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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump’s legal peril grows with the New York, Georgia and federal probes. Also, Lawrence offers his new theory of why President Biden might be doing everything right on the debt ceiling. Plus, Harlan Crow rejects the Senate Judiciary Committee’s request for details about his relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas. And Ukraine prepares for a counteroffensive against Russia. Catherine Christian, Barbara McQuade, Dahlia Lithwick and Timothy Snyder joins Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Lauren Sodonal.
0:02.6	Good evening, Alex.
0:04.0	I'm sorting out some late breaking news items here, but not breaking news.
0:08.6	What I'm going to do later in the hour is I'm going to attempt, and I'll probably regret
0:14.6	this.
0:15.6	I'm going to attempt to make sense of the current debt ceiling situation.
0:21.7	Instead of having someone come on who doesn't know what's going on, I thought, I don't
0:27.0	know what's going on.
0:28.3	I can just guess, and so we're going to do a little bit of that.
0:33.7	And I will advance the theory that Joe Biden is doing everything right.
0:39.0	There is a theory that I landed on today that Joe Biden is doing everything right.
0:43.4	I reserve the right to change my mind tomorrow.
0:46.7	Listen, Laurence, I will put my money on you being able to not only explain this, but
0:53.7	make sense of it and have a plausible theory for all of it.
0:57.7	So I'm eager to hear what you have to say.
1:00.6	It's one of those things that I'm sure it'll sound good while I'm saying it.
1:03.7	I just don't want anyone to think about it much after I say it.
1:06.7	Okay.
1:07.7	And then let's just see what the news is tomorrow.
1:10.3	You just got to get to 1059.
1:12.0	Right.
1:13.0	It just got to sound good till 1059.
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