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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Ali Velshi: We’re seeing a politically weak Trump throw the authoritarian spaghetti at the wall

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Policy, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Speaker Mike Johnson describes an upcoming anti-Trump march as a “Hate America” rally. Also, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says Donald Trump’s chaos in Chicago is pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. Plus, Democrats demand answers from the Trump administration on Jeffrey Epstein. And a New York Times analysis breaks down the high number of Black officials fired by the Trump administration. Jason Stanley, Robert Reich, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, and Errin Haines join Ali Velshi.

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0:00.0

The last word with Ali Velshi hosting starts right now.

0:04.8

Hey, Ali.

0:05.3

At least you said that the Tylenol that the president can say because he has trouble with the other word. Acetaminifan, acidaminophen. We'll just say it over and over again. Let's just keep on saying it. In case my doctor's watching, I love my doctor. But I want his doctor because the stuff that he says about Donald Trump, like my doctor says, hey, you're looking good, you're fit, you seem to be okay.

0:24.8

Clefewski. But I want his doctor because the stuff that he says about Donald Trump, like my doctor says, hey, you're looking good, you're fit, you seem to be okay, cholesterol, you know, whatever. Like his doctor says magical stuff about him. I mean, listen, Allie, you are a very handsome and smart man. But your doctor, if it was his doctor, would be like, you are built like the rock.

0:37.9

It's wild.

0:38.4

It's amazing.

0:38.9

That's the kind of thing. Yeah. I would take a video next time I go to my doctor and say, hey, say stuff like this to me. By the way, I remember from the days when you were the press secretary, how you used to engage all comers, right? You would go and you sort of seemed to enjoy the discussion. The Pam Monty stuff was wild.

0:54.1

Like there were moments where she just didn't answer specific questions.

0:57.4

When asked about... and you sort of seem to enjoy the discussion. The Pam Mondi stuff was wild.

0:57.3

Like there were moments where she just didn't answer specific questions.

1:02.1

When asked about Tom Homan, where the $50,000 is that the FBI apparently gave him,

1:05.6

just they said, are you impuging Tom Homan's tax?

1:07.8

No, we just want to know where the $50,000 taxpayer dollars are.

1:09.0

I just want to actually know where they are.

1:09.5

Who kept it?

1:27.8

Like, there's got to be an answer to that. Simple question. And she not only didn't answer it, she had the binder. Yeah. She paused. She looked in the binder and said, I would refer you to the FBI. Yeah. And then she had a binder of a tax for each of the senators. So it was that. It was something to watch.

1:29.0

You have yourself a great week.

1:30.1

I'm going to see you tomorrow.

1:31.2

Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow.

1:45.2

I'll see you tomorrow. That's exciting. I'm looking forward to that at Live 25. Thank you, my friend. Have a good show, All right. And good evening to you all out there. How are you doing? it's a question I'm reluctant to ask because for a lot of people, there's no good

1:44.5

answer to that. This has been a deeply unsettling week of headlines in America. Here's

1:49.0

just a sample. Trump's threat to invoke insurrection act escalates showdown with Democratic

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