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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Pete Hegseth is defiant despite his multiple controversies. Also, President Biden says the U.S. will support Syria and its neighbors. And Donald Trump lashes out at January 6 Committee members. Rep. Adam Smith and Andrew Weissmann join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, 50 years of the Assad family dictatorship came to an end yesterday in Syria.
0:04.9	President Biden made this statement at 1.39 p.m.
0:10.1	The long last, the Assad regime has fallen.
0:13.8	This regime brutalized and tortured and killed literally hundreds of thousands of innocent
0:19.6	Syrians.
0:21.2	The fall of the regime is a fundamental act of justice.
0:24.7	It's a moment of historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better
0:30.2	future for their proud country.
0:32.8	President Biden made the point that Assad's support from Russia collapsed under the pressure of the war.
0:39.2	Vladimir Putin decided to start in Ukraine.
0:43.5	Russia's support for Assad also failed. And that's because Ukraine, backed by our American
0:50.7	allies, put up a wall of resistance against invading Russian forces,
0:56.9	inflicting massive damage on the Russian forces.
1:01.3	And that is left Russia unable to protect its main ally in the Middle East.
1:09.5	President Biden describes his administration's policy on Syria, which has now ended with the collapse of the Assad regime yesterday.
1:16.7	We maintained our military presence in Syria, our counter-ISIS, to counter the support of local partners as well on the ground, their partners, never ceding an inch of territory,
1:23.0	taking out leaders of ISIS, ensuring that ISIS can never establish a safe haven there again.
1:29.8	And it will not be up to Donald Trump to ensure that ISIS can never establish a safe haven there again.
1:35.5	But Donald Trump has not suggested that he has any idea how to do that.
1:40.1	He did post on social media.
1:42.1	Assad is gone.
1:43.2	He has fled his country, his protector, Russia, Russia, Russia,
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