Lawrence: It was a bad day for House GOP Trump fanatics and their star witness

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Democrats press special counsel Robert Hur on the language he used to describe President Biden. Also, a Marine veteran challenges Scott Perry in the PA-10 election. Plus, the Supreme Court is facing criticism after the “near-uniform” pattern of rulings benefiting Republican donor interests. And the White House is sending a $300M weapons package to Ukraine. Rep. Madeleine Dean, Rep. Eric Swalwell, Simon Rosenberg, Mike O’Brien, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and Ben Rhodes join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.
0:04.0	Good evening, Alex, and we have a Democratic nominee in the presidential campaign.
0:10.0	Joe Biden has officially made it, so we're going to be covering some of that but also a lot of
0:14.7	other defendant Trump coverage to get to.
0:17.7	It is a big night the general election is on.
0:19.9	Have a good show, Lawrence.
0:20.9	It is.
0:21.9	Thanks, Alex, thank you. Well, it's not a good day. Thanks Alex, thank you. Well it was not a good day for the Trump
0:25.8	fanatics on the Republican controlled House Judiciary Committee and it was not
0:29.4	a great day for their star witness. Republican, former U.S. attorney Robert Herr, who was
0:36.0	appointed to his U.S. attorney by Donald Trump, conducted the investigation of
0:40.6	Joe Biden's possession of classified material after Joe Biden left the of And we learned today in the hearing that Robert Hurrah's report about Joe Biden was not accurate in its description of Joe Biden as an elderly man with unusual memory problems. And you'll remember that bit was the big news of that
1:08.1	report the news that was heard around the world about that report and it is false.
1:15.1	Today, Attorney General Merrick Garland
1:16.9	released the full transcript of President Biden's
1:20.3	five hours of under oath questioning by Robert Hurr.
1:25.0	In his report, Robert Hurr claimed
1:28.0	that President Biden could not remember
1:30.0	when his sudden died.
1:32.0	That is not true. In the transcript, President Biden says,
1:37.8	what month did Bo die? Oh my God, May 30th.
1:44.0	And then someone else in the room, what the president says, 2015,
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