Lawrence: Trump town hall failure proves media can't use 'conventional tools' with him

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump uses the CNN town hall to spew lies and attack his rivals. Also, Trump contradicts his legal team on how classified documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago. Plus, Senate Democrats hold a gun safety meeting in wake of mass shootings. And Ukraine prepares for a counteroffensive against Russia. Mehdi Hasan, Charles Blow, Andrew Weissmann, Fred Guttenberg and Timothy Snyder join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Laurence O'Donnell.
0:02.3	Good evening, Laurence.
0:03.3	Good evening, Alex.
0:04.3	Last night when I was watching the Trump show, I was thinking about the people who could
0:10.4	have handled that better.
0:12.2	The interviewers who could have handled that better.
0:14.8	One of them is going to join us tonight, actually more than one, but one professional
0:19.3	interviewer is going to join us tonight.
0:21.7	Andrew Weissman is going to join us too.
0:23.8	He would have been great on that stage.
0:25.2	I mean, it's not his normal forum.
0:27.8	The courtroom is his normal forum.
0:29.9	But it needed kind of a courtroom approach, a more precise, targeted question than many
0:37.6	of the questions we got.
0:39.4	And so we're going to try to see what we might have some suggestions about.
0:44.6	I would like to see Andrew Weissman be Trump, but I'd actually like to see it in a court.
0:50.4	But that's another matter for another day.
0:52.7	I will be watching Laurence.
0:53.7	No, listen, I think CNN did the best they could using conventional tools.
0:58.7	And we kind of knew ahead of time that conventional tools don't work.
1:02.9	I only hope that they are honestly privately.
1:07.1	I'm not asking them to admit any mistakes, but publicly.
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