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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Trump’s indictments will make debates with Biden 'theater of the absurd'

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: President Biden and Donald Trump agree to debate in June and September. Also, Maryland Democrats back Angela Alsobrooks in the Senate race. Plus, Sen. Jon Tester vies for a fourth term in Montana. And Luke Russert discusses his book, “Look For Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself.” Andrew Weissmann, Simon Rosenberg, Angela Alsobrooks, and Sen. Jon Tester also join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

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

0:05.8

Good evening, Alex. And Joe Biden is facing a challenge in the upcoming debates that no presidential debater in history has ever faced, nothing even close to it,

0:18.4

and it's one that could create a gigantic challenge for Joe Biden. He may not be able to say anything

0:26.7

about Donald Trump's indictments during these debates and that's that's a

0:32.2

prospect no one's considered yet and

0:34.0

Andrew Weisman's gonna consider it for us in this discussion coming up.

0:37.0

He'll just talk about Wednesdays it's a code word maybe.

0:41.5

No ask Weissman if that's legal I'm gonna be watching. I'll check that code word. Maybe. Maybe. You could know.

0:43.0

Ask Weissman if that's legal.

0:44.0

I'm going to be watching.

0:45.0

All right.

0:46.0

Thanks, Alex.

0:47.0

Thank you.

0:48.0

Redneck tie friends, who Alex was just talking about, came to the Manhattan Criminal Court House this week

0:53.9

to praise one of the criminal defendants in the building

0:57.5

and to attack District Attorney Alvin Bragg

0:59.8

who Donald Trump falsely accuses

1:02.4

of spending all of his time and resources on the

1:06.1

prosecution of Donald Trump.

1:09.3

It's for people versus Harvey Weinstein. We are moving forward in that matter. We intend to

1:18.7

retry it and for those of you who are in court saw that the court sets up a window for a trial in the in the

1:26.3

fall. So we are already moving forward with that matter, having conversations

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