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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence and Rachel Maddow discuss Trump saying in 2020 presidents can't deploy the National Guard

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

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

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Trump officials are in trade talks with China. And Russia launches the biggest drone assault of the war. Jason Furman and Lt. General Mark Hertling join Lawrence O'Donnell.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, Donald Trump will not like the next hour of news coverage you're about to watch on this program.

0:06.9

Donald Trump will not control this program.

0:10.5

And that is what Donald Trump has been trying to do this weekend by sending troops to Los Angeles in response to what's actually one of the smallest public and televised protests in Los Angeles

0:25.5

history. There have been protests 100 times larger than this that never provoked this kind of

0:31.4

response. Donald Trump was drowning in the worst media coverage of his return to the presidency just last week,

0:39.8

going into the weekend with Elon Musk saying Donald Trump should be impeached and the

0:45.1

cruelest Republican budget bill in history in trouble in the United States Senate while

0:50.2

the polling on Donald Trump's tariffs is overwhelmingly negative.

0:55.4

Send troops to L.A.

0:57.4

And TV news will forget about everything else.

1:01.2

That's what Donald Trump had to be hoping.

1:04.4

And that's what he won't get in this hour.

1:07.5

We will cover what is happening in Los Angeles.

1:13.6

The California government's plea in a filing in a federal court tonight says, this court should reject the unlawful attempt by

1:21.2

Donald Trump to rest away the state's control of its own National Guard for improper and unjustified ends.

1:29.7

But there is other news Donald Trump doesn't want you to know about in other places in this

1:36.4

world. The number one cause of death in children ages 1 to 17 in this country where Donald Trump is present, is death by gunshot.

1:51.1

And very few of those gunshots, very few are accidents. They're mostly homicides and suicides.

1:58.7

In a new statistical analysis reported by the New York Times today,

2:03.5

quote, firearm deaths of children and teenagers rose significantly in states that enacted more

2:09.5

permissive gun laws after the Supreme Court in 2010 limited local government's ability to restrict

2:16.1

gun ownership. A new study has found. In states that

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