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🗓️ 5 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell, even though it's Friday. Good evening, |
0:04.7 | Friday, Lawrence. Great to see you, Rachel, and I've been blue skying. And, you know, Rachel, |
0:08.4 | the other night when you said, you told the audience that you weren't going to be here Thursday |
0:12.0 | night because you were celebrating your anniversary with Susan. So America knew. And I was just |
0:19.3 | wondering if you think that the New Yorkers who saw you out last night |
0:24.4 | celebrating your anniversary with Susan found it, you think they found it at all weird that I was |
0:31.2 | with you? I hope not. I hope they get it, right? I mean... It's Rachel and Susan's anniversary, and there's |
0:40.5 | Lawrence and Stephanie Ruhl who are out... It got complicated. |
0:45.1 | It got complicated. People think things are creepy at MSNBC, but I don't think they think |
0:49.4 | they're creepy that way. It was a public event. And Rachel, we have Senator Elizabeth Warren's going to run off |
0:57.9 | the Senate floor and join us because she's got what I think is the absolute best idea about the |
1:04.0 | Trump tariffs, which is to pass a congressional resolution. This can do this quickly. It's a one-sentence |
1:09.7 | thing in the Senate and the House |
1:11.7 | saying that, no, the Congress is overruling, which they have the power to do by resolution. |
1:19.7 | The Trump doesn't have to sign. Doesn't get to sign. The Trump tariffs. In other words, |
1:23.8 | Congress is simply going to reclaim the authority, the Constitution gave them complete authority over tariffs. |
1:31.0 | And that's the one that fixes it instantaneously. |
1:34.8 | And I would assume that all those people at J.P. Morgan, who've really, you know, live in fear of Elizabeth Warren normally, are thanking her tonight for trying to save them and the |
1:46.1 | world from the global recession. Seriously, I mean, if you think about one thing that could be, |
1:52.8 | could do so much economic good in one sentence, in one sentence, you could solve like a six |
1:59.6 | trillion dollar problem that Donald Trump just created. |
2:03.2 | You could do that. |
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