House Oversight Committee to subpoena DOJ for Epstein files

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

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

4.4 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: The family of Virginia Giuffre speaks out against a potential Trump pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. Also, Donald Trump unveils a wave of new tariffs hours before the August 1 trade deadline. Plus, a new Gallup poll shows momentum moving towards Democrats. And Trump escalates a war of words with a top Russian official. Rep. Robert Garcia, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rep. Suzan DelBene, and Amb. Michael McFaul join Jonathan Capehart.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The last word starts right now with Jonathan Capeart, who is in for Lawrence.
0:04.8	Hey, Jonathan.
0:05.6	Hey, Jen.
0:06.3	Thank you very, very much.
0:08.9	Tonight, the family of Virginia Joufrey, one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, is speaking out.
0:15.0	Virginia Joufrey publicly exposed the crimes against children by Epstein and Gillesne Maxwell,
0:20.4	and her family is urging Donald
0:22.5	Trump not to pardon Maxwell. In a statement to NBC News, a senior Trump administration official
0:28.9	said, no leniency is being given or discussed when it comes to a pardon for Maxwell.
0:36.7	But if that's true, why doesn't Donald Trump say that in his many, many public comments
0:43.2	about the Epstein case? As Trump has shown us time and time again, no one speaks for Donald
0:49.3	Trump, but Donald Trump. And here is Donald Trump not taking a pardon off the table.
0:57.6	Well, I'm allowed to give her a pardon, but nobody's approached me with it.
1:02.2	Nobody's asked me about it.
1:05.5	It's in the news about that, that aspect of it.
1:10.2	But right now, it would be inappropriate to talk about it.
1:16.1	Glenn Maxwell is currently appealing her 20-year prison sentence for grooming and trafficking
1:21.7	underage girls. And for the family of Virginia Drew Frey, who died from suicide earlier this year at the age of 41,
1:29.8	the possibility of Maxwell being released from prison is completely unacceptable.
1:36.5	What is your message to President Trump on that?
1:39.7	I can speak for that.
1:41.1	I think the word that comes to mind is it would be an abomination.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NBC News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NBC News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.