Iran downs 2 U.S. jets, search for 1 crew member ongoing

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Pete Hegseth fires military officials amid the Iran war. Also, Justice Department independence erodes further under Donald Trump. Plus, the U.S. economy adds 178,000 jobs in March. And Democrats look at Arizona to help flip the House. Rep. Ro Khanna, Tom Nichols, Barbara McQuade, Heather Long, and JoAnna Mendoza join Jonathan Capehart.

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0:00.0	The last word with Jonathan K. Part in for Lawrence starts right now. Way to make me feel guilty. The guy's got to be in earlier than I do tomorrow morning.
0:07.9	I was about to say, enjoy those six extra hours of sleep you can't again, Allie.
0:13.2	I will be thinking of you the whole time, my friend. You have a great evening. I'll see you again in the morning, all right?
0:17.3	All right, All right, All right. Thank you very much.
0:19.5	All right. Search and rescue efforts right, All right. All right.
0:33.8	Search and rescue efforts are underway right now for an American service member missing after Iran shot down a U.S. F-15 fighter jet over southern Iran for the first time since Donald Trump's war began.
0:40.2	MS now has confirmed that one service member was rescued as U.S. forces race to find the second service member before Iran does. Iranian State TV offered a reward for the capture and
0:46.2	handing over of, quote, enemy pilots to Iranian authorities. A second American jet, an A10
0:53.4	warthog, is believed to have been shot down by
0:55.8	Iranian forces today. A U.S. official with knowledge of the matter tells MS now. The plane's
1:01.5	lone pilot was safely rescued by American forces after it went down near the Strait of Hormuz.
1:08.4	NBC News reports Iran also hit two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters involved in the
1:14.7	search and rescue, and the official said there were minor injuries to service members from that strike,
1:20.5	but all of them are safe. In total, Iran has caused two military aircraft to crash,
1:25.8	the F-15 and the A-10, and hit two Black Hawk helicopters in a single day,
1:31.9	less than 48 hours after President Trump said in his prime time address that Iran has been, quote, completely decimated.
1:41.5	CNN is reporting that Iran's missile capability is also not completely decimated.
1:47.4	Quote, roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact, and thousands of one-way
1:52.6	attack drones remain in Iran's arsenal.
1:55.7	According to recent U.S. intelligence assessments, three sources familiar with the intel told CNN. They are still
2:03.9	very much poised to wreak absolute havoc throughout the entire region, one of the sources said of Iran.
2:11.3	In a brief phone interview with NBC News, Donald Trump refused to discuss the search and rescue
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