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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg specifies crimes he believes Trump intended to commit or conceal with the hush money. Also, the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a judicial ethics hearing. Plus, House Republicans stop Democrats’ plan to expel George Santos. And Democrats file a discharge petition to force a debt ceiling vote. Neal Katyal, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Daniel Goldman and Rep. Brendan Boyle join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Laurence O'Donnell.
0:02.6	Good evening, Alex.
0:03.8	And I know that all you kids who grow up in Washington are parliamentarians at heart.
0:10.8	I know deep down you're you guys you like you learn the House rules and elementary school,
0:16.2	right?
0:17.2	The Senate rules in high school.
0:19.4	This is such an exciting night for me because we're going to cover once again the single
0:24.3	most exciting thing you can ever see in the House of Representatives.
0:28.8	Unfortunately, it's almost inexplicable.
0:31.6	It is of course the procedure that the Democrats are using right now to try to force a vote
0:39.0	on a clean debt ceiling bill, the discharge petition.
0:45.4	The man who filed the discharge petition is joining us tonight.
0:51.5	Can you believe it?
0:52.5	I get to talk to someone.
0:54.1	I mean, you can go through a whole lifetime and never meet anyone who filed a discharge
0:58.8	petition because it's so rare.
1:01.2	And the circumstances of the filing of this discharge petition were like the plot of
1:06.8	a mission impossible movie.
1:08.8	It is a caper, if you will, Lawrence.
1:12.0	One that is yet to be resolved because we don't know how the debt ceiling drama is going
1:15.1	to end in the end.
1:18.0	But it is certainly that he is the person of the hour as it concerns the financial stability
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