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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Attorney General Pam Bondi dodges Democrats’ questions on Jeffrey Epstein and Tom Homan. And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Democrats in calling to extend health care subsidies and avoid premium hikes. Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Ruben Gallego join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	The last word with Lawrence O'Donnell, though, starts right now. Hey, Lawrence. Hey, Jen. Marjorie Taylor Green
0:06.0	has created a real breakthrough in the shutdown. She now agrees with the Democrats on the health care issue, the central issue in this shutdown.
0:18.1	I'm going to ask Senator Ruben Gallego about that. He's recently of the House
0:21.8	of Representatives. He gets the full dynamics of how this is working. The shutdown's working in the
0:26.9	House and the Senate. But the Marjorie Taylor Green defection could be what cracks this thing open.
0:34.1	We will see. Maybe Marjorie Taylor Green can read a poll. That's also a good thing.
0:39.3	Well, the fact that her adult children's health care premiums are doubling, got her attention.
0:46.8	Big surprise. Got her attention. That will do it. It will be affecting other members' children as well.
0:52.1	We'll be looking for it to listen and watching. Thanks, Jen. Thank you.
0:56.6	When Donald Trump chose the most incompetent cabinet in history before his inauguration this year,
1:02.2	the question became, how can these absurd characters survive Senate confirmation hearings?
1:07.6	And it turned out some of them couldn't.
1:09.9	Donald Trump's first choice for Attorney General never made it to a confirmation hearing. And it turned out, some of them couldn't. Donald Trump's first choice
1:10.9	for Attorney General never made it to a confirmation hearing. And at the other extreme, one of them
1:16.0	was a former governor of North Dakota, who was appointed Secretary of the Interior, a job for which
1:21.6	it is actually impossible to flunk your confirmation hearing. So he made it easily.
1:27.0	Donald Trump's choice for Commerce Secretary was the typical Republican choice, a rich
1:30.5	Wall Street type, who contributed a lot of money to Donald Trump's campaign.
1:35.9	Rich Commerce Secretaries usually have an easy ride in their confirmation hearings when
1:41.1	nominated by Republican or Democratic presidents.
1:47.1	And so, Howard Lutnik had no real problems in his confirmation hearing at the Commerce Committee, but he is now being called an effing
1:53.3	dumbass by people working in the Trump White House. They're not calling him that because he said in an
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