Lawrence: For the first time, a Black woman will oversee the House if GOP cannot elect a Speaker

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The January 6 Committee releases its investigation materials before Republicans take control of the House. And Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin is rushed to the hospital after collapsing on the field. Andrew Weissmann, Harry Litman, Barbara McQuade, Kevin Blackistone and Dr. Vin Gupta join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, we will continue to monitor the situation with
0:02.7	Demar Hamlin at the hospital.
0:04.8	We will line up people who can inform us about this as there
0:09.6	is information that develops on it, if information develops on it.
0:13.6	During this hour, as I say, I for one have never seen anything like
0:18.1	what we saw on that field tonight.
0:20.5	And the players, the Buffalo players surrounding him like that is
0:25.5	something we've never seen before.
0:27.0	But here we are with a NFL game tonight stopped for as far as I know,
0:33.0	the first time in history of the NFL.
0:36.0	Maybe the first time in history of the NFL, a game is completely
0:40.0	stopped virtually at the outset because of an injury that appears
0:45.0	to be so grave, it appeared to be so grave right away.
0:50.0	We have more to cover tonight, which we will get to now and
0:54.0	as I say, we will come back to the story of
0:59.0	Auddemar Hamlin as soon as there might be more information that is
1:02.0	important to report on it.
1:05.0	There is something that is going to happen tomorrow in Washington
1:09.0	that we have never seen before.
1:12.0	We've never seen anything like this before during our time.
1:16.0	For the first time in history tomorrow, this no one has ever seen.
1:21.0	A black woman will be in charge of the House of Representatives.
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