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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Democrats seek to put the Supreme Court on the ballot in November. Also, Donald Trump maintains his grip on the GOP despite recent incoherent campaign speeches. Plus, a bankruptcy judge orders Alex Jones to liquidate his personal assets to pay his $1.5 billion legal debt. And Trump-style Republicanism seeps into state politics. Rep. Jamie Raskin, fmr. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Tom Nichols, Jennifer Rubin, Elizabeth Williamson, and Heather Williams join Ayman Mohyeldin.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with my friend
0:03.0	Aiman Mohadine in for Lawrence.
0:05.0	Good evening, friend.
0:06.0	It's good evening, Alex.
0:07.0	It's good to see.
0:08.0	I have to say, Alex, there was one part in your show that I watch.
0:10.0	And I try to, I think of my...
0:11.0	Just one part?
0:12.0	No, I mean, I watched the whole part, but there was one part that stood out to me
0:14.2	because I was really struggling with it.
0:15.8	And I'd like to consider myself somewhat a person who can follow logic.
0:19.4	But I was listening to that sound bite from Donald Trump
0:21.9	about the shark and the electrocution and I just
0:24.1	I literally tried to fall and I could not make sense and I felt really dumb after watching
0:29.0	it for about 30 seconds.
0:30.0	You can't follow it because it makes no sense, Amen. None of it makes any sense, but that's the point, isn't it?
0:35.8	I feel like that.
0:36.8	The more you speak in senseless nonsense, the more people come to expect senseless nonsense for
0:41.4	you, and that then lowers the bar to the ground and then
0:44.6	everyone just ignores it and just moves on and I think that's the scary thing
0:47.9	that this guy could one day be present again talking about sharks and
0:50.7	electrocution and making no sense.
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