Lawrence: Biden’s legacy will be ‘paying dividends’ for decades to come

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: President Biden lays out the economic legacy that Donald Trump will inherit. Also, Adam Schiff is sworn in as a U.S. senator on Monday by Vice President Harris. And Lisa Blunt Rochester is elected as Delaware’s first female senator and first Black senator. Jared Bernstein, Sen. Adam Schiff, and Sen.-elect Lisa Blunt Rochester join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:03.7	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:04.8	Good evening, Alex.
0:05.8	I was just checking, fact-checking something in my ear about one of our guests tonight.
0:11.8	And the question was to our control room, will this be Senator Schiff's first appearance on this network as a senator, and the answer is yes.
0:24.8	We need a little promotional thing that we can put at the bottom of our...
0:29.6	What? That's a big booking.
0:31.7	One of those, it's a big booking. It is Congressman Adam Schiff has done that magic trick of becoming Senator.
0:39.0	Yes, and you get to call him Senator-elect Schiff.
0:41.7	Like, that's your thing for tonight.
0:43.7	I like, Senator is a title I prefer, actually.
0:46.6	Yes, well, soon to be Senator, but Senator-elect, I mean, my goodness.
0:50.6	Congratulations.
0:51.3	I'm very excited for this interview.
0:53.1	He's actually sworn in because he's filling out that final piece of Senator Feinstein's
1:01.0	actual term.
1:02.0	That's right.
1:03.0	He's also reelected.
1:04.0	He's also elected already to the next six years.
1:07.0	So he's getting an early start on that class of senators.
1:10.0	He's just senator.
1:11.3	I didn't get to fact check it with my control room.
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