Lawrence: Fmr. Trump chief of staff says he's 'scared sh-tless'

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump rejected his lawyers’ effort to avoid the classified documents indictment. Also, Attorney General Merrick Garland defends special counsel Jack Smith in his first public remarks on the Trump indictment. Plus, Senate Democrats push for Supreme Court ethics reforms after recent scandals involving Justice Clarence Thomas. And Trump turns 77 the day after his arrest and arraignment. Bradley Moss, Kristy Greenberg, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Dr. Lance Dodes join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:02.8	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:03.8	Good evening, Alex.
0:04.8	We have a last word, a fam favorite, joining us tonight at the end of the hour.
0:09.6	Dr. Lance Dota sees a former professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
0:14.8	And early on in the Trump presidency, I think it was maybe within two months, three months.
0:20.1	He and a group of other psychiatrists had seen enough and they felt they had a duty to
0:25.8	warn America.
0:27.7	It eventually became the book title, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.
0:32.8	And I think the first time it came out, it was in the title, it said, you know, 19 psychiatrists
0:38.0	make the case.
0:39.7	It's now up to 37.
0:41.9	They kept reissuing the book as time went by and each new paperback edition.
0:50.4	Because the last, I remember it was 27 and I'm pretty sure it was 37.
0:54.2	Just had to check.
0:55.2	I'm not a psychiatrist that are like, sign me up.
0:57.2	I'm on board.
0:58.2	I co-sign.
0:59.2	37.
1:00.2	37.
1:01.2	Anyway, Dr. Dota has been on this from the start.
1:03.2	He's going to join us at the end of the hour.
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