Lawrence: Harris' VP pick Tim Walz just told Trump & GOP to 'Mind your own damn business'

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz push a hopeful message in their first joint rally. Also, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi discusses her new memoir, “The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House.” And the “March For Our Lives” gun safety group backs the Harris-Walz ticket. Rep. Joanna McClinton, Sen. Tina Smith, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, and David Hogg join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:03.4	Hi, Lawrence, exciting day in American politics.
0:06.0	It really is, Jen.
0:07.0	And I have this book here with my notes on it.
0:12.0	I'm reading it too.
0:13.0	But it should be a book club.
0:15.0	Publication day today, I believe.
0:17.0	Speaker Pelosi is going to join us tonight,
0:19.0	which turns out to be perfect timing to both discuss her book
0:22.0	and her 12 years of working with
0:25.6	Tim Wall's in the House of Representatives where she got to know him well.
0:28.8	Remarkable I can't wait to watch your interview and and that book is great. I'm really enjoying it so far so
0:35.6	look for watching. Really is. Thank you. Thanks Jen. Thank you. Well there are three people
0:48.4	who deserve the credit for tonight's successful launch of the new Democratic ticket, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the man who made it possible, Joe Biden.
0:57.4	If tonight's debut of the Democratic running mates for President and Vice President
1:01.6	had, say, an executive producer. It would be the person
1:06.8	who made this night possible Joe Biden who four years ago chose Kamala Harris as his running mate and two weeks ago
1:16.0	just over two weeks ago announced he would stop running for president and
1:20.6	designed in the timing of his endorsement a quick and chaos-free
1:28.6	transition of the Biden-haras campaign into the Harris campaign,
1:35.0	which then triggered a rapid series of endorsements
1:39.0	by other prominent Democrats,
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