i didn't think of myself as running pat moynahan's show. liz did. >> that's true. >> that could be joe biden's argument for reelection today. for those who didn't get everything they wanted, it's time to just buck up here, understand we can make things better, continue to move forward, but not yield the playing field to those folks who are against everything that we stand for. that is certainly what pat would be saying if he were still here to campaign for his dear friend joe biden's

reelection. daniel patrick moynahan served 24 years in the senate with joe biden before his position as a tenured harvard professor. he went back and forth to government as first an assistant secretary of labor for president john f. kennedy. pat continued to serve in the administration of president lyndon johnson after president kennedy's assassination. in those days it was common for presidents to appoint members of the opposite party to some important positions so pat served as ambassador to india. and ambassador to the united nations in republican administrations. the story of pat moynahan's life growing up the son of a single mother who was a bartender while he was shining shoes in time square to become a public policy visionary is told in the new pbs american masters documentary titled

simply moynahan. >> pat moynahan wrote the first memo of global warming in 1969. that is partly how the nixon presidency became so active on the environment. >> the environmental protection agency was created during the nixon presidency thanks in part to daniel patrick moynahan. his primary focus on social policy, especially ways to improve the welfare system and change it into a program that could actually help lift people out of poverty. >> he is trying to get johnson to understand this culture of poverty and racism that was assaulting the poor negro family. the insight that he had was that we have to go beyond civil rights legislation to address the cumulative effects of

chronic racial and economic subordination. and what he was saying that was we need to move beyond issues of liberty and address issues of equality. >> johnson incorporates that thought into one of the most important addresses any president has ever given. >> freedom is not enough. you do not take a person who for years has been hobbled by change and liberate him, bringing up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others.

and still, justly believe that you have been completely fair. >> this is the core of the liberal anthem that lbj stood for. >> i remember listening very carefully to president johnson's speech at howard university in 1968 and i said you know, this resonates with me. and it was based on the moinahan report. >> the document was never meant for public perusal. it is written in a very bombastic way written in a very bombastic way >> unless you time -- took the time and who does look into when ham himself, you would've

taken up the view that these people just have to get their families together and everything will be fine. and that was what many in the black community believed they had to rebut. >> the advocacy for unequal preferential treatment, the advocacy for a minimum level of income, a big jobs program. the kind of solution moynihan advocated for even in a time that was radical, you know, the moynihan report was the last point where you had a federal official making an implicit argument for massive investment in african-american communities, massive benevolent investment and tying the case for investment to history. that is something that just really would not happen today. >> the controversies that followed professor moynihan in and out of government did not diminish. student interest in moynihan's

courses when he returned to teaching. >> i was a freshman at harvard and 67, and pat moynihan's course was well known because of course he was a brilliant man, but he had practical experience. >> one professor moynihan was elected to the senate, he works his way up to the chairmanship of the finance committee because he knew from his time working on welfare policy in the white house that the senate finance committee actually controls not just taxation and international trade, but most of the important social policy of the federal government, including its biggest program, social security, medicare, medicaid, unemployment insurance and welfare. in the senate, pat moynihan worked relentlessly to improve and strengthen all of those programs knowing that they were crucial to the income security of millions of americans.

>> moynihan was viewed in the senate was enormous respect, sometimes in comprehension and sometimes a little fear, and the fear, of course, came from not wanting to go up against him and debate because he would find something that you haven't thought of and you would be in trouble. >> moynihan hated the notion that government is the problem . his only joinder to that was, if you have contempt for government, you will get contemptible government. >> there is no doubt in my mind that if pat moynihan had been airdropped into new england in the 1770s, he would have been one of the most prominent members of our founding fathers. >> one of my colleagues on the republican side said you know, you could not have a senate of 100 moynihan's, but you see need -- sure need a senate of one or two. >> what i learned from senator

moynihan was commitment. i was there for some of the 40 years he spent working on policies designed to strengthen the income security and improve the lives of people with the greatest economic struggles in this country. he spent decades trying to steer american foreign-policy and more enlightened and helpful directions for this country in the world, and if you told him a project might take 30 years, that he would say well, then, we had better start now, and that is how long it took to complete the project now known as the glorious new moynihan train hall at penn station in manhattan. senator moynihan had the vision for that new train station 30 years ago. he went to work on it then, moving the federal state and local government and amtrak a bit closer to getting it done every year. decades before moynihan train hall was completed, he had the architectural model of what you see there today in his office.

he did not live long enough to see that project completed, or to ever see his name on that wall, but as with so many other things that he worked on, his commitment lives after him. your guide through the pbs american masters documentary, moynihan, is the authoritative narration of recent oscar nominee, jeffrey wright. >> he rose to national celebrity as america's most famous representative to the united nations. >> one word attached to him wherever he went was flamboyance. the flamboyant patrick monahan. >> in my embarrassed to speak for less-than-perfect democracy? not one bit. find me a better one. >> moynihan is streaming on the pbs website, pbs.org until april 26th and is also available on the canopy streaming service. go to pbs.org.

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