Lawrence: Bob Woodward calls Trump 'worse than Nixon' in damning October surprise report

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Bob Woodward’s new book reports Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin as many as seven times after leaving office. Also, a new Senate report finds the Trump White House “controlled” the scope of the FBI’s Brett Kavanaugh investigation. And early voting is underway in key battleground Pennsylvania. Andrew Weissmann, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and Sen. Bob Casey join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.
0:05.0	Good evening, Alex. We have Senator Sheldon White House joining us tonight and he's going to tell
0:09.0	us something that you might suspect and that is that the background investigations in the
0:15.6	Senate confirmation process for Supreme Court justices aren't quite
0:18.8	what they some people say they are especially when the FBI doesn't do the investigation that it says it's doing,
0:26.2	as he will report to us.
0:27.9	That is an explosive report, an explosive reporting, I'm so glad you are covering it with the person at the
0:34.8	center of all of it everybody who cares about the integrity of our democracy
0:38.8	and the you know the high court and the decisions it's making should be watching tonight
0:43.4	Florence I will be. And Alex I'm going to save you some time because Pennsylvania
0:48.0	Senator Bob Casey's joining us tonight and he is this program's Pennsylvania political expert.
0:54.3	And so we're going to get it settled tonight
0:56.8	at the end of the hour with Senator Casey.
0:58.9	Who's going to win Pennsylvania?
1:00.8	That won't be a question anymore. By 11 p.m. tonight, Alex, there's going to be
1:04.8	that's not going to be a question. He's going to tell us.
1:07.6	If anybody knows it, it is Bob Casey. He has encyclopedic knowledge of every single county in the state.
1:14.8	I know this from spending time with him in 2020.
1:17.1	It is a must watch hour of television for you tonight, Lawrence.
1:20.8	Hey, Alex, Bob Wilbur is going to be here on...
1:24.0	Well, this is for Monday night.
1:25.9	This is getting way ahead of ourselves, but it is relevant to tonight's news.
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