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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: New York judge proves gag orders can work on Trump

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

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump begs supporters for money as his legal bills pile up. Also, Republicans struggle to find a new House speaker. And The New York Times reports that a pedestrian was killed when struck by a car driven by Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife in 2018. Adam Klasfeld, Tim O’Brien, Catherine Christian, Rep. Maxwell Frost, Stuart Stevens and Will Bunch join Lawrence O’Donnell.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now, it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

0:04.1

Good evening, Lawrence.

0:05.7

Good evening, Alex.

0:06.7

We have news in the Menenda's case that is just sickening, I think is the only word

0:13.4

for it.

0:14.4

It turns out that the Mercedes-Benz that appears as a bribe transaction in the indictment

0:20.6

against Robert Menenda's and his wife was obtained after Robert Menenda's wife killed

0:27.6

someone with her car and damaged the car enough so that she wanted another car.

0:36.9

So, the story of that bribe car in the indictment has just become very, very dark.

0:43.1

We're going to get to that later in this hour tonight, but it's mentioned in the indictment

0:48.8

that there was a car accident, but it doesn't say in the indictment that she actually killed

0:53.8

someone.

0:54.8

We've now learned all of that just today.

0:58.4

That story, the more we learn about it, the more we hear the details, it gets more depressing

1:04.9

and distressing.

1:06.6

It is a...

1:07.6

I just can't imagine that it gets worse from here.

1:12.7

This is as bad as any such story has ever been.

1:15.0

Yes.

1:16.0

We're going to get to that later in the hour.

1:17.2

It is a gruesome chapter in their life.

1:22.2

I will be watching, Lawrence.

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