Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

Hi, Lawrence.

Hey Jen, we have breaking news on the October surprise.

The first October surprise is now over.

And that was the Doc strike which was really East Coast and Gulf Coast

ports shut down that was going to be a disastrous. President Biden helped get

that thing fixed fast.

They have agreed tentatively to a 62% increase in wages over the next six years.

The first offer that the union turned down just to show you how far apart

this was was 40 percent that's where this began and so the pressure that the union

put on really did work and of course the the port

companies they were hoping that President Biden would feel the pressure of this

and and just order a Taft Hartley return to work by that union

to get through the election.

And you can imagine how the companies thought the president's going to have to do this

because this will be so difficult you know for the Harris campaign but the president

just kept the administration pushing both sides to an agreement they had at 530 you can imagine how this was at the White House

White House Chief of Staff of the Justice Sciences on the on a Zoom

Pete Buda judge and others in the administration, with both sides forcing them to get together.

And so both sides understood that it looked like the president was not ready to intervene on this and so they'd better figure

something out and they did. I mean no one should underestimate as you've said many

times president Biden's love for union workers and standing up for workers.

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