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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump lies and rambles while responding to reporters’ questions. Also, Democrats fight to hold the slim majority in the Senate. And a new film, “Shirley,” details Shirley Chisolm’s 1972 presidential run. Renée Graham, Sen. Bob Casey, and John Ridley join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now time for the last word with my friend Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening
0:03.9	Lawrence. Good evening alley and thank you very much for allowing me to take
0:07.4	another week of vacation next week by jumping into this seat next week and
0:12.4	getting us through the week.
0:13.2	It's always my pleasure, my friend. The viewers don't always love it, but I try and I try and
0:17.9	I try and hold the you know the thing plays together. Your team does an excellent
0:22.0	excellent job and it's always a pleasure to be with
0:23.8	hey I'm one of those viewers I love it and every all the rest of them do too thank you
0:28.0	you have a good show thank you
0:31.0	well Donald Trump announced today that he is flip-flopping on the ABC debate, which he agreed to, and then said,
0:37.8	oh, I can't possibly debate on ABC because I'm suing George Stephanopoulos.
0:41.2	And then he just flip-flop today and said okay I'll debate
0:43.3	the common Harris on ABC typical Donald Trump and absolutely no comment from the
0:50.0	reporters who were allowed to throw questions at him today about how could you
0:54.5	possibly flip-flop like that? Well it was 2016 all over again today.
1:02.4	Donald Trump spoke at his all over again today.
1:03.0	Donald Trump spoke at his home in Florida for over an hour
1:07.0	and all of the cable news networks, including this one,
1:10.0	carried it
1:14.1	Just like they all did repeatedly in 2016.
1:14.7	It would be hard to find a sentence in what Donald Trump said today
1:19.5	that did not include at least one lie.
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