Lawrence on the rules that will make the first debate of 2024 ‘absurdly unrealistic’

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Biden-Trump debate rules include muted mics and no staff interaction with candidates. Also, GOP justices issue a rule weakening anti-corruption law. Plus, Trump’s Florida residency could complicate his VP choice. And Democrats push to codify rights amid fears that the Supreme Court could target contraception and same-sex marriage. Rep. James Clyburn, Andrew Weissman, Ben Ginsberg, and Sen. Tammy Baldwin join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:02.6	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:03.3	Good evening, Alex.
0:04.3	We have Ben Ginsburg joining us tonight
0:06.7	to answer a question I've been wondering about,
0:11.7	and that is how how can Marco Rubio be on the same ticket as
0:17.0	Donald Trump because the Constitution says and I have to say this right that
0:21.9	that the electors from a state cannot vote for two
0:29.0	candidates who are from the same state they They can only vote for one.
0:32.8	So.
0:33.8	So it will make little Marco move.
0:35.3	No, isn't that the answer?
0:36.7	Yeah, that's the thing.
0:37.4	Does he have to move?
0:39.4	How does the United States Senator from Florida
0:41.8	move from Florida? is that legal?
0:45.1	Anyway we need an election lawyer to figure this out for us. I just don't
0:50.8	understand how they can be talking about Rubio as if that's some kind of easy choice to make.
0:55.2	I'm glad you're getting to the bottom of this. That's a that's that's quite a pretzel twist to
1:00.4	we're gonna do it. We're gonna do. We're going to do it. Thanks Alex. Have a good show.
1:04.9	Presidential campaign debates were invented by and for TV.
1:17.0	1960 wasn't just the first televised presidential debate. It was the first.
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