McCarthy sends caucus home with only a week until shutdown

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Two House Republicans say they may work with Democrats to force a funding vote. Also, infighting reportedly led a top Trump Georgia lawyer to leave. Plus, Uvalde families join President Biden for the opening of the Federal Gun Violence Prevention Office. And New Jersey Sen. Menendez and his wife are indicted for a bribery scheme. Rep. James Clyburn, Adam Klasfeld, Paul Butler, Amy Lee Copeland, TX State Sen. Roland Gutierrez and Dr. Brian Williams join Jonathan Capehart.

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0:00.0	Now, for the last word with Jonathan K. Park, who is in for Lawrence, wow, I feel a
0:06.3	little guilty about this Jonathan because you're going to be starting, I'm going to be getting
0:09.4	to bed earlier than you and you're going to be getting up a lot earlier than I am.
0:12.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:13.6	Now I know-
0:14.6	That's not always fair.
0:15.6	How I felt.
0:16.6	Right, no, it's not an alley this weekend.
0:18.7	We both have a story.
0:19.7	We didn't know we'd be covering and that's Senator Menendez resignation watch.
0:24.9	It turned out to be a pretty busy weekend.
0:26.2	I mean, watching to see what your take is on it, my friend.
0:28.1	You have a good show.
0:29.2	All right, thanks, Allie.
0:30.2	Right.
0:31.2	Right.
0:32.2	We will have a government shutdown and it is absolutely Speaker McCarthy's fault.
0:37.9	That's the quote that prompted the White House to post this meme.
0:42.6	Heart breaking, the worst person you know just made a great point.
0:48.2	We will have a government shutdown and it is absolutely Speaker McCarthy's fault was
0:53.0	said by Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida this week.
0:58.2	This part of a group of Republicans working to make Kevin McCarthy's tenure as Speaker
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