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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Harris takes aim at Trump’s record on tax cuts to wealthiest Americans

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Versant, Government, Senate

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: A recent poll finds Vice President Harris leading Donald Trump in North Carolina. Also, Trump once again is under fire for making derogatory comments towards the military. And prisoners freed in the Russia-U.S. swap vow to keep up the fight against Vladimir Putin. North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, Rep. Alma Adams, Tom Nichols, Vladimir Kara-Murza, and Bill Browder join Ali Velshi.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with Ali Belshi in for Lawrence good evening

0:04.1

Ali you broke it to smile exactly what I did with Simone that we can pronounce names

0:08.8

from all over the world all over the whole way.

0:10.5

Kamil Harris so close to being one of the more complicated names we have to pronounce.

0:15.2

I mean, that's because mispronouncing her name is something they're doing on purpose.

0:20.2

That's exactly right.

0:21.8

Great show again, my friend.

0:22.7

Thank you.

0:23.7

You have yourself a great night and a great weekend.

0:24.9

And sleep up, because we got a busy week next week.

0:28.8

Real talk.

0:30.4

81 days until election day, 21 days until voting starts, and it's feeling a lot like 2008 in North Carolina.

0:37.0

North Carolina has not voted for a Democrat for president in 16 years, but Governor Roy Cooper believes his state will make history again

0:44.9

and elect Vice President Kamala Harris. I have that 2008 feeling. We in North Carolina know what that means because that's the last time we voted for a Democratic nominee

1:06.0

for president won Barack Obama.

1:11.3

It is time for North Carolina to make history again.

1:15.0

Democrats aren't just trusting enthusiasm.

1:20.0

They're building an infrastructure to turn out the vote this fall.

1:24.5

According to the New York Times, the Harris campaign has more than 20 offices across

1:28.9

North Carolina. Five more set to open soon. That'd be 25 and over 170 paid staff members. five more

1:33.7

to open soon that would be 25 and over 170 paid staff members

1:35.4

compared with roughly a dozen offices for Mr. Trump

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