Lawrence: Rupert Murdoch stepping down but 'Daddy will be watching'
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It is now time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence. |
| 0:03.2 | Good evening, amen. We are going to reveal the most disgraceful current member of the United |
| 0:11.5 | States Senate at the end of the hour tonight. It's something I've been thinking about, |
| 0:17.3 | talking about for a while, and it has built to the point of not being |
| 0:22.9 | containable anymore, and that's how we will end the hour. But we're going to begin with something |
| 0:28.9 | we did not expect to do until next week, because it is next week, when Michael Wolfe's new book |
| 0:36.4 | is going to be published, it's called The Fall, The End of Fox News, and The Murdoch Dynasty. |
| 0:43.5 | But because the fall happened today, Michael Wolfe has rushed into the studio tonight with one of |
| 0:51.6 | the precious advanced copies of his book, which we will now discuss, and we'll be on sale next week. |
| 0:58.7 | I was going to say I'm going to run to my office so I can catch the first block and the last |
| 1:04.7 | block of your show. Do not miss this. This book is as all Michael Wolfe's books are explosive, |
| 1:11.7 | is the mildest adjective you can use for it. Looking forward to watching it and reading it. |
| 1:16.5 | Thanks, Sam. Thanks, Lawrence. Take care. Well, Keith Murdoch, who really doesn't like his first name, |
| 1:23.7 | retired today. Or did he, the 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch, who has spewed more lies into the |
| 1:32.4 | news atmosphere than anyone in history, sent an email to his employees today saying, |
| 1:38.8 | I am writing to let you all know that I have decided to transition to the role of chairman |
| 1:44.4 | emeritus at Fox and News. He also said, I will be watching our broadcasts with a critical |
| 1:51.9 | I reading our newspapers and websites and books with much interest and reaching out to you |
| 1:58.2 | with thoughts, ideas, and advice. The email said that his son, Lacklund, will become sole |
| 2:03.9 | chairman of both companies. So the son who would never be employed in such a capacity anywhere |
| 2:12.6 | other than his father's company is in charge now, but daddy will be watching. |
| 2:19.7 | Our first guest tonight, Michael Wolfe, will decode that for us as he does in his |
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