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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act again. Also, Democrats demand answers from banks about Jeffrey Epstein transfers. Plus, Trump’s hollow “healthcare plan” is short on specifics. And Democratic lawmakers stand by their “illegal orders” video to troops. Andrew Weissmann, Rep. Mark Pocan, and Rep. Chris Deluzio join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now. Hey Lawrence.
0:04.1	Thanks, Jen. We have Andrew Weissman joining us tonight on the Epstein Files and the fact that a judge is going to consider tomorrow what to do about the fact that they've only released less than 1% of the Epstein files.
0:17.2	And he's also going to tell us about what people in the streets in Minnesota should be thinking what their rights are in any situation involving ICE as they are approached on the streets there.
0:30.8	That's incredibly important advice. And I'll be looking forward to hearing what he has to say about the Epstein files too.
0:35.5	And now a lot of people are wondering.
0:37.1	We're going to get right to it. Thanks, Jen. Bye, Lawrence. Thank you. Well, today, Donald Trump,
0:43.4	who never gives up on a lost election, finally got possession of the Nobel Prize, the Peace Prize,
0:53.4	even though he didn't come close to winning it.
0:56.0	In a visit to the White House today, Venezuela and opposition leader Maria Karina Machado
1:01.0	gave her Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump, just handed it over, and Donald Trump, who thinks
1:08.0	he is the acting president of Venezuela, took it.
1:12.8	Maria Karina Machado has been publicly insulted by Donald Trump since his attack on Venezuela.
1:19.9	She has been, she has, of course, been publicly worshipful of Donald Trump, as worshipful as possible.
1:26.7	But it isn't working. Donald Trump is
1:30.8	supporting her enemies now in Venezuela, which means Donald Trump is supporting the enemies of
1:35.7	democracy in Venezuela. And Maria Machado has made the so far losing bet that she can take her place at the top of a democratically elected government in Venezuela simply by charming Donald Trump.
1:49.9	And so now Donald Trump has her Nobel Peace Prize and she has nothing.
1:58.0	After Donald Trump is out of power or possibly even before that, Maria Machado will spend the rest of her life explaining that she always knew Donald Trump was an imperialist fool, but she was just trying to deal with him to save Venezuela from his madness.
2:19.6	She'll be saying that for the rest of his life.
2:23.2	For the rest of her life.
2:25.8	Because Donald Trump is in, because of his insane pursuit of the Nobel Prize,
2:33.1	truly insane pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize, which he now
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