Lawrence: Biden using best State of the Union lines to roast Trump on campaign trail
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, in his sharply effective State of the Union address last week, President Biden included |
| 0:06.2 | the best tax policy speech ever given by a Democrat. |
| 0:12.4 | Folks at home, does anybody really think the tax code is fair? |
| 0:16.0 | No. |
| 0:17.0 | Do you really think the wealthy and big corporations need another two trillion trillion tax break. |
| 0:24.4 | I sure don't. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm going to keep fighting like hell to make it fair. |
| 0:30.7 | President Biden has been using some of the best lines, most effective lines from his State of the Union address on the campaign trail |
| 0:36.8 | beginning the day after the State of the Union. |
| 0:39.6 | Here's how he began his appeal on taxes today in New Hampshire. |
| 0:45.0 | Does anybody here think the tax code's fair, raise your hand? |
| 0:50.0 | Well, I don't think so either. |
| 0:52.0 | Republicans oppose everything. Well, I don't think so either. |
| 0:58.0 | Republicans oppose everything that Joe Biden is proposing on taxes, everything. And so, the Biden proposals for a tax code that is more fair depend entirely on our first guest |
| 1:07.2 | tonight becoming the next speaker of the House in January and And that depends on you, the voters, electing a |
| 1:16.2 | majority of Democrats to the House of Representatives. The Democratic leader of the House |
| 1:20.7 | Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, needs only four more seats |
| 1:26.4 | of Democrats in the House of Representatives to elect him Speaker of the House. |
| 1:31.4 | He will be the first Speaker of the House. He will be the first speaker of the House from New York City, |
| 1:36.0 | which is kind of remarkable that there's never been a speaker from New York City, |
| 1:39.5 | and of course he will be the first black speaker of the House. |
| 1:44.0 | The United States Constitution has exactly one parliamentary rule for legislation. |
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