MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell gave President Biden high praise for his achievements during his time in office, including signing a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
“Listen, I said you’d never get an infrastructure bill,” O’Donnell told Biden in the paper last conversation of his presidency announced on Thursday. “With my legislative experience, having worked in the Senate, I didn’t see how it was possible with this small, smallest majority in the Senate in history. To this day it still seems like a magic trick to me how you managed that. “
Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was signed into law on November 15, 2021, has spent billions of dollars on environmental projectsincluding promoting clean energy through public transportation and cleaning up the environment.
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MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell heaped praise on President Biden for his achievements in office, including signing a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. (MSNBC)
“Well, look, the argument I’ve been making to the congressmen (and) senators who have come down is: How can you run the world without having the most modern infrastructure in the world?” Biden said.
“You combined domestic policy and foreign policy in a way I’ve never heard any other president do,” O’Donnell told Biden.
“Well, by the way, because it’s necessary,” the president replied. “There is no way to implement our foreign policy unless we are, in terms of our economic policy, in a strong position to do it. Look, Lawrence, you’re one of the most knowledgeable people I know.” I’m not asking – well, I shouldn’t say that and damage your reputation. But all joking aside, think about it. If we don’t run the world, who will?’ Biden said.
“What’s happening? I don’t mean dominate,” he continued. “I mean, leading the world based on fundamental principles like the UN Charter, that kind of – who steps up, who has the capacity to do that? We have the size, we have the scope, we have the capability, we have the technology. But we just have to get involved again. And that’s all I really did.”
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O’Donnell also praised Biden for being a master of “foreign policy and domestic policy” and called his time in office the “greatest record of domestic achievements that I can think of, certainly in the time that I’ve seen this.” (Jacquelyn Martin/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
O’Donnell also praised Biden for being a master of “foreign policy and domestic policy” and called his time in office the “greatest record of domestic achievements that I can think of, certainly in the time that I’ve seen this.”
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O’Donnell was a strong supporter of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris even in the media criticize journalists for being overly harsh on White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Fox News’ Peter Kasperowicz contributed to this report.
