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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Abortion-rights group pledge to spend $100M to restore federal protections for reproductive rights. Also, Vice President Harris says a Donald Trump win means a nationwide abortion ban. And Trump tries again to dismiss the classified documents case. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Angela Alsobrooks, Andrew Weissmann, Adam Klasfeld, and Joyce Vance join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	I don't appreciate your tone.
0:03.0	That's what Donald Trump's favorite judge, Aileen Mercedes Cannon, who Donald Trump appointed,
0:08.0	said today to one of the prosecutors on Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's team.
0:12.0	In the case of United States of America
0:14.8	versus Donald J. Trump, in which
0:17.9	Donald Trump is criminally charged
0:20.4	with violations of the Espionage Act and illegal possession of classified documents.
0:26.4	I don't appreciate your tone.
0:30.8	We'll hear more about that tone from Adam Classfeld who was in the courtroom in Florida today
0:36.8	and we'll get Andrew Weisman and Joyce Vance's perspective on that tone as former federal prosecutors themselves.
0:46.8	I don't appreciate your tone.
0:50.0	It was in its way the courtroom equivalent of,
0:56.1	nevertheless she persisted.
0:59.7	It has been a long uphill struggle to keep alive the vital legislation that protects the
1:07.3	most fundamental right to vote. A person who has exhibited so much hostility to the enforcement of those laws.
1:17.0	The senator is reminded that as a violation of Rule 19 of the standing rules of the Senate to impute to another senator or
1:25.2	senators any conduct or motive unworthy or becoming a senator.
1:30.8	Mr. President, I don't think I quite understand.
1:35.0	I'm reading a letter from Coretta Scott King to the Judiciary Committee from 1986 that was
1:41.7	admitted into the record,
1:44.4	I'm simply reading what she wrote
1:46.7	about what the nomination of Jeff Sessions
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