YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell - Oct. 8 | Audio Only
Listen to the audio version of The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell from the Oct. 8 broadcast.
Listen to the audio version of The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell from the Oct. 8 broadcast.
David Jolly once served in Congress as a Republican but is now the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida. With new polling showing him neck-and-neck with Republican nominee Byron Donalds, Jolly says he is building a coalition around values that are "bigger than our party."
Jen Psaki explains that while a popular president may be able to carry a lackluster candidate with the help of local partisanship, the combination of Donald Trump's abysmal public approval and deeply flawed Republican candidates appears to not only be tipping races toward Democrats, but also changing the minds of voters who might have previously voted Republican by reflex.
"It still doesn't feel real. It still feels like a dream." Priya Sridhar reports from Coronado, California, where she spoke with sailors just off the USS Abraham Lincoln as the ship returned home after a record-breaking deployment to the Iran war.
As the USS Abraham Lincon returned home to San Diego, MS NOW’s Jonathan Capehart talks to retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to blame the media for the deteriorating conditions aboard the ship, which included food shortages and a sailor jumping overboard.
Barbara McQuade joins MS NOW’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss the challenges to Donald Trump’s retribution campaign targeting January 6th Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson with a potential federal criminal indictment for lying to Congress.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) joins MS NOW’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss calls for an investigation into allegations that U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle asked a Trump donor to pay her $100,000 credit card bill, as well as why Khanna says Democrats have a “duty” to investigate alleged “pay-to-play” schemes involving Donald Trump.
During an interview with MS NOW’s Peter Alexander, Eric Deters, the donor at the center of corruption allegations involving Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, said what Guilfoyle sought “absolutely was a quid pro quo,” describing the ambassador as “a grifter” and a “wicked, evil person.” A lawyer for Guilfoyle has disputed some of the evidence provided by Deters, without being specific.
“When you are intellectually bankrupt, when you are a failed president, when you have nothing to say to working people,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders, “You resort to the same old demagoguery that has gone on for God knows how long that is racism.”
| Keywords | bernie-sanderstrumpracismpoliticsdemocratradical-leftculture-wareditorializedideological-framingabdul-el-sayedsenatedemagogueryanti-trumpsocialism |
House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia is now demanding answers from U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, after she allegedly asked a Trump donor to pay off her $100,000 credit card bill.