Lawrence: Chief Justice Roberts reveals his shockingly shallow 'hardest decision'

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Chief Justice Roberts claims the Supreme Court is adhering to the “highest standards of conduct.” Also, Attorney General Merrick Garland publicly ignores the Trump letter. Plus, a Florida school bans Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem. And Uvalde families are demanding accountability one year later. Cecile Richards, Mini Timmaraju, Daniel Horwitz, Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost and Beto O’Rourke join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Laurence O'Donnell.
0:02.3	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:03.3	Good evening, Alex.
0:04.3	And we have a better auroraic joining us tonight on the one-year mark since the mass murder
0:10.7	in Yvonne.
0:12.1	And Andrew Weissman has pulled off a miracle.
0:16.6	He's gonna, he's found a way to join us from somewhere across the sea.
0:22.4	I don't even know where.
0:23.7	You don't need to know where.
0:24.7	All you need to know is it is going to be there.
0:27.7	Somewhere a lot of time zones from here and you need a passport to be there.
0:32.1	But you know, this letter, but Donald Trump's lawyers said to the Attorney General Andrew
0:38.8	can't contain himself.
0:39.8	So he's gonna get a word in here about it.
0:43.1	And as you should, I'm eager to hear what Andrew Weissman thinks of this letter.
0:47.9	Thank you, Alex.
0:48.9	Have a good show.
0:49.9	Thank you.
0:51.9	Well, when your job is making decisions and the decisions you have to make are the most
0:57.5	important decisions made in the United States of America.
1:04.4	And you have been making those decisions for 18 years.
1:10.1	It seems like the most difficult question you could ever be asked is, what is the hardest
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