Lawrence: The weakness of Elon Musk and Donald Trump has now been fully exposed to the GOP
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, you are now watching live coverage of the total collapse of the Elon Musk's Donald Trump |
| 0:06.7 | partnership in governing in the House of Representatives tonight. Elon Musk and Donald Trump took |
| 0:13.5 | over the leadership of the Republican House of Representatives, the leadership in that building |
| 0:19.0 | in the last 24 hours and negotiated what |
| 0:23.2 | Donald Trump falsely called a deal. The problem was they were negotiating with themselves. |
| 0:32.0 | In Congress, a deal is a compromise legislation that creates enough votes, and you know ahead of time that it creates |
| 0:39.9 | enough votes to pass a bill through the House and then pass it through the Senate with enough |
| 0:45.9 | votes. And then with the agreement that it will be signed by the president, that's a deal. |
| 0:53.5 | In Congress, every deal is a three-way deal |
| 0:55.5 | involving enough votes to pass the House, enough votes to pass the Senate with a bill that the |
| 0:59.6 | president has already agreed to sign. That's what a deal is. It was impossible for Donald Trump |
| 1:05.3 | and Elon Musk to make a deal without negotiating with Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, and President |
| 1:14.1 | Biden. There is no deal in Washington now without President Biden's signature, something Elon |
| 1:22.2 | Musk apparently doesn't know. But still, Donald Trump said, quote, Speaker Mike Johnson and the House have come |
| 1:31.2 | to a very good deal for the American people. That's what he said earlier today. Reculpt, |
| 1:37.1 | and Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, obviously realize that both Elon Musk and Donald Trump |
| 1:43.3 | are legislatively insane, decided to let the insane and impossible Musk-Trump bill come to a vote in the House tonight. |
| 1:57.7 | This is Washington. This is how the lawmaking is done. |
| 2:02.3 | It's a long process. |
| 2:03.7 | Sometimes it takes a while to reach consensus, but we're going to do the right thing here |
| 2:06.6 | tonight. |
| 2:08.0 | No, no, no. |
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