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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

House Republicans spike Rep. Khanna’s Epstein amendment

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

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

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Rep. Ro Khanna offers an amendment to release the Epstein files. Also, Donald Trump is starting to lose his own voters on his tariff policy. And Democrats look to campaign on tariffs and Trump’s economy. Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Mark Pocan join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Well, because Donald Trump is the most uncouth president in history, it is now disturbingly easy

0:06.5

to be more publicly dignified than the president of the United States.

0:11.7

Even I, someone lower born than Donald Trump, which is to say someone who has never inherited

0:18.5

anything from anyone, can publicly, at least, conduct myself

0:23.5

with more dignity than the President of the United States. And I will prove that tonight by,

0:30.5

once again, not using a single word of profanity for the entire hour of this program, something

0:35.9

Donald Trump was not able to do today

0:38.5

during what was labeled a religious luncheon at the White House. Donald Trump couldn't keep it

0:46.0

clean. And Donald Trump's personal life, he seems to believe strongly in the separation of church

0:53.5

and Trump. But in the Trump White House, there is no separation of church and Trump. But in the Trump White House,

0:55.9

there is no separation of church and state. And so this year, Donald Trump created something

1:01.0

he calls the White House Faith Office. The White House Faith Office is run by pastor Paula White,

1:08.9

who is now living on a government salary, and it employs someone called a

1:14.8

faith director named Jenny Corne, who was also living on a government salary. And those, no doubt,

1:22.3

devoutly religious people laughed it up today, laughed it up. When Donald Trump became the first president in history

1:29.7

to use profanity at the first ever gathering of the first ever White House faith office,

1:36.7

faith in what? They specifically laughed at Donald Trump's jokes about divorce and women marrying

1:44.0

men only for money because, you know,

1:47.0

there's a religious event. That's the kind of joke that's supposed to work there. And when I say

1:51.4

joke, it was a Trump nutty statement that wouldn't qualify for a joke in any real comedy venue.

1:58.3

It's not clear that Donald Trump has the neurological capacity to actively

2:02.5

decide whether or not to use profanity in public. In my own amateur clinical observation of

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