Lawrence: McCarthy removal shows GOP's uncontrollable hatred of government

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The House votes to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker. Also, a New York judge issues a gag order after Donald Trump lies about a clerk. And President Biden assures his allies that Ukraine aid will continue. Rep. James Clyburn, Adam Klasfeld, Tim O’Brien, Andrew Weissmann, Timothy Snyder and Simon Rosenberg join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now, it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:02.8	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:04.8	Good evening, and we have Adam Klassfeld joining us tonight.
0:08.1	He was in the courtroom today when the judge told Donald Trump to consider it a gag
0:14.8	order.
0:15.8	We're going to get a first-person report of how that went tonight.
0:18.8	Andrew Weisman's going to analyze it for us.
0:21.2	Yale Professor Timothy Snyder is going to join us later.
0:24.4	And of course, we will consider this unusual day in the House of Representatives.
0:29.3	We will figure out a way to talk about that, too, with Congressman James Clyburn, who
0:34.8	had every right in the world to think he had seen it all until today.
0:40.6	Nobody's seen it all, apparently, with this House Republican conference.
0:43.8	Unusual is one word for it, my friend.
0:46.9	One word for it.
0:47.9	I'm very sure.
0:48.9	Thank you.
0:49.9	I'm very sure.
0:50.9	Thank you.
0:51.9	Well, Matt Gaetz, the 42-year-old Republican Congressman who overthrew the Speaker of
0:56.8	the House today had not been born yet when Republican Ronald Reagan began running against
1:05.3	government.
1:07.3	Ronald Reagan was the first Republican President to be rhetorically and only rhetorically anti-government.
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