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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Another day, another principled resignation at Donald Trump’s Justice Department

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Resignations mount at the Justice Department under Trump. Plus, Democrats demand answers on Elon Musk’s access into Social Security. And Trump and Putin officials meet without a Ukrainian envoy. Andrew Weissmann, Sen. Ron Wyden, and Timothy Snyder join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening, Lawrence.

0:04.3

Good evening, Rachel. And I can tell you and Martin O'Malley that Elon Musk just did an hour on Fox with Donald Trump, the two of them sitting in the Roosevelt room.

0:14.3

And they did not put up or shut up on the actual details of what they claim Elon Musk has found.

0:25.3

It was just as breathtakingly empty an interview as you could possibly imagine.

0:31.6

You couldn't.

0:32.2

Actually, it's more empty than that.

0:34.2

A complete utter waste of time.

0:36.2

Other than I can report to you authoritatively,

0:38.9

they didn't put up or shut up. It's one thing for them to be like the condoms to Gaza lie

0:46.1

and the, you know, Politico in New York Times being supported by government funding to write

0:53.1

good stories about Democrats and the Reuters

0:56.1

lie about Reuters being a mind control agency and like all these are the things that they're

1:00.6

lying about to try to justify cuts and demolition of agencies that they can't defend with

1:08.8

facts. It's another thing to tell Americans, yes, social security is a scam.

1:13.7

Social security actually is just a bit, it's criminal.

1:17.4

You know, it's 150-year-old people and 200, as Governor O'Malley was just saying,

1:22.3

there are more than 70 million Americans rely on Social Security right now,

1:25.6

and people know that it's not a scam.

1:27.3

It's been a third rail in American politics for a good long while and for a good long reason.

1:32.0

And I think that this is an error on their part, and I look forward to seeing a blow up in their face.

1:37.4

Yeah, and every single person with a job in America of any kind, including the richest people in America,

1:42.3

contribute to Social Security in their

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