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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: FBI Director Christopher Wray says bathrooms are not for storing classified documents. Also, the Supreme Court rules in favor of voting rights in two key cases. Plus, Trump asks Judge Cannon for an indefinite delay in the documents trial. And President Biden blasts Vladimir Putin’s “craven lust for land and power.” Rep. Eric Swalwell, Andrew Weissmann, Eric Holder and Michael McFaul join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	And now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell, good evening, Lawrence.
0:03.6	Good evening, Alex. And I'm glad you noted the only union president in history to become
0:10.2	president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, a unique position that he holds in union history
0:17.4	and presidential history. Yes, who would have thunk it all of it?
0:21.9	Yeah. Union president and president and what he did during the course of that presidency?
0:27.2	Alex, we have a former Attorney General Eric Holder joining us tonight and I am so eager to
0:33.5	talk to him. We're going to talk about a few things, but one thing we're going to talk to him
0:36.8	about is something I haven't discussed in a full segment on this program, but I've suggested from
0:42.7	time to time that I do not see, given that presidents of the United States get lifetime secret
0:49.9	service protection. I have not been able to see how a president, former president, can be sentenced
0:58.5	to prison. That means a dozen secret service agents. I mean, you see how many secret service agents
1:05.2	go to court with them? How many have to go, how many have to go to prison with him? How do you do
1:10.8	that in what prison? How's that supposed to work? I've just as I think about it, I've thought,
1:17.4	I've thought it to be impossible. Eric Holder thinks it's possible. And as a Attorney General,
1:22.2	he used to be in charge of the Bureau of Prison. So finally, we have someone who knows more about
1:28.0	this than I do, which is actually pretty easy to find. Those are some logistics I'd like to hear
1:33.6	about Laurence, so I will be turning in. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's it's I finally we're going to have
1:38.3	that discussion. I've been really eager to do it at long last. I'll stay tuned. Thank you.
1:42.9	Thank you. Good job. Thank you. Well, this day began with the announcement of the Emmy nominations
1:48.9	honoring some, but not all of the very best work done on television in the last year, which makes it
1:56.0	a fitting day to consider how much damage television has done in some of the places where we are
2:03.9	allowed to point our cameras. I am speaking, of course, about what television has done to the
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