Lawrence: Trump’s ‘panic’ on display when asked about docs case audio tape

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Trump uses a Fox town hall to spew lies and attack his rivals. Also, Trump scrambles to avoid a question about the classified documents case. Plus, U.S. allies discuss the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO. And the Senate passes the debt limit bill 63-36. Charles Blow, Andrew Weissmann, Neal Katyal and Timothy Snyder join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now, it is time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.
0:03.1	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:04.1	Good evening, Alex.
0:05.1	And yes, it is the fastest slow version I've ever seen of the United States Senate on
0:09.7	one of these things.
0:10.7	The key to just how fast this was going to sail through the Senate and how wired it
0:16.1	was is the motion to proceed to the bill, which on almost everything in the Senate now requires
0:24.3	60 votes.
0:25.3	60 votes.
0:26.3	You know how many votes it got?
0:28.5	100 because they basically did it by unanimous consent.
0:34.5	Now, unanimous consent is how everything used to go to the floor, you know, like 30 years
0:39.3	ago, and certainly before the Trump era and the McConnell era.
0:44.0	So that moment earlier tonight when they just went, oh yeah, unanimous consent meant
0:48.5	that every single senator who made the slightest noise about getting in the way of this bill
0:56.1	was not really serious about getting in the way of this bill.
0:59.5	Some of them do have points they really need to make and everyone understands that.
1:04.5	And that's why they're being accommodated in this fashion tonight.
1:07.2	But all of them want to race out of that building and get to the airport at this point tomorrow
1:13.4	morning as soon as they can.
1:14.9	Yeah, there is, it's a question of, is it the concern about the US default that is making
1:19.6	them putting the pep in their step or is it just the prospect of losing their weekend?
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