Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.

Good evening, Alex. And I love the way you began your discussion in your hour about Donald Trump and the debt ceiling and about him publicly saying, there's something I really want the government to do, but I don't want to do it, and I want Joe Biden to have to do it.

And the stupidity of turning over those cards publicly is uniquely Trumpy.

Literally posting it on social media.

Here's my plan.

I don't want to get tagged with raising the debt ceiling. So let's do it during

the Biden administration. It's like the plan is no plan, dude. That's not a secret plan. You just put it

on social. And why do you need the debt ceiling to be increased? Because you plan to increase the

debt of the United States by any chance. Yeah, try to blow it up to the tune of a couple trillion dollars.

Who can know, Lawrence, the mind of Donald Trump?

We're going to check with Congressman Dan Goldman and Senator Sheldon White House about this crisis on Capitol Hill tonight

and how the collapse of the Republicans has once again put us on the verge of a government shutdown.

Crisis and collapse seem like the right words. Have a great show.

Thanks, Alex. Thank you. Well, here's a couple of things that Donald Trump and his apparent boss,

Elon Musk, do not understand. One, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, is a Democrat.

Two, the United States Senate is controlled by Democrats and Democratic majority leader Chuck Schumer.

Anyone who understands that knows why the budget extension bill negotiated by the Republican Speaker of the Republican

House includes compromises with Democrats and Chuck Schumer.

Elon Musk objected to those compromises in the bill, saying that any Republican who votes for it should be voted out of office.

That's how he began his day.

And only hours after that, after Elon Musk led the way, only then did Donald Trump catch up with his apparent boss, Elon Musk, and join in objecting to the bill. Republican Speaker

and Mike Johnson was with Donald Trump and Elon Musk while he was negotiating the bill.

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