Transcripts For MSNBCW The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

Transcripts For MSNBCW The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20160303

Trump is the gops monster. If trump does well its likely game over. Paul ryan, i dont know him well. Im sure im going to get along great with him. We may be in a position where have to rally around ted cruz. We are the om campaign that has beaten behind ted cruz. Do you think that some of the personal attacks pat personal attacks may have been backfired. You know what they say about men with small hands. Ive always had people say donald, you have the most beautiful hands. Donald trump is the frontrunner and there are more delegates against him than for him. If im going to win oul all of these states with tremendous numbers its hard to say thats no the the person to lead the person. If that someone doesnt have the votes going into the convention, then all hell could break loose. Our forefathers would be horrified if they were here today. 13 days. The next 13 days could change our world. Weve been here before. Last time with our very survival at stake. On october 16th, 1962 the cia presented john f. Kennedy with photographs of missile sites equipped to launch missiles that could wipe out washington, d. C. And new york city in a flash. President kennedy addressed the nation and made his demand that they be removed and instantly the United States of america and the world knew that we were on the brink, the brink of nuclear war. In 13 days of secret complex, sometimes confusing and intense negotiations president kennedy convinced his counterpart to back down and remove those missiles. That was the closest the world has come to nuclear war. The cuban crisis was solved in 13 days through the efforts of diploma diplomats, military officials and all kinds of people who donald trump now calls stupid. They were all led by a president who never called anyone stupid and his brother in 13 they diffused the single greatest threat that has ever faced the United States of america. They were the most dramatic 13 days in the history of our government. If you lived through them, you will never forget them and tonight we may now be embarking on the most dramatic 13 days in the history of president ial campaigning, 13 days that you will never forget. That may be all the time thats left to stop donald trump from winning the republican president ial nomination. Today donald trump added two and a half pages of substance to his campaign releasing a very slim position paper on Health Care Reform entitled of course Health Care Reform, to make America Great again. It begins by calling president obama the most partisan president in American History. That is because donald trump and no one in his campaign seems to know that the civil war actually occurred on president linkons watch, being the most deadvicive president in American History for all the right reasons. Point one of the trump position paper says we will ask congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of obamacare. Sound familiar . Not to me it doesnt. I have never heard donald trump Mention Congress having any role in his imaginary president ial powers. Were going to win with obamacare, were getting rid of it, repealing it and replacing. He always says hes going to do it himself, whether its repeal obamacare or raise tar riffs and he cant do any of that himself, but donald trump knows his voters will never read this paper so he can say any reform effort must begin with congress, several reforms will be offered that should be considered by congress. Congress must act. The first thing he wants do is repeal obamacare, which Senate Democrats will not allow so that will never happen. Then he wants to allow Health Insurance to be sold across state lines, meaning your states insurance commissioner will no longer be able to regulate Health Insurance. All Health Insurance will then be sold from whatever state has the weakest insurance commissioner in america who allows the weakest and most deceptive insurance policies to be sold. Donald trump wants to ask congress to allow individuals to deduct Health Insurance Premium Payments which gives the highest deductions to richest taxpayers and would blow a trump size hole in the deficit because nothing he proposes in this plan, nowhere in it, does he suggest any way to pay for a single penny of it. Donald trump would ask congress to allow individuals to use Health Savings accounts that could be used by anyone in their family and he would ask congress to block medicare aid to the states which would mean governors like Chris Christie would use that money in any way they wanted to cover up big holes in their budgets. Nowhere in trumps plan does he mention preexisting conditions. The words are never used. Big surprise because he wasnt telling the truth when he said this. The Insurance Companies are making an absolute fortune. Yes, they will keep preexisting plans. We should keep preexisting conditions. Donald trump says we need to reform our Mental Health programs but he has no idea how, instead the trump plan says there are promising reforms being developed in congress that should receive bipartisan support. Because thats the way it works. This is the most important trump document yet revealed in this campaign. This is the smoking gun that i guarantee you the media will ignore. This smoking gun proves every public fantasy that donald trump has offered voters about his imagine cal president ial powers, every one of those is a lie and this document proves it. In this document, President Trump has no power whatsoever. Hes just another beggar asking congress to do something and that actually is the truth of the presidency. Thats the design. The truth of the presidency is that congress has power over every important matter including selection of Supreme Court justices, including war making matters, that is how the Founding Fathers balanced the power through the Budget Congress can control anything and forbid anything. Congress has all that power and the president just gets very toe power over them and the Congress Gets the power to overrule the president s veto power. Donald trump didnt seem to understand that last night. Im going to get along great with congress. Paul ryan, im sure ill get along with him and if i dont hell have to pay a big price. When i heard that threat to paul ryan last night, i mentioned that president s never threaten the speaker. House because president s know the speaker of the house has complete control over the president s agenda. Someone in trumps world must have been listening todlast nig because today the trump group has reached out to paul ryan. The speaker of the house says we have heard from the Trump Campaign, but the two have not yet spoken. We expect the speaker to be in touch with all the remaining candidates soon. So how tough a negotiationer with paul ryan will donald trump will be . Not as tough as his deluded voters seem to think. One way donald trump tries to convince supporters how tough he is by suing people or i should say threatening to sue people. Hes repeatedly threatened people with lawsuits and not followed through, including lawrence odonnell, vanity fair and an activist. Ill sue is trumps version of baziga. It doesnt mean anything. Donald trump has been sued for fraud more than any other paeshl candidate because none of the worst of the president ial candidates have been sued for fraud. Even with that donald trump tries to play tough with his aud ens. When i get sued, i take it right take it all the way. You know what happens, if you settle suites you get sued more. So i dont settle anything. Of course donald trump never settles except when he does as he did with my next guest who will tell his story of suing Donald Donald trump. He purchased a con minimum that he thought was donald trump. It then went bankrupt and donald trump later claimed he had nothing to do with it. Donald trump was an expert in these types of projects or so we thought. In a deposition for a lawsuit regarding the property, trumps son donald trump, junior, conceded that the trump brand could lead people to think a project was a solid investment. Its one of the things that you learned through this process is that the trump name brings stability to the project. I dont know if it brings stability or viability, but i imagine certain people feel that. Joining us now bart ring, a lawyer who settled that case against donald trump involving that project and William Flint who was one of the people who sued the donald trump organization. Thank you both for joining me tonight. I really appreciate it. Mr. Flint, what made you invest in that donald trump project . We were on a little vacation trip in april of 2006 and on the toll road, the mexican toll road on the way we saw this huge sign with Donald Trumps image on it and the image of the resorts, so we thought this looks kind of interesting, i had retired. I was going to retire from the navy. I spent 31 years in the navy and retired as a captain and i thought this would be nice because wed be next to san diego and access to the medical a facility. So we stopped in on the way back to san diego, met the representative there at the site. The site consisted of a sales office and a constructionshed. The sales office had a complete mockup of the resort. Beautiful three towers, swimming pools, fitness. So we were told donald trump was it. He was the guy behind this whole thing and that we could always trust donald trump and so that kind of sold us on the deal. We gave them a 5,000 deposit, which gave us an exclusive right to select the site when it came up and so we get a phone call in june of 2007, maybe, to show up in san diego because they were going to offer us an opportunity to buy a unit in tower two. We got we show up. A huge crowd, all kinds of trump people around. We they had the model of tower two there and we happened to meet the architect. The architect was a young man by the last name of glass. He said this is the greatest going. He was from our hometown and went to high school with my older son. So we were sold on this thing. And thats the way it was. Lets take a look at the promotional video for this project that donald trump did. People ask me, what does trump stand for more than anything else and if i use one word its always quality. Big windows, great fixtures, beautiful kitchens. Everything is going to be the best. What was the essence of the case you brought on behalf of your clients and how did you settle it . The bottom line was the case was about mr. Trumps decision to disavow himself of having any responsibility when the project failed and despite the representations made through marketing materials as well as documents and even letters that reaffirmed his role as a developer in the project mr. Trump took the position that he licensed his name and gave notice he had no responsibility. There was 32. 5 million worth of deposits and the buyers were left with nowhere to go but to litigate. Ultimately the case resolved. Mr. Trump was a developer in this project with iron gate, which was the same tandem that did the trump baja project. Iron gate folded about halfway through litigation and then after iron gate was settled and out of the case ultimately the approximately 200 people represented on our ends of things settled with the trump organization. William flints, youre one of those veterans that donald trump talks about how much he loves veterans and wants to help them in every way. You couldnt have given more service to your country. When you hear him talking about how he wants to take care of veterans, whats your reaction to that . My reaction is that donald trump is putting on a con. Thats all it is. He conned us. Hes a con man. What else can i say . It cost me a lot of money. 168,000 and im just we settled, but hes a liar there also because he did settle. He says he never settles, but he did. William flint, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Im sorry youre joining us to tell us this story. And bart ring, thank you for joining us. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Coming up, donald trump won massachusetts big time last night and today the biggest republican in the state says that he will not vote for donald trump in november. I take pictures of sunrises. Its my job and its also my passion. But with my back pain i couldnt sleep. So i couldnt get up in time. Then i found aleve pm. 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What has happened to the Republican Party and how long has it been happening . First, they got rid of liberal republicans, then they started getting rid of responsible republicans who would never dream of bringing the country to the brink of fiscal calamity by refusing to raise the debt ceiling and now they are on the verge of nominating a candidate who john oliver calls a liar. Will donald trump destroy the Republican Party . At least one republican hopes so and that is exactly why he voted for donald trump yesterday. Joining us now is that republican. Bruce bartlet. Also with us the national correspondent. So bruce, theres no one i know who is more opposed to donald trump than you are. You voted yesterday in virginia i assume. Yes. Voted for donald trump . Yes, i did. Explain yourself, sir. My goal is to try to destroy the Republican Party. I think only when it has reached rock bottom can responsible republicans once again come back and make it a reasonable governing party. Right now it is just the coalition of cranks and religious cukes and People Associated with the tea party who have taken control of it since 2010 and they have to be run out of the party completely and i think trump is the vehicle that will allow it to happen. I think if he gets the nomination and i hope he does, he will have he will go down to a historic defeat. I think the republican establishment will have no choice but to disown him. I think there will be a very substantial republicans for hillary effort and i think that he will lose disastrously and bring down a lot of republican senators and congressmen with him. My sense is this pebble started rolling down the hill decades ago in a way that we didnt perceive that we thought was increased tension of certain kinds, but then in the last few years certainly under the Obama Administration the republicans in washington have been promising more and more impossible dreams in the face of legislative realities and so here with we are with the guy who promises anything. The Republican Party doesnt stands for anything in particular. It stands against liberalism and thats not exactly coherent either. So what the Republican Party has become now is the party thats against barack obama. If republicans had been right that barack obama was a crazy leftist, then bioposing him at every turn they would have made their party a moderate politically p

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