Lawrence: After Trump's lies about Renee Good shooting, exodus at DOJ over botched investigation

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Trump administration’s handling of the Minnesota ICE shooting probe sparks Justice Department resignations. Also, the FBI has not released the recordings of Tom Homan accepting a $50K bribe. Plus, Donald Trump dismisses affordability as a “fake word.” And millions of Epstein documents are still unreleased by Trump's Justice Department. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Sen. Jon Ossoff, and Rep. Ro Khanna join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last trip with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.
0:03.6	Hey, Lawrence.
0:04.7	Hey, Jen.
0:05.0	We have a full show.
0:06.1	We have Minnesota Attorney General Keith Allison joining us tonight after we saw those Justice Department resignations in Minnesota and in Washington over that ice killing in Minnesota.
0:17.7	Senator Sheldon White House.
0:19.4	We finally saw the so-called Bordersar, Tom
0:24.9	Homan, faced with the question of what did you do with the $50,000 in cash that undercover
0:30.3	FBI agents gave you. And that's something Senator White House has been waiting for. And so he's
0:36.4	going to join us on that.
0:38.6	John Ossoff is joining us.
0:40.9	It looks now like the Democrats have a very serious chance to win the United States Senate,
0:47.2	especially after Mary Peltola announced her candidacy in Alaska.
0:51.5	That gives the Democrats enough real chances, enough seats that are really
0:57.4	in play, that they really could take it back.
1:00.1	Rokana's going to join us because he's gotten a federal judge to order the Justice Department
1:05.2	to answer why they have only turned over less than 1% of the Epstein files. Rokana wrote the law, as you know, compelling that. And so we have a lot to get to in this hour tonight. You got a lot. That's a two-hour show. Well, I'll look forward to watching it all. I just wanted to tell you what you'll be listening to on the way home. I will be. I'll be listening on the way home as always. All right. Thanks,
1:28.0	Jen. Thank you. Well, nine years ago, I asked the question on Twitter. If Trump gets dementia,
1:38.1	how will we know? Donald Trump makes a public dementia diagnosis difficult because he is a
1:44.0	pathological liar,
1:45.1	having been caught telling over 30,000 lies and is forced for years of the presidency.
1:50.0	He's also the most ignorant person in the history of the American presidency,
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