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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Ocasio-Cortez & Sanders attract 34,000+ to Denver rally

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Democrats hold town halls in swing districts. Also, voters pack “empty chair” town halls to voice their anger when GOP Congress members skip out. Plus, Donald Trump escalates his fight with the federal courts. And USAID cuts cause more disease and starvation in Africa. Rep. Ro Khanna, Rep. Dave Min, Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, Ezra Levin, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, and Nicholas Kristof join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with Ali Valshi. Good evening, Ali.

0:03.9

Hey, friend. I'm 34,000 people estimated there last night, those thousands in Tempe.

0:09.8

I spoke to Kelly Morrison last night. She had 2,000 people show up. Keith Ellison had 1,300. This was a

0:16.8

little gathering of attorneys general.

0:26.5

Rokana, who I'm speaking to shortly, has had to postpone his tonight event because too many people RSV.

0:27.0

You know, everybody in my family, my immediate family either has held elected office or run for

0:31.6

elected office except for me.

0:32.9

So I spent my life going to these town hall meetings.

0:35.7

You'd be really happy if you had several dozen

0:38.4

people show up or over a hundred. Never seen capacity crowds in a non-election year. Yeah. I know,

0:48.0

and I feel like we're getting a lot of like commentariat noise where people are like,

0:52.8

how come people aren't turning out to protest?

0:54.8

How come the American people aren't showing up and saying they are?

0:58.8

They are in massive numbers.

1:01.7

And they are doing so in really big numbers in places like Washington, but in impressive,

1:06.6

impressive numbers all over the country, either to protest against what Trump and Musk are doing

1:11.9

directly, to protest against Republican members of Congress who are siding with them, or to go

1:16.6

give Democrats either a hand for standing up against them or to give them a piece of their mind for

1:21.9

not standing up hard enough against Trump and not.

1:23.8

But citizens holding their elected officials to account. What the highest calling of citizenship?

1:29.4

I'm amazed.

1:31.4

And we are seeing it all over the country in huge numbers in every different way that you can do.

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