GOP rallies behind twice-indicted former president

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: 174 January 6 defendants reportedly say Donald Trump incited them. Also, the White House touts the economic benefits of Bidenomics. Plus, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers uses his veto power to increase public school funding for the next 400 years. And Vladimir Putin’s disastrous war in Ukraine enters its 500th day. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Jennifer Rubin, Tracy Alloway, Rep. Gwen Moore and William Taylor join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0	Now, it's time for the last word with Ali Velshi in for Lawrence.
0:03.7	Good evening, Ali.
0:04.7	Nicely done.
0:05.7	No disrespect to those who invented classical architecture.
0:07.7	It is, as you said, it is objectively beautiful, but it does get, it has been co-opted
0:14.5	a little bit by some of these sorts.
0:16.6	So I'm glad you did that story.
0:17.8	Thank you for doing it.
0:18.8	The Otacrat's favorite style of building.
0:20.3	Have a good show.
0:21.3	Have a good weekend, my friend.
0:23.2	See you next week.
0:24.2	You too.
0:25.2	All right, we're now at the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential campaign season.
0:28.6	Six months out from 2024.
0:30.9	And in a confluence of events this week, yesterday in fact, marks exactly two and a half years
0:35.9	since the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
0:38.9	It's humbling for our country, for our democracy, that the twice impeached, twice criminally
0:43.2	indicted so far, Donald Trump is the undisputed presidential frontrunner of the Republican
0:48.3	party.
0:49.3	I don't know that on January 7th, 2021, right after all the Republicans who mattered had condemned
0:55.1	Donald Trump's role in the attempted insurrection that we thought we'd be here a year and a half
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