Lawrence: Christopher Wray decided to save Donald Trump from putting another lie in writing

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: FBI Director Christopher Wray announces his plan to resign. Also, several Trump picks are facing tough confirmation hearings. And a gun violence vigil marks the 12-year remembrance of the Sandy Hook mass shooting. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Sen. Jon Ossoff, Rep. Maxwell Frost, and Sen. Andy Kim join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.
0:03.4	Good evening, Alex. We have a Senate quorum here tonight. We have Senator Sheldon White House,
0:08.0	Senator John Ossoff, new senator from New Jersey, Andy Kim, and future Senator Maxwell Frost,
0:13.9	who sometime in the next 50 years is going to be elected to the Senate.
0:17.5	Is it the tip O'Neill thing? Like, how do you get all of these senators
0:21.7	that everybody, I mean, like, what is, do you send them chocolates? The trick, the trick is
0:26.7	going to the studio within walking distance of the Senate here in Washington, D.C. That's the
0:32.5	trick. That's where you are. Yeah. That's why you are. That's why you look even better than usual. Okay. Now I know.
0:39.0	That's how we do it. Have a great show. Have a great show. Thank you, Alex. Thank you.
0:43.3	If cash up Prumaud Vinod Patel is confirmed by the Senate as the next FBI director, he will be the first Indian American FBI director. He will be the first FBI director
0:56.9	with a beard. But he will have two things in common with every FBI director before him. He is a man
1:04.9	and he is a Republican. Every single director of the FBI has been a Republican, every one of them.
1:16.3	J. Ed. Gohuehuehuehruh created the FBI and corrupted the FBI in his 36-year reign as
1:22.0	FBI director. Hoover's FBI did some good work, but J.oover himself engaged in some of the worst things ever done
1:28.8	by an American law enforcement agency.
1:30.8	He loved using illegal wiretaps, especially against the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.,
1:38.0	who he put under illegal surveillance for just no reason whatsoever, no legal reason whatsoever, wiretapped his phone calls and tried to
1:47.0	harass Dr. King into committing suicide. Presidents feared what Jay Edgar Hoover might try to do to them or their allies.
1:57.0	Jay Edgar Hoover's legacy is a stain on American law enforcement, but still, his name
2:03.9	adorns the FBI headquarters building in Washington, D.C. L. Patrick Gray, who served as
2:10.5	acting FBI director, served for one year of Richard Nixon's criminal activity as president, got ensnared in that criminal activity
2:20.3	himself and left the office of FBI director as acting FBI director in disgrace before Richard
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