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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. |
0:02.6 | Good evening, Lawrence. |
0:03.9 | Good evening, Rachel. |
0:04.6 | And I know, like me, you've been waiting for at least 24 hours, more than that, |
0:11.9 | to hear what Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe has to say about Donald Trump's burst of lawlessness, |
0:18.9 | including directed toward Harvard University. And your patience is rewarded |
0:24.2 | tonight. He will be joining us on this program. Just going to open the microphone and let him go. |
0:31.0 | You know, Lawrence, I was just, we just covered a story at the end there about some other |
0:34.4 | universities, whether or not they're drafting off of Harvard's bravery |
0:38.8 | here, but some other universities that are taking a better together than alone approach here. |
0:44.2 | And they are banding together in the Big Ten. |
0:46.8 | UMass Amherst is trying to get land grant colleges to band together. |
0:49.6 | So they can eventually provide mutual defense for one another, support one another, |
0:54.6 | and standing up for Trump when Trump inevitably comes for those organizations, for those |
0:59.0 | universities as well. |
1:01.4 | There's all different ways to fight this. |
1:03.1 | Harvard is certainly cutting awake here. |
1:05.7 | Yeah, and I don't think of it as bravery for Harvard. |
1:10.4 | They're big enough, strong enough, old enough, the oldest university in America to do it. |
1:14.6 | But the smaller schools could be completely wiped out. |
1:18.9 | And it does take bravery. |
1:21.1 | And it does take a team. |
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