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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Jack Smith asks SCOTUS to move fast on Trump. Nixon case is proof they can.

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

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Jack Smith urges the Supreme Court to act quickly on the Trump January 6 case. Also, President Biden says Trump’s comments about NATO are “un-American.” Plus, Pennsylvania Democrats retain a narrow majority in a House election. And the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooting falls on the six-year remembrance of the Parkland massacre. Simon Rosenberg, PA State Rep.-elect Jim Prokopiak, PA House Speaker Joanna McClinton, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Neal Katyal, 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. Good evening, Lawrence.

0:04.0

Good evening, Alex. As you know, there were two big winners last night in special elections.

0:08.0

One, you were just talking about the other in Pennsylvania.

0:11.0

We're going to get the winner from Pennsylvania to join us later in this

0:14.4

discussion.

0:15.4

Nice, I can't wait to hear.

0:16.8

Thanks.

0:17.8

Thank you.

0:18.8

Well tonight, President Biden said this, today's events should move us, shock us, shame us into acting.

0:29.1

What are we waiting for?

0:30.3

What else do we need to see?

0:31.9

How many more families need to be torn apart?

0:34.3

It is time to act. That's where I stand and I ask the country to stand with me

0:38.9

to make your voice heard in Congress so we finally act to ban assault weapons to limit high-capacity magazines,

0:46.4

strengthen background checks, keep guns out of the hands of those who have no business

0:50.9

owning them or handling them.

0:53.3

We have to decide who we are as a country.

0:56.8

For me, we're a country where people should have the right

1:00.4

to go to school, to go to church, to walk the street, and to attend a

1:04.5

Super Bowl celebration without fear of losing your life to gun violence.

1:10.5

Jill and I pray for those killed and injured today in Kansas City and for our country

1:16.4

to find the resolve to end this senseless epidemic of gun violence tearing us at the seams.

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