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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

VP Harris: Abortion rights 'is an issue that will be resolved next November'

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

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Vice President Kamala Harris sits down in an exclusive interview to reflect on her past year in office, the upcoming election, and the future of democracy. And the Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot. Vice President Kamala Harris, Andrew Weissmann and Neal Katyal join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Alex. We have a big

0:06.2

guest to get to tonight, so we're going to move right to it. Have a great show.

0:11.3

Thanks, Alex. Thank you.

0:13.0

Well, the breaking news of the night is that the Colorado Supreme Court in a four-3 decision

0:17.1

ruled that Donald Trump, quote, is disqualified from holding the Office of President

0:21.4

under Section 3 of the 14th amendment of the United States Constitution.

0:26.0

Because he is disqualified, it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the

0:30.9

Colorado Secretary of State to list him as a candidate on the

0:34.5

presidential primary ballot. Neil Kattial and Andrew Weisman will join us to

0:39.2

discuss that historic ruling later in the hour, but we begin tonight as we promised you a week ago

0:46.2

with the Vice President of the United States in an exclusive interview.

0:51.3

I met Kamala Harris when she was the district attorney of San Francisco, an actor friend

0:55.7

who is wiser than most of us about politics, said to me one day, would you like to meet the

1:01.6

first black woman president?

1:04.2

The next day I found myself in a gathering of lawyers in Century City in Los Angeles,

1:10.1

listening to an impromptu lecture by the wisest district attorney I had ever heard in all my years of covering criminal cases.

1:18.6

Her name was Kamala Harris. Her talk didn't feel like a lecture, it felt like a conversation, even though she

1:25.4

was the only person speaking for quite a while. And she took questions, of course, from

1:30.4

a challenging audience of lawyers who seemed as impressed with her answers as I was.

1:37.0

When District Attorney Harris first appeared on this program 13 years ago, I introduced her as someone who could go all the way

1:45.5

to the White House which she has done in the number two job in the White House. We recorded our interview with the Vice President this

1:55.4

afternoon. Here is that interview in its entirety. And joining us now for her first appearance on this program as Vice President of the

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