Lawrence O'Donnell Tears Into Donald Trump: 'He Lies!'

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell tore into GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday night for asserting that Democratic 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton created the "birther" movement.

"Every time -- and I mean every time -- Donald Trump talks about President Obama's birth certificate, he lies," he said on "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." "Hillary Clinton has never, ever, suggested that President Obama was not born in Hawaii."

"Donald Trump doesn't know how to talk about the president's birth without lying about it, even the lie that he doesn't talk about it anymore," O'Donnell added.

The host continued, saying it is important for journalists to keep asking Trump about the president's birth certificate because "it is the best possible preview of how Donald Trump would evaluate information, especially intelligence information, in the Oval Office."

He said voters should be concerned about having a president who is unable to distinguish "fact from fantasy." 

O'Donnell made the case that voters should also be worried about how easily a president can be misled by bad information, "as George W. Bush was when the CIA director told him that is was a slam dunk that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."