Trump urges GOP to default: ‘Might as well do it now’

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump urges House Republicans to default on the nation’s debt. Also, Trump attacks E. Jean Carroll after the verdict against him. Plus, Pres. Biden says he is considering invoking the 14th Amendment on the debt ceiling crisis. And Rep. George Santos faces 13 felony charges including wire fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Professor Laurence Tribe, Michelle Goldberg, Faith Gay and Daniel Horwitz join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now, it's time for the last word with Lauren Sodonal.
0:02.6	Good evening, Lawrence.
0:03.6	Good evening, Alex.
0:04.6	And we have Hakim Jeffries leading off with us tonight as he is, of course, the Democratic
0:10.3	leader, House of Representatives, highest ranking Democrat in the House.
0:14.4	And it was a scheduled engagement for him to be here tonight.
0:20.1	What we did not know was that it would be his first opportunity to offer the Democratic
0:26.2	response to over an hour of Trump lies delivered by CNN and over the course of the previous
0:33.8	hour.
0:34.8	And so this will be his first opportunity to react to things like a former president
0:40.8	of the United States advocating a default on the debt, you know, stuff that we've never
0:45.1	heard before.
0:46.1	You know, it's been a crazy hour when we didn't even have time to get to that part of global
0:51.9	financial catastrophe because there was so much other crazy we had to plow through
0:55.5	it first.
0:56.5	I am eager to see leader Jeffries response to all that madness.
1:00.6	Thank you, Alex.
1:01.6	Have a great show.
1:02.6	Thank you.
1:03.6	Well, as I said, Hakim Jeffries is our first guest tonight.
1:07.3	And our first guest tonight was in the room yesterday in Washington.
1:12.4	Nothing matters more than who was in the room.
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