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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: GOP condemning Rep. Santos don't fear him like they fear Trump

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Versant, Government, Senate

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: The House Ethics Committee releases a scathing report on Rep. George Santos. Also, Donald Trump’s hush money case is set to begin in March 2024. Plus, Judge Cannon denies Special Counsel Jack Smith’s request for a hearing on Trump lawyers’ classified documents usage. And The Washington Post publishes photos of devastation caused by AR-15 shootings. Rep. Glenn Ivey, Rep. Robert Garcia, Glenn Kirschner, Barbara McQuade and Ryan Busse 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

0:03.5

Lawrence. I have some bad news for you and it's it's official it's not just

0:08.4

me saying it. George Santos cannot be trusted.

0:13.0

That is the official in writing finding.

0:17.0

I had put so much trust in him.

0:19.0

Lawrence, I really thought he had produced Spider-Man,

0:21.0

turn out the lights or turn off the dark or whatever it is.

0:23.5

And I really thought he was a volleyball champ

0:25.1

and I really thought that he was going to give all that money

0:28.3

to that veteran's dog's go-fund me page.

0:30.8

No, you know, I read the entire House Ethics Committee investigative report on them and they say right up front he cannot be trusted and then and then they go on to prove that and we will be we will be discussing that

0:46.0

tonight with one of the members of that committee. I will be watching.

0:49.2

Thanks Alex. Have a good show. Well you can accomplish a lot in this world in nine months.

0:56.7

We are all here, thanks to the miraculous work that our mothers did in the nine months that it took to bring us into this world.

1:08.0

But Donald Trump says nine months isn't nearly enough time to prepare a criminal defense in any of the

1:16.9

criminal cases pending against him. But in the last eight and a half months, the Republican-controlled House Ethics Committee authorized 37 subpoenas and obtained the and studied over 172,000 pages of documents.

1:40.3

It conducted an investigation that was so thorough.

1:44.0

It found even more crimes committed by George Santos

1:48.8

than federal prosecutors have already charged him with. Today the House Ethics Committee agreed to

1:55.8

quote publicly condemn Representative Santos for his conduct. It took the House Ethics Committee only nine months to conclude in

2:07.8

writing as it did today George, cannot be trusted.

2:16.2

The House Ethics Committee is chaired by Republican Michael Guest of Mississippi. It is the only committee in the House that is equally

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