Lawrence: 'Absolutely wasted' is an accurate description of Trump's nomination of Pete Hegseth

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: NBC News reports Pete Hegseth’s nomination is in peril in the Senate. Also, Russian State TV gloats about Donald Trump’s picks. Plus, President Biden becomes the first sitting president to visit Angola. And generous contributions to the K.I.N.D. Fund continue to help provide desks for students in Malawi. Rep. Marilyn Strickland, Timothy Snyder, and Eugene Robinson join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:03.3	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:04.0	Good evening, Alex.
0:05.2	In relation to a news item of the day, you have to help me with something because, and this is the part I'm embarrassed to admit,
0:12.2	because it's the only thing I have in common with Donald Trump.
0:14.7	Oh, boy.
0:15.6	Yeah.
0:16.8	I've never been drunk.
0:18.4	So what?
0:19.6	Well, my friend, sit down and I'll tell you all about it.
0:23.0	So here's my question.
0:24.1	Here's my question.
0:25.4	Do you smell?
0:27.1	I don't say you.
0:28.0	Does one, put it another way, does a Fox weekend morning host, smell of alcohol from a hangover,
0:37.3	or does he have to have been drinking that morning to smell
0:41.6	like alcohol? I would say the answer is could be C, all of the above, which is you could still
0:48.2	be drinking, you could actively be drinking, but you could also have had a real bender. I think
0:52.0	to still smell like alcohol the next morning,
0:55.1	this is purely anecdotal. You probably have to have consumed a fairly vast quantity of
1:00.4	alcohol the night before. Just saying. And, and, okay, it's, okay, here's a question,
1:06.8	uh, Dr. Wagner. Would you, would you, would you pass a breathalyzer the next morning? Are you still technically drunk?
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