Lawrence: Trump wants to make NY a ‘loser’ state by supporting a federal abortion ban

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Abortion access promises to be a key issue in the 2024 races. Also, Donald Trump compares himself to Alexei Navalny. Plus, GOP millionaire mogul Eric Hovde enters the Wisconsin Senate race. And Navalny’s widow releases a video urging supporters to continue his campaign. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Joyce Vance, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and Amb. Michael McFaul join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	It is time now for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.
0:04.4	We're going to pick up exactly where you just left it with Heidi on this on the question of
0:09.1	abortion and what Donald Trump has been saying about it and not saying about it in his presidential
0:15.8	campaign.
0:16.8	Yeah, he seems to want to take credit for putting the Supreme Court justices on it, but then
0:20.9	when he realizes it may be a losing issue he doesn't talk
0:23.8	about it as much so he wants to have his cake and eat it too but then again not a
0:27.3	surprise for Trump yeah and it's one of the one of the many reasons he stayed out of
0:30.8	those debates so he never had to discuss it with any other candidates around him.
0:35.2	We're going to get into it right now, Aaman.
0:36.9	Thank you, Amy.
0:37.9	Good to see my friend.
0:38.9	Thank you. Well, this program is coming to you tonight from a room in a building named after a billionaire.
0:47.5	And that building is located in the middle of a campus of buildings named after that same billionaire.
0:54.0	Rockefeller Center was named after John D Rockefeller,
0:58.0	America's first billionaire who lived
1:01.0	four blocks north from where I'm sitting right now.
1:05.0	Billionaires have always loved New York.
1:09.0	But now that Donald Trump is facing more than half a billion dollars in civil judgments against him in New York
1:15.8	courts. The Fox Propaganda Channel, which is located in Manhattan, a block away from Rockefeller Center,
1:24.8	wants you to think that New York is a bad place to do business
1:29.3	because it has laws. laws.
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