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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Now it is time for the last word with the great Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence. |
| 0:04.8 | Good evening, Alex. I heard your discussion earlier about all of the racism, personal racism, directed at Kamala Harris as a candidate. And it's fascinating to listen to all these pundit discussions that appear that over the course |
| 0:22.9 | the last couple of days about, oh, they should have done this and they should have done that. |
| 0:26.3 | And they've got to learn to appeal to these voters. |
| 0:29.8 | I haven't heard anyone say how you're supposed to appeal to the racist who will never vote for a woman. How is that supposed to happen? |
| 0:41.0 | I'm waiting for that instruction. Well, when you find it, let me know. Yeah. Well, we're going to |
| 0:45.8 | consider it later in this hour, too. I think it's the issue that needs much more attention than it's |
| 0:51.5 | getting. Have a great show, Lawrence. Thanks, Alex. Thank you. |
| 0:55.7 | Well, exactly 52 years ago today, Republican President Richard Nixon won his re-election in a landslide, |
| 1:03.7 | a real landslide, over Democratic Senator George McGovern, who was running on what turned |
| 1:09.5 | out to be the losing campaign Democratic |
| 1:13.1 | platform of ending the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon won 49, yes, 49 states with only |
| 1:22.4 | Massachusetts voting no on Nixon and no on the Vietnam War. |
| 1:35.4 | Richard Nixon, who lost his 1960 presidential campaign by less than 1% to John F. Kennedy and won his first term in 1968 by less than 1% was reelected 52 years ago with 61 percent of the vote, a margin that would be |
| 1:49.1 | impossible to achieve in today's electorate. The Vietnam War ended up lasting longer than |
| 1:56.5 | Richard Nixon's second term. Eighteen months after Richard Nixon's second inauguration, he resigned from the presidency while |
| 2:06.3 | impeachment proceedings were underway against him on the House of Representatives. |
| 2:10.0 | Now, we know opponents of Donald Trump's second term will not be as lucky as the opponents |
| 2:17.1 | of Richard Nixon's second term. We already know |
| 2:20.6 | there is no possibility of impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office no matter what he does. |
| 2:27.1 | The United States Supreme Court has said it's okay for Donald Trump to commit any crimes he might |
| 2:31.8 | want to commit as president of the United States. |
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