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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Fmr. AG Holder: Courts must stop NC GOP judge from stealing election

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: A North Carolina Republican candidate tries to subvert the vote after losing the State Supreme Court’s election. Also, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin backs Donald Trump’s purge of federal workers. Plus, WIRED reports inexperienced young men in Elon Musk’s DOGE team gain access to sensitive data. And Donald Trump faces outrage over Treasury access given to Musk. Justice Allison Riggs, fmr. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Vittoria Elliott, Tom Nichols, and Jennifer Rubin join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word, where Ali Velshi is in for Lawrence O'Donnell tonight.

0:03.7

Good evening, Allie.

0:04.6

Good evening, my friends. Nice to have you on Blue Sky. It's fun interacting there.

0:08.8

When you started the show an hour ago, you've always got my attention, but you started talking about car sales.

0:13.5

And I thought to myself, did Mato just go all Velshi on us talking economics in the show?

0:17.9

So that was very compelling. There was a lot of stuff in that show. But one notable thing you talked about when talking about government and why it's important to us,

0:24.6

you talked about the air traffic control. We have 45,000 flights a day, 2.9 million passengers,

0:30.6

and at any peak hour, about 6,000 flights in the air. And how often do you and I talk about

0:35.7

commercial airplane crashes? Virtually never,

0:38.4

because it works and it's a background app and it doesn't need Elon Musk and his peeps to fix it

0:43.7

or make it more efficient. Please don't touch the air traffic control. They actually work properly.

0:48.2

And when it doesn't work properly, the NTSB investigates it. And we will know the answer to what

0:52.4

that problem was, and it will not happen again.

0:54.8

And as we are learning more about who exactly is on this little band of juvenile delinquents

1:02.4

that Elon Musk is using as his team for doing these unauthorized, and in some cases, apparently

1:07.8

illegal, unauthorized access to all these government systems,

1:12.7

the idea that you would let a 19-year-old with the online handle big balls

1:18.2

take over the air traffic control system and see what he can do when we've got 3 million people

1:23.2

simultaneously in the air at the moment he's going to unplug that thing.

1:27.0

I just feel like,

1:28.1

wake up America. This all seems like a real bad idea. But this is 50 years of telling people

1:33.2

government is bad, right? Who are you standing up for? The 14,000 people laid off at USAID.

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