Transcripts For MSNBCW The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20201121

I love the background there. It looks great. It tells us a lot about you, so thank you for that. Well, im not trying to leave clues. Im not good at keeping us house, i dont know where to put stuff. You and i are very private people, representative private people. Ive done a few shots from home, just a few and my mission each time is to leave absolutely no evidence of anything about me. And so ive gotten the lowest room rater score of anybody whos ever done it. Thats exactly what i was going for. No trace of where i am, you cant tell a thing about it. Your drivers license photo but animated . Thats what im going for. Rachel, i have to thank you so much for last night, everything about it. Oh. And the story you told and the way you brought us through this excruciating couple of weeks of what youve been going through with susan, and doing it to teach us a lesson was so very important and it really landed on me. I really i really had to think again about what was happening on thanksgiving. I was actually thinking of inviting a coworker whos could i have stranded in, you know, nowhereland. And i thought through again what you said last night and i realized, no. Ive been getting all the messages from everyone and, you know, i am with that coworker a lot, you know, during the workday, but that coworker has never been in my home with my family. So that would violate the bubble. That would violate the home bubble. And i had to relearn that lesson exactly what you were trying to teach us last night. And i had to learn it. Thank you for telling me that, lawrence. I mean, as you say, you and i are both private people, and it takes a lot to put for me, when i got off the air last night, i felt wrecked. Putting yourself out there in a real way, im an easy crier, like, really trying to hold it together and not cry while telling that story is just hard. My heart was just thumping through my chest, but i felt like i needed to say it because it was looming, but also because i hoped it would help. I feel like this time right now, it challenges us to come up with new ways to be kind to each other and to have fellowship with our family members and our coworkers and friends, and to recognize that it is because we love our family members and our partners and our spouses and kids and parents and grandparents, its because we love them that we have to reinvent the way we spend time with them and cherish them and appreciate them right now. And its not tough or brave or even, you know, folly just in terms of your own fate to violate those things because you want to see people or you want to be with them. Youre putting them at risk. If you love them, you dont do it. You see some macho man walking down the street with his mask around his chin or in his hand or something, and what that guy is telling you is i dont care if my wife gets this. And its not about you, its about whos in your world. Boy, did i learn that the hard way, and i just hope that other people can learn it, at least a little through my experience. Just to be clear about the example im giving, it wasnt a done deal. I was thinking about it and aiesha and i taught about, who is always smarter than me about everything, and she really wasnt willing to come anyway. She was already taking the rachel position. You know, she didnt have to learn that from you last night, but i did. I needed it. And so i know that the way it reached me is im sure it reached a lot of people and its clarified that for us that this thanksgiving is really about next years thanksgiving, this thanksgiving is about living to this christmas and to next christmas. And that was so powerfully part of what you delivered to us last night. And rachel, you know, you know, im way a bigger cry baby than you are, way bigger. I couldnt have gotten through ten seconds of what you did last night. And all the great acting teachers will tell you, not that there was any acting involved, if you cry, the audience doesnt have to. But if you dont cry, the audience will cry for you. And we did. So that feeling was there all over the country. Rachel, one more thing. Could you monday night no matter where you are and i hope youre still there monday night because it works so great there at home. Could you do at a technical difficulty thing one more time . No, no, no. That was the most exciting seconds of television i have ever watched. And the mastery with which you became your own floor manager, you just did about seven jobs at once that i know about, and the wiring thing, which i had to learn recently too, that was i can watch that over and over again and your poise throughout the whole thing and i, of course, am the worst manager of technical difficulties in the history of an anchor chair. What you did last night was just a thing of beauty. That was just so in terms of trying to hold it together, part of that meant i couldnt allow the train i was on in terms of telling that story to be broken by anything. I couldnt acknowledge that i was having to stop anything or i would have never gotten back the strength to tell the story because it was too upsetting. But also, like, when youre alone ive been alone for two weeks now. Like, i am alone. There hasnt been anybody less than 30 feet from me. And, like, i think its turned me into a person whos so comfortable talking to myself that what i was doing, you just keep the camera running, heres the microphone, like, its possible that i just talked to myself like that all the time now and i didnt notice. Thats why it seemed like easy patter because im now an Insane Person who constantly talks to the walls. Rachel, im not sure, i think i could hear the screaming in the control room at home in my sofa. It was an amazing did she you know what was happening in that room. It was fantastic. When you said keep the camera on, i just thought, oh, boy, keep that camera on. Rachel, please, do it again. Just pick a random night, do it again. It was great. Ill surprise you and make it some other more exciting technical difficulty. Ill drop a light on myself or something, lawrence. Were waiting, rachel. Thank you, my friend. Thanks a lot. Thank you. Today on his 78th birthday, president elects best birthday present was delivered by the republican secretary of state of georgia who formally certified joe bidens win of georgias 16 electoral votes. And in making that announcement today, georgias secretary of state felt compelled to describe himself as a proud trump supporter. Im a proud trump supporter. I was with him early in the 2016 election cycle. And hes governed the nation by the same conservative principles that i hold dear. Like other republicans, im disappointed our candidate didnt win georgias electoral votes. Working as an engineer throughout my life, i live by the motto that numbers dont lie. As secretary of state, i believe that the numbers that we have presented today are correct. The numbers reflect the verdict of the people. Numbers dont lie. But emily murphy continues to lie about numbers. There are no trump lawsuits pending anywhere in america tonight that can change the outcome of this election. The only states where trump lawsuits are still pending are nevada and pennsylvania. Joe biden won pennsylvania by 81,000 votes. 81,622 votes. Joe biden won nevada by 33,000 votes and theres no litigation in either of those states that is aimed at changing the vote count, which means he fits the definition of apparent winner as described in the president ial transition act of 1963. The law that emily murphy is violating every day that she refuses to sign the document that would officially authorize the biden harris transition. Em mauer is the administrator of the General Services administration. The law gives the gsa administrator full and exclusive authority to authorize the transition. The president of the United States has nothing to do with it. The White House Press secretary has said that. The White House Press secretary said it is up to the gsa to what we call reach ascertainment of an election. They are independent of us. Every day her silence tells america and the world the lie that we dont have an apparent winner of the president ial election. Democrats in the house of representatives have demanded that emily murphy brief them on monday with the exact reasons why she has not formally ascertained the apparent winner in the election. Congressman Eric Swalwell will talk about this continued violation of law. Democrats arent the only ones concerned. Tennessees senior republican senator lamar alexander, who is retiring at the end of the year and will never again have to beg trump voters to keep him employed, said today that emily murphy should authorize the biden harris transition. Senator alexander said if there is any chance whatsoever that joe biden will be the next president , and it looks like he has a very good chance, the Trump Administration should freeway biden team with all the transition materials, resources, and meetings necessary to ensure a smooth transition so that both sides are ready on day one. That especially should be true, for example, on Vaccine Distribution. If emily murphy shows up to her monday meeting with democrats in the house of representatives, the only excuse she can give for not ascertaining an apparent winner in the president ial election is that she believes this guy, who yesterday said that the Democratic Party masterminded a National Conspiracy that operated like the mafia and included venezuelan president hugo chavez who has been dead for years. He said this Democratic Party conspiracy stole the election for joe biden in the decisive Electoral College states like georgia, but he forgot to explain why the same conspiracy failed to elect two Democratic Senators in georgia. Giuliani said all of this while sweating profusely with hair dye dripping down each side of his face from his perfectly black side burns with the dye going right into the white collar of his shirt and remaining stained there. Rudy giuliani has delivered plenty of evidence over the years for us to conclude that his legal judgment is no better than the judgment he brings to his grooming. It was Rudy Giulianis considered judgment yesterday that he would somehow look better and somehow be more convincing and be a better presenter of a convincing case for donald trump if he put some very strange black stuff on his side burns and perhaps elsewhere on his head. He thought about it, looked in the mirror, thought about it and his judgment was, thats a very good idea. Like the accident on top of Donald Trumps head all day, Rudy Giulianis accident yesterday tells us something important about his judgment. But so does Everything Else Rudy Giuliani says. The only Legal Authority Rudy Giuliani cited yesterday, the only Legal Authority he cited was this. Did you all watch my cousin vinny . You know the movie . Its one of my favorite law movies because he comes from brooklyn. Vinnie gambia bene was played brilliantly by joe pesci in 1992 before some of the reporters in the room for that press conference yesterday were born. Joe pesci has not played a lawyer since 1992, and neither has Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani jooubl doesnt actually practice law, and that shows every time he opens his mouth. Would emily murphy believe joe pesci if lines were written for him to say about joe biden actually being the president elect of the United States . Emily murphy has sent her friends out once again to lie for her to reporters, this time to the Washington Post, and this time one of her friends allowed his name to be used. Quote, by law, the gsa administrator reports to the president and is subject to his direction and control, says murphys chief of staff and general counsel before taking a private sector job last month. So to the extent emily has been instructed to withhold ascertainments, she doesnt have any good options. That is a lie. That is all a lie. And the White House Press secretary in the quote i just read earlier says that thats all a lie. The law gives Sole Authority to the gsa administrator, not the president , and if emily has been instructed to withhold ascertainment, she does, in fact, have very good options. She has legal options. She has the legal power to ascertain the apparent winner of the president ial election. And she has a sworn duty to do so in her oath of office, which she is violating every day. The Washington Post article is filled with unnamed friends of emily murphy trying to portray her as a hard work, as if intha matters when youre violating the law. The most important quote is given to an unnamed source identified as a senior Trump Administration official. And this is one of those sources who is trying to get us to sympathize with emily murphy, and this source clearly believes everything this source says is a positive statement about emily murphy, like, quote, she doesnt want to be disloyal to the administration that hired her. Thats not what her oath of office says. Her oath of office does not say i pledge loyalty to the office that hired me. Believing this is all positive , this source goes on to say, quote, she is not a bona fide trump person, the official said. Shes not a seb gorka or steve bannon or Stephen Miller type. No, shes not. She is something much, much worse. None of those people ever had the power that emily murphy has. Joe biden said what emily murphy is doing means, quote, more people may die. Emily murphy has that power of life and death over those people. Washington post Journalist Bob Woodward and the author of the book rage reacted to that statement by joe biden by saying that not just more people may die. Bob woodward said on this program, bob woodward said i dont think its may. I think its obvious with the number of deaths. The final words attributed to that unnamed trump senior official are these. Quote, the president does not want a transition, the official said. Hes made that very clear. And we are following orders we are following orders. Where have we heard that before . You hear that in the most indefensible moments in the history of government. You hear it around the world. We were just following orders. We were just following orders is a statement that is indelibly etched in our consciences as what we should never become. We are following orders is something that is only said by people who have taken an oath of office to the government they are serving in whatever country that is, in whatever era that is. We are following orders is now and always has been the last line of defense for the indefensible here and around the world. 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Zerlina maxwell, and david from, Senior Editor for the atlantic and former speechwriter for george bush. He is the author of trumppocalypse, New York Times best seller. This ascertainment is obvious to everyone. We have a source telling the Washington Post shes following orders from the president while the White House Press secretary is saying the president has nothing to do with it. If she shows up for the meeting on monday, what do you think can be accomplished . Its time for ascertainment. Its time for transition, lawrence. Im going to go about this differently. I want to believe everything you just read that sources are saying about emily murphy, that shes a consummate, hard working on government employee. I read the papers and what people are saying to defend her. And what i would say to ms. Murphy if she were before me is its typically to prove your friends right. Its time for the sake of a covid transition to save lives, for the sake of national security, for the sake of our economy, its time to prove your friends right and do the right thing. When you do that, youre going to join the company of people like chris krebs, the Homeland Security official who was just fired, Lieutenant Colonel alexander vindman. In your letter that you write when you grant ascertainment, you should note the absurd position that the president has put you in. In congress, what we should do is make sure in the future no one in your position has to make that decision. It should probably be more independent so that the president s own appointees are not beholden to the president. But ms. Murphy, join the company of the people who stood horribly for this company, because is colonel vindman said, right still matters. Zerlina maxwell, the sources close to emily murphy try to defend her by citing bush v. Gore in 2020, which was about exactly one state in a dispute over less than 1,000 votes, and the outcome there was clearly going to decide which one of these would become the president of the United States. And so the delay of the ascertainment was completely dependent on the Supreme Court decision, and thats when the ascertainment came. This case has nothing to do with that. No, it doesnt have anything to do with that, and i think every single thing they put out as an excuse and she has put out as an excuse not beginning the transition, lets be serious about this. The transition is necessary in this moment because we need to get that Vaccine Distribution and the logistics of all of that under way under the new administration. Just because donald trump doesnt want to admit that he lost doesnt mean thats not a fact. Additionally, i think it is troubling to even realize, get to a point where there is one woman who, because of partisan reasons, we dont really know, is is not going to sign a letter and that is holding up the entire government response to a pandemic. So perhaps thats something legislatively the congress can take a look at so this never happens again. But i think its really interesting that Rudy Giuliani is the face of this entire thing. Im old enough to to remember when Rudy Giuliani was part of the conspiracy that the president was impeached for when he attempted to cheat in the election he just lost in. I want everyone to remember that is who we saw yesterday representing all of the weak legal arguments that the president is standing on in this moment. Zerlina, one followup to that, are you old enough to remember my cousin vinny . Yes, actually, its a very good legal movie. And it has one of the best scenes explaining what the law is. But i wouldnt cite it if im the president s lawyer trying to overturn an election. David fromm, it seems that emily murphys memory wars should perhaps be titled we were following orders. We should think about the realworld consequences about what this means. I was in the george w. Bush administration that got to a late start because of the recount. The recount raised authentically very difficult issues that divided the country, and two great teams of lawyers, the florida Supreme Court on the one side and the u. S. Supreme court on the other. Al gore would have been in the same position at george w. Bush. I started a couple days after the inaugurations. I was in an empty administration. I didnt have a senateconfirmed position, so they could just hire me. But the Senate Confirmed positions and those were the next tier down, they were empty. When you circulated papers, people werent in the chairs to read the papers. It made the administration lopsided. And the 9 11 commission reported on the realworld damage it did to national security. But dozens of other issues that were less pressing than global terrorism also fell because people just werent hired. I mean, what any new president is ask thousands of people to choose a new school for their children, to end up the money on accountants to make financial disclosures, to be vetted. Thats a timeconsuming process that has realworld consequences for real people, and they need the time to do it and its not going to happen. Meanwhile, aside from ms. Murphy, the other allies of the president who are less delusional than the president are sowing sees of Economic Sabotage for the Incoming Administration, destroying necessary loan faculties for the Federal Reserve, trying to cram prorecession Federal Reserve governors. By the way, one of the things we should Pay Attention to is another opportunity for sabotage, the federal governments funding runs out in december and there may be a governments shutdown beginning around the 10th of december. Congressman swalwell, joe biden is saying they are proceeding with the transition as well as they can under the circumstances. I want to listen to something he said yesterday after a discussion with governors about Vaccine Distribution, which included, by the way, a significant number of republican governors who recognize who the next president s going to be. Lets listen to what joe biden said. There is no excuse not to share the data and let us begin to plan. Because on day one its going to take us time if we dont have access to all this data, its going to put us behind the 8 ball by a matter of a month or more. And thats lives. Congressman swalwell, this would be one thing. It would be one level of outrage if this transition were being delayed in what we might call normal times. The idea that its being delayed during a pandemic with vaccines coming to availability for the first time in the course of that pandemic, government distribution of the vaccines necessary, that takes it to a whole new level. Lawrence, people will die every day that this transition is delayed. And the greatest challenge of our lifetime will be to go from vaccine to vaccination. Theyre not the same thing. And its going to take every government, community, and industry resource to make sure that happens. My grandparents were part of the greatest generation where if you werent on the backfiettlefield chances are you were in a factory to make bullets, boots, and bombs in an effort to win for america. Today americans will be called with the right leadership and the right transition for all of us to be a part of the same process, to fund the testing, the treating, the tracing, and, of course, the vaccine so that you cant miss a vaccine. If you go to the gas station, a church, a cvs, a supermarket, everywhere you go there needs to be a vaccine so that every american and every person in the world is inknocklated. But that will only happen if joe biden is ready on day one. Theyre going to get ready as well as they are able to, but it takes cooperation and an adult in the white house to pass over the keys so that they can be ready. Zerlina, there is an unanticipated value to having chosen Kamala Harris as his Vice President because senator harris now, being a member of the Intelligence Committee like congressman swalwell in the house, has access to Intelligence Briefings that would otherwise be unavailable to the team. But it must be awkward, lawrence, because she cant talk to him about it. So that has to be a little bit of an odd thing for her to get these Intelligence Briefings and he is not getting them. Look, its the bestcase scenario that you have a former Vice President coming into this position. I spoke with elissa monaco yesterday and she was talking about how, you know, he has eight years of experience in the white house. He knows where everything is. He knows which levers to pull and who to call to get what he needs. And i think that that is incredibly beneficial to the American People in this moment of crisis. But again, i feel like, you know, what were watching is the president has completely ceased the job of actively being the president and hes trying very hard to avoid becoming a defendant. And the American Peoples lives are on the line as hes trying to avoid that scenario. Thats really unfortunate and i think he needs to be held to account. 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And in order to keep raising money with multiple emails a day sent to supporters, donald trump needs stunts, publicity stunts, to give people hope that he can overturn the election. Todays stunt was to invite the Republican Leaders of the Michigan Legislature to the white house for a discussion that Rudy Giuliani was not allowed to attend because he was exposed to the coronavirus yesterday through his son who has tested positive for covid19. When Michigan House speaker Lee Chatfield and Senate Majority leader mike south americhirky, this statement completely deflating the entire stunt. We have not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the election in michigan and as legislative leaders, we will follow the law and follow the normal process regarding michigans electors just as we have said throughout this election. Two republicans and two democrats on the state board of canvassers in michigan will meet on monday to certify the Election Results. But one of the republicans, norman shrinkle, told the Washington Post yesterday he was leaning towards seeking a delay and requesting an audit of the votes citing debunked conspiracy theories touted by trump and his attorneys about voting machines. Today michigan secretary of state Jocelyn Benson said this. The law is also very clear about what should happen and theres lots of checks and balances in place to protect the will of the people and to protect and from everybody democratics process, small d democratic process. And so i fully expect no matter what avenue and how circuitous it is well take that path and the will of the people of michigan will direct the states electors as required under law. Joining us now is michigan Lieutenant Governor garlin gilchrist. Lieutenant governor, what is the legal situation there if on monday one of the republicans of this group of four has a problem doing his job . Lawrence, first of all, thank you for having me on to discuss this. The fourperson decides by majority vote. So we fully expect that a majority of the Michigan State board of catchers will do their job and carry out their responsibility and certify the same Election Results that all 83 counties in michigan have also certified. They dont participate in the kinds of republican stunts and tactics that are being directed by the president when he summoned republican lawmakers. I dont know, im a software guy, try to beta test how to steal this election. But it sounds like when i read the legislative leaders statement after the oval office today, they said that no evidence whatsoever was presented to them in that room according to their statement. Well, the truth is we havent seen a readout. If we learned anything in this postelection drama, weve seen that republicans cant be trusted with democracy. And these particular republicans, these legislative leaders in michigan, they cant be trusted. These are the same people whose words say that they believe t they have lied time and time again. So i will trust this once the Election Results are certified and i expect that to happen on monday. And so if there is we just heard secretary of state sound confident about the process, even if there was a speed bump on monday, theres still an undeniable process that the voters of michigan, their decision will be recorded and the electors will be voting for joe biden. Thats right. The people of michigan spoke with a clear and loud voice. Joe biden won michigan by a margin that is 15 times the margin that donald trump won michigan in 2016. The election is over. This is a process that now must be completed to certify that result. But these results are not going to change. And so these board of canvasser members now just need to do their jobs so we can seat our electors and move forward with the biden harris transition. Lets listen to what congresswoman Debbie Dingell had to say about this situation. There were literally thousands of people who had never been involved in politics before who were nonpartisan observers in precinct after precinct across the state of michigan. And they continue to tell us that they saw no misconduct, everything has been looked at, and we need to move on. We need to not undermine peoples confidence in our democracy. What is your sense of the state at this point . Clearly a majority of the voters are in favor of joe biden going forward. But how much political payoff is there for republicans in somehow trying to appear to resist this . Well, we have seen time and time again this election season is that when republicans try to undermine democracy, the people and the voters step up to defend and protect democracy. We saw that with those people who worked the poll for the first time, 30,000 people as the congresswoman said. But we also saw when the wayne county bored of canvassers attempted undermine the votes of black detroit voters like me and my wife, we saw people step up and speak out and stand tall and say, no, ulcer our Election Results and you will not throw out the votes of voters in detroit. And so i think that the people can be trusted with democracy, and republicans have demonstrated that they cannot be, no matter what stunt they pull, what words they use, their actions are speaking louder than those words. Michigan Lieutenant Governor, garlin gilchrist, thank you very much for joining us. I really appreciate it. Thank you for having me, lawrence. Everyone stay safe. Thank you. Coming up, remember when jon ossoff attacked senator david perdue for being a crook in their Georgia Senate debate . And then david perdue refused to participate in any more debates . Now there are new allegations that would make the crook section of the debate much, much longer. John ossoff will join us. W your. 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And now we have the opportunity to define the next era in American History, to enact legislation to get us out of this pandemic and economic crisis. We understand the stakes here because if we dont win these two races mcconnell will do to joe and kamala exactly what he tried to do to president obama. People are already participating ballots to participate. Weve never seen anything like this. A very tough president ial Campaign Ends a clear victory, and yet these very important campaigns continue in one state. And i just cant imagine what its like to be in georgia now because the rest of us outside of georgia, a lot of people are just relaxing. Its finally time in the hammock, you know, for politics they can pull back and relax. How do you possibly keep that energy going . I mean ive seen, you know, the nba go into you know, go beyond the standard time when they end in a tie, go into an extra quarter. But this is a much more difficult thing i think to keep that energy going. Well, were invigorated. Were invigorated by the president elects victory here. Were invigorated by ten years of organizing and turnout work and voter registration. All i can do is humbly ask those across the country to help us, help us in georgia. Help us get out the vote like weve never done before in honor the departed congressman lewis. Because two senate runoffs, one state, the Senate Majority hanging in the balance, the capacity of the Incoming Administration to govern and lead and enact legislation, it all comes down to georgia. And we recognize those stakes. We humbly ask for the help of those who can help us get out the vote. Its electjon. Com. Log on, throw in a dollar and help us elect those like never before. You tweeted today very simple senators should not be allowed to trade stock. And there is from trading individual stocks, period. And i have to say in my judgment having worked in the United States senate that idea is at least 100 years overdue. I mean, its common sense. And ill introduce legislation on day one to ban senators from trading individual stocks. Lawrence, my opponent bragged about how he fought against and personally imposed a single round of 1,200 stimulus checks for working people here in georgia while hes been treating the United States senate like his personal stock trading desk. Weeks before he took the chairmanship of the c power subcommittee he bought up shares in a manufacturer of Nuclear Propulsion components and weapon modules. And then his subcommittee proceeds to add funding to the program while hes cashing out on the stock. This is the most flagrant corruption in the history of the u. S. Senate. Its why david perdue is too much of a cowered to come out debate, and why we need to reform these senate rules so officials serve us. We, who elect them and pay their salaries and not themselves. I have to say that debate moment where you say its not just that youre a crook, senator his silence in that moment, his frozen reaction was really Something Like ive never seen. And now the case you have to make against him on this new reporting is so much stronger. Hes just not going to agree to a debate i assume. He doesnt want to debate. He knows he cant defend the indefensible. His staff is barely even trying to defend him. It is wellknown across the political spectrum here in georgia this guy is bent. Hes corrupt. Hes using his office to line his own pockets. Help us win. Electjon. Com. We can finish the job in georgia. Thank you, lawrence. Jon ossoff, Democratic Senate candidate in georgia. Thank you for joining us tonight. We appreciate it. Jon ossoff gets tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Well, good friday evening. Day 1,401 of this Trump Administration. Two months from today in fact and its been 13 days since the race was called for joe biden. 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