Transcripts For MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 2

Transcripts For MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20240913

Exactly that. I mean, the personal psychology of what the country witnessed Last Night is really something extraordinary, deep, dark dive into one mans broken mind is what i would like to call it but im eager to hear how Mary Trump diagnoses it. Thank you, alex. And so, the three full years of stupid Press Coverage of Kamala Harris has finally come to an end. After three years of washington reporters turning over the question of whats wrong with Kamala Harris . Last night, they finally got their answer. Nothing. Nothing is wrong with Kamala Harris. Nothing ever was. They did not think she could do this. Here is just a sample of headlines covering the Vice Presidency of Kamala Harris. The bbc. Kamala harris one year. Where did it go wrong for her . The washington post. A Kamala Harris Staff Exit is reignites questions about her Leadership Style and her future ambitions. Kamala harris is trying to define her Vice Presidency, even her allies are tired of waiting. This headline from politico. Not a healthy environment. Kamala Harris Office rife with dissent and the biggest from the atlantic, the Kamala Harris problem. Few people seem to think she is ready to be president. Why . Why . Maybe because the Washington News media had been doing everything it possibly could to deliver the message that Kamala Harris was not ready for the presidency for three full years. If you spent one minute reading any of those articles you wasted that minute, and if you are forced professionally to spend more than a minute, as i was, you learned nothing about the real Kamala Harris, which is the whole point of those articles. The conceit of that kind of journalism is that the reporter can get the inside story about who Kamala Harris really is, how she really operates, and how we should value her as a political player. These articles are supposed to tell you whether she can someday do what we all saw her do Last Night, and none of those articles predicted it. This program has been covering, hair is longer than all the News Organizations whose headlines i just read. She first appeared on this program when she was the District Attorney of San Francisco and last appeared on this program in december, when a Dump Harris Movement was brewing. At that time, there were some who thought The Way to deal with Joe Bidens age and the re Election Campaign was to get a different Vice President ial candidate who the country was able to see as a strong potential president because obviously according to the pushers of this theory, no one could ever see Kamala Harris that way, and as i have said repeatedly on this program, i saw Kamala Harris as a potential president ial candidate and the potential president the day i met her in a small meeting as Los Angeles in 2009. It was that obvious then. Viewers of this program have repeatedly had the opportunity to see Kamala Harris that way, as a potential president and i would have that faithful viewers of this program were not at all surprised by what they saw on the Debate Stage Last Night. Vice president harris being the same person she has always been , easily crushing a 78yearold convicted Felon Standing across the room from her afraid to ever even look at her. Both of those candidates on the Debate Stage Last Night were exactly who they have always been. In december on this program, the Vice President offered us a preview of some of what we heard Last Night. I asked the Vice President then what she thought about Donald Trump saying that immigrants like her parents poisoned the blood of our country. I was raised, as you know, a child of parents who are active in the civil Rights Movement and i was raised knowing that there will be some people who will use their voice in a way that is meant to dehumanize, meant to suggest that the vast majority of us dont have anything in common when in fact the vast majority of us have more in common than what separates us and i would interpret it, i think them, as i do now. It is language that is meant to divide us. It is language that i think people have rightly found similar to the language of hitler, and i think its just critically important that we remind each other, including our children, that the true measure of the strength of a leader is based not on who they beat down, but who they lift up, and sadly, i think there is something perverse that has happened in our country over the last many years which is to suggest that strength looks like a bully when in fact, the real character of a leader is someone who has empathy, who has some level of Concern And Care for the suffering of other people and then does something to alleviate that suffering. One important democrat told me that that night and that interview in this program is the first time he could really see Kamala Harris as a president. Here is some of what the Vice President said in that interview about reproductive freedom, some of which you heard her say Last Night. This is about real people every day suffering, and many of them suffering silently. We just saw the young woman, k cox, and what happened to her. You know, you are on at 10 00 at night so im going to assume that adults are watching, lawrence, and im going to have to be real on this. In our country right now, there are women having miscarriages and toilets. There are women who cannot afford to go to a state that will allow them access to the healthcare they need, who are suffering. There is only one state in the south, and that is virginia, that still has retained a law that allows a woman to make decisions about her own body, and so this is an issue that yes, i do believe will be resolved in november of next year, because i do know that the american people fight for freedom and believe in a womans right to make decisions about her own body. They were writing the whats wrong with Kamala Harris articles then when she was delivering interviews like that on this program. She was the same person, same person you saw Last Night. That is the same person i first heard speak in 2009 and the same person on that Debate Stage Last Night. Nothing changed but what we all saw on the Debate Stage Last Night was a big surprise to reporters and editors who have been churning up all those articles about Kamala Harris for the last three years, a big surprise to most of the Washington Press Corps who could not clearly see the person who was right in front of them for those three years. Here is another part and i am showing you this only because of how important it is The Way the Vice President has been covered the last three years why it feels like a surprise to so many people that she was so strong Last Night and here is another part of Vice President harris role in the world that was completely ignored by most of those articles that turned out to be so wrong about Kamala Harris. [ inaudible ] the Vice President Of America, Kamala Harris [ inaudible ] you make me so confident in the future. We love you. From the moment that i saw that video, i have been waiting to ask you, what did that moment feel like . It was pure joy, you know. We all hope in our lives that we can have an impact in a way that hopefully inspires or gives people a sense of confidence in what is possible for themselves and who they love in their community and it was very special, lawrence, it was very special and thanks for sharing that clip. I had not seen that. It was very special and you have heard me say many times in a mother would say to me, luck, you may be the first to do anything so make sure you are not the last, when i have been fortunate and blessed during the course of being Vice President to have many situations where it becomes clear to me that there are people of every age and gender, by The Way, who see something about being the first that lets them know they dont need to be limited by other peoples limited understanding of who can do what, and i think thats important and it relates to all people so thank you for sharing that with me. Thank you. That should not have been the first time the Vice President was saying that video. It shouldve been everywhere. I had shown the video of this program nine months before that but i didnt see it anywhere else because the political press was not trying to report on what Kamala Harris is really doing is Vice President. They were simply trying to collect gossip to sell to you is Wisdom And Insight about who Kamala Harris really was and it was worse with the right wing media of course, on fox, a venomous republican senator from louisiana said last your quote, the Vice President needs to work on being a little bit more articulate. The movement to replace Joe Biden on the ticket was also always a movement to replace Kamala Harris on the ticket. One of the earliest and certainly the wisest leaders of the replaced by The Movement was ezra klein, who wrote quote, everybody i have talked to about this literally everybody has brought up the same fear. Collect the Kamala Harris problem. In theory she should be the favorite but she pulls slightly worse than biden. Democrats dont trust that she would be a stronger candidate but worry that if she was not chosen it would rip the party apart. Ezra klein suggested a large group of democrats should compete for the nomination if President Biden stepped down and Kamala Harris in Ezras Judgment probably would not win that nomination. Ezra klein was of course smart enough to admit that the contested Convention Scenario could go very badly. My only contribution to the replace Item Scenarios when they were being discussed is that the only possible Alternative Nominee to Joe Biden as i saw it was Kamala Harris and that is The Way it turned out. Joe biden dropped out and endorsed Kamala Harris and within hours she had enough delegates to secure the nomination, so they were wrong around her abilities. They were wrong about what would happen if Joe Biden dropped out of the race and they were very, very wrong about what would happen with Kamala Harris on the president ial Debate Stage this year. Donald trump was no doubt one of the big believers of that large pile of journalistic trash that was churned out about Vice President harrison so i think along with most of the Washington Press Corps, we can count Donald Trump is one of the people who was very surprised by what happened on that Debate Stage Last Night. Forever president ial candidate prior to Donald Trump the Debate Stage has revealed next to nothing about how they would actually handle the job of the president s. The debates definitely reveal some Policy Differences but usually not much more about the person. Every debate Donald Trump has ever participated in has revealed that he does not know how to be president of the united states. Last Nights Debate thanks to Kamala Harris revealed that he does not know how to be a Human Being, beginning with the entrance of the candidates. Donald trump obviously entered with a plan to not shake hands. Vice president harris obviously entered with the opposite plan and she took full charge of that moment very much against Donald Trumps will. Its now welcome the candidates to the stage. Vice president , harris and former president trump. Kamala harris. Thank you. Welcome to you both. Trump anders use either timidly and slowly on the left side of your screen, maybe thinking of slowing his walk down would somehow give him a later, Cooler Entrance but, harris, 20 years younger, strides and purposefully, straight for Donald Trump, and instantaneously establishes domination over him. We are going to do this my way is the subtext of what she is saying to Donald Trump with that outstretched hand and then for 90 minutes she spoke directly to the american people, sometimes directly to Donald Trump to the right and when she was not speaking, she was always turning and listening to Donald Trump The Way a Human Being would, and two in her way, emphasized by her listening, the absurdity of what Donald Trump was saying with her reactions to what she was hearing. Donald trump chose two months at the podium, the angry and bitter 78yearold man while he was speaking, and the Mug Shot face while he was listening. He did not once dare to turn and look at the Vice President of the united states when she was speaking, just Mug Shot face. He was not looking at the moderators either. He was not looking at us through the camera. He was looking at nothing, just lost in the wilderness of his own confusion of what was happening to him and what was happening to him was that he was being beaten much worse than any losing candidate in any president ial debate in history. What you saw in Kamala Harris is simply the most overwhelmingly strong performance by a president ial debater in the history of president ial debates, which began only in 1960, so it is not very long. You can watch every longer one of them online. Im sure John Kerry won all three of his debates against george w. Bush. Ive never seen a better president ial debater, but John Kerry did not win those debates by some giant margin. The giant margin Kamala Harris won by Last Night. There are no great memorable lines from the winners of president ial debates. Until now. I have talked with military leaders, some of whom worked with you and they say you are a disgrace. Young people might not know but prior to the political career of Donald Trump, no candidate in a president ial debate ever dreamed of saying that the other candidate is a disgrace. That could not happen until Donald Trump brought his Life Of Crime and disgrace to the president ial Debate Stage. Last night Donald Trump lied to the voters about the voters when he claimed that everyone wanted Roe Versus Wade to be overturned. Donald trump claimed that democrats, republicans, independents, everyone watching the debate wanted Roe Versus Wade to be overturned even though an overwhelming majority of the american people did not want Roe Versus Wade to be overturned and so after Donald Trump lied to the american people about the american people and what they wanted, Vice President harris said this. Donald trump certainly should not be telling a woman what to do with her body. I have talked with women around our country. You want to talk about this is what people wanted . Pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to Term Suffering from a miscarriage, being denied care in an Emergency Room because their Healthcare Providers are afraid they might go to jail and shes bleeding out in a car in the Parking Lot . She did not want that. Her husband did not want that. A 12 or 13yearold survivor of incest been forced to carry a pregnancy to term, they dont want that. And i pledge to you when congress passes a bill to put back in place the protections of roe v. Wade as president of the united states i will probably sign it into law. The same person. That was the same person i first heard speak in 2009. That was the same person you heard on this program in december. There was nothing surprising about any of that except to the people who were never paying attention to the real Kamala Harris. Donald trumps response to that was, of course, a lie. They have abortion in the ninth month. They even have an you can look at the governor of West Virginia the previous governor of West Virginia, not the current governor who is doing an excellent job at the governor before, he said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby in other words we will execute the baby. There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born. Imagine in that moment the Panic Workings of the mind of that raging racist being corrected on that Debate Stage Last Night by two black women. The racism that Donald Trump grew up with told him, promised him that kind of thing could never happen to him. Donald trumps niece, Mary Trump, will join us next to consider what her uncle experienced being crushed by Vice President harris for an hour and a half on television seen around the world. Clinical psychologist Mary Trump joins us next. Trump join. 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