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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Pres. Biden: ‘We averted an economic crisis’

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Versant, Government, Senate

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: President Biden delivers his first Oval Office speech after avoiding default. Also, The Washington Post reports that the Georgia Trump probe now includes actions outside of the state. Plus, Harris County officials call the Texas GOP election bills “politically motivated.” And Colorado Springs elects its first Black mayor. Tracy Alloway, Stephanie Kelton, Glenn Kirschner, Jane Hope Hamilton and Mayor-elect Yemi Mobolade join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

Now, it's time for the last word with Ali Belchi in for Lawrence.

0:03.6

Good evening, Ali.

0:04.6

That was a great story about little changes.

0:07.7

Well, they're not that little, but they do happen.

0:10.2

You know, they're small, but they're meaningful.

0:12.0

They're meaningful.

0:13.0

I think that's why you see a lot of tension in this country because the progress happens

0:16.8

in small steps, but it's happening in palpable ways.

0:19.4

Yeah.

0:20.4

This evening was interesting.

0:21.4

The speech by President Biden, the address from the White House.

0:24.2

I thought what was interesting about it was its quiet normalcy.

0:27.4

The idea that there are a lack of superlatives, there's a punditry all over the place,

0:31.7

Twitter is not, I mean, it could be a tree falling in the woods.

0:34.4

The President of the United States gives an important address.

0:36.9

First oval.

0:37.9

And it's okay.

0:38.9

Yeah, when you had nice things about Republicans and like nobody set their hair on fire

0:43.2

and that's kind of the way you used to work.

0:46.0

That's even in the Obama days, that would have been hard pressed to, you know, even hard

0:51.0

pressed to sort of pay a compliment to the speaker of the House.

0:54.5

And that's what Joe Biden did tonight.

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