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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Any rational thing opposition says to Trump, Musk ‘bounces off the solid wall of stupidity’

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

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

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Democrats sound the alarm on Elon Musk’s unprecedented access. Plus, FBI agents sue to stop the reveal of January 6 investigators. And Trump’s freeze on foreign aid is wasting food and medicine. House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Christopher Mattei, Andrew Weissmann, and Rick Stengel join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell.

0:03.0

Good evening, Rachel, and I'm on blue sky too at Lawrence O'Donnell.

0:06.7

And, you know, Rachel, I was thinking everyone at some point thinks they have a tough job.

0:12.1

Some people have a tough job every single day.

0:15.1

It's never not tough.

0:17.3

How about Hakeem Jeffries' job?

0:19.8

How about being the Democratic leader of the House representatives,

0:24.7

the opposition party and the House representatives against this president

0:28.9

and against, first one ever, to have to be the opposition leader

0:32.7

against the richest person in the world?

0:35.5

I got to say, to me it sounds like the best job in the world right

0:38.4

now because he's got this tiny, tiny, tiny majority of Republicans against which he has arrayed

0:47.4

the forces of a totally unified Democratic caucus. He is in the best position in Washington

0:53.4

to give them maximum grief. And he's leading in

0:58.6

such a way that he is calling on Democrats in the House of Representatives to essentially

1:05.3

use their constituents as force multipliers. When he called on every Democratic member of Congress to go home

1:12.6

and do constituent events and do roundtables and do town halls starting today and if not today,

1:19.7

later this week. And we will be keeping tabs on whether or not you do it. I thought, this is a man

1:24.9

who understands how mad the whole country is about what Trump is doing

1:29.1

it right now. And he's using Democratic members of Congress and that unified caucus as a tuning

1:35.2

fork to make that thing ring. And I got to say, I know it's a hard job. I don't envy him the

1:41.1

job. But I also think he's got probably the most patriotic and

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