Lawrence: The only humiliation in court during Comey’s arraignment was on the Trump side

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: James Comey appears in federal court for his arraignment. Also, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse calls out Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “nonsense.” And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on Speaker Mike Johnson to bring Republicans back to Washington, D.C. Andrew Weissmann, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and Rep. Mark Pocan join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last one with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey Lawrence. Hey, Jen. I have to make sure I have
0:05.4	everything I need on this desk because in the last, I don't know, let's see, 45 seconds,
0:11.3	I've had to run out of here, go down the hall to another studio because this place wasn't working
0:15.5	technically. We got to the other studio and then this place was working technically and it was
0:20.8	better to work here than there.
0:23.2	Okay, here it's all.
0:24.1	So as I'm, you know, stretching here, all sorts of material is being dropped onto this desk where it was a minute ago.
0:31.4	But then we had to run down the hall and come back here.
0:33.6	And now we're on TV.
0:35.2	Everything's fine.
0:36.3	Everything's fine.
0:37.0	I may have heard you were running swiftly
0:39.0	down the hallway. Yeah, were you getting, was the control room telling you, hey, you might have to
0:44.1	do an extra five minutes? Sometimes it's like, just keep talking for a little bit, because Lawrence is
0:49.4	running down the hallway because he has a broken thing. Well, you know, it's... And for once, it wasn't my fault.
0:54.9	This is the first time it wasn't my fault.
0:57.1	The good news is you could just talk about all sorts of things and your knowledge of the
1:01.1	Senate and your knowledge of governing and politics, the West Wing.
1:05.8	I could listen to you about the West Wing forever.
1:07.8	You don't need anything else.
1:09.2	Just do you.
1:10.2	Well, this was a little test of
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