Lawrence: Trump is asking the Republican Senate to confirm worst Cabinet nominees in history

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Senators call on the House to release the Matt Gaetz ethics report. Also, the ACLU sues for information on Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans. Plus, President Biden allows Ukraine to use U.S. missiles inside Russia. And The New Yorker’s post-election analysis considers the “ambience of information” in the new media landscape. Rep. Steve Cohen, Mae Ngai, Amb. Michael McFaul, and Nathan Heller join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, not surprisingly, Donald Trump's cabinet nominees are, of course, no surprise here, drowning in sex scandals, which Donald Trump seems to see as a qualification for a Trump nominee instead of a reason for the Senate to vote against his nominees.
0:14.6	Donald Trump is asking the Republican Senate to confirm the worst cabinet nominees in history, the most unqualified cabinet nominees in history.
0:24.1	And we will find out in January if enough Republican senators are willing to do that.
0:30.9	The first thing Donald Trump asked Republican senators to do after the election was to stop
0:36.2	the confirmation process of federal judges nominated
0:39.9	by Joe Biden and Republican senators have made no attempt at all to do what Donald Trump told
0:49.3	them to do.
0:51.0	We'll begin today by voting on the confirmation of Embry Kidd to serve as circuit court judge for the 11th Circuit.
0:59.0	That's today. So the business of confirming federal judges continued today without the slightest controversy about the background of the Biden nominees.
1:12.0	Tonight I'll file on additional judges who will move forward on the floor this week.
1:18.4	We also have several nominees coming out of the Judiciary Committee on Thursday, and we'll
1:23.9	work quickly to move them out of this chamber and onto the bench.
1:27.1	So let me repeat.
1:28.8	The Senate is going to keep prioritizing judicial and administrative confirmations this week, this month, and for the rest of the year.
1:37.1	Not a single senator demanding to see any reports about the Biden nominees committing statutory rape or possibly raping a married woman in a
1:47.6	hotel room after drugging her and then paying her off. The ethical background of the Biden
1:54.2	nominees is flawless. But in January, the Senate confirmation process will become a cesspool thanks to Donald
2:03.7	Trump and his choices for Attorney General and Secretary of Defense. It has long been known that
2:08.5	former Florida Congressman Matt Gates, who resigned from the House just last week, has been
2:13.1	under investigation for sex with minors and illicit drug use, but we learned Saturday that Donald
2:18.5	Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense, Fox host Weekend, Fox host Pete Higgseth, has been accused
2:24.5	of rape, the kind of thing Donald Trump bragged about himself on the Access Hollywood video
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